Dear Subscriber, As you may know, I recently took a couple of months off from writing in order to get some perspective. A main reason for this “sabbatical” was to find out if the blog was serving the “program of recovery” well enough. Then I heard from some of you. Your emails showed concern and appreciation. To […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Money, prestige, and power dominate our world. So how does an “Anonymous” organization exist? Anonymity seems like “ego-deflation” in depth! Actually, the there is a lot we can learn a lot from anonymity when we consider it… A personal share: “When my debting got out of hand, I was grateful DA was there. […]
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: Once the downward spiral of compulsive debt takes hold and is left unchecked, our issues with money will only get worse, never better. But what do we do? People will naturally resist admitting that we are different from others – the same people we see in stores who seem to be able to use credit […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Who knows why we became so mysteriously compelled to be indebted to others? The source of our compulsion to debt may remain a mystery forever – but that’s not important. What is important what DA teaches us: that no matter what happens in our lives, there is never a need to choose unsecured debt. A member shares: “The first […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Newcomers to our program find it hard to imagine a life without feelings of deprivation, insatiable binge overspending, or exhausting overwork. But our experience proves it is not only possible, but likely that we will live a life with abundance if we follow simple Steps and Tools. Working the program brings us a life beyond our often-limited […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: If we are not tracking our numbers to the penny – income, expenses, and savings – it will be hard to get what other members have received from DA. So we’ll need to first get honest with ourselves. Using Step 4, we can search for greater clarity about why we fight doing our […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: When it comes to the disease of compulsive debting, there are no “unique” stories. The same “debt-a-log” gets told over and over in the rooms of DA; only the names and faces change. In this sense, the disease is boring; it always blinds us to light, leaving us to whither, get angry, lash out or nash in […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: In DA we all come from different backgrounds and professions, but we focus on our common problem of debting, overspending and under earning. Our disease is no respecter of persons – and neither is our recovery! DA Tradition 1. “Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon D.A. unity.” A member shares: […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Some of us have gone through painful bankruptcy. Cross-examined by attorneys in judge’s chambers can be leave us feeling humiliated. People who are professional at arguing against debtors do their job, and years of dread can bubble up into a “fight-or-flight” responses and we want to run. Some of us begin to cry, get angry, or cower, […]
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