Breakfast with Jamee Sailor Rowe: Admitting that spiritual force into your life is what ultimately helps make the change in us and, in a lot of ways, we kind of have to believe that spiritual force into being, it is our faith in it that makes it real and gives it the power to transform.
Really pondering my “inability to learn from my actions while drinking” after reading this. I think that’s the biggest thing that helped me identify as an alcoholic, because I knew I wasn’t stupid…I could learn plenty of complex things in school, etc. but I absolutely could NOT apply critical thinking to my drinking behavior. It’s like it was a nebulous blob outside of my brain that was exempt from useful analysis.
Really pondering my “inability to learn from my actions while drinking” after reading this. I think that’s the biggest thing that helped me identify as an alcoholic, because I knew I wasn’t stupid…I could learn plenty of complex things in school, etc. but I absolutely could NOT apply critical thinking to my drinking behavior. It’s like it was a nebulous blob outside of my brain that was exempt from useful analysis.
That's a great insight! There's a reason that we could accomplish so many other things, but just not this.