in surrenderin my self-will, it took me time. i had to build trust within, not only in an entity i couldnt see or touch, but in the people i was interactin with in my newfound circle of recovery. and to start all this trust, in my early sobriety, i had to build trust with myself....
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when i came into the rooms i didnt know how i could turn it all over after i had always seemingly done it all myself before. boy, had i ever set myself up for a lesson in humility. i mean, wasnt it true that i had come into the rooms because i didnt have anyplace...
today, i think on my program of recovery and am amazed at how each principle is spread throughout each step, yet i cant move forward with another step until the current step is possessed with any amount of understandin. the miracle of step 6 happened long before i ever approached it. just like it took...
ive had to take the time in my recovery to discover the spiritual principles and then relate them to my life so i could find out what they mean to me. usin em as tools has provided me an education and wisdom through experiencin em as ive applied em. when i 1st came into the...
learnin how to take it easy came slowly for me. i had been so used to tryin to force my will all over the place that, “takin it easy”, only ever came after i started hittin a whiskey jug. to not have my crutch so new to sobriety made it very difficult to let go...
I want to thank my friends at Biddy Tarot. They sent this to me as an idea for a daily self-love ritual. I wanted to dare all of you to do it with me. It seems like fun and it only takes ten mins. So here are the rules….. Every day you draw one tarot...
whenever i move forward in my day, tryin to take my self-will out of the equation, i must use the willingness and faith the program asks me to. i aint gotta, its only a suggestion turned a must, but recallin the shitstorm i left behind before my recovery began, i gotta try to use willingness...
One of the strangest questions I have had someone ask me. Do I love myself? One of my journal prompts for today asked me that question. I knew that I wanted to blog about this. In recovery, everyone is always reminding us to love ourselves. As I have gone through my NA journey and my...
it is an effort to use the healin recovery offers to overcome my self-will. it is an ongoin endeavor to persevere over the most deeply engrained characters i possess. if i want to rid myself of selfishness, anger, self-pity, hatred, corruption, and old attitudes, i have to give up old hangouts, old friends, old behaviors,...
how many times today do i take my will back forgettin what recovery has not only taught me, but even better yet, shown me, about hope? how often do i go to settin myself up for disappointment, thinkin, “i got this shit”! if im to be completely candid, rememberin how honesty has given me the...