Category: Insight

Well, I know I said I would post lots of pictures when I came back to Houston, but I ended up leaving my camera on the kitchen table as I walked out the door for the airport. So I wanted to write something and let everyone know how my experience was.
It’s been about a month [...]

If I sat in a group of women in sobriety and point blank said, “I smoked crack, I sold my body for it, and now I’m living with the consequences,” they’d all probably relate. THAT right there, is the beauty of alcoholics anonymous as well as narcotics anonymous.

I believe the grief process is something that all of us go to not only when we lose people, but when we lose something. For me, I lost my drug and alcohol abuse – my main escape into oblivion.

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.”

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]