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 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 [...]
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
Detachment has been a long, on-going lesson learned in my Al-Anon recovery. My default setting is reacting to other people’s behavior in anger and being resentful for what is being done ‘to me’, when really it has nothing to do with me. My ego and self-absorbed inner victim prevented me from being able to see [...]
February 19, 2012
“And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation – some fact of my life – unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way [...]
February 18, 2012
I search through the memories of my childhood looking for happy moments. While scanning through them I find there are more bad memories then good ones. Is it that we choose to remember the bad memories over the happy memories, or are we programmed that way? Does our mind store the bad memories in a [...]
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