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Many people are walking around wounded, caught up in the past and unable to make the changes that are needed to move forward. ~Rosemarie Rosetti

Many of us could be described as the walking wounded. Our pasts hold some mighty harsh realities that can appear to be deal breakers for a happy future. Some of us have killed others accidentally or by design; we have broken the hearts of our mothers; some of us abandoned our children or abused them. We have been the curse and cause of much pain in our families, and we have used and abused those closest to us. Yet, in the Program, we hear that “we will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.” How can this be? We are also told that to hide our past and lock it away is “self-centered and in direct conflict with our new way of living.” When we work with others, we share our story with all the harsh realities that once made us the walking wounded. We are the walking warriors, using our past to save others. Let’s not regret a past that can save lives!

I do not regret my past, and thus,

I’m free to claim my future.

Some of us look on Step Four with dread, believing it to be that fateful time when we reveal all the ugliness in our past to someone else.

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 49