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June 10, 2026
“Picking up again is not an option”. I have heard people say that and I cringe. The sentiment is that somehow I am immune from relapse because I have this recovery thing all figured out. It smells like arrogance and sounds like a lack of humility. Then my dog dies , or parent dies, or…
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June 9, 2026
I wasn’t sure I was willing to pay the price to have this life. I did not know how it would turn out, so I had my doubts. I was told to keep showing up, one day at a time. I was told it gets better. It doesn’t get better all at once. Some days…
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June 8, 2026
To solve my addiction problem, there is really nothing for me to “figure out”. It has already been “figured out”. Hundreds of thousands of people like me have followed a prescription for recovery. They all have followed the same program. They each have found it as a solution to their malady. There even is a…
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June 7, 2026
“Don’t do anything today that will make it tougher to stay sober tomorrow.” Staying sober doesn’t mean only abstinence from substances, although that’s the start of it. It means that I change what I do in all aspects of how I treat myself and others. If I start doing “little things” that I know I…
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June 6, 2026
I have often had the thought that time is slipping away. It just sits in the back of my mind as I get older. Each of us has an expiration date. We just don’t know when that will arrive. There was a time when I could never imagine making it this far. I have more…
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June 5, 2026
If I live my days concerned about what other people think about me, then I assume that other people think about me. I’m not that important. If I do the right things for the right reasons, I need not care about what other people think. I have to live with myself. Doing the right thing…
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June 4, 2026
I found out early on that I have to actually endure feeling my feelings. That is the deep end of the pool, with no flotation device. No more numbing my feelings, no matter how deep they go and no matter how long they last. Most of the time I couldn’t even identify what I was…
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June 3, 2026
“If you do what we do, and you do what we tell you to do… … You’re going to earn the right to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest of the world, with your head held high.” I could not comprehend what that meant when I was told that by a wise and sober man. By…
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June 2, 2026
Putting down the substances is the easy part of recovery. Putting in the work to change the person I had become is the hard part. My perspectives, my attitudes, and my trust in God all need to change. No one sees those because they’re inside of me. The biggest change is between me and God.…
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June 1, 2026
I am not responsible for being an alcoholic – it’s a disease. I am responsible for my own recovery. Once I have been given the opportunity to live clean and sober, I am accountable. If I don’t ask for help, if I don’t follow direction, or if I decide that life is too hard- that’s…
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