We are NOT a glum lot…

Fun in Recovery?

We are NOT a glum lot…

7 Comments 26 February 2012

  So. We get sober/clean.  We go to meetings, get a sponsor, do stepwork … all the necessaries.  What now? How in the sam hell do I have FUN and not use?  All my receptor sites, gut level instincts, behaviors, and attitudes have focused on using for so long that fun seems to be a [...]

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inner voice …

Fun in Recovery?, How do I DO this stuff?

inner voice …

2 Comments 29 July 2010

For years, I sat in the dark. Unable, unwilling, un-something; to express the real of the deal of who I really was.  Especially during the years of the dark sickness that’s known as addiction.  Using covered up everything that I really was … like you (yes social chameleon-ism), so used to the manipulative dance that [...]

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Do or don’t do …

Fun in Recovery?

Do or don’t do …

8 Comments 17 July 2010

In the words of my friend Ronald P. “I either do or don’t do.” I polled my facebook page about taking risks, to a few (although profound) responses. Funny, when I publish sexy poetry I get lots more feedback. *one raised eyebrow* Question was about taking risks; going out of your comfort zone. And NO [...]

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Something Fun to Do With Your Support Group!

Fun in Recovery?

Something Fun to Do With Your Support Group!

No Comments 27 October 2009

Before I came into the program, I truly believed that bowling with a group of friends was something that you could only do drunk. Since being in recovery I have found that bowling is a true fun time, even clean and sober! It is best to form teams, and make it a competition, matching shirts [...]

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One Week to Halloween, How to Get Through a Holiday Without Drinking

Fun in Recovery?

One Week to Halloween, How to Get Through a Holiday Without Drinking

2 Comments 23 October 2009

So back in my using days, me and many of the people I know, and even don’t know, used to use holidays as an excuse to get wasted. Whether it was Halloween, Thanksgiving Eve, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day Weekend, etc. This is my second Halloween in recovery, although last year I don’t [...]

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Fun in Recovery?

Saturday Night…What to do when you can’t get drunk?

10 Comments 16 October 2009

So I have been struggling lately with how I am supposed to have a social life, while keeping my sobriety. There are some people in recovery that can go to clubs, and be in that atmosphere around people drinking and partying, but seriously I can’t. I don’t know how they do it. I know for [...]

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