I’m in heaven. Walking around my old college campus (yes i graduated from Akron U.) which is now filled with thousands and thousands (and yes thousands) of drunks; laughing, crying, hugging, sharing, LIVING … Founders Day style. Talk about being surrounded with God-consciousness, or if you prefer a power greater. Puts life’s little petty issues [...]
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Emotional Intelligence, I Love Recovery
tis’ better to give AND receive.
I was talking with a friend at work yesterday. Per usual it was a good conversation filled with the real deal cream filling center of down and dirty. He looks at me and says oh so calmly… “When exactly do you think you’re going to learn to receive?” Ahem. Excuse me? What do you mean [...]
Celebrity Addiction: do we care and why?
grease lightning …
I grew up watching Grease. Seen it hundreds and hundreds of times. I think … okay I know I had a mad crush on Kenickie. Also known as Jeff Conway. I never could bring myself to watch celebrity rehab or any of that stuff. It felt wrong somehow to me. No offense Dr. Drew … [...]
How do I DO this stuff?, Inside my Mind
i don’t like … this meeting.
Ever walked into a meeting and felt like you were home? How bout the opposite? Walked into a meeting and felt unwelcomed and like you didn’t belong? Like you walked right into the middle of Recovery Clique central? Now. I know what you’re gonna say … there are no strangers only friends we haven’t met yet. [...]
livin’ out loud …
How you believe in you makes all the difference. When no one else in the world gives a rats patoot, what message you hear in that noggin of yours … is everything. Truly, others can give you happy backstrokes of positive, but it means absolutely nothing if you don’t buy it on some level. Subliminal [...]
emotional maturity or what would MOM say?
Ever heard the phrase, when we start using we stop growing emotionally. So basically look at the age you first began using and that’s EMOTIONALLY where you’re starting from when you get sober/clean. Scary eh? A bunch of teenagers trying to navigate the social world. Except that many teenagers have learned coping skills through the [...]
overwhelmed.
I got in a mood today. Okay last night really. A ‘mood’. You know the one. The kind where my diseased thinking overwhelms me and I begin to live in the house that fear built. I hate that mood. It lasted til’ I shared it … which is pretty much usually the case. Good thing [...]
how important is it anyway – or – dancing with the sixth and seventh steps.
One of the best phrases heard at a couple decades worth of meetings… “If it doesn’t directly affect your breathing then it’s none of your business.” Oh how this rings true for this sober sometimes sassy girl. So easy to get caught up in life’s drama. He said, she said, they said, it said. (It? [...]
the show-me “state”.
Yeah. Overused topic. But with a twist. Any given night you can be sure that the topic of any 12 step meeting could very well be “gratitude”. What are you grateful for? blah blah. Now I’m not mocking … for once. This is important. I’ve been to a few meetings on this topic. More like [...]
what’s it gonna be yes or no … or … lemme sleep on it.
Had a minor epiphany. Lightbulb moment. No I wasn’t listening to Meatloaf. But I could be at any given moment. Okay not really. But that particularly song is sorta cool in a dance and sing your face off kinda way. Right? Okay. This is going to be short and sweet. Sometimes those are the best [...]
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