Where there’s a will there’s a way — no way! Just say no — I say, “NO!!!” Willpower works when it works yet out there lurk gargoyles that jerk earnest efforts leaving us hurt in the dirt. You’re where we […]
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Not God
That you’re not God means quite simply that you don’t dictate the laws of reality. ~ AA Agnostica If God can be defined by any person in recovery and outside, how can you know that you’re doing what they say, that […]
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Loneliness echoes through crowded rooms, seeking out me, the insecure. Moving to a town of closed cliques is an empty chasm of edges. Who am I? I lack definition, mirroring back what I think you want. Lonely is married year […]
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Powerless I’ve tried, really tried, yet to sooth the savage beast eludes me. Why? Tell me why! Others can! So why should this craving mock me, shame me, crush my soul? Others stroll from the beast, a whimpering kitten in […]
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Giving up alcohol was like giving up a best friend. ~ E.H.’s father-in-law Alcohol has never tugged at me… but food does, like alcohol does to the potential members of Alcoholics Anonymous! In fact I’ve been known to say I […]
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