Welcome to The Recovery and Serenity Zone, a bog featuring daily inspirational and motivational readings approved by Alcoholics Anonymous and Hazelden Foundation, one of the country's leading treatment centers. Intended for recovering addicts and their family and friends, it's also hoped to motivate those who want to be in recovery to seek it - and to offer a philosophy to non-addicts for improved every day living.

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Men as caregivers, and aftermath

March 7, 2018
By Christopher M. MacNeil His name was Gilbert but everyone called him Todd. In 2012, two years after a heart attack that was not considered major, Todd was diagnosed with Stage 4 congestive heart failure and given a one- to two-year life expectancy. With that and other diagnoses of Type 2 diabet...
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    February 5, 2014
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  • Feb. 6, 2014 – Today’s Gift from Hazelden
    February 5, 2014
     Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 Today's thought from Hazelden is: He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.  -- Thomas Fuller Often we're afraid to forgive others who've hurt us because we believe that, in doing so, w...
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  • Feb. 6, 2014 – Twenty-Four Hours a Day
    February 5, 2014
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  • Feb. 6, 2014 – A Day at a Time
    February 5, 2014
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  • Feb. 6, 2014 – Step by Step
    February 5, 2014
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  • Feb. 5, 2014 – Step by Step
    February 4, 2014
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  • Feb. 5, 2014 – The Eye Opener
    February 4, 2014
     The Eye Opener Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014  Created in God's image, with the breath of God in my nostrils, my body the Temple of the Holy Ghost, called by the Christ a child of God, surely, I could walk with angels if I could only live up to my heritage. Man has fallen short of…
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  • Feb. 5, 2014 – Today’s Gift from Hazelden
    February 4, 2014
     Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 Today's thought from Hazelden is: How the I pervades all things!  -- William Ellery Channing If we could extract the "I" from our thoughts, some of us would lose our focus. We have a tendency to think only of our comfort, our convenience, our point of ...
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  • Feb. 5, 2014 – Twenty-Four Hours a Day
    February 4, 2014
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