Daily Recovery Blog
Monday Dec 15, 2025
"If you don't have a home group, then get one." - Carl A.
A HOME GROUP IS WHERE RECOVERY STARTSMeeting lists have the addresses of where the groups meet.
Anybody may attend the open meetings. Closed meetings are for
addicts only. It was suggested that I go to a lot of meetings,
and find one that I wanted to make my home group. It was shared
with me that a meeting is like a house on a street. A home group
is like a house that you moved into and made your home. A home
group is a meeting where you celebrate your clean time. It's a
group that you commit to helping out. Somebody opens the door,
makes coffee, buys literature, pays rent, chairs meetings, and
sends information to the area. I was taking meetings for granted,
until I joined a home group. It's a nice feeling to have a home
group. I seldom miss my own home group. If I am not there many
other members already know what is going with me. I am a member
of the Welcome Home Group. We meet every Thursday at 8pm. Our
attendance is about a hundred members. There are thirty-three
home group members. We are an open meeting. On the last Thursday
of the month, we have a speaker. This meeting has moved three
times, and is thirty years old. We rent a room from a church. We
are not affiliated with them. Our group gives new members a
little white book, a key tag, and a meeting list. We have two
greeters to meet members coming in and give them a hug. There is
always space on our list for new home group members.
"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly
pleasures." - William Wycherley
Sunday Dec 14, 2025
"Isolation is the dark room I enter to develop my negatives." -
Sandi B.
NEVER ALONE, NEVER AGAINMy addiction had left me homeless and in jail. Any contact with
family had to be initiated by me. If I could muster up the
courage to call a family member, I heard, "what do you want now?"
I was a user. I used up all the drugs, money, and friends that I
had. I was full of self pity. I understood feeling lonely. I had
earned that feeling. Even I wished that I could get away from
myself. It was interesting to hear other addicts share, "you
never have to be alone again". When I got clean, they gave me a
white poker chip. They said I was gambling with my life. I was
told to carry that white chip as a reminder that I was an addict.
I was told a recovering addict was only a phone call away. I
needed to call before I used. I was now a member of a spiritual
fellowship. I had a higher power that was all powerful, all
caring, and all loving. The obsession to use would be lifted. I
learned that getting clean was harder than staying clean. I had a
higher power now that wanted me to be happy. I had a fellowship
that told me they needed me. I was in their loving hands. It was
my choice, but I never had to be alone again.
"Isolation is a dream killer." - Barbara Sher
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