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Well the time has come, I can't sit around and moan about all the things that are wrong in my life any more.  It is high time I began to engage with those problems and see how behaving differently might affect them.  Like asking for what I want, like being honest when I don't like something instead of putting up and shutting up.And that is ok, I think I could do that, if I knew what it was I wanted for a start.  Years of going along with everyone else have not given me a g... Read More

I know alot of NAers like to use "program speak" to communicate their ideas, thoughts, and feelings.  And while phrases and isms such as "one day at a time," "easy does it," and "good orderly direction" have certainly been a huge help to me here in the early stages of my recovery, my own vocabulary extends beyond those parameters and I find solace and insight in all sorts of mediums.One of those would be music, specifically the music of Rush.  Th... Read More

I grew up in a place that is unusual to some. My world was pretty much like all the things that they might describe in the 60's. There are no rules but then sometimes rules made up of their own. I don't group myself in with them since I grew up in it and didn't necessarily want to be a part of it all the time. The ideas about life in general...I kept what I wanted or felt was true. I test everything because there are so many truths. I was aware fo them because we were allowed the opp... Read More

When I was in addiction, I had only two emotions.  The first was an amalgamation of the unpleasant emotions called pain.  And the second was a simulation of the pleasant emotions called numb.  My disease would tell me that pain is the norm and the best that I could do was to act out and reach the state of numbness.    For a number of years, I would believe my disease.  I would believe that I was capable of having only two emotions.  But every time I would numb... Read More

hi everyone i am ok i'v been in the hospital a few days w/ the flu and phenoma i will be going home today however my internet is off.. Good thing i found a computer at the hospital.. keep me in your prayers please!!! katrena... Read More

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