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.
Showing posts with label recovery house. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recovery house. Show all posts

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.


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.