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The Promises of AA
“If we are painstaking about this phase of our development —— We will know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word...
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Enabling recovery
The question was, “what is enabling in recovery”? Interesting question because I hadn’t thought of enabling recovery instead I thought about it in terms of detachment and I guess I still do. To...
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A Sufi Tale
A man walking through the forest saw a fox that had lost its legs and wondered how it lived. The he saw a tiger come up with game in his mouth. The tiger ate its fill and left the rest of … Continue...
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The Wall
The Wall is a parable written by Gloria Jay Evans. The first time I was introduced to this book was in a 12 step meeting on the 4th step. At that time in my life I still wasn’t talking much and was...
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The post
It is a universal truth that we are all both students and teachers simultaneously. At your best and at your worst your energy, words and actions permeated all those around you and you don’t even need...
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Synchronicities
I had written in the past about going to a conference and getting into a conversation with two women I had never met before. If I remember right one woman was from New Mexico and the other was from...
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Just a thought
What you see in another might be born more from your desire than from reality. Yet only the truth will set you free. Facing reality with all its pain, confusion, consequences and uncertainties is a...
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The Blame Game~
We don’t easily accept responsibility for the messes in our lives because others are seemingly involved, so we want to blame them for at least part of the turmoil. And the part that belongs to them...
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Rigorous? Honesty?
OK – don’t be shocked, but people who struggle with addiction lie — a lot. So the very foundation of recovery is based in rigorous honesty, being painfully honesty without reservation (no...
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Rigorous. Honesty. 2
Answers to the questions in the last paragraph of 1 are: What someone else says or thinks about you shouldn’t matter, but it does. Saying one thing and doing another can cause a business to lose a...
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