Substance Abuse/Recovery

If a miracle happened to you, would you even know it?

Nov 30, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

If a miracle happened to you, would you even know it?

Nov 23, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

If I help you and encourage you to take care of yourself, we'll both be happier.

Nov 16, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

Do you do for everyone but yourself? How does that make you feel?

Nov 9, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Here's an ode to that insanity and recovery.

Nov 2, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, how would you spend today? Living one day at a time, we always spend that day as well as we can.

Oct 13, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

You've experienced terrible physical and verbal abuse, but when you tell your story at meetings or to your sponsor, all you seem to get in response is, "Keep the focus on yourself." That makes you feel so misunderstood and alone, doesn't it?

Oct 8, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

Living a full life means the happiness but also the aches and pains of life.

Sep 28, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

You thought your spouse's recovery would be the best thing since sliced bread? Right. He's not even around to break bread with these days!

Sep 21, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

Recovering yourself is one thing. Living with someone who isn't in recovery is another thing. Can you hack it?

Sep 14, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

The concepts behind the steps of recovery sometimes make them easier to understand and apply to our everyday lives.

Sep 7, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

Women trying to balance their recovery with their commitments to other people have difficulties with traditional messages of recovery, like attending 90 meetings in 90 days.

Aug 31, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

People in recovery often find that their number one character defect is anger and an inappropriate expression of that anger. This anger can lead to violent altercations with other people, even people we love.

Aug 24, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

So you drank or used to be happy? Did it work? Who do you have to blame for your unhappiness? Do you hide behind the family coat of arms?

Aug 17, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

So you're enjoying that cigarette, eh? You wouldn't be so ready to light up if your skin turned to green blotches, would you?

Aug 9, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

Make a commitment to recovery. It's a simple process.

Aug 4, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

Recovery isn't easy. Don't expect it to be. But you can have a strong back to carry the load...the strength comes from recovery and your higher power.

Jul 28, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

Are you a worrier? Lack faith in the positive outcomes waiting for you in the future? Check out this story often used by Rev. Anthony Demello to make a point about turning our will and our lives over to the care of God.

Jul 21, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

God’s way is for the ultimate good. Yet how do we know what the ultimate good is?

Jul 13, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

God’s way is for the ultimate good. Yet how do we know what the ultimate good is?

Jul 13, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

God’s way is for the ultimate good. Yet how do we know what the ultimate good is?

Jul 13, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

Attachments to things, people, places and ideas can become so obsessive that we lose focus on other things. Then they're no longer relationships, work, food, ideas, and normal success...they are something much worse!

Jul 6, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

So you want to get this recovery business over with? Get things fixed and move on? Hold on...it's not quite that easy! Simple, but not easy.

Jun 29, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

Wondering about the spiritual part of recovery and how important it is? It is the foundation of recovery. So how you do you get on a spiritual path?

Jun 22, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

Does your behavior consistently indicate co-dependency? Find out what co-dependency looks and sounds like. Try it on for size for yourself!

Jun 15, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

Are you in good spiritual shape, or has your addiction to alcohol/drugs or to the alcoholic damaged your spiritual condition?

Jun 8, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

What doe the Twelve Steps of recovery programs like A.A. and Al Anon mean? Here's one way of breaking the steps down into some concepts to help us understand how the steps can help us in our daily lives.

May 31, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner

Is putting down the drink enough for women who find themselves drinking too much?

May 13, 1999 - Geraldine Wagner