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Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. —Franklin Jones— Before recovery, anger, self-pity, and sadness often filled our hearts. The world went on. We came to hate the ride. In recovery, love fills our hearts. We begin to love life. Love is really caring about what happens to […]
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. —Mark Twain— Sometimes it does no good to try to “deal” with your feelings. For the moment, we’re stuck. We can only see things one way. No matter what anyone says, we’re closed up. For the moment. But this puts […]
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When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God’s hands were better than anything we could have planned. —Alcoholics Anonymous— We can’t control the present by looking into the future. We can only look back at the past. The past can teach us how to […]
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We feel that the elimination of our drinking is but a beginning. —Alcoholics Anonymous— Giving up alcohol or other drugs is just the start. Even if we give up chemicals, can we be happy if we have our old life back in every other way? We have to do more. We have to see how […]
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It is better to be wanted too much than not a all. —Anonymous— It may seem that so many people want our time and love. Parents say we don’t call often enough. Children demand our time. Our partners say we’re gone to much. Our sponsor tells us to check in more often. When we feel […]
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Here’s my Golden Rule: Be fair with others but then keep after them until they’re fair with you. —Alan Alda— Often in our illness we were ashamed, so we let people take advantage of us. We acted as if we had no rights. In recovery, we work hard to be fair with others. And we […]
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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. —Vittorio Alfiert— What brave people we are! We have chosen life. Okay, maybe we had a little push, maybe a big push from our family, police, or the pain of our disease. But still, we’ve chosen recovery. We choose daily to let our […]
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You must look into people, as well as at them. —Lord Chesterfield— When we were using alcohol and other drugs, we only looked at people. We treated them like objects. Often, we could only see how they helped us get high, or how they got in our way. Now we can see others as people. […]
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People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy. —Oliver Goldsmith— If we had to get well by ourselves, we’d be in trouble. We’ve already tried this route. We need to learn a new way to live, not the old way we already know. That’s why we have sponsors in Twelve Step […]
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When angry, count to ten before you speak: if very angry, a hundred. —Thomas Jefferson— Sometimes we just want to yell. Maybe a family member or a friend messed up, and we want to “set them straight.” Start counting. Maybe we got chewed out at work and we want “to get even.” Start counting. We […]