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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