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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown. —Hugh Prather— Everyone makes mistakes. We all know that. So why is it so hard to admit out own? We seem to think we have to be prefect. We have a hard time looking at our mistakes. But our mistakes can be very good teachers. […]
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. —Eleanor Roosevelt— Most of us want to be happy. We just don’t know how. We aren’t sure what happiness is. We’ve learned the hard way that some things we wanted didn’t make us happy. We’re learning that happiness comes when we live the way our Higher […]
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We’re entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. —-Step Six— Character defects include being stubborn, feeling self-pity, and wanting to always be in control. We must be ready to give up these defects, or they will hurt us. Being ready is our part of Step Six. Our Higher Power will remove […]
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You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. —Ethel Barrymore— There was a time when we wouldn’t let anyone laugh at us—even ourselves. We had to much shame. We had to much pain. We took the world too seriously. If we laughed it was at others—not at ourselves. Over time, […]
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One Day at a Time—AA program slogan— One Day at a Time reminds us to live in a sane, natural way. It reminds us we can’t control the past. It reminds us we can’t control the future. We can live only in the present. We have only the moment. We have only today. Before recovery, […]
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The more one judges the less on love. —Balzac— At times we need to make judgments about people’s behavior. We stand back and look at how their lives affect our sobriety. We have to do this to choose people whose relationships will be good for us. We have to do this before we trust someone […]
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Keep it Simple… Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. —Johann Fredrich Von Schiller— As we grow in recovery, we’ll need to change our behaviors, values, and beliefs to stay sane. This take courage. Courage is doing what is needed in spite of fear. Courage means facing what we can’t change. We can’t change the […]
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Keep it Simple… It’s only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.—Henry David Thoreau— The biggest danger we face as recovering people is self-will. Do we try to control others? Do we always put ourselves before others? Are we full of self-pity? These are all ways that bind us to our self-will. In […]
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When I look at the future, it’s so bright, it burns my eyes. —Oprah Winfrey— During our illness, it was as if our spirit lived in a deep, dark cave. Our spirit became gloomy, cold, and lonely. Our spirit didn’t know how to get out of the cave. We were dying. Recovery brings us into […]
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In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. —Virginia Satir— Let’s keep this in mind: each of us is special in our own way. Often, we’re hard on ourselves because we’re different. Our Twelve Step groups pull our differences together. We listen and learn from our differences. We learn to see […]