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I would just like to say THANK YOU for your e-magazine CHOICES. I have been in recovery in AA for 15 months, and am only learning how to use the computer. Finding your magazine was a wonderful gift from my HP. Please put me on your e-mail list I look forward to future issuses and maybe contributing in the future. THANK YOU.
G.
Dear Dakota,
Thanks for putting for what is obviously is so much of your heart and soul into Choices.
You are making me think.Ed
RE: About the H in 'H & I' - Choices April issue
Dear Dakota,
Thanks for your editors post on the H&I situation these days, I have to agree the difficulty in just giving ESH (experience, strength, hope) to those in hospitals, detox, and institutions. Most places these days require you to be on a list for service once a month or sign a comittment form along with patient confidentiality papers. I can remember when I first started running a relapse group at a local treatment center in our area, one in which I had attended myself some 24 hrs. ago, you use to be able to just walk in and attend the meeting ... the only draw back was you had to be an allumni of the center. Sortly after my attending meetings there they started handing out all kinds of papers to sign, how long have you been sober, do you have a home group, a sponsor, etc. etc. Kinda made me feel like I was checking back in? Well the meetings started going by the way side with more people (allumni) dropping out due to the red tape which I found not to be a good sign for the patients. The whole idea of the meetings where to help the patients see that things do get better one day at a time and there is life after treatment.
Running this group has been a very big part of my recovery and keeps it very green each time I go there, remembering my chair in the room, the look on the face at each stage of the 28 day process, the fear of those coming in and of those leaving out. I have always walked away with another gift, another hug, a tear and a smile which tells me that my HP is working through me to carry the message.
Bottom line to me is that if you want to get involved sometimes you just have to do what the system wants reguardless if its not the way 'it was'. I'm just grateful that there still is a 12 step program alive and kicking for those in H&I, if it gives just one person hope for a better life than we have carried the message.
F.N.
RE: Bananas on the Same Bunch - Choices March issue
Dear Dakota,
"Choices" is just that.A simple word that describes our lives in and out of recovery. We all have and make "Choices" in our life. Some are good ones that give us "warm fuzzy feelings" and some give us horrific heart ache, but they are still our "Choices". I am truely honored to have you in my...("fruit bowl"). Thank you ... and keep passing on what you have
because it is the only way to keep it.H
Great!! Wonderful!! Fantastic!!
Hi ..hope this finds you well and in good spirit. Greetings from Vancouver Island, Canada. I would love to know when issues of Choices are ready on-line. It's all brilliant stuff..thanks for being here and doing what you all do!Create a great day!! In Good Spirit,
Steve
Thank you so much for adding me to your reminder list, I look forward to reading more "Choices" in the future, and I'm very honored to have been added to your links. I linked back to you on my page this morning as well. You have a first class page & to be associated with
it makes me feel very special. Thank you. I hope to help even one person because of it....gotta give it away to keep it right? Share the message with the still suffering addict...that's what it's all about. Have a beautiful day, you have already achieved your random act of kindness this morning!
Love in Fellowship, Robyn - Homepage "Came to Believe"
Hi, please let me know when the next issue arrives. Thank you. So exciting having
a recovery online magazine, enjoyed it very much.
RH
You sure created an interesting site, please put me on the list. Choices reminded me that I used to like to write, so think I'll get busy and, like you said, get up and DO something.
Bill
Thanks for "Choices". I have passed the url on to my e-mail group. Only goes to show us that service work knows no boundries as long as we have an imagination.
Kay M.
I love what you've done with your e-zine, "Choices." I've worked in the recovery field since 1970 and been in personal recovery since 1981. I know that for me, the biggest part of recovery is feeding my spirit and keeping it on a healing pathway. "Choices" fed my spirit
a delightful meal. Thank you.Name withheld by Editor
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