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MajestyJo
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Canada
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Posted - 09/10/2007 :  12:05:55  Show Profile  Visit MajestyJo's Homepage  Click to see MajestyJo's MSN Messenger address  Send MajestyJo a Yahoo! Message Send MajestyJo a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Lying is done with words and also with silence

- Adrienne Rich

We have been fearful of speaking our truth honestly. We have been afraid of losing our jobs, losing our firnds, and losing everything we have. Yet, as we become more honest, we begin to untie the tangled know of dishonesty, self-centeredness, control and confusion. We see how our dishonesty has led to our confusion and even when it is difficult, we find ouselves sighing in the refreshing breeze of honesty.

- Anne Wilson Shaef

For me self-honesty was difficult. I never thought I was that bad!!! In reality, whenever I picked up I lost a piece of me and when I came into recovery their wasn't much of me left. No feelings, no original thought, no motivation and no desire to live.

Slowly but surely as I kept coming, I didn't have to come back and I finally got honest about the fact that I had an addiction, and that the program was doing for me what I couldn't do for myself. It was nice to be able to know what was wrong with me, I had an addiction. I had a disease.

Love Always,


Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one.

JoeClean
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USA
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Posted - 05/31/2008 :  16:53:05  Show Profile Send JoeClean a Private Message  Reply with Quote
For me, I associate dishonesty with active addiction. Being honest is helping me stay clean today. I know people who have more clean time than me and still lie. I'm grateful that I don't live like that today. Secrets also will keep me sick; sharing what I'm thinking with other recovering addicts has been a big help to me and my program.

What spiritual principle is that???
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