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Desperation
Desperation … That crumbling moment when I will say or do anything, so as not to receive the natural, yet now unacceptable, consequences. It is the unveiled realization that I have set my standards...
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Be My Own Hero
Image courtesy of Tina Phillips at FreeDigitalPhotos.net I have a profound respect for those who manage to get sober this time of the year. The near impossible requirements of early sobriety are...
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Gratitude’s Wings
Courtesy of CPP I can picture no element of gratitude. I feel insignificant, bleak—dare I say annulled. There is no half-full or half-empty because there is no glass. There is no leap, for I have no...
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the un-secret
I remember the day I decided to stop drinking. I honestly thought it might be a little challenging, maybe even uncomfortable, but it never genuinely crossed my mind that it was going to be...
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Those Magic Words
Where are those magic words? Those words that let the reader know I understand. I understand where you are, but if you can just trust there is another way, I promise there is. Active alcoholism,...
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4 (Sober) Absolutes
So often we arrive at alcoholism’s door expecting that we will be okay with the fact that we want to quit drinking. Most often (if we are lucky) we do not. If we are completely resolved to giving up...
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