A Recovery Blog

This blog is about my continuing recovery from severe mental illness and addiction. I celebrate this recovery by continuing to write, by sharing my music and artwork and by exploring Buddhist and 12 Step ideas and concepts. I claim that the yin/yang symbol is representative of all of us because I have found that even in the midst of acute psychosis there is still sense, method and even a kind of balance. We are more resilient than we think. We can cross beyond the edge of the sane world and return to tell the tale. A deeper kind of balance takes hold when we get honest, when we reach out for help, when we tell our stories.

Saturday, May 9, 2026

Change Of Plans

A group of six young people would rather live with me and go through withdrawal from their addictions instead of me possibly buying a house. So instead of putting money into a house, I'm going to put some money into my house. I have a two story house and the downstairs is mostly a separate apartment. I will have to invest in an oven and a clothes dryer. By the end of next week I'm hoping to have a whole bunch of stuff removed and will clear out the garage and use it as a living space. I will get two bunk beds, one for downstairs and one for upstairs. For the most part the house is in good condition with heat, electricity, 2 bathrooms. I have plenty of THC treatment along with additive free pipe tobacco. Easy access to getting food from the Instacart app using Wegmans and getting it delivered here. I'm hoping we will get into cooking vegan recipes. 

If this happens and the young people contact me and move in and we have some success over the next couple of months, I will consider buying and installing a good storage house hopefully with access to electricity. This space could be used not only for storage, but as another meeting space for 12 Step groups. I would also like us to be creative and do craftwork and hopefully tie dyes and we could set up a space in the storage house to offer what we make for a donation once a week and see where that goes.

So this will be my work for the next couple of weeks and I am praying that the young people will contact me in that time, preferably coming to visit me and talk together and show them the house.   

Thursday, May 7, 2026

I Saw The House Yesterday

I went to check out the house I'm interested in with the realtor. She gave some basic information, but had never been to the house before. The house looked pretty good inside and out, but there was some leaking from the roof, though the floor and wall damage was not very bad. The realtor said she thought I would need to put on a new roof. She also saw some damage to a corner of the foundation in the basement. The utilities were not on. I've asked the realtor to see if she can get them turned on so I can get someone I've used before to give the house a thorough check and then get back to me. 

If the utilities do come on and all the systems are in good shape, I believe I will purchase the house and put an efficient, but lower cost steel metal roof on it. I can afford that. 

And so, I will have to wait until next week when hopefully the house will be checked out.  

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

I See The Realtor Today

Hello Everyone, I hope you are moving towards recovery in your daily and nightly lives. Just the cell  phone alone is an immense recovery tool that most people carry with them. One: you have your voice memo app where you can keep a private audiojournal where you practice absolute honesty with yourself before your Higher Power. Honesty is the foundational spiritual practice that your recovery will be built and based on.  Two: you have apps of recordings of 12 Step meetings to listen to any time you have time. Three: You have the two "Inspiration" telephone lines from Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous and can call everyday to listen. Four: You have access to the internet and can find phone meetings to go to for any 12 Step Anonymous group. Five: you can phone into a meeting and listen. Six: you can get phone numbers from people you respond to and identify with after the meeting. Seven: You can download the Audible App from Amazon and buy important audiobooks to listen like Sex Addicts Anonymous main text and stories, which I highly recommend, and a daily reader for Alcoholics Anonymous called 24 Hours A Day. So this is the starting place, you with yourself and your Higher Power and your cell phone working a little each day. That's what I wish and pray for you all.

In a few hours I am going to meet with a realtor and talk with her about whether the house could be lived in soon with a bit of work. She said there were some leaks in the roof that might be able to be patched up. I'm hoping the news will be good and she will take me to the house. I will take videos and photos. I will keep you updated.


Sunday, May 3, 2026

Southern Tier Cannnibis, Inc, Where To Get Treatment Supplies Locally

 Southern Tier Cannabis, Inc

30 Main Street, Alfred New York

607-247-5021

stcannabisny@gmail.com

Monday through Saturday - 10 am to 8 pm except on Friday 10am to 10 pm

Alfred website


This is a really good supply store for your medications.  The quality is good and the prices are fair.  All the gummies are good and have 100 mg of THC which is the strongest I've seen but you must confirm at the store that the gummies are indica. For one person in withdrawal I would get 4 bags, 10 gummies each but you take only half, so that leaves you with 20 doses. You take it twice a day, 12 hours apart, unless you are in withdrawal, then you can take more. This should be a months supply. 

They also sell bud which they call flower. You can get an ounce of strong indica for $180. Right now they have Leal-Animal Face, 34.26% THC indica and Leal-Nic The Bruiser, 33.98 % THC indica, both good choices. 

They also sell hash, 1 gram which is also very helpful in withdrawal, again it must be indica.

You'll need a photo id with proof of age. You can pay cash or with a credit/debit card.

Good Luck!










Vegan Diets Are The Healthiest Diets; Animal Fat Is Poisonous To Our Bodies

I found out that I had diabetes about ten years ago. I believe I got it from taking Abilify, an antipsychotic medication. My insurance company even warned me of it after the fact. I went looking online for treatments that I could use at home. I found a book by Dr. Joel Fuhrman called Eat To Live. He asserted that switching to a vegan diet is the way to get out of diabetic range. I decided to commit to a totally vegan diet. My A1C was at 11 and within four and a half months I had lost 20 lbs without limiting what I ate or counting calories or exercising. My A1C went down to about 7. Because I wasn't eating any cholesterol my cholesterol numbers went down. Unfortunately I didn't stick with it to the point where my A1C went up to 15, which is dangerously high. And so I tried again with a vegan diet and again I lost 20 lbs and my A1C went down to 7 in five months.

With diabetes, animal fat stays within the cells blocking and clogging the receptors sites for the insulin to get into the cell. Without the animal fat, the insulin can feed the cell properly. Also, no cholesterol, which is the cause for so many health problems like heart disease, heart attacks and strokes. For addicts going into recovery, a vegan diet can give you much healthy support.

Try to watch a documentary called Plant Pure Nation. I have seen it on Amazon Prime, but you might be able to link to it through YouTube. I highly recommend buying their cookbook, also called Plant Pure Nation. You can get it on Amazon - book, $13.48 and on Kindle, $7.99 This is the cookbook I have been focusing on and many of the recipes are very good.

Saturday, May 2, 2026

Buying a Recovery House? Looking for Help

For the most part, I am not a practicing addict. My core addiction was "love" addiction, which I have been in recovery from for many years. I have also been caught up in fantasy and codependency addiction. I am not an alcoholic, a heroin addict or a sex addict and I am not sexually attracted to children. This gives me a strong base to work from to help some people in my community, if they are willing.

My uncle died last Spring and I inherited some money to live on for the next few years. I also have enough to buy an inexpensive house in one of the towns around here to be an addiction recovery house for people mostly in their twenties who have left cultic compounds around here five to seven years ago. I have contacted a realtor and picked out a house. I should find out by Monday if it is mostly a livable house. If it is I believe I will buy it, but I really need a couple of young people to step forward to help me set up the house and be my contact for the house and what will be going on in it.

I have been depressed for several days. I am very isolated, especially since Eddie and Jeremy have been removed from my telepathic consciousness. I relied on them for companionship. Many people have been connected to me telepathically this last month and a half, but the last couple of days have been quiet. I have to do a lot of house cleaning upstairs. I have gotten the go ahead from the Higher Power through the Yijing to adopt two kittens and two puppies once the upstairs is clean and ready for them. This will be a joy for me.


 

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Message For Ed

Eddie, I'm with you. You have known me for 27 years through a telepathic connection through these young beings. I have a lot of faith, but limited understanding, but I am going to keep writing here about all the things that have helped me in my recovery from love addiction and the things I've learned about other addictions, especially alcoholism, codependency addiction, sex addiction. May what I write help you and anyone who reads some of the latest blogs. I'll be in touch here. 


A Longer Version of The Serenity Prayer


God, please grant me Patience with the changes that take time

An Appreciation of all that I have

Tolerance for those with different struggles

And the Strength to get up and try again one day at a time

Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

Courage to change the things I can

And the Wisdom to know the difference.



Saturday, April 18, 2026

Sex and Love Addicts Anoymous Inspiration Telephone Lines

 There are two phone lines for Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous which I encourage all of you to listen to at least once a day or night. Sometimes Sex Addicts Anoymous also leave messages as long as they have one year of sobriety and have gone through the 12 Steps at least once and have a sponsor. Same for those from Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. They are not call back lines, so don't leave your name and number. The point is to connect with a 12 Step group related to healing from Sex and Love addiction. So you listen. If you want to say something to the person who recorded the message, even just to say thank you or anything you want, you can leave a message for that person up to 3 to 5 minutes. The person will listen and then delete your message. There is absolutely no requirement to say anything. Sometimes in the beginning it is better to just listen and reflect.

The Inspiration Line, is changed nearly every day. The number is 215-574-2120.

The Inspirational Story Line is changed once a week, I think sometime on Sunay evening. The number is 215-574-2121. The share can last from 10 minutes to 25 mintues depending on who left the message.

Welcome

Hi Malcolm and Eddie! Sending you much love and support from Mother and Father through me to you. Please have faith and keep doing the work. I love you both very much. I respect you and believe in you. 


Small, peaceful, loving communities 

AA and Na groups in and around Hornell, New York

Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings Hornell New York

As of April 2026, there are several Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings held in Hornell, NY, and the surrounding Steuben County area, with a consistent schedule of evening meetings, particularly at the Senior Center on Broadway Mall and the Episcopal Church on Center Street. 

www.aadistrict0500.org

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Weekly AA Meeting Schedule in Hornell, NY

Sunday - 7:00 PM: Sunday Solutions, Big Book Study (Downstairs, Presbyterian Church, 7 Church Street)

Monday - 7:00 PM: HOW, 12 & 12 Discussion (Upstairs, Episcopal Church, Center Street)

Tuesday - 7:00 PM: Together We Stand, Discussion/Step (Upstairs, Episcopal Church, Center Street)

Wednesday - 7:00 PM: Lost & Found Downtowners (Senior Center, Broadway Mall)

Thursday - 7:00 PM: New Beginnings, Open Discussion (Senior Center, Broadway Mall)

Friday - 7:00 PM: Doorway to Hope, Big Book Meeting (Upstairs, Episcopal Church, Center Street)

Saturday - 7:00 PM: Lost & Found Downtowners, Speaker/Discussion (Senior Center, Broadway Mall) 


Additional Meetings & Nearby

Tuesday - 6:00 PM: Pathway to Healing, 6017 Magee Rd, Hornell

Tuesday - 8:00 PM: Tuesday Night Candlelight, Larger Parish Church, Pratt Street, Canaseraga

Friday - 7:00 PM: Alfred 4 Sobriety, Beginner's Meeting, Union University Church, W University St, Alfred

Monthly Intergroup Meeting: 1st Wednesday of every month, 8:00 PM, Senior Center, Broadway Mall, Hornell 


AA Meeting In Alfred Alfred 4 Sobriety, open meeting, Fridays 7pm to 8pm, 29 N Main St, Alfred around the corner on Church Street opposite the church 716-351-4456


Narcotics Anonymous Meetings Hornell New York

These are the NA meetings I could find listed on the internet.  Unfortunately, three of the meeting listings do not have a day listed for a meeting. The Senior Citizen meeting at 7pm on Thursday is pretty much confirmed.  The noon meeting on Vienna Street has been confirmed, Thursday at noon. My suggestion is to go to either or both meetings and talk to people there to try and find out the days of the meetings at the other locations.

I found some days for the meetings, but I'm not sure. You'll just have to go check it out for yourself.

Good Luck!


Hornell, Senior Citizen Center,  20 Broadway Mall, Thursday, 7pm

11:00 AM  Unity is our Strength Group. 546 West Main Street, Monday 

12:00 PM. Not Yet Group Vienna Street  13 Vienna Street  Thursday

12:00 PM  New Hope Group   32 East Main Street Wednesday

12:00 PM  Free To Live   3297 Bailey Avenue Sunday


Andover, New York NA/AA 12 Step Group

Andover NA/AA 12 Step Group open group especially welcoming young people and teenagers. I strongly urge young people teenagers and people in their 20s who suffer from the diseases of alcoholism and heroin addiction,

Sundays 7pm to 8pm  Calvary Bible Church, 1063 S. Main Street


 

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

First Contact With God The Mother and Father Great Spirit

There is a necessity for everyone to keep a daily audio journal, at least for 15 minutes a day, and listening back, preferably right after you make the recording.  Use the voice memo app on your phone - no one can listen to the recordings unless he or she knows your phone code. You can also buy a small inexpensive digital voice recorder and use the stored memory on it or get a micro sd card with 8 to 32 gigabytes. I use a digital recorder that I rarely take out of the house. You can put a lock or passcode to protect your privacy.

Keeping your journal is beginning the spiritual practice of absolute honesty with yourself before youe Higher Power. Your honesty and vulnerability is your direct link to God. God can only communicate to you through that honesty and vulnerability, which is why you must dedicate yourselves to daily (and nightly if you can) practice.   

Because you're talking will be unplanned and free, God can inspire you to talk about things that you need to think about in order to heal your spirit and your bodies from addiction. This is why it is very important to quickly listen back to your recording to look for God's guidance and try to follow it. 

As addicts we are possessed by Extraterrestials who are children from other worlds in the universe whose homes and parents and families were destroyed by this addiction disease, they carried the disease here.

Whether you are a using or non-using addict you need natural healing medicine at least two times a day, more if you go into physical withdrawal. 


Healing Medicines and Practices:


Regardless of whether you are in withdrawal and reaching out to your Higher Power for direction and healing or caught in the cycle of addiction and despair, ALL of you must take at least 2 Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) "gummies" each day. They should have at least 64 mg of indica THC. One in the morning and one at night or 12 hours apart. If your withdrawal symptoms become really uncomfortable, take another gummie any time that happens again. 

3 Chi THC Gummie Provider 

Monthly supplies for one person, adult or child, from the 3 Chi online store:

Buy 3 bags (20 gummies each) of "Comfortably Numb" THC Indica. There are two types. Get the stronger type with 64 mg THC. The less strong one has half the THC and will NOT be effective.

Cost: $39.99 per bag/ approximately $120 per month

Smoking additive free pipe tobacco (6 oz and 16 oz) in addition to 64 mg indica gummies or in addition to smoking 28 - 34 mg THC indica marijuana bud might be healthy for all of us. Marijuana is a lung protectant.

Pipes and Cigars online pipe tobacco suppliers

For one person I recommend one bag of Cherokee full strength red 16 ounces for about $14. It should last you for over a month. I also recommend that you buy cartons of filters tubes. I buy ZEN filter tubes, 250 tubes per carton, 5 cartons per order for $24 which should last you over a month. I buy them from Amazon. I have also bought a coffee bean kitchen grinder to grind the tobacco before sprinkling it into the cigarette tube. This makes it much easier to fill each tube. I have bought one made by a company called Wancle for $14.99 from Amazon.


Also, strong ground coffee, chocolate (Lindor/Lindt are great, especially an assorted bag, 15.2 ounces about $16.24 per bag from Wegmans or Amazon) and cranberry juice are all very healthy for you taken on a daily basis. Hot chocolate is also good for you.