June 2, 2012
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t [...]
May 25, 2012
December 2011 marks for me, the end of a 14-year relationship. I thought I was handling the breakup well. And then my mother suddenly died about a month ago. It has been really tough getting out of the house since then, but I have managed to go to meetings, meet my sponsees, and call my [...]
May 10, 2012
Occassionaly we end up in a relapse process and before we know it were right back using again. If we make it back to get clean and we start working a program again, we try to find what the problem was and why we ended up back at the beginning of recovery. What happened? What [...]
May 9, 2012
Background: In Toronto Canada a new era of AA stewardship is sweeping AA Intergroup. It is the era of governance, enforcement and homogeneity of a singular interpretation of the message of Alcoholics Anonymous. Though this blind rage will hopefully burn itself out, this is the type of story the Bill Wilson would surely draw upon [...]
April 21, 2012
There are several things we can do to prevent ourselves from relapsing. We also have many strategies that we use in recovery to maintain our sobriety and keep ourselves healthy. The first rule of recovery is that we must change our lives. What about our lives need to be changed? Well just about everything really. [...]
April 15, 2012
“I’d always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birth right and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live – that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before [...]
April 15, 2012
Days Like This,,,,On The Edge Submitted by Hrmnhlpdaly on April 14th, 2012 Yep, I have days like this. Looking over that edge, its not a pretty sight, I know, Ive seen it, several times. I’ve jumped off of it also, and had to crawl back,,, over broken glass, though the filthy streets, through the swamps [...]
April 10, 2012
Honestly, of all the valuable things I learned a couple years ago when I was in rehab, the above is the most important of them all. Examining my expectations and then letting go of any that weren’t reality based was the first step in removing a lot of stress from my life. I was never [...]
March 15, 2012
Mean, hypercritical people revel in their ability to shut people down. They enjoy it. For me, these people always managed to shoot me right back into my childhood, standing there all powerless in front of my stepmother, confused and stammering because I had no idea what I’d done to have such wrath descend upon me. [...]
March 9, 2012
Before I came to the rooms of NA I really didn’t know a whole lot about having gratitude for much of anything or anyone. Everything was always everyone elses fault and I never wanted to take responsibility for anything. All I cared about was getting high all of the time and it didn’t matter who [...]
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