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 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
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 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
One day at a time, what a difficult scenario to wrap my head around. How do I focus on today and not worry about whats coming tomorrow, or what has happened in the past? It can be a complicating task learning to let go of yesterday and not worry about tomorrow. I find myself falling [...]
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 [...]
August 13, 2011
It never ceases to amaze me how every time I’m in a meeting and someone says God instead of higher power there’s always at least one person that cringes or has something to say under their breath. And it’s not always newcomers, that’s the amazing part. You see, it’s become almost taboo because we don’t [...]
August 4, 2011
“Just wait, things will get better!” August Recently I listened to one of the NA conference tapes featured on the “In The Rooms” web site. The sister sharing her wisdom, strength and hope was not a happy camper. This lady was no tentative beginner. She had 16½ years clean! But recent events were beginning to [...]
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