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 25, 2012
I love a good puzzle. I love to tear open the box, sort out the pieces according to color, and immediately begin putting the edge pieces together. Then, after a while, I hit a road block with that and start to work on the middle. My frustration grows as I have nothing to link the [...]
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 28, 2011
As the end of 2011 approaches, I have been doing a lot of reflecting on the year and opportunities for growth in my recovery. I finished step four, started step five with my sponsor, and am eagerly approaching step six in the Al-Anon program. I am ready to have God remove all these defects of [...]
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 14, 2011
A visit to Christmas past … from days when I wore the addiction counseling hat. Let me never forget the lessons learned in that decade. Blessings to you and yours and remember what you “have” instead of what you “have not.” ~ Christmas was an especially difficult time for those of us in recovery and [...]
December 7, 2011
On March 12th 2006 I had a choice to make. Live or die. I don’t say that to be dramatic, it’s just the way it was. After two failed attempts at rehab, a failed marriage and lost job; life just didn’t seem worth living anymore. Anyone who has reached a painful bottom can relate I’m [...]
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