I have taken the next step in the recovery process. Many people in recovery have heard the saying, “To keep it, you have to give it away.”
I am trying to do my part in the community by making myself available to others who are still suffering from drug and alcohol addiction.
I would like to extend […]
Posted on November 8th, 2007 by The User
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My new job keeps me very busy. It’s not only the job that is keeping me busy lately. Work, kid’s, the kid’s activities: homework, sports, band, projects. It’s life at its best and it takes a shitload of work. Work I NEVER would have been able to accomplish if I was still using. Things I […]
Posted on September 25th, 2007 by The User
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… or get sober.
This week I started a new job. I am finally using the skills I went to college to learn and have been honing over the past few years. Doing something you love to do and at the same time get paid to do it is a dream come true for […]
Posted on September 14th, 2007 by The User
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When the weather is nice I like to fire up the grill. In days past firing up the grill also meant at least a 6 pack of Mike’s Hard Cranberry Lemonade. Although it is easy to remember that when I take even one drink the obsession takes over (and I wake up the […]
Posted on August 28th, 2007 by The User
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Abraham Maslow, psychologist, humanist, circa mid-1900’s.
He is most noted for his hierarchy of needs that he developed in an attempt to explain the behaviors governing human motivation.
It is my experience that you can have some of the higher needs met without one or more of the lower needs intact, that is, assuming at some point […]
Posted on August 8th, 2007 by The User
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One hour it’s good, one hour it’s bad.
I knew the time was coming I just wasn’t sure when. I was on the way to the store the other day when I noticed I was out of cigarettes. I desperately wanted NOT to buy them so, instead, I went to the pharmacy and bought nicotine patches. […]
Posted on July 31st, 2007 by The User
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What sobriety has brought to my life is irreplaceable. I say that will 100% honesty.
This is also 100% honest. I get jealous sometimes. I see people who can control their drinking and I get mad at them. Some days the longing to drink responsibly overwhelms me (this is not to be […]
Posted on July 27th, 2007 by The User
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This following list was written by William L. White who has a masters degree in addiction studies. I read it and said “DUH” to most of them but one in particular has been instrumental in my recovery - number 3. Number 3 enables all of the others to happen. It should […]
Posted on July 19th, 2007 by The User
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I awoke in a daze, unsure of what had happened the night before. What I remember, quite clearly, was going to see a movie, coming home, playing two games of Yahtzee, then going to bed.
My dreams were the culprit for the morning’s confusion.
I hadn’t had a using dream for months. In the early […]
Posted on July 15th, 2007 by The User
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I haven’t lived with my mother for 10 years but this picture hit home. The trust my family had in me as a teenager was undeserved. If they had only known then what I was doing with my free time.
Image borrowed from PostSecret
Posted on July 11th, 2007 by The User
Filed under: Before the Bad, Losers, Addiction | 2 Comments »
