to express the feelin of the spiritual experience i get to continue to live through recovery would be futile for me to try to do. i cannot think of words that could characterize or articulate sufficiently enough the change within i get to feel because of it. i reckon the best thing i can do...

there are times i am not always as spiritual as i would like to be. there are times i get in the way of the growth and progress i have made. ive been taught through recovery that i must be aware as much as i can be of my thinkin, behaviors, and actions, i have...

"ADDICTION Is The Only PRISON Where The LOCKS Are On The INSIDE" -SAMANTHA DURTSCHI...

"You Don't get over an ADDICTION by STOPPING USING. You Recover by creating a NEW LIFE where it is EASIER to NOT USE. If you Don't CREATE A NEW LIFE, then ALL the FACTORS that bought YOU to Your ADDICTION will catch up with YOU AGAIN!" -SAMANTHA DURTSCHI...

it is my opinion, that though the 4th & 8th step inventories are written in the steps as one-time events, there are times when in my own recovery ive had to do them again. and i do agree that the 10th step does offer an avenue to let loose of things, i feel like its...

i remember the fear i had when makin my approach toward writin my amends out. i had learned much about myself and thought i was ready, humble enough, less self-centered enough, had let go of ego enough, to make the amends to those i had harmed. ya’ll know about anxiety? ya’ll know about how thinkin...

i, alone, am absolutely unable to stop the chaos in my life on the basis of self-knowledge. it has been proved to me through work and practice of the 12 steps that my will power and self-knowledge will never help in the strange mental blank spots when i am tempted to let my self-will run...

Often we have to face some type of crisis during our recovery, such as the death of a loved one, financial difficulties or divorce. These are realities of life, and they don’t go away just because we get clean. Some of us, even after years of recovery, found ourselves jobless, homeless or penniless. We entertained...

it is a true statement that while i was out doin my dirt i thought the only one that i was hurtin was me. though i could feel and see the relationships in my life bein disturbed by the things i was doin, the selfishness and self-centeredness i nurtured, could not see past me. i...

part of the process of healin self was my willingness to approach another and make an honest amends for the ways i had harmed them. a simple, “i apologize”, would not fix the problems i had within nor repair the damage i had done to the ones who loved me the most. i had to...