tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82793448906574428342024-11-01T00:10:25.764-07:00Daily Recovery Meditations and daily thoughts while reflecting on recovery. Many of these thoughts are from forums and sites that I've created and managed since January 29, 2004. Some are from my own thoughts as they were at those times and some very recent. I believe that sharing thoughts with others reaffirms to me that I've grown in my recovery and I pray that these thoughts may be of help to others in recovery.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13140075095506486380noreply@blogger.comBlogger385125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8279344890657442834.post-2490494792149277632012-08-25T20:06:00.001-07:002012-08-25T20:06:09.778-07:00

Recovery 365 – Aug 26 – Paranoia

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Recovery 365 – August 23 – Hand Reaching Out.. Hand Reaching Out.. (From a member)“The hand is always reaching out. The newcomer is always arriving. I want to always be here. Nothing ensures my sobriety more than intense work with another alcoholic/addict. So my frequent contact continues to be the bright spot of my life. With 19 years and 8 months, I still feel like a newcomer. The promises say

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Love to Argue? Do you ever find yourself enjoying a (good?) argument or debate with someone? Do you like matching "wits" with someone else? I was involved in a couple of posts on other boards lately, in regards to a couple of posts that I posted. I got, what I thought were negative responses to them, and found myself, Justifying? or trying to "come back" at them, with what amounted to nothing

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Recovery 365 – August 12 – Criticism

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This was sent to me a few years back and I just love this and wanted to share it with everyone. Hope you all are safe, well, and enjoying your day. I know I am! .......... Milkman May you all choose to Soar! ;-) Ducks Quack - Eagles Soar No one can make you serve customers well....that's because great service is a choice. Harvey Mackay, tells a wonderful story about a cab driver that proved

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Recovery 365 – August 6 – Duck Quack.. Eagles Soar!

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THE BIGGEST COMPETITION OF MY LIFE How did I wind up here? How in the hell does an athletic woman who was brought up in a perfectly loving family of moderate to upper-income status and who has a very public, successful career end up an alcoholic? Hi. My name is Jill, and I’m an alcoholic. The first time I said those words 6 months ago, I was petrified. I was certain by speaking those words

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Below is a story from one of my past members about Meth. I am familiar with Meth and Speed and know the downfalls in life that it causes. Speed comes in many forms and there's isn't any form that I can think of that causes good things. My own brother died from repercussions of the drug.... 30 years after he got clean and sober. The Hep C that he contracted in 1966 came back to haunt him in 2004

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Recovery 365 - July 30 - Relapse Happens....

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OxyContin change has many switching to heroin

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daily reflections for July 25-THOSE WHO STILL SUFFER

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Recovery 365 - July 24 - A New Life As Bill Sees It - A New LifeIs sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that

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Recovery 365 - July 24 - Fear

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Recovery 365 - July 20 - Treatment Programs Submitted by Milkman Mike on July 19, 2012 - 6:37pm I've heard a lot of talk about how Treatment and Recovery Centers don't send the right messages to the newcomers. Some say that it gives people the wrong information for THEIR particular program. I can only speak for myself when talking about the programs that I've been in. In 1988, the police

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Acceptance Acceptance, in spirituality, mindfulness, and human psychology, usually refers to the experience of a situation without an intention to change that situation. Acceptance does not require that change is possible or even conceivable, nor does it require that the situation be desired or approved by those accepting it. Indeed, acceptance is often suggested when a situation is both

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daily reflections for July 18-GRATEFUL FOR WHAT I HAVE Grateful For What I Have During this process of learning more about humility, the most profound result of all was the change in our attitude toward God. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,p.75 Today my prayers consist mostly of saying thank you to my Higher Power for my sobriety and for the wonder of God's abundance, but I need to

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Victim of circumstances For anyone that’s ever been in jail, I’m sure you can relate to how everyone is innocent, say the man behind bars. Being a frequent visitor to jails and institutions in my drinking days, I can attest to this saying, and have used it myself many times. There were times when I shouldn’t have gone to jail so my own mind thought, being easier to put the blame on someone else

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Freedom What does freedom mean to you? Freedom can mean being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint, Economic freedom, political freedom, and it can also mean physiological freedom. I’m sure we could find many other types of freedom, but for me, I’ll stick with these for now, as they are most important to my life as I see it. I had my physical freedom taken

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Self-esteem “Deep inside, I had feellngs of inadequacy and inferiority.” Basic Text, p. 112 Somewhere along the way, many of us developed strong feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. Deep inside was a voice that continually cried out, “You’re worthless!” Many of us learn to recognize this characteristic of low self-esteem very early in our recovery. Some of us may feel that our feelings of

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twenty-four hours a day for July 14 | Milkman's Sober Living: A.A. Thought for the Day One of the best things about the A.A. program is the peace of mind and serenity that it can bring us. In our drinking days, we had no peace of mind or serenity. We had the exact opposite, a kind of turmoil and that "quiet desperation' we knew so well. The turmoil of our drinking days was caused partly by our

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daily reflections for July 14-A NOURISHING INGREDIENT | Milkman's Sober Living: A Nourishing Ingredient Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,p.74 How often do I focus on my problems and frustrations? When I am having a "good day" these same problems

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Recovery 365 – July 14 – Confidence Confidence I’m doing the best I can!! How many times have you said this? I know that I’ve said it literally hundreds, if not thousands of times, and I felt that I really meant it to be true. But in a lot of cases, I don’t really believe it WAS true. Sometimes we don’t realize our capabilities in ourselves. We don’t realize what we can accomplish if we really

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Recovery 365 – Family Trust Yesterday I wrote about making decisions as the Head of the Family. Today I am thinking about regaining, or even gaining trust from the family. Sure can’t expect your family to accept your decisions if they don’t trust you, now, can ya?  I’ve been clean and sober for over eleven years now, and finally see the doubts disappearing in my family’s eyes and actions.

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Just For Today - July 13 - Humility In Action | Milkman's Sober Living: Humility In Action "If we are hurting, and most of us do from time to time, we learn to ask for help." Basic Text, p.80 Sometimes recovery gets downright difficult. It can be even more difficult to get humble enough to ask for help. We think, "I have all this time clean. I should be better than this!" But the reality of

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daily reflections for July 12-GIVING UP CENTER STAGE | Milkman's Sober Living: Giving Up Center Stage For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all. ...Without it, they cannot live to much useful purpose, or, in adversity, be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,p.70 Why do I balk at the word "humility?" I am not

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