# Recovery

I believe the Steps are more like a spiritual initiation that works toward destroying our old, deluded, self-centered selves so that God and our Sober Elders can put the pieces of our lives back together in the form of a wholly new self.

mail.google.com • Gmail - Does God Really Speak?

It is so easy to look for answers outside of ourselves when the real work at hand is an inside job. God lives in and all around us, we are never not connected to spirit, even in our darkest moments.

Trusting the Inner Self

Everyone else is having a great time, everyone else knows what to do, everyone else’s life is just better.

I drank for 45 years to try and live like I thought everyone else lived.

T.B.D. • Doctor, My Eyes

As a member of this Program I love that I am here to not just avoid the liquor store, but also practice healthy, sustainable living.

Family Matters

Addiction to Excitement Inner Drug Store 101 Emotional Intoxication

socalaca.org

I tell them that the Big Book isn’t about getting religion or worshipping anything—it’s simply about recognizing where you really stand in the Universe and answering some very personal questions about how you got here, where you’d like to go and the things that would need to change, to make that possible.

Dodging A Bullet

I am inherently beautiful and worthy, exactly as I am.

Kezia Calvert • Untangling the Web of Alcohol Abuse & ADHD

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

I am willing to not know, look stupid, make an ass of myself, get it wrong, be awkward, be uncomfortable.

I am willing to do all that so I CAN BE FREE.