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. [...]
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 [...]
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 13, 2011
As a truly grateful new writer to Addictions Magazine, I would like to share my experience in sobriety with you. When I first came to recovery, I was a failed suicide attempt and a wreck. I had just undergone emergency surgery and while I was recovering, I had time to take stock of my life. [...]
October 24, 2011
Lots of people go out when they do Step Four. It brings them so much grief to dredge up past hurts, injuries done to them and injuries they’ve done to others–a detailed Step Four can get overwhelming. Resist the urge to judge yourself harshly. We’ve all done stupid and hurtful things. We’ve all been someone’s [...]
September 26, 2011
A saying that’s not really repeated nearly enough anymore in my opinion! It’s pretty simple and to the point: If you don’t do this you will die! I know when I came in I sure felt like I had already died, but was just hanging around for more abuse. The truth is we really do [...]
August 5, 2011
A woman walks into the beauty parlor and exclaims, “I’m so tired, I don’t know which end is up,” to which the busy beautician replies, “You better make up your mind quick, honey, because I’m ready to shampoo you.” It just goes to show you…when you look at something from a different perspective, you see [...]
July 26, 2011
When I first became aware of 12 Step Programs, it seemed that the Serenity Prayer was a major component of the program. That was what everyone seemed to talk about to begin with, what people recommended as the first order of business, what was the most obvious face of any recovery program. Of course, that [...]
July 14, 2011
“More than 2,000 years ago, whoever wrote Psalm 14 claimed that atheists were foolish and corrupt, incapable of doing any good. These put-downs have had sticking power. Negative stereotypes of atheists are alive and well. Yet like all stereotypes, they aren’t true — and perhaps they tell us more about those who harbor them than [...]
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