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Monday, August 18, 2014

Shame and Fear

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Shame and fear kept me trapped. I was molested from one of my earliest memories until I was in 4 th  grade and we moved. It was by a baby si...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Why Stigma Exists

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Stigma exists because we allow it to. I will get into who we is later. First, I would like to talk about the people who I thought would sti...
Monday, August 4, 2014

Why I'll Never Use Again

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I spent a majority of my life transitioning from one phase to the next in my spiritual walk. I have run the gamut from Jehovah’s Witness to...
Monday, July 28, 2014

What is Your Mission

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Everyone knows the great philosophical question, "Why are we here?" That is not what we are talking about today. Instead, the ques...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Letting Go and Letting God Can Be Tough

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There are not a lot of things out there that really worry me anymore. I have found that as my sobriety and spiritual walk have coalesced int...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

I Am Not Cured!

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I try to stay out of most discussions that I see. I know that I can come across a little strong for some people’s tastes, and I am trying to...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Good Enough Ain't Good Enough Anymore

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In my addiction, I usually did the wrong thing. On occasion, I would do the right thing. Sometimes it was because I still had some principa...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Better Life in Recovery Rocking in June

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This past Saturday BLiR ( Better Life in Recovery , Inc.) was scheduled to bring in a group of people and paint the Sunshine Elementary pla...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Streamlining!

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I had an opportunity to meet with one of my mentors. As always, it was a great experience and I left with a lot more information in my head ...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Why We Relapse/How We Recover

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I was an addict for a long time. I was an addict for a quarter of a century. People would ask me why I would continue to use, after all that...
Monday, May 5, 2014

BLiR - Community Service

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This was a great weekend for  Better Life in Recovery (BLiR). BliR is an organization whose purpose is to deal hope and decimate stigma surr...
Monday, April 28, 2014

You Can't Unpickle a Pickle

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Sitting in the rooms I once heard a man say that you can’t turn a pickle back into a cucumber. He was saying that as a reply to another per...