Re: "Recovery Options for the New Year"


V wrote:
> The New Year is coming up and many of us make New Year's resolutions,
> so I'd like to take this time to awaken those in need to some options
> for recovery if you suffer from addictions as I do. I do not need to
> wait to the years end to take self survey, since doing written
> inventory work and introspection is part of my 12 step work. I started
> with 12 step programs in 1974 and am now in 8 - 12 step programs
> myself. The 12 step programs branched out from Alcoholics Anonymous and
> all operate more or less along the same principles of the 12 Steps and
> 12 Traditions of AA.
>
> A thing is addictive for me when I lose control of it and the addiction
> has control of me. Is the activity placing unreasonable demands on my
> time and energy, will it place me in legal jeopardy or endanger my
> mental, physical or spiritual health? There are more specific questions
> that each 12 step program uses in its literature that can guide you.
>
> We must remember that not having control over a certain area once in a
> a while does not make a person an addict. Even normal people drink too
> much once in a while, normal people might eat too much once in a while
> and normal people spend or have sex or spend too much once in a while.
> The difference between addicts and normal people is, normal people can
> stop when they see they have gone too far, whereas addicts cannot stop
> even under penalty of death.
>
>
> An important thing to remember with recovery is the 3-D's: Desire,
> Determination and Diligence.
>
> Desire:
>
> Desire is the foundation for all recovery quests. You cannot help
> someone without the desire in them to be helped. Desire is what gets us
> taking that first step in the right direction when all seems hopeless.
> Have you every tried to give advice or help someone in need and they
> respond: "I don't care." They lack the desire or at least this is what
> they say. Desire must come from within, you cannot force someone to
> change, they must change themselves. But, before a desire to change can
> be manifested, one must come to a "realization" that a change needs to
> occur in ones life.
>
> Determination:
>
> Determination serves two purposes here. When something is "determined"
> it is accepted as fact. We have determined that we are powerless over
> our addiction and our lives are unmanageable. We have determined we
> must abstain from certain people, places or things that we cannot
> comfortably have in our lives. We are in the process of determining a
> new set of rules on how to live. We have also determined what injuries
> we have caused and what needs to be repaired through taking personal
> inventory.
>
> Determination serves a second purpose and that is it keeps us on the
> long road to recovery. We cannot keep on this long road without being
> determined to change our lives day in day out. Whether it is debt
> recovery, clutter, restructuring our complex lives or losing weight it
> all takes time and determination to stay on the path of recovery. Many
> distractions, detours and set backs along the way, but we should always
> be determined to keep pointed in the direction of recovery.
>
>
> Diligence:
>
> Diligence keeps us from going backwards once we finally arrive at the
> recovery place we are aiming for. It takes diligence once we get to
> where we want to be to maintain that serene spot, otherwise we fall
> back on our old "natural" ways of living. Once you get sober and
> abstinent from your drug of choice, once you lose the fat, once you pay
> off your debts, once you clean up the clutter, it takes diligence to
> keep you that way.
>
>
> Most of the following 12 Step programs are on the web via a search.
>
> ADD / ADHD Anonymous
> Adult Children of Alcoholics
> Alcoholics Anonymous
> Al-Anon & Ala-Teen
> Arts Anonymous
> BODA (Business Owners DA)
> Cancer Anonymous
> Clutterers Anonymous
> Co-Anon
> Cocaine Anonymous
> Co-Dependents of Sex Addicts
> CODA (Codependents Anon)
> Compulsive Eaters Anonymous / H.O.W.
> Computer Addicts Anonymous
> Couples Anonymous
> Crystal Meth Anonymous
> Debtors Anonymous
> Divorce Anonymous
> Dual Recovery Anonymous
> Emotions Anonymous
> Emotional Health Anonymous
> Families Anonymous
> Fear Of Success Anonymous
> Food Addict Anonymous
> Gam-Anon
> Gamblers Anonymous
> Herpes Anonymous
> He-She Anonymous
> HIV Anonymous
> Incest Survivors Anonymous
> Jews in Recovery
> Lesbians Anonymous
> Marijuana Anonymous
> Manic Depressive Anonymous
> Messies Anonymous
> Money Anonymous
> Nar-Anon Family Groups
> Narcotics Anonymous NA
> Nicotine Anonymous meetings
> Nine Step Pagans (I won't discriminate even if they only use 9 steps.)
> Overachievers Anonymous
> Overeaters Anonymous
> Obsessive Compulsive Anonymous
> Parents Anonymous
> Pills Anonymous
> Procrastinators Anonymous
> Rageaholics Anonymous
> Recoveries Anonymous
> Trauma Anonymous
> Twelve Steps for Pagans
> S-Anon
> Sex Addicts Anonymous
> Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous
> Sexaholics Anonymous
> Sexual Compulsives Anonymous
> Spenders Anonymous
> Survivors of Incest Anonymous
> Vulgarity Anonymous
> Vulganon
> Workaholics Anonymous
>
>
> Wishing You All a Healthy and Peaceful New Year,
>
>
>
>
> V (Male)
>
> A Christian-Buddhist practitioner living a life of Voluntary Simplicity
> and grateful recovering Debtor, Drug, Alcohol and Substance Abuser,
> Compulsive Overeater, Clutterer, Hoarder, Rageaholic, Speculative
> Gambler, Compulsive Spender, Sex and Sensation Addict.

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