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Dark Holidays? This One’s For You

2020by Heidi

Ready for a different kind of holiday? This worked for me.

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Addiction and Relationships

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

Step 3 Part 2: ABCs of AA

2020by Heidi

Bill’s principles of AA… I laughed out loud when I heard this. (Learn what hit the editor’s floor.)

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12 Steps, Step 3, Step 3 Tips

Relief or Release?

2020by Heidi

What do you want?

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AA, 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

Whad Ya Mean… Self-Seeking?

2020by Heidi

Like traveling without any running lights…

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Step 4 Tips

My Rebel Thoughts Refuse Captivity

2020by Heidi

‘taking thoughts captive’ was my goal but achieving it eluded me …

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Step 1 Application

Mocking Bird-Brain

2020by Heidi

Knowing my brain acts like a Mockingbird, I have cut down on what I pay attention to.

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Step 1 Application

Get Into The Cartoon!

2020by Heidi

… a typical Saturday with Loony Toons, the two of us in our footie pajamas eating breakfast as we sat so close we were in the action.

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Step 1 Application

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

This is a test. This is only a test…right?

2020by Heidi

If this had been an actual emergency…

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Step 1 Application

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

Double Overtime

2020by Heidi

It IS whether you win or lose!

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AA, Step 1, Step 1 Application

Cupcakes and Sweet Security

2020by Heidi

A month into Al-Anon I find that I am losing my job.

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AA, Al-Anon, Codependents Anonymous, Step 1 Application

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

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

Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain

2020by Heidi

My life would make a better movie than it does a life.

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AA, Step 1 Application

STOP…GO…STOP!

2020by Heidi

So what do we do if we can’t trust our thinking?

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12 Steps, Step 1 Application

Step 3: What Grows in the Dark?

2020by Heidi

What keeps you awake at night?

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12 Steps, Spirituality, Step 3 Tips

How Did I Set My Password For AA Serenity?

2020by Heidi

During early sobriety it seemed that all the characters around the table except me had a secret password that allowed them to log into a new life of peace and serenity. I’d never seen anything like these hooligans.

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AA Meetings, Step 11 Application

Peace on Earth to (Sober) Men

2020by Heidi

Peace started for me during Step One when I admitted I was not all-powerful; that alcohol had me by the throat!

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12 Steps, Step 1 Application

Victim Veins Revisited

2020by Heidi

You call it love. For years, all I wrote was bad, tragic and tearful poetry. Then life got better because I got sober and I gave up poetry. Suddenly, this […]

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12 Steps, Step 12 Application

Lucky Unlucky Addicts

2020by Heidi

The following comment from Resentment Rats is too wonderful to leave in the archives of comments: So much lays beneath what we can easily see in ourselves. And how many […]

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Addiction and Relationships, Spirituality

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

Bootstraps or Pigtails

2020by Heidi

When new to recovery it is a good idea to locate some trusted friends. The kind that will not hesitate to call us on our self-absorption, our rationalizing attitudes and […]

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Sober Living, Step 12 Tips

Ask The Right Questions To Get The Right Answers

2020by Heidi

During my entire life I asked, “What’s wrong with me?”

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12 Steps, Step 2 Application

Relationship Reality: Part 3 Tracking Triangles

2020by Heidi

A.  You accept where you are by facing the reality of your relationships. We’re still working on Step 1 and assessing reality. The first part of that is looking at […]

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12 Steps, Relating to Addicts

Relationship Reality: Part 2 Jack and Jill…

2020by Heidi

A.  You accept where you are by facing the reality of your situation. Think of the sides of the triangle as 3 warehouses of one-liners. Try to recall a discussion […]

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12 Steps, Relating to Addicts

Relationship Reality: Part 1 The Not-So-Musical Triangle

2020by Heidi

A.  You accept where you are by facing the reality of your situation. Part of facing our reality is looking at the conversations we’re having. As addicts, we’re naturally drawn […]

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12 Steps, Addiction and Relationships

Step 1: Grieving

2020by Heidi

A.  You accept where you are by facing the reality of your situation. Do you agree that facing reality can be like grieving? I’ve had friends grieve the loss of […]

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12 Steps, Step 1 Application

The Case for Honesty

2020by Heidi

Truth is truth. Millions of people can attest to the fact that the AA program works just as well for those who are stuck in life as it does for […]

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12 Steps, Step 1 Application

I’m (not) OK, You’re OK

2020by Heidi

I try to be subtle, find a handy escape route…a way off the party bus.

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Step 6 Application

Why Would Someone Who’s ‘Doing Fine’ Turn to AA?

2020by Heidi

My disease was so hidden that even I didn’t know about it!

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Heidi HO, Sober Living, Step 1 Application

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