We live in a world of conflict. We perceive it as coming from other people, but much of our conflict originates in our own minds. It may seem that others are against us, but it's usually coming from within ourselves.
We have already determined that our thoughts come first and then our actions follow, but if we can get a pattern of actions going, they can sometimes influence our thoughts.
One of the very first things our program teaches us is not to react to everything. That's about choosing not… Continue

A Boy Longs To Play

Hidden inside, a little boy longs to play;
surrounded by things that were lost and
can never be replaced. Happiness stolen, it wasn’t
supposed to be this way.

Trapped by the insanity, and the scars of yesterday;
no one on earth could possibly know his pain.
Life so full of hurt, why did he even stay;
the belt so tight and the air cut off, but fear
stood in his way.

With no one to turn too, and his joy taken away,
how would he break free, how could he join any game.… Continue

My journey towards becoming a strong and healthy survivor lasted for a little over a year. It was something I worked on everyday and for the majority of all my waking hours throughout that year, give or take a few each day for the normal eating, bathing type stuff. I had just left a job as a CFO over two companies, and was now writing my first book full time.

It is hard sometimes to see the path that God has before us, and sometimes we have to keep moving forward on faith alone. I knew that God… Continue

I am The Survivor



Tonight I will stand before a crowd of people and announce that I am a Survivor. It is a fact that I want the whole world to hear.
Wearing my signature bandanna, red white and blue, I will appear too many as a rough and scary looking man. As I sit before the audience, waiting for the speaking to begin, opinions will start to form as to who I am. Some will see a druggie, a fighter, or a loser from the streets. Others will think I am edgy, shady, or perhaps even a thief. Few i… Continue

The great Martin Luther King, once said "I have a dream".
Sometimes it is the knowledge, which moves people to try to make this world a better place.
We, who have suffered the atrocities of this world, sometimes feel we have no hope, no voice, no right to complain. We feel the world is the way it is, and since we have seen nothing better since our youngest age, we are groomed for acceptance. Although we may know nothing beyond our own pain and suffering, it does not change the reality that there… Continue

Hi, I am Glenn James, and I was the victim of CSA, Physical Abuse, and emotional Abuse that lasted for almost a decade. Today I am a Strong and Healthy Survivor. I turned to the streets at age 14, and did not begin to change that lifestyle until my early twenties. I went to college and later worked in the Accounting and Finance world four 14 years. I was a CFO at the time I began to work on my emotional aspects of being a victim. My life was forever changed in a positive way when I wrote the boo… Continue

Sometimes life throws us a curve ball and the world as we've known it gets turned upside down and inside out. Times when we've been let down, betrayed, or abandoned as if we didn't matter. When this happens we are left to either find a way to pick up the pieces and move on bit by bit, or hold onto what happened like a broken trophy of the past that defines and diminishes our life.

My dear councelor was a fierc… Continue

~To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.” -- Unknown

Are you happy with yourself? You can change into what you desire to be. Most of us had very little choice in much of what happened to us as a child. As we grow up we do. The simple fact is we are right now, just where we chose to be.

There is only one you. No one else laughs like you. Talks, walks, or… Continue

Lack of belief in oneself is a killer. It doesn’t help you at all. You need no one else but yourself to turn things around. Here are few-encouraging words that help put a little faith into yourself:

-Think of your dream and imagine yourself reaching that. Always thinking that you’re capable of succeeding can help the thought sink into your subconscious. Remember, failure begins with di… Continue

Leave our meeting place better than we find it. - This basic has helped us enjoy a great range of meeting places. It speaks well of our validity as a recovery program and makes us experience the positive feelings of being responsible at the same time.

Pray in a.m. for Help - When we get up in the morning we ask our Higher Power to help us stay clean, maintain conscious contact, guide us and give is the strength to deal with what comes up.

Pray in p.m. and give… Continue