http://journeytoserenity.forumco.com/JOURNEY TO SERENITY FORUMShttp://journeytoserenity.forumco.com/rss.gifhttp://journeytoserenity.cjb.nethttp://journeytoserenity.forumco.com/rss.gif8637Debbie S.http://journeytoserenity.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=144810Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:06:13 +0100
I love sobriety!!!!!]]>Honeyaahttp://journeytoserenity.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=144710Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:54:41 +0100]]>Honeyaahttp://journeytoserenity.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=144610Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:44:36 +0100]]>juliesmithhttp://journeytoserenity.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=144510Wed, 1 Nov 2006 06:40:54 +0100http://www.drugrehabhelp.org/alchoholism_treatment.html), but then it's obvious it isn't enough. I also tried to get a membership in Alcoholics Anonymous, but I don't know who to approach. Can someone help me out on this?]]>Nayeli46244http://journeytoserenity.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=144410Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:45:06 +0100




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AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K.]]>bluidkitihttp://journeytoserenity.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=144310Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:34:26 +0100http://www.cyberrecovery.net/forums/

AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K.]]>Guilty Sparkhttp://journeytoserenity.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=144210Tue, 30 May 2006 01:42:56 +0100I've got over 7 years clean and sober. I moved across the country (U.S.) 3 years ago, leaving all my friends (who were all in recovery) and since I've been here, I've become increasingly complacent. My meeting attendance has dropped to about once a month (if that) and I've not talked to a sponsor in over 2 years. I've been working on my 7th step now for about 4 years (which probably isn't the best step to stall on). Basically, every aspect of my recovery has been completely stalled. I hardly ever even think about recovery anymore until times like this when life knocks on the door and I begin to feel pain again.

It's been creeping up on me for some time now and yesterday I snapped at work and started throwing **** around because work wasn't going my way and today I got rejected from a relationship that I've tried to rush into as if it's going to solve my problems and now I'm sitting here hurting again.

The worse thing is that this has become a vicious cycle. For the past 3 years: I'll stop going to meetings (and, consequently, everything else in recovery), feel pain, go back to meetings, whine, feel better, and then stop going to meetings. I get tired of going back to the meetings and whining because I...well...because of fear and pride most likely. I hate going back again and telling the same story I've told before. I feel like such a faker because I know this cycle will happen again and that the people around the tables will watch me dissappear once again, only to reappear when life kicks my ass again.

What is the answer to complacency? I don't know. I don't have the answer. I just know that I'm on a downward spiral and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it. I've heard it said that complacency is the killer of old-timers and I believe it because I've been around long enough to see it kill off a few. And now here I am, one of the complacent guys with time and I keep wondering how many more of these cycles I've got before it kills me.

I'm not really looking for an answer here. Well, that might not be entirely true. Truthfully, I don't know what I'm looking for. I just pray that I find the perseverance or serenity or humility or whatever it is that I need to get me out of this complacent cycle I'm in. Maybe I need to stop seeking the answer like it's a drug instead of the spiritual process that it is.

I guess I'm grateful I'm still clean because I'm just as close to relapse as anyone here.]]>alli30http://journeytoserenity.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=144110Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:11:47 +0100
I have 5 daughters who range in age from 14-8 who my parents have custody of since they were really small, no court battle I wasn't in any shape to take care of them when I divorced their dad and thank god my parents were there. I have done so many of the people I love wrong and I am very ashamed of my past and I am in the process of paying my parents back and truely trying to stay straight.

On the flip side of my situation with my kids, the guy that I am living with went through a long custody battle for his daughter and has had custody of her for 2 years. I love her like she was my own. She had serious behavior problems which goes back to the way she was raised for the first 8 years, she is now 10 and is a master manipulator, plays on her moms side when she is there and then comes home and plays her dad. SHe refuses to do homework and throws the worst temper tantrums imaginable. She told her dad two weeks ago that she thought they would do better if it was just them to again she is always seeking attention even if it's the bad kind. I have loved this little girl for the entire to years and really tried to help her with schoolwork and learn responsibilities yet she fights me all the way and the great times that we go out and do something together always end up not being enough. Even her dad said that I don't send enough quality time with her yet the quality time we do spend together are followed by days of lying throwing 2 year old fits and it makes me so upset. My girls live one road over from me and we spend great time together and I reward them for good grades talk with them on the phone everyday but they have punshments also that are inforced to where my friends little girl doesn't understand that you get respect when you show respect. Anyway I know that I have went on and on but goodness it's driving me insane. Anybody have any suggestions about help in dealing with an out of control almost step daughter looking for answers not ready to give up.

Thanks for listening and I will be back, I definitely need all the support I can get and would love to be able to help others to maybe not make some of the bad decisions that I have made in my life. Plan to put my story also and look forward to meeting some of you all.
Alli
Looking hard for serenity!!!!!!!!]]>bluidkitihttp://journeytoserenity.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=144010Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:58:10 +0100http://www.christianrecoveryministries.com/forums/

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AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K.]]>