It's funny how this life can work! We walk around trying to be honest with others, yet we continually lie to ourselves. Now tell me good people, how can we be straight with others if we're not straight with ourselves? If you really want to make major changes in your life, it all starts with...
i remember when i used to, ‘have to’, do stuff. how the dreadful feelin of, ‘i gotta do this’, or ‘i gotta do that’, used to crowd my head so i couldnt think of anythin else. how i would try to outthink and overthink any way out of what ev it was that i didnt...
Those phrases are finally being completed, in this moment it all makes sense. I remember, what I now know was God, being told to acknowledge the passing of time in a different way. I don't know that I will be clean and sober tomorrow but I know this. When drugs become known to me I...
There is a big difference between being broken and being miserable. *Being miserable is being uncomfortable; hating the circumstances; being self-absorbed, playing victim and it's getting caught. *Brokenness comes from a different place. It's the first step to finding the pathway to freedom. It's that "YOU CAN'T HELP YOU ANYMORE" place. So when you are...
movin forward with an amends that i had harbored and grew for decades wasnt an easy thing to do. not all were nearly deeply engrained, but the process of gettin past all of them was an arduous task. hell man, if i could have let em go by myself, i would have, i just didnt...
"RELAPSE Starts Long Before The Drugs Are Put Into Our Body. So When Our Friends and Loved Ones Recognize When We are In Relapse Mode And Call Us Out On It, Don't Get Mad… Be GREATFUL They Care Enough to Notice!"...
my personal recovery involves deflatin ego. i need the attitude adjustment the prior steps provide if i want what i make an amends for mean somethin worthwhile. my sponsor made it clear to me after writin an amends to my stepfather 5 times that it wasnt his fault i had turned into an alcoholic. what...
havin some sort of idea today how to live a life in recovery without the bemoanin of my alcoholism in full swing, havin suppressed it as best as i can usin what recovery has shown and taught me, ive found that when i live all of the spiritual principles, i am free to live life...
sometimes i think i wish that after i had learned how to live the 12 spiritual principles of recovery i could have been done with it all and graduated. but that isnt how this thing we do works. what ive learned is that i must continue to live and practice the 12 steps, for the...
sobriety is not enough for me. ive tried that method, and it didnt do anythin for me but get me drunk. ive learned through recovery that i didnt have anythin to replace alcohol when i tried just bein sober. all it did was drive me mad within. it increased the character defects and shorcomins i...