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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