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Smashing the Golden Idol

By repairing the past, through working the program, he found the freedom of being single. Throughout my lust addiction, romantic relationships became a golden calf to me. I thought an attractive, emotionally compatible girlfriend would fulfill and complete me. Having a girlfriend became a persistent fantasy, but every time a woman would say yes to my proposition for a date, I would run from the relationship as soon as it took off.

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Base Salary Versus Bonuses

God’s love and will in her life are all she needs, and anything else is extra. I grew up with an urge to be a grandmother; I just loved the idea of having a family and children. I would name my daughter after the girl who sits on the last bench in my class. I was in first grade, and I looked at my crush and thought, "If we had a daughter, I would name her after my classmate who's at the top of our class." Cute, right? I chuckle because I was only five when I did this.

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Being Truly Satisfied

He discovered that being single allowed him to devote his whole life to God. I was not put in this program by a spouse. I put myself here of my own volition. I don’t have to get found out or exposed because I have the opportunity to expose and find out about myself here in safety and connection with others, united in fellowship all across the world. I may not ever marry. It is possible that I could live a neo-monastic life in spiritual practice and connection with others under God all across the planet, and I’m okay with that. Lotta pain still, but pain when fully processed becomes wisdom.

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My Higher Self

Time being single and sober has allowed her to hear Higher Power’s will for her. I have been sober for several years now, and have taken my first steps toward recovery. By “recovery,” I don't just mean working the Steps, but that I am literally “recovering.” I'm talking about healing and restoration.

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Happy, Joyous, and Single: Is That How It Goes?

I broke up with my last girlfriend when I came to the program, after a two-year relationship. The reason was my shocking admission to the truth about myself—that I used her, trying to find a sense of self-worth at her expense, satisfy lust, and not feel lonely. This realization was painful, but honest and therefore healing.

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Akceptacja – odpowiedź na wszystkie moje problemy

Mam ogromne szczęście, że mam doświadczonego terapeutę, który jest mężczyzną w moim wieku i który sam przeszedł 12 kroków w związku z własnymi problemami uzależnienia. Całkowicie popiera programy 12 kroków. Odkryłem, że tego rodzaju profesjonalna pomoc z zewnątrz stanowi bardzo pozytywne uzupełnienie mojego zdrowienia w SA.

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Dobra żałoba

W mojej pamięci wyrażenie „good grief” (dosłownie: dobry żalu – lub: żałobo) zapisało się jako wykrzyknik używany przez postaci z komiksu „Fistaszki”. Przez większość życia używałem go, by wyrazić zdziwienie, konsternację i frustrację, nie zastanawiając się nad głębszym znaczeniem tego eufemizmu (wykrzyknienie to stanowi eufemizm wyrażenia „Dobry Boże” – tłum.). Zanim przystąpiłem do programu SA (21 października 1998 r.), nosiłem w sobie pokłady niewyrażonego żalu. Dopiero po kilku przejściach przez kolejne Kroki zacząłem rozumieć i doceniać korzyści płynące z przeżywania go. Zdałem sobie sprawę, że przechodzenie przez żałobę było dla mnie uzdrawiające i dobre.

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