Selfish Suicide – Part One
Suicide is selfish. Truer words have never been spoken. Okay, truer words have been spoken. But on the topic of suicide, there is no other way to really describe it. I can say that I have been...
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When I was a teenager I thought I knew everything.. I guess most teenagers feel this way. I have a teenage daughter, and I see a lot of myself in her. Remember when we were fourteen or fifteen and we...
View ArticleF.E.A.R.
I was working with one of my sponsors a few weeks ago, and she told me this phrase. I almost fell out of my chair. There are a few acronyms for “FEAR” such as: F*ck Everything And Run and Face...
View ArticleWe Admitted We Were Powerless
Image: sabacooperative.org “Step One: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable.” This is taken from the Big Book and the Twelve & Twelve. This is the only...
View ArticleThose Damn Emotions!
So I’m sitting there on my couch, I make a comment, someone comments on the comment I make and… BOOM! Commence being up in my head fo the next 36 hours. “Why did they say that?” “Am I not good enough?”...
View ArticleWe Are Not Perfect
Perfection (Sandra Bernhard song) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) More so in the last ten years than any other year there seems to be this strive for perfection. People want the perfect family, the perfect...
View ArticleKeeping It Real
serenity (Photo credit: dragonflaiii) So I was watching the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) this morning and there were all these fascinating episodes that dealt with “self.” Like, how we treat the self,...
View ArticleG – Grieve (The Old You)
Grief (Photo credit: tombellart) Grief. It’s one of those things that is hard to let go of and hard to handle. We grieve loss: Loss of people, places and things; loss of pets. But did you ever...
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