| NEWSLETTER |
Some Helpful Numbers | Some Reminders | May 24, 2006 |
| AA - Alcoholics Anonymous | Dosing hours Monday through |  |
| 214-887-6699 | Friday are 5:30 am to 11:30 am |
| NA - Narcotics Anonymous | |
| 972-699-9306 | Counseling is available |
| www.dallasareana.org | 5:30 am to 12:30 pm |
| OA - Overeaters Anonymous | | Recovery is a Journey |
| 512-327-2802 | Clinic hours on Saturday are | "The most useless day of all is that |
| Problem Gamblers Help-Line | 6:00 am to 9:00 am | in which we have not laughed." |
| 800-742-0443 | | Sebastien R.N. Chamfort |
| SA - Sex/Love Addicts Annon. | Closed on Sunday | When we wallow in self-pity we |
| 800-477-8191 | | actually become obsessed with our |
| DA - Debtors Anonymous | Please remember to bring your | moaning and groaning. We con- |
| 713-797-8441 | lock boxes. | vince ourselves that we'll never |
| Shoplifters Anonymous | COME TO GROUP | laugh again. It gets easy to cry, |
| 713-840-1833 | WE ARE MEETING EVERY | alone and secretly. |
| Recovery Related Stuff | SATURDAY FROM | |
| www.hazelden.org | 8:30 AM TO 9:15 AM | When we hear others laughing, |
| Hepatitis Information | | especially at meetings, we can |
| www.hepatitisneighborhood.com | | experience a lot of uncomfortable |
APAA |  | feelings: shock, fear, anger, or even |
The Association of Persons | jealousy. How could those people |
Affected by Addiction | be laughing at a time like this? |
| HERE NOW | |
The Twelfth Step Ministry | The procedure is called | And then it happens…we laugh |
214-706-9526 | auricular acupuncture. | again. What an awakening when |
Lots of support groups of | It is helpful for a variety of issues | we let ourselves join the laughter. |
various interests. | that affect those with | How empowering it is to laugh at |
Visit their web site. | addictions. | the sadness of our past, or what we |
| www.llumc.org | Please see your counselor. | once were. Now, we can laugh with |
| | joy at being free of the obsession of |
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP | "We can make our minds so | addiction. In gratitude we resolve |
| still like water that beings | not to return to the old ways. We |
gather about us, that they | laugh and jump for joy at the |
may see their own images, | thought of just being alive. Our |
and live for a moment with a | serenity prayer brings peace, and |
clearer, perhaps even with | joy and contentment, and commit- |
| Thanks to all of our patients for | a fiercer life because of our | ment to our recovery. |
| your input on the satisfaction | quiet." | |
| surveys. Most recent results | William Butler Yeats | Laughter can be a source of growth. |
| reveal a 95% over-all satisfac- | | Laughing reduces stress. Laugh- |
| tion with our services. | | ing is progress! --Rick B. LCDC |
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