Are you a person in recovery attending recovery support groups? Are you someone who needs recovery supports? Plenty of options are available and free. People, like myself, who speak the same language volunteer their time to manage the groups. In one recovery program, people identify this as the language of the heart. Mutual help organizations … Continue reading 12-Step Recovery and Other Support Groups
Goodbye 2021! Hello, New Year, 2022!
Happy New Year!! Grateful to put 2021 behind us. Our country alone has seen so much pain in 2021: politically, financial hardships, inflation, and loss of unity. If I could wave a magic wand, I would change the outlook on people with differences. To embrace, rather than cancel. To love, rather than hate. It is … Continue reading Goodbye 2021! Hello, New Year, 2022!
A Sober Christmas Journey
Happy holidays! In 2021, I can look back and feel so much gratitude for the December holidays. The Christmas holiday is a day for our families to reconnect, share stories, break bread, and share gifts. Reflecting through the years, I can see how my perspective has changed and for the better. In many years, this … Continue reading A Sober Christmas Journey
Happy Birthday, Mr. Bill Wilson
Today, December 11 marks the day Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, took his last drink in 1934 when he was 39 years old. After finishing a final beer, he entered Towns Hospital for the last trip to treatment. What he didn't know at the time was that on December 12 he would have a … Continue reading Happy Birthday, Mr. Bill Wilson
November 30 – Giving Tuesday 2021
On November 30, 2021, companies and people will unite for a worldwide celebration of generosity. GivingTuesday is an opportunity for people around the world to come together through generosity in all its forms by sharing acts of kindness and giving their voice, time, money, goods, and advocacy to support communities and causes. Are you in? Plenty … Continue reading November 30 – Giving Tuesday 2021
Thanksgiving & Living Life
Happy Thanksgiving, first and foremost! Family - Food - Recovery + a tryptophan-induced coma = Serenity. 22nd sober Thanksgiving today. In November 2000, my roommates and I celebrated Thanksgiving together at our sober living home. I recall celebrating the weekend before so we could spend some time together. Our food was donated to us from … Continue reading Thanksgiving & Living Life
Time for Healing
Grateful for these subtle reminders that cross my newsfeed. Habit of focusing on other needless crap when in pain. Coming out of the fog, but truly need to focus on some prayer and meditation. Got myself into a little trouble last week. Not spiritually fit combined with an unnecessary lecture by someone I've never met … Continue reading Time for Healing
Gratitude Through Corona
Home bound for thirty days, I can see how blessed we are to face everything and recover. Our world has changed overnight. This blog does not imply I haven't grieved over the people who have lost lives or sudden changes to everyone's life. My sole purpose for this blog is to write about my recovery. It's nice … Continue reading Gratitude Through Corona
5 Things You Can Do to Fight the Stigma of Addiction
People feel that addiction is a moral failing; that people choose to be addicts or that those that become addicts are weak, even though there are heaps of evidence and decades of medical and scientific research that support the idea. It is no longer a debate, it is a fact. Addiction is a disease. — … Continue reading 5 Things You Can Do to Fight the Stigma of Addiction
Maryland Addiction Recovery Center doing their Part to Break the Stigma of Addiction
Here is What can be Done to Break the Stigma of Addiction. Read more at Maryland addiction recovery. — Read on http://www.marylandaddictionrecovery.com/breaking-the-stigma-addiction