#1 Show Up
by
Always Carol
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
Just claiming my page. A point was made in a meeting this week about the importance of keeping routines. I'm a pretty random type so that does not instinctively make sense ...
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'We Seek Our Own Coma'
by
Always Carol
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
That's a quote from Chuck Palahniuk's new book called Diary. I know I do, that is, seek my own coma, I don't live my own life so much as weather it. Chuck wrote Fight Club ...
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11 Months
by
Always Carol
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
Tomorrow I will pick up a chip. What I have been thinking about lately is that I'm becoming a member of some families. There is a gathering on Memorial Day Sunday that I wo ...
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11th Step
by
Always Carol
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
Things are working out well. I did not feel spiritually fed by my ministry class and withdrew from it a few weeks back. That really opened me up to do other things which are ...
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11th Step
by
Always Carol
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
We were reading from Melody Beattie in our little (after the meeting) step meeting. I've experimented a bit over the decades with meditation, less with prayer. I used to do ...
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2 Things
by
Always Carol
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
1) I was thrilled to hear more details today from a member of one of my groups. She has been working on a book for the last year and it is being published, I am so pleased f ...
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200 Posts
by
Always Carol
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
Whoopee, a birthday of sorts! Got on my computer early thinking that I would resume re-writes on my novel. I resist putting novel in quotes because of my coda-ish need to de ...
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80% of the Work
by
Always Carol
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
It occurs to me as I was reading 'Letting Go' blog that so much of life's work is showing up. When I go to exercise, I have to go with the expectation that I will take my po ...
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A Clearer Head
by
Always Carol
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
Had a wonderful trip. Saw it with different eyes courtesy of being a recovering person further down the road. Came home ready to purge a few more things out of my life. Some o ...
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A Couple Groovy Things
by
Always Carol
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
1) The BEST news over the wknd is that the dastardly computer company is going to refund my money instead of make me accept a replacement. I am sososo happy to put that behind ...
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A Drinking Buddy
by
Always Carol
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
Conversation today reminded me of someone who spoke up at a workshop at the International Alanon Convention two summers ago in Pittsburgh. He was a gentleman, sixty-ish, wh ...
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A Few Things
by
Always Carol
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
Those of you in Alanon (and those of you who should be!) will understand how hard it is to stand by while someone goes through their own pain. Well, to be honest, it may be ...
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A Little Gratitude
by
Always Carol
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
Just feeling grateful that I started the blog. I didn't particularly do it to 'grow my program' and yet I feel that it has benefited me. Somehow it has made me think things ...
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