Your path to recovery doesn’t stop when you complete an addiction treatment program. Recovery is an ongoing process that requires you to build a life that embraces sobriety. A major part of this is establishing a long-term support system that you can rely on throughout the course of your recovery, like an Alumni Program. https://southeastaddictio…...
a few years back a friend and i were talkin about insecurities and fears. i was relayin to em that though i may still have em, i have solutions today that i can use to overcome em as opposed to the past. they told me that since i was in recovery, and had formed a...
in the days before my recovery began identifyin fear wasnt somethin i equated with needin an ability to surrender, tolerate, or accept. i always took fears as an attack against my ego, pride, or independence. i had built unhealthy walls against fear as a form of self-preservation that i later found only hurt me more....
the direction i have found in recovery is a direction i would never have followed while doin my dirt. it meant not doin what i wanted when or how i wanted to. i thought my will, the things i wanted, could be obtained by my ingenious plans and designs. it didnt matter the cost to...
July 5 Exploring Spiritual Options "The nature of our belief will determine the manner of our prayers and meditation." Basic Text, p.43 How do we pray? For each NA member, this is a deeply personal matter. Many of us find that, over time, we develop a manner of prayer and meditation based on what we...
i cannot tell ya’ll that every minute of every day i carry with me peace of mind. even with years in recovery i still have to take the time to feel shit out, to think about whats goin on around me. yes, recovery has made many of the decisions i have to make much easier,...
when i combine willingness, honesty, and open-mindedness the result is humility. though i may feel like i have humility as i approach each essential separately, the combination of all 3 allow me to feel how i may use humility to become ever greater in my efforts for recovery. each are not items that need to...
im thankful for the progress i have made in my recovery. even as i am, there are times i can let my mouth override my ass. i reckon the fact that i can identify this today means that i have made progress usin the principles of recovery. today i have the advantage of a better...
recovery has given me a life that doesnt include loneliness. when in the past loneliness provided some kind of sick emotional peace within, i learned through good sponsorship and personal inventory that it was only a way for me to hide. it was a way for me to feed the resentment and fear that seemed...
today i am not so bankrupt spiritually as i once was. i know this because problems which used to baffle me no longer do. i still get stumped on some problems and need the conference with others in recovery, but for the simple shit, recovery has given me the solutions needed to move past em...