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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
February 11, 2012
Dear John, Wow, I never dreamed when we met a few months ago that I would be writing this letter. There is a huge void right now, which up until last night was because I am at rehab and am not supposed to have access to internet; I now know that the void is going [...]
January 22, 2012
Which fellowship is better, AA, NA, any A? It’s a question tossed around, argued, and discussed a lot. Seriously people, it is the wrong question to be asking in my now humble (after having to eat a lot of humble pie) opinion. I think the question we should be asking (of ourselves, not the “experts”) [...]
January 8, 2012
Photo credit note: Photo by Mark Trockman © 2011 –http://trockstock.com Growing in Recovery Then & Now I had no doubt, back in the day, I knew everyfrickenthing (in Webster’s? should be), including but not limited to, I did not have a problem, I was right and everybody else was wrong, I could control my drinking, I [...]
December 31, 2011
I learned something today, had an epiphany of sorts. It came to me as most things do these days, in a conversation with a friend. My friend’s plight (it’s been my plight too many times) sparked something in one of the few brain cells I have left. A simple comment, made me remember something I’d [...]
December 26, 2011
When we come to the rooms of AA/NA, most of us have hit our bottom. We are completely broken down and have lost just about everything and everyone in our lives. Most, possibly all, of our family members had completely lost hope that we would ever find our way. That we was lost to the [...]
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