Browsing all posts in September, 2009.

Those Ugly Winds Are Coming

My brain and body know when the Santa Ana’s are coming.  This weekend I started to feel, well, strange – this morning I woke up feeling really lousy and wanted to just put my head under the covers – and the morning radio news announced Santa Ana winds are coming. The fact is Santa Ana [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-19

A searching and fearless inventory is one of the most profoundly life changing actions one can take # I am so much saner in sobriety, but that doesn't mean I always act sane. Just get me in a car when I'm late and a slow driver pulls out # Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com [...]

Everyone Needs Someone Who Tells Them Like It Is

One of the good things about recovery is you can ask someone to do this: a sponsor. I’ve been lucky enough to have a couple of friends who don’t feel shy about telling me like it is.  Early in sobriety any sort of  feedback was instantly and viscerally registered as a dire threat to my [...]

Searching and Fearless Moral Inventory

In early recovery I eyed this step with trepidation: I already  hated myself enough so I really didn’t know if writing it down in detail was exactly a good idea. Frankly, what I learned doing this step was that one of my items was this self-criticism that was over the top.  I used this sort [...]

Looking for Stuff to Complain About

Admit it, sometimes we like to just look for things to complain about.  We like to complain about the coffee at a particular meeting, or the fact that so-and-so always talks to0 much, or, one of my pet peeves, no one seemed to care about what I said!  I loved Mr. SponsorPants’ post on this [...]