Alcoholics Anonymous

Phil · Phil

A.A. Thought for the Day The A.A. way is the way of sobriety, and yet there are slips. Why do these slips occur? Why don't we all accept A.A. and stay sober from then on? There are many reasons, but it has been proved without exception that once we have become alcoholics we can never drink successfull...

John · John

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Be A Sponsor*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ GLOBAL SHARING The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bes...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea . . . "Why don't you choose your own conception of God?" That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last. It was only a matter of being willi...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually are. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 36 I start with a little willingness to trust God and He causes that willingness to grow. The more willingness I have, the more trust I gain, and the more trust I gain, th...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Man is supposed to think, and act. He wasn't made to God's image to be an automation. As Bill Sees It, p. 55 Before I joined A.A., I often did not think, and reacted to people and situations. When not reacting I acted in a mechanical fashion. After joining A.A., I started seeking daily guidance from a Powe...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain certain conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37 I believe that we in Alcoholics Anonymous are fortun...

allie · allie

I went to home group meeting last night. The topic was "a softer gentler way" It was said several times that if the AA program and maintaining sobriety is not easy then you are not working your program correctly. Some say this is a simple program but not an easy one. Also have heard it is a s...

gonee · gonee

In my worst days when I could not manage my life drunk or sober I held on to that filmsy reed. I know today it was definitely the hand of God. But I had to be still & know that it was God. What an ask from a restless, irritable alcoholic. Despite myself HE still got me well, if I was only willing to let HIM. --...

gonee · gonee

Why are we discouraged? None of us have been able to do these steps perfectly. We are striving for the ideal. That's all that is important. Setbacks are there to give us strength. The paradox: when I am weak, then I am strong. God is interested in weak people, so that He may help us with our infirmities. I f...

schooner · schooner

Hi Guys & Gals Been in the program for a couple of decades and I'm looking for a sponsor. My sponsor died a couple of months ago. Need your help in getting thru the middle of my 4th step. I'll be waiting for one of you ?

bikerbill · bikerbill

ok sentimental old fool that I am, having moved on from snatches of song lyrics to full blooded poems I find this from Burns who surely was one of us in training. But only one verse eh? Permit me. Once fondly lov'd and still remember'd dear, sweet early object of my youthful vows, accept this mark of frien...

Kate11 · Kate11

It's been nine days without running to the glass of wine to numb myself. I could use some encouragement please. I'm very happy I haven't drank, but I'm feeling a little depressed.

bikerbill · bikerbill

Thank you God for helping me stay sober today. For not giving me more than I can handle in a day. For putting the people in my life who can help. For carrying me thru the pains of the past month. For not letting me have enough money to afford a bottle when I got to the offy on Good Friday. God bless my posse, you k...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: When people don't forgive, they probably shorten their lives. --Doris Donnelly Sometimes forgiveness seems impossible and we feel stuck in the quicksand of our own resentment. When everything else fails, we can try the "First Five People Forgiveness Plan...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings. . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37 What did I have to be grateful for? I shut myself up and started listing the blessings for which I was in no way responsible, beginning with having been born of sound mind and body. I went through seventy-f...

TipsyMcstagger · TipsyMcstagger

It seems that no matter what great situtaion I'm in I sabotage it and go to great lengths to harm myself and do damge to my life. Why do I do this? Please, somebody, give me an answer :(

Chad H · Chad H

I attended my first meeting last night and the stories told there were both sad and moving. One in particular stuck home with me was a lady there as she called herself a codependent with her husband in a rehab clinic for the first time and her struggles. This meant something to me about what Im doing to my w...

mikef · mikef

The triangle of Obsession, learning to shift from resentment ,anger and fear to acceptance ,love and faith! The Resentment kept me stuck in the past, the Acceptance helped me moved forward a day at a time. In the present the Anger blinded me, the Love helped me free myself. Without projection,becau...

Chad H · Chad H

I am new to this and a bit nerves. I would appreciate some ideas for dealing with cravings. I hope if I learn to deal with them I can beat this. I have recently started attending church and truly want to believe. I frequently read and read my first book on religion called The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel....

vixen · vixen

This nasty cold/infection is finally letting up and I am back to work today. I made it to the noon meeting yesterday and will hit the one today as well. It feels like a good place to be and I listened a lot yesterday as people talked about resentments and forgiveness. I have a long way to go on that front but a...

barisax · barisax

I related my experience with taking pain pills after my surgery a couple months ago, and my overly analytical brain is still processing the experience and trying to make some sense of it. The most important thing of course is that I stopped taking them when I no longer needed them, and I got rid of the lef...

slugcat · slugcat

A bit of a wreck at the moment. not drinking but very stressed out a decision ive put off and off and off getting to the point it is driving me INSANE do i or dont I......do this thing all the rights and wrongs and crazy in my head CRAZY making. when would be best to do it, can i handle this situation i will put my...

gonee · gonee

In the event of a fire, do not use the lift or the stairs. Why? said the newcomer. His sponsor replied: "Because you must put the fire out."

bikerbill · bikerbill

so why is the serenity prayer an I prayer?

Rainspa · Rainspa

Official statement from the New York GSO service material: "The term 'Conference-approved' describes written or audiovisual material approved by the Conference for publication by GSO. This process assures that everything in such literature is in accord with AA principles. Conference-...

mikef · mikef

There is no way that I get this twisted"I cannot drink and live" The obsession and compulsion has been arrested but I know that I will not refund my insanity as long as I understand I recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of body and mind, based on my "fit" spiritual conditio...

mikef · mikef

2 kids in their mothers womb,a brother and a sister.Sister says,don't you think there is something more than this darkness and all squished up feeling in here. Brother says,whats problem sis,,its warm,we got stuff to eat,what else could there possibly be?Sister says" didnt you ever feel tha...

bikerbill · bikerbill

So i started back at work at 10 this morning. Already teh return to work plan has gone out the window - can I just nip out to a site next Tuesday for a Pre Start meeting! well it's only a few miles from me, but the 10am start that day will have to be a 9 am start. The business hasn't fallen over with me not being ava...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Above all, take it one day at a time. AS BILL SEES IT, p.11 Why do I kid myself that I must stay away from a drink for only one day, when I know perfectly well I must never drink again as long as I live? I am not kidding myself because one day at a time is probably the only way I can reach the long-range objective of...

Kate11 · Kate11

Hi Everyone, I am hoping not to drink tonight...I have around three glasses of wine every night (sometimes more) and have done this for years. I want to quit. It's getting worse. I feel like I need more and more. I have no energy. I am depressed and have pulled away from people I love in order to drink. I wan...

bikerbill · bikerbill

So i've had my return to work meeting with my boss and have a phased return to work over 4 weeks with a defined workload. Back in the saddle on Friday at last and see how it goes. the Annual Performance review wasn't so good. Marked as Achieves standards. This after 3 quarterly reviews of consistently Ver...

gonee · gonee

AA saved my life & altered my perceptions. The remnant is scary. The first 100 people knew exactly what was wrong & thank God they recorded it in the AA book in 1935. But despite the science tabulated in easy style many are still dying not of ignorance anymore, but denial. The co dependents are s...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Under very trying conditions I have had, again and again, to forgive othersalso myself. AS BILL SEE IT p. 268 Forgiveness of self and forgiveness of others are just two currents in the same river, both hindered or shut off completely by the dam of resentment. Once that dam is lifted, both currents can f...

tendo · tendo

My girlfriend is an alcoholic and has been sober for a couple years now. I love her very, very much. Right now we're in a rocky place and she's going thru some stuff she won't even try explaining to me because it has to do with being an alcoholic. I don't know what's going on inside her head. Anyway, last nig...

gonee · gonee

Our meeting tonight started 25 mins late. Everyone just stood around & chirped away like nothing was wrong. I was called to chair & navigated it & finished 5min after ETA. Had good supper @ the thanksgiving & lotsa fellowship. This is AA.

Dublin · Dublin

I know there is a prescribed medication that will make you sick if you drink but I don't want to go to my doctor since I don't want it on my insurance that I have a problem with alcohol. I desperately want to quit because now my drinking is a "habit". I need to break the habit and I know I can with s...

aaman55 · aaman55

hello, i am new to this website, i just wonder if someone cud help me. i hav been drinking now for nearly 20 yrs,never had any problem with it. about 4 yra s ago a big trauma happened in my life.since then every time i binge drink i get heavily depressed, crying all day non stop, with anxiety attacks and i don...

carpetslippers · carpetslippers

Hi everyone! I am a new forum user and usually my rule of thumb is to wait a while before ever posting (listen instead) but I have a question that I desperately seek answers/feedback to, if you will please be willing to give me your thoughts :) About 2 years ago, 2 friends and I started an 11th Step meditati...

bikerbill · bikerbill

So today I took my Mum up to Scotland for her sister's funeral. Georgina (Ina) was nearing 91 years old when she departed this life and Mum (Jean 85) and her sister Nettie (Elizabeth 81) are the lst of their family. My sister and her husband took their car and we all piled in. A total of 8 hours round trip dri...

storm · storm

Hi.It feels weird to do this but I think that Ive got some issues and need to get rid of them. I am a stay-at-home mom of two kids who are 14 months apart.My daughter just turned two in March and my little guy will be one next week. I was very depressed during my pregnancy with my son and also had post-partum...

Junior · Junior

Recently i have been faced with having to alter my meeting schedule to attend graduate school. Two members of my home group, have confronted me about the fact that i have gone to a different meeting to accomadate my school schedule. I feel these individuals are attempting to manipulate me by attem...

windowview · windowview

All we have is now, the past is an illusion just chemicals in our brain and the future is yet to happen, more chemicals in our brain. Everything happens now, now is all there is. How crazy it is to regret something that doesn't exist. Life comes into our now and then it's gone. It doesn't hang around somewh...

cooncatbob · cooncatbob

Friday May 13th at 10pm Samantha my 16 year old Maine Coon Cat died in my arms in the pet hospital after discovering that she had a belly full of cancer. Samantha ha...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Often it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us. Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round forgiveness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled S...

bikerbill · bikerbill

I gotta say I miss the contact with my wife. Although the relationship was sick for so long, wasn't going anywhere and was overdue to end, I still miss the contact. Which is very different from actually missing someone. I barely give her a passing thought these days. There is someone else who I miss desp...

gonee · gonee

The BB tells me that God could, if He were sought. That He is a Father and we are His children. Do I really believe in this? I was once asked this question by my sponsor. I very casually said yes to it. That's when he really took off with me. Then why are you afraid and morose Gonee. I had no answer for him. But i...

bikerbill · bikerbill

The main sharer was so powerful, lot's of food for thought. I've never felt so uncomfortable in my life in a meeting. I guess I shoulda known what was coming when he started by producing his own well worn copy of the BB and started quoting not just chapter and verse but page number too. This guy holds fast t...

bikerbill · bikerbill

It really feels like the wreckage of the past is finally being swept away. A few days ago I revisited sep five with my sponsor and yes the original step five had left some detail out. The pure relief of getting thqt last bit out and not being judged was unreal and it's only taken four years and a lot of recent...

bikerbill · bikerbill

Just posted this on facebook, might be useful to people here. So I read a bit of Robbie Burns this morning, To a Mouse, the one that almost everyone knows, wee sleekit cowrin' timourous beastie etc. certainly many people know the 3rd line of the 7th verse, the best laid schemes of man...... So this is an o...

gladlee · gladlee

Never weary in prayer. When one day man sees how marvelously his prayer has been answered, then he will deeply regret that he prayed so little. Pray until you almost cease to pray, because trust has become so rocklike, and then pray on because it has become so much a habit that you cannot resist it. And a...

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	AA Thought For The Day (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day The A.A. way is the way of sobriety, and yet there are slips. Why do these slips occur? Why don't we all accept A.A. and stay sober from then on? There are many reasons, but it has been proved without exception that once we have become alcoholics we can never drink successfull...	Phil	2	12742	May 24, 2011 by Mr_David
	Thought/Meditation of the Day (Preview) ~~~~~~~~~Be A Sponsor~~~~~~~~~ GLOBAL SHARING The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bes...	John	1	1676	May 24, 2011 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ As We Understand Him & 24hrs a Day (Preview) My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea . . . "Why don't you choose your own conception of God?" That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last. It was only a matter of being willi...	Sobrietyspell	2	553	May 24, 2011 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ Real Independence & 24hrs a Day (Preview) The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually are. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 36 I start with a little willingness to trust God and He causes that willingness to grow. The more willingness I have, the more trust I gain, and the more trust I gain, th...	Sobrietyspell	2	791	May 24, 2011 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ Active, Not Passive & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Man is supposed to think, and act. He wasn't made to God's image to be an automation. As Bill Sees It, p. 55 Before I joined A.A., I often did not think, and reacted to people and situations. When not reacting I acted in a mechanical fashion. After joining A.A., I started seeking daily guidance from a Powe...	Sobrietyspell	1	665	May 24, 2011 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ A Full & Thankful Heart + 24hrs a Day (Preview) I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain certain conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37 I believe that we in Alcoholics Anonymous are fortun...	Sobrietyspell	4	1078	May 24, 2011 by Mr_David
	If program not easy you are not doing it right. True or False (Preview) I went to home group meeting last night. The topic was "a softer gentler way" It was said several times that if the AA program and maintaining sobriety is not easy then you are not working your program correctly. Some say this is a simple program but not an easy one. Also have heard it is a s...	allie	8	1127	May 24, 2011 by Mr_David
	that filmsy reed... (Preview) In my worst days when I could not manage my life drunk or sober I held on to that filmsy reed. I know today it was definitely the hand of God. But I had to be still & know that it was God. What an ask from a restless, irritable alcoholic. Despite myself HE still got me well, if I was only willing to let HIM. --...	gonee	2	1028	May 23, 2011 by Mr_David
	"Do not be discouraged" BB. (Preview) Why are we discouraged? None of us have been able to do these steps perfectly. We are striving for the ideal. That's all that is important. Setbacks are there to give us strength. The paradox: when I am weak, then I am strong. God is interested in weak people, so that He may help us with our infirmities. I f...	gonee	1	946	May 23, 2011 by Mr_David
	I'm Looking 4 A SPONSOR (Preview) *Hi Guys & Gals* *Been in the program for a couple of decades and I'm looking for a sponsor. My sponsor died a couple of months ago.* *Need your help in getting thru the middle of my 4th step.* *I'll be waiting for one of you ?*	schooner	3	1140	May 22, 2011 by Rob84
	to an old sweetheart (Preview) ok sentimental old fool that I am, having moved on from snatches of song lyrics to full blooded poems I find this from Burns who surely was one of us in training. But only one verse eh? Permit me. Once fondly lov'd and still remember'd dear, sweet early object of my youthful vows, accept this mark of frien...	bikerbill	3	1096	May 22, 2011 by Mr_David
	Can you all remind me why I can't have a glass of wine? (Preview) It's been nine days without running to the glass of wine to numb myself. I could use some encouragement please. I'm very happy I haven't drank, but I'm feeling a little depressed.	Kate11	17	1433	May 22, 2011 by SteveP
	Thank you God (Preview) Thank you God for helping me stay sober today. For not giving me more than I can handle in a day. For putting the people in my life who can help. For carrying me thru the pains of the past month. For not letting me have enough money to afford a bottle when I got to the offy on Good Friday. God bless my posse, you k...	bikerbill	5	1268	May 22, 2011 by SteveP
	Sometimes forgiveness seems impossible (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: When people don't forgive, they probably shorten their lives. --Doris Donnelly Sometimes forgiveness seems impossible and we feel stuck in the quicksand of our own resentment. When everything else fails, we can try the "First Five People Forgiveness Plan...	Larry_H	1	1038	May 22, 2011 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ A List of Blessings & 24hrs a Day (Preview) One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings. . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37 What did I have to be grateful for? I shut myself up and started listing the blessings for which I was in no way responsible, beginning with having been born of sound mind and body. I went through seventy-f...	Sobrietyspell	1	1290	May 21, 2011 by Mr_David
	Please help...I don't know what's wrong with me.... (Preview) It seems that no matter what great situtaion I'm in I sabotage it and go to great lengths to harm myself and do damge to my life. Why do I do this? Please, somebody, give me an answer :(	TipsyMcstagger	22	1428	May 21, 2011 by cooncatbob
	First AA meeting (Preview) I attended my first meeting last night and the stories told there were both sad and moving. One in particular stuck home with me was a lady there as she called herself a codependent with her husband in a rehab clinic for the first time and her struggles. This meant something to me about what Im doing to my w...	Chad H	10	2019	May 21, 2011 by SteveP
	Growth from RAF to ALF (Preview) The triangle of Obsession, learning to shift from resentment ,anger and fear to acceptance ,love and faith! The Resentment kept me stuck in the past, the Acceptance helped me moved forward a day at a time. In the present the Anger blinded me, the Love helped me free myself. Without projection,becau...	mikef	2	1076	May 21, 2011 by gonee
	Help on cravings and finding faith (Preview) I am new to this and a bit nerves. I would appreciate some ideas for dealing with cravings. I hope if I learn to deal with them I can beat this. I have recently started attending church and truly want to believe. I frequently read and read my first book on religion called The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel....	Chad H	10	1204	May 20, 2011 by Klaatu
	~ Three Meetings...Ten Days (Preview) This nasty cold/infection is finally letting up and I am back to work today. I made it to the noon meeting yesterday and will hit the one today as well. It feels like a good place to be and I listened a lot yesterday as people talked about resentments and forgiveness. I have a long way to go on that front but a...	vixen	6	1110	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	What Does Alcohol Do For Me? (Preview) I related my experience with taking pain pills after my surgery a couple months ago, and my overly analytical brain is still processing the experience and trying to make some sense of it. The most important thing of course is that I stopped taking them when I no longer needed them, and I got rid of the lef...	barisax	5	1421	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	crazy today (Preview) A bit of a wreck at the moment. not drinking but very stressed out a decision ive put off and off and off getting to the point it is driving me INSANE do i or dont I......do this thing all the rights and wrongs and crazy in my head CRAZY making. when would be best to do it, can i handle this situation i will put my...	slugcat	9	1171	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	on a lighter note.. (Preview) In the event of a fire, do not use the lift or the stairs. Why? said the newcomer. His sponsor replied: "Because you must put the fire out."	gonee	1	1476	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	it's a we programme (Preview) so why is the serenity prayer an I prayer?	bikerbill	3	1384	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	Liturature - It's OK. Really. (Preview) Official statement from the New York GSO service material: "The term 'Conference-approved' describes written or audiovisual material approved by the Conference for publication by GSO. This process assures that everything in such literature is in accord with AA principles. Conference-...	Rainspa	1	1098	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	No doubt in my military mind!!!! (Preview) There is no way that I get this twisted"I cannot drink and live" The obsession and compulsion has been arrested but I know that I will not refund my insanity as long as I understand I recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of body and mind, based on my "fit" spiritual conditio...	mikef	2	1339	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	Something more than this! (Preview) 2 kids in their mothers womb,a brother and a sister.Sister says,don't you think there is something more than this darkness and all squished up feeling in here. Brother says,whats problem sis,,its warm,we got stuff to eat,what else could there possibly be?Sister says" didnt you ever feel tha...	mikef	4	1109	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	back at work (Preview) So i started back at work at 10 this morning. Already teh return to work plan has gone out the window - can I just nip out to a site next Tuesday for a Pre Start meeting! well it's only a few miles from me, but the 10am start that day will have to be a 9 am start. The business hasn't fallen over with me not being ava...	bikerbill	1	1114	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ One Day at a Time & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Above all, take it one day at a time. AS BILL SEES IT, p.11 Why do I kid myself that I must stay away from a drink for only one day, when I know perfectly well I must never drink again as long as I live? I am not kidding myself because one day at a time is probably the only way I can reach the long-range objective of...	Sobrietyspell	1	2876	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	I'm new here... (Preview) Hi Everyone, I am hoping not to drink tonight...I have around three glasses of wine every night (sometimes more) and have done this for years. I want to quit. It's getting worse. I feel like I need more and more. I have no energy. I am depressed and have pulled away from people I love in order to drink. I wan...	Kate11	13	1110	May 20, 2011 by Mike B.
	Today is just fine so far. (Preview) So i've had my return to work meeting with my boss and have a phased return to work over 4 weeks with a defined workload. Back in the saddle on Friday at last and see how it goes. the Annual Performance review wasn't so good. Marked as Achieves standards. This after 3 quarterly reviews of consistently Ver...	bikerbill	4	1250	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	BB in time. (Preview) AA saved my life & altered my perceptions. The remnant is scary. The first 100 people knew exactly what was wrong & thank God they recorded it in the AA book in 1935. But despite the science tabulated in easy style many are still dying not of ignorance anymore, but denial. The co dependents are s...	gonee	2	1103	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ ... and Forgive & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Under very trying conditions I have had, again and again, to forgive othersalso myself. AS BILL SEE IT p. 268 Forgiveness of self and forgiveness of others are just two currents in the same river, both hindered or shut off completely by the dam of resentment. Once that dam is lifted, both currents can f...	Sobrietyspell	1	941	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	I need help please let me know what I should do? alcoholic girlfriend drink drugs drinks knife recovery problem help (Preview) My girlfriend is an alcoholic and has been sober for a couple years now. I love her very, very much. Right now we're in a rocky place and she's going thru some stuff she won't even try explaining to me because it has to do with being an alcoholic. I don't know what's going on inside her head. Anyway, last nig...	tendo	3	10904	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	AA fellowship nice. (Preview) Our meeting tonight started 25 mins late. Everyone just stood around & chirped away like nothing was wrong. I was called to chair & navigated it & finished 5min after ETA. Had good supper @ the thanksgiving & lotsa fellowship. This is AA.	gonee	2	1072	May 20, 2011 by Mr_David
	Is there an herb that will make me sick if I drink? (Preview) I know there is a prescribed medication that will make you sick if you drink but I don't want to go to my doctor since I don't want it on my insurance that I have a problem with alcohol. I desperately want to quit because now my drinking is a "habit". I need to break the habit and I know I can with s...	Dublin	11	13316	May 19, 2011 by LCP
	alcohol depression and panic attacks (Preview) hello, i am new to this website, i just wonder if someone cud help me. i hav been drinking now for nearly 20 yrs,never had any problem with it. about 4 yra s ago a big trauma happened in my life.since then every time i binge drink i get heavily depressed, crying all day non stop, with anxiety attacks and i don...	aaman55	9	2239	May 19, 2011 by HeatherK
	Conference Approved Literature and tradition breaking traditions violating traditions meditation conference approved (Preview) Hi everyone! I am a new forum user and usually my rule of thumb is to wait a while before ever posting (listen instead) but I have a question that I desperately seek answers/feedback to, if you will please be willing to give me your thoughts :) About 2 years ago, 2 friends and I started an 11th Step meditati...	carpetslippers	20	8232	May 19, 2011 by Rainspa
	A hard day today (Preview) So today I took my Mum up to Scotland for her sister's funeral. Georgina (Ina) was nearing 91 years old when she departed this life and Mum (Jean 85) and her sister Nettie (Elizabeth 81) are the lst of their family. My sister and her husband took their car and we all piled in. A total of 8 hours round trip dri...	bikerbill	5	1170	May 19, 2011 by SteveP
	I'm new. I'm not sure how to start here so I'll say why I joined. new help advice woman closet-alcoholic (Preview) Hi.It feels weird to do this but I think that Ive got some issues and need to get rid of them. I am a stay-at-home mom of two kids who are 14 months apart.My daughter just turned two in March and my little guy will be one next week. I was very depressed during my pregnancy with my son and also had post-partum...	storm	5	5991	May 18, 2011 by Halfwolf
	Going to College (Preview) Recently i have been faced with having to alter my meeting schedule to attend graduate school. Two members of my home group, have confronted me about the fact that i have gone to a different meeting to accomadate my school schedule. I feel these individuals are attempting to manipulate me by attem...	Junior	5	534	May 18, 2011 by SUSIE
	Now. It's all there is. (Preview) All we have is now, the past is an illusion just chemicals in our brain and the future is yet to happen, more chemicals in our brain. Everything happens now, now is all there is. How crazy it is to regret something that doesn't exist. Life comes into our now and then it's gone. It doesn't hang around somewh...	windowview	5	492	May 18, 2011 by bikerbill
	Powerlessness and the loss of a Friend (Preview) Friday May 13th at 10pm Samantha my 16 year old Maine Coon Cat died in my arms in the pet hospital after discovering that she had a belly full of cancer. Samantha ha...	cooncatbob	9	1140	May 18, 2011 by StPeteDean
	Daily Reflections ~ We Forgive & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Often it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us. Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round forgiveness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled S...	Sobrietyspell	1	950	May 17, 2011 by Mr_David
	Missing Someone (Preview) I gotta say I miss the contact with my wife. Although the relationship was sick for so long, wasn't going anywhere and was overdue to end, I still miss the contact. Which is very different from actually missing someone. I barely give her a passing thought these days. There is someone else who I miss desp...	bikerbill	6	690	May 17, 2011 by bikerbill
	Step3 (Preview) The BB tells me that God could, if He were sought. That He is a Father and we are His children. Do I really believe in this? I was once asked this question by my sponsor. I very casually said yes to it. That's when he really took off with me. Then why are you afraid and morose Gonee. I had no answer for him. But i...	gonee	4	793	May 17, 2011 by Klaatu
	Stunning, Powerful meeting tonight (Preview) The main sharer was so powerful, lot's of food for thought. I've never felt so uncomfortable in my life in a meeting. I guess I shoulda known what was coming when he started by producing his own well worn copy of the BB and started quoting not just chapter and verse but page number too. This guy holds fast t...	bikerbill	2	673	May 17, 2011 by pinkchip
	Clean house, trust God, help others (Preview) It really feels like the wreckage of the past is finally being swept away. A few days ago I revisited sep five with my sponsor and yes the original step five had left some detail out. The pure relief of getting thqt last bit out and not being judged was unreal and it's only taken four years and a lot of recent...	bikerbill	1	1568	May 17, 2011 by Mr_David
	Living in the day, regrets and projection (Preview) Just posted this on facebook, might be useful to people here. So I read a bit of Robbie Burns this morning, To a Mouse, the one that almost everyone knows, wee sleekit cowrin' timourous beastie etc. certainly many people know the 3rd line of the 7th verse, the best laid schemes of man...... So this is an o...	bikerbill	2	975	May 17, 2011 by Mr_David
	God Calling - Pray and Praise (Preview) Never weary in prayer. When one day man sees how marvelously his prayer has been answered, then he will deeply regret that he prayed so little. Pray until you almost cease to pray, because trust has become so rocklike, and then pray on because it has become so much a habit that you cannot resist it. And a...	gladlee	1	471	May 17, 2011 by Mr_David
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