STAY OUT OF THE CAGE
 
 
If you love or have been loved by an alcoholic or addict, you have been in combat with the disease.  We do this to be helpful, but instead become a causality.  It is hard to stay out of the way.  But we must, for our own welfare and for those we feel responsible for.
In recovery there is much we need to let go of, such as old thinking, behaviors, attitudes, and judgements.  We need to learn how to respond in a new way, for our own good.  
In these talks, Fr. Tom W. discusses the spiritual principal taught by St. Ignatius Loyola – Agera Contra –to do the opposite.  This means to act against behaviors that hold us back from freedom.  Tom shows us that what was once a castle to protect ourselves has now become a prison of our own making.   And through the steps and tools of the program we are able to transform.  (04/17)