Carrie Ten Bloom

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength"

This site is about recovery and is intended for people in recovery to use. Anyone who joins can use the forums to share their E, S & H and help others on the road to wellness. This is not a chat site, however, there are chat sites listed in the recovery links section located above to the left. This chat box can be used to communicate to other members and get feed back... Stay sober and free....

Welcome evette I hope you enjoy the site. If you have any questions, post them here in the chat box. You can also post your experience, strength and hope in tthe forums, which are located above on the left. Have a great day and a sober 24 hrs....don

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

Welcome sadiebarry1

welcome northerncold

The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, 'Hello.....Mrs. Ward, please'. 'Speaking'.
'Mrs. Ward, this is Doctor Jones at the Medical Testing Laboratory.

When your doctor sent your husband's biopsy to the lab yesterday, a biopsy from another Mr. Ward arrived as well, and we are now uncertain which one is your husband's.

Frankly the results are either bad or terrible'.

'What do you mean?' Mrs. Ward asks nervously.

'Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the other one tested positive for AIDS. We can't tell which is your husband's'.

'That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?' questioned Mrs. Ward.
'Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time.'

'Well, what am I supposed to do now?'

'The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him.'

Welcome staci 1825 YOUR INTERACTION ON THIS SITE WILL BE OF GREAT VALUE. Please post your experience, strength and hope in the forums and here in the chat box. Have an awesome day.

Hour To Hour - The First 30 Days',
- by Shelly Marshall
the author of 'Day By Day' & other Meditation Books


If we are in the program on a basis of 'temporary permanence' (we'll stay until we find something better), then we need to re-evaluate. Addiction is cunning, baffling, and powerful and will always convince us it's better than sobriety. We can only make this program if we commit ourselves each day, every day.

This hour I will not take a fix, pill, drink, smoke, or snort of any mind-affecting chemical.

A man and a friend are playing golf one day at their local golf course. One of the guys is about to chip onto the green when he sees a long funeral procession on the road next to the course. He stops in mid-swing, takes off his golf cap, closes his eyes, and bows down in prayer.

His friend says: “Wow, that is the most thoughtful and touching thing I have ever seen. You truly are a kind man.”

The man then replies: “Yeah, well we were married 35 years.”

Welcome johnw, I hope you enjoy the site and find some of what you need in recovery. Any questions and or you experience, strength and hope, post the here. You can, also, post in the forums. have a great day

Welcome inottawa

Indian Proverb:
"For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required."

Welcome filmmchick

Whenever I find myself under acute tensions, I lengthen my daily walks and slowly repeat our Serenity Prayer in rhythm to my steps and breathing."

Grapevine, March 1962
As Bill Sees It
page 250

How does your prayer and meditation change while under acute tensions?

An individual with a drug personality may demonstrate such characteristics as:

Mood swings;
Withdrawing from those who love him;
Unable to finish projects;
Unexpressed resentment and secret hatreds;
Dishonesty;
Telling lies to family, friends and employers;
Isolating himself/herself;
Appearing chronically depressed;
And beginning to steal from family and friends.

From the NA basic Text

"By giving unconditional love...we become more loving, and by sharing spiritual growth we become more spiritual."
Basic Text, page 203

Just for today:
Higher Power, help me serve other people, not demand that they serve me.
Page 235

Have a great 24 hours OLR

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
--Anne Frank

We don't find the rewards of today by searching through our misfortunes. Pausing to seek out something good for everything we find bad is a step in the right direction. We may find the good outweighs the bad.

But how much more chance we will have of living a happy day if we skip over our setbacks and concentrate as much as we can on what is going well. It is smarter to look for diamonds in a diamond mine than in a garbage dump.

Let us discard our failures, using only what we have learned from them to achieve success. Looking back at missed opportunities will make it impossible for us to recognize new chances to enjoy life to the fullest. Looking only for beauty is a beautiful thing in itself.

What beauty can I see around me right now?