~ LIVING CLEAN ~

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

Ben Okri LIVING CLEAN https://www.minds.com/group/1165910758624018432/feed

October 05, 2024 Powerlessness, Step One, and Tradition Five Page 288 "The First Step of Narcotics Anonymous is unique. Rather than addressing a single symptom or substance, we admit our powerlessness over the disease that drives us." Guiding Principles, Tradition Five, "For...See more

October 04, 2024 Hope and a New Way Forward Page 287 "Hope begins when we think that it might be possible for us to stop using against our own will and stay clean." Living Clean, Chapter 7, "Living Our Principles" By the time many of us show up to our first meeting, we have...See more

October 03, 2024 Losing self-will Page 289 "Our egos, once so large and dominant, now take a back seat because we are in harmony with a loving God. We find that we lead richer, happier, and much fuller lives when we lose self-will." Basic Text, p. 105 Addiction and self-will...See more

October 02, 2024 Keeping faith Page 288 "We grasp the limitless strength provided for us through our daily prayer and surrender as long as we keep faith and renew it." Basic Text, p. 46 There are two parts to recovery: getting clean, and staying clean. Getting clean is...See more

October 01, 2024 Not just a motivation for growth Page 287 "We learn that pain can be a motivating factor in recovery." Basic Text, p. 30 "Pain--who needs it!" we think whenever we're in it. We see no good purpose for pain. It seems to be a pointless exercise in suffering. If...See more

September 30, 2024 Being ourselves Page 284 "Our real value is in being ourselves." Basic Text, p. 105 Over and over, we have tried to live up to the expectations of those around us. We may have been raised believing that we were okay if we earned good grades in school,...See more

September 29, 2024 Just for today Page 283 "When we stop living in the here and now, our problems become magnified unreasonably." Basic Text, p. 99 "Just for today"--it's a comforting thought. If we try to live in the past, we may find ourselves torn by painful, disquieting...See more

September 28, 2024 Hope Page 282 "Gradually, as we become more God-centered than self centered, our despair turns to hope." Basic Text, p. 95 As using addicts, despair was our relentless companion. It colored our every waking moment. Despair was born of our experience in...See more

September 27, 2024 Vigilance and the Path of Recovery Page 279 "We can get stuck in patterns so quickly. Vigilance is necessary to keep old patterns from resurfacing." Living Clean, Chapter 2, "Connection to Ourselves" We used to get utterly stuck, didn't we? We were caught up...See more

September 26, 2024 Seeing ourselves in others Page 280 "It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another." Basic Text, p. 38 How easy it is to point out the faults of others! There's a reason for this: The defects we identify most easily in others are often the...See more