with the fellowship of recovery i find within it the effectiveness and unity i need for my own personal program of recovery. its like my early recovery, i needed help so i leaned on my sponsor. i copied him because my sponsor was a special person who had what i wanted. he had sobriety, he...
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a majority of the people i associate with today are in recovery. i have friends outside of recovery and do things with em, but most of the shit i do for enjoyment usually involves others in recovery. before i came into the rooms i didnt think i could have a life if i didnt hang...
when i get conflicted, which happens often, ive learned to use what recovery has offered. i aint gotta try to figure it all out by myself today, i have a trove of people to help me. all i gotta do is ask. ive been taught how to reach out to others and when i dont,...
Here we be. Step Two again. "We came to believe a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." "We believe we must turn elsewhere for help". "There might be away out of this fucking mess." pick your version. Right now. I'm on the "there might be a way out of this fucking mess"...
with time in recovery i like to think i have been able to build the qualities of good judgment, a careful sense of timin, courage, and prudence. i know i did not have any clue of what any of these character assets meant when i first came into recovery. i can recollect tellin my sponsor...
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 5pm UK time GSAA meeting today I feel GRATEFUL that I was able to sub today and chair the meeting Y'all truly area a FABULOUS bunch of folks Amanda in Scotland...
The letter appeared in the "Grapevine" January, 1953. EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY "I think that many oldsters who have put our AA "booze cure" to severe but successful tests still find they often lack emotional sobriety. Perhaps they will be the spearhead for the next major development in AA, the development of much more real maturity and...
So I just come off my 14 day “me time.” I was feeling empowered. I was feeling better about my journey THROUGH this addiction. And guess what happens? Distractions slowly, yet swiftly, start infiltrating my world. WHAT? I have spent 14 days focused and gaining strength and now this? Then it dawned on me. When...
today i get to understand that the shit i had done in the past, the way i had treated others and myself, held consequences. at the time i may have been doin all the shit that fulfilled my self-absorbed want, i may not have seen the consequences, and if i did, i more than likely...
fear is a powerful emotion for me. i reckon thats why the fore founders of this thing we do concentrated on it so much. and just how deep fear goes is so amazin to me. the ways it influences me to act or behave. how it disturbs my thinkin. how it changes the way i...