Re: Since she travels almost constantly, her boyfriend

works for an NGO, and he is in Darfur, and all sorts of torn and bleeding places...
She goes to meetings all over the world. Kinda cool.

But she does not sponsor nor did she have a very good experience of her 2 sponsors, so that part may be missing

She doesn't drink, but shared that story with me to illustrate that while the immediate need and desire may fade the thought resurfaces from time to time.

She is not complacent, she attends meetings religiously. She works the steps and goes to meetings. While in India she met a yogi, who was very impressive with his trance like meditations...he held a powerful space. She could not reconcile his human side with his god side...he wanted to sleep with her traveling companion and charged "outrageous" amounts for his yoga.

But they continued to pay and to go, with the insinuation of sex and larceny- that is an exaggeration.

If you get my drift, there was something 503 mentioned, about not creating resentments, (my interperatation) in his fathers dining out experience.

I think the conversation of overcharging is creating a resentment of being taken advantage of, yet they continue to attend by virtue of the deep mediatation state which is not producable without yogi.

I say learn how, and do it yourself. But always there is a teacher, who will become obsolete when the student is ready to move on.

And I suppose sponsors that are first sponsors may not become the last sponsor, and many in our community mantain strong circles of friends that share on a personal basis, travel together, and generally are in the conversation and a sober support system.

Probably not as great as a sponsor?


Don't know
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