Divine creator. Thank you for this chance to speak honestly with another person about the events of my life. Help me accept responsibility for my actions. Let me show compassion for myself and my family as I revisit my thinking […]
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Whether or Not We Believed
Coming to believe was something that happened as we began taking actions which others told us had worked for them. Whether or not we believed these actions would work for us didn’t seem to matter. Once we took the action […]
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Discovery is marvelous, but recovery is the focus. We can discover many things from insightful self-help books or from a talk-show host. Yet, our experience shows that we cannot read ourselves into true change, and we cannot watch enough television […]
Continue reading »Fight, and Fight Again!
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~ Margaret Thatcher We walk into the rooms of Recovery and many of us become inspired instantly. We may get abstinence that first day, understanding little of […]
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