Browsing all posts in February, 2010.

Rarely Have We Seen a Person Fail Who Has Throughly Followed Our Path

The most critical part of this declaration of sorts from “How It Works” are the last four words: thoroughly followed our path.  I want to focus on this idea, not to say that people don’t get sober and stay sober other ways, but that the early experiences with AA showed that if you DID follow [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

Sometimes worry becomes a bad habit: rather than hope for the best, we expect the worst; even when proven wrong we persist in worrying. # DUIs and drug convictions have life-long consequences. You might not get into Canada. http://addictiontreatmentmagazine.com/dui-canada # If you have a high tolerance for misery, it can take a lot longer to [...]

What Was Your Bottom?

If there is one thing you quickly realize in recovery it’s not to compare – the addict who still wants to use or drink will look for the differences rather than the similarities between  her and other people in recovery.   Denial says, “Oh you weren’t as bad as they were. You probably were just a [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-20

RT @addictiontweets Groundbreaking on VA Mental Health Center in Montana http://rt.nu/8zibhw # RT @psychcentral: Double Trouble: Mental Illness and Addiction, Part 1 http://bit.ly/dyLocR # RT @recoveryblog Contempt Prior to Investigation | Addiction Recovery http://addiction-recovery-blog.com/contempt-prior-investigation # Powered by Twitter Tools

The Three-Headed Dragon

I think the readers here will appreciate this excellent article at Addiction Inbox – with such words of wisdom as this (which really made me smile): And speaking of changing one’s belief system, experience has shown that it is a spectacularly bad idea to sit around and do nothing but stare at the wall during [...]