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3 Ways Sober Living Can Save Your Life

I am writing this during the Covid-19 Pandemic. In our lifetimes, truly one of the most devastating and difficult times we have experienced. I can’t imagine what it must have been like a mere 100 years ago with the Spanish Flu killing 50 million people around the planet and coming on the end of the…

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Letting Go With Forgiveness

The relief that is expressed by those who truly do a difficult amends is astonishing. All amends are warrior worthy but the one or two that really make you sweat and challenge you to deflate your ego are the character builders. These are the amends that we are not really sure how they are going…

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6 Steps That Can Change Your Life

Step 1:  Pre-contemplation At this point you haven’t haven’t yet decided to make a change. You know there are benefits to making the change in your life but you aren’t quite convinced the benefits outweigh the trouble of getting started. This isn’t a step where you can just so, “just do it” there needs to be some…

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The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the Serenity To accept the things I cannot change; The Courage to change the things I can; And the Wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time;  

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4 Stages of Trauma

Who Hasn’t Experienced Trauma In Their Life? I have heard this statement a lot lately.  In fact it has come up in a variety of different social groups.  In other words not just people in recovery but in social settings where recovery is very mysterious, if you know what I mean. I took it as…

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Who Did You Help Today?

A great question.  If you are in recovery, you should be asking yourself this everyday.   I believe everyone on the planet should ask themselves this question everyday, but who am I.   In our world though, the world of long term recovery, it is the ultimate question.  The answer will give a huge clue as to where our…

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Four Root Causes of Negative Emotions

Negative emotions, fear, self-pity, envy, jealousy and anger hold us back, tie us down and suck the joy out of life.  So how do we fight these joy killers?  We have to get to the root causes.  What are the root causes?  These emotions cost us more then joy, they can literally kill the alcoholic…

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Sober Life Focus

Life works much better with direction.  Direction comes through setting and attaining goals.  When we start to gain sobriety in our lives we can finally start to experience setting and attaining some goals.  We don't want to get to far ahead of ourselves and get into overwhelm but setting some attainable goals is healthy and…

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How Gratitude Can Heal From The Inside Out

Gratitude Heals From The Inside Out We spend a great deal of time thinking about ourselves.  We are all we think about.  It doesn't matter whether you are and addict or not.  We live in a selfish world, climbing over each other to get to the next shiny object and when we reach it, it's…

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Atlanta Recovery Residences – Are You Willing To Continue The Fight?

The phone rings or whatever a phone does these days and since the number has an odd area code chances are it is another potential client wanting some information about our Atlanta Recover Solutions.  The calls come daily now into our Atlanta based Sober Accountability Program.  The stories unfold with errie similarities, filled with desperation…

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