The Library

Don't let unpleasant people rent space in your head.

Fear alone won't keep me sober, but for a newcomer, it's not a bad place to start.

There's still a monkey on my back. He's just sleeping. He's real easy to wake up.

Fake it till you make it.

You have to give it away in order to keep it.

Life starts when you stop.

Some people lust normally, and I normally lust.

It's easy to talk the talk, but you have to walk the walk.

I got sick and tired of being sick and tired.

S.A. isn't a religion, we can't open the gates of Heaven and let you in, but we can open the gates of Hell and let you out.

I have 41 days sober today. How do I do it? I pray. I rely on G-d, always realizing that lust is more powerful than me and it is only through His strength that I can stay sober. I go to lots of SA meetings. I have a sponsor who I call almost every day. I call others in th...

We need to develop a mindset that the way the world dresses these days is not only inappropriate, it's sub-human and unusually weird. Rabbi Bentzion Shafier from theshmuz.com gives a mashal to this. Imagine you're hiking in the woods and you smell a nice aroma. You walk a...

Getting to 90 days clean is a great feeling, and I want to share what helped me. I had started the 90 day chart in November 2009, but I kept falling. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I would go for a few weeks - and then fall, a few weeks - then a fall.Then I realized ...

The goal of my recovery is not really sobriety, if by "sobriety" we only mean "not drinking/using schmutz/whatever". This is for two reasons. One is that such an attitude is shallow, and the second reason is that such a perspective may not work, even to stop the drinking/...

My best friend became my worst enemy.

Please be patient---God isn't finished with you yet.

A treatment center is where you go and pay $15,000 to find out that S.A. meetings are free.

There is pain in recovery. Misery is optional.