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Due to the recent activity here in England caused by one of my prayers being misunderstood, and at the suggestion of round3, this is a serious request.
I have a problem with sleeping because of the continual dizziness [Vertigo]. My meds have been changed and I am back at the doctors next week if there is no significant imporvement and I am being referred to yet another Specialist. Boo Hoo. However I have got more anitbiotics as I have contract yet another infection. This is a BAD WINTER for me.
BORING!
So have you read any good books lately that you might recommend.
The room moves without an earthquake taking place, however, it will have to be one that I can put down 'cos sometimes reading does not help the nausea.
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"The highest form of wisdom is kindness." The Talmund
I read "The Alchemist" in 2 days. It was really good. I read another book by the same author, Paul Coelho, and finished "The Valkyries" in a couple days. His books are great. Here is the link to his website...http://www.paulocoelho.com/engl/index.html Have fun!
HB...you're so right...boring!! Al-Anoners don't like being put down by anything and soooo yes I've been on some motion sickness otc stuff because of what you are also going thru and still after taking a day off yesterday...went back to work today. I work on roofs that are pitched toward the ground. Can you imagine my Jerry speak while working? Sure HP was there and HP says take the wrong step while your head is moving on it's own and you may have to deal with an involuntary bed stay. I was thinking about you also for going thru the same thing without climbing up on a two story roof line.
Like a true blue enabler I was fulfilling my commitment to my customer!! So what was it that made me decide to come down to lower stratus and eventually to leave the roof altogether? Guessing an earthquake? That sure nuff was what the "push come to shove" motivation was. I had to laugh quite seriously because....tada!!! I had convinced myself that I was almost finished and didn't need to hook up my safety line and belt. In the culture here I was Ho`omakiki. Being stubborn or hard headed. I still don't get what is so difficult in being rational except that one of the profiles (physcological) for an alcoholic is that we are "risk takers". Neither program kicked in...Ho`omakiki it was till I finished and left over a 10 minute period of time. Surely enough time to have come loose fallen and then done it again if I so chose and my head thinks that way...I can shake it off and reclimb. "God grant me the serenity to....."
Sometimes I get stuck and sometimes I don't. I only have to be concerned for myself when I do.
That being said try, "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards. I haven't finished it yet but this gal is a yarn spinner first class.
I am NOT an alcoholic as you know, however I do think that I am probably Ho`omakiki - if I understand it as stubborn and hard headed when I chose to be! And I now accept that I am a risk taker too after doing my inventory. LOL
My imagination ran away with me on the Jerry speak and you had me in tears from laughing so much.
If laughter produces endorphines, and endorphines promote healing, which they do, then I should be the healthiest person alive at this moment in time!
P.S. Yes - God grant you [and me too] the serenity to... AND GET THAT SAFETY LINE AND BELT CLIPPED ON, I NEED YOU COM - POS - MEANT - US, not like Humpty Dumpty who fell off a wall!
-- Edited by Heartbroken at 05:42, 2008-02-28
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As you know, I highly recommend all of the Alanon books that others have mentioned. In different stages of my recovery, each of them has been valuable and instrumental in my continued recovery.
I did, however, just read Eat, pray,love by Elizabeth Gilbert which is non-fiction, and I loved it. It has a lot of recovery in it w/out it being Alanon.
Love Maria
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If I am not for me, who will be? If I am only for myself, then who am I? If not now, when?
I just picked up beyond codependency at the thrift store yesterday :D 20 cents I love that place!
Also a while back I read he's just not that into you and found that really amusing and actually helpful to my thinking.
I also have one called how to survive the loss of a love. That has been good and is set up like a compilation of poems, sayings, stories, etc. about loss of love.
If you really wanna go to sleep a text book or some other boring material.
Eat Pray Love is good maybe a little idealistic for me. I have to be so grounded in reality otherwise I will be totally out there on some romantic fantasy.
Melody Beattie is phenomenal. Pia Melody is good, Claudia Black is good.
I've had vertigo once it took a while to go away. Some of it for me was the incredible awful unrelenting stress of dealing with the A. I hope my health will improve this year. This last flu was a total knock your socks off one for me. I had to go to bed for days. I think surrendering is hard but I also think its good to give to yourself. I gave to the A till l bled dry.
Thank you everybody, I think I have quite a selection to chose from there and I will give my list to my friend when she next comes by. She said that she would go to the bookshop, or the library and look in the charity shop as she likes books too.
Eat, Love, Pray; I know that book. It is lovely and I read it sometime ago and passed it on to someone who was in a dreadful place. Unfortunately she has passed away and her daughter mentioned that her mother had that book by her when she died. Apparently she used to ask everyone who visited to read something from it whilst they were visiting and so the daughter asked if she could keep it as a reminder of those last days.
New meds kicking in. It is not stress related this time Maresie it is something that is physically not right and the infections are proving to aggravate the symptom by huge degrees making it difficult to eat and keep food down either. Vicious circle for me with everything else going on.
God Bless everyone
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"The highest form of wisdom is kindness." The Talmund
If you mean, non-recovery, just stuff to read, I like anything by Kristin Hannah or Luanne Rice - they both kinda write about love and loss, and sometimes I think they've got program too. Warning though, I frequently cry when reading their books - good from a connecting with emotions standpoint, not so good if you want a break from that.
I also like Karen Kingsbury - she's overtly very Christian in her writing, but her characters are very real with real issues - they don't stop being people because they believe in God.
I avoided Dick Francis for a long time because I'm not much for either horses or mysteries - then I discovered that his books are really about right & wrong, truth & justice, too. Unless you really can't stand mysteries, they're another good bet - and there are about 26 of them too!
Anything by Louis L'Amour (mostly American western) and I love Tony Hillerman( mystery set in the Navajo territory). Our youngest son is named after Louis L'Amour. I have read many of his books over more than once. Esp when I really want to be entertained and need a break from the recovery thing. Lots of history in them too. Here's the web site...
www.louislamour.com This is kind of a neat site, too.
PS How come my link won't work? Usually I have no trouble getting them to work. :(
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"When you come to the edge of all you know you must believe in one of two things... there will be earth on which to stand or you will be given wings." ~Unknown
I have a mixture of stress related and non stress related. I have a long standing kidney disease. No question it is aggravated by stress, there is also no quesiton it is there and will be there for ever. I hated it, loathed it when the A poohpoohed my health. He told me my asthma which was absolutely debiltating to say the least could be cured by walking. When he had a skin disease I never though to tell him how to cure it. I never pooh poohed him
I do feel sad that you are indisposed.I am glad you are making the best of it.
I am reading Kate Atkinson's Case Histories and I really love it. Just finished reading Elie Weizel's Night again which is horrible but also so beautiful at the same time. anything Ann Patchett is good. I loved all the books from the Orange list this last round. I love to read.
I had one friend of mine who was so distraught over her husband being in prison that she could not read. It almost killed her (NOT her husband being in jail, not being able to read). It was like her attention span just completely disappeared. I thought that would be a total death sentence for me. if I could not read, I might just curl up and die, too!! Hugs, J.
The spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius. At the time of Al-Anons inception the Wilsons looked to a Jesuits priest for spiritual guidance. Many of the core spiritual concepts of Al-Anon and some of the later AA traditions are undoubtedly spun from these meditations and excercises.
Spiritual exercise 86 has this note that reminds me to be easy on myself:
What appears most suitable and most secure with regard to penance is that the pain should be sensible in the flesh and not enter within the bones, so that it give pain and not illness. For this it appears to be more suitable to scourge oneself with thin cords, which give pain exteriorly, rather than in another way which would cause notable illness within.
