Hoffy
@hoffy56.bsky.social
Topeka, Kansas, USA. Friend of Bill (9/15/2005). Retired Mental Health Nurse. Garage band guitarist. Pickleball. Here for recovery support, socialization, and fun. DMs from sober, recovering friends only.
"Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power."
#Recovery #RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
#Recovery #RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power."
#Recovery #RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
#Recovery #RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Happy Thursday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
. . . when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification. ". . . if it be Thy will."
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
. . . when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification. ". . . if it be Thy will."
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Happy Thursday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
. . . when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification. ". . . if it be Thy will."
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
. . . when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification. ". . . if it be Thy will."
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.
Happy Wednesday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been.
H O W = Honest, Open, Willing
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been.
H O W = Honest, Open, Willing
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Happy Wednesday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been.
H O W = Honest, Open, Willing
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been.
H O W = Honest, Open, Willing
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Happy Tuesday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
Easy Does It - but Do It
Procrastination is really sloth in five syllables.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Easy Does It - but Do It
Procrastination is really sloth in five syllables.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Happy Tuesday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
Easy Does It - but Do It
Procrastination is really sloth in five syllables.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Easy Does It - but Do It
Procrastination is really sloth in five syllables.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Today’s PSA:
The Postal Service advises again this year that all babies born on Thanksgiving must be girls. There is no male delivery on holidays.
The Postal Service advises again this year that all babies born on Thanksgiving must be girls. There is no male delivery on holidays.
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Today’s PSA:
The Postal Service advises again this year that all babies born on Thanksgiving must be girls. There is no male delivery on holidays.
The Postal Service advises again this year that all babies born on Thanksgiving must be girls. There is no male delivery on holidays.
The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Happy Monday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one that I can, and the wisdom to know that person is me."
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one that I can, and the wisdom to know that person is me."
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Happy Monday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one that I can, and the wisdom to know that person is me."
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one that I can, and the wisdom to know that person is me."
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Happy Sunday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
Meditation means trusting the silence around me for a while, as if it were an answer I had long sought.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Meditation means trusting the silence around me for a while, as if it were an answer I had long sought.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Happy Sunday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
Meditation means trusting the silence around me for a while, as if it were an answer I had long sought.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Meditation means trusting the silence around me for a while, as if it were an answer I had long sought.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Happy Saturday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
Today I can bring myself a little closer to my Higher Power. The more I choose to seek the beauty of God's work in other people, the more certain of His presence I will become.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Today I can bring myself a little closer to my Higher Power. The more I choose to seek the beauty of God's work in other people, the more certain of His presence I will become.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Happy Saturday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
Today I can bring myself a little closer to my Higher Power. The more I choose to seek the beauty of God's work in other people, the more certain of His presence I will become.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Today I can bring myself a little closer to my Higher Power. The more I choose to seek the beauty of God's work in other people, the more certain of His presence I will become.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Happy Friday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Happy Friday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
"Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
Working With Others, p. 89
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
Working With Others, p. 89
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
Working With Others, p. 89
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
Working With Others, p. 89
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Happy Thursday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
PACE =Positive Attitudes Change Everything
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
PACE =Positive Attitudes Change Everything
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Happy Thursday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
PACE =Positive Attitudes Change Everything
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
PACE =Positive Attitudes Change Everything
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
So often times it happens
that we live our lives in chains
and we never even know we have the key.
~Eagles
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
that we live our lives in chains
and we never even know we have the key.
~Eagles
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
So often times it happens
that we live our lives in chains
and we never even know we have the key.
~Eagles
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
that we live our lives in chains
and we never even know we have the key.
~Eagles
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Happy Wednesday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
There's no elevator, you have to take the Steps.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
There's no elevator, you have to take the Steps.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Happy Wednesday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
There's no elevator, you have to take the Steps.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
There's no elevator, you have to take the Steps.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
I don’t know what you’re going to face this week. You don’t, either. But I can already tell you what God wants you to do: Let go, and know. Let go of control, and know that God is in control. Let go, and know! This is the first step to serenity in your life.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I don’t know what you’re going to face this week. You don’t, either. But I can already tell you what God wants you to do: Let go, and know. Let go of control, and know that God is in control. Let go, and know! This is the first step to serenity in your life.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Happy Tuesday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.--Anonymous
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.--Anonymous
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Happy Tuesday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.--Anonymous
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.--Anonymous
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
When something happens to upset you and you are discouraged, try to feel that life's difficulties and troubles are not intended to arrest your progress in the spiritual life, but to test your strength and to increase your determination to keep going.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
When something happens to upset you and you are discouraged, try to feel that life's difficulties and troubles are not intended to arrest your progress in the spiritual life, but to test your strength and to increase your determination to keep going.
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Happy Monday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
I can't have a better tomorrow if I am thinking about yesterday all the time.
S I T = Stay In Today
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
I can't have a better tomorrow if I am thinking about yesterday all the time.
S I T = Stay In Today
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Happy Monday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
I can't have a better tomorrow if I am thinking about yesterday all the time.
S I T = Stay In Today
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
I can't have a better tomorrow if I am thinking about yesterday all the time.
S I T = Stay In Today
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
Happy Sunday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness."
--Rabbi Harold Kushner
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness."
--Rabbi Harold Kushner
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Happy Sunday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness."
--Rabbi Harold Kushner
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness."
--Rabbi Harold Kushner
#RecoveryPosse #Sobriety #SoberSky
It’s a five minute walk from my house to the pub.
It’s a 35 minute walk from the pub to my house.
The difference is staggering.
It’s a 35 minute walk from the pub to my house.
The difference is staggering.
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
It’s a five minute walk from my house to the pub.
It’s a 35 minute walk from the pub to my house.
The difference is staggering.
It’s a 35 minute walk from the pub to my house.
The difference is staggering.
Sad day for me. Funeral service for my mother was today. All of her grandkids and their families were able to attend.
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Sad day for me. Funeral service for my mother was today. All of her grandkids and their families were able to attend.