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. [...]
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 [...]
January 5, 2012
So here it is death and life, life and death, my life, my death, your life, your death, everybody’s life, everybody’s death. One is limited, one is not. Both are determined not by man, not by woman, but by our higher power, and the higher power I choose is God. You must choose yours, I’ve [...]
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 [...]
November 26, 2011
by Gaby Dunn I remember it as the time we all got “shipwrecked.” It’s the dramatic wording of an eight-year-old. We weren’t really shipwrecked, but we did get lost at sea. My dad’s bravado almost got us killed. It was 1996 in Punta Gorda, a fishing community on the west coast of Florida. My father [...]
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 [...]
October 23, 2011
Every year I make an effort to express my gratitude for life and what I have; not possessions because they are transient, my material wealth could disappear at any moment but my relationship with and trust of my God are permanent. As King David wrote in Psalm 20, “There are those who trust in chariots [...]
October 13, 2011
My boss shut the door to my office and sat down across the desk from me. It wasn’t a meeting I was expecting; closing the door put my anxiety level on alert. Four weeks earlier, two days before Christmas, he had told me that the company was letting four people go and that I was [...]
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