December 2009

Learning To Hang In There

We’ve all seen the poster of the kitty hanging off the tree limb with the caption “Hang In There Baby”. But who would have thought that this little blurb could be the foundation of a healthy spiritual life? We all have both highs and lows as our life sort of ebbs and flows through time. [...]

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Peace Of Mind Gives Me…Nothing To Write About

It’s so funny that when everything is going smoothly that I strain my brain for something to write about and usually come up short. It makes perfect sense, I write to express my feelings and problems. When my feelings are copacetic and there aren’t any major problems what am I supposed to say? I guess [...]

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Addictive Thinking: Preoccupied With Past Thoughts

You are driving in your car and for some reason in your mind you are going over something that happened in the past. You are thinking about what you could have said, should have done, would now do differently. Why are we preoccupied with past thoughts?

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Cymbalta Withdrawal Symptoms Suck

My Cymbalta dose is now down to zero and the withdrawal symptoms are brutal. I followed my doctors directions for slowly weening off Cymbalta…why are my Cymbalta withdrawal symptoms so severe?

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Merry Christmas

Just like most of us, my actively addicted self does not share much in common with my living clean self. It usually takes special occasions like the nearly here Christmas for me to realize just how much of a positive change there has been in myself. My “birthday” or “anniversary” whichever you would like to [...]

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Happy Easter…If You’re Into That Sort Of Thing

Religion is a topic that I absolutely do not discuss with strangers. I find that one side is always trying to convert the other side into thinking their way. It makes me feel uncomfortable. With that said…I wanted to wish a Happy Easter to any of you out there that celebrate the holiday. This goes [...]

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Addiction Recovery: Accept The Things I Cannot Change

There are certain things in life that we cannot change, no matter how badly it is we want to be able to. Just like the Serenity Prayer states, we hope for the serenity to accept the things we can not change. I usually look at addiction from an addicts point of view, what with being [...]

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The Second Road

I just registered for a membership on a site called The Second Road. I’ll give you the description of the site in The Second Road’s own words “We are a free non-profit online community BY and FOR people in recovery from addictions of all kinds. We welcome people of ALL stages of recovery using ANY [...]

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Mine Enemy Grows Older – No Containment

I was inspired by Bottlecappie at Diary of a Quitter to participate in Mine Enemy Grows Older which is a collaborative poetry project run by Rick Mobbs. I have never in my life written poetry but I do love art. Since the whole concept of this project is to look at an image prompt, which [...]

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Relapse: It Snuck Up On Me?

Some of you may not think that taking Benedryl to make yourself feel drowsy and fall asleep would be considered a relapse…for me it definitely was. So how did this happen?

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