through a necessary prunin of my emotional condition when i came into the rooms, today i get to use the healthy, solid, proven solutions ive learned from this thing we do to combat my alcoholism and live a happy, joyous, and free lifestyle. i aint gotta live in the fear, anger, hate, or personal anguish...

one of the many blessins of my recovery is that i have not forgotten the reasons why i continue to choose to live the change it offers. the lesson of forgiveness, with an ability to not forget, i feel, is one of the greatest blessins my HP provides me. it is with this competence, turned...

today when i live the moments of my day, i must try to persevere cause i have learned and have created the wisdom to understand what happens when i let go and let joel. my spiritual program of action has afforded me a clear comprehension of how relyin on prior achievements can be detrimental to...

im grateful that my sponsor took his time goin thru the steps with me, though he was persistent in gettin me to continue to move forward he didnt shove the program down my throat. this allowed me to get an understandin of each step so that when i approached step 10 i was prepared for...

it is my belief, based on my experience before and after recovery that without the whole of this thing we do, there could be no recovery, unity, and service toward others for me. i need to know that there are others who are exactly like me, who understand the disease of alcoholism i suffer from...

lookin back before my recovery id met few people i could really relate to. since my recovery began ive met many i can identify with and truly have good relationships with. i can only attribute this to the recovery ive learned to live. ive made changes in my life that have opened my horizons and...

in a meetin last evenin we discussed how sometimes the best way we can be of service to another, to ourselves, or our HP, is just live our recovery as best as we can at any given moment in time. its been my personal experience that sometimes the best way i can make an amends...

when i took my initial inventory and had written every despicable, dirty deed, i could find about myself on paper in black and white, in easy-to-read good ol fashioned corn fed not inbred michigan white trash, i had a bazillion reservations about ever tryina share it with anybody. but recovery told me, then showed me,...

over the weekend i got to drive up to greenville sc and attend my youngest sons daughters 1st bday party. in december i get to fly from pensacola to grand rapids mi and be a part of my oldest sons weddin. there was a time in my early recovery when i wouldve never been asked...

one of the most things I do not like in recovery; most of the people in NA even start to gossip I believe in the power of helping one another with our mouths not Gossiping. in the last few years, I became in people's mouths with a story that no one knows all of it...