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self-appraisal, what comes to us alone may be garbled by our own
rationalization and wishful thinking. The benefit of talking to another person
is that we can get his direct comment and counsel on our situation.
TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 60
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Conflict is inevitable but allowing it to
scramble my attention to emotional balance can be critical. Emotional balance
doesn’t come to me casually and, most often; it doesn’t make itself apparent
until I have gone through a tornado of bovine-feces. Sometimes I sit down at
the end of my day and review what I have walked through; and, honestly, there
is no way I can resolve every problem that came up… nor do I need to discuss
broken shoelaces with my sponsor. I need to open myself up to another human
being. Even if the person I share the concern of the day cosigns my BS, I can
usually see through such nonsense and still profit. However, if the problem is great
enough and the forest obscures the trees, I need to discuss it with someone who knows where I am coming from. Lacking a mentor, it is sometimes amazing how much wisdom the cab driver or
waitress can have if I am led by the Spirit of Recovery to honestly resolve the
matter at hand.
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