My mind wants to panic surrounded by tough, fear trying to rule. I sit, alone, the day darkening both from the evening hour and the front moving in, lightning flashing in the distance, a low rumble of thunder. I have […]
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Not for Me
I remember thinking this Recovery stuff wasn’t for me but when I think back I expect I was hearing things I was simply not ready to hear. But I’d read the book OA 2nd edition and they’d told my story, […]
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When I am overeating, overindulging in a culinary delight, or bingeing, then I am not present to win… I have heard it said that silence is the only way we can hear God speak. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 3292-3302). […]
Continue reading »Complicated People
It’s a simple program for complicated people. ~ Program slogan Am unmanageable life is not the norm… except in the rooms of recovery. How many “Normies” do you know who would tell you they have no friends, that they’ve wished […]
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. ~ Socrates Recovery can begin with a sudden experience. An appendix to the Big Book says, “our first printing gave many readers the impression that these personality […]
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