I try emphasise always I speak for myself and not for AA. I may share how AA works in my life, not how AA works for anyone else. In AA what you see is what you get on any given day. You see and hear the experience, strength and hope of many and how sobriety is working just for today. People living sober today… Open to life and new living, we stop hanging on to old fears, let go and open the door ~ Phillips Brooks “A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.” -/- As we come to believe it may be Godward and or Goodward. Courage, faith, prayer and meditation develops our choices and personal beliefs.. These days I know sober there is only one safe option from this list ~ Frank Sinatra ~ “Basically, I’m for anything that gets you through the night – be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.” -/- Prayer, we all pray, sometimes we don’t know it, or realise how to focus, seems like it works with a good conscience and knowing life is always on life’s terms.. Life on lifes terms, sometimes the answer is yes, and sometimes the answer is no ~ Mary Baker Eddy “Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.” Spiritual is being able to cope with reality, fixing we live in a world of our own, fantasy.. As we reflect on daily activities, life works whatever the outcome ~ Marianne Williamson “I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.” -/- Our attitude and behaviour changes … Video Rating: 0 / 5
Question by Solomon: Does anyone know of a free, or cheap, non faith based, non 12 step, meth addiction treatment program?
With all the hype about meth addiction and it’s evils you would think it would be easy to find help. Not so far.
I have been looking for a free, or cheap, non faith based, non 12 step meth addiction outpatient program in the Phoenix Metro area. Something with counselling and medical supervision would be ideal. I cannot afford to not be working since I am self employed. I need to quit, and want to be clean. The cycle must be broken. Does anybody know how to help?
Best answer:
Answer by ditdit You can turn yourself around if you haven’t been addicted for a long time.
Good luck.
I know how you feel -but my addictions were anti depressants cigarettes and Jack Daniels
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
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Question by My*SoNs*ArE*The*BEst!: What would be the first step for me to open up a women’s treatment center?
I really want to start a drug treatment center for pregnant women and mother’s but I don’t know what the first step is. I have my idea drawn out completly but need to know what I should do to make the idea a realtiy. Does anyone have any advice?
Best answer:
Answer by Certiorari What about fathers?
Do you not care about them.
We have plenty of women only centers already.
American dads need love too.
Inclusion in life, choices and love all we need to sustain emotional and spiritual connections ~ Eva Burrows “In family and or fellowship life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” Sober we find a path in living in the moment of now… A moment of peace, a moment of turmoil, moment by moment, serenity in a heartbeat ~ Confucius “we must often change, we who would be constant in happiness or wisdom” -/- A breath of fresh air, and everything changes… Courage restored daily? Anything is possible! ~ Miguel de Cervantes “He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.” -/- Faith courage and confidence, a part of daily living… Learning how not to fix myself daily, or fix anything has been difficult. Now it is daily progress. I chatted with my 78 year old Mum earlier and asked about amends, if I had left anything unsaid which still rankles. “No, you are in recovery, you were unwell, you do what you can now.” I learn wisdom and acceptance every day.. A sign of rushing and being rushed, we add more and more to each day. I do when I forget to let something go, usually forgetting step one, powerless over people places and things, step two anything and everything can drive me insane and step three, let good prevail even when its not perfect as we might wish it so. Let go perfect, let life be a tangle… THE KEYSTONE MARCH 14 He is the Father, and we … Video Rating: 0 / 5
Spiritual Angle? Living spiritual is living reality, open honest and willing. Ever present, in the imperfectly perfect moment, happy or sad, exhilerating to excoriating ~ Stephen Covey “We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.” -/- Spiritual is not some thing we can pick or choose, like serenity we develop our ability to live in the moment, where spiritual is constant change in real time.. ~ Mohandas Gandhi “Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.” Truth is now.. Spiritual understanding for me is explicit in the serenity prayer, can do, cannot do, wisdom in the moment, and then choices.. ~ Similarly Oprah Winfrey “It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.” Working what works for us.. Step 2 “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity” We find it amazing that the newcomer can start the AA program without any specific beliefs or, for that matter, without any beliefs whatsoever. All a person needs is the open-mindedness and the willingness to believe that WE BELIEVE this program works… “God [it is what I understand to be God or a "Higher Power," always a personal understanding we have for ourselves, there is no AA or common understanding, simply what you believe] grant … Video Rating: 0 / 5
Again! Hahaha! I still did not have a clue what was wrong! Maybe the amout of booze we drunk! Hahaha. xxx I wanted to take a photo, but could not work out why the flash was going on and why my camera was “not” working. Hahaha! xxx That’s one of my best friends, Bruno.
Letting go fear, wanting to put on a brave brave face, hiding behind a mask of ego ego [defects Step 6]. Open, honest and willing to develop our courage, faith and confidence [shortcomings. Step 7] ~ Wentworth Miller “Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say..” -/- Change is part of nature when we are young.. and remains so if we stay young at heart ~ Jack Welch “Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging into total confusion for a while.” -/- We need work at change because.. simply we are all worth it! We help another, we feel happier? Provided we do some good, and not be a do gooder ~ Gerald Jampolsky “Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.” Better to help someone asking than seek out a target? We cannot fix anyone, we may help someone.. Sanity restored, just for today, sober life is a choice ~ Leo Buscaglia “What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.” -/- Relapse and slips bring back the insanity where there are no choices in living but to see it through the bottom of a glass.. and at rock bottom. We can come back from the brink in fellowship… Into the fabric of recovery from alcoholism are woven the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions, steps to be open honest and willing to learn, traditions to live unity service and … Video Rating: 0 / 5
Website: www.facebook.com Jessica, 21, comes from a tight-knit family. Her father, mother, sister and grandfather all work at the family-owned gas station. But Jessica’s not allowed to work there any more. Ever since Jessica became addicted to heroin at 17, her family cannot trust her. And even worse — her addiction is straining family relationships. Everyone wants to see her go to treatment. But just organizing the intervention is tearing them apart. Hubert is a middle-aged American Indian man whose struggles to keep his family together amidst an abusive childhood at the hands of his alcoholic stepfather, along with the pressure to protect his siblings from the verbal, emotional and physical violence from his alcoholic parents, eventually drive him to the bottle as well during his life in Las Vegas as a bartender. Hubert moved back to Los Angeles to care for his dying diabetic mother, but after her death, his alcohol abuse worsens. His stepfather, showing “Tough love”, kicks Hubert out of the house and Hubert becomes homeless, depending on recycling bottles and cans for booze money. Another homeless friend, John, a bipolar who is non-compliant with medication, helps take care of Hubert on the streets by feeding him, buying him alcohol and helping him find safe places to sleep at night. A real estate agent who frequents the park where John and Hubert “live” during daylight hours had gotten to know Hubert and John and realized what a kind gentleman Hubert was underneath …
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Question by liz g: Does the alcohol and drug treatment center at Clear Lake Regional in the Houston area use the 12 step program?
I know someone going there and I was wondering if she is going to be introduced to the 12 step program.
Best answer:
Answer by Blues Man I believe all alcohol or drug rehabs use the 12 step program as part of their criteria. Everyone that I know that has been in any of these programs, the 12 steps were used along with an AA or NA book. They did other things too but yes if I was going to bet, I would that she will be exposed to this program. Ur a good friend. Wishing U the best.
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