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Post by caressa on Apr 4, 2008 15:26:57 GMT -5
D is for Dry Drunk. It isn't enough just to put the plug in the jug. The program of recovery is the 12 Steps. If you just take away the alcohol and drugs, there is all the old way of thinking and acting to deal with.
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Post by caressa on Apr 6, 2008 8:57:26 GMT -5
E is for Easy Does It. Take it easy, but do it! I didn't work this slogan very well after my surgery. Hope the surgeon takes it easy on me when I go for a check up tomorrow.
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Post by caressa on Apr 9, 2008 7:50:43 GMT -5
E is for Earth. It was important to get grounded and stay grounded. Walking on grass, being out in nature, become aware of the gifts of creation and giving thanks for life.
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Post by caressa on Apr 13, 2008 11:01:52 GMT -5
E is for Excitement. Do you get excited about your recovery? We often can't handle success and better than we can failure. Get excited about life and live it to the fullest, clean and sober.
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Post by caressa on Apr 16, 2008 13:21:28 GMT -5
F is for Faith. The belief in things unseen. Knowing that God also says "No!" and finding acceptance.
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Post by caressa on Apr 18, 2008 8:50:44 GMT -5
F is for Fun. Are we having fun yet? What is standing in your way. My God has a sense of humour. I tend to chuckle occasionally and ask, "Are you really sure about this!" Recovery is an inside job. I had to ask for my sarkey sense of humour to be healed.
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Post by caressa on Apr 20, 2008 11:32:34 GMT -5
F is for Fear. My favorite saying is "Fear is faith that hasn't said it's prayers yet." My whole life was fear based before I found recovery. I am grateful for a HP who can lead me through it to that other side.
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Post by caressa on Apr 21, 2008 7:57:07 GMT -5
G is for Good. There is goodness in me. After years of using, I didn't think there was any. I had to do a Fourth Step to find it.
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Post by caressa on Apr 22, 2008 7:18:14 GMT -5
G is Grace. God's Grace kept me alive to make it to the program. God's Grace keeps me here if I open to it, one day at a time.
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Post by caressa on Apr 23, 2008 17:01:03 GMT -5
G is for God. God as I understand God. God was an old tape. He had been what others told me He was. I had to find out who God was to me.
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Post by caressa on Apr 26, 2008 9:34:20 GMT -5
H is for Honest. I had to find Self-Honesty. I had to learn to be honest with me before I could be truly honest with you.
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Post by caressa on Apr 29, 2008 6:30:29 GMT -5
H is for Higher Power. There is a power in my life today doing for me what I could not do for myself. I tried quitting my way for 8 years and it didn't work. I could stop but couldn't stay sopped. Through the healing power of this program I have been able to double that time clean and sober with the help of my Higher Power, the God of my understanding.
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Post by caressa on May 1, 2008 2:55:26 GMT -5
H is for Higher Power. For many years, I listened to my Lower Power and through Him I made it to recovery. My Higher Power has shown me a new way of living so I don't have to go back there. I daily give thanks for the healing gifts that I have been given.
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Post by caressa on May 4, 2008 10:51:09 GMT -5
H is for H.O.W. How it works! Honest with myself. An open mind to other ideas besides my own. Willing to go to any length to stay clean and sober.
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Post by caressa on May 5, 2008 4:33:37 GMT -5
H is for Humility. So many people mis this up with humiliation. I was told by a long-timer that it meant to become teachable. Open to learning and not thinking I had all the answers. In early recovery I heard a long-timer say, "If you hear someone say they have humility, they don't. I am a very humble man!" Of course, laughter followed the statement.
It isn't about being brought down, it is about being lifted up.
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Post by caressa on May 6, 2008 8:46:03 GMT -5
H is for Happy. If you are not happy in sobriety, what are you doing wrong?
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Post by caressa on May 8, 2008 14:05:25 GMT -5
H is for Hospitality. The hospitality in the rooms kept me coming back. I wanted want the people in the room had. I had tried my way for 8 years before I got here, my way didn't work.
They kept smiling and saying, "Keep Coming Back." I learned "Keep coming, so you don't have to come back."
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Post by caressa on May 11, 2008 11:25:18 GMT -5
I is for Isolation. It is part of my disease not my recovery. It isolates the soul and prevents me from receiving spiritual food.
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Post by caressa on May 13, 2008 7:19:45 GMT -5
I is for Inner Journey. Recovery is an inside job. It took a long time for the inside to match the outside.
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Post by caressa on May 14, 2008 16:03:41 GMT -5
I is for Introspection. It is important for me to look for the answers. I need to quiet my mind, go into the silence and listen for the answers.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.