

Pre-Owned GEMS: Meditations on Addiction and Recovery Paperback
Key item features
- ISBN: 9781999240745
- Condition: Pre-Owned: Good
- Trade paperback
- Language: English
- Pages: 166
- Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 166 p.
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Where did these GEMS come from?
When I am listening to fellow alcoholics share at Meetings, I take notes. Not transcriptions, just notes of things that catch my attention. By jotting a reminder, I can later recall the thought.
One night, my sponsor asked me, "what do you do with your notes?""I keep them and reread them, often the next morning during my morning quiet time," I replied. "They bring to mind the wisdom and humour that I heard. I meditate on the comments and see the insights that I missed. I feel grateful all over again... then I throw them away."
"You should write your thoughts down and share them," he said, "you might have some fun and it might do some good."
So I started writing my meditations. In the beginning, I only shared them with my sponsees, who passed the notes to their sponsees, and then others in the Program. A couple of the recipients, involved in treatment centres with newsletters, reposted them in their newsletters and websites. They seemed to attract attention, so I started a website and posted them online.
One day I thought, "maybe a book is a good idea."
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- Book formatPaperback
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- Publication dateSeptember, 2019
- Pages166
- PublisherHappy Destiny Press
- Original languagesEnglish
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- ISBN: 9781999240745
- Condition: Pre-Owned: Good
- Trade paperback
- Language: English
- Pages: 166
- Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 166 p.
-
Where did these GEMS come from?
When I am listening to fellow alcoholics share at Meetings, I take notes. Not transcriptions, just notes of things that catch my attention. By jotting a reminder, I can later recall the thought.
One night, my sponsor asked me, "what do you do with your notes?""I keep them and reread them, often the next morning during my morning quiet time," I replied. "They bring to mind the wisdom and humour that I heard. I meditate on the comments and see the insights that I missed. I feel grateful all over again... then I throw them away."
"You should write your thoughts down and share them," he said, "you might have some fun and it might do some good."
So I started writing my meditations. In the beginning, I only shared them with my sponsees, who passed the notes to their sponsees, and then others in the Program. A couple of the recipients, involved in treatment centres with newsletters, reposted them in their newsletters and websites. They seemed to attract attention, so I started a website and posted them online.
One day I thought, "maybe a book is a good idea."
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Walmart Pre-Owned allows you to find previously owned, well-cared-for items from Walmart’s trusted & performance-managed sellers. Shopping Pre-Owned allows you to bring home the best-quality picks at even lower prices, in addition to extending the life of an item & reducing waste. Find your favorites & shop a range of conditions in every category.
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Each Pre-Owned item listed comes from Walmart’s trusted performance-managed sellers, to ensure you get quality items.
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Save even more on top brands & your most-loved items.

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Shopping Pre-Owned helps in extending the life of an item & reducing waste.
Product image for illustration purposes only. The item you receive may vary from the image in minor ways, such as slight differences in appearance, color, and/or design. *Exceptions apply during holiday season, and on certain electronics, collectibles, and jewelry.
