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Mechanisms of recovery, 12-step analysis and philosophy, exercises to help ease the pain of getting clean and/or sober
Everyone’s addicted to their phone, and from being in recovery, working in recovery institutions, speaking with addicts, and putting together protocols for addicts, I can tell phone addicts are just like substance addicts (are…
We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. When We Last Left Addicts in Recovery… Not to sound elitist, but if you did step 4 like an absolute champ, you likely have a notebook…
None of this is medical advice, even though i’m friends with and learning from some of the greats when it comes to stuff like this. But look into it on your own before taking action. and most importantly, TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR.…
Quick one for today, frens. In my 12-step group, maybe i’ve mentioned this, but people call me “grateful (my name)” or “serendipitous (my name).” No matter how i’m feeling, i always say out loud that i’m grateful. I am not always…
I love my 12-step group once a week. But to find it i went to like 200+ different 12-step groups in about 100 days and listen to every excuse in the book for why addicts (even 30+ years clean) desperately need their 12 step…
BowtiedRecovery (@bowtiedjunky on X) only recently crossed my proverbial desk. He runs a company called Vanguard Labs, which simplifies the arduous task of getting various forms of bloodwork. Those who know me well know that…
“We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” -Narcotics Anonymous Maybe I’m stupid, but in working on this step I didn’t get to make a literal list of my morals and beliefs so as to tell the world who I am,…
We Start Building Cases Against People, Then Against Our Program In this current iteration of my steps, I’m still on Step 4. I’ve been on this deeper, more difficult version for over a year. It’s tough to describe why I’ve put it…
This is going to be a short one. July 4th is a huge drinking day, and I’m here at the halfway house where I live cooking for the weekend and cleaning up. It got me thinking about what I would have done a lot of past 4ths of July…
“We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the protection of God as we understood him.” -Narcotics anonymous “My God is the sun.” -Queens of the Stone Age Here’s what we’ll cover here: 1 - My experience with a…
What I found when I went to rehab was that drinking and using drugs was a coping mechanism I had adapted for myself as a result of my failure to learn real coping skills for life. Most of the successful parts of addiction…
The last bit of text in step two uses the phrase “restore us to sanity.” But what does that mean? There’s a lot of context in the AA Big Book and the NA Basic Text but I want this to be accessible and a lot of the language…