Days of Healing, Days of Joy...............................................Dec. 12th

"Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you who you are"....Cervantes

Program lore frequently reminds recovering people to beware of slippery people and slippery places. The obvious fact is that if we hang around slippery people and places, we will slip.

Adult children are on slippery ground when they try to communicate with people who constantly feel negative about life or negative toward them specifically. Many adult children find the most slippery place on earth is returning to their original families. Many have to make very conscious decisions about how safe it is for them to return home. Our whole task is to grow in the realm of self-esteem and self-confidence. This demands that we experience some success. If we are surrounded by those who only tell us what cannot be done or what we cannot accomplish, we are headed for a slip.

"Stick with winners," we are told. Stick with those people who help push us up the hill - not those who drag us down.
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I am not obliged to spend my life with people who diminish my life. My choice of company is mine.

When I got sober, my so-called 'friends' were just drinking buddies and I never saw them again. Since I stopped hanging around the bar, I had to reason to see them, and they didn't want anything to do with me anyway.

I did what my home group and the Big Book said, and I stuck with the winners, and it worked! What they had started to 'rub off' on me, plus my cravings eased (with the help of chocolate ) and the promises began to come true!! Sticking with the winners works!