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for my sister, part I
A few weeks ago, my sister sent me an email about my one year. She said she loved me and I said it, too. I hadn’t heard from her in a while. I left her a voicemail on her birthday … Continue reading
Posted in what it's like now
Tagged 9th step, AA meetings, addiction, Alcoholics Anonymous, alcoholism, amends, family, gratitude, meetings, ninth step, recovery, rehab, siblings, sister, sober, sobriety, Southern California, sponsor, trauma, treatment, using, verbal abuse, writing
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is for
I made flyers for the blog: a photo and a URL and a quote. I thought I’d leave them at dedicated meeting places, maybe only outside my hometown. My friend suggested leaving them at bars. I said I didn’t want … Continue reading
Posted in travel, what it was like, what it's like now
Tagged AA meetings, addiction, Alcoholics Anonymous, alcoholism, blog philosophy, meetings, New York, putting recovery first, SoHo, writing
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you never know
One of the reasons I went to treatment was because I quit my job to write and didn’t spend one day in 5 months writing. Not one hour. I woke up on March 1st and looked at the calendar on … Continue reading
Posted in what happened, what it's like now
Tagged addiction, alcoholism, benefits of sobriety, control, fear, literature, not knowing, recovery, rehab, relapse, sponsor, therapist, therapy, treatment, wasting time, writing
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