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Addiction & Recovery

cilla4progress

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13. So cool.

Reply to Comatose Sphagetti (Reply #9)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 12:59 PM

Feb 2018

Humility is so important.

What I'm learning, related to this, is that all negative interaction (generally, my own) and thought, really, stem from ego. So, same as fear.

When I operate from ego, everything is a wreck. I'm not saying I've beaten it back entirely, but I do try to stay aware of how it figures in when I am in distress. I also am getting good at seeing it in others.

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I used to be a drunk... [View all] Comatose Sphagetti Feb 2018 OP

Thanks! irisblue Feb 2018 #1

Great post, and thank you for cilla4progress Feb 2018 #2

Well said. Comatose Sphagetti Feb 2018 #4

I buried my best friend at 45 SCantiGOP Feb 2018 #3

"...even though I really don't think there was anything I could have done that would have worked." Comatose Sphagetti Feb 2018 #5

The line between fear and rage is very thin - fear leads to rage. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #6

For me, rage is fear. Comatose Sphagetti Feb 2018 #9

So cool. cilla4progress Feb 2018 #13

Yep. Comatose Sphagetti Feb 2018 #15

There is a big difference between what I see in myself and what I see in others. JayhawkSD Feb 2018 #7

We will have to agree to disagree, my friend. (N/T). Comatose Sphagetti Feb 2018 #8

thanks old timer Backwoodsrider Feb 2018 #11

Yes to some of us who has been through it we can see addictive behaviors galore in politics Backwoodsrider Feb 2018 #10

"Every day on the news Trump helps me see my character defects in another person" Comatose Sphagetti Feb 2018 #12

I'm afraid they will turn on us - cilla4progress Feb 2018 #14

It's hard for me, sometimes, to not take trumpers inventory. Woman in the Mirror. irisblue Feb 2018 #16

Not an addict but gibraltar72 Feb 2018 #17

Ah geez🤦‍♀️ irisblue Feb 2018 #18

"...a growing awareness something was terribly wrong..." Iggo Mar 2018 #19

Yep. He is also a "higher power" of sorts to them JDC Mar 2018 #20

I've heard people in the program refer to non-alcoholics as "normies," as in normal people. Comatose Sphagetti Mar 2018 #21

IME Many people who don't go to any meetings really raccoon Jul 2018 #23

One of the most important lessons of the meetings...is ..acceptance... Stuart G May 2018 #22