There is nothing so bad…
February 3rd, 2012 | Slogans, Stories & Videos, Spirituality | Jane | Add Comments…that a drink won’t make worse. Drinking won’t take away your problems, but it will sure give you some interesting new ones!
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Life at A Home Away Blog
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Where Change Can Begin
January 14th, 2012 | Spirituality | admin | Add CommentsYour mind is likely to take you to familiar places. It’s all it knows! If you want change in your life, to get out of ‘the same old same old’, then talk with a trusted friend, sponsor, Higher Power. Somebody/thing other than your self. Then trust and let go! Take some Good Orderly Direction for [...]
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Change!
January 4th, 2012 | Spirituality | admin | Add CommentsHappy New Year’s! This is the time that so many make resolutions to change. The focus typically is on changing people, places or things. Doing more or less. Trying harder. Change jobs, relationships, activities. But we all know what happens to New Year’s resolutions! In the end, nothing changes. The reality is that ‘nothing changes [...]
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Is There Something in Your Way?
January 4th, 2012 | Slogans, Stories & Videos, Spirituality | Jane | Add CommentsAhhh, here’s a good one: The obstacle is the journey. Leap on!
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A Deadly Bucket List
December 19th, 2011 | Codependency, Slogans, Stories & Videos | admin | Add CommentsCodependency, just like any other addiction, does kill. The person suffering from obsessive care-taking may not experience the dramatic death or lock up of an active alcoholic or addict, but they will surely die a spiritual, emotional or mental death. The family members and loved ones of addicts need recovery too. They are suffering [...]
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Can You Hear Me Now?
December 14th, 2011 | Codependency, Slogans, Stories & Videos, Spirituality | admin | Add CommentsI love stories. If you are familiar with any of my blogs or work at all, you know by now, I love stories. Most people don’t appreciate the “naked truth”, but when it is wrapped up in a beautiful story, most people will welcome it in, sometimes without even knowing it is the truth. Stories [...]
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Zen Recovery
December 12th, 2011 | Spirituality | Jane | Add CommentsZen Koans have been used for a couple of thousand years or so to help people reach enlightenment. They are little stories or situations that were designed to make people pause, scratch their heads, and say, “what?” I love using Zen Koans in recovery work and generally people loved to be baffled by them. Sometimes [...]
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How To Avoid A Train Wreck
December 12th, 2011 | Slogans, Stories & Videos | Jane | Add CommentsMost newcomers to AA are amazed at the incredible truths offered by those with even a bit of sobriety. One of the most astonishing to learn is that it is not the 3rd, 5th or 17th drink that causes the problems, but the very first one. If you don’t take the first drink, you [...]
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Are You Seeking?
December 7th, 2011 | Codependency, Slogans, Stories & Videos, Spirituality | admin | Add CommentsLooking for God? Seeking IS Finding. Keep looking!
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Worry is like sitting in a rocking chair…
December 5th, 2011 | Codependency, Slogans, Stories & Videos | admin | 1 CommentYou can rock all day long and get nowhere….except more worried and exhausted. Are you done rocking? Time to move on? We’ll give you a hand up!
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