Pursuit of Recovery

12/01/2025

The Holidays🎄are here,
and it is wise🦉🤓 for us all to practice a little "self care".
Great Read!

Intentional practices to support your well-being aren't selfish.

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from Pursuit of Recovery!
To everyone pursuing healing, rebuilding trust, repairing families, and choosing recovery—today, we honor your courage. We are grateful for your willingness to grow, your transparency, and your faith in the process.

Here’s to gratitude, progress, and the pursuit of a life restored.
Happy Thanksgiving. 🍁💚

11/24/2025

Moms Monday 📝notes
On 12-7-24 my mother wrote:

“Words without actions to back them up are meaningless.”

In recovery, we learn quickly that intention isn’t enough. We can say the right things, make the right promises, and talk about all the changes we want to make—but without action, those words evaporate. They can’t hold us up, they can’t build trust, and they can’t create the life we’re praying for.

This quote is a reminder that recovery is a verb.
It takes motion. It takes follow-through. It takes showing up even when the feelings aren’t there.

In active addiction, our words often ran ahead of our behavior. We promised we’d do better “tomorrow.” We said we’d stop, we’d change, we’d get help, we’d show up. But the gap between what we said and what we did created disappointment, broken trust, and a cycle of shame that kept us stuck.

But here’s the good news:

In recovery, we get to close that gap.
One day at a time.
One decision at a time.
One action at a time.

When we take responsibility for our choices, keep our word, follow through on commitments, attend meetings, check in with supports, use our tools, and practice honesty—even when it’s uncomfortable—we rebuild our integrity brick by brick. And that integrity becomes the foundation for a life that is stable, peaceful, and free.

Today, let this be your reminder:

✨ Say less. Show more.
✨ Let your actions speak healing over your life.
✨ Let consistency replace chaos, and follow-through replace fear.

And remember—God honors movement.
When you step, He strengthens.
When you act, He provides.
When you follow through, He restores.

Words are the starting point.
Actions make them real.

11/19/2025

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Practical Tools & Encouragement  for Staying Sober This Season 🎄 The holidays can bring joy, but they can also bring stress, grief, expectations, family dynamics, travel, and emotional triggers. This guide pulls together simple, effective tools to help you stay groun

11/17/2025

Mom’s Monday📝 Notes – Recovery Reflection
On 2/4/25 My mother wrote:
“If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.” – Charles Spurgeon

In recovery, this quote hits deep. It reminds us that contentment isn’t found in “more” — more money, more approval, more relationships, more control, more comfort.

Contentment is an inside job.

Addiction teaches us to chase “more” as a way to numb pain, fill emptiness, or avoid truth.

But recovery teaches us the opposite:
We grow 🌻
by learning🤓
to sit with what we have, appreciate what is present, and cultivate gratitude right where our feet are.

Because the truth is…
If we’re not grateful for the progress we have today — the clarity, the breath in our lungs, the second chances, the small victories — then doubling any of it won’t satisfy the deeper hunger inside us.

Recovery is about learning to nourish that inner hunger with honesty, connection, peace, and purpose… not with more of anything outside of us.
And when we practice contentment, even in the imperfect and the in-between, something shifts:
we stop chasing and start living.
We stop striving and start healing.

Contentment isn’t settling. It’s strengthening.
It’s choosing to anchor your heart in what’s real today so you’re not blown away by what’s missing tomorrow.

Reflection Question for the Week:

Where in my life do I need to slow down and practice contentment rather than chasing “more” to feel okay?

11/11/2025

Gratitude for our ♥️

11/11/2025

Mom’s Monday 📝Notes
On 6/27/2006 my mother 📝wrote:

“It is impossible to get less than the best when we do things God’s way.”

Recovery tie-in: In recovery, “God’s way” isn’t a shortcut to perfect outcomes—it’s a steady path of principles: honesty, humility, willingness, accountability, and service. When we align our choices with those principles (think Steps 3, 4–5, 9, 10–12), we’re promised the best kind of result: sober clarity, clean conscience, restored relationships where possible, and peace even when circumstances are still messy. Self-will chases comfort and control; God’s way chooses the next right thing. We may not get the outcome we wanted, but we won’t get less than what we truly need—grace, growth, and freedom.

In practice this week
• Motive check: Before a hard conversation or decision, pause and ask, “Am I seeking comfort or character?” Then choose the action that aligns with honesty and love.
• One amends step: Take one concrete action toward repair (a call, a letter, or a living amends through consistent behavior).
• Daily inventory: Each night, list where you followed principles and where you drifted. Make a quick course correction plan for tomorrow.
• Serve someone: Do one quiet act of service—no credit needed. Service keeps us in God’s current instead of our ego’s current.

Reflection question🤓
Where in my recovery am I still negotiating with self-will, and what would “the next right principled action” look like today?

Affirmation😇
“I release outcomes and choose principles. When I do it God’s way, I receive nothing less than what I truly need.”

Simple prayer🙏🏻
“God, order my steps today. Trade my control for Your wisdom, my fear for Your peace, and my will for the next right thing. Amen.”

11/05/2025

HALT is an acronym that is well known in many Twelve Step programs.

It stands for Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired.

When we feel out of balance, it's often that one or more of these things are in play.

When we become aware of what's going on, we can take the necessary steps to mend ourselves.

There's often an "S" added at the end of HALT that stands for "Serious".

It might also stand for "scared" or "sad" or "sick" - feelings or conditions we have had most of our lives, but haven't always identified the effect they've had.

When the "S" is happening, it's time to be even gentler with ourselves.

We've learned that ignoring our reality doesn't make it go away. Even long-term ACAs can see their program seemingly fly out the window whenever HALTS isn't addressed. At these especially vulnerable times, the remedies might include connecting with our Higher Power, going to meetings, and talking to other ACAs. We are learning that these things help us have balance in our lives.

On this day I remind myself that when I feel down and don't see what's happening, remembering HALTS and doing the next right thing help me gently take care of myself in the way I deserve.

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11/04/2025

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