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- I read or hear these wonderful stories of people's recovery journeys, and am especially amazed when they share that they have come to not only accept, but actually embrace, the dysfunctions that brought them into recovery.I'm not there yet.I HATE...
- Okay, sorry to be so late, but I've been playing catch-up all week. Last Saturday's discussion question from "Paths to Recovery" (New Years Eve - HP at work again???):"How am I optimistic?"A common theme in many of the shares was that optimism...
- This week's question from "Paths to Recovery" is:In what ways am I able to communicate clearly and concisely?There were some outstanding shares regarding this question. Among the things shared in Saturday morning's meeting were:- The importance of...
- My F2F Al-Anon group is a study group. We base our study on Al-Anon's book, "Paths to Recovery," which explores the 12 Steps, Traditions and Concepts in great depth. (I understand it took the group nine years to go all the way through the book the...
- I had been feeling somewhat out of sorts lately. I'm sure that having missed numerous F2F Saturday morning meetings (due to back-to-back-to-back weekend trips out of town) was a major contributor to those feelings. "Use it or lose it" holds true...
- As I alluded to in my response to Maryn's "Spot On" thread, I went to Robert Burney's website and poked around.Just. Wow.Sometimes we need to have something described or expressed in terms we understand before we truly "get it." That's how I felt...
- This week I got a real test for how well I'm working my program, and I'd like to share it with you good people.Prior to recovery, my life was a series of entanglements with various drama addicts - some as intimate relationships (including and...
- As I've spent the last year or so taking these tentative, clumsy, halting moves through the Steps, I have been the beneficiary of some tremendous insights that have helped me understand my life a little better.Step One, especially, has been a source...
- Life has been throwing some curves, the culmination of them being that my 84-year-old mother checked herself in to a nursing home a couple of weeks ago. I made the 2.5 hour drive last weekend to visit and see how she's doing (quite well,...
- This summer semester I'm taking Developmental Psychology. Aside from the rigors of having a 16-week semester crammed into nine weeks (ever drink from a fire hose?), I'm doing well in the class.Even so, I'm finding myself being emotionally strained....
- I found this earlier today, written by a Lutheran minister who obviously understands from where we come. All I could do when I read it was say, "Whoooaaaaa."----------------------------------------------------------------Ten Commandments of...
- One of the really effective quit smoking tools is to have a collection of "flash cards" with which one keeps handy those slogans that are so helpful in quitting. (My personal favorite was, "There is no such thing as just one.")It occurred to me...
- Rosie's powerful and gut-wrenching post about her childhood trauma and its effects on her compels me to share an insight that has played a tremendous role in my own recovery:We may be DAMAGED but we are not DEFECTIVE!To use a manufacturing metaphor...
- I went to see my mom last weekend to check in and do some "handyman" stuff. She's doing pretty well, all things considered. The good thing I took away from my visit was that she's open to re-engaging in life. Sunday morning I took her to church,...
- One of the common traits of an Adult Child is growing up with a pervasive sense of emptiness. The inconsistency in the family environment and its resulting loss of trust leaves one feeling empty. When the emptiness becomes so great, and the pain...