followin the traditions of recovery are just as important to me as doin and livin the steps. i must follow and live each of the spiritual principles in both the steps and the traditions if i want to feel the solutions of the program work in my life. learnin how to exist and live the...
for me, it is by faith that i have been able to make this thing we do work in my life. i could not have told you when i first started this journey if recovery would work for me or not. i was confused and lost, because of those feelins, the desperation i felt within,...
what i know best is that i am an alcoholic. recovery has provided me the tools to look into my life and explore what makes me an alcoholic. today i am sold on what this program has to offer me as a way away from alcoholism. though i know i may never be cured, ive...
Especially in the beginning of recovery, I could only see my life in crisis. A victim. Mortified by my minds eye as it wandered my past in search of reason, seeing only blame. Holy crap the places I'd been and things I'd seen. Could that really have been me in my black hole with only...
learnin how to surrender, tolerate, accept, and love myself took time in my early recovery. i was so pissed bout the stuff i had done, and i knew, as my newly sober life drug on, just who was to blame for the things that happened. here i was, sober, knowin i was to blame, lookin...
perseverance means that i continue to do what recovery has taught me whether i feel like i want to or not. yes, takin a break from a day and usin it to rest is important, but to not do what recovery has taught me, is a recipe for disaster. its why balance is so important....
recovery has offered me a way to find peace of mind. it has taught me how to shut off the committee in my head that could never find agreement on anythin. all i could ever get from the constant argument within was confusion. i could never decide what was right or what was wrong. obviously,...
when i came into the rooms i knew alcohol had whooped my ass. i had lost everythin i had ever loved and worked for. and yet, deep within, i had this lurkin notion that i didnt know if this thing we do would work for me. to say i was scared would be a total...
its been proven to me that when i step back, stop pushin my shit, relax and take it easy, my day goes much better. when i am open minded, i get the opportunity to learn, whether its from my own mistakes, or anothers. i dont think i ever experienced either in their true definition before...
even as my will gets in my way, even after startin each day with spiritual readins, prayer, and meditation before i even leave my home and move out into the world, i can still get wrapped up in self and live out my will usin it as a battle ax against others w/out even realizin...