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When you do service (Original Post) irisblue Apr 2017 OP
If by service Break time Apr 2017 #1
Welcome to DU and the group. irisblue Apr 2017 #2
Yes, service has many meanings.. Stuart G Apr 2017 #3

Break time

(195 posts)
1. If by service
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 04:24 PM
Apr 2017

You mean attending meetings and helping others through your experience strength and hope it does help a lot in keeping your strength up and your resistance higher..I personally find that if I feel better about myself and am stronger and more able to help which in turn adds to my strengths...

irisblue

(34,267 posts)
2. Welcome to DU and the group.
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 04:52 PM
Apr 2017

I think of service in terms of both a recovery group, like leading or being a speaker to an H&I group, or even talking to cops or medical groups; even offering a meeting list to the chemically enhanced panhandler @ the gas station when you give a bottle of water in the 85 degree day.

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)
3. Yes, service has many meanings..
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 09:41 PM
Apr 2017

Sometimes, just going to a meeting is .."service"..Lots of other ideas but they involve helping others..and I know that doing so, gets me out of my head,,,which is good...being in the head is indeed a place I dread..

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