My Movie List

  • The Answer Man
  • Days of Wine and Roses
  • My Name is Bill W.
  • Streetcar Named Desire
  • The Secret
  • 28 Days
  • What The Bleep Do We Know

My reading List.

  • The New Codependency - Melody Beattie
  • Living Sober - Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
  • Get Up - A 12 Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks & Weirdos - Bucky Sinister
  • The 7 Principles of Succesful Recovery - The Basic Tools for Progress, Growth and Happiness- Mel B., Bill P.
  • You Can be Happy No Matter What - 5 Principles Your Therapist Never Told You About - Richard Carlson PH.D.
  • House Calls - Patch Adams M.D.
  • The Power of Now - A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment - Eckhart Tolle
  • Addictive thinking - Understanding - Self Deception - Abraham J. Twerski, M.D.
  • I Don't Want to Talk About it - The Hidden Shame of Male Depression - Terrence Real

Friday, April 9, 2010

Opening Day

Tigers won the season opener wooohooo!! 
I mentioned before that I am working on my 4th step.  It is done and I am going to formally go over it with my sponsor next week.  I would have liked to do it on April 13th at my home group in Fraser but I will be at set strike for Streetcar Named Desire that night. It is a huge set and I think it is going to be a long night.  April 13th is special for me because it will be my first 30 days of continuos sobriety!!!  I have seriously not had that many days in a row since 2006!!   My home group meeting place is symbolic as well for behind that school building is where my friend and I took our first drink together.   It was a pint of Jack Daniels and it made me very, very sick and I never touched that stuff again, but it started my love affair with getting blotto.
A note about working the steps.  Some believe you should do it really, really slow.  I have heard of working just one a year!  I personally believe it should be done as quickly as possible.  The way I  and my sponsor figure it, if you found out you had a serious fatal disease, which addiction is, you would want to start treatment right away correct?   That was how the original AA group did it too and they had a 70% success rate!   There what is calledare Back to Basics groups that go throught the steps over the course of 4 weeks. You know when you are ready, you just feel it.  I do suggest having a sponsor guide you through it though, it can be overwhelming when your head is just clearing up. 
I have also been sending out resumes, filling out applications and making phone calls to get a jobby job.  In the meantime, I am going to be cutting lawns, working for a gardener and working with my buddys wife's cleaning business.  It so good to feel useful again.!!  Thats all for now.  Have a good one!!
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  1. UnknownApril 9, 2010 at 3:25 PM

    Steve - Yeeeeeeeeeeeee Hooooooo for you and your 30 days!!!!

    I want to say I agree with you on how quickly to work through the steps (not truly knowing what they are) with the caveat that you will know when you are ready for the next step. Everyone reaches milestones at different paces, but being conscious of what you are striving for will allow you to recognize when you are reaching the milestone. If you just lackadaisically move through the program you might begin to think that the milestone will hit you when it is ready, not you will hit it when you are ready.

    I am very proud of you. Keep up the good work! If you want me to look over your resume let me know. It would be my pleasure.

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