Reality Checks

• Where ever you go .......there you are 
• You are not alone 
• Stay sober for yourself 
• Look for similarities rather than differences 
• Remember your last drunk, use, bet etc 
• Remember that addiction is incurable, progressive, and fatal 
• It takes time to get better 
• Depression is anger toward inward 
• The lesson I must learn is simply that my control is limited to my own behavior, my own attitudes 
• The flip side to forgiveness is resentments 
• The elevator is broken-------use the 'steps' 
• It isn't the load that weighs us down------it's the way we carry it 
• If I think, I won't drink. If I drink, I can't think 
• Sick and tired of being sick and tired 
• This is a selfish program 
• I drank, ate, gambled, etc: too much---too often---too long 
• Minds are like parachutes----they won't work unless they're open 
• When your head begins to swell your mind stops growing 
• A journey of a 1,000 miles begins with the first step 
• When a person tries to control their addiction they have already lost control  

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updated December, 2007