January-27 topics

From recoveryhq.com

Daily Reflections: FREEDOM FROM GUILT 

1. Where other people were concerned, we had to drop the word "blame" from our speech and thought. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 47 

2. When I become willing to accept my own powerlessness, I begin to realize that blaming myself for all the  trouble in my life can be an ego trip back into hopelessness. Asking for help and listening deeply to the  messages inherent in the Steps and Traditions of the program make it possible to change those attitudes  which delay my recovery. Before joining A.A., I had such a desire for approval from people in powerful positions that I was willing to sacrifice myself, and others, to gain a foothold in the world. I invariably  came to grief. In the program I find true friends who love, understand, and care to help me learn the truth about myself. With the help of the Twelve Steps, I am able to build a better life, free of guilt and the need  for self-justification. 

NA Just For Today:  Learning how to live again 

1. " We learn new ways to live. We are no longer limited to our old ideas." Basic Text p. 54 

2. We may or may not have been taught right from wrong and other basics of life as children. No matter, by  the time we found recovery, most of us had only the vaguest idea of how to live. Our isolation from the  rest of society had caused us to ignore basic human responsibilities and develop bizarre survival skills to  cope with the world we lived in. 

3. Some of us didn't know how to tell the truth; others were so frank we wounded everyone we talked to.  Some of us couldn't cope with the simplest of personal problems, while others attempted solving the  problems of the whole world. Some of us never got angry, even when receiving unfair treatment; others  busily lodged complaints against everyone and everything. 

4. Whatever our problems, no matter how extreme, we all have a chance in Narcotics Anonymous to learn  how to live anew. Perhaps we need to learn kindness and how to care about others. Perhaps we need to  accept personal responsibilities. Or maybe we need to overcome fear and take some risks. We can be  certain of one thing: Each day, simply by living life, we'll learn something new.

5. Just for today: I know more about how to live than I did yesterday, but not as much as I'll know  tomorrow. Today, I'll learn something new. 

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Recovery ACRONYMS: 

1. DEAD: Drinking Ends All Dreams

2. KISS: keep it simply simple.

3. STEPS: Solutions. To. Every. Problem.

4. WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives *

5. QTIP: Quit. Taking. It. Personally

6. T R U S T = Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions. 

•  The moment that we dead is the moment that we stop giving kisses to the point of being able to take the steps that we need to, to be able to see the wisdom upon what is being able to qtip in moments when all we can do is to kiss and be able to have the trust that we are looking for.

RECOVERY SLOGANS together

1.  Easy does it

2. How Important Is It 

3. How does it work? It works just fine

4. Give time time

5. God doesn't make junk

6. Hugs not Drugs

7. Help is only a phone call away

•  Easy does it to the point of being able to see How Important Is It to be able to see How does it work? It works just fine if you are willing to Give time time so that you can see that God doesn't make junk so you can give Hugs not Drugs because you know that you don’t have to do this alone because Help is only a phone call away. 

From myself: being able to see that you are not alone (not that you ever where and are never going to be again) by the points of being able to see that you are a part of your life is your are willing to find the freedom from the guilt that you put yourself through and getting to the point of wanting it; as simply you just have to show up and Learning how to live again.