When you finally admit that you have a problem greater than yourself, you may start to realize that you need a power greater than yourself to solve your problem. It may require some serious rethinking about your ideas of what God is and what God does and doesn't do. If you don't believe in God, you can make a decision one day at a time to act as if there is a God. You can always change your mind and go back to the unbelief if you want to.

Something comes along that knocks off a piece of our armour. And only in that moment of the armour being knocked off do we get to look inside and see that we are gold. And the moment that you see that gold, the armour will never satisfy you again. All you will want to do is pick away at that armour, because the gold is so much more fun.

Most people who come into a recovery program really get frustrated by the fact that nobody wants them to date in early recovery. And there's a really good reason for that: there is something really intoxicating about a new relationship.

This beautiful song by Elizabeth Edwards simply and powerfully describes the freedom we find in recovery.

At the start of the new millenium, the Dalai Lama issued 18 rules for living. These align perfectly with our program of recovery and are a powerful touchstone for greeting the New Year.