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June 14, 2026
I can’t tell what’s going on with someone’s soul just by appearances. Most of us are pretty good at hiding how we feel, especially when we are in pain. I know that when I am disturbed, I tend to behave a little differently, a little more distracted. So when someone I know appears a little…
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June 13, 2026
I never planned to stop using and drinking. It just happened through a series of odd coincidences. I was just ready and didn’t even know it. I didn’t have the day circled on the calendar. I didn’t stop because I was inspired by the idea of self-improvement. I had been living with a depth of…
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June 12, 2026
When I use alcohol I become a drunk. When I use drugs I become an addict. Those are inescapable facts about me. Early in my recovery, complete strangers told me that left to my own devices, I would self-destruct. I thought “They don’t even know me!”. How wrong I was. They knew me better than…
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June 11, 2026
No one promised me that life would be easy. It’s the same for everyone. Sometimes it feels like everyone else is the problem and that they don’t understand how difficult they make it for me. They probably feel the same way about me. I can see the cause of my problems just by looking in…
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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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