i have learned through recovery that what i do with my time is my outer life and what i do with my mind is my inner life. together they define who i am. i have been taught that behavior and action have the ability to change my thinkin. i didnt know these things or ever...
when i came into the rooms i had to learn how to do recovery. the things i was learnin were things i had never truly done before. surely i had wanted to do some of these things but was held back by the resentment i had and the spiritual malady i lived. fear and anger...
today i dont live with near the dishonesty, selfishness, or self-pity i did when i first came into the rooms. it doesnt mean that i am cured of these basic human emotions, or character defects/shortcomins just cause i have years in recovery, cause i still have em. and they do come to me when i...
when i came into the rooms, i felt like i was the only one who had done the shit i had done to others. i was ashamed, embarrassed, and hurt by the actions i alone committed. i knew there were other alcoholics, but i didnt know they may have done the dirt i had done....
today, bein the 16yr anniversary of my recovery, self-honesty is a character asset i must live with. not always do i like the shit that surrounds me or the way that i may feel about it, but bein as honest as i can with myself about what ev i am facin or dealin with has...
i get the opportunity each day to build up an endowment in serenity, peace, and happiness that puts me on a path away from fear. but it only works if i put the time and effort into cultivatin it. i reckon i wont ever be able to outgrow fear, im human and God has given...
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the big book gives clear suggestion on how i am to handle anger if i want to be free of it. it says that when i am sufferin from such a strong emotion as anger, that i cannot wish it away any more than i could my want for alcohol. whether or not it is...
when i am focused on self, i aint got time to be bothered with others. much is the same when i am focused on any resentment. these two forms of spiritual disease inhibit me from any type of productive life. foh sho i may feel like im doin shit that is important to me, my...
ive learned through recovery that resentment is a condition or state of mind whereby i relive past event and feel the emotions from that event as if it were happenin right now. resentment is the fuel that feeds the fires of my spiritual malady, my self-will. recovery teaches me that i have options today to...