My Journey To Recovery I strived to improve, in recovery, not only my personal life, but the lives of everyone I comes in contact with. Live life to it's full potential through personal development. I cannot undo what I've done but I can live better today. If you have an addiction, whether it's Alcohol, Drugs, Gambling, Sex, Love Addiction, or whatever, then you will discover that this Blog is for you. Statistics Unique Visitors: Total Unique Visitors: Outgoing: Total Outgoing: 4 0 0 4197

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Back From Vacation 2008-01-25 09:42:00 An Added Gift"We see it happening among us every day. This miraculous is evidence of a spiritual awakening."Basic Text, p. 49We watch them walk in to their first meeting defeated, their spirits broken. Their suffering is obvious, and their desire for help even more apparent. They collect a welcome chip and go back to their seats, shaken by the efforts.We see them again, and they seem a little more comfortable. They've found a sponsor and are attending meetings every night. They still won't meet our glance, but they nod their heads in recognition as we share. We notice a spark of hope in their eyes, and they smile uncertainly when we encourage them to keep coming back.A few months later, they are standing straight. They've learned how to make eye contact. They're working the steps with their sponsor and are healing as a result. We listen to them sharing at meetings. We stack chairs with them afterward.A few years later, they are speaking at a convention workshop. They've got a wond ...

Family's Day 2007-12-27 06:21:00 The Gathering in Pictures!Depression"We are no longer fighting fear, anger, guilt, self-pity, or depression."Basic Text, p. 26As addicts, many of us experience depression from time to time. When we feel depressed, we may be tempted to isolate ourselves. However, if we do this, our depression may turn to despair. We can't afford to let depression leads us back to using.Instead, we try to go about the routine of our lives. We make meeting attendance and contact with our sponsor top priorities. Sharing with others about our feelings may let us know we aren't the only ones who have been depressed in recovery. Working with a newcomer can work wonders for our own state of mind. And, most importantly, prayer and meditation can help us tap the power we need to survive depression.We practice acceptance and remember that feelings like depression will unquestionably pass in time. Rather than struggle with our feelings, we accept them and ask for the strength to walk through them.Just for today: ...

Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search 2007-12-17 23:37:00 Vote For My Journey To RecoveryThe message of our meetings"The fact that we, each and every group, focus on carrying the message provides consistency; addicts cancount on us."Basic Text, p. 64-65Tales of our antics in active addiction may be funny. Stories of our bizarre reactions to life when using may be interesting. But they tend to carry the mess more than the message. Philosophical arguments on the nature of God are fascinating. Discussions of current controversies have their place - however, it's not at an NA meeting.Those times when we grow disgusted with meetings and find ourselves complaining that "they don't know how to share" or "it was another whining session" are probably an indication that we need to take a good, hard look at how we share.What we share about how we got into recovery and how we stayed here through practicing the Twelve Steps is the real message of recovery. That's what we are all looking for when we go to a meeting. Our primary purpose is to carry the m ...

Addiction Vicious Cycle 2007-12-03 09:48:00 Vision Without Limits"Perhaps for the first time, we see a vision of our new life."Basic Text, p. 34In our addiction, our vision of ourselves was very limited. Each day, we went through the same routine: getting, using, and finding ways and means to get more. And that's all we could reasonably expect for the duration of our lives. Our potential was limited.Today, our prospects are changed. Recovery has given us a new vision of ourselves and our lives. We are no longer trapped in the endlessly gray routine of addiction. We are free to stretch ourselves in new ways, trying out new ideas and new activities. In doing so, we come to see ourselves in a new way. Our potential is limited only by the strength of the Higher Power that cares for us - and that strength has no limits.In recovery, life and everything in it appears open to us. Guided by our spiritual principles, driven by the power given us by Allah swt, our horizons are limitless.Just for today: I shall open my eyes to the possibil ...

More Will Be Revealed 2007-11-24 09:51:00 Gratefully Recovering"We entertained the thought that staying clean was not paying off, and the old thinking stirred up self-pity, resentment, and anger."Basic Text, p. 98There are days when some of us wallow in self-pity. It's easy to do. We may have expectations about how our lives should be in recovery, expectations that aren't always met. Maybe we've tried unsuccessfully to control someone, or we think our circumstances should be different. Perhaps we've compared ourselves with other recovering addicts and found ourselves lacking. The more we try to make our life conform to our expectations, the more uncomfortable we feel. Self-pity can arise from living in our expectations instead of in the world as it actually is.When the world doesn't measure up to our expectations, it's often our expectations that need adjusting, not the world. We can stand by comparing our lives today with the way they used to be, developing gratitude for our recovery. We can extend this exercise in grat ...

Drug Detox Center 2007-11-17 04:30:00 Freedom From Active Addiction!AdvertisementThrough my experiences as a drug addict, one thing that stopped me from getting help was the thought of going through the withdrawal period. The pained and the horrors of delirium tremors of a withdrawal symptoms and what it is to really suffer is indescribable.This is where Drug Detox Center, a dignified and compassionate drug and alcohol and substance abuse detox facility, also known as rehab play an important role. Their main mission is to provide a detoxification program that minimizes pain, suffering and the stifling confines of a sterile or confrontational institution. In other words, their whole mission is to make the detoxification process comfortable for those addicts who are trying to find ways to free themselves from the disease of addiction.Drug Detox Center, is also available and seen on A&E Intervention series.Their around the clock medical staff provides a liquid cocktail which is a combination of several potent medications ...

New Resolution 2007-11-15 05:27:00 From surrender to acceptance"We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us."Basic Text, p. 26Surrender and acceptance are like infatuation and love. Infatuation begins when we encounter someone special. Infatuation requires nothing but the acknowledgment of the object of our infatuation. For infatuation to become love, however, requires a great deal of effort. That initial connection must be slowly, patiently nurtured into a lasting durable bond.It's the same with surrender and acceptance. We surrender when we acknowledge our powerlessness. Slowly, we come to believe that a Power greater than ourselves can give us the care we need. Surrender turns to acceptance when we let this Power into our lives. We examine ourselves and let our God see us as we are. Having allowed the God of our understanding access to the depths of ourselves, we accept more of God's care. We ask this Power to relieve us of our shortcomings and help us amend the wrongs we've done. The ...

PayPerPostDotCom 2007-11-01 02:54:00 I signed up for PPP!I still remembered the first time I heard about payperpost. I was in a local forum in my country, Malaysia when a friend opened up a new thread telling me to review one of his posts and I shall be paid seven fifty in US Dollar! Of course I said I'm interested. If converted to RM (Ringgit Malaysia), it's equivalent to RM28.50 (that was the time when every dollar equal to RM3.80). Not bad, considering just for typing up a single post!So, on March the fourth, 2007 I signed up for payperpost. I was told that I've got to wait for at least 72 hours before payperpost's administration approved my application, but I received my confirmation email on the same day. I was impressed, they've got a very fast services. I immediately fell in love with payperpost.That was my first impressions of them last March.How could you not loved payperpost? Let me asked you another question. How would you feel sitting in a restaurant waiting for your foods that you've ordered one hour ag ...

Islamic Education 2007-10-22 22:25:00 Keeping Your PromiseSurrender"By surrendering control, we gain a far greater power."Basic Text, p. 43When we were using, we did everything we could to run things our way. We used every scheme imaginable to bring our world under control. When we got what we wanted, we felt powerful, invincible; when we didn't, we felt vulnerable, defeated. But that didn't stop us - it only led to more efforts to control and manipulate our lives into a manageable state.Scheming was our way of denying our powerlessness. As long as we could distract ourselves with our plans, we could put off accepting that we were out of control. Only gradually did we realize that our lives had become unmanageable and that all the conning and manipulating in the world was not going to put our lives back in order.When we admit our powerlessness, we stop trying to control and manage our way to a better life - we surrender. Lacking sufficient power of our own, we seek a Power greater than ourselves, needing support and guid ...

Template 2007-10-17 10:31:00 The Truth"Everything we know is subject to revision, especially what we know about the truth."Basic Text, p. 91Many of us thought we could recognize "The Truth". We believed the truth was one thing, certain and unchanging, which we could grasp easily and without question. The real truth, however, was that we often couldn't see the truth if it hit us square in the face.Our disease coloured everything in our lives, especially our perception of the truth - in fact, what we "knew" about the truth nearly killed us. Before we could begin to recognize truth, we had to switch our allegiance from our addiction to a Higher Power, the source of all that is good and true.The truth has changed as our faith in a Higher Power has grown. As we've worked the steps, our entire lives have begun to change through the healing power of the principles of recovery. In order to open the door for that change, we have had to surrender our attachment to an unchanging and rigid truth.The truth becomes purer and ...

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My Life As An Addict 2007-09-28 15:38:00 Hope"Gradually, as we become more God-centered than self-centered, our despair turns to hope."Basic Text, p.92As using addicts, despair was our relentless companion. It coloured our every waking moment. Despair was born of our experience in active addiction: No matter what measures we tried to make our lives better, we slid ever deeper into misery. Attempts we made to control our lives frequently met with failure. In a sense, our First Step admission of powerlessness was an acknowledgment of despair.Steps Two and Three lead us gradually out of that despair and into new hope, the companion of the recovering addict. Having accepted that so many of our efforts to change have failed, we come to believe that there is a Power greater than ourselves. We believe this Power can - and will - help us.We practice the Second and Third Steps as an affirmation of our hope for a better life, turning to this Power for guidance. As we come to rely more and more on a Higher Power for the management of ou ...

Blog Of The Day 2007-09-19 11:11:00 Courage To Change"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."Serenity PrayerRecovery involves change, and change means doing things differently. The problem is, many of us resist doing things differently; what we're doing may not be working, but at least we're familiar with it. It takes courage to step out into the unknown. How do we find that courage?We can look around ourselves at NA meetings. These, we see others who've found they needed to change what they were doing and who've done so successfully. Not only does that help quiet our fear that change - any change - spells disaster, it also gives us the benefit of their experience with what does work, experience we can use in changing what doesn't.We can also look at our own recovery experience. Even if that experience, so far, has been limited to stopping the use of drugs, still we have made many changes in our lives - changes f ...

Thoughtful Blogger Award 2007-09-14 14:17:00 Filling The Emptiness"...we think that if we can just get enough food, enough sex, or enough money, we'll be satisfied and everything will be alright."Basic Text, p. 77In our addiction, we could never get enough drugs, or money, or sex, or anything else. Even too much was never enough! There was a spiritual emptiness inside us. Though we tried as hard as we could to fill that emptiness ourselves, we never succeeded. In the end, we realized that we lacked the power to fill it; it would take a Power greater than ourselves to do that.So we stopped using, and we stopped trying to fill the emptiness in our gut with things. We turned to our Higher Power, asking for its care, strength, and direction. We surrendered and made way for that Power to begin the process of filling our inner void. We stopped grabbing things and started receiving the free gift of love our Higher Power had for us. Slowly, our inner emptiness was being filled.Now that we've been given our Higher Power's gift of love, ...