[Sugah]

You know, Tanya, I've been in meetings where I've said things that really got under the skin of oldtimers. I guess it doesn't help that I wear a Buddha pendant in a predominantly Christian area, that I purposefully change the pronouns to the feminine when I read or refer to an aspect of my HP....or when I tell the more stubborn ones that my junkie past is no different from their hard drinking, and it's ego that makes them not want to admit that they're more than cousins but rather brothers and sisters in this funky family of ours....

And I said all that to say this: Not long ago, we were talking about the very topic you brought up, and I suggested that if mental relapses, that part of the scheming and planning that led up to a "slip" were included in sober time, there wouldn't be any oldtimers, and the only thing that separates us from the folks that go back out the door to drink (or use) again is that, by the grace of whatever HP we rely on, we pick up the tools before it's too late. They all nodded in agreement with that!

You've got tools, Tanya.

Keep them in your back pocket so you can feel them every time you're tempted to sit on your ass!

Peace & Love,
Sugah