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	<description>Tales of Recovery from Crystal Meth Addiction</description>
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		<title>One breath at a time.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/hope-principles/breath-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the best thing I&#8217;ve done for my recovery in a long time is to start to sponsor a practicing Buddhist.  It has added a sense of urgency for me to revisit all that 2nd &#38; 3rd step stuff that I&#8217;ve struggled with ever since my surgery.]]></description>
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		<title>Service and Self Sacrifice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just looking at a friend&#8217;s Facebook page, admiring a picture of her and someone&#8217;s baby, when I noticed a quote on the sidebar; something about love from Dostoevsky’s, &#8220;The Brothers Karamazov&#8221;.  Having just come from a meeting where the topic was Love and knowing how way leads to way I followed the trail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing On the Firing Line of Recovery at the Allumbaugh House Detox Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Most of the people in a county detox center have made multiple attempts at getting sober.  Most, if not all of them have been to meetings before; sometimes hundreds of them.  I went to hundreds of meetings before I ever got sober. ]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Forgotten</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/gratitude/almost-forgotten/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started writing to save my life.Â  Even today, but most especially in the earliest days of my recovery the act of writing helped me maintain perspective and focus.Â  I wrote in a medium that was publicly accessible because I was so profoundly alone. The feedback I got really encouraged me and helped motivate me. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To love myself more perfectly.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/service-principles/to-love-myself-more-perfectly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Itâ€™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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So smart in many ways,</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Willingness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CMA]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thelastchancetexaco.com/?p=803</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[and yet so stupid in others.Â  I sometimes wonder if it isn&#8217;t actually a function of intelligence to be able to block out information when we choose to; if you don&#8217;t actually have to be really smart to have a really effective denial mechanism. A certain amount of mental power must be involved in forcing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a trip.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/spirituality-principles/what-a-trip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey! Are any of you going to the CMA World Service Conference in Park City in a couple of weeks?Â  I totally want to go.Â  CMA is super new here in Boise.Â  There have been meetings in Twin Falls, ID for awhile now and people have tried to start meetings here before as long as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More joy. Less me.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/service-principles/more-joy-less-me/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/service-principles/more-joy-less-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12th Step]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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