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๐Ÿ˜ต active addiction ๐Ÿ˜ต

Posted: Thu, Dec 11, 2025 02:41:00 PM

is a mess, where i lost a plethora of stuff, the worst of all of that was that i lost myself. it was not as if i really knew who i was when i came to recovery, but the years of living a lie and playing whatever role i needed to play to manipulate my way to get what i desired, left very little of my identity. one might say, my creative action of adapting to my circumstances, left lots of fear, uncertainty and doubt about where recovery could take me. that issue is still at play today, as i prepare to get started on my Fourth Step. not to the extent it was in those early days, but certainly enough that when my sponse and i talked about it this morning FEAR was the major issue.
today, has been one where i am way out of my normal routine, as i met with my sponse and have a meeting with a sponsee in a little while. i got my workout in and that left little time to write this before sitting down to discuss my spiritual progress or lack thereof with my sponse. actually it was a good meeting for me, as it got me to pin down what it was that is bothering me spiritually. i described it to friends and to him as a “spiritual itch that i could not scratch.” i may not be able to scratch it quite yet, but the itch has been diminished and i have a path forward.
so i spoke of FEAR above and the FEAR that is tripping me up is that IF i let go of my “double secret probation expectations list” and the damage it does to me, when i fall into that ancient and familiar path, i will end up like some Suzy Sunshine version of myself that i could not like in any context. i know that fear is not rational, as the steps have never transformed me into what i was not and never anything close to my greatest fears. with that in mind, i will get this little ditty posted and move on with my day. it is a good day to let go of what may be and embrace the what is.

∞ DT ∞


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This day in older entries

๐ŸŽ“ learning who i am, ๐ŸŽ“
518 words ➥ Wednesday, December 11, 2024 by donnot
๐ŸŒŸ creative action ๐ŸŒŸ
401 words ➥ Monday, December 11, 2023 by donnot
๐Ÿค” i certainly ๐Ÿคญ
486 words ➥ Sunday, December 11, 2022 by donnot
๐Ÿ˜œ misery is optional ๐Ÿ˜œ
509 words ➥ Saturday, December 11, 2021 by donnot
๐Ÿ˜ญ the sanity of recovery ๐Ÿค’
596 words ➥ Friday, December 11, 2020 by donnot
๐ŸŒฉ being forced ๐ŸŒช
497 words ➥ Wednesday, December 11, 2019 by donnot
๐Ÿš i have this choice: ๐Ÿ˜
447 words ➥ Tuesday, December 11, 2018 by donnot
๐ŸŒง worse than ๐ŸŒฆ
531 words ➥ Monday, December 11, 2017 by donnot
โ˜ how reluctant โ˜•
690 words ➥ Sunday, December 11, 2016 by donnot
๐Ÿ˜œ misery is ๐Ÿ˜œ
554 words ➥ Friday, December 11, 2015 by donnot
โˆซ i do have a choice, today i CHOOSE โˆซ
656 words ➥ Thursday, December 11, 2014 by donnot
ยง i continue to give up the misery of active addiction ยง
471 words ➥ Wednesday, December 11, 2013 by donnot
โˆ  i do not have to be miserable unless i really want to be โˆ 
746 words ➥ Tuesday, December 11, 2012 by donnot
ยฐ no one is forcing me to give up my misery ยฐ
751 words ➥ Saturday, December 11, 2010 by donnot
ฮด there is no fellowship militia that will force me โ€ฆ
598 words ➥ Friday, December 11, 2009 by donnot
ฮฑ trading for the gifts of recovery ฯ‰
360 words ➥ Sunday, December 11, 2005 by donnot
โˆž trading in my misery โˆž
240 words ➥ Saturday, December 11, 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 1

1) In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there
were (their rulers). In the next age they loved them and praised them.
In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them. Thus
it was that when faith (in the Tao) was deficient (in the rulers)
a want of faith in them ensued (in the people).