The Recovery Guy Blog
Robert shares varied concepts and approaches to understanding behavior that diverts us from our healthy desire to become well. We delve into social and medical aspects.
My Willingness to Survive
My name is Claudine, and I am an alcoholic and a drug addict.
Making a Break
Making a break with the past is about living and working in ways that will enrich your life and the lives of those around you. It is an exploration into the natural laws that govern all our actions and how you can align yourself with those laws that you can then bring true power, energy, compassion and integrity into your life and the lives of those around you.
Recovery Thoughts
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Why H.O.W. Now and Not Later?
With all earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start. Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely. Remember that we deal with alcohol -cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us.
Suzy Says: Step 2; Welcome to Sanity
Came to believe a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Goodby is Seldom Easy
This is a letter I wrote to share after the passing of my AA Sponsor and dear friend, Jack Fisher.
Guilt
The biggest challenge with guilt in recovery is that we hold onto it far too long. We often use guilt as a two by four to beat ourselves over the head with when we are looking for a reason to feel badly.
Baked into the Cake
Fortunately, baked into the cake a personal recovery is reconciliation.
Relapse is a Process Not an Event
The relapse process occurs in a series of steps and in the direction of a return to addictive or other self-destructive behavior. Along the way, there are opportunities to use new ways of thinking and acting to reverse the process, but we don’t implement them.