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Concept Three – Right of Decision in My Leadership Role

(This post was contributed to Take the 12 by Brandy H., Panel 73 Convention Chair, Area 65 Northeast Texas at the request of the creator of this website after hearing her present on this topic at the 2023 NETA65 Fall Assembly and Service Workshop) …………………………………………………………. \”I was asked to give

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Legacy of Recovery

On a Scale of 0-10

Last night in my home group\’s Big Book study, the chair of the meeting read several passages out of \”We Agnostics\” and gave a great share on the topic before opening it up to a show of hands. He reminded us that our literature says there are only really two options:

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Legacy of Recovery

Sponsor Factory

In February of 2013, after having had the same sponsor for 16 years, I decided it was time to find a new sponsor. It wasn\’t that there was anything wrong with that sponsor I\’d had for such a long time, it was simply that I had changed and needed something

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Legacy of Recovery

Burning Our Lives To The Ground

This weekend, I had the incredible honor of being asked to speak at SERCYPAA 2023 and it was an amazing experience. The excitement, dedication, and commitment in that hotel all centered around recovery was quite honestly – overwhelming at times. To have an opportunity to spend the weekend with over

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Legacy of Recovery

Descriptive & Prescriptive

This morning, I was sitting in a study with some spiritually minded-folks and the leader of the study mentioned that in the literature we were studying, there are things that are “descriptive” and things that are “prescriptive.” For some reason, that jumped out at me. Later this afternoon, I took

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Legacy of Recovery

Inside the Mind of an Overthinker

I came home from my home group last night and spent some time thinking (\”Danger Will Robinson, DANGER!! LOL!).  The topic was on the 7th Step which I was so grateful for because I don\’t sit in enough meetings about 6 & 7 anymore.  I truly believe at over 3

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Legacy of Recovery

Revisiting The Next Frontier: Emotional Sobriety

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Back in May 2020 in the height of the pandemic, I posted this  reading from Language of the Heart that Bill wrote in January 1958 (see text and audio version below).  It has played a huge part of my sobriety and my sponsee\’s sobriety.  Recently, I had a sponsee of

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NEW Grapevine & La Viña Apps

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] I had the honor and privilege of attending the 73rd General Service Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous as the Panel 73 Delegate for Area 65 (Northeast Texas) last month in NYC.  I was assigned to the conference committee on Grapevine & La Viña.  During both our committee meeting and during

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