Three Rs for Recovery
Here’s cool little ditty: My Three Rs for Recovery. Here’s an excerpt:
R is for Remembering
The strongest antidote to fantasies about “how nice it would be if I could x or y or z” (plug in your addictive behaviors), is to remember the destruction those behaviors caused. That means remembering the bad parts (there are plenty) [...]
Addiction Rehabilitation: We Don’t Have a Way to Accept That
A Quick Story:
Several years ago I checked out a book at the library about bicycle repair. At the time I was in graduate school and a bicycle was my main form of transportation, so basic maintenance and repair skills were needed.
Well, someone stole that book. Being responsible for it, I went online and ordered [...]
Addiction Rehabilitation: Pull Up the Bootstraps
I’ve never understood the phrase pull yourself up by the bootstraps. Did it ever occur to whomever created that phrase that someone else killed the cow to make the leather. Someone else wove the thread, made the soles, inserted the grommets, laced the shoes, packaged it, promoted it, shipped it, received it, shelved it, helped [...]
Everything About Recovery Can Be Learned From Fly-Fishing
The Dam. Damn!
Once dad took two friends and me fishing down to a place called Miller’s Ferry. It’s in Wilcox County near Camden, Alabama. The official name is the William “Bill” Dannelly Reservoir. We’ve always called it Miller’s Ferry. It’s a good place for 30 pound catfish, as well as drum and stripers if they’re [...]
Addiction Rehabilitation: Rough Experience Help Addicts
It never amazes me how often you see broken and beaten people rise from the ashes to help others in the same ways they’ve been helped. As a pastor friend of mine says, “You misery is your ministry.” There’s more to life than mistakes and poor choices.
Here’s an expert from The Providence article:
Marshall Smith may [...]
A Few Steps, A Mundane Plan
You may have read in previous posts and may have seen in various screen capture videos that I don’t put too much stress on steps and plans as guarantees of success like words sent down from Mount Sinai that the sun will rise tomorrow, yet sometimes a few steps can help clarify life. (Also, I’m [...]