with time in recovery i like to think i have been able to build the qualities of good judgment, a careful sense of timin, courage, and prudence. i know i did not have any clue of what any of these character assets meant when i first came into recovery. i can recollect tellin my sponsor...
Who Answers?
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 5pm UK time GSAA meeting today I feel GRATEFUL that I was able to sub today and chair the meeting Y'all truly area a FABULOUS bunch of folks Amanda in Scotland...
The letter appeared in the "Grapevine" January, 1953. EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY "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 more real maturity and...
So I just come off my 14 day “me time.” I was feeling empowered. I was feeling better about my journey THROUGH this addiction. And guess what happens? Distractions slowly, yet swiftly, start infiltrating my world. WHAT? I have spent 14 days focused and gaining strength and now this? Then it dawned on me. When...
today i get to understand that the shit i had done in the past, the way i had treated others and myself, held consequences. at the time i may have been doin all the shit that fulfilled my self-absorbed want, i may not have seen the consequences, and if i did, i more than likely...
fear is a powerful emotion for me. i reckon thats why the fore founders of this thing we do concentrated on it so much. and just how deep fear goes is so amazin to me. the ways it influences me to act or behave. how it disturbs my thinkin. how it changes the way i...
to say i got the recovery i have today by proxy would be an accurate statement. i couldnt get recovery by readin about it, i couldnt get recovery by watchin someone else do it, i couldnt get recovery by hearin about it, i got it by doin it. surely each of the prior mentioned are...
Everyone isn't like me and that is okay. I'm going to be alright. I'm going to see stuff that upsets me, big time! They're gonna get away with it. No doubt about that. Cool, calm and collective. Even if the world doesn't change while I'm here in the physical form I'll check on it time...
" LOVE YOUSELF INSTED OF ABUSING YOURSELF!"...
It's funny how this life can work! We walk around trying to be honest with others, yet we continually lie to ourselves. Now tell me good people, how can we be straight with others if we're not straight with ourselves? If you really want to make major changes in your life, it all starts with...