What makes us addicts is the disease of addiction-not the drugs, not our behavior, but our disease. There is something within us that makes us unable to control our use of drugs. This same "something" also makes us prone to obsession and compulsion in other areas of our lives. How can we tell when our...
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as time has gone by in my recovery, havin made the amends ive needed to, the dark past does not haunt me near as bad as it once did. it has taken time, perseverance, and patience, to move from the guilt, fear, and remorse, i once let cloud my mind. i aint tryina say i...
ADDICTION is a MONSTERS it Lives Inside and FEEDS OFF YOU, TAKES from YOU, CONTROLS YOU, and DESTROYS YOU. It's a BEAST that TEARS YOU APART, RIPS OUT Your SOUL , and LAUGH at your WEAKNESS. It is a Stone Wall that stands to keep YOU in and the Rest Out. It is a Shadow...
this mornins readin lets me be aware that there are far worse difficulties goin on in others lives in the world i could face than what is goin on in my life right now. i aint tryina say i aint ever been in some sticky situations, because i have, alls im tryina say is if...
this thing we do teaches me how to change from bein the person i was while out doin my dirt, into a person who lives in sharp contrast to the self-centered, unrealistic, unbalanced, and undisciplined person i used to be. i am taught the character flaws i once did that i didnt even know i...
it was through learnin what my character defects and shortcomins after doin the personal inventorys of the 4th and 8th steps that i was able to finally see and believe that i had suffered from the bondage of self before my recovery began. when i was told by my sponsor that i had been a...
to express the feelin of the spiritual experience i get to continue to live through recovery would be futile for me to try to do. i cannot think of words that could characterize or articulate sufficiently enough the change within i get to feel because of it. i reckon the best thing i can do...
there are times i am not always as spiritual as i would like to be. there are times i get in the way of the growth and progress i have made. ive been taught through recovery that i must be aware as much as i can be of my thinkin, behaviors, and actions, i have...
"ADDICTION Is The Only PRISON Where The LOCKS Are On The INSIDE" -SAMANTHA DURTSCHI...
"You Don't get over an ADDICTION by STOPPING USING. You Recover by creating a NEW LIFE where it is EASIER to NOT USE. If you Don't CREATE A NEW LIFE, then ALL the FACTORS that bought YOU to Your ADDICTION will catch up with YOU AGAIN!" -SAMANTHA DURTSCHI...