Sunday, March 19, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
I finally figured out that my dad’s opinion was no better than his information. And his information was wrong.
— Dana J.
Until we embrace recovery, our opinion of ourselves is often based on faulty information. Usually, this is information we got long ago from people who didn’t know the truth about what life could be, about their own worth and value, or about the beauty of other people.
When we received that faulty information, we used it to form an opinion not only of ourselves, but of other people and the world around us. Too often, those opinions hardened into “facts,” and those “facts” entombed us in the past. We adult children are called to break out of that hardened emotional cement. We are called to understand the truth – that those who gave us that faulty information did not always know what the truth was. They just passed on what was passed to them.
We come to see a new truth: The world around us is largely made up of our own attitudes.
Today, I ask myself: Are my opinions really mine or were they given to me by someone else? On what truths are these opinions based?
Hazelden Foundation
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