NEWSLETTER |
Some Helpful Numbers | Some Reminders | July 21, 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 | |
Problem Gamblers Help-Line | 6:00 am to 9:00 am | "Grief can take care of itself, but to |
800-742-0443 | | get the full value of joy, we must have |
SA - Sex/Love Addicts Annon. | Closed on Sunday | somebody to divide it with." Mark Twain |
800-477-8191 | | |
DA - Debtors Anonymous | Please remember to bring your | Well, here's some more of what I |
713-797-8441 | lock boxes. | like about recovery: |
Shoplifters Anonymous | COME TO GROUP | 1. I get to enjoy the gift of fellowship |
713-840-1833 | WE ARE MEETING EVERY | with others who are on the journey. |
Recovery Related Stuff | SATURDAY FROM | I get to enjoy being in association |
www.hazelden.org | 8:30 AM TO 9:15 AM | with others who are living in depen- |
Hepatitis Information | Recovery is a Journey cont. | dence on our higher power and |
www.hepatitisneighborhood.com | 3. It feels good to say "thank | interdependence on each other. |
APAA | you." When I hear my self ex- | This fellowship fills the hole that |
The Association of Persons | pressing gratitude it reinforces | addiction was supposed to fill. |
Affected by Addiction | that I have been blessed. | Fellowship enriches and enhances |
| Being grateful and conceited | the quality of my life. I reach out to |
The Twelfth Step Ministry | at the same time is almost | others and others simultaneously |
214-706-9526 | impossible. Thankfulness is | reach out to return the love. Lone- |
Lots of support groups of | actually being full of gratitude | liness, isolation, and boredom no |
various interests. | for what I have received. Grat- | longer rule my life. I have a different |
Visit their web site. | itude breeds more gratitude. | life style that enables me to let go & |
www.llumc.org | The more I expess my grati- | let God in. |
| tude, the more aware I am | 2. I get to be available to really help |
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of the numerous ways I have | folks. Service to others transforms |
been blessed, again, and | me from self-centeredness, self- |
again. I become more humble | pity, and resentments. I get to be a |
HERE NOW | and more able, all at the same | part of the solution instead of a con- |
The procedure is called | time. By Rick B. | tributer to the problem. I get to nur- |
auricular acupuncture. | ************* | ture others and get fed in return by |
It is helpful for a variety of issues | | those who care. The reaching out |
that affect those with | can be risky. And it is the reaching |
addictions. | out that draws me into truly healthy |
Please see your counselor. | intimate relationships. |
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