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Higher power
During every single meeting of AA and NA and all the other meetings with an “A” behind it, they talk about a higher power. It says in the second step and throughout the big book, a “god of our understanding”. As well stating, “Believing in a God as we understand HIM”. I have been to hundreds of meeting in different cities and different states, there is always those few people who let you know about … Read entire article »
Filed under: Recovery, Spirituality, Treatment
My Path To Enlightenment
The 11th step of Alcoholics Anonymous states, “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out”. When I first heard this step in the rooms of AA, I was 21 years old and fresh off of a DUI arrest. I was going to meetings to get my court card signed and rarely … Read entire article »
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Drinking and Using Friends
Back in the day, my great friendships could be started as easily as giving out a cigarette or holding someone’s beer while they urinated on another school’s placard in front of its administration building. These were the friends you could depend on—depend on to bring cheap vodka to your party or dance naked with in the wilderness around a bonfire. But when things go tough or emotions were involved, we were all unready to be … Read entire article »
Filed under: Addiction, Drugs, Life, Love and Relationships, Recovery, Treatment
A Vendetta Love Story About Psychotherapy
I’ve had the same therapist for something like six or seven months and we’ve been meeting 4-5 days a week. I’ve discussed going down, and my therapist thinks it is a bad idea and that I just don’t like being vulnerable. In reality, who does? I sit there and talk about my most intimate mushy feelings, and he sits there and diagnoses them. I ask him about himself, and he rarely answers. He always asks … Read entire article »
How To Hide Cigarette Smoking From Your Parents
One prominent theme of being in recovery is that nearly everyone smokes cigarettes. In my current sober living 9/11 girls smoke and most of the staff does, too. I know my parents wouldn’t be pleased to hear that I smoke. So how do you hide it? There are several techniques, but the key is to not overdo anything with a scent. If you do, it will look like you are hiding something, making parents all … Read entire article »
A Female’s Perspective on Sober Sex
I used to just wear make-up, a short skirt, and small tank top, get drunk, dance, and wait for guys to dance with me. Forty-five minutes later, we’d be naked. I’d wake up in an unfamiliar bed, get dressed, and leave, preferably before my sexual liaison woke up. There was no pillow talk. The only talk actually was “what’s your name” and “Do you have any STDs I should know about? Have you been tested?” … Read entire article »
Filed under: Addiction, Drugs, Love and Relationships, Recovery, Treatment
Calm Down
All throughout my life (before I used, while I used, and during my sobriety) I just wanted everyone to calm down, bro. I always felt like everyone was just too hectic around me during all stages of my life. Some may say maybe it is I that is the hectic one and that I projected my feelings to others. If you think that, you need to calm down, bro. I’m not sure exactly what it … Read entire article »
AA Haterade
We all know those people in AA that sit in the back and talk to themselves; the lone wolf, the homeless person that just comes in for the free Oreo’s, the guy/girl who comes into look for the next pieces of ass and the man or women who is way too into AA also known as a Big Book thumper, oh and also the person who just got out of court for his D.U.I and … Read entire article »
Addiction Vaccination: The New Frontier?
As the disease concept of addiction gains a foothold and the medical establishment increases its understanding of the mechanisms involved, new medications are on the verge of reaching the market. Increasingly the approach taken by pharmaceutical companies has been to attack the problem at its root: by creating vaccines that block the actions of certain drugs in the brain. What are the potential benefits and drawbacks inherent to this promising development? Vaccines that would arm the … Read entire article »
How to Find the Perfect Sober Living for You
I have lived in four sober livings, and only one of them has been well run. I’ve learned a lot of valuable information about sober livings and techniques for finding adequate fits. Use this procedure to find an ideal sober living for you. Start with the internet and find all the sober livings in the area you want to live. Check out the websites and get the contact information. There is no point to reading the … Read entire article »
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