Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-30-2015, 06:22 AM
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June 30
Doing nothing, that hurts you. ...
June 30
Doing nothing, that hurts you.
--John Arnold
Doing nothing as a steady diet would wear thin after a while, but doing nothing once in a while is good therapy. We need to let our minds...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-29-2015, 07:48 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 29
Money may not buy happiness, but it...
June 29
Money may not buy happiness, but it can buy the type of misery you can live with.
-- Ziggy
We think to ourselves, "Wouldn't it be nice not to have to worry about the washer breaking...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-28-2015, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 28
One has to grow up with good talk in...
June 28
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
--Helen Hayes
Our habits, whatever they may be, were greatly influenced, if not wholly formed, during childhood. We...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-27-2015, 07:51 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 27
Separateness
... put our...
June 27
Separateness
... put our efforts where we can succeed.
The appeal of a "fix" tempts us. One day we dream, "If only I had a different job my life would be happy, or if only I had a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-26-2015, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 26
Honesty is the best policy. ...
June 26
Honesty is the best policy.
--David Tuvill
Newcomer
I've heard people talk about "firing" their sponsors, about sponsors "firing" their sponsees. I find that term disillusioning I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-25-2015, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,175
June 25
Remember that not getting what you...
June 25
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of good luck.
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Managing desires is one of the most crucial elements of being an adult. Children...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-24-2015, 06:30 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 24
Life can only be understood...
June 24
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
--Soren Kierkegaard
Once, in a small village, there was a huge fire. The blaze spread and several homes and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-23-2015, 07:51 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 23
What happens to us is not as...
June 23
What happens to us is not as important as how we respond.
The external events of our lives are largely beyond our control. We do not choose our parents, our emotional environment, the...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-22-2015, 08:00 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,175
June 22
If a man can carve something out of...
June 22
If a man can carve something out of wood, he is just as much a creator as a man who works with words.
--Clara Glenn
It's really not what we do in life that matters, but how we do it....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-21-2015, 06:59 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 21
I wasn't exactly brought up in one...
June 21
I wasn't exactly brought up in one of those Norman Rockwell paintings you used to see on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
--Reggie Jackson
We have many myths about other...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-20-2015, 06:50 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 20
The one lesson my dad taught me: ...
June 20
The one lesson my dad taught me:
If you're going to do anything in life, do it right.
--Monty Cralley
Our parents may have had a way of instructing that often bordered on shaming us....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-19-2015, 07:27 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 19
Change is sometimes necessary
...
June 19
Change is sometimes necessary
Despite the fact that many of us live turbulent, chaotic lives; we may we don't like change. This causes us to seek our security in familiar places, rather...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-18-2015, 07:52 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 18
"Thinking," said the little boy, "is...
June 18
"Thinking," said the little boy, "is when your mouth stays shut and your head keeps talking to itself."
--Arkansas Baptist
We need quiet times in order to develop peace and serenity in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-17-2015, 07:44 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 17
The greatest gift we can give...
June 17
The greatest gift we can give another person is the gift of ourselves.
When we can share our deepest convictions and failures, our ideals and disillusionments, our hopes and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-16-2015, 06:32 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 16
One of the attributes of love . . . ...
June 16
One of the attributes of love . . .
is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.
--Molly Haskell
Have we forgotten how to love in our hurried passage through life? Perhaps we need...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-15-2015, 08:44 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 15
I was so mixed up I tried to be...
June 15
I was so mixed up I tried to be perfect at avoiding perfectionism!
-- Kathryn G.
Oh, the struggle with perfectionism! Of all the clubs we can use to beat ourselves with, that one may...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-14-2015, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 14
Duty is what one expects from others...
June 14
Duty is what one expects from others - it is not what one does oneself.
--Oscar Wilde
Newcomer
I do intend to make amends to everyone I've harmed, but I still feel scared to think...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-13-2015, 07:31 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,175
June 13
Many of us achieve only the...
June 13
Many of us achieve only the semblance of communication with others; what we say is often not contingent on what the other has just said, and neither of us is aware that we are not...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-12-2015, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 12
One Day at a Time
My best...
June 12
One Day at a Time
My best friend was going through some tough situations in her life. I was in the midst of a hard stretch too. We didn't particularly like the things we had to do in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-11-2015, 06:56 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,175
June 11
F.E.A.R. = Frustration, Ego, Anxiety...
June 11
F.E.A.R. = Frustration, Ego, Anxiety and Resentment
--Anonymous
We don't want to return to the life we led before recovery, but fear should never be the reason why we don't. Fear keeps...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-10-2015, 06:14 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 10
"It was the hardest two years of my...
June 10
"It was the hardest two years of my life," a woman said. "So many painful, unexpected events happened. I felt so abandoned, so lost. I didn't understand what was happening, and I felt...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-09-2015, 08:24 AM
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Replies: 29
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June 9
Attitudes and Limitations
What...
June 9
Attitudes and Limitations
What we consider our greatest strengths can also be our greatest weaknesses.
Excessive pride in "being able to handle everything," for example, may result in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-08-2015, 08:14 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,175
June 8
...setting aside our carefulness with...
June 8
...setting aside our carefulness with each other...
If we cannot tolerate our mistakes, we will never be able to move on from this place. If we do not step up to the plate with bat in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-07-2015, 07:44 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,175
June 7
Healing the Past
We hear much...
June 7
Healing the Past
We hear much about the long term effects of growing up in a dysfunctional family. Many alcoholics, in fact, have bitter memories of their own parents’ drinking and may...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-06-2015, 08:34 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,175
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-05-2015, 08:59 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,175
June 5
Reflection for the Day
Change is...
June 5
Reflection for the Day
Change is the characteristic of all growth. From drinking to sobriety, from dishonesty to honesty, from conflict to serenity, from childish dependence to adult...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-04-2015, 07:17 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,175
June 4
Made direct amends to such people...
June 4
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
--Step Nine
When we make amends we need to be clear about what we're apologizing...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-03-2015, 08:13 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,175
June 3
For all the sadness of closure, there...
June 3
For all the sadness of closure, there is a new and joyful unfolding in the process of becoming.
--Mary Casey
We must let go of people, places, memories, and move on to new experiences....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-02-2015, 07:31 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,175
June 2
Teach me, my God and King,
In all...
June 2
Teach me, my God and King,
In all things thee to see,
And what I do in anything,
To do it as for thee.
--George Herbert
Some of us have gone through life unconsciously expecting...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
06-01-2015, 07:58 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,175
Today's Thought - June
June 1
I Wish I Were
I wish I were big enough to honestly admit all my shortcomings.
Brilliant enough to accept praise without it making me arrogant.
Tall enough to tower over dishonesty.
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