Recovered Alcoholic

  Hi Ladies, My name is Hilarie and I am a Recovered alcoholic.... Thank you #$&*@! for your informative and insightful lead. It's wonderful to see real information backed up by fact. When I came into the rooms almost 4 years ago, I was terrified and defeated and had NO clue how the hell I was going to do this sober thing. At the end they asked if anyone was willing to sponsor to raise the hand. The women sitting next to me raised her hand. I picked her to be my sponsor. When I asked her she said she would "temporarily" sponsor me. OK...whatever that means..just show me what to do! She told me to go read the Big Book and write down how my life was unmanageable and then told me to text her if I wanted to drink and to go to meetings. I know now that she was started me on Step 1. After that I was pretty much on my own.  We didn't go through the book or the work nor did she tell me what the meaning of Step 2 or explain the magnitude of Step 3. I did read ...

This guy's blog is great!   http://privilegedaddictwriter.blogspot.com/  Relapse Is NOT Part of Recovery https:// privilegedaddictwriter. blogspot.com/2018/02/relapse- is-not-part-of-recovery.html      The cliche' goes, "Relapse is part of recovery."      This sort of waiting room wisdom is exactly the kind of nonsense I had to toss out of the window in order to recover from addiction. Adopting this type of attitude, accepting relapse, and letting yourself off the hook is a recipe for death. One obvious reason why such a platitude is so harmful is because addicts LOVE this slogan. Dead giveaway. They love knowing that relapse is part of their recovery, that they can always get jammed if need be. Ridiculous. What a deranged avenue for addicts to rationalize using.      This pile of bullshit is brought to you by the powers that be, the mainstream addiction authorities, the status quo of treatment centers, ac...

Hi Ladies....I am sending this to all of you... First, I wanted to share these messages from the below two articles. I love honesty and truth, no matter how hard it is to swallow. Second, I will be sending out stuff that I think will help us all grow in God Sobriety...so expect these here and there. I was doing it daily for a while but scaled back to nothing..lol...extreme people we are. Now I will just do it here and there :) These are not assignments-just things to keep us growing in God and Sobriety but I do ask that you take time to read and grow-otherwise, whats the point? If we aren't growing, we are dying. Growth isn't always fun, sometimes the truth stings... Unfortunately we are full grown trees (stay with me) Our tree is worn out, not very lush, the fruit is more sour then sweet, the limbs are starting to grow together and get intertwined with the old dying limbs. (lots of old ideas, conceptions and perception, maladjust...