this is so very essential fer me! i have to keep things simple or they become too big fer me. when things become too big fer me i want to try to show them i am bigger than them and i then do things that are not conducive to livin a healthy spiritual life. keepin...

i had been taught to give as a child, but never did it. i was always selfish and self-centered, the world owed me, and just because i got mine didnt mean i had to share it with ya. when ya got yours before i got mine, ya were the asshole, and i was pissed at...

painstakin, this word doesnt sound like any kind of fun ive ever had, it sounds like it hurts to me. as i learned to live the principles of this 12-step program in my life i found that there were things i wasnt so readily willin to do. be honest, have integrity, be lovin and forgivin,...

it is so important, live and let live! it was extremely hard fer me to learn to forgive myself, i mean, i didnt live in a halfway house fer 2 1/2yrs because forgivin myself was an easy task, but little by little, day by day, i learned how to do this. words cannot express the...

there were 2 particularly important things i needed to do before i could move forward. 1 was to learn to love myself so i could love others and the other was to forgive myself so i could forgive others. so essential were both, i hadnt been able to get on with life. i needed divine...

i had heard once that resentment was a way of refeelin a past done harm. fer me this refeelin was always an incomprehensible painful thing. this mornin i read a friends post, and it brought up emotions that i hadnt felt in a long time of how much i used to truly hate myself fer...

i cant tell you i gained a sense of humility the 1st day i started livin this 12-step program. i cant tell you that i have the amount of humility one may think i should have after bein here 18yrs. i can tell you that it has grown since day 1 with help from my...

ONE DAY AT A TIME ONE DAY AT A TIME…Enough said hello everyone take a few moments to really think about it 1 day at a time or even one second at a time if we have to! Everyone have a wonderful rest of ur day!...

as i have learned and lived the steps in my life i have found that they are the easier softer way than the way i was doin things. i always thought i could beat this thing and like it says, i had tried every imaginable remedy, other than livin the right way. it dont hurt...

i always tried to figure out the best way to overcome the problems i had by keepin em fer myself. i didnt think anyone else could help, or even cared, nor did i want them to, so i kept them all to myself. i thought they were safe with me and could never cause any...