Blog entries tagged Respect

Love At Any Price (Video)

Ken P. — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:48:20 +0100

Love At Any Price

A Song for Codependent Wives of Alcoholics and Addicts

I attended an Al-Anon meeting one night led by a woman with a great "program." This lady led on the topic of setting boundaries. She struggled and struggled during her "lead" to describe how she felt when interacting with her husband.

I'm Losing Me For You

Ken P. — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:01:59 +0100

I'm Losing Me For You

A Song for Codependent Men

This song for codependent men explores the thoughts experienced by every man I ever met, codependent or not, about what it feels like to give yourself away entirely for the love of a woman.

That is on one level. For every man who has ever given himself away to a woman...who has long ago given herselRead More...

WHO AND WHAT IS MYTHERAPYJOURNAL.COM ??

Tim - Sales Manager — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:00:00 +0100

WHO AND WHAT IS MYTHERAPYJOURNAL.COM ???

I would like to invite your patients and you to use MyTherapyJournal.com, the only therapy-oriented online journaling tool. You should consider this online service, as we continue to sign up new treatment centers who are providing this innovative service to their patients. I would like to share how the scientific proven benefits of journaling can be a great benefit to set you apart from other treatment centers, as well a provide an impactful tool to yRead More...

Help your addict/alcoholic hit bottom

Chez Wise — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

For decades we have listened to the “experts” tell us recovery cannot happen until the addict or alcoholic hits bottom. Bottom for most alcoholics and addicts is jail, institutions, or death. Are you willing to wait?

No one, absolutely no one does anything without a reason or with out leverage of some sort. The same holds true for addiction of any kind. If there is no reason to get clean and sober, they won’t. If nothing ever happenRead More...

Addiction and Codependency vs. Maturity

Ken P. — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Heard at a meeting:

When I first came to a meeting I was here to check you out. I had it all together. I was so far into denial that no matter how chaotic the situation was I would just re-fashion the truth to make it work for me!

Vinny

When the co-dependency and/or addiction begins at an early age, one huge price paid by the individual (and ulRead More...

Why Ask For Help With Addiction?

Ken P. — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:00:00 +0100

I am aware that these words will only reach a select few. I am writing to anybody who has reached their true "bottom" and given up on the whole life process. If you are like me, you were brought to this point by the impact of the two diseases of addiction and codependency. If you have just started reaching out for help through one of the 12-step programs, then continue reading. If you are just miserably despondent right now due to thesRead More...

Why "Big Boys" Should Admit Being WRONG.

Ken P. — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:00:00 +0100

One night while attending an open AA meeting , God spoke to me through an AA member with only a few months of sobriety. Mike, like me, had developed the habit of practicing his 10th step at night just before going to sleep.

(For reference, here is the 10th step; We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it).

He would lay there and go through his day thinking through each incidence where he had been wRead More...

Out In The Cold. A Song for Lonely Cowboys.

Ken P. — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100

My friend, Kit Johnson at Kansa Records, an- independent label in Nashville, asked me to write an old fashioned cowboy song. Her exact words were "...Ken, I want the saddest, loneliest cowboy song you can write...something that might have been sung by the Sons of the Pioneers." Some of you really old cowboys may remember this group as the harmonizing cowboys who originally launched a guy named Roy Rogers.

&nRead More...

Your Country Style. A Song About A Texas Gentleman.

Ken P. — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Country Style

It's not your boots, not your hat,

Not even your jeRead More...

How 'Ya Do. A Song for Honky-Tonkers

Ken P. — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100

It all starts with the first date. There are always expectations as a man and a woman First meet. This nice country duet explorers the expectations most common TO men and women when they meet in a honky tonk.

How Ya Do.

Easy Does It (A Song For Frustrated Women)

Ken P. — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100

The first rung of our mental awareness ladder to disappear when we swallow alcohol is the rung that holds up JUDGEMENT. That fact has caused more human suffering than most of us can imagine. One form of sufferring is the sufferring that happens when a lack of judgement is mixed in with an all-too human emotion...lust. That mixture often results in unwanted pregnancies, jail-time, shame, STD's, or maybe a lifetimes of marriage between two people who barely knowRead More...

I'm Losing Me For You (A Song for Codependent Men)

Ken P. — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100

I'm Losing Me For You

A Song for Codependent Men

This song for codependent men explores the thoughts experienced by every man I ever met, codependent or not, about what it feels like to give yourself away entirely for the love of a woman.

That is on one level. For every man who has ever given himself away to a woman...who has long ago given herselRead More...

Graduation Day

da wicker — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

By Rev. Ned Wicker,

http://Drug-Addiction-Support.org

The group session on spirituality was just wrapping up when one of the staffers opened the door and asked "Are you almost finished?" For Janice, one of four women in the group, it was time to go home. She had finished a five-day stay at the residential drug and alcohol treatment center, and this day, as she put it, was "graduation day."

It was a strange, almost surreal moment. AfteRead More...

Addiction and Respect

Ken P. — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:45:10 +0100

There are various ways to gain respect. The most difficult is to use the personal discipline to grow first on an individual basis (by maturing in areas such as self control, patience, etc.) and then to go out and lead a fruitful life.

Another way is to intimidate, fight, and bluster at other people. This method makes the incorrect basic assumptionthat respect and fear are synonymous.

Unfortunately, addiction is progressive. TRead More...