i remember how i felt when i first came into the rooms. i was broken and defeated, and on guard to anything or anybody who may try to attack me. whether it may have been verbal or physical, i was wound tight and ready to fire back. i can say this with certainty, ive rarely...
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the idea of stoppin, if only for a split second, before reactin to somethin is such a novel idea, and in the past, i didnt have the capacity to do it. my ego had been so built up by my false sense of pride that i had to say my piece. over the years of...
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faith to me means that i try to carry within me a code of ethics or belief in somethin greater than i that can and will help me when i havent the strength or power to help myself. it is a standard of merit that i hold deep within and a sense of loyalty and...
goin through the processes of step 4, 5, and 8, i was able to see how the character defects & shortcomins i had, had warped my emotions and behaviors. even before those self-identifyin steps, i knew within how i felt and how those feelins had caused reactions to stimuli. but workin those steps with as...
when troubled times come today i aint gotta obsess over em to the point where a drink will take the fear of em away. recovery has provided options for me that may have always been available, i just made the choice to use my self-will to try to solve em. and i was rarely, if...
During the first month of me getting clean and sober, I was incarcerated. Thank God otherwise it wouldn't have happened for me. I had multiple overdoses, was in the IC burn unit due to overdosing on a heater with 2nd and 3rd degree burns, all down my neck and shoulder. I melted on the heater...
for me, i had to come to a place where i could not see nor find any other way to exist. i wish maybe that i could have been one of em, “high bottom drunks”, but thats not my story. i know i can still dig the hole deeper too, but i aint tryina hurt...
Many people think that recovery is simply a matter of not using drugs. They consider a relapse a sign of complete failure, and long periods of abstinence a sign of complete success. We in the recovery program of Narcotics Anonymous have found that this perception is too simplistic. After a member has had some involvement...
when i first came into the rooms, i had an understandin that the word God was used. naturally it invoked the ideas from my childhood religious upbringin. i didnt know that the word God could be used loosely. when my sponsor talked to me the very first time, as we spoke alone together, he asked...