Today is new years eve. I always drink to celebrate it. I promised a friend that I wouldn't but the urge to is intense. I always intend to keep the promises I make but as far as drinking goes, I've broken a lot of them. I keep thinking of the words my friend said to...
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i can recall the turmoil, frustration, and confusion i used to feel back in the days of doin my dirt. i was not able to live in the moment, right now, or even in the day. i was always lookin back at the shit i had done, and lookin ahead tryin to make the next...
it is a practice of usin the self-healin recovery ive experienced through the process of the prior 11 steps, to develop the habit of usin spiritual principles when engaged in buildin, and formin, relationships with those around me. its where i get to take advantage of the difference between the character defect of negative judgment...
its only by acceptin, surrenderin, and learnin to tolerate my humanness, im able to learn how to live in the solution rather than the pollution. after i had begun gettin right with myself and the world around me, i was then able to begin buildin a relationship with my HP. usin what the 12 spiritual...
at 1st, all i wanted from this thing we do was to be sober, to not drink anymore. after i had been here fer a while and started learnin what the steps could do fer others, i wanted to try to apply em in my life as well. i wanted to get back into life...
The Next Frontier : Emotional Sobriety by Bill Wilson Copyright © AA Grapevine, Inc, January 1958 I think that many oldsters who have put our AA “booze cure” to severe but successful tests still find they often lack emotional sobriety. Perhaps they will be the spearhead for the next major development in AA—the development of much...
i always tried to solve all of the problems i had by myself, in some instances i was successful. i thought if i couldnt fix it, no one could. i totally relied on me to solve everythin and when it didnt work i would immediately push it to someone else, blamin em fer any of...
acceptin success or failure these days is much easier than in the days of doin my dirt, when i didnt really rightly know how to. then everythin was a celebration, whether it be success or a failure. i had to drink to celebrate an occasion or i had to drink a failure away, either way...
gratitude is what i have to say this mornins readin reminds me to keep in me. fer many years, before my recovery began, i wasnt happy within, i wasnt at peace, i cant say that today. i have found a way to be ok with me. i no longer have to fight whats inside of...
Hello to all my family on ITR ~ Thank you all for helping me to stay sober and alive during some very trying times in my recovery; thank YOU! I am beyond amazed at the Grace of a Higher Power to assist me in this project for over 3 years. Without God, I would have...