Empowerment from a non-professional community

In todays lab we were required to search for a non professional healh related online community or blog. I used the google blog search on alcoholicism.

In this community bloggers post words of encouragement.empowerment and advise by sharing their own personal stories about  and struggles on their path to becoming sober.

Here are some sentences of words of empowerment by bloogers in this community.

View all problems as challenges.
Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow.
Don’t run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence.
You have a problem? Great.
More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate.

The key to calming down and quieting a busy mind is to trust that, if you do, everything will be okay. If you empty your mind, you won’t be turning it off. It will still be working. In fact, it will be smarter and work better and more efficiently. A wise, intelligent, and orderly thought process will take over, and the appropriate thoughts will emerge when needed…

One of the most important things A.A. has given me, in addition to freedom from booze, is the ability to take ‘right action.’ It says the promises will ALWAYS materialize if I WORK for them. Fantasizing about them, debating them, preaching about them and faking them just won’t work. I’ll remain a miserable, rationalizing dry drunk. By taking action and working the Twelve Steps in all my affairs, I’ll have a life beyond my wildest dreams.”