Category: Recovery

Thinking thoughts doesn’t make us bad and thinking thoughts doesn’t make them happen.Alien SmithSometimes we get scared by the things we think.  We start to worry that our thoughts may become reality.  We might believe our thoughts are so strange that no one else could possibly think the same things.  As teenagers, we might worry…

Reflection for the DayMy addiction is three-fold in that it affects me physically, mentally and spiritually. As a chemically-dependent person, I was totally out of touch not only with myself, but with reality. Day after miserable day, like a caged animal on a treadmill, I repeated my self-destructive pattern of living. Have I begun to…

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,…