Post by caressa on May 26, 2012 21:14:56 GMT -5
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
My sponsor's mistakes become my gifts when I listen.
Pocket Sponsor
This is why I went to meetings. My listening to other share, I learned what not to do and what to do. My sponsor told me that I would learn two things in recovery. How to work my program and how not to work my program.
My sponsor has so much to teach me, and my sponsor's sponsor a total of about 60 years of recovery, how can a gal go too far wrong.
People told me that I should chose one fellowship. I was introduced to AA, and I think I associated to it the most because of my father and my ex-husband, and I had a lot of denial about being an alcoholic. I was able later able to realize that I used alcohol like I used everything else. I always knew I was an addict, some was good, more was better. It didn't matter what the substance was, if it was put in front of me and I liked it, Ms. Piggy came out. From that point on, I had tunnel vision, turned a blind eye, selective hearing, and shut off the word, and focused on this marvelous thing be it people, place and things, in front of me that took me out of myself and allowed me to shut off, shut down, and detach from people, places, and things.
So in the Big Book it said that we often had to go outside the fellowship and deal with outside issues. So that is why I went to NA and Al-Anon and went there regularly. I also looked at CoDA, OA, EA, ACoA, Nar-Anon, as well as counseling with therapist for issues like anger, detachment, setting boundaries, and sexual assault.
Recovery was doing what I needed to do for myself to heal. I was told that if I didn't deal with what brought me to the doors of recovery, it will take me back out. That was not an option, I couldn't afford to go back to where I came from.
My sponsor's mistakes become my gifts when I listen.
Pocket Sponsor
This is why I went to meetings. My listening to other share, I learned what not to do and what to do. My sponsor told me that I would learn two things in recovery. How to work my program and how not to work my program.
My sponsor has so much to teach me, and my sponsor's sponsor a total of about 60 years of recovery, how can a gal go too far wrong.
People told me that I should chose one fellowship. I was introduced to AA, and I think I associated to it the most because of my father and my ex-husband, and I had a lot of denial about being an alcoholic. I was able later able to realize that I used alcohol like I used everything else. I always knew I was an addict, some was good, more was better. It didn't matter what the substance was, if it was put in front of me and I liked it, Ms. Piggy came out. From that point on, I had tunnel vision, turned a blind eye, selective hearing, and shut off the word, and focused on this marvelous thing be it people, place and things, in front of me that took me out of myself and allowed me to shut off, shut down, and detach from people, places, and things.
So in the Big Book it said that we often had to go outside the fellowship and deal with outside issues. So that is why I went to NA and Al-Anon and went there regularly. I also looked at CoDA, OA, EA, ACoA, Nar-Anon, as well as counseling with therapist for issues like anger, detachment, setting boundaries, and sexual assault.
Recovery was doing what I needed to do for myself to heal. I was told that if I didn't deal with what brought me to the doors of recovery, it will take me back out. That was not an option, I couldn't afford to go back to where I came from.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.