April 13, 2023

Giving Up Insanity

9 minutes

Aloha and welcome to the sobriety rocks podcast, I’m your host, Kirk Waterman. Today we talk about Giving Up Insanity

Narcotics Anonymous says “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”

Yesterday’s AA Daily Reflections was titled, “Giving Up Sanity”. I hadn’t thought about it before, but I crossed the line into insane drinking and using, somewhere in my teens.

By the time I was a young adult, I was completely out of control, and couldn’t stop, no matter how hard I tried. Thankfully, when alcohol and drugs no longer made being insane okay, I ended up in the rooms of 12-step recovery.

Here I found people who had given up their insanity and were living great lives! So, I gave up also, and mimicked what they were doing. Sure enough, my insanity was replaced with reasonable, rational, positive thoughts, and I too, was restored to sanity.

All these years later, I see that by simply giving up the insanity of my party life, a doorway opened to an amazing, new life. A life of meaning and purpose, filled with peace, joy, abundance, unlimited possibilities, and a sanity I never knew I wanted.

If you have too much insanity in your life, I hope you give it up, and join us! Because there’s an amazing, wonderful, sane life, waiting just for you too.

Today we close with a brief courage meditation. So please, get comfortable, close your eyes, take a few slow deep breaths, and join me.

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