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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 [...]
Tags: asking for help, energy, inspiration, intuition, love, Recovery, sacrifice, Service, Willingness
Hey! Are any of you going to the CMA World Service Conference in Park City in a couple of weeks? I totally want to go. CMA is super new here in Boise. There have been meetings in Twin Falls, ID for awhile now and people have tried to start meetings here before as long as [...]
Tags: CMA, Crystal Meth, crystal meth addiction, Crystal Meth Anonymous, Park City, Recovery, Service, Twin Falls, World Service Conference
He’s back in. That’s good. My sponsor asked what I would have wanted someone to do when I went out. That answer was easy. I was desperate to know that someone cared. That anyone cared. I know now that they did, but everyone I knew simply stepped back. And I remember feeling like it [...]
Tags: 13th Step, Service Position, The Cheerleader
It’s been a very busy week in terms of working with others. Friday I had the day off work and ended up going with my friend Robert on a 12th Step call. We drove from Boise to Eagle and picked this man up, drove back to Boise, and spent the rest of the day with [...]
There are parts of my experience at the end of my use and in the early part of my recovery that I have been hard pressed to imagine would ever be an asset; something I could share to help another addict recover, chief among them my relationship with Dan, the Imaginary Future Ex-Husband (IFX). Dan’s [...]
Tags: 12th step, Benefit, Crystal Meth, Dan, Experience, Gay, Hope, Others, Past, Recovery, Regret, relationships, Service, Sociopath
I didn’t have to work yesterday and I got up pretty early with the intention of getting a bunch of chores done. By 10 o’clock I realized that unless I got up and left the house for awhile that nothing was going to get done, There is a Sunday morning meeting here that is very [...]
Tags: 12th step, AA, Bed, Faith, Friends, Service, Spirituallity, Sunday
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