when i came into the rooms, i was tired mannn. if there was anybody that could totally whoop my ass, it was me. id rather have 5 big time wrestlers drag my ass into the squared circle and come off the top rope, than have to continue to live in the place i was before...
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I am still amazed with 10 plus years in, that practicing daily maintenance of my program. Can & will give me balance, faith in my higher power, courage to apply the spiritual principals I have learned so far. When I don't a challenging pops up I am lost deep in my Dis Ease… Going deeper...
as fearful as tellin my sponsor all my dirt may have seemed at the time, the threat of goin back out there to do it, loomed even greater. and still there was this idea within that if this thing we do didnt work as i heard it would in the rooms, the shit storm i...
when livin with the ghosts of my past, the resentments i had formed, eventually became too much for me to handle alone, alcohol was there for me. and it worked, even better than i had expected it to. so much so, that i began usin it more and more as my life moved forward. it...
i reckon one of the most important ideas ive learned through my recovery is the ability to open up and talk about my inner most secrets with another. from this seemingly simple act ive grown in damn near all areas of my life. though it wasnt a truly easy thing to do when i first...
tellin my sponsor all the dirt i had found out about myself from my personal inventory was a very scary thing for me to do. it provoked emotions within me that had me terrified of the response i was most def expectin. if i wanted to begin to live a life i had seen the...
i still need to implement the solutions i learned early in my recovery. recallin all the unmanageability, lack of self-control, and absolute selfishness can still cause me fear even with years of practiced recovery. this is where i must use the self-discipline recovery has taught me to use. i get the opportunity to place the...
the beginnin of deflatin my ego had begun to happen a little before this step, but this step surely put it into full swing. havin learned how to control my anger a little, havin gained enough humility to listen to others truthfully tell me about me, and havin become open-minded to hearin the possible solutions...
A Vision of Hope Page 13 Learning about acceptance, love, and compassion helps us to accept ourselves without conditions. As our faith deepens, our understanding of what it means to act in good faith changes as well. We no longer use our disease or where we are in our recovery as an alibi for bad...
Chapter One: Living Clean Page 3-4 Paragraph 4 The message we carry has three parts: Any addict can stop using, lose the desire to use, and find a new way to live. We talk a lot about the first two, because stopping is an emergency when we get here, and losing the obsession is necessary...