Alcoholics Anonymous

Jamison · Jamison

Hi. Just thought I would introduce myself. I am an alcoholic and am on 12 days sober. I also know after many failed attempts in the past, that I need the support of AA. My therapist suggested going to a women only meeting. I live in a small town with not many meetings. I am also agoraphobic, so I have to prac...

Jerry F · Jerry F

I just very recently got this link via email from a recovering friend who got it from a relative. For those of you who are interested in "first seeds" of recovery it is very inlightening. For others maybe not. Our fight against this disease is an old one and has included many many people in...

Larry_H · Larry_H

12 Traditions Checklist Tradition One: Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity. 1. Am I in my group a healing, mending, integrating person, or am I divisive? What about gossip and taking other members inventories? 2. Am I a peacemaker? Or do I, with pious prelud...

lightweight92 · lightweight92

my sobriety date is 9/15/05. i have recently started a new big book study with my sponsor and have been using the set aside prayer and loving the effect that prayer has had on me and my program. does anyone know the orgin of this prayer?

Oblong · Oblong

I'm going to a meeting tonight. The same one I went to before that I didn't like. Gonna give it another shot. I have a feeling it will be better just because I've been there already so I kind of know what to expect.

pinkchip · pinkchip

Yah...I would not ever call going to a meeting a day, doing over 90 meetings in 90 days right from the start, and adhering to the policy of not drinking no matter what "watered down AA." I would call it a good program. That is what I did primarily (though I had a sponsor and did as much stepwork...

MLB · MLB

Just wondering if anyone has any tips or suggestion to help ease the at home detox pains. I got 4 days into the detox last week and lost it. Thanks

jonijoni1 · jonijoni1

A friend here, in response to a post about grieving, mentioned CODA meetings. I am probably in dire need for some of those as well. Not only do I have a codependent marriage, but there is the sickest kind of codependency between my Al Anon aunt and I (who has actually been my "pseudo-mom" sinc...

Larry_H · Larry_H

http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/publications/p502/ar02.html#en_US_publink1000178889------------------------------------------------------- You can include in medical expenses amounts you pay for an inpatient's t...

jonijoni1 · jonijoni1

I knew it was coming and I held it at bay for as long as I could, my powerful subconscious. I have a history of PTSD, and things that are NOT life-threatening even, my inner psyche often will suppress, as a "protective mechanism". (Freud would have loved to pick this brain.) If it hurts, it is h...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 55 Since it is true that God comes to me through people, I can see that by keeping people at a distance I also keep God at a distance. God is nearer to me than I think and I can exper...

AGO · AGO

Working the Steps I have been scolded a few times (by fellow AA's) because of the fact that I sometimes share at meetings about how the Steps are meant to be worked immediately and quickly. I've been told that this "theory" will "harm" newcomers (having only a few days, a few week...

barisax · barisax

bikerbill wrote: I remember when I first came in the rooms there were all these people who knew so much more than me, I judged them to be a bunch of smartarses and felt intimidated and 'little.' My absolute first impression of AA - my first contact via phone - was "These people sound like a bunch of sm...

bikerbill · bikerbill

I remember when I first came in the rooms there were all these people who knew so much more than me, I judged them to be a bunch of smartarses and felt intimidated and 'little.' as time went on, I realised that these people knew so much more than I about some things, then realised they knew so much more than m...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: Attitudes and Limitation To a large extent, the way we think determines who we are and what happens to us. We cannot harbor poisonous thoughts without their effects visibly showing in our lives. If we dwell on our inadequacy and ineffectiveness, for example, circu...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. -- Winston Churchill We are used to learning the hard way. Many of us think we're different and can do things our own way. But then we get in too much trouble or pain. The first A.A. members were just li...

Just Toni · Just Toni

Good Morning to all my dear friends. Well I did wake up first, and have some coffee, and really needed to edit something I had written, it was what woke me up early, so I have my coffee, come in my office and turn on my Computer. And my computer refuses to let me just get on the damn thing. So I spent most of an ho...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: The goal isn't to do a successful inventory. The goal is to dig to the deepest levels of self-honesty. --Anonymous The Fourth Step is the hardest one for many newcomers in the Program. It is so difficult, in fact, that some of us still waiting to do it are no longer newco...

Oblong · Oblong

but today I really feel like I want to. Like really want to. The voice in my head is saying "Like would it be such a big deal if I just ran over to the liquor store and got some beer? Stayed home alone and listened to music and drank... would that really be so horrible?!" That's how I feel right now b...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that today animates A.A.'s all around the globe. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151 The great paradox of A.A. is that I k...

gonee · gonee

I just got back from my 23rd group birthday. It was sad to see the man who brought me to AA and saved my life. The book says there are those who do not recover. I was fortunate to take the AA program seriously and work it diligently. Principles before personalities. I worked on the principles. The personal...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Congratulations, Biker Bill! Thank you for sharing your humility, your pride, your ego, your willingness, your wisdom & your ability to put our 12Steps into action & share with us all about it. Thank you for sharing your recovery, your journey & your SOBRIETY with us all@MIP. Thank you...

jonijoni1 · jonijoni1

Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired.... HALT. Talk about a recipe for a delicious, steaming hot bowl of calamity!! No WONDER I nearly lost the last morsel of sanity within me the other night. Some prayer, 2 nights of decent sleep (7-8 hours), some fruit and milk and chicken and fish and spinach and oranges an...

AGO · AGO

I was thinking about The Triumvirate of AA, How we have three parts in AA, One is The Program of AA which is contained in the Book Alcoholics Anonymous, in which our Organization is named after, in multiple printings, and four editions, the first 164 pages have remained unchanged by an overwhelming vo...

gonee · gonee

Today is a special day in my life. My home group is 23 years old. This was the home for me to go to. They call them home groups because we are a family. Just like any other family with all its differences and personalities, it still provides the base for an alcoholic to touchdown. Our elder statesmen are the...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

All A.A. progress can be reckoned in terms of just two words: humility and responsibility. Our whole spiritual development can be accurately measured by our degree of adherence to these magnificent standards. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 271 To acknowledge and respect the views, accomplishments and prero...

MAL · MAL

My sponser said I have to want this more than anything else. I'm ready - sick to death of letting myself listen to the bad wolf voice. I want back on the path. I will WIN this battle. MAL

whitewhineoh · whitewhineoh

Alright. Forgive my language, but yesterday was a rough one. I did my best to shake off vanilla girl from my previous post and celebrate the fact that I had hit two weeks. It was very rainy and cold here in NYC. The rain has always gotten to me. It puts me in a bad mood and makes me want to stay in bed. I kn...

kld47 · kld47

Hi All Did anyone else catch that Hallmark Special on CBS last night on Lois Wilson? I hate to say it, but there were some parts that were very flaky. I have read a few stories and books about both of their pasts. Some was probably believeable but some not. The film focused mostly on his drinking and how s...

Larry_H · Larry_H

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Aquaman · Aquaman

Every time the phone rang today my heart leapt up into my chest. False Positive? Real Positive? Real Positive and Really Bad? It rang. Results may take up a WEEK!!!! GGGGrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!! Not in a good place. I know...could be worse...LOTS worse. We all want perfect, healthy kids and that's what we...

jonijoni1 · jonijoni1

We have collectively revealed this past week or so, a whole lot of stuff that goes on among AA folk once in awhile, whether in the meetings or one on one, or at clubs.... which is petty and unkind, as we can often be, as we are humans (and rather emotionally sick ones, at that). Lets talk about kindness, an...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Walk in Dry Places -- HazeldenWho pushes my buttons? Personal Relations AA old-timers would be mystified today to hear program members talk about people pushing their buttons. (They can't get your goat if they don't know where it is tied) This expression wasn't around when the early AA members pull...

whitewhineoh · whitewhineoh

Well I had myself a busy weekend. Lotsa meetings and fellowship. And cooking. Here are the ups and downs. Friday I went to a meeting that I really like called "Fearless" where the focus is, well, fear and the role it plays in alcoholism. It was cool as always. Afterwards I got asked to go...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it: it's only good for wallowing in. --Katherine Mansfield Newcomer Someone I hoped would be an important part of my life for years to come has left. I'm devastated. I don't know how much of what happened is my f...

snobug · snobug

I am new to this forum and thought this would be the best place to network. I am relocating to Fayetteville North Carolina and am looking for a contact person when I get there. Any females able to help me? I have some contacts in Southern Pines that are available and a couple in South Carolina but it wou...

bikerbill · bikerbill

A brother in fellowship uses this acronym extensively and, until tonight, when I needed to hear it, it used to irritate the face off me. PAGGLES - Pride, Anger, Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Envy and Sloth - the seven deadly sins that as an alcoholic, I fell prey to and sometimes still do. But I know when the sin...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Walk in Dry Places -- Hazelden Mistakes are for learning_____Personal growth. One sign of an alcoholic's immaturity is revealed in responses to personal mistakes. We take each simple mistake as further proof of our inadequacy. As one person observed, "I can handle a general catastrophe, bu...

jonijoni1 · jonijoni1

There they are again.. the "I can't believe this" emoticons. I have truly lost my mind this time. For starters, small thing--- and then it gets bigger and snowballs...... I have not been able to concentrate all weekend on a paper due tomorrow (and trust me, I LOVE school and what we study and...

Carlotta · Carlotta

ok, I am getting nervous. My sponsor is out of the country, I am getting strong urges to drink, maybe not today but I feel like it's in my plan but not consciously, but I remember in the past this is how the relapses would happen.. in the mind - over time. There will be a big celebration in my life next week,...

AGO · AGO

Why Does AA Insist upon "Singleness of Purpose"? Why do they insist only alcoholics can become members? (and yes they do, read the long form of Tradition Three, it is stated and restated in AA literature that only Alcoholics can become members over and over again) Visitors are welcomed a...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: Reflection for the Day Why do I do what I do? Why did I say what I said? Why on earth did I put off an important responsibility? Questions like these, best asked of myself in a quiet time of meditation, demand honest answers. I may have to think deeply for those answers, go...

AGO · AGO

Selfishness, Self centeredness, that we think is the root of our problems I used to think that selfishness meant greedy, and I didn't relate, I am generous, not greedy, but it turned out that that's not what that meant at all Among other things, it means "I am not much, but I am all I think about&quo...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

"The Next Frontier: Emotional Sobriety" by Bill Wilson I think that many oldsters who have put our AA "booze cure" to severe but successful tests still find they often lack emotional sobriety. Perhaps they will be the spearhead for the next major development in AA -- the devel...

itsmichael · itsmichael

I got my one month chip at one of my favorite meetings tonight.... it hasn't been easy, but worth every ounce of effort. Tonight I'm enjoying the warm glow of gratitude. My sponsor says: "Whatever you're doing right now, just keep doing it a day at a time." That would be the following:1. Gett...

Larry_H · Larry_H

The Simple Approach to the 12 Steps Step 1: There's a power that will kill me. Step 2:There's a power that wants me to live. Step 3:Which do I want? (If you want to die, stop here. If you want to live, go on.) Step 4: Using examples from your own life, understand that selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, a...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: Slipping A common rationalization about not making the program goes like this: "Harry over there slipped ten times before he made it. So what if I slip a few times?" What is overlooked is that the last time Jack slipped, he slipped into a coffin; the last t...

FlyingSquirrel · FlyingSquirrel

There's a meeting that a lot of people tend to avoid because they feel unwelcome for some reason. I rarely went to it before because it was further from my house, but just moved and so today I went. Several people, while sharing, made dismissive comments about people (such as myself) who got to AA by wa...

runnergirl · runnergirl

Let me preface this by saying that I know the answers I am going to get about whether this thought is a "disease" thought or I am "cured." What I'm interested in is the feeling I'm having. Is it common? Have any of you felt it? Anyway... I took a test for school last night that reli...

bikerbill · bikerbill

....often this little phrase causes me so much trouble. Sometimes I have a good sit on the pity pot and can't think of anything but the bad stuff I did which was a product of a sick mind in a sick body and I forget all about the good stuff I did. then I remember the good stuff and wonder if it was all manipulativ...

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	New here (Preview) Hi. Just thought I would introduce myself. I am an alcoholic and am on 12 days sober. I also know after many failed attempts in the past, that I need the support of AA. My therapist suggested going to a women only meeting. I live in a small town with not many meetings. I am also agoraphobic, so I have to prac...	Jamison	21	959	May 2, 2010 by kld47
	Historically interesting... (Preview) I just very recently got this link via email from a recovering friend who got it from a relative. For those of you who are interested in "first seeds" of recovery it is very inlightening. For others maybe not. Our fight against this disease is an old one and has included many many people in...	Jerry F	5	1333	May 2, 2010 by jonijoni1
	12 Traditions Checklist (Preview) 12 Traditions Checklist Tradition One: Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity. 1. Am I in my group a healing, mending, integrating person, or am I divisive? What about gossip and taking other members inventories? 2. Am I a peacemaker? Or do I, with pious prelud...	Larry_H	1	636	May 1, 2010 by Oblong
	set aside prayer (Preview) my sobriety date is 9/15/05. i have recently started a new big book study with my sponsor and have been using the set aside prayer and loving the effect that prayer has had on me and my program. does anyone know the orgin of this prayer?	lightweight92	10	7976	May 1, 2010 by AGO
	Going to a meeting! (Preview) I'm going to a meeting tonight. The same one I went to before that I didn't like. Gonna give it another shot. I have a feeling it will be better just because I've been there already so I kind of know what to expect.	Oblong	10	704	May 1, 2010 by Oblong
	Not Drinking and Going to Meetings (Preview) Yah...I would not ever call going to a meeting a day, doing over 90 meetings in 90 days right from the start, and adhering to the policy of not drinking no matter what "watered down AA." I would call it a good program. That is what I did primarily (though I had a sponsor and did as much stepwork...	pinkchip	16	1832	May 1, 2010 by AGO
	Need tips for at home detox. (Preview) Just wondering if anyone has any tips or suggestion to help ease the at home detox pains. I got 4 days into the detox last week and lost it. Thanks	MLB	28	677	May 1, 2010 by Larry_H
	My "friend" CODA and me - in various places (Preview) A friend here, in response to a post about grieving, mentioned CODA meetings. I am probably in dire need for some of those as well. Not only do I have a codependent marriage, but there is the sickest kind of codependency between my Al Anon aunt and I (who has actually been my "pseudo-mom" sinc...	jonijoni1	6	1099	May 1, 2010 by pinkchip
	Transportation to and from Alcoholics Anonymous meetings may be - Tax Deductable (Preview) http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/publications/p502/ar02.html#en_US_publink1000178889------------------------------------------------------- You can include in medical expenses amounts you pay for an inpatient's t...	Larry_H	2	1379	May 1, 2010 by StPeteDean
	Let the real PAIN begin........ (Preview) I knew it was coming and I held it at bay for as long as I could, my powerful subconscious. I have a history of PTSD, and things that are NOT life-threatening even, my inner psyche often will suppress, as a "protective mechanism". (Freud would have loved to pick this brain.) If it hurts, it is h...	jonijoni1	15	1107	Apr 30, 2010 by jonijoni1
	Daily Reflections ~ Healing Heart and Mind & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 55 Since it is true that God comes to me through people, I can see that by keeping people at a distance I also keep God at a distance. God is nearer to me than I think and I can exper...	Sobrietyspell	0	708	Apr 30, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	When DO you want to get well? (Preview) Working the Steps I have been scolded a few times (by fellow AA's) because of the fact that I sometimes share at meetings about how the Steps are meant to be worked immediately and quickly. I've been told that this "theory" will "harm" newcomers (having only a few days, a few week...	AGO	7	2102	Apr 30, 2010 by pinkchip
	Fellowship and First Impressions (Preview) bikerbill wrote: I remember when I first came in the rooms there were all these people who knew so much more than me, I judged them to be a bunch of smartarses and felt intimidated and 'little.' My absolute first impression of AA - my first contact via phone - was "These people sound like a bunch of sm...	barisax	4	1590	Apr 30, 2010 by pinkchip
	What Fellowship means to me (Preview) I remember when I first came in the rooms there were all these people who knew so much more than me, I judged them to be a bunch of smartarses and felt intimidated and 'little.' as time went on, I realised that these people knew so much more than I about some things, then realised they knew so much more than m...	bikerbill	3	959	Apr 30, 2010 by bikerbill
	Attitudes and Limitation (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: Attitudes and Limitation To a large extent, the way we think determines who we are and what happens to us. We cannot harbor poisonous thoughts without their effects visibly showing in our lives. If we dwell on our inadequacy and ineffectiveness, for example, circu...	Larry_H	0	574	Apr 30, 2010 by Larry_H
	I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. -- Winston Churchill We are used to learning the hard way. Many of us think we're different and can do things our own way. But then we get in too much trouble or pain. The first A.A. members were just li...	Larry_H	0	1435	Apr 30, 2010 by Larry_H
	Did you ever wake up to this one???? (Preview) Good Morning to all my dear friends. Well I did wake up first, and have some coffee, and really needed to edit something I had written, it was what woke me up early, so I have my coffee, come in my office and turn on my Computer. And my computer refuses to let me just get on the damn thing. So I spent most of an ho...	Just Toni	3	452	Apr 29, 2010 by jonijoni1
	The goal isn't to do a successful inventory (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: The goal isn't to do a successful inventory. The goal is to dig to the deepest levels of self-honesty. --Anonymous The Fourth Step is the hardest one for many newcomers in the Program. It is so difficult, in fact, that some of us still waiting to do it are no longer newco...	Larry_H	8	1070	Apr 29, 2010 by Aquaman
	I still haven't had a drink.... (Preview) but today I really feel like I want to. Like really want to. The voice in my head is saying "Like would it be such a big deal if I just ran over to the liquor store and got some beer? Stayed home alone and listened to music and drank... would that really be so horrible?!" That's how I feel right now b...	Oblong	15	1125	Apr 29, 2010 by gonee
	Daily Reflections ~ A Great Paradox & 24hrs a Day (Preview) These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that today animates A.A.'s all around the globe. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151 The great paradox of A.A. is that I k...	Sobrietyspell	1	604	Apr 29, 2010 by Larry_H
	Pg 59. There are those........ (Preview) I just got back from my 23rd group birthday. It was sad to see the man who brought me to AA and saved my life. The book says there are those who do not recover. I was fortunate to take the AA program seriously and work it diligently. Principles before personalities. I worked on the principles. The personal...	gonee	5	832	Apr 29, 2010 by louisa
	Our Newest Oldtimer..... (Preview) Congratulations, Biker Bill! Thank you for sharing your humility, your pride, your ego, your willingness, your wisdom & your ability to put our 12Steps into action & share with us all about it. Thank you for sharing your recovery, your journey & your SOBRIETY with us *all@MIP. Thank you...***	Sobrietyspell	8	1139	Apr 29, 2010 by angelov8
	what a difference a HALT makes!! (Preview) Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired.... HALT. Talk about a recipe for a delicious, steaming hot bowl of calamity!! No WONDER I nearly lost the last morsel of sanity within me the other night. Some prayer, 2 nights of decent sleep (7-8 hours), some fruit and milk and chicken and fish and spinach and oranges an...	jonijoni1	3	399	Apr 28, 2010 by Dave Harm
	Intro to The Steps (Preview) I was thinking about The Triumvirate of AA, How we have three parts in AA, One is The Program of AA which is contained in the Book Alcoholics Anonymous, in which our Organization is named after, in multiple printings, and four editions, the first 164 pages have remained unchanged by an overwhelming vo...	AGO	1	1560	Apr 28, 2010 by Larry_H
	My group (Preview) Today is a special day in my life. My home group is 23 years old. This was the home for me to go to. They call them home groups because we are a family. Just like any other family with all its differences and personalities, it still provides the base for an alcoholic to touchdown. Our elder statesmen are the...	gonee	4	467	Apr 28, 2010 by Larry_H
	Daily Reflections ~ Two 'Magnificent Standards' & 24hrs a Day (Preview) All A.A. progress can be reckoned in terms of just two words: humility and responsibility. Our whole spiritual development can be accurately measured by our degree of adherence to these magnificent standards. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 271 To acknowledge and respect the views, accomplishments and prero...	Sobrietyspell	0	423	Apr 28, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	Day One for Me (Preview) My sponser said I have to want this more than anything else. I'm ready - sick to death of letting myself listen to the bad wolf voice. I want back on the path. I will WIN this battle. MAL	MAL	17	1104	Apr 27, 2010 by Larry_H
	Yesterday - (Preview) Alright. Forgive my language, but yesterday was a rough one. I did my best to shake off vanilla girl from my previous post and celebrate the fact that I had hit two weeks. It was very rainy and cold here in NYC. The rain has always gotten to me. It puts me in a bad mood and makes me want to stay in bed. I kn...	whitewhineoh	6	685	Apr 27, 2010 by whitewhineoh
	Lois Wilson Story (Preview) Hi All Did anyone else catch that Hallmark Special on CBS last night on Lois Wilson? I hate to say it, but there were some parts that were very flaky. I have read a few stories and books about both of their pasts. Some was probably believeable but some not. The film focused mostly on his drinking and how s...	kld47	13	1210	Apr 27, 2010 by ljc
	1940 AA Preamble (Preview) ----------------------------------------------------------...	Larry_H	3	3222	Apr 27, 2010 by AGO
	Waiting...Waiting... (Preview) Every time the phone rang today my heart leapt up into my chest. False Positive? Real Positive? Real Positive and Really Bad? It rang. Results may take up a WEEK!!!! GGGGrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!! Not in a good place. I know...could be worse...LOTS worse. We all want perfect, healthy kids and that's what we...	Aquaman	11	1047	Apr 27, 2010 by turninggrey
	Let's Discuss This- KINDNESS (Preview) We have collectively revealed this past week or so, a whole lot of stuff that goes on among AA folk once in awhile, whether in the meetings or one on one, or at clubs.... which is petty and unkind, as we can often be, as we are humans (and rather emotionally sick ones, at that). Lets talk about kindness, an...	jonijoni1	6	996	Apr 27, 2010 by Aquaman
	Who pushes my buttons? (Preview) Walk in Dry Places -- HazeldenWho pushes my buttons? Personal Relations AA old-timers would be mystified today to hear program members talk about people pushing their buttons. (They can't get your goat if they don't know where it is tied) This expression wasn't around when the early AA members pull...	Larry_H	4	1165	Apr 27, 2010 by bikerbill
	Eeks! It's been two weeks! (Preview) Well I had myself a busy weekend. Lotsa meetings and fellowship. And cooking. Here are the ups and downs. Friday I went to a meeting that I really like called "Fearless" where the focus is, well, fear and the role it plays in alcoholism. It was cool as always. Afterwards I got asked to go...	whitewhineoh	19	1231	Apr 27, 2010 by bikerbill
	Regret is an appalling waste of energy (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it: it's only good for wallowing in. --Katherine Mansfield Newcomer Someone I hoped would be an important part of my life for years to come has left. I'm devastated. I don't know how much of what happened is my f...	Larry_H	1	547	Apr 27, 2010 by jonijoni1
	Relocation-seeking support (Preview) I am new to this forum and thought this would be the best place to network. I am relocating to Fayetteville North Carolina and am looking for a contact person when I get there. Any females able to help me? I have some contacts in Southern Pines that are available and a couple in South Carolina but it wou...	snobug	7	857	Apr 27, 2010 by louisa
	PAGGLES (Preview) A brother in fellowship uses this acronym extensively and, until tonight, when I needed to hear it, it used to irritate the face off me. PAGGLES - Pride, Anger, Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Envy and Sloth - the seven deadly sins that as an alcoholic, I fell prey to and sometimes still do. But I know when the sin...	bikerbill	4	1991	Apr 27, 2010 by bikerbill
	Mistakes are for learning (Preview) Walk in Dry Places -- Hazelden Mistakes are for learning_____Personal growth. One sign of an alcoholic's immaturity is revealed in responses to personal mistakes. We take each simple mistake as further proof of our inadequacy. As one person observed, "I can handle a general catastrophe, bu...	Larry_H	6	802	Apr 27, 2010 by angelov8
	HOLY- "I Haven't got a CLUE"...................... HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Preview) There they are again.. the "I can't believe this" emoticons. I have truly lost my mind this time. For starters, small thing--- and then it gets bigger and snowballs...... I have not been able to concentrate all weekend on a paper due tomorrow (and trust me, I LOVE school and what we study and...	jonijoni1	19	1291	Apr 26, 2010 by Larry_H
	Help .. I need a word of encouragement (Preview) ok, I am getting nervous. My sponsor is out of the country, I am getting strong urges to drink, maybe not today but I feel like it's in my plan but not consciously, but I remember in the past this is how the relapses would happen.. in the mind - over time. There will be a big celebration in my life next week,...	Carlotta	14	1528	Apr 26, 2010 by Carlotta
	Singleness of Purpose (Preview) Why Does AA Insist upon "Singleness of Purpose"? Why do they insist only alcoholics can become members? (and yes they do, read the long form of Tradition Three, it is stated and restated in AA literature that only Alcoholics can become members over and over again) Visitors are welcomed a...	AGO	12	9707	Apr 26, 2010 by AGO
	Why do I do what I do? (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: Reflection for the Day Why do I do what I do? Why did I say what I said? Why on earth did I put off an important responsibility? Questions like these, best asked of myself in a quiet time of meditation, demand honest answers. I may have to think deeply for those answers, go...	Larry_H	1	560	Apr 26, 2010 by Jerry F
	The Root of our problems (Preview) Selfishness, Self centeredness, that we think is the root of our problems I used to think that selfishness meant greedy, and I didn't relate, I am generous, not greedy, but it turned out that that's not what that meant at all Among other things, it means "I am not much, but I am all I think about&quo...	AGO	4	4439	Apr 26, 2010 by Cait
	Emotional Sobriety by Bill Wilson (Preview) "The Next Frontier: Emotional Sobriety" by Bill Wilson I think that many oldsters who have put our AA "booze cure" to severe but successful tests still find they often lack emotional sobriety. Perhaps they will be the spearhead for the next major development in AA -- the devel...	Sobrietyspell	4	4286	Apr 26, 2010 by louisa
	30 Days! (Preview) I got my one month chip at one of my favorite meetings tonight.... it hasn't been easy, but worth every ounce of effort. Tonight I'm enjoying the warm glow of gratitude. My sponsor says: "Whatever you're doing right now, just keep doing it a day at a time." That would be the following:1. Gett...	itsmichael	17	1049	Apr 26, 2010 by whitewhineoh
	The Simple Approach to the 12 Steps (Preview) The Simple Approach to the 12 Steps Step 1: There's a power that will kill me. Step 2:There's a power that wants me to live. Step 3:Which do I want? (If you want to die, stop here. If you want to live, go on.) Step 4: Using examples from your own life, understand that selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, a...	Larry_H	2	668	Apr 26, 2010 by lukin
	Slipping? - Hazelden (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: Slipping A common rationalization about not making the program goes like this: "Harry over there slipped ten times before he made it. So what if I slip a few times?" What is overlooked is that the last time Jack slipped, he slipped into a coffin; the last t...	Larry_H	7	1045	Apr 26, 2010 by lukin
	Should I speak up during a meeting if I think a tradition is being violated? (Preview) There's a meeting that a lot of people tend to avoid because they feel unwelcome for some reason. I rarely went to it before because it was further from my house, but just moved and so today I went. Several people, while sharing, made dismissive comments about people (such as myself) who got to AA by wa...	FlyingSquirrel	25	1646	Apr 26, 2010 by SteveP
	Disease or Cure? (Preview) Let me preface this by saying that I know the answers I am going to get about whether this thought is a "disease" thought or I am "cured." What I'm interested in is the feeling I'm having. Is it common? Have any of you felt it? Anyway... I took a test for school last night that reli...	runnergirl	14	1081	Apr 26, 2010 by carlasober
	we will not regret the past......... (Preview) ....often this little phrase causes me so much trouble. Sometimes I have a good sit on the pity pot and can't think of anything but the bad stuff I did which was a product of a sick mind in a sick body and I forget all about the good stuff I did. then I remember the good stuff and wonder if it was all manipulativ...	bikerbill	10	1147	Apr 26, 2010 by louisa
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