Dr Wingnut

Category: Recovery

  • Freedom

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    You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.Robert Frost

  • Ironic place of arrest

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    Donald Blood III, 55, was charged with DUI in December in Dorset, VT, after driving into a yard, thinking it was a parking lot.  It was actually historic property: the 1852 home in which Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was born and which is “a place of sanctuary where people can come to…

  • Say when it’s time to begin.

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    I have a friend who is always planning to start a writing project “as soon as she gets organized.”  She has read nearly every book, attended every seminar, and bought all the tapes on the subject.  She has closets full of organizers, drawers stuffed with folders, and several related computer programs.  There’s only one problem. …

  • No easier softer way

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    The elevator is broken; use the Steps.Anonymous

  • Brian’s nine words

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    The nine hardest words for an alcoholic to say are: “I don’t know.  I was wrong.  I need help.”Brian B.

  • Decide to Forgive

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    The poem “Decide to Forgive,” was written by the late Robert Muller, former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations.Decide to Forgive Decide to forgiveFor resentment is negativeResentment is poisonousResentment diminishes and devours the self.Be the first to forgive,To smile and to take the first step And you will see happiness bloomOn the face of your…

  • Power

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    Strange as it may seem to you, there exists a mystic power that is able to transform your life so thoroughly, so radically, so completely, that when the process is completed your own friends would hardly recognize you, and, in fact, you would scarcely be able to recognize yourself….It can lift you out of an…