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They is no they, only us. —Bumper sticker— For most of us, addiction was full of doubt. We stopped believing in ourselves. Our thoughts had turned to “stinking thinking.” We didn’t believe in much of anything. We didn’t take risk. We always looked for the easier, softer way. In recovery, we start to believe again. […]
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An alcoholic carries an awful load around with them. What a load lying puts on your shoulders! Drinking makes liars out of all of us alcoholics. In order to get all the liquor we want, we have to lie all the time. We have to lie about where we’ve been and what we’ve been doing. […]
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FREEDOM FROM GUILT Where other people were concerned, we had to drop the word “blame” from our speech and thought. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 47 When I become willing to accept my own powerlessness, I begin to realize that blaming myself for all the trouble in my life can be an ego trip […]
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As we became alcoholics, the bad effects of drinking came more and more to outweigh the good effects. But the strange part of it is that, no matter what drinking did to us, loss of our health, our jobs, our money and our homes, we still stuck to it and depended on it. Our dependence […]
Each Day a New Beginning <!--012626-->
You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, And show the world all the love in your heart, Then people gonna treat you better. You’re gonna find, yes, you will, That you’re beautiful as you feel. —Carole King— “Act as if.” There’s magic in behaving the way we want to […]
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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. —H. D. Thoreau— To live is to open ourselves to possibility, to rule out nothing. There is no way we can spare ourselves, or those we love, the pains […]
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RIGOROUS HONESTY Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant? Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done? Who cares anything about a Higher Power, let alone meditation and prayer? Who wants to sacrifice time and energy in trying to carry A.A.’s message to the next sufferer? No, the […]
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The best way to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm. —Swedish proverb— During our illness, we hurt others. We hurt ourselves. We messed up a lot. So, a lot of us come to recovery not trusting ourselves very much. The truth is, as addicts, we couldn’t be trusted. But in […]
Keep it Simple <!--012526-->
The best way to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm. —Swedish proverb— During our illness, we hurt others. We hurt ourselves. We messed up a lot. So, a lot of us come to recovery not trusting ourselves very much. The truth is, as addicts, we couldn’t be trusted. But in […]
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WHAT WE NEED – EACH OTHER . . . . A.A. is really saying to every serious drinker, “You are an A.A. member if you say so . . . nobody can keep you out.” TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 139 For years, whenever I reflected on Tradition Three (“The only requirement for A.A. […]