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Progress is slow going. I have not struck that vein of readers just yet to get this blog rolling, but I’m still very confident. I do want to thank the 6 of you for hanging on. The recovery community is out there, they are just very spread out. If any of you have any suggestions for me, please feel free to comment away. Vistiors to the website are still sparse. Feed subscribers are still floating between 11 and 14, with the actual readers average hovering at 6, not including my mother. Here are the web site statistics from 10/10 thru 10/16 Here are the web site staticstics from 10/17 thru 10/23   As you can see the statistics for the most recent week is drastically down from the previous week, with the most significant difference being the average time spent on the web site. We went from 1:45 down to 11 seconds. A quick glance and away they go. I had a very intresting discussion with my sister the other day, where we discussed anger and how it relates to fear. I realized that in my own sobriety I have barely touched the subject of anger. My main focus has always [...]

// // // ]]> . Fear is amazingly powerful. Fear can overwhelm you, control you and devastate your life. Like many other alcoholics I drink because of fear. I drink to suppress the hundreds of fearful thoughts that travel through my mind. Until several months ago I never really fully understood how much control fear has over me. I now fully understand that for me to conquer my alcoholism and my host of other character defects I must first understand and overcome my fears. In order for me to release and fully understand my fears, I need to write it out. Writing is my release, so I developed this fear worksheet that gives me more room to write what is going on in my head. My 4th Step Fears worksheet is available below, FREE for those of you that wish to use it. . . If you like the worksheet, please give it a digg or a tweet or leave a comment. It would be much appreciated. Thanks!

There is no two ways about it, quitting smoking is very hard to do. Quitting smoking while in the first few months of recovery can be even tougher. When you first go into alcohol recovery the general rule is to not even attempt to quit smoking until after your first year of sobriety. There is just too much going on in your first year of sobriety and you need to focus on your recovery. I’m a firm believer in this. One task at a time until you master the task. However, here comes the do as I say not as I do part, smoking was driving me nuts. I really hate the smell of cigarettes and I was sure that I would never meet the women of my dreams if I was stinking like cigarettes. So against others advice I embarked on the quit smoking path. I have quit smoking twice before. Once for 13 years and another time for six months. My recollection of both occasions was that it wasn’t that bad, not fun, but not that bad. Boy, was I wrong! It was tough, really tough. I had about six false starts before it kicked in. It wasn’t [...]

It’s lonely out here in cyberspace. No responses to any of the posts, however I have gotten a fair amount of downloads of the 4th Step Worksheet. Getting the word out is proving to be a little more difficult than I thought.But it’s only been a few weeks. I’ll keep plugging at it =). Thank you to our RSS Feed Subscribers. Were hovering around 12, it fluctuates between 11 and 14. Our reach has been a high of 6 and a low of 1. In the next week I will be putting together another 4th Step Worksheet, this one will be for Fear, and posting it. I have a few more blog posts planned. A friend suggested that maybe my writing is a little long winded and I should shorten the posts a bit and get to the point, so I will be working on that as well. I up’ed my twitter posts, hopefully that will help a few more people find us. Until Next Week ~ Andy