today is a day i get to be grateful to be part of such a wonderful thing, i am not excluded. i once didnt think i deserved to be part of anythin, the only place i thought i belonged was locked in an apartment to slowly drink myself to death. i may not fit into...

i cant tell ya i dont feel remorse, sorrow, or guilt fer past ill deeds done dirty, i still do. today i dont have to hide inside a bottle, drink, and cry those feelins away. this thing we do has given me a way to let these nonproductive, and perfectly healthy, feelins go so i...

i remember when i was tryin to get sober and i would have a good run at it then go back out and make a total ass of myself while drinkin, yet 1 more time. at that time i didnt realize it was a perfectly natural thing to have happen if you werent tryin to...

my sponsor taught me that gratitude is an action. when i am grateful fer somethin, i need to, in some way, repay what i am grateful fer. doin service work in this prog is a way fer me to show my gratitude fer what it has given me. whether it be cleanin ashtrays, even if...

i still struggle with lifes lil trips, just coz i got sober dont mean i aint gonna trip and fall over my broken shoelace. the trick is, what am i gunna do when this happens? my sponsor tells me to be someone that brings somethin to the party, not takes away from it. this is...

after i had been in the prog fer a lil while and the drinkin thoughts calmed i still had to work on my "crazy as a shit house rat" thinkin. ive learned in this thing that drinkin was but a symptom of a greater underlyin issue. that issue bein a spiritual malady that must be...

i felt so ashamed fer such a long time that i had let a liquid control my everyday actions. we have all heard the social stigmas that surround alcoholism, the jokes, the cut downs, all that defective stuff people think about people who cant control their drinkin habits. my alcoholism shut me out of livin...

i was told a good practice for me was to maintain a list of thankfulness and gratitude. writin em was an action which could help me to rewire my thinkin processes when i became full of self-pity. this practice of a full inventory of my blessins was a list which could be malleable and ductile...

this is so very essential fer me! i have to keep things simple or they become too big fer me. when things become too big fer me i want to try to show them i am bigger than them and i then do things that are not conducive to livin a healthy spiritual life. keepin...

i had been taught to give as a child, but never did it. i was always selfish and self-centered, the world owed me, and just because i got mine didnt mean i had to share it with ya. when ya got yours before i got mine, ya were the asshole, and i was pissed at...