Your Experience, Strength and Hope

I have a new sponsee.  She is a lovely young Native American woman who at the age of 30, is the mother of five.  Her husband gently asked if I’d be her temporary sponsor at a meeting we both attended and I happily called her that day. Since then I […]

Listening is a gift of nearly immeasurable proportion that we can give to others.  There are really no words that can adequately describe the importance of “tuning in to” the words of a friend, or on occasion, a stranger who is hurting.  We have often heard it said that pain […]

Choosing to see, and feel peace in the midst of the chaos that’s so common in our lives is a decision that will change every minute of every experience from this day forward.  Perhaps this seems like a stretch of the imagination that one could live this way.  And I […]

I was at a meeting tonight and the topic was hope.  It’s a certainty that everyone  who comes to any 12 step group for the first time is bereft of hope. And we seldom even realize that to be the case.  We just know that we are terrified and sick […]

At my 12 step meeting this morning, the topic was how to “get over ourselves” those mornings we feel like snarly cats.  Gratefully, I don’t have those mornings very often, any more, but I used to grouse at every one upon arising.  It wasn’t simply that I needed coffee, although […]