
Confined to My Addiction
I was shackled to my needs I was shackled to my needs—need for booze, need for drugs, need for sex/acceptance. I did not make any decisions that did not consider…
Read MoreI was shackled to my needs I was shackled to my needs—need for booze, need for drugs, need for sex/acceptance. I did not make any decisions that did not consider…
Read MoreI am sitting in the local evacuation center waiting out a fire that is currently two blocks from my home. At times like this I can’t help thinking about what…
Read MoreThis time of year, it’s impossible to avoid the literature classic, “A Christmas Carol.” Charles Dickens shows us Ebenezer Scrooge’s introspective redemption process, courtesy of three strategic ghosts who stage…
Read MoreStep 12: “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”…
Read MoreStep 6: “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.” My dad always said, “A job worth doing is worth doing well”. Recovery teaches the same…
Read MoreMy previous article was “When Did Meetings Become the Program?” This article addresses my understanding and experience of how the program of recovery works. Based on my 31 years of…
Read MoreAtlanta was my first International AA Conference; we celebrated AA’s 80th birthday. At the same time, my family and I celebrated my 75th natal birthday and my 31st year of…
Read MoreI always assure people that I don’t care how they practice Step Eleven, either by prayer or by meditation. The technique will probably vary over the years, but the key…
Read MoreStep 2: “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.” I had been given many wake-up calls that it was to surrender and to…
Read MoreStep 1: “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.” This is where addiction took me… For many years my life was unconsciously unmanageable…
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