why is it so many are relapsing or dying before they ever recover? We live this life of self-isolation and despair. You have heard me mention before, “The Hole of No Hope”. Do you know what a rut is? A rut is grave with both ends kicked out. If we don’t get out of it, we die there.
Being teachable is the prerequisite for learning anything. If I am not teachable in an overall perspective or in a specific area I wouldn’t find it necessary to be taught anything. With that, being teachable is to learning what air is to breathing.
Not knowing how to live kills more people of addiction then I care to count.
“If you do what you’re supposed to do when you were supposed to do it, there will come a time when you can do what you want to do when you want to do it.”
Before we can ever meet the need we have to know what the need is.
A profound notion that has been taught in Alcoholics Anonymous is the notion that sobriety is not enough.
the major difference between a person who is addicted to a substance and one who isn’t is that the non-addicted person has found other ways to dealing with life on lives terms.
Recovery is to get back: REGAIN, to bring back to normal position or condition. RESCUE, to make up for.
Are you building your recovery or are you merely stopped drinking, using or engaging in negative behavior? Here is why this question is so important. For many years, you and lived in a negative life of despair we built. If we don’t build a new house/recovery to live in, we stand a good chance of going back to the old house.
Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. Well, then it isn’t one to you, since nothing is really good or bad in itself—it’s all what a person thinks about it.
I have a motto that I have adopted along the way and it is “ sooner is better than later and more is better than less.“
Prior to my life changing involvement with AA, I was one of the most self-centered people on the planet. I quickly learned that taking and applying the 12 Steps of Recovery would require me to move from Me to We.