San Diego Therapy Center -Dr. Anna R. Ryan PhD LMFT

12/25/2025

Isaiah 9:6 " For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. "

12/22/2025

On this Monday...

12/22/2025

All the Strength You Need

“Seeking strength from others prevents us from finding our own strength.”

—Georgette Vickstrom

The principles of this program, the friends we have made here, our sponsors, and the contact we have with an ever-available Higher Power afford us valuable strength. However, it’s important that we develop our own strength to complement what we look for in others.

Using the tools acquired in this program is a good beginning for cultivating personal strength. It’s like growing a garden. We need to tend it daily, nurturing it, discarding the unproductive behaviors like weeds. When we do, we’ll discover that the seedlings we’re planting at every meeting are taking root and developing blossoms that signal positive growth.

I will be painstaking in nurturing my growth today. My strength will be there when I need it.

This inspiration is from

Hazelden Betty Ford treatment centers provide addiction treatment, mental health care, research, and care to individuals, communities, and families in crisis.

12/22/2025

PRINCIPLES, NOT PERSONALITIES

The way our "worthy" alcoholics have sometimes tried to judge the "less worthy" is, as we look back on it, rather comical. Imagine, if you can, one alcoholic judging another!
THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 37

Who am I to judge anyone? When I first entered the Fellowship I found that I liked everyone. After all, A.A. was going to help me to a better way of life without alcohol. The reality was that I couldn't possibly like everyone, nor they me. As I've grown in the Fellowship, I've learned to love everyone just from listening to what they had to say. That person over there, or the one right here, may be the one God has chosen to give me the message I need for today. I must always remember to place principles above personalities.

From the book Daily Reflections.
Copyright © 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.

12/19/2025

Giving Thanks to God

AA Thought for the Day

The AA way is the way of sobriety. AA is known everywhere as a method that has been successful with alcoholics. Doctors, psychiatrists, and the clergy have had some success. Some men and women have gotten sober all by themselves. We believe that AA is the most successful and happiest way to sobriety. And yet AA is, of course, not wholly successful. Some are unable to achieve sobriety and some slip back into alcoholism after they have had some measure of sobriety. Am I deeply grateful to have found AA?

Meditation for the Day

Gratitude to God is the theme of Thanksgiving Day. The pilgrims gathered to give thanks to God for their harvest, which was pitifully small. When we look around at all the things we have today, how can we help being grateful to God? Our families, our homes, our friends, our AA fellowship: all these things are free gifts of God to us. “But for the grace of God,” we would not have them.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may be very grateful today. I pray that I may not forget where I might be but for the grace of God.

Hazelden Betty Ford treatment centers provide addiction treatment, mental health care, research, and care to individuals, communities, and families in crisis.

12/19/2025

UNDERSTANDING THE MALADY

When dealing with an alcoholic, there may be a natural annoyance that a man could be so weak, stupid and irresponsible. Even when you understand the malady better, you may feel this feeling rising.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 139

Having suffered from alcoholism, I should understand the illness, but sometimes I feel annoyance, even contempt, toward a person who cannot make it in A.A. When I feel that way, I am satisfying my false sense of superiority and I must remember, but for the grace of God, there go I.

From the book Daily Reflections.
Copyright © 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.

12/19/2025

Mama (me) kissing Santa Clause 💕 is my awareness of and caring for my inner child's needs. 🤗🤗

12/19/2025

These are they that provide the program of action - once taken establishes in us a conscious contact with a higher power that insures sobriety- while sobriety isn't a cure but a " daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition " ( pg 85 Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous) making step 12 essential for ongoing recovery.

12/19/2025

💚 Let Go and Let God...
Flows well with the Serenity Pray, Frankl's wisdom and the Third Step Prayer. These are great ACTION tools to use daily - I don't let them get dusty or rusty in the tool box. 💚

12/18/2025

SWEET FREEDOM 💚

12/18/2025

Freedom 💚