I’ve been thinking about some of the tools I’ve been using that have helped me in my recovery from my addiction. I want to write about them so I won’t forget. 1. The Atonement! To some this may be a “duh,” but I wanted to write about how I have been using the Atonement in […]
Archives for March 2015
How ArpSupport.org Has Helped Me Learn to Submit My Will to God
On November 15, 2014, I made a decision that has helped me sustain longer recovery from addiction than I can remember. This decision was to work with a sponsor from ArpSupport.org. At that time I did have a decent stretch of recovery – I call it recovery because I believe that sobriety, for me, is […]
What Does Being Ready to Abstain from Addiction Mean?
To start off, I feel better today so I’m really grateful for that! I’m not 100% at full strength and my cough hasn’t gone away, but I don’t feel like I have a fever. I had the opportunity last night to talk with my sponsee after his first week in the program. He had had […]
Physical Sickness and Addiction
I’ve missed writing for the last couple days due to feeling really bad. I’ve had a cough, sore throat, chest pain, and my whole body has ached. I measured a 101 fever today too. But I think the hardest part of all of it is that I feel like Becky doubts that I’m really that […]
Frustration with Computer – Memorizing Alma 26:12
I had some weird dreams last night – dreams about James W and his question regarding who I work with for design and programming, dreams about BNI, dreams that James was working with a bunch of my friends and trying to steal information from me – it was really weird. Today has started off a […]
More On Justice & Mercy
Yesterday I started a study on justice and mercy as it pertains to addiction recovery and sponsorship. I had this question because I’ve been assigned two sponsees, Andrew and Grant. Andrew was assigned first and we talked on the phone for a bit. I gave him the assignments and felt I was pretty clear on […]
Justice & Mercy In Connection With Addiction Recovery
I am preparing to send an email to my first sponsee, Andrew, today to let him know that I can no longer be his sponsor: he hasn’t sent me his journal entries at all and the step work hasn’t been completed early. Part of me feels like a bit of a hypocrite because I wasn’t […]
How to Help Sponsee’s In Their Recovery from Addiction
The title of this post is what’s on my mind today. After finishing my 92 day sponsorship with Brandon, I opened my name up to get a sponsee. The first one I got has been hard to get a hold of, hasn’t done his initial homework, and I got this message from Mark: Nate, it […]
Dealing with Fear in Addiction Recovery
Today is going to be a good day. Today I’m a bit fearful because I have so much to do. Here’s my list: Get my study done Get ready for the day Eat Prepare for two meetings with the U Have reports ready for both the team and the boss Make sure I know what […]
How to Not Get Casual in Recovery
This is a question that comes to mind from time to time in my recovery from addiction to pornography: What are things I can do to avoid getting casual in my recovery? I feel this is an important question, one that Satan probably doesn’t want me to think about. A few scriptures come to mind: […]
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