November 4 Chp 73 v 21 v 22 TWELVE STEPPING WITH STRENGTH FROM THE PSALMS

Then I realized my heart was bitter , and I was all torn up inside .I was so foolish and ignorant - I must have seemed like a senseless animal to you .

Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable.

This was my bottom ! Bitter Broken and battered is where my life left me . This is where a lot of you are now ! Most are medicating cause they are all torn up inside . Like a senseless animal they are emotionless due to the heavy medicating they administer on the daily . Medicating the pain and running from feeling does not fix it or make it go away. Caged is where you will remain until you over medicate or your hauled off to a jail cell to add more to your life of misery. Man up and deal with it ! Expose it so it cannot keep  holding on to you .Discuss it , hash it out , and cry a river but get it out before it takes you out. 

1 Peter 5:9-10 Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace,who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

By Joseph Dickerson

Best of the Week: October 25–31

COMING UP IN THE FIX// Percy Menzies, Vivitrol Activist * Housing for the Sober Transgender Community * Interview with Jack Kornfield * Drug Smuggling in Prison* Hypocrisy of Smoking * Juliet Abrams Interviews Stephanie Covington about Sexism and AA * PLUS: Other incisive articles

	HELPING MOMS// Pregnancy and Addiction Treatment The number of pregnant women who receive treatment for substance abuse is shockingly low, but options do exist. By Jeanene Swanson
	LEGAL TROUBLE// K2: A Dangerous Peak to Climb The stuff is available not just in head shops where drug paraphernalia is sold, but even in gas stations. So what could be the harm? By Daniel Genis
	MENTAL HEALTH// Two Bipolar Chicks Wendy K. Williamson and Honora Rose talk mental illness, drug addiction and their new book. By McCarton Ackerman
	RECOVERY 2.0// The Next Phase in Recovery—The Tommy Rosen Solution Tommy Rosen—architect of Recovery 2.0—on his own recovery, drug laws, recovery modes and how yoga can save your life in The Fix Q&A. By The Fix staff
	ON TV// Recovery with a Laugh-Track Chuck Lorre and Gemma Baker on the story behind their recovery themed sitcom Mom. By Malina Saval

 

BEST OF THE QUICK FIX UK Study Finds Punitive Drug Laws Don't Reduce Drug Use Kentucky Teens Impacted By Drug Abuse Eligible For College Scholarship Lena Dunham Humorously Bares Her Dark Past in New Memoir

British Teen Petitions Government to Tackle 'Thinspiration' Blogs Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death Contributing to Greater Naloxone Access Dutch Study Claims Creativity Not Improved By Smoking Weed

COMMENT OF THE WEEK

Mom On TV This week, Malina Saval examined CBS' sober sitcomMom. Many readers who had a bone to pick with AA were skeptical about how the program would be portrayed:

I would be interested to see how AA is painted in this. I suspect it will be viewed through rose tinted glasses. How about an episode where she gets hit on by an older member who offers to teach her how to have sober sex? Or one where she expresses doubt about the religious nature of the program and is advised in the resultant cross sharing that her best thinking got her there and she should stop asking questions? I think I could write a whole season actually. Are they looking for writers) -AnotherPaul

RIR Music & Art Festival - February 14, 2015

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November 2 Chp 91 v 6 TWELVE STEPPING WITH STRENGTH FROM THE PSALMS

Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness ,nor the disaster that strikes at midday. 

STEP 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.

Like a shark lurking in the darkness is what my addiction was. I can never forget who I am in God and the dark waters he pulled me out of. There are days when my heart is wounded and it bleeds ,that blood causes the sharks to swarm . If I am not careful I would be devoured by a disaster that strikes at midday . That injury received is not worth jumping back into the dark waters and swimming with sharks. I can gracefully walk along the shores confident and unafraid of the those sharks stalking in the darkness as long as I keep my eyes on Him and not them.

Matthew 14 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. (v. 28)

And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. (v. 29)

But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. (v. 30)

And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?(v. 31)

By Joseph Dickerson

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