Show me the way to my spirit
I have had this ditty running around in my head for a number of years and I thought I would share it with all my readers in recovery.
Its to the tune of Show Me The Way To Go Home.
Show me the way to my spirit,
It’s asleep and I need to wakeup,
I had a little drink some time ago,
And it went right to my head,
Oh, Show me the way to my spirit.
Obviously you can replace drink with drug, gamble, control or any thing else that fits.
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Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 23, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcoholism Recovery Show Me The Way To Go Home Show me the way to my spirit Source Type: blogs
Intimate Grooming for Women
This article may help. Click on the link at end to see full details.
You shower, you wash your hair, you put on deodorant. But what about grooming for your more intimate area? How do you deal with vaginal odour? Should you douche? And just what is a bikini wax all about anyway?
For many women, these issues are an important part of daily grooming. Here’s what you should know about the options.
Cleansing Down There
The number of intimate grooming products — from cleansers to fragrance mists to on-the-go freshening wipes — continues to grow, but they’re not really necessary, say many gynecologists.
“You ...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 22, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Addictions Alcoholism Codependency Sexuality Women Youth Cleansing Down There feminine hygiene Intimate Grooming Source Type: blogs
21 Spiritual Skills
“Becoming fully human is a great adventure – one that requires us to grow and stretch ourselves.” So writes Cindy Wigglesworth at the opening of her book, SQ21: The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence.
A practical book with good exercises
I highly recommend this book for someone looking to develop their capacity to exercise wisdom and compassion. I was quite impressed with the book’s sensible approach to a sensitive topic. Spiritual books can sometimes be inspiring but vague. Cindy Wigglesworth’s common sense style of writing is both practical and inspiring. She outlines a framework ...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 21, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Spirituality Wisdom Cindy Wigglesworth Spiritual Intelligence SQ21 Source Type: blogs
Admitting Our Mistakes
A person who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake. – Confucius
Step Ten of the 12 step program tells us that when we are wrong, we are obligated to “promptly” admit it. We aren’t used to admitting our mistakes. We defend ourselves or blame others. This is called denial.
Denial is bad for two reasons. First, it keeps us from learning from our mistakes, so we keep making them. Second, we don’t listen to others, so we close off ourselves and become lonely.
What a relief it is to admit our wrongs! We don’t have to keep trying to do things the hard wa...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 11, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Addictions Alcoholism another mistake promptly admit it Step Ten Source Type: blogs
Dr Bob’s Prayer
Dr Bob, a co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous developed this 3rd Step prayer for his own use.
Dear God,I’m sorry about the mess I’ve made of my life.I want to turn away from all the wrong things I’ve ever done and all the wrong things I’ve ever been. Please forgive me for it all.I know You have the power to change my life and can turn me into a winner. Thank You, God for getting my attention long enough to interest me in trying it Your way.God, please take over the management of my life and everything about me. I am making this conscious decision to turn my will and my life over to Your care and am ...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 9, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcoholics Anonymous Recovery Spirituality 3rd Step prayer Dr Bob’s Prayer Source Type: blogs
Therapeutic Value of the 12 Steps
Therapy steps
Twelve Steps can help manage various types of chronic illness
For more than 75 years, the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous have worked for many people with alcohol and other drug problems. Today, the therapeutic value of the steps extends far beyond the field of addiction.
Physicians, therapists and other health care professionals are finding that the steps can help people with other chronic illnesses (eg, cancer, heart disease, diabetes and mental illness) find hope and healing. There is increased recognition that a spiritual component, such as the Twelve Steps, is important in addressing mental and phy...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 8, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Alcoholics Anonymous cancer depression diabetes heart disease helplessness mental illness Physicians Source Type: blogs
Much More Efficient
[As a recovering alcoholic, addict or co-dependant] we constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day -Thy will be done …
We are then in much less danger of;
over excitement,
fear,
anger,
worry,
self-pity, or
foolish decisions.
We become much more efficient. We do not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Into Action (pp 88),
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Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 3, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Addictions Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Codependency no longer running the show Source Type: blogs
AA and the Higher Power
God in His wisdom selected this group of men and women of Alcoholics Anonymous to be the purveyors of His goodness.
In selecting them, through whom to bring about this phenomenon, He went not to the proud, the mighty the famous, or the brilliant He went to the humble, the sick the unfortunate He went right to the drunkard the so-called weakling of the world.
Well might He have said to us –
“Unto your week and feeble hands I have entrusted a power beyond estimate. To you has been given that which has been denied the most learned of your fellows. Not to scientists or statesmen not to wives or mothers not even to ...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - October 26, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Help an Alcoholic Higher Power Humility Recovery Spirituality AA and the Higher Power Source Type: blogs
Nature Of Our Wrongs
“Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs.”
The Alcoholics Anonymous 5th Step – to admit I am wrong.
This is the second time the word admit comes up in the programme of the I2 steps. It is so important, because a practising alcoholic never admits he is wrong.
He blames anyone, so long as it is not himself. He is never wrong. He ducks for cover every time the finger gets pointed at him, or, more correctly, when he is found out. So, what a come down when the practising alkie comes to A.A., He has to deflate his ego.
—THE BIG I AM—.
Unless he is ...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - October 22, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Denial Higher Power Recovery Admitted to God courage Source Type: blogs
Trust
Today I Will Trust
Today, I will stop straining to know what I don’t know.
To see what I can’t see.
To understand what I don’t yet understand.
I will trust that being is sufficient,
And I will let go of my need to figure things out.
You are reading from the book:
The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie
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Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - October 20, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Adult Children of Alcoholics Al-anon Alateen Codependency Emotions Anonymous Today I Will Trust Source Type: blogs
Recovery for Family of Sex Addicts
What are S-Anon Family Groups?
A fellowship of the relatives and friends of sexaholics who share their experience, strength and hope in order to solve their common problems.
A program of recovery adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous and based on the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions.
A fellowship requiring no dues or fees for membership S-Anon is self-supporting through member contributions.
The only requirement for membership is that the person is affected by the sexual behavior of a relative or friend.
S-Anon’s primary purpose is to offer members recovery from the effects upon us of another person’s sexaho...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - October 18, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Codependency Family Recovery S-Anon Sex & Love Addicts Sex Addictions Sexuality relatives and friends of sexaholics S-Anon Family Groups Source Type: blogs
Alcoholism Treatment Works
This alcoholism treatment infographic comes from Spiritual River
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Addiction Treatment & Alcoholism – Infographic by Spiritual River
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Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - October 9, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Addictions Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Recovery alcoholism treatment Spiritual River Source Type: blogs
SMART Recovery and AA
SMART Recovery Can be Good Alternative or Addition to AA: Researcher
For some people in recovery, SMART Recovery groups are a valuable alternative or addition to traditional 12-step groups, according to a researcher at Penn State University.
SMART Recovery groups are facilitator-led, structured discussion groups that are closely aligned with counseling techniques. Unlike Alcoholics Anonymous and other traditional 12-step groups, SMART Recovery focuses on self-empowerment instead of surrendering to a higher power, says Deirdre O’Sullivan, PhD, Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling and Specia...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - October 4, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcoholics Anonymous SMART Recovery SMART Recovery and AA Source Type: blogs
Hard Seats & Cold Feet
Recently I have sat in our Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and asked myself, why am I here?
The chairs are hard, it’s very cold and I am physically uncomfortable. Later, I have a thirty mile drive home in an old unheated car and being an old man, I’ll have difficulty getting out and in to that fire I know will be there. Why then, do I suffer it?
The answer begins in a day in May 1963 in a hospital in Perth, W.A. where I was very sick with the disease of alcoholism. A man is standing at the foot of my bed “Believe you have a problem,” he says, and I admitted the truth a big problem, beyond me to solve.
Next day...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - September 28, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcoholics Anonymous Recovery why am I here Source Type: blogs
21 Stress Busters
For most people in today’s world, stress is a fact of life.
In recovery it is especially true. Although it is impossible to eliminate all stress from daily life, it is possible to control the effect that stress has on the body and the mind. The first step in managing stress is to become aware of events in your life that cause you stress.
The causes of stress vary from person to person, so that what causes you stress may not cause stress for another person. Once you are aware of what causes you stress, the goal is to find ways to avoid or control these things.
Relaxation techniques, when used consistently, can prove effec...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - September 25, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Addictions Adult Children of Alcoholics Al-anon Codependency Denial Faith Healthy Psychological Illness Relapse Sexuality Spirituality Wisdom acceptance anxiety buster stress Source Type: blogs
