i have been clean for awhile and i did it without the steps. not using is one thing but the healing inside is so important and I need to work the steps to feel it help heal me inside.
Sounds like a plan!!! Each one of the steps is like a crucial ingredient in a delicious cake recipe...to leave any one out diminishes, or even ruins, the whole cake...it can never be as great as it could be with all the right ingredients!
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From dying and surviving to living and thriving. LeeU
Dang, Lee... you always hit the nail right on the head!
Annie... what do you get when you take the dope out of a crazed dope fiend? You're left with a crazed fiend! If we dont do something about what caused us to use in the first place, we get absolutely nowhere.
Recovery is like panhandling... its all about the change...
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I may not be 'All That', but I'm always on my mind!
i have been clean for awhile and i did it without the steps. not using is one thing but the healing inside is so important and I need to work the steps to feel it help heal me inside.
You all are so right. I have a womens group that I am going to attend tomorrow and I will be looking for a sponsor there. Can't wait to work the steps!
My 'RECOVERY " began when I got a sponsor and started doing step work.They are a re-enforcement of my faith beliefs.Until I started ,I was just an addict in abstinence from drugs,but the monsters were there before and still here now.By doing the "work" my life ,although anything but serene, has taken marked improvements in "all' areas.For me this is a way of life in all I do...It works if you work it!! peace
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Our purpose is to remain clean,just for today,and to carry the message of recovery.
At 2 years clean and working steps, as well as attending meeting and doing service work, I had a spiritual awakening. One of many. I was sitting in the living room of (get this) "my house" in a rose colored lazy boy. We had been in this house for about a year. The down payment of $2500 was barrowed from mom and dad. 2 years before I couldnt barrow .25 dollars from them. And get this....... I paid them back! all 2500, when I said I would. One child one on the way, 2 cars in the drive with no dents and full coverage. I know thats all material stuff that really doesn't matter, but for me it showed progress. Something else happened that night though. Id realized that for the first time in my life, I felt ok in my own skin. All a result of the 1st sentence of this post. A true miracle.
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It sure is eazier to get through the moment than it is to get through the aftermath.
I went to this womens meeting and got a sponsor and am looking foward to working them. I understand what you mean to feel alright in your own skin. I haven't felt right in mine for years. I can honestly look at myself in the mirror and see me for who I am and I have this sense of peace that I haven't felt in years. I know that if I feel this way now without working the steps that when I do i will be on top of the world. Thank you for sharing with me it means a lot. God Bless.
