Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-30-2013, 09:08 AM
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December 31
True Resolutions
Everyone...
December 31
True Resolutions
Everyone jokes about New Year's resolutions because no one keeps them. Some people say: I will never take another drink, or I will never shoot dope again. The...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-29-2013, 09:58 AM
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December 30
Improvement Is Always in Order ...
December 30
Improvement Is Always in Order
The Twelve Steps of recovery are similar to an escalator in that the highest step soon becomes the lowest step, as the conveyor follows a cyclical...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-28-2013, 08:20 AM
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December 29
Silent Approval
As precious...
December 29
Silent Approval
As precious as silence is, failure to speak up is often taken as approval. Families and friends of people who abuse chemicals often keep their silence, sometimes for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-27-2013, 09:48 AM
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December 28
Give Yourself a Break
If we...
December 28
Give Yourself a Break
If we desire success, we must provide a conducive environment. It has been said, If you have found that opportunity hasn't knocked, perhaps you had better...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-26-2013, 08:37 AM
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December 27
Prayer Cannot Be Self-Centered ...
December 27
Prayer Cannot Be Self-Centered
Many with years of recovery describe how their prayers evolved as sobriety increased in quality. Initially, prayer was bargaining: I'll be good, God,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-24-2013, 08:57 AM
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December 26
God Finds Us In Many Ways
A...
December 26
God Finds Us In Many Ways
A gentleman in treatment refused to attend required in-house AA meetings, insisting that coercing him to participate in a religious program was a violation...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-24-2013, 08:57 AM
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December 25
Sober Celebration
A doctor...
December 25
Sober Celebration
A doctor in his fifth year of sobriety said, When I found out I couldn't drink anymore, it was a sense of relief. I don't have to fight that battle anymore. It's...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-23-2013, 08:42 AM
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December 24
Envy Makes Us Ugly
Few...
December 24
Envy Makes Us Ugly
Few feelings are as sick as envy. A man was having difficulty finding a parking space. In a space designated for the handicapped sat a car with a handicapped...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-22-2013, 09:08 AM
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December 23
Beware of the Mind's Distortions...
December 23
Beware of the Mind's Distortions
We dream of an ice-cream wagon with clanging bells. After we are aroused, we realize the ringing we heard in the dream was in reality the alarm....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-21-2013, 09:40 AM
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December 22
Inflexible Opinions Can Drive...
December 22
Inflexible Opinions Can Drive People Away
Other people have as much right to their opinions as we have to our own. Since humans are neither omniscient nor perfect, we should be...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-20-2013, 10:16 AM
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December 21
The Danger of Seeking Scapegoats...
December 21
The Danger of Seeking Scapegoats
The purpose of self-help groups and treatment for children of addicted parents is not to place blame, but to learn effective coping techniques, and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-19-2013, 08:04 AM
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December 20
Let the Miracle of Sobriety...
December 20
Let the Miracle of Sobriety Occur
Sobriety may sometimes come from a breakthrough. People have within them a core of dignity and self-respect, but in some people this core is buried...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-17-2013, 09:57 AM
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December 19
How We Become What We Despise
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December 19
How We Become What We Despise
We frequently hear, I was repulsed by my father's or mother's drinking. I swore I would never become like that. Or the doctor who saw deteriorated...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-16-2013, 08:09 AM
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December 18
Don't Use Others as an Excuse
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December 18
Don't Use Others as an Excuse
We should not measure ourselves by others. If we measured ourselves by what we could be, we might discover we are performing far below our optimum. But...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-16-2013, 08:08 AM
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December 17
You Are A Beautiful Person
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December 17
You Are A Beautiful Person
Thinking positively about ourselves is not always easy. Since addiction is a disease, an addict is really a person with a disease. It is the disease that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-15-2013, 08:34 AM
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December 16
You Cannot Control the Future
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December 16
You Cannot Control the Future
Interest rates fluctuate, the stock market zigzags, corporations go under while small businesses blossom. If we act reasonably and realize our...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-13-2013, 07:11 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 15
Real Growth Takes Time and...
December 15
Real Growth Takes Time and Effort
A recovering woman stated on her fourth anniversary, It has taken me four years to finally feel good about myself. Although it was not until after...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-13-2013, 07:11 AM
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December 14
Our Egos Can Get in the Way
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December 14
Our Egos Can Get in the Way
Humility depends on just being human. Recovery works for people, not for doctors or lawyers or professors or executives. When people shed their...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-12-2013, 08:58 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 13
A Life Without Goals is an Empty...
December 13
A Life Without Goals is an Empty Chaos
A path of life that is merely self-gratifying is not a path at all. If we seek only self-gratification, we are essentially living a chaotic...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-11-2013, 08:33 AM
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December 12
True Happiness Requires a...
December 12
True Happiness Requires a Lifetime Commitment
Perseverance is a rather unpopular concept in the modern world. Science has provided technologies. What about our lives, happiness,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-10-2013, 05:18 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 11
People-Pleasing
During...
December 11
People-Pleasing
During active addiction we become angry with ourselves for not taking a firm stand on our own behalf and for letting others take advantage of us; we also develop...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-09-2013, 08:23 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 10
We Create Our Own Punishment
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December 10
We Create Our Own Punishment
In the process of teaching children about God, it is either explicitly stated or implied that God operates the way parents do. We grow up thinking that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-08-2013, 08:57 AM
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December 9
Straight Talk
The recovery...
December 9
Straight Talk
The recovery program emphasizes that honesty is either rigorous or it is not honesty at all. Almost true is a lie. People who are not recovering from addiction or...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-06-2013, 08:31 AM
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December 8
May I Never Forget
Twelve...
December 8
May I Never Forget
Twelve Promises or Rewards of sobriety include: freedom instead of addictive enslavement; serenity instead of anxiety; love of people instead of fear of people;...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-06-2013, 08:31 AM
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Views: 57,586
December 7
Building Character
We do not...
December 7
Building Character
We do not tolerate incompatibility in character traits. Greed, envy, selfishness, lying, arrogance, and vanity are mutually compatible. Kindness, truth, humility,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-04-2013, 09:15 AM
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December 6
Finding the Right Approach
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December 6
Finding the Right Approach
We must have serenity in order to be courageous. If we approach a challenge with serenity, we can see things in proper perspective, come to a correct...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-04-2013, 08:54 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 57,586
December 5
The Difference Between...
December 5
The Difference Between Self-Knowledge and Self-Absorption
Preoccupation with ourselves can become an obsession, in which our personal desires are all that matter. The addictive...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-03-2013, 08:17 AM
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Replies: 30
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December 4
No One Is Turned Away
AA and...
December 4
No One Is Turned Away
AA and NA meeting rooms are homes from which no addict is ever turned away. A man visited Spain on business. He had been told that missing meetings was risky...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-02-2013, 10:01 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 57,586
December 3
It's More Than Just Self-Help
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December 3
It's More Than Just Self-Help
Tom reluctantly admitted his alcoholism. His attendance at AA was infrequent and perfunctory. A young man asked, Are you with AA? I just got out of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
12-01-2013, 10:02 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 57,586
December 2
Growth Through Adversity
A...
December 2
Growth Through Adversity
A young professional woman with several years of sobriety was treated very shabbily in her application for a position because of her history of addiction....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
11-30-2013, 08:45 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 57,586
Dr. Twerski's Sober Thought - December
December 1
We Are Never Alone
Ever since we were children, abandonment has been a source of anxiety. Psychologists state that repressed feelings continue to affect our emotions and influence...
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