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Addiction & Recovery

Stuart G

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15. I appreciate your "rain thing" post. Thanks for your insight

Reply to JayhawkSD (Reply #14)

Tue Jan 2, 2018, 03:15 PM

Jan 2018

These 2 sentences are very special...

"I am not enslaved by events. I have choices, and that freedom, in large part, is created by no longer having myself at the center of my own universe. By not viewing everything and every event through the lens of its effect on me.....

Thank You Again..

Stuart

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To All Of Us, Who Made an Hour, A Day, A Week, A Year, or More [View all] irisblue Jan 2018 OP

28 yrs nt msongs Jan 2018 #1

Respect! irisblue Jan 2018 #2

I made it. Esophageal cancer and all ghostsinthemachine Jan 2018 #3

Respect! irisblue Jan 2018 #4

Is this an NA/AA thread? ghostsinthemachine Jan 2018 #5

Yeah it is, but you are welcome here. irisblue Jan 2018 #6

It is not exclusively an AA/NA thread progree Jan 2018 #7

I should have included the OA& GA& EA people as well irisblue Jan 2018 #8

Some of us do not belong to or find 12 step programs helpful. OA, GA, EA are all 12 step programs progree Jan 2018 #9

I'm in AA, but we welcome anyone to meetings who's working on recovery. Rhiannon12866 Jan 2018 #16

I am grateful that today is a good day irisblue Jan 2018 #10

someone is always here on DU Skittles Jan 2018 #11

I wish I had something deep to say, but all I can say is I'm glad 2017 is over with progree Jan 2018 #12

2017 sucked bilge water. irisblue Jan 2018 #13

I'm going to do my rain thing again. JayhawkSD Jan 2018 #14

I appreciate your "rain thing" post. Thanks for your insight Stuart G Jan 2018 #15