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Good Morning Folks
I read a message today from Hazelden Thought for the Day that reminded me of a saying I have heard for many years at the Gamblers Anonymous meetings I have attended. ” We are only as sick as our secrets. ”
For me once I started my recovery and shared my secrets did my life start to improve and the weight of having to remember which lies I told to who was lifted.
Take Care
Ken L YBIR

June 23rd Hazelden Thought for the Day
He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured.
—Ethiopian proverb

Concealment and secrecy have been second nature to some of us. We may have felt that our masculinity kept us loners. Perhaps we said we were covering the truth for someone else’s good. Maybe we could not bear to expose the truth because we feared the consequences. For some of us a lie came more automatically than the truth. Now we are learning to be open with our friends, and we are finding the healing effect of fresh air for our secrets.

Although it’s frightening to stop tampering with the truth, it’s also exciting to feel the power of honesty and to deal with the consequences of uncovering it. Perhaps we still have some secrets that erode our wellbeing. If so, we need to bring them into the open so we can live completely honest lives. When we let others know us as we really are, we are casting our lot with good health and recovery.

Today, I will make progress in my recovery by letting myself be fully known.

From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men ©1986, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved.