Tori

@toribillsfriend

Say what you mean. Mean what you say. Just don't say it mean. DM's always open for my friends in recovery from alcoholism/addiction or those that would like to be. If you don't need to be sober, cheers! #SoberSky

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Tori@toribillsfriend· 24d

" For each step, I still had to go through the process of recognizing that I had no control over my drinking. I had to understand that the steps of AA had helped others & could help me. I had to realize that if I want #sobriety, I had better do the steps whether I liked them or not." #AA BB p. 541

"The elevator is broken. Take the steps." #SoberSky #Recovery

Tori@toribillsfriend· 24d

"We shall need to make a brand new venture into open-mindedness. We shall need to rise our eyes toward perfection, and be ready to walk in that direction. It will seldom matter how haltingly we walk. The only question will be 'Are we ready?' #AA 12x12 p. 68 #SoberSky #Recovery

Recovery is a process. It takes time. It takes patience. It takes everything you've got.

Tori@toribillsfriend· 25d

Reminds me of Dr. Pepper and Sydney Powell.

Tori@toribillsfriend· 25d

"Comparison is the thief of joy." -Elanor Roosevelt #SoberSky #Recovery

Tori@toribillsfriend· 25d

"It’s that 1st fix, pill or drink that gets us high...Until we understand this concept, we will keep trying-without success-to gain control over our drug use. When we start thinking, Well, just one won’t hurt me, we are on our way back to that same pain & discouragement of a drug-filled life."-DBD

"It is the first drink that gets you drunk." #SoberSky #Recovery

Tori@toribillsfriend· 26d

"There is a fountain within me that is ever full & waiting to be discovered...Solitude takes on a different meaning when I can contact that quiet within. Life softens and external things become less important." -Daly #SoberSky #Meditation

No.where can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

Tori@toribillsfriend· 26d

"The slogan suggests that we simply move into the rhythms of life and "go with the flow." It's not hurrying but steady effort that finally brings achievement. We've had entirely too much hurry and impatience. What we really need is confident, persistent effort in the right direction." -WIDP #Sober

Tori@toribillsfriend· 27d

"We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness." #AA BB p. 83 #SoberSky #Recovery

"The chains of alcohol are too light to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."

Tori@toribillsfriend· 28d

"Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love." --Mary Manin Morrissey #SoberSky #Recovery

Metta
May you be filled with loving kindness.
May you be well.
May the you be peaceful and at ease
May you be happy.

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 11

"...spiritual progress, not perfection. We can take all the time we need. Our bottom line is steady progress..Our illness pushes us to be perfect. In recovery, we learn that we are free to be what we are---human." #AA -Keep It Simple #SoberSky Recovery

It's not about perfection. It's about effort and when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 11

"When you know you are serving a greater cause, there is little room for fear and doubt. You know that what you do will benefit others, so there is no way the universe is not going to support your efforts - even if sometimes it may not look that way." -Daily Om #SoberSky #Recovery

Success means going to sleep at night knowing that our talents were used in a way to serve others.

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 10

"“Unreasoned fear” was my main problem for most of my life...I love the fact that since finding this recovery program, I no longer have to live in fear. What wondrous freedom I found in the realization that unreasoned fear is “intellectual fraud.” #AA ADAAT #SoberSky #Recovery

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 10

"Peace is possible for me only when I let go of expectations. When I''m trapped in thoughts about what I want and what should be coming to me, I'm in a state of fear or anxious anticipation and this is not conducive to emotional sobriety." -#AA Daily Reflections #SoberSky #Recovery

My happiness grows in direct porportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations." -Michael J. Fox

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 9

"It is necessary in the beginning to be clean from dry drugs and dry from wet drugs, but it is not all we want to obtain. We want wholeness and we want growth. This comes from living each hour according to the principles we are learning." #AA Hour To Hour #SoberSky #Recovery

The most important spiritual growth doesn't happen when you're meditating or on a yoga mat. It happens in the midst confct when you're frustrated, angry and youre doing the same old thing and then you suddenly realize that you have a choice to do it differently.

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 8

"Deal with the small stuff or it'll deal with you. Do not allow the small stuff to pile up on the camel's back. Take each situation that bothers you & deal with that as one unit, not as the straw that breaks the camel's back. When I feel it, I deal with it and then can heal from it." #AA PS #Sober

"Note to self:
When things feel overwhelming, remember
One thought at a time
One task at a time
One day at a time.

#SoberSky #Recovery #AA

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 7

Platner still hasn't stepped aside?

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 7

"We make two great choices in life: one, the decision to get clean and sober; the other, the choice to stay that way." -Hour to Hour #SoberSky #Recovery #AA

"I chose sober because I wanted a better life. I stay sober because I got one."

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 6

"These men had found something brand new in life. Though they knew they must help other alcoholics if they would remain sober, that motive became secondary. It was transcended by the happiness they found in giving themselves for others." - #AA p. 159 #SoberSky #Recovery

"It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonyous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them." -Bill W. #AA

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 6

",,,most of us had tried desperately to stop drinking. We were filled with the delusion that we could drink like our friends. We tried time and again to take it or leave it, but we could do neither.,,We realized that every reason for drinking was only a crazy excuse..." #AA TFTD #Recovery #SoberSky

The reason that you keep trying to control your drinking is because you're not in control of your drinking.

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 4

You make it sound like we're incapable of making choices for ourselves. Poor, pitiful us! Like I said, give us some fucking credit.

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 3

"Today, I own the truth of my recovery. If I am to stand centered & strong within my life & self, I'll need to plant a garden within my own soul. A garden for me to nurture & to nurture me. A haven of beauty...I do not need to prove anything to anyone anymore. I have come home-to me. " -Daly #sober

"Some nights you just need to sit in the quiet and let your soul unravel like an old poem you've read too many times but still aren't done understanding." Pictured is a woman sitting outside in a beautiful garden. #SoberSky #Recovery

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 3

"One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings and then for a right acceptance of the many gifts that are mine—both temporal and spiritual. Here I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude. ..." -As Bill Sees It, p. 37 #SoberSky #Recovery

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 2

"It's important for us to see that we create our destiny. We create our futures in the choices we initiate today. During my addiction I was like a ship without a sail. I drifted through life & was tossed in a thousand directions. Today I'm able to point myself in the direction I want to go." -FLDM

"You don't find the happy life. You make it." #SoberSky #Recovery #AA

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 2

"That sense of being different, which had long plagued me, disappeared when I saw the threads that run through all of us. Sharing our stories, our feelings, it is the areas where we are the same that impress me...I came to see that we all are really one and I no longer feel alone." #AA p, 347 #Sober

The opposite of addiction is connection." The words are inside a heart. #SoberSky #Recovery

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 2

"Nothing happens when we sit and point." -my spiritual guide

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 1

"One day at a time taught me to put one foot in front of the other; that for one day I could do what I couldn't do, or even fathom doing, for a lifetime...Breaking up my days, weeks, months and years into 24-hour periods allows me to live in the now..." -ODAAT #AA #SoberSky #Recovery

"Pause, breathe, be here now." A smiling picture of Ram Das is beside the quote.

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jul 1

"Freedom from active addiction gives us the freedom to be ourselves, as we truly are. The fact that we are all recovering doesn't mean that we all necessarily have the same needs or goals. Each of us has our own lessons to learn in recovery." -NA JFT #SoberSky #Recvoery #AA

Pay attention to the things you are naturally drawn to. They are often connected to your path, passion and purpose in life. Have the courage to follow them" -Ruben Chavez

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jun 30

"Following the 12 steps, we have the advantage of a better understanding of our problems. Day after day our sobriety results in the formation of new habits...As each 24-hour period ends, we find that...stayin\g sober is a much less trying & fearsome ordeal than it seemed in the beginning." -#AA TFT

"Everything in your life gets better when you get better and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better." -Larry Winget #SoberSky #Recovery

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jun 29

"...The ladies suggested that I go to a women's meeting the next night & I did. I had a drink first...and when it came time to identify myself, I stated that my brain told me I was an alcoholic but the rest of me didn't believe it." #AA p. 538 #Sober (My brain always told me the opposite.)

Alcoholism is, above all else, a disease of denial." -David Stafford #SoberSky #Recovery

Tori@toribillsfriend· Jun 29

"...The trick, for me, was not stopping drinking, but staying stopped and learning how not to start again...To stay stopped, I’ve had to develop a positive program of action. I’ve had to learn to live sober, cultivating new habit patterns, new interests and new attitudes." -ADAAT #SoberSky #Recovery