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Moodswings, and swinging on the gate of calm, daily reflection March 14

In a very real sense, early recovery is a chemical and psychological rollercoaster.  You’ve got your peaks and valleys.  Your raw, burning deserts of hell.  And your glorious mountaintops of pristine joy.  Both – and every pothole in between – will strike you with a force hitherto unimaginable. In my early sobriety, I was prone

Step, August 14

Made a list of all persons we had harmed.  Of all persons…with liberty and justice for all, goddamnit; we hold these truths to be self evident: I stole my grandmother’s lipstick without meaning to.  I forget things in my pocket.  Does this count?  This is the first chastisement I remember.  There are no punishments worse