COSA Slogans and Saying can be shared in a meeting or read for personal recovery.
One Day at a Time
Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude
Feelings are not facts
SLIP = Sobriety Lost It’s Priority
GOD = Good Orderly Directions
EGO – Edging God Out
Don’t’ Let Someone Who Doesn’t Know Your Value, Tell You How Much You’re Worth!
Your Worth Should Never Depend on Another Person’s Opinion
HOW it Works = Honesty, Open mindedness, and Willingness
Many Meetings, Many Chances; Few Meetings, Few Chances
Keep it simple
HALT= Don’t Get too HUNGRY, ANGRY, LONELY, TIRED
To thine own self be true
Not My Circus, Not My Monkey!
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired
Progress, not perfection
Nothing changes if nothing changes
Willingness is the key
FEAR – Forgetting Everything is All Right
You Don’t Have to Understand the Steps to Work Them; You Have to Work Them to Understand Them
GOD – Grace Over Drama
Stick with the winners
You can’t think your way into a new way of living…You have to behave your way into a new way of thinking
This program works ….if you work it!
Time takes time
If you do what you always did, you’ll get what you always got
This too shall pass
Recovery is a journey …not destination.
How important is it?
Don’t act out …. ask for help, call your sponsor, and go to meetings.
H O P E = Happy Our Program Exists.
Easy does it but do it
Misery is optional
It’s a simple program for complicated people
When all else fails, follow directions
The Three C’s: I didn’t cause it. I can’t control it. I can’t cure it.
I don’t want you to save me; I want you to stand by my side while I learn to save myself!
If it looks like a Duck, Quacks like a Duck, it’s probably a Duck
If I quit now, I will be right back where I started; and when I started, I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.
My Ego is not my Amigo! ·
Not everyone will understand your journey; that’s okay, it not theirs to understand. It’s yours
Change is a process, not an event
Give time…time ·
Principles before personalities
It is possible to change without improving – it is impossible to improve without change
An addict cannot be grateful and hateful at the same time
Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace amid the storm
I wish to grow away from the four M’s – Mothering, Martyrdom, Manipulation, Managing
THINK – Is it Truthful, Helpful, Informative, Necessary, Kind?