6/28/2011 ~ A Dream and Faith
June 28 A Dream and Faith I will take stock of my life today. I will do some small thing to make my day a little bit more beautiful and positive. I only need to do a little better. I don't need to...
View Article7/2/2011 ~ Friendship
July 2 Friendship I will value the comfort of friendship and hold a true friend dear. Soul is expressed through human relationship; care of relationships is care of the soul. Relationships are what...
View ArticleTodays Thought 7/3/2011; Quiet Time
Today while checking my email I came across a Thought that talked about quiet time and your higher power. When reading, I realized that I am one that has to have quiet time every day in order to...
View Article7/8/2011 ~ Reflection for the Day
Today's thought from Hazelden is: Reflection for the Day What wonderful things could happen in my life if I could get rid of my natural impulse to justify my actions? Is honesty so deeply repressed...
View Article7/21/2011 ~ Acts of Kindness
July 21 Acts of Kindness Small acts of kindness allow me to touch souls with another person - to reach out over the great divide and brush for a moment the hand and heart of another. An act of...
View Article7/23/2011 Working with Love
July 23 Working with Love What I do today, I will do with love in my heart. The love that I bring to the various tasks and encounters of my day weave that energy into the very fabric of my world. This...
View ArticleInner Depth
July 24 Inner Depth I believe in life today and I am not afraid to admit it. I know what is eternally good in this universe because I experience it daily. Within my own heart there is a well of love...
View ArticleToday's Thought 7/24/2011 Alone in the company of our partner
...alone in the company of our partner. To be alone in the wilderness is less painful than to feel alone in the company of our partner. When we shut down in silence because we feel wounded by our...
View ArticleToday's Meditation "One Step"
July 26 One Step I will take a small step toward positive change today. All I need do is improve some aspect of my life for one day, today. Rather than letting a bothersome situation fester and get...
View ArticleLoving Another
July 27 Loving Another When I love someone or when someone loves me, we become a part of one another. To the extent to which that love carries commitment along with it, we are partners in each other's...
View ArticleGod in Nature
July 28 God in Nature Those who have been able to tune into and appreciate nature have had the ability to see God behind the illusion of reality. Though this world feels to me as if it is still and...
View ArticleThought for Today 8/11/2011; Patience
There are days when I feel impatient with the way my life is going. Maybe my emotional healing isn't happening fast enough for me, and I feel angry or frustrated. Maybe I'm having financial problems,...
View ArticleLook for the Good
Today's thought from Hazelden is: Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so. --Shakespeare Look for the Good Life is an interpretive experience. What happens is less important than how we...
View ArticleMoving Forward
Moving Forward Much as we would like, we cannot bring everyone with us on this journey called recovery. We are not being disloyal by allowing ourselves to move forward. We don't have to wait for those...
View ArticleToday's thought 8/21/2011
Today's thought from Hazelden is: Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. --Rainer Maria Rilke We carry problems and discrepancies within us,...
View ArticleToday's Thought 8/22/2011; Faith And Courage
A man of courage is also full of faith. ~ Cicero Faith and courage walk hand in hand. Courage empowers us to act in favor of what we believe, but cannot know. Courage is animated by the vision of...
View ArticleToday's Thought 8/29/11 "Life's Meaning"
Life's Meaning What I endeavor to do with my day, what I can conjure up in my inner vision, how I perceive the world in which I live: these are what give my life its unique meaning. The meaning in my...
View ArticleToday's meditation 9/7/11- "HOME"
Home I will look for and create places in my life where I feel seen and understood for who I am. Craziness is sometimes thought of as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different...
View Article"Knowledge"
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it: this is knowledge. -- Confucius How is it we can hear so much better after we have...
View ArticleSoul as Life
September 15 Soul as Life Soul is life, it is the energy that vivifies and animates. It is where all of me begins. When I take time in the quiet of my day to experience soul, I return to my own...
View ArticleThe Dark Night of the Soul
The Dark Night of the Soul Sharing my deepest shame helps me break out of my sense of isolation and disconnection from others. Secrets that I carry in the silence of my mind and heart divide me from...
View ArticleToday's Thought 9/26/2011~ Chart your own course
If my life were like a ship on the sea, today I will be the navigator. I may have been used to someone else steering my ship or telling me which way to go. I may have felt that I had no control over...
View ArticleChecking In Today
[b][i] Hello,Dee,Beth and all passing thru. Sorry,I've not been around this week. It seems there is not enough time in the day and I have no idea if I'm accomplishing anything. I was sick a few days...
View ArticlePutting first things first
Daily, we determine our priorities. Priorities are not merely something we establish once a year, once a month, or even once a week. Our priorities are visible in the myriad decisions we make and...
View ArticleNothing happens unless first a dream...
Nothing happens unless first a dream. --Carl Sandburg What do we see when we daydream about the future? Is everything much better than it is now, or are we still struggling with the same issues? Are we...
View ArticleToday's Thought, a must read for newcomers to recovery!
Checking my emails this morning I came across Today's Gift from Hazeldon. It is something that I want to share with the rest of you, especially the new comers to recovery. When you are ready to stop...
View ArticleToday's Thought; Making Mistakes
I've made mistakes and will continue to make mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes. The difference now is that I can see them more clearly afterward, and I am not living in denial about them. If I become...
View ArticleToday's Thought~ There is a difference
There's a big difference between being dishonest and respecting my own privacy. There might be things that have happened in my past that I don't need or want to share with others. I don't have to...
View ArticleToday's Thought~ Building walls
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. Remember building snow forts? After a sticky snowfall we'd build a big snow wall. Then we'd mass-produce snowballs, preparing for battle....
View ArticleToday's Thought~ Forgiveness
We can practice forgiveness each day. Resentments have a way of creeping back into my psyche even after I have let go of them. I know that holding a grudge is harmful to my emotional health and can...
View ArticleDon't Live in the Past
When I first started in recovery, I had a lot of guilt and shame over the things I had done in my active addiction. I really beat myself up over missing parts of my children's lives and what I had done...
View ArticleToday's Thought~ Clearing the mind
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. Before going to sleep at night, empty your consciousness of unwanted things, even as...
View ArticleToday Gift from Hazeldon for July 7, 2012
Today's thought from Hazelden is: Attitude is everything! Today will be what we make it. Regardless of the weather, the kinds of work to be done, the personalities crossing our paths, we'll feel joy...
View ArticleToday's Gift~ How we treat others, actions from our hearts
Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved? --Florida Scott Maxwell Treating our loved ones as we hope to be treated is our assurance against failing them....
View ArticleKukaro give it a try
Today's thought from Hazelden for July 2, 2012 is: In Micronesian, there's a word, kukaro, which has no corresponding word in English. When people say they are going to kukaro, they mean they are...
View ArticleThought for Today 08/08/2012~ Responsible recovery
Sharing with you.. Responsible recovery “...we accept responsibility for our problems and see that we’re equally responsible for our solutions.” Basic Text, p. 97 Some of us, well accustomed to...
View ArticleToday's Thought~ Stop expecting too much from yourself
Stop expecting too much from yourself. ~Anonymous When there is too wide a gap between standards we set for ourselves and our actual achievement, unhappiness follows. If we can't improve the...
View ArticleToday's thought, "Do not worry about tomorrow today..."
Today's thought from Hazelden is: Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. --Matthew 6:34 To worry about something ahead of time is a waste of time and...
View ArticleMy thought for today
As I sit here and pace the room when I can no longer sit,I have to say I'm very grateful for finding this website and the hope it offers me...I feel AWFUL tonight,its my fourth day without my suboxone...
View ArticleTiffanys Thought for Friday !!!
Happy Friday Everyone !!! I hope you all are having as good of a day today as I am Today is an absolutely beautiful cold,snowy,windy wonderful day...Everything is looking up and I am confident that I...
View Article15 Things To Give Up
15 Things To Give Up Doubting yourself Negative thinking Fear of failure Destructive relationships Gossiping Criticising yourself & others Anger Comfort eating Laziness Negative self talk...
View ArticleToday's Gift~ 4/22/2013
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon What does it take to come to the place where we can exchange pride for humility? First we must stop the blasphemous charade...
View ArticleToday's Thought~ Time for a break
Today I will rest. I've been doing a lot of emotional work, and now it's time for a break. Do I cry easily? Am I quick to become angry? Have I been depressed? It's normal for my emotions to be close...
View ArticleWhat are you grateful for?
Attention All Members: I would like to start this thread and continue it daily. I want to hear what you are greatful for in your life, in your recovery, just gratitude in general. Don't know if I...
View ArticleToday's Thought~ Dealing with family members
I was 35 years old the first time I spoke up to my mother and refused to buy into her games and manipulation. . .I didn't have to start an argument. But I could say what I wanted and needed to say to...
View ArticleToday's Thought! Our Dreams can become our reality
“Dreams that we gave up long ago can now become realities.” All things begin with a dream. But how many of us fulfilled our dreams while using? Even if we managed to complete something we had...
View ArticleToday's Thought 12-5-2013 *Truth is the daughter of time*
Truth is the daughter of time. ~Anonymous When we were drinking or using, sometimes we loved the feeling we had when we were high. Our fear fell away. We could stand in a room and not want to rush for...
View ArticleToday's Thought Making mountains out of molehills
“When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably.” Some of us seem to make mountains out of molehills with our problems. Even those of us who’ve found some measure...
View ArticleA letter from Heaven
A Letter from Heaven To my dearest family Some things I'd like to say, But first of all to let you know That I arrived okay. I'm writing you from Heaven Where I dwell with God above, Where there's no...
View ArticleLetting go
I came across this while going through my email this morning and thought I'd share it with all of you. This hits home for me, because I have a family member who is having to make some very difficlut...
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