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Voices of the Fellowship: Read Our Stories

The Literature Committee always welcomes submissions from fellows relating their experience, strength and hope.  These personal stories will be published as collections for the benefit of the entire fellowship.  Please contribute your own experience with the Steps and life in sobriety by clicking Submit Your Share Now.

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Family in the Fellowship

Family used to be a big deal for me when I was little. I loved visiting my brother and telling strangers that my cousin was my sister; we were as close as sisters anyway. But from the age of 12, it was just me and mom. She moved us out of state and away from […]

Presented by the Literature Committee February 27, 2023February 28, 2023
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Honey, It’s Not Gonna Fall Off!

I came into CMA very much against my will after nearly 10 years of daily crystal meth use and living a life of insanity. Using had been really fun at first, but it soon became a daily repetition: using, looking for sex and more sex, more using and more sex, until I’d pass out. I […]

Presented by the Literature Committee February 27, 2023February 27, 2023
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Life Was a Wonderful Place

Life was a wonderful place, or so I felt as a child. Looking back on it with healthy, adult eyes, it truly was not a healthy place. Life felt wonderful because I spent most of my childhood away from the house participating in the normalcy and comfort of other people’s family environments. I did not […]

Presented by the Literature Committee January 7, 2023January 7, 2023
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You Can’t Help Anyone Else If You Can’t Help Yourself

I didn’t know it then, when my room was being searched for drugs, but that event–my attempted jump out of a high-rise Casino window and being stopped by a battery of police and fire personnel–would be the last time I used crystal meth.  I still remember the way the words of the paramedic hit me […]

Presented by the Literature Committee January 7, 2023January 7, 2023
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A Family of My Own Understanding

“I wish I had never adopted you!” “I don’t love you!” “You make me want to kill myself!” These words made up a constant refrain that defined who I believed I was for most of my life. I was convinced that I was fundamentally broken and completely unlovable. Those beliefs would be what drove me […]

Presented by the Literature Committee October 23, 2022December 19, 2022
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God Answered My Request

I’ve never lived in a gray area when I used or drank. Some people can say that they didn’t know that they were addicts or alcoholics, but I knew. At the age of 13, I had my first experience with alcohol. I was with my first boyfriend, my best friend and her boyfriend, and we […]

Presented by the Literature Committee September 29, 2022December 19, 2022
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A Mother and Daughter’s Perspective

A Daughter’s Experience Sitting here on a Saturday afternoon with my mom, drinking coffee and reminiscing about our journey through addiction and recovery. As mother and daughter we feel we have a unique perspective on addiction. We are both addicts and we have both recovered in our own time. Looking at our experiences overwhelms me […]

Presented by the Literature Committee September 29, 2022December 19, 2022
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We’ll Love You, Until You Learn to Love Yourself

The topic of family has always been a sore subject. It was an especially difficult one to discuss early on in recovery. There are a lot of deeply rooted issues stemming from my childhood and young adulthood that led me onto the road of my addiction. I’m the youngest of three boys, the baby of […]

Presented by the Literature Committee August 5, 2022December 19, 2022
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Alright, Long Time Ago

Alright, long time ago (probably in 1980 I would say) there was a discussion about the fact that we could not talk about drugs. And so many of us, we were drug addicts and alcoholics, but they frowned upon us saying it; so you have to just slip it in or something like that. Well […]

Presented by the Literature Committee March 17, 2021December 19, 2022
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A Better Version of Me

My brother once asked me if I was on drugs. I replied, “No, Dan, I’m not on drugs.” He paused for a few seconds, looked at me and said, “you are the only person I’ve ever known who could look someone so honestly in the eyes and lie so deviously.” Towards the end of a […]

Presented by the Literature Committee March 17, 2021December 19, 2022
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Beyond the Red Light

Dim red light shined down on my shame as I was again spending another Tuesday evening in a room full of naked men, undoubtedly high on meth as I allowed myself to once more be used by every single one of them. I didn’t realize that the clinking noise of the chains, the constant stream […]

Presented by the Literature Committee March 17, 2021December 19, 2022
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I Was Living with an Addict…It Was Me

When my oldest daughter was five our car broke down in the middle of town. We lived 20 miles away in the canyons outside of Redlands, California. I had no money or cell phone back then so I told her to stick out her thumb and we’d get a ride. Being the bright child that […]

Presented by the Literature Committee March 5, 2021December 19, 2022
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My Higher Power Is the Real World

If it was just alcohol, I could’ve lived with that. Yes, alcohol did lead me to waking up on the restroom floor of my favorite leather bar with my fly down and my shirt inside out. But hey, who hasn’t been there? However, it was the crystal that made me disappear for days at a […]

Presented by the Literature Committee February 24, 2021December 19, 2022
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Comfort of the Steps

We aren’t born knowing how to use and we aren’t born knowing how to deal with our addiction and difficult life issues. He was introduced to the 12 Steps of CMA, and following the clear suggestions from fellows, discovered he could not only live through anything, but thrive and find true comfort in the Steps. […]

Presented by the Literature Committee February 24, 2021December 19, 2022
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