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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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May 31, 2026
If I decided to pick up a drink or a drug today, it would be a careless, self-centered decision. Perhaps if I had to bear the collective disappointment and pain of all of the people who care about me, I would reconsider. Perhaps I would ask for help. Then again, maybe not. That is the…
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May 30, 2026
Every day I try to remember the lowest point in my life – my “bottom”. Not because it’s a happy memory, but because it is a reminder of how low I can go and how far I have come since then. The miracles that have happened along the way certainly have helped me to survive,…
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May 29, 2026
The life of recovery from substance abuse isn’t for everyone. Some try to recover until they feel better physically and then decide that the misery isn’t so bad. They go back for more. Some try to recover to appease someone else. Eventually that pressure eases and they return to the comfort and misery of substances.…
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May 28, 2026
Denial is a great defense mechanism that I can use to justify anything I do. I can use it to keep others at an arm’s length so that they can’t see the truth about me. I use it to protect my fears. When I’m suffering, denial keeps me from seeing the truth. Eventually I actually…
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May 27, 2026
Being a good friend isn’t always easy. A good friend tries to understand the things about me that they can’t and just accepts me anyway. A good friend tries to forgive me when I screw up. A good friend doesn’t burn bridges. A good friend knows when I’m off track and tells me what they…
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