Twelve Step Reflections

Addiction Recovery, Healing, and Prevention - Notes from Nannette

So What’s So Merry About Christmas?

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Merry Christmas everyone! Isn't that the sincere wish on our lips and in our hearts at this time of year for everyone we know? We say it, we write it, we sing it. I thought I might look up the definition of the word "merry" to see just what it is I am hoping for each of you (and frankly for me too). ... Read More

“Bleak Midwinter”

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This morning as I opened my blinds to allow the first light of day into the cozy yellow bedroom I was hopeful for sunshine. But as I pulled the string that opens my view to the world outside and gazed out the window at the gray day these words came to mind. “Snow had fallen, snow on snow.”  They are ... Read More

The Other Shoe – Step 12 Service

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My daughter-in-law and I went together to buy a gift for my son’s birthday.  We bought him a new pair of new running shoes.  They were quite expensive, but he is very much in need of shoes that can take a beating.  I joked with him yesterday that I bought him “a shoe” for his birthday.  We had a ... Read More

“We Don’t Ever Have To Put Christmas Away” Step 3 and 12

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This was the first Christmas in years I have been completely devoid of the desire to “take down Christmas,” as we say.  The first year I remember feeling this way was my first baby’s first Christmas.  My mother-in-law had always decorated her tree with little birds.  She was growing older and was ... Read More

Lessons From the Stable All Year Long

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Now that we’re on the “other side” of Christmas I thought I would write a little piece about taking Christmas into the new year. My latest post is called “Lessons From the Stable All Year Long.”  It’s highlighted on my daughters Kendra’s wonderful Blog “The Things I Love Most” as part of her “25 ... Read More

Christmas Eve Instruction on Finding the Perfect Gift – Perfectionism and Step 1-3

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If I wasn’t “finishing up” at Target or All-A-Dollar or Kmart at 5:45 on Christmas Eve, I guess the season wouldn’t be quite the same.  On December 24, 2002 I was given the following insight.  It has made a difference in every Christmas Eve thereafter. Exhausted and touching on frantic, I completed ... Read More