I just had to share my joy with you all. I just got home from the womens retreat, what an amazing weekend! The women I have conected with in NA are just so loving and supportive. Spending the weekend with 33 women in recovery is something that I hope all women get to experance in there journey. My heart feels so full, I have never in my life felt so much love from so many...DAM! I LOVE RETREATS!!! And I LOVE NA! I was in so much pain this weekend and I still got what I needed, my spirt feels full. This weekend I learned how to just listen and be a good friend, I learned that I can put principals befor personalitys, I learned that I can give and recive love. Thank you NA for showing me that I no longer have to be that person I thought everyone expected me to be ...I can be me and I like that women a lot!
Thank you for sharing your love and joy with us, Sandra. That must have been an awesome time with other women of NA. Wish my wife could have such a setting here, where there are only two other women in the fellowship apart from my wife. They are just started bonding together, and I am so grateful that it is happening for my wife as she sometimes feel so alone in a fellowship where mostly she is the only woman in a meeting here. No matter how hard we men try to fellowship with her or the other women, I guess there is nothing like the company and fellowship of the same sex. The identification and the way of relating is so different for a woman I have come to know lately.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
Hey Thair, I feel for your wife, I think it's so important for the women in recovery to stick together. I am part of the women's retreats and the women's meetings in my area. Something I am doing to try and get to know the women in my area better and for all of us to bond more is I'm throwing a dinner party for women in recovery. I have invited about 10 women over to my house on March 2nd. I am hoping that one of them will be encouraged to take this idea on as well and host another at there house. I feel the more time we spend together outside of the rooms the better our relationships will be. It's easy to be all spiritual for 2 hours at a meeting , for me it's how we behave the other 22 hours of the day that really matter. Sandra
Sounds great, the way you seek nourishment from NA, Sandra... So much effort and energy... and you enjoy it all too... So true that it is our life that should be made to fit into our recovery program, not the other way around...
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
