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  • You may think that there are a thousand different things being done in recovery, really there's just a thousand different ways of saying a few simple things. 


acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon



  • Slogans are wisdom written in shorthand and Acronyms are just the sum/the Virtues, of all that wisdom: WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives 



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I recognize that I access recovery services and support from a place of privilege. I self-identify as a white, cisgender, hetero, able-bodied, educated, feminist woman in recovery. I'm also Canadian, which means that in addition to being incredibly polite (you are probably familiar with the stereotype), I have access to health care and a supportive social safety net. My nationality is another form of privilege. Over the years, I have been the recipient of welfare, free addiction treatment (though that's not much of a thing in Canada anymore), and excellent universal medical care to get me through a range of health care crises, including addiction, depressive and anxiety disorders, and cancer. 


Recognizing privilege does not place any blame on me as a recipient. But recognizing it means that when I view others who are not as privileged as I am, but who are facing similar challenges as I have, I understand that they are likely also facing additional challenges that I haven't. If those of us who are able to do so offer more help—or even remove barriers to accessing help—we can make a big difference in the lives of other women seeking recovery.


The first step is admitting my privilege—what comes next is up to me.


Spiritual principle a day: With Independence Comes Responsibility

Page 222


"Learning to make decisions for ourselves also means accepting responsibility for those decisions."


Living Clean, Chapter 6, "Finding Our Place in the World"


We aren't alone, and we can't recover alone. But our commitment to mutual support doesn't negate our independence or the responsibility that attaining it--and sustaining it--demands. Even with all the apt suggestions we provide each other, our decisions about how we live are our own. And learning to live with those choices is its own beast!


Some members define responsibility as the willingness to accept the consequences of our actions. Even clean, we have to keep learning the lesson that our choices aren't made in a vacuum. They affect those around us. When we find ourselves thinking once again, I'm only hurting myself, it's time for a closer look. We may want to exercise freedom of choice with more awareness and care.


And other members say, "Careful what you pray for--you just might get it." Often when we do get what we want, it's a whole other world of responsibility that is ours to manage. A romantic partnership, getting our kids back, a career, property, a new puppy--all of these are gifts we must care for in order to sustain. "We keep what we have only with vigilance"--and also with commitment, discipline, patience, acceptance, passion, and a lot of love.


Another aspect of taking responsibility for our independence is when, inevitably, we are faced with other people's opinions about a new direction we choose. At times that "I told you so" reaction we get makes us defensively dig ourselves further into a bad choice--or someone else's response spurs us to run from a good one. Blaming others gets us nowhere. Practicing independence requires an honest assessment of our choices in the face of others' reactions. We've also heard members say, "The more I make new mistakes rather than repeating old ones, the more I know I'm making headway in my life."


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I'm doing the best I can at living fully and owning my independence. I can live with my choices, and, if not, I can make different ones!



Keep It Simple: . . . and because willing to make amends to them all.---Second half of Step Eight. 

  1. We have made our list of persons we've harmed. Now we look at how willing we are to make amends.  We might find that we aren't ready and willing to make amends to everyone. Maybe they have wronged  us more than we have wronged them. Maybe we're afraid they'll get angry with us. Maybe we're afraid  they'll put us in jail. 

  2. We get ready to make amends by listening and talking to others in our group---and to our sponsor. We  pray for help to be willing to make amends. 

  3. Becoming willing does not just happen. 

  4. We have to work at it. We need to be willing to let go of the past. 

  5. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me become willing. Help me see my part. I know "my part" is the  only part I can change. 

  6. Action for the Day: I will take time to go over my list. To whom am I not ready to make amends? I will take time to read the Serenity Prayer. 

NA Just For Today: Practicing Honesty 

  1. "When we feel trapped or pressured, it takes great spiritual and emotional strength to be honest." Basic Text, p.81 

  2. Many of us try to wiggle out of a difficult spot by being dishonest, only to have to humble ourselves later  and tell the truth. Some of us twist our stories as a matter of course, even when we could just as easily tell  the plain truth. Every time we try to avoid being honest, it backfires on us. Honesty may be  uncomfortable, but the trouble we have to endure when we are dishonest is usually far worse than the  discomfort of telling the truth. 

  3. Honesty is one of the fundamental principles of recovery. We apply this principle right from the  beginning of our recovery when we finally admit our powerlessness and unmanageability. We continue to  apply the principle of honesty each time we are faced with the option of either living in fantasy or living  life on its own terms. Learning to be honest isn't always easy, especially after the covering up and  deception so many of us practiced in our addiction. Our voices may shake as we test our newfound  honesty. But before long, the sound of the truth coming from our own mouths settles any doubts: Honesty  feels good! It's easier living the truth than living a lie.

  4. Just for today: I will honestly embrace life, with all its pressures and demands. I will practice honesty,  even when it is awkward to do so. Honesty will help, not hurt, my efforts to live clean and recover. 

  5. pg. 224 

Daily Reflections: WE BECOME WILLING. . . . . 

  1. At the moment we are trying to put our lives in order. But this is not an end in itself. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS , p. 77 

  2. How easily I can become misdirected in approaching the Eighth Step! I wish to be free, somehow  transformed by my Sixth and Seventh Step work. Now, more than ever, I am vulnerable to my own self interest and hidden agenda. I am careful to remember that self-satisfaction, which sometimes comes  through the spoken forgiveness of those I have harmed, is not my true objective. I become willing to  make amends, knowing that through this process I am mended and made fit to move forward, to know  and desire God's will for me. 



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