“For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all.” – Bill Wilson, 12 Steps & 12 Traditions Last night, I participated in a Zoom “remote” 12 Steps meeting of people in recovery and the discussion topic was ‘humility.’ Toward the end, a fellow with over 30 years of sobriety—a doctor on…
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface, but connected in the deep.” – William James Although our entire world is facing the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals in addiction treatment are facing a particularly trying time. While people everywhere are marshaling their efforts to…
“Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become” – Reinhold Neibur I’m not a Buddhist, but I deeply appreciate something a Buddhist monk recently said: “Some people panic at things being out of control. However, we can also choose to be with things being out…
“There’s strength in numbers.” – English idiom When a person comes into addiction treatment or recovery—whether you’re in a substance abuse treatment program, a professionals health program, a 12 Steps fellowship, whatever—once the alcohol and/or drugs have been stopped (through “one day at a time” abstinence), emotions and feelings may arise that we’ve never before…
What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it’s s’pozed to be. – Anonymous For most of us who’ve found our way into recovery, there came a time when it was plain as day we needed to change our minds about “how life works” – that is, what…
“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.” – Elizabeth Gilbert Here’s a challenging question many people are forced to ask themselves who have loved ones in recovery: “How can I be willing to have trust in my loved one when he/she has…
“The greatest ideas are the simplest.” – William Golding, Lord of the Flies When many of us come into recovery, early on we seem to carry around a head full of what we feel certain we need to have or do in order to succeed. Then, usually quite quickly, we come face-to-face with the truth…
Feeling that no one really understands us can keep us from recovery for many years. – Just for Today (April 5) When we first arrive at the doors of recovery, certainly we all have our own personal story of how we got here… meaning, each of us has a unique tale of how our lives…
“No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it.” – Bill Wilson, Author of Alcoholics Anonymous More often than any of us could ever know, something we say from the heart about the challenges we’re facing in our recovery—and how we’re handling such—may end up benefitting another person…
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