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This weekend, Saturday, July 30 will be our Alumni Picnic where our alumni come to celebrate recovery and their time at Clearbrook. There’s good food, good friends and a speaker meeting! [...]

Patience is not a word that is practiced with complete ease when we first get sober. Things are changing but our disease wants to tell us that it is not changing fast enough for us. That is the [...]

Today let us all take a moment to show someone compassion. A lot of things in our lives move so fast and we have so much going on that we frequently forget to take a minute for ourselves or for [...]

There are all kinds of different meetings that we can go to. There are speaker meetings, As Bill Sees It, topic meetings, and step meetings. Today we wanted to talk about the importance of step [...]

Listening isn’t something we’ve always done. In fact, some of us when we first got sober had to re-learn how to listen and take in what other people are saying. In our addiction, we [...]

If you don’t go to meetings your chance for long-term sobriety diminishes. For the most part the previous sentence is true. When we see someone come into the rooms, then we don’t see [...]

1. If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through. 2. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. 3. We will not regret the [...]

When we first got to the rooms of A.A./N.A. the phrase “Keep it simple” could be heard all the time. It was something we constantly told ourselves because it was in our nature to [...]

The first three steps of the AA/NA program is the base of our recovery from alcohol and drugs. In the first step we have to concede to our innermost selves that we can not use alcohol and drugs [...]

No one is perfect whether it be emotionally, physically or spiritually. Sometimes we watch the way people act or hear the way they speak and we get irritated. Someone doesn’t do something [...]