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Poor me.....Poor me...... Pour me a drink! It's the "first" drink that gets you drunk It's the first cookie that starts a binge
One alcoholic talking to another........ Do it sober Every recovery from addiction began with one sober/abstinent Minute The first step is the only step a person can work perfectly you are not required to like it, you're only required to DO IT Your 12 step program will work if you want it to work/work it
Keep coming back Nothing is so bad, using won't make it worse Most folks commit suicide with a knife and fork (Eating disorders) First we stayed sober because we have to... then we stay sober because we are willing to.... finally we stay sober because we want to... One is too many and hundred not enough
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The Twelve Steps
Twelve Steps
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol/drugs/food/gambling/other people/addictive behaviors (etc) and that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
SLOGANS
Alcoholics Anonymous Slogans
AA formally uses these Simple Slogans to assist members to recover during difficult periods.
- Easy Does It
- First Things First
- Live and let Live
- Think......Think.......Think
- One Day At a Time
- But for the Grace of God
- Principles before Personalities
Al-Anon Family Groups Slogans
Al-Anon formally uses the above AA Slogans as well as these slogans to assist members to recover during difficult periods.
- Let go and let God
- This too shall pass
- Let it begin with me
- Just for today
- Courage to change
Overeaters Anonymous Slogans
- Put down the fork
- Nothing tastes as good as abstinence
- Abstinence is the most important thing in my life
Gamblers Anonymous Slogans
- Stay away from the first bet
- One day at a Time
- Don't gamble for Today
- Get to Meetings
- Turn it Over
Reality Checks
Reality Checks
- Where ever you go .......there you are
- You are not alone
- Stay sober/clean/abstinent for yourself
- Look for similarities rather than differences
- Remember your last drunk, use, bet etc
- Addiction is incurable, progressive, and fatal
- It takes time to get better
- Depression is anger turned inward
- Control is limited to my own behavior, my own attitudes
- The flip side to forgiveness is resentments
- The elevator is broken-------use the 'steps'
- It isn't the load that weighs us down------it's the way we carry it
- If I think, I won't drink. If I drink, I can't think
- Sick and tired of being sick and tired
- This is a selfish program
- I drank, ate, gambled, etc: too much---too often---too long
- Minds are like parachutes----they won't work unless they're open
- When your head begins to swell your mind stops growing
- A journey of a 1,000 miles begins with the first step
- When a person tries to control their addiction they have already lost control
Staying Abstinent
Staying Abstinent
If you want to drink-----that is your business, if you want to quit-------that is our business
Don't compare---identify, don't intellectualize----utilize
Stay away from the First Drink, Drug, Bet, bite (apply your specific addiction here)
Try not place conditions on your sobriety/abstinence
Bring the body and the mind will follow
We all have another drunk/binge left in us but we don't know if we have another recovery in us
Be as enthusiastic about recovery as you were about your addiction
3 comments:
Wow! Such a disturbing picture! I hope it helps. Sometimes the most disturbing ones are the most therapeutic. I hope you're doing ok.
I know how hard it is both mentally and physically to have to drudge all the past up again, but for me, it's definitely been worth it.
To me, the hardest part of abuse has been the mental part, but then I've never had to be taken to the emergency room. Nevertheless, it seems that part [the humiliation] lasts for years, while the bruises heal within days or weeks. And then, the mental part ends out affecting you again physically years later.
Self esteem seems so hard to rebuild once someone has torn it down. You think you've finally got it put back together, and then you realize there are a few pieces missing. Therapy has helped me find some of those pieces, but getting them put back into their places is not easy. Especially when there are people around you, who unwittingly keep saying things that tear it down again. It's easy to do, because until those pieces can get put back into their places, you're left vulnerable, exposed, and very sensitive to the things other people say. That's why it's so hard to be around my family right now.
This picture goes very well with your poem "Can of Worms". I hope everything's ok.
Thanks for all this. It depends on how you define OK.
I went to the therapist hoping to work on whatever issues might be contributing to my current insomnia and overweight.
But of course, talking about it hurts and stirs of shame and pain--ugh--embarrassing.
It's too bad you can't somehow take a little break from your family. Not a permanent one, just a temporary break.
My self-esteem is NOT very good.
One of the things they say in twelve step groups is that what other people think of me is none of my business. I have a really hard time with that.
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