Gratitude – July 16

I am grateful to be sober every day, but the last couple of days has me thinking about it a lot more than I usually do.  Austin and I have some friends, a married couple, that we know through the program.  They are both early in sobriety, and trying to start a new life of …

Healthy Habit #1 – A Month of Prayer

In my last post I talked about starting new, healthy habits instead of making new year's resolutions that I knew I would not keep.  I realized that adding healthy habits into my life would take a change of perspective about the whole clean-slate, positive-change thinking that comes along every January 1st, because when it comes …

The difference that made all the difference

"Get it together, DeLoe!" That's what I used to tell myself.  A lot.  I've thought it in my head, whispered it quietly, yelled it out in anger, mumbled it through tears, cried it out in frustration.  Whenever I had an overwhelming emotion, that was my mantra.  Fear, anger, anxiety, sadness, grief.  They all got the …

Grace…even for me.

I recently read somewhere that recovery is one of the greatest examples of grace.  I have found that to be so true.  As a matter of fact, I don't think that I even knew, much less understood or felt, what grace was before I made my first attempts at recovery. When I started trying to …