I have been clean for:
I Stand With Ukraine

Welcome

Journal

Some memes

Feel Free to steal and repost these memes!

Surrender meme Work the steps meme

🀐 my secret self πŸ€”

Posted: Fri, Aug 28, 2020 08:17:55 AM

this morning, as i get a late start on my day, what i **heard** as i sat, was all about what i was willing and unwilling to share with another human being. what it all came down to is that looking good, is still more important to me than feeling good. just as some of my peers suffer from the shortcoming arising out of their defects of character, so do i, dammit all, i thought i was better than that, after all this time. i dis not want to acknowledge the fact that i have an “over-use” injury and that i could workout through the pain. i do not want to acknowledge that i am “judgey” of the program some of my peers work. most of all i do not want anyone to realize that plague times and social upheaval are messing with my serenity. i want my peers to see me as a paragon of virtue and some sort of “recovery guru,” even though in more than one aspect, i am just as messed up as they are.
today, as i prepare to “double-down” on my “injury-limited” workout, i feel okay that i can own all of the above and find a place to walk forward into my day. i may not feel like working this morning and i certainly do not feel like walking, but once i get rolling, that may change. it is a good day to be open and share my misgivings with the world. everything about my “secret self” will have to wait until it is time to do a FIFTH STEP with my sponse. time to let go, grab the dawg and see what a few miles does for my state of mind.

∞ DT ∞


Another Look

This day in older entries

🌬 being clean 🌫
607 words ➥ Friday, August 28, 2026 by donnot
🚫 abstinence is 🚫
460 words ➥ Thursday, August 28, 2025 by donnot
🚏 i start by 🚏
313 words ➥ Wednesday, August 28, 2024 by donnot
πŸ€’ treating πŸ€•
607 words ➥ Monday, August 28, 2023 by donnot
😏 i cause 😎
547 words ➥ Sunday, August 28, 2022 by donnot
πŸ™Š my secrets 🀫
341 words ➥ Saturday, August 28, 2021 by donnot
πŸ˜’ can i disarm 😜
602 words ➥ Wednesday, August 28, 2019 by donnot
πŸ‘Ž secrets cause me πŸ‘
411 words ➥ Tuesday, August 28, 2018 by donnot
🌩 honest sharing πŸŒͺ
631 words ➥ Monday, August 28, 2017 by donnot
β‡— disarming the secrets β‡˜
512 words ➥ Sunday, August 28, 2016 by donnot
Γ· light of exposure Γ·
884 words ➥ Friday, August 28, 2015 by donnot
βˆ— i can disarm the secrets in my life βˆ—
513 words ➥ Thursday, August 28, 2014 by donnot
Step Five simply suggests that my secrets
580 words ➥ Wednesday, August 28, 2013 by donnot
β†’ when i realize that honest sharing is not life-threatening ←
385 words ➥ Tuesday, August 28, 2012 by donnot
ΒΊ when i give in to my reluctance to reveal my true nature ΒΊ
483 words ➥ Friday, August 28, 2009 by donnot
↔ when the secrets are in control, ↔
302 words ➥ Tuesday, August 28, 2007 by donnot
↔ when the secrets are in control, ↔
261 words ➥ Monday, August 28, 2006 by donnot
Ξ± freedom from the power of secrecy Ξ©
250 words ➥ Sunday, August 28, 2005 by donnot
secrets and trust
179 words ➥ Saturday, August 28, 2004 by donnot

Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 2

5) Who uses well his light,
Reverting to its (source so) bright,
Will from his body ward all blight,
And hides the unchanging from men's sight.