TOPIC: Attracting Newcomers To Recovery
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,238
TOPIC: Attracting Newcomers To Recovery
Hi SR and welcome to Recovery. 
For me, I've been practicing a program of
recovery in my daily life for a number of yrs.
now and my mind is always thinking of how
I can attract the Newcomer to Recovery.
Early on I realized that it is extremely
important to help those suffering with
addiction whether it be alcohol, drugs,
meds, by passing on recovery information
that can be helpful in turning their lives
around to become healthy and happy.
How are the newcomers or those still
active in their addiction wanting to end
the madness gonna know how or learn
how if WE, those of US in recovery, don't
pass on the knowledge of recovery that
was taught to us, to them?
Many come here to SR or show up at
recovery meetings looking for help.
Looking for answers. Looking for those
that have learned how to remain sober
or clean a day at a time. What is the answer?
How did they do it? And continue to remain
clean and sober for many yrs down the road?
How are they to know or to learn if WE
don't pass It On to them? WE, each and
everyone of us has a job to do. A job of
helping each other to learn how to stay
sober or clean by attraction. Attracting
others by being an example of how we
stay sober or clean using a program of
recovery in our everyday life.
How are others to know that life does get
better in recovery if we don't let them
know? If you have one day, one week, one
month, yr., years, each and everyone of us
has an important part in recovery in helping
all those who will follow us for yrs. to come.
Addiction will never end as long as there
are alcohol and drugs being produced in the
world. There will always be someone pushing
poison on to little ones all the way to adults
and if WE, US in recovery don't stand strong
and help those needed help now, then those
down the road will never know what being
sober or clean is really like.
That there is happiness, healthy, honesty,
understanding, caring, communication,
forgiveness and so on for all who live in
recovery helping and attracting the newcomer.
I ask myself, how in the world will all these
folks know that are in their addiction that
there is hope and life beyond addiction if
you want it and I have to do my part and
share my own ESH - experiences, strengths
and hopes with them to achieve that wonderful
healthy, happy life for yrs. to come.
That is how I attract newcomers in recovery.
For me, I've been practicing a program of
recovery in my daily life for a number of yrs.
now and my mind is always thinking of how
I can attract the Newcomer to Recovery.
Early on I realized that it is extremely
important to help those suffering with
addiction whether it be alcohol, drugs,
meds, by passing on recovery information
that can be helpful in turning their lives
around to become healthy and happy.
How are the newcomers or those still
active in their addiction wanting to end
the madness gonna know how or learn
how if WE, those of US in recovery, don't
pass on the knowledge of recovery that
was taught to us, to them?
Many come here to SR or show up at
recovery meetings looking for help.
Looking for answers. Looking for those
that have learned how to remain sober
or clean a day at a time. What is the answer?
How did they do it? And continue to remain
clean and sober for many yrs down the road?
How are they to know or to learn if WE
don't pass It On to them? WE, each and
everyone of us has a job to do. A job of
helping each other to learn how to stay
sober or clean by attraction. Attracting
others by being an example of how we
stay sober or clean using a program of
recovery in our everyday life.
How are others to know that life does get
better in recovery if we don't let them
know? If you have one day, one week, one
month, yr., years, each and everyone of us
has an important part in recovery in helping
all those who will follow us for yrs. to come.
Addiction will never end as long as there
are alcohol and drugs being produced in the
world. There will always be someone pushing
poison on to little ones all the way to adults
and if WE, US in recovery don't stand strong
and help those needed help now, then those
down the road will never know what being
sober or clean is really like.
That there is happiness, healthy, honesty,
understanding, caring, communication,
forgiveness and so on for all who live in
recovery helping and attracting the newcomer.
I ask myself, how in the world will all these
folks know that are in their addiction that
there is hope and life beyond addiction if
you want it and I have to do my part and
share my own ESH - experiences, strengths
and hopes with them to achieve that wonderful
healthy, happy life for yrs. to come.
That is how I attract newcomers in recovery.
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: C.C. Ma.
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Hi.
Your post is a good one. A big thing in this generation it seems to me is so many want the softest easiest way. They have the idea they will stop for a couple months then go back to their old mode being the same old same old.
I try to respond to troubled folks with the very basic ways we don’t drink. But it’s too hard to not drink one day at a time in a row, especially when they continue to hang around their bar or old drinking friends.
Many are very familiar with:
"Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do
not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of be ing honest with themselves.
There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that
way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which
demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average. There are those, too, who suffer
from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have thecapacity to be honest."
And the serenity Prayer.
The difficult ones used to be said to be terminally unique, and I was among them.
Often in frustration I need to be reminded I’m the only one I can get and keep sober.
BE WELL
Your post is a good one. A big thing in this generation it seems to me is so many want the softest easiest way. They have the idea they will stop for a couple months then go back to their old mode being the same old same old.
I try to respond to troubled folks with the very basic ways we don’t drink. But it’s too hard to not drink one day at a time in a row, especially when they continue to hang around their bar or old drinking friends.
Many are very familiar with:
"Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do
not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of be ing honest with themselves.
There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that
way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which
demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average. There are those, too, who suffer
from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have thecapacity to be honest."
And the serenity Prayer.
The difficult ones used to be said to be terminally unique, and I was among them.
Often in frustration I need to be reminded I’m the only one I can get and keep sober.
BE WELL
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,238
For each New Young Spring Chicken that
arrives in recovery, you too will become
the Strong Pillars for those New Young Baby
Chicks that arrive today and down the road.
Pillars, bricks, it takes each new strong
one to be put in place for us all to stand
upon.
How many strong bricks are out there
in SR helping to build a strong recovery
foundation for all of us to build our life
upon?
arrives in recovery, you too will become
the Strong Pillars for those New Young Baby
Chicks that arrive today and down the road.
Pillars, bricks, it takes each new strong
one to be put in place for us all to stand
upon.
How many strong bricks are out there
in SR helping to build a strong recovery
foundation for all of us to build our life
upon?
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