i can recall in my early recovery, times i wish recovery would slow down so i could just chill fer a min. i have been told that my disease is a patient and progressive one, if i let it take time to dig in, it WILL, and it WILL, take control. so, i reckon i...

insistin on enjoyin life is somethin i get to do when ever i get the chance. i am still able to enjoy the finer things in life without the curse of alcoholism. i did not get sober to not live life, but rather to live and enjoy life. i am thankful God has given me...

i am grateful for the simplicity of this program. even though i can try to make it difficult i can always reel myself back into reality and start over the simpler way, the way the program is written and taught. an unbelievably valuable lesson for me to learn, “keep it simple.” i have an innate...

i remember when i first came to this program askin for help. i was full of pride, ego, guilt, remorse, and any other negative emotion of which one could think. if someone would have talked down to me then i probably would have just left. my sponsor spoke to me with humility, honesty, and love....

i can remember pausin & askin God to get me out of all kinds of trouble in the past. makin promises for this, or that, if He would do this, or that, full well knowin i probably wouldnt do what i was promisin i would. i chuckle today to think of the stupid stuff i...

whereas i had faith that i could quickly push away anythin that caused me trouble in the past at any time with alcohol, today i have faith that the spiritual principles i practice daily can do much the same with an even greater efficiency & effectiveness. by the mere action of acceptance & surrender, my...

as i went through my own history while writin my initial 4th step inventory i could see how alcohol gradually became somethin i could not live without. i cant really tell the day i crossed over the line with my drinkin to become an alcoholic, because i dont know, but i do know that a...

recovery has taught me, and shown me, how darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. in the days of doin my dirt, as my alcoholism progressed, any kind of inner happiness id wished i had become harder and harder to obtain. in...

Okay so I'm new to all this, I literally have never even attempted to cooperate with any probationary officers EVER, however I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired… I've been an addict since I was 17, pain pills at first then at 27 turned to the devil himself methamphetamine….. Life has never been...

this was the case for me; i needed to lose everything i thought i ever cared about includin almost losin me before actually concedin within that i was an alcoholic. i had been introduced to this program of action, before actually committin to it, a few times. at those times when i was introduced, i...