Missed Chances and Mistakes. Do we “deserve” a second chance—or a third one, or a fourth? Are there “do-overs” in life? In 12-Step recovery, we have them, every single day. No matter what we’ve done—or failed to do—if we are in these rooms or on these calls, we are...
What does this day have in store for me? Waking up, I remember how it felt to wake up on a birthday, when I was just five or six. A happy occasion. All at once, I may also remember many sad times, a flood of memories when I was disappointed because it turned out that...
nearing the restaurant I hear the boys passing on bicycles speaking beautiful Spanish entering i see a lot of people not prizing some invisible seed of potential ...
Only Trait 4 specifies substance abuse, as a way to cope. Addict/Alcoholic adult children do share the feelings—fears—in the traits, but they acted out as targets of abuse. I believe lumping defiant behaviors into the “Other Laundry List” isn’t satisfactory. All...
I want to say something that some may have a hard time hearing. ACA has, in my opinion, been abused by the confusion that skewed WSO's framing of our program. I see and hear people with a lot of time and good will trying to come to grips with fashioning core documents...
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