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Recovery-oriented movie reviews from a person passionate about both recovery and the movies....

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The Dutchess, City of Ember

Workaholics Anonymous is the latest addition to my wonderful supportive fellowships

Right now, I sure am appreciating the money programs which have been inspired by the parent concept of AA....Through Debtors Anonymous, I have gone from living on my credit cards to a solvent way of life....Through Business Debtors Anonymous, I have received support for making my business a separate entity from me and letting it grow and prosper with greater detachment and success....Through Underearners Anonymous, I am allowing greater abundance of persistence in living my dreams and allowing more money.

Through all these things, I've gone from feeling closed up and scared about money, to feeling good about myself and my life in general, including the money part of it. I have (in conjunction with HP and the fellowship; was not able to do it alone) allowed more integrated wealth, more continuously, and expanded my ability to feel pleasure in my physical life.

Now I heard about another money program -- Workaholics Anonymous! I am going to my first meeting tomorrow, and loving how I feel about it already....Transforming...

I've been realizing that there is a part of me that thinks that action is the way to recover from addictive and compulsive ways of being and thinking....This part of me beats me hard to do the right thing, and to do more, more always more....

I've been understanding more recently that action is not the way! Even a supposedly "good" action can hurt me if I am seeking something in it that is not there for me...For me, it's through the blending of myself with my loving HP that I feel my way to a different orientation towards action, one which reinforces my recovery.

Right now, my loving HP is guiding me to do many things in the area of self-care....well, it feels like "many" to me, who is not used to putting a lot of emphasis on this area...My loving HP through my intuition is guided me to do more of the things I love -- walk in the woods once or twice a week, go swimming, garden and find joy in my plants, take a day off every week and take an enjoyable excursion just for the pleasure of it! (what a...

 

I've noticed in myself that I can often mistake simple frustration for anger....but if I go off into being angry, I can actually bring myself down to an old childhood cycle which I do not want.....

So when I start thinking I am angry (key word here is "thinking" starts to take over from feeling!), I check in right away with myself and consider, Am I really more frustrated...? or maybe pessimistic....? or even bored....?

These mid-range emotions can be the most challenging for me, because they require me to expand my emotional maturity by relaxing into them, being with a challenging situation, detaching from it, and just being me....

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