If you are a long-time drinker or drug user, you may be in that twilight stage of indecision between getting clean and continuing on the path you’re on. Using isn’t as fun as it used to be—it’s starting to catch up with you—but you dread what life would be like without it. Some of the…
“Maybe waking up clearheaded, able to remember falling asleep the night before, doesn’t strike you as worth much, but I remember realizing in my third year of recovery that that’s exactly how I’d been living since giving up drinking, and I had a moment of appreciation.” ~ Kevin Griffin, Recovering Joy: a Mindful Life after…
What Does the Saying One Day at a Time Mean? “Recovery is built one day at a time, one moment at a time, one event at a time, one relationship at a time – just like every brick and stone and that Great Wall. Successful recovery is not built without a plan. The Great Wall…
Moving: One of Life’s Big Stressors I moved states at the beginning of this year, at almost three years sober I was leaving the town I got sober in, the town where my support was, and the town that I felt comfortable in. One thing about my alcoholism is that it hates change; the disruption…
In my journey of recovery there were many unsuccessful starts. They were unsuccessful for many different reasons I believe, but I can distill them down to two basic flaws: lack of honesty and lack of willingness. My 12-Step Experience Presently, I belong to and am very active in two 12 step fellowships. I have “belonged”…
Life is completely relative. Without the pain, agony, and destruction I have both felt and caused, I would not understand just how precious, how beautiful this life truly is. Without death, I would not be able to recognize the beauty of birth. Without the dark, I wouldn’t comprehend the sun. My Journey Brought Me Here…