NOURISHMENT

Definition of Nourishment:
The action of nourishing someone or something.

Synonyms of Nourishment:
Sustenance, maintenance, support, etc.

These notes are from recovery in AA and/or related 12 step programs. Readers are encouraged to click external links for more detail. We hope you find them helpful.

Love in fellowship.

We have followed lifestyles that led us away from recognizing our true feelings.
Remnants of this blindness continue into our recovery.

Some of us indulge in worry, fear, and anger beyond a useful or meaningful point. What can we do about these excesses of feeling?

First, we admit them to ourselves and to others. Then, we trust our Higher Power for the outcome, and they will fall away. –Touchstones | More…

When we ate compulsively, we often interpreted boredom to be hunger. By relieving us of our obsession, God frees us from slavery to our appetites. –Food For Thought | More…

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection; the water has no mind to receive their image. – There are moments which simply happen through no conscious intention or will on anyone’s part. These are spiritual moments because they reach a deeper part of our being. They are like a sliver in time set aside which nourishes our souls and adds serenity to our lives. We grow when we learn to notice these kinds of moments. In our wilfulness, we have often missed them before because we simply were not open to anything we weren’t already looking for. -Touchstones | More…