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Post by caressa on May 18, 2008 0:05:06 GMT -5
Do you look back and remember When your life was living Hell? When denial and deception reined. Hopelessness was the outer shell? Does that time in your life remain clear in your mind? Reminders of powerlessness and fear that you find To ahunt you; to discourage you; to drive you insane?
Then search down inside yourself and see if you can find that unique and special person who is hiding just behind All the anger, guilt, and resentment seething below Or behind the many masks you allow the world to know.
An option is to take a risk and to set that person free To take a step to freedom and to let the whole world see The genuine, honest person you are desperately trying to be But the choices that must be made, are left to you indeed If the goal that you have set is for recovery to succeed.
So get back to basics; take it one day at a time Remember easy does it; and Thy will be done; not mine. And if you have slipped and had a fall, And you feel as if you have lost it all? Remember that you are human, Mistakes are often made To continue on this rocky road willend up in the trade Of a life filled with promises, serenity and care For a life filled with devastation, depression and despair.
Now, get back down to basics; and get right back on track Learn how to focus, and not just to react And begin to forgive yourself, so you can bring you back To the road to sobriety, with recovery intact.
Lois Stargratt
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Post by caressa on Jul 28, 2009 17:45:06 GMT -5
This has always been a special piece for me. It applies to whatever program I need in the moment. I have just realized lately that I got away from a lot of the meditation that I use to do in early recovery. I am going to make an effort to get out the candles and my crystals, they were a big part of my spiritual healing over the years in recovery, especially at seven years sober when I chose to quit smoking and I almost died from a medication the doctor put me on.
Coming up on 18 years of recovery makes me realize that I did it one day at a time, I didn't do it alone and that isolation is a part of my disease not my recovery. This program works one day at a time, and what I did 18 years ago, 18 months ago, 18 weeks ago, won't help me keep my sobriety (soundness of mind) in today.
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