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Hi my name is Ty and I am recovering from "more".Whether drugs or alcohol I needed MORE! Money.... I needed MORE! Sex.... I needed MORE!
This is the longest time I have been clean and sober since I was 16. I am 23 now, and I love how I am welcomed and continue to be welcomed on these forums. One day at a time!
Much Love, VapingKicksAsh
This is the longest time I have been clean and sober since I was 16. I am 23 now, and I love how I am welcomed and continue to be welcomed on these forums. One day at a time!
Much Love, VapingKicksAsh
Welcome! I'm glad ya found us.
Welcome!!
Thank you guys! 
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You know that feeling where you're getting stripped down spiritually and feeling sooo many feelings from the past but know its for the good. That's where I'm at. Sometimes its hard to see the goodness and the light at the end. But with God's help I can keep moving forward toward it.
Hope this helps somebody out there. First time posting in this thread. But have been a stalker for sometime now. Thanks for being here guys and gals!
Hope this helps somebody out there. First time posting in this thread. But have been a stalker for sometime now. Thanks for being here guys and gals!
Keep coming back!
It works if u work it!
Always use the second link as I seemed to have misplaced my daily reflections in my recent move.... Thnx for the daily reminder @ghost62
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Amazing thread. Addicts helping other addicts, it couldn't happen any other way.
Anyways got my 6 month tag a week ago. I volunteered for rehab after a 10 year run with the devil. Destroyed everything and everyone who I knew. Now I'm heavily into NA, speaking at rehabs, parent meetings and the whole gamut. It's an inside job, I have to constantly work on my mental, physical and spiritual well being, one day at a time, sometimes one moment at a time. Thanks for this thread.... Nothing like a little 12th step on a vape forum...
Anyways got my 6 month tag a week ago. I volunteered for rehab after a 10 year run with the devil. Destroyed everything and everyone who I knew. Now I'm heavily into NA, speaking at rehabs, parent meetings and the whole gamut. It's an inside job, I have to constantly work on my mental, physical and spiritual well being, one day at a time, sometimes one moment at a time. Thanks for this thread.... Nothing like a little 12th step on a vape forum...
Congrats on 6 months!
I got my start in a rehab almost 7 years ago. Took me 8 months to do a 6 month program...
Recovery isn't easy, but it will be as hard as you make it.
Anyway, I'm glad ya found us! Welcome.
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@ghost62, thanks for the kind words. Congratulations to you as well. I typically do meditations 2-3 nights a week. Usually, Ill put on my headphones and find something on YouTube and do my thing. I appreciate you putting up links everyday, that's what it's about. Ill get into a couple starting tonight and let you know. Thanks again.....
Ps: The ones from Hazeldon are very popular, I remember my Councelor from rehab getting me into them. Good stuff...
I know NA and AA are close, but a lil'different. Your story along with many of ours is similar. That being said, this ALWAYS reminds of the last full paragraph on page 82 of the AA Big Book, 3rd ed.
'The alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his way through the lives of others. Hearts are broken. Sweet
relationships are dead. Affections have been uprooted. Selfish and inconsiderate habits have kept he
home in turmoil. We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough. He is like the
farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar to find his home ruined. To his wife, he remarked,
"Don't see anything the matter here, Ma. Ain't it grand the wind stopped blowin'?" '
my sponsor told me at the begining to read, 83-86 EVERY DAY. hopes this helps.!!
I'm now 1year 8months 10 days at the time of this post.
Congrats on 6 months, as I said, and we all say at the end of a meeting 'keep comin back, it works if you work it!'
Every so often, I put this out there -
If anyone has a daily recovery related meditation/reading link that they would like me to include in my regular posting, please send it to me, ok?
It can address any issue as long as it pertains to recovery from a substance/behavior/mental illness.
Have a Blessed day and thank you all for being here, my friends!
If anyone has a daily recovery related meditation/reading link that they would like me to include in my regular posting, please send it to me, ok?
It can address any issue as long as it pertains to recovery from a substance/behavior/mental illness.
Have a Blessed day and thank you all for being here, my friends!
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Very powerful and I totally relate to that paragraph, as Im sure most of us can. Like the man in that paragraph, I feel extremely grateful to be here, like Ive been given a 2nd chance at life.
Thank you for posting, and congratulations to you as well. Keep coming back, it works if you work it.....
I was asked to post pages 83 to 88 of the Big Book with the other readings.
So far, every link I've found goes to a downloadable .pdf but I'm still looking.
Even though 83-88 doesn't change daily, I'd love to include it. It's very positive, very motivating and relevant to anyone in recovery, not just AA.
My drug was always alcohol, and I spent my first year in Alcoholics Anonymous working the Steps with my sponsor. I also had to read those pages every day and one of the things I miss most since I switched fellowships is hearing the Promises. I have been blessed to watch so many of them come true, in both myself and others.
I'll see if I can find a link to just them as well.
So far, every link I've found goes to a downloadable .pdf but I'm still looking.
Even though 83-88 doesn't change daily, I'd love to include it. It's very positive, very motivating and relevant to anyone in recovery, not just AA.
My drug was always alcohol, and I spent my first year in Alcoholics Anonymous working the Steps with my sponsor. I also had to read those pages every day and one of the things I miss most since I switched fellowships is hearing the Promises. I have been blessed to watch so many of them come true, in both myself and others.
I'll see if I can find a link to just them as well.
Meditations
http://www.jftna.org/jft/
http://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/daily-reflection
http://www.hazelden.org/web/public/thought.view?catId=1904
http://www.step12.com/promises.html
I'm gonna go ahead and include the Promises in with my daily posts.
I know, they don't change from day to day, but that's the great thing about them
http://www.jftna.org/jft/
http://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/daily-reflection
http://www.hazelden.org/web/public/thought.view?catId=1904
http://www.step12.com/promises.html
I'm gonna go ahead and include the Promises in with my daily posts.
I know, they don't change from day to day, but that's the great thing about them
The Hazelden reading today is one I need to copy and read every day.
And read and read and read and read...
I was scheduled to have a hip replacement in September '13 (football, dirt bikes, a car accident and years of just plain stupidity did a number on me...) but my 2 yr old grandson suffered a major traumatic brain injury. I cancelled my surgery so my wife could take a leave of absence to stay in his hospital room with him.
He was there over two months.
Barely able to walk, I took on double shifts at work, willingly and without complaint. His recovery was more important than whatever I had to go through.
I know, it was the only decision that could have been made and I don't regret my choices one bit, but sacrificing like that is a pattern with me.
I always put others first and never really think about me.
Sounds like I'm bragging about what a great guy I am, huh?
I wish that were the case.
I'm still waiting on surgery, struggling every minute of every day with the pain and the weakness. My days are filled with meeting expectations, some from others, but most from myself and I'm paying huge price. My nights are spent laying in bed awake, unable to sleep because my hip is screaming so loudly.
Being the 'strong one' is so ingrained in me that I have difficulty breaking that cycle regardless of how it harms me.
I have to remind myself that if I'm am to be there for the people that count on me, I gotta take care of me first.
It's not being selfish to put my needs first. I am to the point of collapse, physically, emotionally and mentally. If that happens, I'm no good to anyone...
I think I need to call my sponsor...
And read my own words over and over again.
And read and read and read and read...
I was scheduled to have a hip replacement in September '13 (football, dirt bikes, a car accident and years of just plain stupidity did a number on me...) but my 2 yr old grandson suffered a major traumatic brain injury. I cancelled my surgery so my wife could take a leave of absence to stay in his hospital room with him.
He was there over two months.
Barely able to walk, I took on double shifts at work, willingly and without complaint. His recovery was more important than whatever I had to go through.
I know, it was the only decision that could have been made and I don't regret my choices one bit, but sacrificing like that is a pattern with me.
I always put others first and never really think about me.
Sounds like I'm bragging about what a great guy I am, huh?
I wish that were the case.
I'm still waiting on surgery, struggling every minute of every day with the pain and the weakness. My days are filled with meeting expectations, some from others, but most from myself and I'm paying huge price. My nights are spent laying in bed awake, unable to sleep because my hip is screaming so loudly.
Being the 'strong one' is so ingrained in me that I have difficulty breaking that cycle regardless of how it harms me.
I have to remind myself that if I'm am to be there for the people that count on me, I gotta take care of me first.
It's not being selfish to put my needs first. I am to the point of collapse, physically, emotionally and mentally. If that happens, I'm no good to anyone...
I think I need to call my sponsor...
And read my own words over and over again.
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Got you and yours in my prayers. Stay strong. Keep the faith...