Raising twins and staying sober 24 hours at a time.
There's a format we follow in twelve steps meetings that is based on sharing your story with your drug of choice and it's a pretty basic yet effective story telling tool that goes like this: - What it was like - What happened - What it's like now I thought I could use this format …
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It was the first day that I didn't drink for the last time (I hope). Did you follow that? October 4, 2001 was far from my last rehab, dry run, committed stay anywhere, but it somehow stuck that time. I was in a rehab in Wisconsin and I was full of shame once again because …
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We woke this morning as we had every other day this week - this Spirit Week - argh Spirit Week - the love/hate week filled with favorite characters and look alike outfits and backwards day and today to cap it off - VALENTINE'S DAY! I can hear our kids upstairs making valentines for us and …
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Too Sober For This 