i can remember the loneliness i felt durin the last days of doin my dirt. i can remember thinkin and wonderin how anybody could love me. low self-esteem leads directly to self-pity. i think of those times today and am of the understandin that when i couldnt see anything good about myself, how could anybody...
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recovery has done for me what its posed to do, help me get sober. its been my personal experience that when i stopped puttin alcohol in my body, the illusion i had let it create, that all was fine and dandy, stopped happenin. now that dont mean the delusion that i was ok stopped, cause...
Stability Pg 186 Paragraph 2 Many of us have gone through life by default, as if events simply happened to us. Our sense of ourselves was so distorted that we felt like we have no impact on the world. When we understand the First Step, we realize that “I’m powerless over everything” is a cop-out....
i have learned through recovery that what i do with my time is my outer life and what i do with my mind is my inner life. together they define who i am. i have been taught that behavior and action have the ability to change my thinkin. i didnt know these things or ever...
when i came into the rooms i had to learn how to do recovery. the things i was learnin were things i had never truly done before. surely i had wanted to do some of these things but was held back by the resentment i had and the spiritual malady i lived. fear and anger...
today i dont live with near the dishonesty, selfishness, or self-pity i did when i first came into the rooms. it doesnt mean that i am cured of these basic human emotions, or character defects/shortcomins just cause i have years in recovery, cause i still have em. and they do come to me when i...
when i came into the rooms, i felt like i was the only one who had done the shit i had done to others. i was ashamed, embarrassed, and hurt by the actions i alone committed. i knew there were other alcoholics, but i didnt know they may have done the dirt i had done....
today, bein the 16yr anniversary of my recovery, self-honesty is a character asset i must live with. not always do i like the shit that surrounds me or the way that i may feel about it, but bein as honest as i can with myself about what ev i am facin or dealin with has...
i get the opportunity each day to build up an endowment in serenity, peace, and happiness that puts me on a path away from fear. but it only works if i put the time and effort into cultivatin it. i reckon i wont ever be able to outgrow fear, im human and God has given...
Please join us in showing our ITR community support for Erik Denton during this time after the tragic loss of his beautiful three children by changing your profile picture to three memorial candles …… Please feel free to save and display on your own profile the three candles pic from my profile Amanda in Scotland...