alcoholism

The Rock

October 3, 2009

I was walking in a state forest the other day and came across this rock. It was along a jeep road trail that led to a lakeside flat. At the flat was a place to hang out and it was obvious this was a place to party. Not to badly littered but there were some [...]

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Our Best Ideas

August 14, 2009

As happens too often, someone that asked me to sponsor them has gone away. Don (as mentioned in this post about sponsorship) decided he needed to try to do find his own way to sobriety. My own sponsor said it best “why do you need to find something else, this works well for a lot [...]

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Crossing the Line

July 25, 2009

I have been talking a lot lately with others about crossing over into the world of alcoholism. For me doing so involved adding alcohol to my body. I am certain I am a natural born alcoholic. My body was never able to process booze like a normal person. Other people may not be born that [...]

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Self Esteem

May 13, 2009

I really need to start a post page where I can add those great little one liners folks in the program share with me. Here is one I heard today: If you want to raise your self-esteem, do esteemable acts. Pretty simple really. Yet I found that to be a pretty profound statement. I also [...]

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Death and No Glory

August 9, 2008

A tale of the past……… When I was first getting sober I was full of fear. So much so that I was afraid of people and hardly ever spoke at meetings. One day someone came up to me after a meeting and asked me if I wanted to go to coffee. This question brought up [...]

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The anti-promises

February 28, 2007

What happens when an alcoholic is actively caught up in their disease, drinking like there is no tomorrow and beyond all human aid? On page 52 in the Big Book is a passage that some refer to as the anti-promises: “We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were [...]

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Shoe Polish

October 15, 2006

I was listening to a radio show (Bob Dylan’s theme time radio hour) and heard this awful tale of crazy alcoholic behavior. I am paraphrasing but essentially….. Delta Blues legend Tommy Johnson was not only a great musician but was also a bad drunk. He was known to drink “sterno and also shoe polish strained [...]

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