havin learned so much about who and what i am, havin learned solutions to overcome the many things i used to be and can still be, and havin practiced those solutions to live a life of change, i can still become complacent if i am not vigilant. ive learned through all the work ive done...
today i get to live a life i did not think existed before my recovery began. i always wanted to be a part of somethin and always felt excluded from everythin. somethin within always told me i wasnt good enough to be included. through my personal inventory i learned that through personal experience from my...
if there is anybody i feel i can connect with, it is another alcoholic/addict. it has been my experience that those who have been through the self-torture of the disease and have found recovery, comin out on the other side a changed person, usin what recovery has to offer to heal, are people who understand...
one of the strongest emotions ive ever felt has been the love i have for my children. there seems to be little that has ever come close other than the love i have for a partner. it is an emotion that will have me doin shit i would not normally do. recovery has taught me...
the gift of recovery brings me inner happiness and joy. to think that the solutions i sought before were as futile as they were, when i thought they brought me everything i wanted, they seem lackin in the light of what a life in recovery has brought me. its been my experience that all of...
the amends process i went through involved my children. there was much i had to do in this area. i always thought that if i raised them with my ideas of how life should be lived, disregardin any realistic moral or value, they would grow up to be people who would stand up for the...
the first meetin i had with my sponsor he asked me what my priorities in life were. i rattled off a bunch of self-concerned shit, shit that had everythin to do with me. he asked me where God fit in. my reply was that God really didnt have a place in any of my priorities....
my understandin of vigilance is that i remain watchful and alert. it means that i pay attention to what is goin on within me and around me. it means that i keep a keen sense to the emotions and feelins im feelin within the pit of my belly. as this mornins readin suggests, once an...
as much as i might have thought i was different and deserved the breaks i thought i should get, today i understand those thoughts and ideas of the past are a bunch of bullshit. ive learned through rigorous action that im just another fuckin alcoholic. i reckon what makes me different from then to now...
Page 73: They only thought they had lost their egoism and fear; They only thought they had humbled themselves. Hey..Nothing like that bullet proof feeling after you wrap up your thorough 5th Step. If you follow the specific directions in the Big Book the work can be extensive. Many notebooks full and a 40 hour...