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For those who cannot smoke marijuana responsibly. And find it hard to focus on anything else.

Disclaimer: This isn't for any non addicts.

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The following questions may help you determine whether marijuana is a problem in your life.

1. Has using marijuana stopped being fun?

2. Do you ever get high alone?

3. Is it hard for you to imagine a life without marijuana?

4. Do you find that your friends are determined by your marijuana use?

5. Do you use marijuana to avoid dealing with your problems or to cope with your feelings?

6. Has your marijuana use led to financial difficulties and/or legal consequences?

7. Does your marijuana use let you live in a privately defined world?

8. Have you ever failed to keep promises you made about cutting down or controlling your use of marijuana?

9. Has your use of marijuana caused problems with your health, memory, concentration, or motivation?

10. When your stash is nearly empty, do you feel anxious or worried about how to get more?

11. Do you plan your life around your marijuana use?

12. Have friends or relatives ever complained that your using is damaging your relationship with them?

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"Why Alcohol Hijacks Neurotransmitters & How to Rebalance Them"

by Sarah Rusbatch: https://sarahrusbatch.com/blog/why-alcohol-hijacks-neurotransmitters-how-to-rebalance-them

#serotonin #dopamine #GABA #Glutamate #magnesium #vitamins #neurotransmitters #alcohol #alcoholic #alcoholism #anxiety #balance #sober #sobriety #AA #12steps

Omg!
Just realized today is my 18 year sober anniversary!!
Thank you God! For lifting me out of that hell!
AA worked for me.
The 12 steps is a miracle for real alcoholics like me 🙂
#sober #alcoholism #AA
#12steps #gratitude

I am amazed at causality in my life.

Almost everything I need to know to proceed right now is available to me via either direct personal experience or people I know.

My whole life has been preparation for now.

#religion #spirituality #politics #business #recovery #12steps

Gibraltargatan, #malmö . A fairly run-of-the-mill, albeit rather playful, building. On this spot once stood "Malmö fruktimport" (see second pic, which I just stole of the interwebs Pic taken from the opposite direction). It was one of Malmö's few wooden houses and home to an AA-group I attended a lot in the 90's. The 12 step program is not... unproblematic, to put it cautiously, but that group was rather benign. The interior of the house was a time capsule. Every room was unlocked and accessibel. (I guess they trusted sober alcoholics), and one could roam the halls. Nothing had changed since the 70's; Vintage phones and huge calculating contraptions, everything brown, beige and dirty orange, A beautiful, dusty and analog dream. Well... just a small tidbit from my life...
#architecture #memoire #12steps

Found serenity on the 800 block of Watkins Street in South Philly

#SouthPhilly #serenity #StreetArt #SidewalkArt #ConcreteArt #art #WetCement #WetCementArt #hands #HandPrints #12Steps #recovery #AlAnon #afg #Philly #SouthPhiladelphia #Philadelphia

Photo of a hand print in a cement sidewalk. The word "serenity" is inscribed to the left of the hand print.

It works if you work it!!!

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Step 12 rewrite:

Having BECOME WOKE as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to FOLX WHO SHARE OUR PRIVILEGES, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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The Twelve Steps of AA

Step 1
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.

Step 2
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Step 3
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

Step 4
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Step 5
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step 6
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Step 7
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

Step 8
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Step 9
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Step 10
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Step 11
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His Will for us and the power to carry that out.

Step 12
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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#AbuseCulture #12Steps #GenX #SocialJustice

Thinking about how I've said the 90s was culturally gripping the mic and stammering, "Hi I'm Bob and I'm an alcoholic," where maybe we didn't do anything about systemic social and cultural issues, but took the necessary first step and admitted we had a problem. Which empowered later generations to start doing something.

Leaning full into the 12 Step metaphor, in the 90s we began the fearless and searching moral inventory which got even more fearless and searching when social media empowered us to communicate these ideas more rapidly and without filters.

I know 12 Step programs have a bad rap, largely due, IMHO, to them being abused in some places but not all. But if you read the steps, other than some of the God stuff (GenX definitely skipped step 3 because we assumed nothing would restore society to sanity), the larger part of society has been following the 12 Steps for the last three decades.

It's the making amends steps that the other part of society is fighting as hard as it can.

If we are a collective mind, fascism is like the injured ego feels unbearable shame and pushes back with waves of deflection, denial, and destruction.

While the rest of us are the other part of the mind saying no, no we need to push through the discomfort and apologize, change our life, and make up for the past, and make our future actions right.

I'll follow this with the steps so you can compare.

(I wish I'd written this better but my editing brain is tired. I just wanted to get this idea down.)

(I feel like I could rewrite these to apply to our societal reckoning. I can relate the God aspects to having faith in our fellow man to do what is needed. Because that's the point of those steps, allowing you to let go of what you can't change while remaining hopeful. But you still have to do the work.)

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#AbuseCulture #12Steps #GenX #SocialJustice

@wdlindsy A close friend of mine in AA recently told me about the Gift of Desperation. It seems there may be some analogy here. The Gift of Desperation may be the only thing that will compel the people of the US to do the hard work needed. #12steps

Dave 5 on the plan. Passed up chips, ice cream, 1/2 a chipotle burrito. Crushing it! #diet, #recovery, #12steps.

Hoping everyone can find a couple of minutes of #peace for themselves. Shoutout to brothers and sisters who are in #recovery, take care of yourselves! Work whatever works for you.

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Graphic collage depicting symbols for the different recovery programs as well as Buddhist symbolism.

Pagans seeking 12 step/12 tradition fellowship but struggling with established fellowships can find meetings at PagansInRecovery.org
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