We start with Step One. Our lives are unmanageable. By that we mean we’re miserable, perhaps suicidal, depressed as heck, at the end of our rope. We work the rest of the steps and find it so much better, a […]
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The Life Cycle of Recovery
Decades ago a wise woman said, “Too many people are born again and again but never grow up.” Starting over. Honorable. Essential so often. We eternally return to the First Step. Yet if it’s the same place, the same unmanageable […]
Continue reading »What’s the Hurry?
One of these days I’ll start a new program, a new diet, a cleanse, a new exercise regimen. I’ll take control of the weight, of my life, of my fate, of my happiness someday. But I’ve got so much to […]
Continue reading »In Relationship to Truth
The reality that whatever you feel or think this moment about getting loaded must come after the certainty of what always happens when that crap gets in your body. You may have seen the truth of this quite clearly at […]
Continue reading »Powerless. Not Helpless
I’m powerless. But thank God I’m not helpless. ~ David S I can’t. I haven’t the power. I’m powerless. All by myself, alone, it’s impossible. Sure, there’s that try, try again stuff, but there’s also that Einstein wisdom, Insanity is […]
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