Control

I just can't do it!

I have a growing acceptance that I will never succeed in keeping all aspects of my life in control. There are just too many other people and too many circumstances that keep thwarting my efforts to maintain...

Why why doesn't work

An alcoholic with 30+ years of recovery gently and laughingly informed me, that "why questions" don't help. This is because all why questions are management questions and, in recovery, I am no longer "in...

An end to finger pointing

Prior to joining SA, I was not satisfied with life; something was missing; I was not happy. I pointed my finger at everything else in life as the cause of my inner misery and my wife was my favourite target. If...

Fighting my addict?

In my early contact with the SA program, I used to talk about "the addict" as if that was some other entity that I could fight, struggle with and eventually gain control over. I have since stopped thinking and...

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