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12-01-2013, 11:48 AM

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Threshold

Grateful to be free

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Join Date: May 2009

Location: Arizona

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Recovery means....

Anyone remember those old "Love Is..." cartoons? Every day a one liner about what it means to love...

So

Recovery means...never having to apologize for things said in a phone call I don't remember making.

12-01-2013, 11:53 AM

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Opivotal

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Location: New York

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I can sure relate Threshold! Thanks for the reminder.

12-01-2013, 11:59 AM

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LindaLou

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Join Date: Jan 2013

Location: Finger Lakes, NY

Posts: 521

Recovery means....not wondering where that GIANT bruise came from.

12-01-2013, 12:18 PM

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Carlotta

Behold the power of NO

Join Date: Jan 2013

Location: WA

Posts: 7,764

Recovery means being comfortable in my skin

12-01-2013, 12:21 PM

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mfanch

Recovered

Join Date: Jun 2009

Posts: 1,129

Recovery means freedom.

12-01-2013, 01:46 PM

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Dee74

Administrator

Join Date: Apr 2007

Location: Australia

Posts: 211,313

Recovery means I know where I am when I wake up.

12-01-2013, 05:06 PM

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LSC1

Learning to LIve

Join Date: Aug 2012

Location: NSW Australia

Posts: 908

Recovery means to see clearly where your life is at ... the good and the not so good.

12-01-2013, 08:04 PM

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BarbieKen

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Join Date: Apr 2013

Location: South Bay, So Cal

Posts: 6,113

Recovery means.....I'm awake, I'm here in My life today. Grateful.

12-01-2013, 08:17 PM

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LDT

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Join Date: Feb 2012

Location: Louisiana

Posts: 8,642

Recovery means....... Not hiding any longer.

12-02-2013, 08:00 AM

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thebluewolf

Recovery Padawan

Join Date: Nov 2013

Location: London, England

Posts: 39

Recovery means peace

12-03-2013, 08:03 AM

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Threshold

Grateful to be free

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Join Date: May 2009

Location: Arizona

Posts: 3,680

Recovery means..people aren't afraid to invite me to parties...and I'm not afraid to attend them.

01-03-2014, 01:33 PM

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soberbob11

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Join Date: Jul 2013

Location: portland oregon

Posts: 11

Recovery means I will be able to be a present, available, loving parent to my two beautiful children!

01-03-2014, 05:05 PM

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KateL

Kaleidoscope eyes

Join Date: Oct 2013

Location: London

Posts: 5,243

Recovery means I can wait hand and foot on my ghastly, ungrateful teenagers (love it really!

)

01-11-2014, 02:14 AM

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Robertstone

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Join Date: Jun 2013

Location: Los Angeles

Posts: 80

Recovery means... I can go to the bar and play in the dart league while I sip on my soda pop!

01-15-2014, 04:14 AM

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stacia lives

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Join Date: Aug 2013

Location: The Big Easy

Posts: 115

Free music is really FREE(er) sober!

No cover/ No bar tab: Free

Appreciation tips to soulful musicians & water slingin bartenders: Free(ish)

Personal investment of a healthier mind, body & spirit (& piggybank): Free(ing)

01-15-2014, 04:20 AM

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stacia lives

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Join Date: Aug 2013

Location: The Big Easy

Posts: 115

Recovery means learning, continuing to grow from mistakes made & letting the little things go.... (Like not reading better bf I post ;-) )

01-15-2014, 05:08 AM

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jdooner

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Join Date: Jul 2013

Posts: 3,359

I am going to abstain from focusing on some of my more embarrassing moments.

Recovery to me is the first step in living my life. I was an actor in a movie that I was not directing before. As I start to understand myself better and why I do the things I do I am beginning to break down the facades that I have created and become one person. To me this is recovery, which is different than simple sobriety - and much more difficult I may add.