bein an alcoholic ive been blessed with, or cursed with, which ev one may desire to call it, an inner sense which is higher than most others. ive heard this ability called intuitive empathy. it is a sense where i feel emotions, not only my own, but from others, more intensely. unfortunately, with this sense,...
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responsibility is an action and behavior i tried to avoid in my last days of drinkin. i had only one responsibility at that time, to drink, it was the only solution i had for the unrelentin emotions of troubled strife within. i did not want to grow up, i did not want accountability, and i...
i have learned through my recovery, the only one i truly have any control over is myself. people will be people, happenins will happen, and life will go on whether i want it to or not. what i get to do today is accept the world fer the way the world is. i get to...
havin worked very hard on my defects of character & shortcomins, all of which i continually release myself from and give to my HP, i have been granted a life free from all of the symptoms of my alcoholism. there are times i snatch em back and try to do it again the way i...
ive said it before, and still believe it today, my HP has provided me, since birth, an ample amount of emotion and motivation to feel and do as i wish. there was a time when i put forth too much of my time to extend those naturally human gifts beyond their intended purpose, there never...
i cannot tell ya all fear has been resolved, nor can i tell ya all fear has been lifted in my daily life. my HP has not lifted basic human emotion from me; i am not an automaton. however, i have been taught healthy solutions when fear does come. the solutions i used in the...
durin the early transition of my recovery without alcohol, i could not understand the changes i was experiencin. even as i was full of fear and frustration, emotions that made me comfortable, i could still feel a lightenin of negative emotion within. now thats what i understood. i thought, how could i be doin what...
complete autonomy is what recovery has shown me is possible when i live by its spiritual principles as a guide. to be self-governin away from my alcoholism is a blessin. today i have the capacity to make informed and uncoerced decisions which take away from the selfishness of doin my dirt. i get to live...
i still feel my self-will stirrin deep down within me. though there was always somethin i could feel deeper within stirrin back in the days of doin my dirt, i chose my self-will over it. recovery has shown me, then taught me, just how strong my self-will can be. it has also shown me, and...
when i came into the rooms i learned how open-mindedness was a character asset which would help me use humility throughout my recovery. this was in stark contrast to the days of doin my dirt, even though i only thought i was open to concepts and ideas; if i hadnt learned em or better yet...