She kneeled in prayer feeling the underdog, cringing at the day just past and began to lambast God for her feeling tense, her song, the blues. She’d had her say but somehow stayed, taking time to feel tension wane, to […]
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Stranger in my Mind
As I take the Twelve Steps a group of sober drunks came up with eight decades ago, simple steps, easy to remember but far from easy to live… As I take the Twelve Steps again and again, coming nearer, and […]
Continue reading »The Children Within
We come in adult bodies, all ages, sizes, descriptions. We come with unmanageable lives, tied to substances that comfort us. We stay as both the adult who came, better able to cope, but also as the children within, learning to […]
Continue reading »Why Do I Break my Abstinence?
Let me count the ways… I remember the taste and the feeling like I deserve it, like a pat on the back. I have extra time before interacting with others and want to put off social ineptness as long as […]
Continue reading »Stumbling on Recovery
Keep on keeping on… my plan of action. I have Recovery, know the answer, but too often slip and slide. But I know the destination, have maps and guides in literature, meetings, the tools. So I’ll forge on toward the […]
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