my Miraculous D.A. Recovery Pt. III

During this phase of my recovery I also tried my hand at stand up comedy at the Eagle Tavern on 14th St. and summer stock theater in Plymouth ,Ma. as part of the program was to have a vision.I then decided to move to Va. Bch. for a more serene lifestyle and closer to nature as it was on my wish list or vision as we say in the program.

 Leaving NYC with a pocketful of money, I felt I didn't need the program any longer( a common mistake). Instead I shifted my recovery path to Coda, a program for healing from codependence 

​after my very dysfunctional relationship.​ That group was very social as well and we celebrated the holidays and holydays together,my family of choice,sober & solvent. It was during these years I tried my hand at musical comedy joining a performance group called the Cat's Meow and I loved it. I also booked events for the group another skill discovered. While I worked on my emotional life, my hip was worsening. It was getting time to have a hip replacement. 

My healing of body , mind and spiritcontinued. One thread of my healing was swimming...in NYC I swam at the BMCC pool, being a teacher there I had that privilege. In Va. Bch., I joined the Rec Center where I swam in the winter, in the summer I frolicked in Chesapeake Bay. Moving to Fl. I joined the 'Y' for water aerobics and swam in the Gulf of Mexico with my Beach Girlz when it was warm.

Another thread in my recovery was singing...yes, swimming and singing, my faves ( a regular Esther Williams). In NYC I helped create a musical show, 'You Gotta Have Art'which was my masters degree project. In Va. Bch. .retired from teaching ,I invested more time into singing.: besides the Cat's Meow, I sang in a chorus,the Joyful Noise and also the Unity church,which I attended, choir....seems I couldn't get enough. It was a big part of my recovery. I FL. I joined the St.Pete College Chorus and continued singing my way thru life. Currently, I'm part of the St. Pete Singing Ladies,we perform occasionally when an event or fund raiser calls for it.

My Miraculous D.A. Recovery Pt II

During this phase of my recovery I also tried my hand at stand up comedy at the Eagle Tavern on 14th St. and summer stock theater in Plymouth ,Ma. as part of the program was to have a vision.I then decided to move to Va. Bch. for a more serene lifestyle and closer to nature as it was on my wish list or vision as we say in the program.

 Leaving NYC with a pocketful of money, I felt I didn't need the program any longer( a common mistake). Instead I shifted my recovery path to Coda, a program for healing from codependence 

​after my very dysfunctional relationship.​ That group was very social as well and we celebrated the holidays and holydays together,my family of choice,sober & solvent. It was during these years I tried my hand at musical comedy joining a performance group called the Cat's Meow and I loved it. I also booked events for the group another skill discovered. While I worked on my emotional life, my hip was worsening. It was getting time to have a hip replacement. 

My healing of body , mind and spiritcontinued. One thread of my healing was swimming...in NYC I swam at the BMCC pool, being a teacher there I had that privilege. In Va. Bch., I joined the Rec Center where I swam in the winter, in the summer I frolicked in Chesapeake Bay. Moving to Fl. I joined the 'Y' for water aerobics and swam in the Gulf of Mexico with my Beach Girlz when it was warm.

Another thread in my recovery was singing...yes, swimming and singing, my faves ( a regular Esther Williams). In NYC I helped create a musical show, 'You Gotta Have Art'which was my masters degree project. In Va. Bch. .retired from teaching ,I invested more time into singing.: besides the Cat's Meow, I sang in a chorus,the Joyful Noise and also the Unity church,which I attended, choir....seems I couldn't get enough. It was a big part of my recovery. I FL. I joined the St.Pete College Chorus and continued singing my way thru life. Currently, I'm part of the St. Pete Singing Ladies,we perform occasionally when an event or fund raiser calls for it.

My Miraculous D.A. Recovery

Debtors Anonymous is a program of men and women who come together to share their experience, strength and hope so that they may recover from the disease of compulsive spending or under earning or any other dysfunction related to money. this program offers tools for recovery; meetings, pressure relief groups,spending plans, action plans, debt repayment plans, sponsors, visions and the promises. I have been a member, working my program off and on for 33 years in NYC, Va. Bch. and currently Florida. My personal issues were under earning, vague about money, debting to myself, lateness and cluttering. I can proudly say I am now solvent thru the grace of this program. I have no debt...and I have learned to request equal pay for time worked and to be an advocate for myself as well.

Whenever I have financial concerns ie; an expensive vacation, I can ask two members to sit on a PRG for me and work up an action plan to meet my goals. I recently had a PRG and what a blessing it was.

I came away with clarity of my situation and an action plan of what needs to be done. Clarity is one of the biggest gifts of the program in my opinion. I can truly say my life has improved 100%. I live in a place I love, my home and my hometown of Gulfport. I have loving & supportive friends in my life and I live within my means, yet my means do not define me. I have peace and plenty; the intangibles of love and joy.

My recovery began in Tribeca , NY 33 years ago. I was newly divorced and trying to regain stability; financially, emotionally, physically and spiritually. I wanted a second chance at life but there were so many areas I had to get in order first. I joined a Friday nite meeting for self-employed that brought out my entrepreneurial spirit and which I am today. I learned to write down every cent I spent,keeping current...which I still do to this day. The practice once again gave me clarity. I made a debt repayment plan to all my creditors saying I needed a time out and then I would pay them back entirely over time with a plan. Amazingly, they all agreed and over a period of years I completed the plan. Doing this gave me a great feeling of respect,dignity and integrity. It wasn't all hard work, there was joy as well,the program people loved to throw parties;solvently and soberly. I loved it! I made many new friends in those days in NY who were supportive and working on themselves as well. I was in the recovery loop and it felt good.  With this spiritual support I experienced the death of my husband and later a new relationship that proved to be codependent and dysfunctional. I had an accident; I fell off my bike in a pot hole on the way to teach at NYU and broke my hip. There's a gift in everything I've learned. The gift in that was I broke from the relationship and gained a large sum of money in a law suit against the city of NY.This gave me options.