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. [...]
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”) [...]
December 31, 2011
New year. New beginnings. New chances to be me. Explore things I never thought possible. Love, life, and everything in between. I have a love story in me that has allowed me to love another. Greatest story ever told? Hell to the yes it is! Embracing myself regardless of what’s going on? Cranky? Yeah who [...]
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 [...]
December 20, 2011
In sobriety, we begin to interact with the world around us again. We stop isolating ourselves and start living an actual life. When we was using we felt it necessary to stay away from anyone and everyone unless they were somehow involved in our addiction. We kept around people like us or those who hadn’t [...]
December 7, 2011
Ever walked into a meeting and felt like you were home? How bout the opposite? Walked into a meeting and felt unwelcomed and like you didn’t belong? Like you walked right into the middle of Recovery Clique central? Now. I know what you’re gonna say … there are no strangers only friends we haven’t met yet. [...]
November 9, 2011
To wake up and live through another day clean and sober is to see life a with a whole new attitude. I marvel at my new-found freedom, freedom from the bondage of drug abuse that is. My days are so much brighter, my nights so much easier and overall just a beautiful thing to live [...]
November 7, 2011
Insult to injury leads to broken noses. oh wait. I’m non-violent. (damn Buddhism and damn recovery. I can’t get away with that these days.) Throw-away people. I was one of those today. You know the kind that sit in waiting rooms asking for those “hand outs.” The kind that have three children to care for [...]
October 30, 2011
Like a lot of businessmen in their mid-forties, my sporting days were behind me. In my day I’d been a very active triathlete, cyclist and rugby player. But having achieved a good standard at these sports, the mix of age and frustration at not being able to reach previous benchmarks led me away from them [...]
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