Posts Tagged ‘feelings’
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
A week ago today, I celebrated a year of sobriety for the second time around. Friday, I had a slip-up of old behaviours. Today, I thought about how this year has been different my last year of sobriety. On Saturday, after I really thought hard about what I had done and how many people it [...]
Look Forward with Hope
Tags: AA, change, crying, emotions, feelings, fourth step, guilt, honest, honesty, old behaviors, regret, remorse, rensentment, shame, sobriety, suggestions, tears, trauma report, willing, willingness
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
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.
Forgiveness pt. II
Tags: AA, aa meeting, addict, addiction, afraid, alcoholic, anger, angry, anorexia, aphorism, bulimia, crack, crack/cocaine, cutting, defense mechanism, drinking, drugging, eating disorders, fear, feelings, forgive, gaining weight, gang, gang banging, gangs, guilt, isolate, isolation, pity pot, problem, prostitute, rape, remorse, resentment, resentments, self-centeredness, self-harm, self-injury, self-pity, selfish, selfishness, shame, sobriety, solution, streets, strength, support, surgery, survivor, think, woman, women
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
I have a lot of old resentments coming up recently, and I’ve been working my hardest to deal with them along with God. I do, however, know that resentments are the number one offender and they lead only to a life a unhappiness and futility (page 64 of the Big Book).
School Life and Procrastination
Tags: AA, alcoholic, alcoholics, alcoholics anonymous, big book, blogging, coffegroundz, feelings, geek gathering, guilt, Music, Music Reviews, old friends, opportunity, Orchestra, passion, resentments, school, shame, social media, sponsor, TAKS, TAKS tutorials, the secret cut, wallflower, writing
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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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Monday, March 16th, 2009
I wrote a poem while I was still in a maximum security holding center about a week ago. This is the first poem I’ve written in about eight months, as well as my first positive poem.
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I’ve hurt so bad in life.
All I knew before was the knife.
I now know better ways to cope,
When before [...]
Blessings and Healing
Tags: AA, alcoholic, alcoholics anonymous, alcoholics anxiety, aphorisms, blessing, blessings, change, fear, feelings, God, god poem, god poetry, healing, let go and let god, poem, Poetry, positive poem, positive poetry, surgery, tuesdays with morrie
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