Bill Says: (A Blog About Recovery): RESPONSIBILITY:

Self-care means taking responsibility for
ourselves. Taking responsibility for

ourselves includes assuming our true
responsibilities to others.

Sometimes, when we begin recovery,
we're worn down from feeling responsible

for so many other people.

The goal in recovery is to find the balance:
we take responsibility for ourselves, and
we identify our true responsibilities to
others.

This may take some sorting through. We
may be responsible to one person as a

friend or as an employee; to another
person, we're responsible as an employer

or a spouse. With each person, we have
certain responsibilities.

We are also learning that while others
aren't responsible for us, they are

accountable to us in certain ways.

We can learn to discern our true
responsibilities for ourselves, and to

others. We can allow others to be
responsible for themselves and expect
them to be appropriately responsible to
us.

We'll need to be gentle with ourselves
while we learn.

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