Healing with the CoDA Promises

I will heal by working the CoDA programme and by using the 12 Promises as my affirmations:

As I heal:

I am going to ‘know a new sense of belonging’ and within that freedom I will grow.

I will gradually learn how to ‘overcome my fears and act with courage, integrity and dignity’.

This will create ‘a new freedom’ I have never experienced before.

I will hold on to the thought that as I work my CoDA programme, I will ‘be released from worry, guilt, and regret about my past and present’.

I will be aware enough about my past ‘not to repeat it’.

I will know a new inner ‘love and acceptance of myself’ and as I develop in CoDA, this will be extended to others.

I will experience genuine feelings of being ‘lovable, loving and loved’.

As I carry on along my CoDA journey I will learn to see myself as equal to others’.

I will experience ‘new and renewed relationships’ that all feel as if they are ‘equal partners’.

My progressive journey with CoDA will help me develop and maintain these ‘healthy and loving relationships’.

I will understand who in my life I can trust by identifying only ‘those who are trustworthy’.

I will learn that it is possible ‘to mend – to become more loving, intimate and supportive’.

I will understand that I have a choice in who I communicate with and ensure I do this in a ‘way which is safe for me and respectful of them’.

I will come to realise that I truly ‘am a unique and precious creation’.

Instead of looking to others, ‘I will rely on myself for my own sense of worth.’

I will know where to look for the right guidance and in doing so I will ‘come to believe in my own capabilities’.

I know that if I stay on my CoDA journey I will ‘gradually experience serenity, strength, and spiritual growth in my daily life’.

Debbie R.

09/23/2024

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