2nd Chance Recovery Sober Living

11/30/2024

Happy Post Thanksgiving Guys playtime

03/31/2022

What is a SPONSOR?

A sponsor is a senior member of AA or NA who has been in recovery for usually at least a year. Sponsors help you navigate membership, answer questions, work on the 12-steps, and offer accountability. A sponsor is also a confidant who understands where you have been.

10/18/2021

01/05/2021

Our program says three things are more important than knowing ourselves: first, admitting we have no control over our addiction; second, believing in a Higher Power; and third, turning our lives over to the care of that Higher Power.
Knowing ourselves makes our lives better in recovery. But it does not give us sobriety. Sobriety starts with surrender to our Higher Power. We now know we need the faith and strength we get from God. We also need the support of others in our program. We know it’s an “action” program because “nothing changes if nothing changes”.

Prayer for the Day
God, thank you for my sobriety today. Teach me what I need to know about myself to do Your will today.

Action for the Day
Today I’ll talk with my sponsor about the change in my spirit that keeps me sober.

12/16/2020

Some of us have gone through life thinking that we did not need to follow any guidelines. Somehow, we got the idea that special circumstances placed us above the rules. We looked for shortcuts and rebelled against the tedium of discipline. Considering ourselves exceptional, we decided to make our own guidelines. These were usually based on doing what we felt like when we felt like it.
When we get to 12 step meetings, we may spend a short or a long time experimenting with the program, adjusting it to suit ourselves. Sooner or later, we discover that our adjustments do not work. The program works, provided we follow the suggestions and work it as it is, not as we might like it to be.
Once we accept the suggestions at a gut level, they lead us out of negative restraint into positive freedom. By following a few simple guidelines, we become free from slavery to compulsive behaviors and self-centered confusion.

Thank You for Your guidelines and freedom. I’ll work my program as suggested and not in my self centered way.

12/01/2020

It's beginning to look like Christmas at 2nd Chance Recovery women's house