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Cleaning up your life in early recovery

Recovery requires cleaning out the dump. We get rid of old garbage and learn to refuse other people’s garbage.

Hauling it to the Curb: Cleaning up your life in early recovery by Ken Montrose

Cleaning up your life in early recoveryThis 160 page workbook helps newcomers explore their denial, deal with early recovery, and work the first five steps of AA/NA. In addition to practical advice and thought-provoking exercises, this book tells the story of Matt and Rachel, a young couple in early recovery.

Some of us are born into a dump. Our parents have filled our homes with loads of emotional garbage. Every room holds memories of screaming arguments, or worse yet, stony silences. Every day we pretend we live in a normal home, and every day more garbage arrives. The stench of denial is stifling. We leave as soon as we can to turn our new homes into dumps, taking with us as much garbage as we can carry.

Some of us create our own dumps from scratch. We grow up in loving homes where getting drunk or stoned does not excuse immature behavior. We order loads of garbage until our parents accept living in a dump or force us to leave.

In either case, many of us suddenly realize we live in a dump. Be it a mansion or a mission, it is a dump. Every day the dumptrucks pull up, driven by bitter children, ex-spouses, angry bosses, police officers, and unsympathetic judges.
We cannot understand why they keep “dumping” on us. It takes some of us a long time to remember we ordered this garbage. It takes us even longer to realize we can refuse delivery on other people’s trash.

Not using alcohol and other drugs (AAOD), slows the pace of delivery. Loads still arrive, but most often they are loads ordered before we got clean and sober. The alcoholic who stops drinking still lives in a dump, but with luck most of the garbage will rot away. He may have to deal with other people’s loads.

Recovery requires cleaning out the dump. We get rid of old garbage and learn to refuse other people’s garbage. In recovery we get out from under loads we don’t remember ordering that arrive after we get clean and sober.

If you seem to have misplaced your mansion under the mounds of garbage, read on. It is time to start digging out.

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Thinking she is alone, Natasha begins touching herself. She whimpers at the thought of a man inside of her, caressing her, and traveling the course of her body with his hands. When she’s about to orgasm, she hears a man walking toward the river.
Naked and aroused, she looks to him. Her chest lifts and her lower back arches as she gives the man a seductive smile. She enjoys him staring at her and she becomes soft—surrendering to him is what her desire craves.

Who is this man? He is confident, and she’s allured by his features—his wide neck, the architectural shape of his muscular arms, and his broad shoulders.

The man’s eyes stream the lines of her body—the delicate shape of her neck leading to her shoulders, the curves of her rounded breasts, and the circles of her relaxed areolas.
Her smile grows, and the bigger her smile becomes, the more she opens her legs.
Natasha is a woman who knows the pleasures of her body. Her desire is an ocean she swims in. Sometimes, the waves move calmly in her and sometimes the waves move fiercely.
Is it possible for her to know more?

She will discover that he is the man that will take her farther than she’s ever been.

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The Canticles Mythos Series Book 1In the Canticles Mythos Series, the myths and legends of the Realms of Aegis are brought to life through literature and illustration. Here, you will follow the twelve races, as they were in the Age of Origin, to delve deep into their cultures, join them on their adventures, and fight by their side in the greatest battles of their times! This is the New Face of High-Fantasy. 

 

My Review of The First Sires (The Canticles Mythos Series Book 1):

The First Sires is a collection of short tales of twelve races of mortals born of Aegis during Her first thousand years, called the Age of Origin. These are refreshingly original high fantasy stories with colorful descriptions of beautiful worlds with unique creatures. Included in the tales are a multitude of engaging and relatable characters leading lives packed with exciting adventures and heroic battles. I highly recommend the Canticles Mythos series to followers of stories of magical realms.

About the author of The Canticles Mythos Series, Matthew R.R. Morrese:

Matthew R.R. Morrese is a lifelong student of writing, whether it be poetry, short prose, long prose, epics, or screenplays. Mastering fantasy, classic to modern, he draws inspiration from William Morris, George MacDonald, H.R. Haggard, Lord Dunsany, J.R.R. Tolkien, and George R.R. Martin. Matthew designs and discovers new worlds through ours and theirs, tracking fantasy back to its origins to adapt and create unique and relatable characters, plot, and setting for children and adults alike. Beyond this, he’s a lover of all creative avenues, including the arts, musical theatre, singing and songwriting, archaeology, and astronomy.

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Stealing Thunder (The McKenna Curse Book 1) by Patricia Rosemoor

The McKenna Curse Book 1The family curse prevented Tiernan McKenna from finding love, but it can’t stop him from rescuing Ella Thunder. Having seen her shaman father burned to death when evil stalked his clan, Ella is fearful of using the power her Lakota father taught her, even as evil begins to spread again. Tiernan insists on helping Ella despite his attraction to her. Acting upon what he feels seems so incredibly right, but will the curse claim her?

June 22, 1919
Donal McKenna,
Ye might have found happiness with another woman, but yer progeny will pay for this betrayal of me. I call on my faerie blood and my powers as a witch to give yers only sorrow in love, for should they act on their feelings, they will put their loved ones in mortal danger.
So be it,
Sheelin O’Keefe

Excerpt:
For all his curiosity, Tiernan hadn’t expected to find anything, so when he spotted the dark green SUV sheltered under a boxelder amidst the pines, he stiffened, his surprise touching Red Crow, who danced sideways. Not making a sound, Tiernan held the gelding in check and focused all six senses. What came to him strongest was a blinding pain. He let go and the pain subsided and his vision cleared.
Dismounting, he looped the horse’s reins in a low branch of a pine and moved through a scattering of trees, toward a clearing overlooking the meadow valley. That’s when he saw her—an attractive lass in jeans and a long-sleeved cotton shirt, dark hair flowing down her back in a thick ponytail. She was sitting on the ground, trying to get to her feet but not quite managing.
Tiernan rushed to her side to help, but what he got for his trouble was a fist square in his chest.
She scrabbled back, staring at him with wide-open brown eyes. “Get away from me, or I’ll… I’ll…”
“You’ll what?” he asked in the soft, melodic voice he used when working with horses, a voice meant to calm and seduce. “I’ll not be hurting you.”
“You knocked me out!”
“’Tis someone else you need to be accusing. I just rode up a few seconds ago.” He indicated Red Crow, now standing quietly in the pines, his head lowered as if he were napping.
“If it wasn’t you…” Again, she looked around.
He concentrated, tested the atmosphere, then shook his head. “If anyone else was around, I would sense it. ’Tis my fey Irish blood.”
She tried to stand once more. And once more he moved closer, this time hesitating before touching her. “May I offer my help?”

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She thought about it for a second, then gave him her hand. Though she wasn’t a small woman—only a few inches shorter than he and nicely curved—he easily pulled her up to her feet. She stood there, her gaze taking him in, while he did the same. Pale skin, wide-spaced round eyes, high cheekbones, strong chin, full lips—a mix of the people in this state. She was the most fascinating-looking lass he’d ever met.
“Thank you,” she said. “Ella Thunder.”
He grinned. “Powerful name. Tiernan McKenna. A cousin to Rose Farrell. The family owns the MKF—stands for McKenna-Farrell. Are you from this area?”
“I used to be,” she said. “I was on my way to visit the grandparents on the rez.”
He could see it in her—she was definitely part, though not all, Native American. “You stopped for some reason.”
“To look around. It’s been a long time,” she admitted. “I was here maybe five minutes.”
“If the culprit did something to scare off the herd and then didn’t want you to see his face… What was he up to?”
“I don’t know. We could look around to see.”
“You could have a concussion. Let me get a better look at your eyes.”
He lifted her chin. The contact was potent and he froze like that, not daring so much as to breathe. It took all his concentration to suck in some air and do what he meant to do. He checked her pupils—both equal in size and therefore normal—and gazed right through them, searching, searching.
A quick flash of light accompanied sharp pain and disorientation and finally the sensation of falling.

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My Plan to Ruin Your Life: The first workbook written by your addiction by Ken Montrose

Addiction workbookMy Plan To Ruin Your Life is a workbook geared to help people struggling to see how their addiction controls them. The voice of the workbook is the reader’s addiction.

ADDICTION’S INTRODUCTION
Don’t be mad, I’m here to improve your chances of staying sober. I wrote this workbook to tell you exactly how I plan to destroy your life, just to see if that would make the game a little more interesting.
Just to be really fair I’ll leave space for you to plan how you will defeat me. I’ll walk you right up to the trap, show you all the slippery spots, and let you see what I’m using for bait. You do what you can to stop me.

MARKETING MISERY:
As part of my “EVERY ADDICT LEFT ON HIS BEHIND” program, I’ve come up with a drug for everyone. I’ve even got heroin cheap enough for kids to buy with the money they made flipping burgers.

STRENGTH BASED ADDICTION
Any con man can use someone’s weaknesses. I will use your strengths against you. For example, I will convince the intellectual he’s not an alcoholic sex addict, he’s ” “caught between man’s inherent bacchanalian, yet life-affirming tendencies, and the puritanical substitution of the Biblical for the bibulous life.”

CHANGE THE WAY I LOOK
I will change my appearance to suit the market. Tomorrow I will look like a single mom’s dream man: good job, honest, considerate, and kind to her eight year old son. When I light up that first joint, she’ll forget everything they told her in rehab. Two years from now her son will be in foster care. I’ll be long gone. She’ll be kneeling behind a dumpster earning money for crack. Her self-loathing will hurt more than the gravel in her knees.

CHANGE THE WAY THE DRUG LOOKS
I will make sure people from all walks of life see me the way I want them to see me:
?To the overworked executive/mom, I will look like a glass of sophisticated relaxation and escape.
?To the eighteen year old intellectual, I will look like edible insight.
?To the union worker, I will look like a can of solidarity and brotherhood.
?To the lonely fourteen year old, I will look like a big cloud of acceptance.
?To the lawyer who just won the big case, I will look like a powdery line of success.

BADGER YOU
“Your day sucked,” I’ll whisper. “Clearly that’s God’s way of telling you it’s time to get high.”

FIND AN INTERNET ADDICTION FOR YOU
You’ll start by downloading free soft porn and end up paying for live performances on your credit card. “OK, this time shave his head and throw in some jumper cables….”

CONVINCE YOU THAT YOU REALLY AREN’T ADDICTED
I’ll make you believe you’ve cured twenty-five years of addiction after one night in detox, or that your prescription abuse is somebody else’s fault. (Did you know that Adam claimed the snake put a piece of the apple in his mouth while he was sleeping?) I’ll tell you the way you use your drug is not that bad and other people do worse. “If I ever inject it there, I’ll know I have a problem.”
Drug testing, not drug use, is your problem. You will see your addiction as a political rather than a personal issue. “Not only should it be legalized, but also baked into school lunches.”

Addiction ends the workbook with a challenge: Come up with a plan, then follow through to end the addiction.

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