Promises, Promises

The 9th Step Promises of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous say: If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the …

Telling my story

One of the really great things about Arizona is that in just a few hours you can go from this: To this: That's what we did this weekend.  We spent the last two days up near Payson, Arizona attending the annual Payson Round-up.  It's a huge camping trip that is organized by a local Payson …

Gratitude – July 5

After just a few days of sharing my gratitude here, I have to say that I think this might be my favorite Healthy Habit so far.  All throughout the day I am conscious of the things for which I'm grateful.  It is often little things, like taking an early nap today, helping my husband make pies …

Came to believe…

Step Two of the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous says: "Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." As I go through the steps again with my sponsor, I am currently working on step two.  This step asks us to consider two things:  1) trusting that there is something …

Making Prayer a Habit – Healthy Habit #1

February is here, so it is time for me to give you all an update on Healthy Habit #1 - Prayer.  As I wrote in my last post, I made a commitment to praying out loud each morning with my husband using our prayer beads.  My hope was that our daily prayer would become a …

Living in a ghost town (Part 3)

Wow.  I can't believe how long I have waited to write this post!  It's been over 3 weeks since I wrote Part 2, which was about my daughter.  Writing that post brought up a lot of sadness and grief.  That, coupled with long hours at work for the past few weeks, forced me to take …

Keeping the Faith

Today's AA meeting was much better than the one last week.  I wrote about the drama last week when an old-timer told a newcomer to shut the fuck up during his emotional share.  (Update:  I haven't seen that newcomer all week.  I hope that only means that he has chosen to go to different meetings …