LOVE:

Allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges
we face in recovery.

Many of us have blocked ourselves from receiving love. We may
have lived with people who used love to control us. They would be
there for us, but at the high price of our freedom. Love was given,
or withheld, to control us and have power over us.

At some point in recovery, we acknowledge that we, too, want and
need to be loved. We may feel awkward with this need. How can we
let others care for us without feeling trapped, abused, frightened,
and unable to care for ourselves?

We will learn. The starting point is surrender – to our desire to be
loved, our need to be nurtured and loved. We will grow confident in
our ability to take care of ourselves with people. We will feel safe
enough to let people care for us; we will grow to trust our ability to
choose people who are safe and who can give us love.

We may need to get angry first – angry that our needs have not
been met. Later, we can become grateful to those people who have
shown us what we don't want, the ones who have assisted us in the
process of believing we deserve love, and the ones who come into
our life to love us.

Surrender to the love that is there for us, to the love that people,
the Universe, and our Higher Power send our way.

Start by surrendering to love for yourself.

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