The Bottle
If you are a slave to the bottle and find yourself in these words of mine, please consider getting help. There is a different life available, if you want it.
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Are You Ever Happy?
For the first two years of my recovery I had done a great job at making myself happy and now I was dependent on another person for my happiness.
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Jumping Hurdles
When I was using, I never questioned potential partners’ views or beliefs, I just wanted them to like me. I wanted them to want me. I would change anything about me just to gain their acceptance. It didn’t matter if I did not care for them that much. They just needed to like me!
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Positive and Forward
Living life sober is a daily adjustment. I grow and learn how to communicate on a daily basis. I can take ownership of my faults and do my best to make them right. I know at the end of some days, I am left wondering how the heck I made it through the day. Still, more often, I thank my Higher Power, God, for getting me through the day sober and semi-sane. I have a “gratitude attitude” in knowing that, yes, I am alive today and get to live!
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Two Things I Wish I had Listened to as a Newcomer
I am certain the following suggestions were said to me but I failed to hear them and failed to heed their warnings. My hope is that someone will read these and hear them– really hear them. Perhaps I can spare someone a few of the painful lessons I learned the hard way.
Continue Reading Emotional Pain in Recovery from Addiction
Give yourself a push to go through that pain to reach the joy of life, and help your loved one with all the healthy support you can reasonably give. There is no shame in crying, because not-crying might be followed by lots of shame and pain.
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