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We cannot control our thoughts but we can control our actions. A simple sentence and so often hard to execute. Some of the one liners we here in the rooms of AA/NA are “I don’t have [...]

Self-will is not a bad thing to have but when it runs riot it means that we exaggerate everything in our being and it produces failure. As addicts in active use our self-will always runs riot. We [...]

“Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it” One of the lines in the book “Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions” is the [...]

When we walked into the rooms and heard people share their stories they enamored us. A lot of the stories we heard were so similar to ours. As a newcomer we would see people with 20 and 30 years [...]

“The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop drinking” Thank God that this tradition was written. The only thing that we have to have is a desire to stop drinking and [...]

“Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all” The eighth step of the program calls for some action as well. The word made is a verb which [...]

We came into the fellowship because we knew we had a problem. We knew it would be hard work and a lot of times we felt like giving up but we remember how hopeless we were in our addiction so we [...]

Thank you Clearbrook. Thank you for starting a new life for me and countless others. The dedication you have shown to your patients in unwavering. I never believed that I could have friends [...]

Spiritual living is a concept that most of us never even thought about when we in the midst of our using. The Big Book says …”we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been [...]

The growing epidemic of bath salt usage is exploding into view in Northeastern Pennsylvania according to a March 20th front-page story in the Sunday Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. Kudos to the State [...]