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I am really feeling grateful for my life today. And I’m feeling especially grateful for the time that I spent with my sponsor up in Atlanta and everything that has followed.
Friday night I got to take one of my favorite people, Jill, the friend who let me detox at her house, out for dinner at [...]
I’ve been having this internal argument about smoking cessation with nicotine replacement therapy. Namely, in quitting smoking I’m really quitting 2 different addictions; smoking addiction and nicotine addiction. I have picked up a cigarette only twice in the last 16 days, and that has been made rather easy by the fact that my nicotine addiction [...]
Joe hasn’t been home in 3 days now, but he’s been seen and he’s terrible. He’s every horrible thing you can imagine about someone who has relapsed on heroin (or other heavy narcotics). His phone is dead so he can’t call anyone. Jake gave him my number but he refuses to call because he’s still [...]
I don’t know that I’ve ever been so sick and not been hospitalized. Without health insurance and without any savings I elected to just ride it out, which, in retrospect, was probably a bad idea. I haven’t had solid food since Monday, but I am finally keeping fluids down and the exhausting cycle of fevers [...]
Marc suggested that I start going to Al-Anon eons ago, even before this round of insanity began. But since I’ve decided that I’ve been sober long enough now, and that it is what I believe my creator would have me do, I plan on being involved in my mom’s life, I think it’s also time [...]
Few other things make me feel as secure and contented as new socks and underwear. Although I’ve had a few new socks and a couple of pair of boxers a couple of times since I got sober, there were none in the 2 years before and no new t-shirts at all.
Yesterday I threw them all [...]
Tomorrow night at 8:30 EST I’ll be hosting the weekly salon chat over at The Second Road. Now don’t be intimidated by the fact that you need to create a user name in order to join the chat. Just plan a little bit ahead to get that done before.
So that you can be there on [...]
It’s funny, the ideas that people get about the relationship between loving others and loving themselves. The conventional wisdom is that learning to love oneself is essential to loving others. Yet 12 step programs insist that we must place others ahead of ourselves in order to recover.
I was at a meeting the other night where [...]
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