Coach Aaron

10/04/2026

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07/18/2026

The Best Way She Could

She carried me
before I ever knew
what it meant
to be held.

And somehow,
she kept carrying me
long after I learned
to walk on my own.

She was there.

In the stands
at every basketball game,
every football game—
watching, cheering,
showing me that what mattered to me
mattered to her.

She was there
when my children were born,
watching her son become a father,
loving them
with the same heart
that had always loved me.

My mom spent her life
putting other people first.

Even when she was hurting.
Even when she was tired.
Even when she was carrying trauma
she never had the chance
to fully heal from.

She was a survivor.

Life wounded her,
but it never convinced her
to stop loving.

She never gave up.

Not on life.
Not on her family.
Not on me.

She wasn’t perfect.

But neither is love.

Love is not always knowing
the right thing to say.

Sometimes love is simply
staying.

Trying again.

Showing up
the best way you know how.

And Mom,
you showed up for me.

Through childhood,
when I needed protection.

Through adolescence,
when I did not always understand you.

Through adulthood,
when life became heavier
than either of us expected.

Through addiction.
Through recovery.
Through ADHD.
Through every mistake,
every new beginning,
every version of me
I had to become.

You were there
the best way you could be.

And I need you to know—

I see you now.

I see the woman
behind the word “Mom.”

I see the pain you carried.
I see the battles you survived.
I see how hard you tried.

And I hope you know
that your best
was enough.

You loved me.

Not perfectly,
but faithfully.

And I will carry that love
for the rest of my life,
the way you carried me
at the beginning of yours.

I love you, Mom.

I always have.

I always will.



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07/15/2026

07/04/2026

Happy 4th of July!

Different Fireworks

I used to think my mind was too much.

Too loud.

Too fast.

Too scattered.

Like fireworks going off
before anyone lit the fuse.

But maybe I was never broken.

Maybe I was bright.

Maybe ADHD does not only mean distraction.

Maybe it means creativity
that refuses to stay inside the lines.

Maybe it means hyperfocus,
because when my heart locks in,
I am all in.

Maybe it means energy,
drive,
passion,
and the ability to keep going
when life gets heavy.

Maybe it means crisis management,
because when everything falls apart,
my brain whispers,

I have been training for this.

Maybe it means empathy.

I can feel the room shift.

I can hear the sadness
behind “I’m fine.”

I can see the person
who is trying so hard
not to fall apart.

And maybe that is why I show up.

Why I encourage.

Why I stay loyal.

Why I keep trying to be consistent,
even when consistency had to be built
through struggle.

Today,
I am grateful.

Grateful for the mind
I spent years fighting.

Grateful for the heart
that kept feeling anyway.

Grateful for the fire
that never went out.

Some people were born to be candles.

Steady.

Soft.

Still.

And some of us were born
with sparks in our bones
and a sky inside our mind
that refuses to stay dark.

So maybe you are not too much.

Maybe you are a different kind of light.

Where have you learned to see your ADHD, mental health journey, or differences as a strength instead of a flaw?

Some minds are candles. Some minds are fireworks. Both are light. For a long time, I thought my ADHD meant I was too much, too scattered, too intense, or too different.

Today, I’m learning to see the gifts too: creativity, empathy, passion, resilience, intuition, and the ability to keep showing up. You are not broken. You may just be a different kind of light. 🙏✨







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03/31/2026

The Daily Reflection W/ Coach Aaron

March 31st, 2026

NO ONE DENIED ME LOVE

On the A.A. calendar it was Year Two. . . . A newcomer appeared at one of these groups. . . . He soon proved that his was a desperate case, and that above all he wanted to get well. . . . [He said], “Since I am the victim of another addiction even worse stigmatized than "A"ism, you may not want me among you.”
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 141-42

I came to you—a wife, mother, woman who had walked out on her husband, children, family. I was a drunk, a pill-head, a nothing. Yet no one denied me love, caring, a sense of belonging. Today, by God’s grace and the love of a good sponsor and a home group, I can say that—through you in AA—I am a wife, a mother, a grandmother and a woman. Sober. Free of pills. Responsible.

Without a Higher Power I found in the Fellowship, my life would be meaningless. I am full of gratitude to be a member of good standing in AA.

From the book Daily Reflections.
Copyright © 1990 by AA World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.

03/30/2026

The Daily Reflection W/ Coach Aaron

March 30th, 2026

OUR GROUP CONSCIENCE

“. . . sometimes the good is the enemy of the best.”
AA COMES OF AGE, p. 101

I think these words apply to every area of A.A.’s Three Legacies: Recovery, Unity and Service! I want them etched in my mind and life as I “trudge the Road of Happy Destiny” (AA, p. 164). These words, often spoken by cofounder Bill W., were appropriately said to him as the result of the group’s conscience. It brought home to Bill W. the essence of our Second Tradition: “Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.”

Just as Bill W. was originally urged to remember, I think that in our group discussions we should never settle for the “good,” but always strive to attain the “best.” These common strivings are yet another example of a loving God, as we understand Him, expressing Himself through the group conscience. Experiences such as these help me to stay on the proper path of recovery. I learn to combine initiative with humility, responsibility with thankfulness, and thus relish the joys of living my twenty-four hour program.

From the book Daily Reflections.
Copyright © 1990 by AA 7World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.

03/29/2026

The Daily Reflection W/Coach Aaron

March 29th, 2026

TRUSTED SERVANTS

They are servants. Theirs is the sometimes thankless privilege of doing the group’s chores.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 134

In Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis describes an encounter between his principal character and an old man busily at work planting a tree. “What is it you are doing?” Zorba asks. The old man replies: “You can see very well what I’m doing, my son, I’m planting a tree.” “But why plant a tree,” Zorba asks, “if you won’t be able to see it bear fruit?” And the old man answers: “I, my son, live as though I were never going to die.” The response brings a faint smile to Zorba’s lips and, as he walks away, he exclaims with a note of irony: “How strange—I live as though I were going to die tomorrow!”

As a member of AA, I have found that the Third Legacy is a fertile soil in which to plant the tree of my sobriety. The fruits I harvest are wonderful: peace, security, understanding and twenty-four hours of eternal fulfillment; and with the soundness of mind to listen to the voice of my conscience when, in silence, it gently speaks to me, saying: You must let go in service. There are others who must plant and harvest.

From the book Daily Reflections.
Copyright © 1990 by AA World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.

03/28/2026

The Daily Reflection W/ Coach Aaron

March 28th, 2026

EQUALITY

Our membership ought to include all who suffer from "A"ism. Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity. Any two or three "A's" gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.
AA p. 563

Prior to A.A., I often felt that I didn’t “fit in” with the people around me. Usually “they” had more/ less money than I did, and my points of view didn’t jibe with “theirs.” The amount of prejudice I had experienced in society only proved to me just how phony some self-righteous people were. After joining A.A., I found the way of life I had been searching for. In A.A. no member is better than any other member; we’re just "A"s trying to recover from "A"ism.

From the book Daily Reflections.
Copyright © 1990 by AA World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.

03/27/2026

The Daily Reflection W/ Coach Aaron

March 27th, 2026

A.A.’s FREEDOMS

We trust that we already know what our several freedoms truly are; that no future generation of AAs will ever feel compelled to limit them. Our AA freedoms create the soil in which genuine love can grow. . . .
THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 303

I craved freedom. First, freedom to drink; later, freedom from drink. The A.A. program of recovery rests on a foundation of free choice. There are no mandates, laws or commandments. A.A.’s spiritual program, as outlined in the Twelve Steps, and by which I am offered even greater freedoms, is only suggested. I can take it or leave it. Sponsorship is offered, not forced, and I come and go as I will. It is these and other freedoms that allow me to recapture the dignity that was crushed by the burden of drink, and which is so dearly needed to support an enduring sobriety.

From the book Daily Reflections.
Copyright © 1990 by AA World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.