Ya know I have such an appreciation for this place InTheRooms.com. (Thank You Gentleman, for truly this place saved my current incarnation. I am so grateful, and this has been my second home since I put myself in this box and was afraid to come out again.) Love You Both Very Much. One thing I...
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when in da past it may have been difficult to share the shit i went through in my days before recovery with any humility, today i can share a majority of it with others. though i may still be inhibited by guilt, shame, and remorse, by sharin my story with others like me, ive learned,...
i like that it doesnt take an organized meetin place and time to have a meetin. throughout my recovery ive had/attended several non-organized meetins. when i get with trusted friends in recovery, whether attendin an event outside the rooms, ridin in a car together, or even just textin, many times the spiritual awareness such communication...
recovery crushed my spirit when i started the process of walkin through the 12 spiritual principles with my sponsor. so many of the morals and values which had shaped my character throughout my life were demolished. the first was ego. my sponsor helped me to see how so much of the shit i had done...
today i get to live with an ability to face life with peace of mind a majority of the time. im blessed with an understandin that i cannot control the worlds troubles, carryin them on my shoulders. nor do i have to try to manipulate those around me to do as i wish. i get...
I don’t recall my parents talking about their feelings, but I certainly saw him express anger and her express disappointment. Most little boys are told, “Don’t cry”, “Suck it up, be a man”, or “We don’t talk about that in this house”. And if no one taught you how to recognize the difference between hungry...
happiness is the result for me, it isnt a goal. recovery taught me the emotional items within my character that i needed to work on so i could fix the problems i face. it was the initial dive into joel and several deeper dives which have given me the knowledge to use the wisdom gained...
i reckon the latter days of my drinkin had driven me into such a desperation for change i had to do somethin about it. as moments of clarity flooded my conscious my will to continue to drink had galvanized me into a total state of hopelessness and clarity of the self-abuse i had been administerin....
recovery taught me how to live with a comfort in my own skin. i had to really look at who and what i had become without the crutch of my best friend, alcohol. even as i had always thought i was a friend to myself, my best friend, alcohol, proved me wrong time and time...
false pride is a character defect i must watch out for in my recovery. sometimes the shit around me can seem to be goin so well that i start to fall back into the behaviors and thinkin i used to have while back in the days of doin my dirt. when i go to self-aggrandizin...