today i get to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes. it is due to my willingness to walk with my partners in recovery. there was a time in the days of doin my dirt that the only time i felt like i wanted...

offerin another friendship and fellowship are what was done for me when i came into the rooms this last time. my sponsor would pick me up at the halfway house i was livin at and drag me all around town to meetins. he would introduce me to others and each one welcomed me warmly. he...

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the big book teaches me much about how to work with others. if i desire to be effective and useful, it is best i adhere to the directions/instructions, it asks me when i go to sharin my e.s.h. why spoil an opportunity to be useful later? why be labeled a religious zealot? i can recall...

my recovery has taught me that when thinkin of others while tryin to practice the spiritual principles in my affairs or carryin the message, doesnt only have to be focused on those whom i may meet in the rooms. though i may consider those still sufferin or in the rooms a primary focus, there are...

I recently discovered that I am a sex and love addict. The easiest way for me to fall in love with someone is to have sex with them and/or fantasize about having sex with them. Relationships has been my kryptonite and always end up leading me to relapse. Well now I have finish my 90...

I was born into an alcoholic family. Every memory I have of my Grandparent's house in Bellvue is of a summer picnic or Christmas party with all of my aunts and uncles and cousins gathered together with lots of beer. They were functional alcoholics; never appeared super-drunk; always stayed very late; and drove home from...

Step Four “We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” JFT 12/12/2020 Fear of Change "By working the steps, we come to accept a Higher Power's will…. We lose our fear of the unknown. We are set free." -Basic Text, p16 BASIC TEXT "When we realize how little we have to lose, and...

i feel like the best way i can show my gratitude for the gift of recovery is to share the tremendous fact of the common solution, brotherly love, and harmonious action of what this thing we do offers. it is when i carry the message with my fellows in recovery to those who may be...

one of the most impactful things recovery has taught me is that i alone do not make the world around me spin. that the relationship i have with my HP is what can guide me toward a happy, useful, and effective life. the humility i get to live today transcends beyond me as i am...