Shiny Lures and Honest Thoughts
One of the things I love about AA meetings are people who say honestly what is on their mind. I love to hear someone share, “I wasn’t paying attention to anything anyone said. My mind was thinking...
View ArticleChanging the Bait
On a white board in my therapist’s office, someone wrote the words: If you don’t like what you are catching, change the bait. But, what if you’re a fish and not a fisherman? There’s nothing written...
View ArticleJust Enough Rope
I am grateful my sponsor and my counselor give me just enough rope, just enough freedom of thought and action to make my recovery my own (It also helps that the two know each other and have similar...
View ArticleUnconditional Love?
“You said you were having a fight with God. Talk to me. What’s really going on?” she said as I gave her a ride home from the morning AA meeting. “Well…” I paused and sighed. “I’m converting to...
View ArticleRigorous Honesty and The Brat Who Hates It
A few months ago, I shared in a meeting about my struggles with “brutal honesty.” A sweet, kind lady, who I love oh so much, looked at me and said, “It isn’t brutal honesty. It’s rigorous honesty....
View ArticleWhite Lies and Wolfpups
I’ve debated, in that alcoholic sort of way, whether to write about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death, which really bothered me in that “no human power can keep us sober” sort of way, or to write about...
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