AA relationships
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Wow what an incredible line up of speakers last weekend. I’d forgotten how powerful a huge group of drunks can be while listening to incredible stories of recovery. As Charlie Y. said to me outside “These things are a real shot in the arm to your recovery, but sometimes by Tuesday its right back to…
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Getting laid, or jerking off, now that sounds at least moderately enjoyable… but being laid off, just blows. In sobriety I’ve now been laid off three times in less than 3 years. This never happened to me when I was out there drinking and drugging. Now mind you there are some details I’m leaving out.…
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Outside of getting sober, the darkest nights of my life were after I got divorced. There is just something so breathtakingly horrible about losing your family. For so long they had been everything I’d lived for, fought for, breathed for, and then one day, they are gone, and it’s just an entirely different bleak world.…
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“Nothing to tell now Let the words be yours, I’m done with mine” By John Perry Barlow with Bob Weir Recorded on Ace (Warner Brothers, 1972) Cora, Wyoming February, 1972 I go months and months without thinking about certain things, including the grateful dead, and then in a wave and a rush, I’ll remember how…
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Woke up thinking about work again, it’s been an amazing few months with our software going into almost every major nightclub and dozens of great restaurants throughout Atlanta, and I’ve hired three sales folks, and I’m just amped still. We release on iphone very soon, and the anticipation to see how everything all works is…
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What a long, long weekend. Sobriety is filled with firsts. Whenever I’ve begun to feel comfortable and well rounded in this program, seems like I always find a new challenge to face, a new layer of the onion to peel and learn somehow to yet again grow a bit. I’m a VP of Sales for…
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Ego Rape Land soft again into my arms, Deny the duplicity, deception of charms. Awaken the truth, the light and the way, Set aside the pettiness, and seize the dying day. Time slides by in endless waves, Yesterdays tombs, flooded crypts and caves. Regrets forever sealed, mistakes piled on tragedies, Against the grain we raged,…
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Temporary Empty Should that teardrop reverberate in the emptiness? Would that spark ignite the void? For that which felt like loneliness, Was preparation for this noise. Explosions need space to expand, Love was never lost, just reorganizing. Exponential tidal wave, emotional reprimand: Be it real and true, Then patience will allow it growth, No jealousy…
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Just like with alcohol, just like with drugs, just like with nicotine, destructive one sided relationships are just a bad habit I absolutely must rid myself of to be truly free. My mind tells me I can’t be happy without it, just like it lied to me about drinking, drugs, and cigarettes, but the truth…
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Wow, even my stepdad was impressed I was able to get on newstalk1160 this Saturday and Sunday from noon to one. Too bad my stats show that the only blog of mine being read is the one about Anthony Kiedis and Johnny Delirious, haha, or perhaps I’d be doing a little better job of promoting…
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