Recovery ABCs

[dwmoeller]

E is for Eat

Eat at regular hours. Eat healthy food. It is all part of taking care of yourself in sobriety. You need to nourish the body as well as the spirit.

[MajestyJo]

F is for First. First things first is your sobriety, without it, you have nothing and your family doesn't have you. They may be family, but.... Sometimes we do have to detach from them and focus on our own recovery. Sometimes the people in our home group is our family. They are the first ones to understand us and know where we are coming from.

[dwmoeller]

G is for Get

Get a home group and attend it regularly. It is important to go to AA meetings.

[MajestyJo]

H is for Home. Find yourself a home group. A place you feel comfortable sharing at. A place where you can relate to the people and they have something that you want.

Don't ask what your group can do for you. Ask for what you need to bring and do for your group. Service is an important part of sobriety. It makes a house a home.

[MajestyJo]

I is for Identify. Identify, don't compare. Don't look at what you didn't do, but look at what you did do. Don't say, I am not as bad as they are, be grateful you never got there yet. We have a progressive disease which gives us a daily reprieve.

We only get out of a day what we put into it.

[MajestyJo]

J is for Justified. Justified anger is not any healthier than regular anger. Anger is anger. We can justify a lot of things, but that doesn't make them right. It doesn't make them wrong either. When I start to justify, I know I have to look at me.

[dwmoeller]

K is for Keep

Keep coming back...it works!

[MajestyJo]

L is for Love. We need to learn to love ourselves before we can truly love someone else. Then we have to turn around and learn to like ourselves, that was the hard one for me.

[MajestyJo]

M is for More. My drug of choice was more. In recovery, I try to turn that around to more meetings, reading more literature, more sharing and talking with others in recovery, more helping others, etc.

[dwmoeller]

N is for Nuts

Not
Using
The
Steps

This is dangerous!

[MajestyJo]

O is for Keep an Open Mind. I once heard a guy say, "Don't keep it so open that everything falls out of it. I had to change and not allow my mind to snap shut when I saw or heard something I didn't want to acknowledge.

[dwmoeller]

P is for Practice

Practice control of your anger!

[MajestyJo]

Q is for Quell. Quell those internal voices and the debating society. Quiet your mind and in the stillness, say the Serenity Prayer or any prayer you wish. We can hear our Higher Powers Good Orderly Direction, if we don't quell that internal chatter.

[MajestyJo]

R is for Recovery. My sponsor told me, "If you have recovery, show it. Do people look at you and see recovery." I was also told to clean up my persona, my act, and my mouth.

Not quite an angel, just aim towards the best I can be each day. I always tell people, I am one in disguise, and hope they realize that I still have a sick sense of humor that God and I work on daily. I have my guardian angel watching over me.

[MajestyJo]

S is for Sobriety. Sober is different than sobriety. I was told by my spiritual advisor that sobriety meant soundness of mind. In order to achieve that, I had to work the steps and learn to apply them to my life daily.

Sober is so important, without that, I can't achieve anything and get ahead. Sobriety give me that something extra that makes life worth living and the freedom that recovery brings.

This picture will change daily. A different angel to help you along the way each day.