Archive for March, 2009
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
I spent a lot of the day reminiscing about all the things he and I have been through. I remember the night he called me around 2 or 3 am, telling me he had just told his mom he was addicted to meth He was crying and I still remember his exact words, “Victoria, I need you.”
Friends, Old and New Pt. II
Tags: AA, addiction, aphorism, camera, change, courage, different, drugs, ESH, Experience, friend, friends, friendship, help, Hope, knowledge, lead the horse to water, meth, meth addictino, Music, new friends, old friends, people, recovery, relapse, relapsed, relationships, risks, sobriety, strength
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
My mom came into town today and we had an amazing talk while walking around the lake by my house. She and I conversed about everything there was to talk about – relationships, boys, and change. I also recently packed up all my old journals I had ever written into a huge steamer trunk and [...]
Change
Tags: AA, anna nalick, aphoirsm, blog, breath (2am), breathe, change, changes, changing, God, god consciousness, journals, lifestyle, lyrics, mistakes, mold, old friends, therapy, you have to give it away to keep it
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
So, I just got back from watching the Houston Symphony perform in an extravagant concert of (dun dun dun) Bach vs. Vivaldi. It was so neat. They played two of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, one of which I’ve actually played an arranged version of for Honors middle school orchestra. They also played an oboe concerto and [...]
Friends, Old and New
Tags: Add new tag, bach, Brandenburg, CAEP, change, change everything, concerto, drugs, friends, friendship, friendships, frustration, girl scouts, guilt, houston symphony, life, oboe, old friends, past, remorse, shame, streets, symphonyorchestra, violin, vivaldi
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
All in all… I think life is a learning process. Almost a trial and error thing. If something doesn’t work, do it differently next time.
It’s a Learning Process
Tags: americans, anorexia, anxiety, body image, Bristol Palin, culture, cutting, drinking and driving, drugs, eating disorders, english, geometry, hate, Hope, Levi Johnston, media, orhestra, research paper, risky sex, school, self-harm, self-injury, self-loathing, spring break, thesis, today's generation, tuesdays with morrie, writer's block
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Lately, I haven’t really had much inspiring to blog about, but I know I need to keep updating, so here I am. I guess it’s important for everyone, including myself, to realize that I’m a human being as well. That means I have needs and wants as well as day to day crap I deal [...]
Writer’s Block
Tags: different person, frustration, instant gratification, lead by example, mistakes, mom, ohio, prayer, prove, prove by example, public school, respect, school, School Life, slip ups, sobriety, stress
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Well, despite my ill thoughts of this blog, I believe I need to focus on the good and not the bad! When I was in recovery about a year or two ago (I’ve been in and out for three to four years now), my old sponsor used to always tell me to make gratitude lists [...]
Gratitude and My Freedom
Tags: AA, bluebonnets, calmness, clean time, controlling thoughts, family, freedom, God, grateful, gratitude, gratitude list, home, house, mountains, negative self-talk, peace, positive self-talk, re-write thoughts, recovery, rush, serenity, silence, struggle, thought process
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Jeremiah 18
At the Potter’s House
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD : 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he [...]
God, Take Me As I Am
Tags: AA, alcoholic, alcoholics anonymous, brokenness, clay, discontentment, fear, free, God, happy, hurt, jeremiah 18, jeremiah 29:11, joyous, judgment, pain, past, potter, pottery, promises, raising botom, rock bottom, self-pity, stone
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
I wrote an essay for English last month, and I really enjoyed writing it. I thought I would share it with my viewers as well as do some tweaking of it. I made a Four, which is the highest grade an essay can get. I think the prompt was “Write about the importance of doing [...]
Music – The Universal Language
Tags: classical, contrabass, double bass, english, essay, guitar, kontrabass, language, love, Music, musician, piano, regret, rehab, shame, string bass, upright bass, viola de gamba
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Love and tolerance of others is our code.
– Page 64 of Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book
I’ve tried to run AA/NA meetings on this topic, but it seems as if everytime I try, everyone else takes it as a chance to explain their quirks and pet peeves. That’s not what I want to talk about when I [...]
Tolerance
Tags: AA, accept, acceptance, actor, actress, alcoholics, alcoholics anonymous, alocholic, big book, breathing, code, controlling thoughts, ego, egotystical, Experience, fathers, fear, feelings, God, journal, let go and let god, patience, pity, rehab, self-centered, selfish, selfishness, thoughts, time out, tolerance
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
About two months ago, my father wrote a post on Being a Dad Through Self-Injury. He came to me today saying that it had a lot of hits from people looking for help with self-harm themselves. Although his post was amazing and really opened my eyes on his perspective, it’s mainly focused on being [...]
Survival of a Self-Injurer
Tags: battle self-harm, cut, cutting, Experience, help on cutting, help on self-harm, help on self-injury, Hope, self-harm, self-injury, self-mutilation, strength, surviving self-injury
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