Please see below for the Recovery Thought of the Day from Perry C. Also, make sure you check out the announcements at the end of this E-mail for the Sign-Up links for tonight's Open Share Group Meetings. Next, you are not going to want to miss this tonight's CR Friday Night Live. I am going to have some special guest and we are going to discuss our recovery tool-boxes. The announcements also has a link for you to tune in to that.
Recovery Thought of the Day:
Cars
Three days after I purchased my used 2005 Toyota a light came on the dashboard that read, “check engine”. I got this sickly feeling in the pit of my stomach. You know the saying they bought a lemon? Yep, I got one. Turns out the car needed a catalytic convertor, oxygen sensors, and more.
The car was running fine. I wouldn’t have known the problem existed except for the helpful and much hated blinking “check engine” light. The purpose of dashboard lights is to indicate something under the hood of the car needs attention.
Well our bodies have similar indicator lights for both our physical and emotional needs. We are familiar with the physicality of our bodies: when we are thirsty, we need water. When we are tired, we need sleep. When we are exhausted, we need to rest.
Our emotions work the same way, they inform the body what is going on internally. So, for example when I get sweaty palms and a racing heart I feel fear. The bodily sensations of fear signal information to my brain. With that awareness I can determine if the threat is real or am I watching a scary movie on Netflix.
Many of us in our family of origin were told we could not trust our feelings (oh that didn’t hurt) or our feelings weren’t important (Your sister never complained). We learned to devalue our feelings, by suppressing, ignoring or medicating them. And this is like driving a car without a working dashboard. It is dangerous and could break down at any moment.
Growing up what emotions were allowed and not allowed in your family? How has that affected you today?
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Note: The thought of the days along with other key updates will also be posted on our facebook page (Celebrate Recovery at Crossroads Church Facebook Page) and for those without facebook, they will also be posted on the following blog site: https://crossroadscr.blogspot.com
UPDATES/REMINDERS:
- Fridays at 6:30pm, We are hosting "CR Friday Night Live." To subscribe to our youtube channel please click on the following link and select the subscribe button. CR Youtube Channel Link . There will be a song or two of worship and then a short recovery based dialog between a couple of CR members. This will be streamed on youtube.
- Fridays we will be hosting on-line open share group meetings at 7:30pm. There will be one mixed issues group for men and one mixed issues group for women. Sign Up Here: Men's Open Share Sign-up / Women's Open Share Sign-Up. These meetings will take place using the Zoom App. In order to participate you will need a tablet, smart-phone or computer with camera. In order to ensure confidentiality of these meetings everyone who participates will need to find a private room to set up, have their camera on, so others can see that there is no one else in the room and they will also need to wear a pair of headphones so that they are the only ones that can hear. This is a free app and you can download it on google play, apple app store or through your web-browser on your computer. For help on how to join a Zoom meeting please click on the the following link, which will take you to their support web-site Zoom Set-Up Help
James U.
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