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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