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A few days ago I reached the 4 1/2 year mark.  I didn't even realize it until this morning, no fanfare or celebration like the early days when you hit those ever so important targets of 24 hours,...

Autumn is in full swing in my part of Michigan, leaves are falling and homeowners are doing their best to keep up.  Paper yard bags line the streets like stout khaki soldiers standing, and sometimes...

This was our topic in an AA meeting I attended today, my first in a while.  Very timely topic as I frequently struggled to accept the world and people as they are, wanting them to conform to my idea...

it's been 2 1/2 months since my last journal entry.  in the first days and weeks of my recovery I was journaling every day, and now find months passing before I take the time to check in.  i think...

staying with a friend in Florida this month and spent 7 hours pressure cleaning all the concrete surfaces of their property today.  long hard day holding the wand to a 3500 psi unit, but wow, the...

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You must do the thing you think you cannot do."Eleanor Roosevelt

glad to be crossing this threshhold into another month of sobriety. I appreciate every day that I'm sober and amazed how time flies once you get through the early stages of recovery.  Guess a big...

I remember in the early months of sobriety I frequently had dreams of drinking, and would awaken in a foggy panic not sure if I had actually relapsed the night before.  Thankfully I haven't had one...

has been so critical to my re/co/ver/y.  i couldn't have had one without the other.  found it impossible to sustain my sobriety without the healing powers of recovery, or to begin the challenging...

this morning entitled "third times a charm, I hope".  That was over a year ago.  It was written on the heals of an all-nighter feeling mildly hungover and very ashamed.  In the days and weeks that...

I flipped over eight months of sobriety a couple days ago and wasn't even aware of it until I looked at my sobriety calculator app a couple days later.  Guess that's a good sign, my life is moving...

Celebrated five months of sobriety this past week and glad to be enjoying sobriety and working my recovery.  When I began this journey, I thought sobriety was the goal but discovered along the way...

Day 9 was my breaking point the last time, but I have no doubt that I'll survive to day and everyday going forward.  The book I've mentioned before, "Alcohol Explained" really help me get my head...

I finished reading "Alcohol Explained" by William Porter last night and have never been so confident that I can permanently stop drinking.  The premise of Porter's book is that once a person is...