Alcoholics Anonymous

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

We will want the good that is in us all, even in the worst of us, to flower and to grow. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10 With the self-discipline and insight gained from practicing Step Ten, I begin to know the gratifications of sobriety -- not as mere abstinence from alcohol, but as recovery in every department...

communicator · communicator

Hi,I am new to the forum. I decided to join because I am struggling with A.A. at the moment. I have 10 months and pray one day at a time I will make a year. Erica C.

Just Toni · Just Toni

Yahoo Bill, Wishing all the Blessings of a Wonderful Sober Anniversary! Many hugs and good thoughts for all your hard work. Toni -- Edited by Just Toni on Sunday 18th of October 2009 08:16:30 PM

zahndi · zahndi

My first birthday in AA July 7th 1986 Now my birthday is 2000. I picked July 7th cuz I can't remember exact date in 2000. It is important to me to post original date because I have never stopped recovery and the memories of learning a new way to live and having a relationship with my sweet higher power ; I ...

foxfarmboxers · foxfarmboxers

I started in AA last Sunday, at a local meeting place. I have attended a meeting every night this week. I have a 10 year old at home, and no babysitter. My grown daughter is out of town, as well as my husband. I was grateful to find this message board, and will attempt to participate in the 'online meeti...

texaa · texaa

Hi there, Tex here, in Australia, started binge drinking as an older teen, and can now see that it was almost always out of control to the point where I would not remember parts of the night. I now know that this is called a blackout, but back then I thought it was normal and when reminded of what I had done or...

zahndi · zahndi

What is new for me and I hope others can respond to this too is how I talk about mental illness and sobriety in a meeting. The book addresses it by saying (there are those too who have grave mental disorders but they can recover if they have the capasity to be honest) I don't have exact wording in front of...

Doll · Doll

I've been busy, busy, busy..... Just wanted to give you all a quick update. My dad is doing very well. Radiation treatments seem to have worked. He's in remission for now. My John and I got married (yes, I said married) on the day we met anniversary, August 2nd. I have never been happier. He's a wonderful...

Moth · Moth

I've been sober once for 10 years, relapsed lost it all and now it's 5 years of sobriety. I've been attending Mass and end up with my lips to wine or in a nano second it's the Blood of Christ. But last time I got a buzz going which was more to do with the blood of evil. I feel drawn to communion and have a choice no...

Just Toni · Just Toni

Hi Bill, tried to get your revised picture, that I have on the first page, but it was sort of getting all messed up, so go to page 2, and your Post Title, This is me.... hope that works.... Toni, just trying to learn something about downloading pics. Happy Day 1 of your 4th year. -- Edited by Just Toni on...

turninggrey · turninggrey

Hey all, I can not get Misu's post below out of my mind because of how lucky I was to have quit pretty early. I was a sophmore in college so I must have been 20 or 21. (I was one of those late starters due to being a young drunk) Of course I did "slip" "relapse" or just plain "get dr...

Aquaman · Aquaman

We're a global community here at MIP, so, what's the weather like where you are? Northeast Iowa, USA - cloudy leaden sky, chilly (40 degrees), no wind and it smells like rain. I've gotta get to work on my shed before snow comes and turns my bikes and yard tools into rusting hulks. Next....

bikerbill · bikerbill

People have set an example (thanks Av) so I've uploaded a pic of me on holiday, half way up a big hill, looking moody and romantic like over the highlands of scotland.

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Obviously, the dilemma of the wanderer from faith is that of profound confusion. He thinks himself lost to the comfort of any conviction at all. He cannot attain in even a small degree the assurance of the believer, the agnostic, or the atheist. He is the bewildered one. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADIT...

jonijoni1 · jonijoni1

Hi all. Where am I coming from? Only child, now late 30's, mom died in an alcoholic car accident when I was 4. Me and dad moved in with my grandparents, as he worked long hours and I needed a stable home life. Dad had stopped drinking 6 months before she died, and he found religion afterward. He became very f...

Larry_H · Larry_H

On Wednesday I was chairing our home group's weekly step study meeting. We had about 20 members present and we were discussing step 8. Among those present was a long time member who has been out doing more research. He was slightly drunk that morning but not causing any disturbance at all. About 3...

Carlotta · Carlotta

This is a very bad place for me to be... get confident after one meeting, thinking I don't need AA, that's the very thing that has gotten me in trouble for the last 20 years. Forgetfulness.... I drummed up some courage last night and to go to a discussion meeting, got there, found 3 people waiting out...

Aquaman · Aquaman

This started as a reply to our new friend, Misu, but I decided it was an anecdote worthy of it's own thread. Kinda funny story...stay with it until the end. I live in a small town; pop. 8000. I work in sales/copywriting for one of two independant radio broadcasting companies here and we compete FIERCELY...

bikerbill · bikerbill

So I went to my Chiropractor yesterday who tied me in knots then untied 'em all again. She told me to take Ibuprofen and paracetomol, to reduce the selling and the pain and to use ice and heat. She also said it'll ge tworse before it get's better. (I sometimes wonder if she's one of us?). She was right. By 4 p...

Just Toni · Just Toni

Call it coda maybe, but I was so used to turning on to MIP every morning with my coffee, and have not be able to do that for over a week. Just wanted to say I am really missing the interactions and the ES & P. Helps me get my day started, always. Physical resrictions, sprains and pulled muscles, yucky, b...

SteveP · SteveP

Wow, is that a wise saing. Am in Amsterdam for the weekend with the family. Had to leave the house around 400 and hardly ate anything. Wife tired and hungry and grumpy too. Just for about 10 minutes there the old thoughts came back: "Hey, you're on holiday, just one Heineken." Those thought...

ljc · ljc

Morning Group ! What a great day to wake up sober, thankyou God ! I was sitting out on the porch this morning .. sippin on my coffee and having a smoke. Listening to the sounds of the outdoors. The Rooster crowed and for some strange reason I started to count my blessings. I prayed that I stay forever grat...

bikerbill · bikerbill

and it hurts like shit! I can't turn my head left or right without almost passing out from pain, I can't rotate my spine and I can't even lift my legs high enough to get in the over bath shower, so I stink. No I reckon I can cure that with a strip wash. I'll be seeing the chiropractor in about 5 hours, she'll u...

runfast40 · runfast40

i have had some disturbing and unwanted thoughts that will not go away, i pray and still they come back, i have close to 20 years sobriety, and have not had this problem before, am wondering if anybody has experienced this before. and what their solution is to get rid of the thoughts.

Glenns · Glenns

I am now going thru my Fourth with a friend I met at a recovery home. There is some contention (or at least confusion) on how to go about it. Old-timers: how is this done? On P. 65 of the BB, there's the spreadsheet, with Bill W. saying, "We were usually as definite as this example..." There are t...

Glenns · Glenns

I have a number of spiritual diseases that I believe (and have been told by Bill W.) will hinder my recovery. I am asking advice from people who were where I am at now, yet have since recovered from them. A short list:I am a White Nationalist. The Mexican/American seems to wave the Mexican national flag:...

zahndi · zahndi

Just joined this forum today. I have made phone calls locally trying to get back to meetings. It takes time for someone in my rural area to respond. I do know there are meetings 6 evenings a week about 4 miles away. But it has been 4 days since I reached out and still no one closer than 20 miles has respond...

MDC · MDC

My "wife" found a beer can in the truck. I can't deny it's mine. I know that Crystal has posted about relationships, but I haven't seen an answer as to why they have to be so hard. I "caught" her in a slip. I was informed that she has been e-mailing her "friend" again....

Carlotta · Carlotta

I am struggling with the quantity not the frequency of alcohol. Dinner wine is the only thing I drink but at 11.5%, it doesn't take very much to get myself intoxicated. I've gone months, even a couple of years free from alcohol, now that my children are grown, I am often alone at social settings, will p...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our activities. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 How do I maintain my spiritual condition? For me it's quite simple: on a daily basis I ask my Higher Power to grant me the gift of sobriety for that day! I have talked to many alcoholics who h...

Aquaman · Aquaman

I know that in AA we celebrate milestones in a lunar cycle, but when I realized that I had 106 days in yesterday, it felt different. It caused reflection. What have I learned? 1) God had been there with me on the boat all along. All I had to do was turn over the tiller and God would steer me on the right course...

bigG · bigG

I have been abusing stuff that we do not talk about in AA and I feel very tired old and depressed, I have to stop this, each week i say i will quit at the weekend. I just feel like dying

cramcj01 · cramcj01

What in the world was up with the page last night? It connected to a completely different site, and it had my computer all froze up. It went to a page called MIP, that had a picture of two half-way houses on the front?? That has happened to me before. Am I crazy....again??!!! LoL

Cd · Cd

..I drank. Was the longest off it for a while. Don't intend to do too much more, but until I'm there with Step 1 I dunno how genuine I can be. Feel pretty shit about it all actually. Was doing well and your support helped. On the plus side; yesterday I ordered The Big Book and the Living Sober one. Watched My N...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Please peruse the following for your interest & entertainment. Carl & I are already booked & will be staying for the whole week 5th to the 12th! Will any of you being joining us? Recovery Love, Danielle XXX AA MALTA & GOZO 4TH INTL CONVENTION 2009 "ACCEPTANCETHE ANSWER"...

tryingnottocheckout · tryingnottocheckout

My Glasses By Anonymous My glasses tell a story that only I can see Of all the joys and sorrows that are happening to me Those that know me best own pieces of my heart And I had the best intentions always from the start I have made mistakes and I hurt a few But sometimes I never knew And others made mistakes and...

soberjulie · soberjulie

I heard a good one tonight.... You know how its been said that we are all just an arms length away from a drink....? This guy said he's NOT an arms length away....he's actually 12 steps away.

cramcj01 · cramcj01

There has always been a girl on this site that posts often, and her sobrity date was just after mine. She is also close to my age. For the life of me I cannot remember her online name. Where are you? Maybe I'm just crazy today. But I always enjoyed her posts. Where are you....who are you...??? LoL. ...

Jason J · Jason J

I have never had headaches, occasionaly in the morning during my years of daily drinking but they went away pretty easily (especially if I didn't have to work and could start drinking again). My wife and I got sober about the same time 18 months ago, neither of us had much in the way of physical DT's or pro...

jonijoni1 · jonijoni1

So sorry if I worried anyone!! Shame on me for leaving that desperately serious post, and then not coming back for a few days!!! All your replies were so wonderful, so caring, speaking the "Language Of The Heart". Friends, I am ok, still sober. It has just been a really rough few weeks. I am st...

Larry_H · Larry_H

If you stick around long enough you will see miracles every day. The first I see each morning when I shave. I used to hate the guy in the mirror. All that changed due to the 12 steps of AA. Today the guy in the mirror is a pretty good fellow and I enjoy seeing him. Next are the daily miracles at m...

cramcj01 · cramcj01

I know this is not a relationship board, but I want you all to know that I have made a decision to myslef to get out of my current relationship. It is toxic for me. And though I try and say it does not threaten my sobriety, it does. Please wish me luck, he isn't the nicest man when he doesn't get his way : (

Just Toni · Just Toni

Hi BB, Thought seriously about copying and pasting you entire Post, and just putting my name on it! I have an injury from an Auto Accident, many years ago, that slammed my 5th and 6th vertibre together, never to seperate again. I have over the years learned how to deal with it. Last week, I did some reall...

cramcj01 · cramcj01

Bikerbill's post reminded me that I never fully explained my stumble in sobriety road...On Septmber 11th, 2009 which was coincidently the date of my last drink in 2008. I live in Indiana and my dad decided to plan a vacation to the Smokey Mountains. Boy was I excited. Growing up, we weren't able to...

Cd · Cd

Hi I'm new here. I've been lurking the boards for a while and thought now is as good a time as any to come on and see if there's anyone who's been in a similar boat, or knows someone who has. I pretty much need help. I'm currently coming out of a 4 day binge, haven't been drunk for 2 days but still feeling terrib...

bikerbill · bikerbill

.......but maybe a bit of self pity mixed with reflections on the past. I read the last 7 days of another member a few weeks ago which struck a chord and as I'm in the anniversary of my last week of drunk my actions are coming back into my mind. I couldn't really remember them at year one and two, but they seem...

Dave Harm · Dave Harm

I debated on posting this here, but then I thought that I have brought up this subject at various AA meetings. So I thought I'd give it a try. ******************************************* I learned with every 12 Step group that I've participated in that I am powerless... that I need to surrender all...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. . . . On awakening let us think about the twenty four hours ahead. . . . Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self pity, dishonest or self seeking motives. Alcoholics Anonymous Page 86I l...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

by: Richard Blackstone The paradigm of love, unity and oneness teaches us to neither judge nor condemn because there is no right or wrong. There only is what is. It is in our judgments that the concepts of right or wrong become so real to us. Now think of this. What if we viewed the people and events in our...

Aquaman · Aquaman

Today was the closest I've come to a relapse YET and I think it's because I started my amends not with something like like "Hi, sorry I sat on your sunglasses when we were drunk in the boat. Can I buy you a new pair?" but with apologizing to my ex-fiance for the last years of our relationship; lie...

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	Daily Reflections ~ Nothing Grows in the Dark & 24hrs a Day (Preview) We will want the good that is in us all, even in the worst of us, to flower and to grow. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10 With the self-discipline and insight gained from practicing Step Ten, I begin to know the gratifications of sobriety -- not as mere abstinence from alcohol, but as recovery in every department...	Sobrietyspell	0	379	Oct 21, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	New to the forum (Preview) Hi,I am new to the forum. I decided to join because I am struggling with A.A. at the moment. I have 10 months and pray one day at a time I will make a year. Erica C.	communicator	14	727	Oct 21, 2009 by Rob84
	HAPPY HAPPY 3rd Soberversary BILL!!!! (Preview) Yahoo Bill, Wishing all the Blessings of a Wonderful Sober Anniversary! Many hugs and good thoughts for all your hard work. Toni -- Edited by Just Toni on Sunday 18th of October 2009 08:16:30 PM	Just Toni	18	1017	Oct 20, 2009 by Larry_H
	Milestones (Preview) My first birthday in AA July 7th 1986 Now my birthday is 2000. I picked July 7th cuz I can't remember exact date in 2000. It is important to me to post original date because I have never stopped recovery and the memories of learning a new way to live and having a relationship with my sweet higher power ; I ...	zahndi	6	2094	Oct 20, 2009 by zahndi
	New to AA and grateful I found this board. (Preview) I started in AA last Sunday, at a local meeting place. I have attended a meeting every night this week. I have a 10 year old at home, and no babysitter. My grown daughter is out of town, as well as my husband. I was grateful to find this message board, and will attempt to participate in the 'online meeti...	foxfarmboxers	14	721	Oct 20, 2009 by Avril G
	In and out, in and out.......32 days today (Preview) Hi there, Tex here, in Australia, started binge drinking as an older teen, and can now see that it was almost always out of control to the point where I would not remember parts of the night. I now know that this is called a blackout, but back then I thought it was normal and when reminded of what I had done or...	texaa	7	604	Oct 20, 2009 by texaa
	mental illness coexisting in recovery (Preview) What is new for me and I hope others can respond to this too is how I talk about mental illness and sobriety in a meeting. The book addresses it by saying (there are those too who have grave mental disorders but they can recover if they have the capasity to be honest) I don't have exact wording in front of...	zahndi	8	1517	Oct 20, 2009 by cindy
	It's been too long! (Preview) I've been busy, busy, busy..... Just wanted to give you all a quick update. My dad is doing very well. Radiation treatments seem to have worked. He's in remission for now. My John and I got married (yes, I said married) on the day we met anniversary, August 2nd. I have never been happier. He's a wonderful...	Doll	8	520	Oct 20, 2009 by cindy
	Transubstantiation (Preview) I've been sober once for 10 years, relapsed lost it all and now it's 5 years of sobriety. I've been attending Mass and end up with my lips to wine or in a nano second it's the Blood of Christ. But last time I got a buzz going which was more to do with the blood of evil. I feel drawn to communion and have a choice no...	Moth	8	1287	Oct 20, 2009 by StPeteDean
	Hi Bill, hope your getting better!. (Preview) Hi Bill, tried to get your revised picture, that I have on the first page, but it was sort of getting all messed up, so go to page 2, and your Post Title, This is me.... hope that works.... Toni, just trying to learn something about downloading pics. Happy Day 1 of your 4th year. -- Edited by Just Toni on...	Just Toni	2	504	Oct 20, 2009 by bikerbill
	Who is the youngest member of this board? (Preview) Hey all, I can not get Misu's post below out of my mind because of how lucky I was to have quit pretty early. I was a sophmore in college so I must have been 20 or 21. (I was one of those late starters due to being a young drunk) Of course I did "slip" "relapse" or just plain "get dr...	turninggrey	10	1054	Oct 19, 2009 by Sick of being sick
	Worldwide Weather Check... (Preview) We're a global community here at MIP, so, what's the weather like where you are? Northeast Iowa, USA - cloudy leaden sky, chilly (40 degrees), no wind and it smells like rain. I've gotta get to work on my shed before snow comes and turns my bikes and yard tools into rusting hulks. Next....	Aquaman	16	761	Oct 19, 2009 by ljc
	This is me (Preview) People have set an example (thanks Av) so I've uploaded a pic of me on holiday, half way up a big hill, looking moody and romantic like over the highlands of scotland.	bikerbill	8	746	Oct 19, 2009 by Just Toni
	Daily Reflections ~ Solace for Confusion & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Obviously, the dilemma of the wanderer from faith is that of profound confusion. He thinks himself lost to the comfort of any conviction at all. He cannot attain in even a small degree the assurance of the believer, the agnostic, or the atheist. He is the bewildered one. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADIT...	Sobrietyspell	0	688	Oct 19, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	jonijoni's story (Preview) Hi all. Where am I coming from? Only child, now late 30's, mom died in an alcoholic car accident when I was 4. Me and dad moved in with my grandparents, as he worked long hours and I needed a stable home life. Dad had stopped drinking 6 months before she died, and he found religion afterward. He became very f...	jonijoni1	14	872	Oct 19, 2009 by zahndi
	Did I handle this correctly? (Preview) On Wednesday I was chairing our home group's weekly step study meeting. We had about 20 members present and we were discussing step 8. Among those present was a long time member who has been out doing more research. He was slightly drunk that morning but not causing any disturbance at all. About 3...	Larry_H	12	666	Oct 19, 2009 by SteveP
	Complacency (Preview) This is a very bad place for me to be... get confident after one meeting, thinking I don't need AA, that's the very thing that has gotten me in trouble for the last 20 years. Forgetfulness.... I drummed up some courage last night and to go to a discussion meeting, got there, found 3 people waiting out...	Carlotta	14	4495	Oct 19, 2009 by Avril G
	All for One & One for All (Preview) This started as a reply to our new friend, Misu, but I decided it was an anecdote worthy of it's own thread. Kinda funny story...stay with it until the end. I live in a small town; pop. 8000. I work in sales/copywriting for one of two independant radio broadcasting companies here and we compete FIERCELY...	Aquaman	7	603	Oct 19, 2009 by Avril G
	Blessed relief (Preview) So I went to my Chiropractor yesterday who tied me in knots then untied 'em all again. She told me to take Ibuprofen and paracetomol, to reduce the selling and the pain and to use ice and heat. She also said it'll ge tworse before it get's better. (I sometimes wonder if she's one of us?). She was right. By 4 p...	bikerbill	9	561	Oct 19, 2009 by SteveP
	Hi Everyone....Missing my MIP friends bad today...... (Preview) Call it coda maybe, but I was so used to turning on to MIP every morning with my coffee, and have not be able to do that for over a week. Just wanted to say I am really missing the interactions and the ES & P. Helps me get my day started, always. Physical resrictions, sprains and pulled muscles, yucky, b...	Just Toni	8	533	Oct 19, 2009 by SteveP
	HALT (Preview) Wow, is that a wise saing. Am in Amsterdam for the weekend with the family. Had to leave the house around 400 and hardly ate anything. Wife tired and hungry and grumpy too. Just for about 10 minutes there the old thoughts came back: "Hey, you're on holiday, just one Heineken." Those thought...	SteveP	4	1741	Oct 19, 2009 by SteveP
	Join Me please ..... (Preview) Morning Group ! What a great day to wake up sober, thankyou God ! I was sitting out on the porch this morning .. sippin on my coffee and having a smoke. Listening to the sounds of the outdoors. The Rooster crowed and for some strange reason I started to count my blessings. I prayed that I stay forever grat...	ljc	10	578	Oct 19, 2009 by zahndi
	My back and neck are in spasm (Preview) and it hurts like shit! I can't turn my head left or right without almost passing out from pain, I can't rotate my spine and I can't even lift my legs high enough to get in the over bath shower, so I stink. No I reckon I can cure that with a strip wash. I'll be seeing the chiropractor in about 5 hours, she'll u...	bikerbill	12	715	Oct 19, 2009 by angelov8
	sick thoughts (Preview) i have had some disturbing and unwanted thoughts that will not go away, i pray and still they come back, i have close to 20 years sobriety, and have not had this problem before, am wondering if anybody has experienced this before. and what their solution is to get rid of the thoughts.	runfast40	9	519	Oct 18, 2009 by John R
	The Fourth Step: How to approach it? (Preview) I am now going thru my Fourth with a friend I met at a recovery home. There is some contention (or at least confusion) on how to go about it. Old-timers: how is this done? On P. 65 of the BB, there's the spreadsheet, with Bill W. saying, "We were usually as definite as this example..." There are t...	Glenns	13	8954	Oct 18, 2009 by StPeteDean
	I need help in being non-judgmental. HELP! (Preview) I have a number of spiritual diseases that I believe (and have been told by Bill W.) will hinder my recovery. I am asking advice from people who were where I am at now, yet have since recovered from them. A short list:I am a White Nationalist. The Mexican/American seems to wave the Mexican national flag:...	Glenns	27	1772	Oct 18, 2009 by Bob K
	humbly returning to AA (Preview) Just joined this forum today. I have made phone calls locally trying to get back to meetings. It takes time for someone in my rural area to respond. I do know there are meetings 6 evenings a week about 4 miles away. But it has been 4 days since I reached out and still no one closer than 20 miles has respond...	zahndi	16	669	Oct 18, 2009 by Avril G
	Caught in a "slip" (Preview) My "wife" found a beer can in the truck. I can't deny it's mine. I know that Crystal has posted about relationships, but I haven't seen an answer as to why they have to be so hard. I "caught" her in a slip. I was informed that she has been e-mailing her "friend" again....	MDC	20	1417	Oct 18, 2009 by turninggrey
	Struggling (Preview) I am struggling with the quantity not the frequency of alcohol. Dinner wine is the only thing I drink but at 11.5%, it doesn't take very much to get myself intoxicated. I've gone months, even a couple of years free from alcohol, now that my children are grown, I am often alone at social settings, will p...	Carlotta	27	775	Oct 18, 2009 by Just Toni
	Daily Reflections ~ A Daily Tune-Up (Preview) Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our activities. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 How do I maintain my spiritual condition? For me it's quite simple: on a daily basis I ask my Higher Power to grant me the gift of sobriety for that day! I have talked to many alcoholics who h...	Sobrietyspell	0	555	Oct 17, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Crossed the triple digit line... (Preview) I know that in AA we celebrate milestones in a lunar cycle, but when I realized that I had 106 days in yesterday, it felt different. It caused reflection. What have I learned? 1) God had been there with me on the boat all along. All I had to do was turn over the tiller and God would steer me on the right course...	Aquaman	5	548	Oct 17, 2009 by turninggrey
	have had a rubbish week (Preview) I have been abusing stuff that we do not talk about in AA and I feel very tired old and depressed, I have to stop this, each week i say i will quit at the weekend. I just feel like dying	bigG	5	1700	Oct 17, 2009 by bikerbill
	What was the deal? (Preview) What in the world was up with the page last night? It connected to a completely different site, and it had my computer all froze up. It went to a page called MIP, that had a picture of two half-way houses on the front?? That has happened to me before. Am I crazy....again??!!! LoL	cramcj01	7	457	Oct 17, 2009 by StPeteDean
	Sorry dudes.... (Preview) ..I drank. Was the longest off it for a while. Don't intend to do too much more, but until I'm there with Step 1 I dunno how genuine I can be. Feel pretty shit about it all actually. Was doing well and your support helped. On the plus side; yesterday I ordered The Big Book and the Living Sober one. Watched My N...	Cd	12	471	Oct 17, 2009 by Aquaman
	Malta's 4th International A.A. Convention ~ 6th-8th Nov 09 (Preview) Please peruse the following for your interest & entertainment. Carl & I are already booked & will be staying for the whole week 5th to the 12th! Will any of you being joining us? Recovery Love, Danielle XXX AA MALTA & GOZO 4TH INTL CONVENTION 2009 "ACCEPTANCETHE ANSWER"...	Sobrietyspell	2	2037	Oct 17, 2009 by Avril G
	My Glasses (Preview) My Glasses By Anonymous My glasses tell a story that only I can see Of all the joys and sorrows that are happening to me Those that know me best own pieces of my heart And I had the best intentions always from the start I have made mistakes and I hurt a few But sometimes I never knew And others made mistakes and...	tryingnottocheckout	8	386	Oct 17, 2009 by pinkchip
	Cool sayings we hear at meetings (Preview) I heard a good one tonight.... You know how its been said that we are all just an arms length away from a drink....? This guy said he's NOT an arms length away....he's actually 12 steps away.	soberjulie	17	2012	Oct 16, 2009 by Avril G
	I'm confused...... (Preview) There has always been a girl on this site that posts often, and her sobrity date was just after mine. She is also close to my age. For the life of me I cannot remember her online name. Where are you? Maybe I'm just crazy today. But I always enjoyed her posts. Where are you....who are you...??? LoL. ...	cramcj01	7	519	Oct 16, 2009 by cramcj01
	Headaches (Preview) I have never had headaches, occasionaly in the morning during my years of daily drinking but they went away pretty easily (especially if I didn't have to work and could start drinking again). My wife and I got sober about the same time 18 months ago, neither of us had much in the way of physical DT's or pro...	Jason J	6	515	Oct 16, 2009 by Jerry F
	I'm still here........................... (Preview) So sorry if I worried anyone!! Shame on me for leaving that desperately serious post, and then not coming back for a few days!!! All your replies were so wonderful, so caring, speaking the "Language Of The Heart". Friends, I am ok, still sober. It has just been a really rough few weeks. I am st...	jonijoni1	10	677	Oct 16, 2009 by SteveP
	Daily Miracles (Preview) If you stick around long enough you will see miracles every day. The first I see each morning when I shave. I used to hate the guy in the mirror. All that changed due to the 12 steps of AA. Today the guy in the mirror is a pretty good fellow and I enjoy seeing him. Next are the daily miracles at m...	Larry_H	8	529	Oct 16, 2009 by SteveP
	Not a relationship board...... (Preview) I know this is not a relationship board, but I want you all to know that I have made a decision to myslef to get out of my current relationship. It is toxic for me. And though I try and say it does not threaten my sobriety, it does. Please wish me luck, he isn't the nicest man when he doesn't get his way : (	cramcj01	11	708	Oct 16, 2009 by SteveP
	Me Too Bill...You're Not Alone (Preview) Hi BB, Thought seriously about copying and pasting you entire Post, and just putting my name on it! I have an injury from an Auto Accident, many years ago, that slammed my 5th and 6th vertibre together, never to seperate again. I have over the years learned how to deal with it. Last week, I did some reall...	Just Toni	1	399	Oct 16, 2009 by bikerbill
	My slip up..... (Preview) Bikerbill's post reminded me that I never fully explained my stumble in sobriety road...On Septmber 11th, 2009 which was coincidently the date of my last drink in 2008. I live in Indiana and my dad decided to plan a vacation to the Smokey Mountains. Boy was I excited. Growing up, we weren't able to...	cramcj01	12	1677	Oct 16, 2009 by Avril G
	New here.... (Preview) Hi I'm new here. I've been lurking the boards for a while and thought now is as good a time as any to come on and see if there's anyone who's been in a similar boat, or knows someone who has. I pretty much need help. I'm currently coming out of a 4 day binge, haven't been drunk for 2 days but still feeling terrib...	Cd	30	1052	Oct 15, 2009 by Cd
	Not so much pre anniversary jitters............ (Preview) .......but maybe a bit of self pity mixed with reflections on the past. I read the last 7 days of another member a few weeks ago which struck a chord and as I'm in the anniversary of my last week of drunk my actions are coming back into my mind. I couldn't really remember them at year one and two, but they seem...	bikerbill	11	641	Oct 15, 2009 by pinkchip
	I do have some (a little) control (Preview) I debated on posting this here, but then I thought that I have brought up this subject at various AA meetings. So I thought I'd give it a try. ******************************************* I learned with every 12 Step group that I've participated in that I am powerless... that I need to surrender all...	Dave Harm	5	602	Oct 14, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Daily Reflections ~ A Program For Living (Preview) When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. . . . On awakening let us think about the twenty four hours ahead. . . . Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self pity, dishonest or self seeking motives. Alcoholics Anonymous Page 86I l...	Sobrietyspell	0	438	Oct 14, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Acceptance is the Spiritual Key to Non-Judgment (Preview) by: Richard Blackstone The paradigm of love, unity and oneness teaches us to neither judge nor condemn because there is no right or wrong. There only is what is. It is in our judgments that the concepts of right or wrong become so real to us. Now think of this. What if we viewed the people and events in our...	Sobrietyspell	2	558	Oct 13, 2009 by Rob84
	Bit Off waayyyy more than I can chew... (Preview) Today was the closest I've come to a relapse YET and I think it's because I started my amends not with something like like "Hi, sorry I sat on your sunglasses when we were drunk in the boat. Can I buy you a new pair?" but with apologizing to my ex-fiance for the last years of our relationship; lie...	Aquaman	12	615	Oct 13, 2009 by ljc
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