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Samsara explores life issues such as spirituality, alcoholism, alcoholic recovery, the 12 steps [Alcoholics Anonymous] codependency, relationships, being HSP [highly sensitive person or indigo or psychic or ...], how to manifest reality [law of attra
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Top 7 Drunk and Alcoholic Related Episodes as a Kid
Alcoholism is not just for adults. These 7 episodes reflect only a small glimpse into my alcoholic past as a kid; Episodes of drunken debauchery or alcoholic misconduct that jumped into my head as soon as I began writing after a friend tagged me for ...
What People Think of Me is None of my Business
What people think of me is none of my business. I want to, in tandem with episodes from my life, show how this philosophy gets reconciled with truth, peace, spiritual growth and integrity. And furthermore, how anyone can achieve this impeccable ideal...
Stop Drinking Without Alcoholics Anonymous
There are other ways to stop drinking besides Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous has no monopoly on sobriety, even though the [outside issue of] Courts sentencing people to A.A. meetings is becoming more and more common. Alcoholics Anonymous,...
Reconstructing Rick - A Drug Addict’s Story
Reconstructing Rick, with a byline reading "An Addict Trying to Recover" is a blog told from the mind of a newly recovering drug addict who's been through the trenches of hell itself and has managed to escape. When drugs, sexual exploitation, street ...
A Relative’s Alcoholic Drinking Problem - A Memoir
Do you have a loved one or relative who drinks? This is a memoir of what I went through. Because of my own battles with alcoholism, I was finally able to love my relative completely and wholly without expecting her to stop drinking. Because I found ...
Alcoholics and Drug Addicts in Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are for alcoholics. Increasingly, though, more and more addicts-only as well as the dual-addicted person is showing up to meetings. How does A.A. address this? Does A.A. address this? Are "addicts only" welcome? Is it c...
Release from the Opinions of other People
Do you or have you spent a large portion of your life insuring that people like you? Have you bent over backwards for people you may not even know, only to try to get them to like you? Do you or have you ever extensively worried whether someone likes...
Taking Care of Ourselves - Physically, Emotionally, and Mentally
How often I was at the whim of the world, constantly waiting for permission to take care of myself...But now today, after having developed my voice and after readjusting my priorities to putting my spiritual growth as a priority over societal expecta...
Help an Alcoholic to Stop Drinking
After several messages of friends online asking "How do I help an alcoholic friend stop drinking?" I knew, then, I needed to do something. Therefore I am going to offer some easy points. But before you take off with these points, I am sure to have so...
Saying ‘No.’ Sometimes it’s an Entire Chapter.
I think we associate 'No' with negative as in negative feelings and negative consequences. I know I used to. As a child, being told 'No" was usually accompanied by a look or a tone. As a result, I think I grew up thinking No was just 'bad.' As a furt...
