Category: Recovery

In our Twelve Traditions we have set our faces against nearly every trend in the outside world.  We have denied ourselves personal government, professionalism, and the right to say who our members shall be.  We have abandoned do-goodism, reform, and paternalism.  We refuse outside charitable money and have decided to pay our own way.  We…

Today's thought is:Grief may be a pathway to our deepest connections.People often say, "I don't want to burden you with my troubles, you have enough to worry about." Yet sharing our troubles with our partner or close friends lightens our burden and restores our balance. Telling someone our experiences and how we feel about them…

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,…