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 [...]
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 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 [...]
February 23, 2012
I am in a transformation/metamorphosis right now. I can feel it happening under the surface, but I cannot quite put my finger on it, nor can I understand it mentally. What is happening must be the work of my Higher Power, and the only explanation I have is that my discomfort spells out change on [...]
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 [...]
February 13, 2012
This morning, I read about priorities in Al-Anon’s Daily Reader.(Courage to Change: One Day at a Time in Al-Anon II, page 250). I needed a reading on priorities, because this weekend, I sent myself in a tail-spin after being triggered by loneliness. Of course, I wasn’t centered enough at the time to catch it before it [...]
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