At a recent meeting a woman suggested the above question as a topic for discussion. Not once in 37 years had I heard this suggestion as a topic. I was immediately intrigued. Actually, it stopped me in my tracks because it dawned on me that I had not been thinking about the steps, not a [...]
To be at peace is my goal. It’s my intention. I’ve even decided to adopt it as my mission statement. I WANT TO LIVE AN INTENTIONALLY PEACEFUL LIFE WHICH REQUIRES THAT I OFFER THE HAND OF PEACE TO MY FELLOW TRAVELERS. I was with some women at lunch today and the idea of a mission [...]
Attachment to people deadlocks our growth. Those women and men on our journey are blessings, for sure. Every one of them. Even those people who seem to be difficult to be around. It’s been said by the really wise that the more difficult an encounter, the greater the lesson and ultimate wisdom gained. However, if [...]
Detachment is knowing that happiness is the guaranteed byproduct of how we live our lives, not how others are living theirs. It’s my intention to do a few posts on detachment over the next few weeks. I have learned that being being sucked into the struggles of others leaves no time for me to fully [...]
Almost every belief I cherish today, I scoffed at before becoming committed to a 12 step fellowship. I didn’t believe in God. I thought that if you gave something away, it was gone forever. I was sure that hanging on to resentments was both normal and protective; and in fact, others deserved my negative thoughts, [...]
Most of us have made resolutions over the years. And probably we have broken them before the first week of the new year had even passed. If that’s troubling to you, take heart. It’s common. Remake the resolution. And then try again to follow through. Perfection is not our goal. Improvement is. There isn’t a [...]
I am one of those folks who loves all aspects of the holidays. As I said in my last post, from the lights to the music, I am hooked. I also honor the tradition of giving to others and take many opportunities to do so. Pulling an angel from a tree at the grocery or [...]
We celebrate Veteran’s Day annually but it’s far oftener that we should pay homage to those men and women who so willingly serve in some branch of the services to protect the rest of us. Every moment of their deployment puts their life on the line and they do it willingly; they have not been [...]
There is no truer suggestion offered to us in recovery rooms than the above. I didn’t get it when I came into the fellowship in 1974. I didn’t understand why other women reached out to me. I didn’t understand that “to keep what one had, it had to be given away.” That went against everything [...]
I wish I could say to you that I have constant inner peace. But that would be a lie. I can say, however, that I am more at peace today than at any other time in my life. And it’s the direct result of changing my thinking. I wrote a book a few years back [...]
