One of my many favorite daily meditation books (aside from this one you are reading, of course) is calledMeditations for Women Who Do Too Much, written by Anne Wilson Schaef. My two daughters gifted it to me when I was early in my recovery from workaholism, so it has special meaning for me.
There are so many nuggets of wisdom throughout the book, but one sentence about acceptance has always stuck out for me, and I think of it often. Schaef wrote, "Part of learning to live our lives is developing the ability to accept what cannot be changed and learn to live creatively with those situations." I feel like that statement really sums up what my life in recovery is all about.
I cannot change the things that happened or didn't happen to me as a child, can't change that I got addicted and nearly destroyed myself. I can't bring my mom back to life or take away the pain my children and other loved ones have experienced.
But I can accept all those things and live creatively with them. I can do recovery and help other women recover.
And guess what? You can too.