Thought for today: It’s been said that “you’re as sick as your secrets”. Secrets have a way of taking energy from us, while the truth generally allows us to grow in energy. When secrets are many, we risk tripping over them, like clutter in a room. We dare not talk about our problems in public. We hide […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Sanity is a relative term. A person can seem perfectly normal in most ways, and yet be totally insane in one key area. Our relation to debt is like that. We need to admit that we are not like normal people when it comes to debt, spending and earning. Our disease beats […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Step Ten is a simple tool to help us understand how we are doing, and to identify opportunities to improve our lives. Our solvency and serenity improve as we make Step Ten a daily habit. DA Step 10: 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. A member shares: “I […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: In DA, Solvency means to not incur unsecured debt, one day at a time. Whether or not we still have debt we incurred before DA doesn’t stop us from being solvent today. All it takes is that we transform our relationship to money and people, and that takes some heavy doses of self-honesty. Then, we can go through the […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Step Ten is simple. We’ve already done each piece of it in Steps 4-9. And it helps keep us on track in maintaining our solvency. In the earlier Steps, we’ve taken a moral inventory, shared it with our Higher Power and another human being. We’ve become entirely ready to remove our shortcomings, […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: The lifestyle of escalating debt leads to a downward-spiral in a person’s self-esteem. Panic becomes a way of life. Creditors’ calls plagued us at every turn. We couldn’t breath, it was so constricting. It was insane to live this way. But what was the alternative? A member shares: “I really didn’t have much choice […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: When you work the Twelve Steps to a spiritual awakening, you will find a way out of debt. It’s usually not a quick fix, put it can last a lifetime, as long as you are willing to change your attitudes about money and people. The spiritual approach works on both of these levels. If you […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: To be solvent in DA means to no longer incur unsecured debt, one day at a time. As DA says, “Unsecured debt is any debt not backed up by some form of collateral, such as a house or other asset.” For many, doing away with credit cards is an emotional and transformational experience. A member […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Our DA program starts with hope. Without hope, we never would have taken the effort to get to a meeting and find out what it was all about. When we first hear about DA, we hope it has an answer to our debting problem. Someone told us about DA – a therapist, […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: DA helps people get solvent. We naturally want to champion it to anyone who needs a way out debilitating debt. The primary purpose of our groups is to carry this message of solvency to compulsive debtors. We do this for several reasons… First, we share because our own solvency gets stronger from […]
Continue reading →