# Recovery
Drinking did for me what I couldn’t do for myself: it hid my insides from the outside world. It concealed the parts of me that I deemed unacceptable and unlovable.
Kezia Calvert • Untangling the Web of Alcohol Abuse & ADHD
““The day is to be experienced, not understood!””
— The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have by Mark Nepo
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— The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have by Mark Nepo
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“Ho’oponopono” — it centers around 4 phrases, like a mantra, and it goes “I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you.”
“A.A. REGENERATION”
Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one.
— ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE, p. 46
A thousand beatings by John Barleycorn did not encourage me to admit defeat. I believed it was my moral obligation to conquer my... See more
Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one.
— ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE, p. 46
A thousand beatings by John Barleycorn did not encourage me to admit defeat. I believed it was my moral obligation to conquer my... See more
We must change our mind-set from one of self-improvement to one of self-liberation. Self-liberation means freedom from our limiting beliefs, our misguided idea that there is something wrong with us that needs to be “fixed.” Our constant attempts to “get it right” and to be “perfect” leave us in a state of exhaustion, never resting in the present
... See moreI tried so hard to “reset” so I could drink like a normal person.
Kristen Blanton Crocker • My Sobriety Story With Kristen Blanton Crocker
"I was always loved, but I always wondered, also, what that love depended on." (Leslie Jamison, The Recovering)
I drank to escape what I thought about myself.
T.B.D. • The Right Way to Pull a Weed
Then, shortly after our daughter Gwen was born, as I understand it goes, my marriage was revealed for what it was. I had a lifelong (and unmanaged) mental health issue, and my husband had an addiction (also unmanaged) to alcohol. Now that we had a baby, we could no longer ignore our unwieldy foundations.