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wombat wrote a new post, A Message to the Addicts of Earth 1 month, 2 weeks ago
While reading through a meeting the other day, someone’s share about hitting rock bottom piqued my interest. They had accepted it and they were grateful for it, happy to have finally ceased making the problem […]
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wombat wrote a new post, I Will Destroy This Machine 2 months, 3 weeks ago
“Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else.” (Big Book, pg. 64)
I sometimes resent my resentments. I know what they are, I know that they’re mostly irrational, and I […]-
Thank you Matt- always look forward to your writing!
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Jessica and
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wombat wrote a new post, On Gods and Dogs 5 months ago
I don’t think I’ve mentioned my best friend in this blog before.
I’m sure you don’t know her. She doesn’t speak much English and doesn’t have any troubling addictions. She isn’t in recovery as we are, she […]
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I love this article. It should be easy for us as people to be accepting of life as our beloved pets.
Love, loyalty, and trust on both sides is indeed a higher power and a beautiful thing.
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wombat wrote a new post, Everything Looks Like a Nail 5 months, 3 weeks ago
I’ve dealt with depression, among other mental health issues, for most of my life. Having been in counseling since the age of seven, I’m fairly sure that my alcoholism and drug use weren’t the root cause of this, […]
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It is amazing as an Alcoholic to read your blog!!! I am 11 years and 3 months sober!!! I am go Meeting everyday!!!: Today I found this website for the first time!!! I am learning use it, hopefully I would not be discouraged. The Oracle says: ” Know Thy Self” and you are doing that! The clarity that mental illness and addiction like Alcoholism, and Drug addiction need different approaches: This is true, I agree with you!!!: I find myself when I get too confident denying that I have a mental illness and only focusing on the 12 Step program. Thank for such an amazing Blog.
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wombat wrote a new post, The Wisdom to Know the Difference 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Like most middle-class, suburban Americans, I was raised on a healthy diet of exceptionalism. I believed, without a doubt, that my life had some greater meaning. I may have suffered humble beginnings, but I was […]
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Outstanding
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wombat wrote a new post, The Welcoming Committee 9 months, 2 weeks ago
I’ve been at this for a long time. Not as long as many others, of course, but half of my life has been spent in these rooms.
You wouldn’t know it from looking at me — well, you probably would, but let me have […]
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That gave my goosebumps; especially the last line.
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I loved this one the most- probably because I’m a newbie but also because I smiled when you said you liked to watch and learn from the newcomers- great writing!
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i am still very leery of all the happy people. and if anyone tries to hold my hand, i might puke.
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update: 101 days sober. and feeling so much better. who wants to hold my hand?
(thank you)
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Congrats on 101 days. Keep it up!
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So many people participate.
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wombat wrote a new post, That’s a Big “If” 10 months, 1 week ago
“… and I’m an alcoholic.”
It took me a long time to say those words, and even longer to mean it.
I’m not sure if alcoholics are contrarian by nature, even if we are typecast as a rowdy, incorrigible bunch. […]
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I think it works but my head is the one that don’t help so much and take to another choices and I’m having troubles tu make the right choices
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wombat wrote a new post, Forever is a Long Time 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism. Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity. Any two or three alcoholics gathered […]
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That was amazing thank you! I look forward to reading the rest.
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Love that reading!
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wombat wrote a new post, It’s Time to Leave the Capsule if You Dare 12 months ago
I’ve always looked up to astronauts, even if I consider them to be brave and foolish in equal measure.
They aren’t just tough — they’re smart, and courageous. They further the cause of science and advance the […]
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Good reading.
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wombat wrote a new post, This is fine. 1 year ago
I try not to let alcohol’s dominance of the cultural zeitgeist get to me. I used to drink socially, many moons ago, and I didn’t always abuse it. There are a lot of people out there who can drink without […]
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Another great one!
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wombat changed their profile picture 1 year ago
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wombat wrote a new post, Feeding the Donkey Spongecake 1 year ago
“He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.” (Orwell, Animal Farm)
There’s a saying in Brazil — I write this as if I’ve ever bee […] -
wombat wrote a new post, The First Day of the Rest of Your Life 1 year ago
“We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.”
Until you’re ready to make an honest attempt at recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous’ first step seems trivial. I didn’t take it […] -
wombat wrote a new post, I Am Responsible 1 year ago
“My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive.” (The Best of Bill, pg. 46)
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wombat wrote a new post, The 17-Year Itch 1 year, 1 month ago
Across the eastern United States, cicadas are beginning to free themselves from their self-induced isolation, bursting from the earth after seventeen years of hibernation. They’ve spent far too long alone, deep […]
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wombat wrote a new post, Narcissist-ism 1 year, 5 months ago
Narcissist.
One of the most overused words I hear thrown around today — outshining even “existential” and “praxis”, perhaps. In many cases, though, as it was famously said: “I do not think it means what you […]
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wombat wrote a new post, The 12 Steps of The 12 Steps 1 year, 5 months ago
Once we’ve been involved with any 12-step recovery program for a good amount of time, we start to gain confidence. We’re more familiar with the program. We feel better, our minds aren’t cloudy anymore, and AA […]
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That’s funny. Hope you don’t mind if I share this with others in the Early Birds Meeting.
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Hi billfitz here….happy sober fathers day
I think maybe you saw my share, I hit rock bottom early this year, and I had another chance at working the program even though the rock bottom was not an alchoholic relapse, it was a workoholic thing that was going on with me. I am in workholic anonymous now as a result!. If it
was not my share that you are referring to your in amazing blog then I am thankful for reading your writing!.