Sincerity and Common Sense… So let’s say you just got out of a ten day detox and are back at home with your 6 year old kid. Life isn’t so good – you have a cocaine habit and a shitty attitude and you get pissed off easily but you love the kid and want it [...]
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Reasons Why Dating Sober Chicks Is Better Than Normies I can’t tell you how many times I hear guys in the rooms say, “there aren’t any girls in meetings” or “I don’t know if I really want to date an alcoholic.” Personally, I think both of these statements are fear-based cop outs from individuals that [...]
GIVING WITHOUT STRINGS MAY 20, 2012 And he well knows that his own life has been made richer, as an extra dividend of giving to another without any demand for a return.AS BILL SEES IT, p. 69 The concept of giving without strings was hard to understand when I first came into the program. I [...]
12 Steps Ahead- Addiction Blog Submission I am a twenty one year old from Encinitas, CA I want to use this essay to express to everyone what my life was like growing up as a teen, what my life is like today and how I made a decision to start living this different lifestyle. Growing [...]
12 Steps Ahead would like to thank all our contributors and visitors to this Addiction Blog. We work to make this Addiction Blog both informative, interactive and exciting. Submit your own thoughts to 12 Steps Ahead Addiction Blog and help raise awareness and share insights with other visitors in and out of the recovery community. [...]
Sincerity and Common Sense… So let’s say you just got out of a ten day detox and are back at home with your 6 year old kid. Life isn’t so good – you have a cocaine habit and a shitty attitude and you get pissed off easily but you love the kid and want it [...]
FREEDOM TO BE ME MAY 18, 2012 If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 83 My first true freedom is the freedom not to have to take a [...]
. . . . AND FORGIVE MAY 18, 2012 Under very trying conditions I have had, again and again, to forgive others–also myself. AS BILL SEE IT p. 268 Forgiveness of self and forgiveness of others are just two currents in the same river, both hindered or shut off completely by the dam of resentment. Once [...]
