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Functional Alcoholic Signs

2020by Heidi

It’s so tricky to diagnose that I had friends telling me I couldn’t be alcoholic, even though I knew I was.

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Addiction and Relationships, Relating to Addicts, Step 1 Tips

Step 1: Raising The White Flag

2020by Heidi

When I first quit drinking, I had a friend in AA that would wish ‘pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization’ on his drinking buddies.

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12 Steps, Step 1 Tips

What Do They Mean…Do The Next Right Thing?

2020by Heidi

Some people just naturally know what their NRT is. Do you?

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Step 1, Step 1 Application, Step 1 Tips

WORKSHEET STEP 1

2020by Heidi

How do you define ‘unmanageable’?

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AA, Step 1 Tips

Relief or Release?

2020by Heidi

What do you want?

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AA, Step 1 Tips

Welcome To Recovery of Action

Featuredby Heidi

WHICH WAY?

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12 Steps, AA, Spirituality, Step 1 Tips

What’s This Spiritual Malady?

2020by Heidi

Sick of the sprees (alcohol, drugs, food, sex, spending, gambling, etc) and wanting something other than defeating obsessions and thoughts of suicide…

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Step 1 Tips, Thinking Outside The Bottle: 12 Steps for Anyone

Can I Weep With Those Who Weep?

2020by Heidi

I’m not loving you if I try to brush aside your tears

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Step 1 Tips, Thinking Outside The Bottle: 12 Steps for Anyone

What Am I Living For?

2020by Heidi

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live…

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Step 1 Tips, Thinking Outside The Bottle: 12 Steps for Anyone

If You’re Doing Fine, Why Try The 12 Steps?

2020by Heidi

There are many ways to lose yourself, many different paths promising a sense of euphoria, comfort or peace. They’re usually some form of spree…

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Step 1 Tips, Thinking Outside The Bottle: 12 Steps for Anyone

Step 1: Dangerous Lesson Learned In Kindergarten

2020by Heidi

A five-year-old’s birthday party set me on the path of spiritual destruction…

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Step 1 Tips

Step 1: How Do I Start?

2020by Heidi

You don’t have to be an addict or even know one to take the 12 Steps

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12 Steps, Step 1 Tips, Thinking Outside The Bottle: 12 Steps for Anyone

Quiet Space in Bright Sunshine

2020by Heidi

In fact, my lack of emotional sobriety happened long before the first taste of alcohol.

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Step 1, Step 1 Tips

What Is God’s Will?

2020by Heidi

I no longer feel I have to ‘prove’ anything to you or to me

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AA, Step 1 Tips

Not in My Wheelhouse

2020by Heidi

After cleaning out my wheelhouse I find I’m a little lonely…

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AA, Al-Anon, Step 1 Tips

Dear Me,

2020by Heidi

December 31, 2012 Dear Me, I probably know less about you than some people and more than the casual observer, but I do know a few things: You love to […]

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Al-Anon, Step 1 Tips

Step 1: Shadow Me

2020by Heidi

The visible me was a lie. The shadow me was reality.

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AA, Step 1 Tips

Anxiety: Part 2 Hey There! Hold On A Sec!

2020by Heidi

There’s a lot of ‘holding’ going on during the last three points.

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AA, Step 1 Tips

Anxiety: Part 1 Pull on the Nail

2020by Heidi

Can you find something that weighs on your mind?

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12 Steps, Beginnings, Step 1 Tips

What’s Your Struggle?

2020by Heidi

How do you feel about being an addict, co-dependent or having cancer? I’ve been asking this question and my favorite answer so far is below. Even though this dear friend […]

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Sober Living, Step 1 Tips, Step 12

Hemma! Hemma!

2020by Heidi

Hemma! Hemma! That’s what my brother and I used to yell when we wanted folks to hurry up. We used it with our friends at a time when other people […]

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12 Steps, Step 1, Step 1 Application, Step 1 Tips

Al-Anon vs Nike ‘Just Do It’

2020by Heidi

When I was drinking I drank to feel better. The trouble with that is: I could never just take one drink and be happy. Normal social drinkers can do that. […]

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ACOA, Al-Anon, CODA, Sober Living, Step 1 Tips

This Alcoholic Named Herself

2020by Heidi

When I first got sober, and was recognizing my character defects of Step 4, one of the other women told me, You don’t have to put on a sandwich board […]

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Step 1, Step 1 Application, Step 1 Tips

Is There Anything Unique About Your Drinking?

2020by Heidi

This is in response to the Normie question from my Saturday post. Most alcoholics have a desire to be unique. I thought I was unique because I was suicidal or […]

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