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12 hours ago by secondchancetolive

Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live. I am happy to see that you decided to stop by to visit with me. Over the past several days I have been under the weather — with a bug. I have also been a little irritable. I am grateful for the opportunity to recognize what is going on with me. Earlie ...

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15 hours ago by solutions00

We were experts at reasons. No matter what 12 Step programs we are in now, we’d previously learned to create one excuse or reason, after another for the unreasonable and unhelpful behaviors that we’d developed – our survival techniques. There’s only one way I know to make progress in the programs – ...

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1 day ago by solutions00

Attitude can be everything. It can make our day, or just as clearly ruin it. It’s up to us. So what do we do if our attitude needs adjusting? People have taught me to do my Gratitude List every morning to frame my day, call a program member if my attitude is bad and talk about it because sometimes t ...

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1 day ago by theswarmite

Each quarter THE HOSPITAL CLUB Magazine focuses on a differing theme and The Swarmite was invited to write a piece on the current issue’s subject of SILENCE. Here it is: Remember when kippers became ties and birds knew how to keep their legs crossed in a Ford Granada, when ’70’s feminism was red rag ...

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2 days ago by lisaf-breakingthecycles

Thank you author and speaker Lisa Frederiksen of Breaking the Cycles for this regular series sharing her decades long experience of dealing with family alcoholism and alcohol abuse. Click here to see the rest of the series. Much of the focus on alcoholism and alcohol abuse - with regards to treatmen ...

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2 days ago by solutions00

The most recent and third planting of the garden is producing results. All but two rows of the third planting of vegetables are up. I’ve been practicing planting, and learning patience, perserverence, persistence and postive attitude. As with the garden, results in life take time and the above. Ther ...

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2 days ago by Bill

As of this week, the address of What…Me Sober? will revert to http://lastthing.wordpress.com. I’m letting the whatmesober.com domain go back to the pool. The experiment is not having enough success to support holding on to the address when someone else might be able to use it. I encourage readers to ...

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3 days ago by solutions00

There is power in surrender. When I first heard that, it made no sense to me. Not at all. It seemed counter intuitive, so to speak. On page 58 in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous we are told that we will find no results of the positive, successful type by using our old ideas. ”The result was nil ...

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4 days ago by secondchancetolive

Please read Part 1 for context. Thank you. Through my recovery process I discovered that I no longer had to define time in the ways that I had for so many years of my life. I no longer needed to “what if” or “when” myself. I no longer needed to view my present through drama and crisis. Instead, I co ...

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4 days ago by solutions00

The familiar is what has not been working for us for years. It’s what the child in us came up with or saw demonstrated as a survival technique – to protect us. In many cases it has been unhelpful. And we can be grateful it got us this far. When we come to 12 Step programs we commence leaving our com ...

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