Coming to Recovery, deciding this is for you, is not joining a club, but a voluntary restyling of your life as you consent to safeguards that first feel like limitations but as you continue like privileges so that you come […]
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Person Watching
I just watched her life. ~ Joan B. Stalking is such an ugly word, an unwelcome attention. People watching, however, can be the sincerest complement. We begin it early, watching parents and siblings, copying them. We use teachers as examples […]
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Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends— this is an experience you must not […]
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“I am the black sheep of the family. I came to Alcholics Anonymous and found the rest of the herd.” ~ Source Terminally different or unique. Those who don’t fit in. Unlike, deviating, night and day, poles apart, unique, singular, […]
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 What was the big deal, going to a meeting? She knew what they did there though not from having tried it. Heck, she’d even read the “Standard Meeting Format” and knew how robotic, how rote memory, how repetitious it […]
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