Pesonal Recovery Stories
Visitors to this site share their experience, strength, and hope with stories of their person journey in recovery.AletheaMore personal stories of recovery from other websites are listed in the Net Links Library on this site.
"The night I celebrated my 6th (sobriety) anniversary I picked up a drink."
Buckshot's Legacy
"Buckshot was just a man, no hero, just an Alcoholic with a love for the program and for his fellow man."
Carter
"I'm starting all over again today... I am so dissappointed in myself because I drank yesterday."
Divorce: The Risks of Staying
"There are alot more risks in staying with the alcoholic today than there were when the founders were around."
Family in Recovery
Maggie says, "The recovery of the whole family has been the greatest gift of my life."
Gary
"This disease of alcoholism is too cunning, baffling, and powerful to let me ever take a rest or sit on my laurels for too long."
Ginna
"I knew in the midst of my sheer insanity that I had just had a spiritual experience and that I would be okay."
He Was Killed Night Before Last
"They let him drive away from there three sheets to the wind more times than they could count."
I Had to Look Within
"I had to look within, deep within my soul to make sense out of a senseless act."
Jill
"I lay there waiting and I prayed for God to please let me die. I just needed out. I blacked out at that point."
Left Behind
"I hope and pray that he comes around. But after my amends had been made, there was little else I could do."
Mary A.
"I had read the book and knew it all. I didn't need anyone to tell me what I had to do."
Mike K.
"This time we are recovering as a family. They understand better, as do I, that we need to recover together."
Peter S.
"The lovable are never forgotten and the lovable inspire long after they are gone."
Staying Married Takes Work
"Unfortunately in today's world of "fix it quick" mentality, divorce is too quickly chosen."
Steve G.
"I do not have influential friends or fancy things. But if I had to give up my sobriety to get all of that back, I don't want it."
Sue Ann
"I used to think that March 26, 1975, was the day that I died."
Suicide Dream
"I had created my own hell, then tried to run away from it."
The Butterfly and Al-Anon
"When most of us come to Al-Anon, we are similar to the butterfly. There was a time when we, too, were unlovely creatures."
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