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“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” - C. S. Lewis
My roommate is writing a book.
Not today. Today she’s working on writing exercises, learning the craft, reading a ton of important literature. Early in the morning she can be found in her rocking chair [...]
Tags: Addiction, goals, Recovery
It’s amazing to me, I guess it shouldn’t be at this point in recovery, but it’s amazing to me how quickly I return to my default setting; to return to the way of thinking, if not behavior, that always gets me back to where I came from unless I take purposeful action. Like when [...]
Tags: Acceptance, Addiction, codependence, Crystal Meth, default settings, economic insecurity, Faith, Fear, God, Higher Power, Recovery, relationships, spiritual growth, trust
I am, now, officially freaked out. Between yesterday and today I have accumulated enough ‘Close, But No Cigar’ kind of experience to have convinced myself that I am, like an old boyfriend once said, “a complete failure as a human being.” Intellectually I know that it isn’t true, that my problems are surmountable, [...]
Tags: Addiction, beer cans, complete failure as a human being, Courage, Crystal Meth, failure, God, humanity, powerlessness, Recovery, sober, truth
I went to Gooding recently to speak at the treatment center I went to, which in and of itself was really cool. Even cooler is the fact that out of that someone decided that they wanted me to show them how I’ve stayed sober. And even cooler than that, the coolest thing, something [...]
Tags: AA, Addiction, Brotherly Love, Courage, Crystal Meth, Faith, heroin, Hope, Recovery
is to stay sober and to help other alcoholics (and addicts) achieve sobriety. When you’re first coming in, when you’re on the morning side of the mountain, tradition 5 seems like the dumbest or most obvious thing in the world. Duh.
There is a song by Patty Griffin, I’ve talked about this before, called [...]
Tags: addict, Addiction, alcoholic, Brotherly Love, Courage, Crystal Meth, Faith, Gratitude, Honesty, Hope, Humility, Integrity, Martin Luther King, Patty Griffin, Recovery, Up to the Mountain
I have a friend, Joe K. who has been sober something like 38 years. Joe has worked with hundreds of alcoholics and addicts, not just here in Boise, but all over the country and continues to do so. A couple of weeks ago I was in a meeting and met this dynamite guy [...]
Tags: addict, Courage, Crystal Meth, Faith, God, Humility, Integrity, personal story, Recovery, Willingness
I’m terrified of trusting God with anything important. I shouldn’t be. I have an indication or two that He’s at work in my life, yet I struggle with letting go of something so big as what I’ve been facing. And why? Because I don’t have His phone number? He doesn’t [...]
Tags: addict, Courage, Crystal Meth, Faith, God, Recovery, trust
in about three days. Sunday I started feeling poor and by Monday morning I was well and truly sick. A trip to the clinic Monday afternoon confirmed what I already knew and put me at home in bed with a fistful of antibiotics to prove it. Since I got home from [...]
Tags: Addiction, crazy, Crystal Meth, Gratitude, illness, meetings, Recovery
I think I may have described here before that I think of 12 step recovery as Spirituality for Complete Idiots. I may also have said ‘total retards’ but that really isn’t correct, politically or any other way. I’ve had cause recently to rethink the moniker. I can’t recall exactly why but for some reason I [...]
Tags: Addiction, Personal Reflections, Recovery
Yesterday a reader posed some interesting and complex questions that I want to take some time to answer. They all really boiled down to his final question, “Shouldn’t you now start to focus on life after meth?”
The short answer to that is yes. Moreover, I should be focusing on life. Period. I have recently questioned [...]
Tags: Personal Reflections, Recovery
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