I heard this at a meeting the other day. ”Keep coming back. It gets better.” But does “IT” really get better? Now I know I’m splitting hairs here but it really got me thinking about this whole recovery process. Life is constant. Good/Bad (I despise those words but use them for common language purposes) things [...]
fix… you.
I heard this at a meeting the other day. ”Keep coming back. It gets better.” But does “IT” really get better? Now I know I’m splitting hairs here but it really got me thinking about this whole recovery process. Life is constant. Good/Bad (I despise those words but use them for common language purposes) things [...]
Addiction 101, I Love Recovery
promises promises
As it tells us in our literature (you know the Big blue Book… at least for this drunk it’s my textbook), namely the Doctor’s opinion, we “cannot differentiate the true from the false”. huh? okay I’ll let Dr. Silkworth explain this since he did such a fabulous job doing so. Linkage: . http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/en_doctoropinion.cfm Men and women [...]
Chaos.
I saw an interesting post on In The Rooms tonight from shay2524 that no one had responded to as of yet. This is my feeble attempt. Question: Please help me find out why,even if I am clean. I still crave chaos in my life. Good question. Seems that we as recovering people have been so used to the [...]
the many faces of recovery
I see all these folks writing about “happy”. That recovery is this sugarcoated plastic smiled “O.M.G” malarky. That’s not been my experience. Not even a little. Sure I’m a basically happy person, but I’m also sad and melancholy and afraid and hopeful and angry and and and … I believe the definition we’re looking for [...]
Addiction 101, I Love Recovery
may the force be with you …
Overheard by ignoramus #1 (we’ll call him Henry Hillbilly) “Yeah my neighbor is one of them there drunks in that triple A thing. Always talkin’ bout them meetings and all that bunk. Man he doesn’t need them stupid brain washers. All he needs is to grow a set. Like me. I drink all the time [...]
S.A.D.
It’s that time of year again. And yes I’ve had tons of emails on the subject of the ‘wintertime blues’ or ‘S.A.D (seasonal affective disorder)’ or just plain out tired of it being cold and dark and not being able to go outside and play or feel the warm sun on my face and I [...]
Addiction 101, How do I DO this stuff?
resent … meant.
Hopefully by now in your recovery process you’ve at least ‘heard’ of these nasty little buggers that can destroy an addict/alcoholic faster than anything else. (you know “number one offender” and all that jazz? No? It’s in the book. Both of em. Yep.) Mirriam and Webster what say you? re·sent·ment noun \ri-ˈzent-mənt\ Definition of RESENTMENT [...]
defining insanity …
As my good pal and a personal hero, Al Einstein said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. This goes in the annals of recovery phrase-isms as well … keep drinking/using and expecting somehow-someway-somewhere it’s going to get better. Using every superhuman power at our [...]
finger on the triggers
It happens without our even knowing. An event, person, word, gesture, object. Situation, during which some internal button is stomped on, leaving us frazzled and worn and nervous and in some cases – wanting to use … bad. I’ve heard of times where people who are seemingly just “fine”, get a switch flipped and aren’t [...]
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