Category: Recovery

Being a good manager doesn't mean managing someone else's life!Some of us sharing these meetings mistakenly thought we were supposed to manage everyone and everything. We managed children and spouses, and when we could, neighbors, co-workers, and friends. And we saw our ability to manage other people's lives as proof of our worthiness. Letting others…

Believing in a Higher Power changes everything.Faith in a Higher Power doesn't come easily for many people, particularly those for whom the past has been painful. Acting as if there is a God is the best many people can do at first. And that's good enough.What's to be gained from believing in a Higher Power?…

But where, it will naturally be asked, is this wonderful, mystic Power to be contacted?  Where may we find it?  And how is it brought into action?  The answer is perfectly simple — This Power is to be found within your own consciousness, the last place that most people would look for it.  Right within…

Welcome to the next edition of getting to know your friends. What you're supposed to do is copy (not forward) this entire eMail and paste it onto a new eMail that you'll send. Change all of the answers so they apply to you then, send this to a whole bunch of people you know INCLUDING…

To "let go" does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else. To "let go" is not to cut myself off, it's the realization I can't control another. To "let go" is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences. To "let go" is to admit powerlessness,…

Program friendships are specialUntil we came into the program we may have thought that friendships were all alike.  We counted on friends to socialize and gossip, and to share a secret with.  But when we were really scared about our lives and the future, we felt too vulnerable to let anyone else know our innermost…

Made adecision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.Many of us said to our Maker, AS WE UNDERSTOOD HIM: 'God, I offer myself to Thee — to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self,…