Alcoholics Anonymous

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the DayJanuary 18, 2009No Barriers Many of my AA friends now are a generation or two older, but there is no barrier. AA is big enough for all. Each generation contributes its own gifts, talents, and thinking to AA. Each brings its own ideas and beliefs. We each bring our common disease of a...

Jane05 · Jane05

It is easier for us to blame others (parents, spouses, friends) for our predicaments then it is to look at self. Victims not only suffer pain, but they act as if someone else has the power to take that pain away. The Blame Game is not a part of my recovery program. Excerpt from the Pocket Sponsor, By The Ha...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It Pg. 18 Companion and Partner "Dr. Bob was my constant companion and partner in the great A.A. adventure. As the physician and great human being that he was, he chose work with others as his prime A.A. vocation and achieved a record which, in quantity and in quality, none will ever...

Quetzal · Quetzal

The behavior we call "acting as if" can be a powerful recovery tool. Acting as if is a way to practice the positive. It's a positive form of pretending. It's a tool we use to get ourselves unstuck. It's a tool we make a conscious decision to use. Acting as if can be helpful when a feeling begin...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Sometimes in life, things happen too fast. We barely solve one problem when two new problems surface. We're feeling great in the morning, but we're submerged in misery by nightfall. Every day we face interruptions, delays, changes, and challenges. We face personality conflicts and disappoint...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

The trouble with us alcoholics was this: We demanded that the world give us happiness and peace of mind in just the particular order we wanted to get it - by the alcohol route. And we werent successful. But when we take time to find out some of the spiritual laws, and familiarize ourselves with them, and p...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day It doesn't do much good to come to meetings only once in a while and sit around, hoping to get something out of the program. That's all right at first, but it won't help us very long. Sooner or later we have to get into action by coming to meetings regularly, by giving a personal witn...

Jane05 · Jane05

Day Seventeen/3:00 AM: When egos collide, use kind words, do what you have control over, and do what you think is right. Surrender what you don't have control over, even if you think what others are doing is wrong. Others have the right to be wrong. I define myself by what I do and how I do it, not b...

jonijoni1 · jonijoni1

Let's start another gratitude list, but this time, things that cannot be touched, bought, sold, etc. Nothing material. Has to be all intangible, and very special to you. Anyone want to start? .....tick tick tick..... OK, I will... 1. People can count on me to show up 2. My family is sleeping better 3. I...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It Pg. 17 Toward Honesty, p. 17 The perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one permeates human affairs from top to bottom. This subtle and elusive kind of selfish-righteousness can underlie the smallest act or thought. Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaw...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day January 17, 2009 Powerless I did not know that it is physically impossible for me to drink moderately. I did not know that my body's drinking machinery had worn out, and that the parts could not be replaced. I did not know that just one drink made it impossible to control my behavior...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It Pg. 16 Never Again!"Most people feel more secure on the twenty-four hour basis than they do in the resolution that they will never drink again. Most of them have broken too many resolutions. It's really a matter of personal choice; every A.A. has the privilege of interpreting...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day January 16, 2009 Simplicity Repeated experiences have forced us to this logically inescapable conclusion: If we do not take the first drink, we never get drunk. Therefore, instead of planning never to get drunk, or trying to limit the number of drinks or the amount of alcohol, w...

Jane05 · Jane05

Pocket Sponsor Some members of the fellowship say "Our mind is a dangerous neighborhood to be in alone." But together we can be on block watch! Don't let your mind get the better of you. Turn that "M" in me upside down, like we are asked to turn it over, and make a "We" out...

sigurd · sigurd

Recession It is all around us. I walk through the downtown area and the trees are black spines that stretch toward the skies. They are like people without money. They are wiry and they are hard and they fight the winter as does every creature. They are thin and have lost the verdure of summe...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 569-70 From my first days in A.A., as I struggled for sobriety, I found hope in these words...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day The A.A. program is a way of life. It's a way of living and we have to learn to live the program if we're going to stay sober. The twelve steps in the book are like guide-posts. They point the direction in which we have to go. But all members of the group have to find their own best way to...

jonijoni1 · jonijoni1

Steady as she goes.... giving these new hours and responsibilities at work to God, and amazingly enough, like everything else in my life, it is easier to go on "autopilot" when I am connected to my Higher Power. I oftentimes run around trying to find power in situations, people, contacts,...

Jane05 · Jane05

StPeteDean wrote: Hi Jane, I just read your bio, thanks for posting it. I've been around AA since the '70's and sober since the late '80's. My mother joined in '75 when I was 15 and I was drinking hard liquor straight and doing a lot of drugs at the time. I went to my first meeting that year and subsequen...

Jane05 · Jane05

Pocket Sponsor Self will and running the show' can be like the monkey who sticks his hand into the trap for food. He grasps the food tightly creating a fist that won't slide out the trap door. The monkey struggles but won't release the food and he is trapped. Holding tight to your will and your way can be th...

Jane05 · Jane05

Quote From "Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book" If you're thinking about going to a meeting, go to the meeting, and then think about it.

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day January 15, 2009 Survey We should make an accurate and really exhaustive survey of our past life as it has affected other people. In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has. Very deep, sometime...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees ItEternal Values, p. 15 Many people will have no truck at all with absolute spiritual values. Perfectionists, they say, are either full of conceit because they fancy they have reached some impossible goal, or else they are swamped in self-condemnation because they have not done so. Yet...

Quetzal · Quetzal

We learn some behaviors have self-defeating consequences, while others have beneficial consequences. We learn we have choices. -- Beyond Codependency It is so easy to come to the defense of others. How clear it is when others are being used, controlled, manipulated, or abused. It is so easy to fi...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.83 Once I became sober, I began to see how wasteful my life had been and I experienced overwhelming guilt and feelings of regret. The programs Fourth and Fifth Steps assisted me enormously in healing those troubling re...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day When we first came into A.A., a sober life seemed strange. We wondered what life could possibly be like without ever taking a drink. At first, a sober life seemed unnatural. But the longer we're in A.A., the more natural this way of life seems. And now we know that the life we're li...

Tina · Tina

Just thought I'd drop in, it's been awhile. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years Sober. I'm doing fine, and the kids are well. Been keeping busy and not letting people, places and things get to me, and some days that is harder than others. Had a wonderful Christmas and New Years, my daught...

paul86 · paul86

Well, as I said I slipped and I feel terrible about it. I no-showed for my last 2 days of work and my parents are furious with me, but somehow my boss is willing to let me come back in and have a talk with him about keeping my job. The only problem is, all I feel like doing is laying in bed by myself and not going an...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the DayJanuary 14, 2009Tradition Three "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking." Tradition Three defines the personal liberty of the AA member. It says, in effect, that any alcoholic can be an AA member the moment he says so. Neither can any of us...

Jane05 · Jane05

Pocket Sponsor It's hard to believe that this simple program can work for us. But it does. We see it each time an old timer celebrates a birthday, a newcomer picks up a token, or a former skid row drunk reaches out to help an alcoholic doctor that has hit his first meeting in desperation. Believe. I make be...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees ItNewcomer Problems, p. 14 The temptation is to become rather possessive of newcomers. Perhaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't really competent to give or ought not give at all. Then we are hurt and confused when the advice is rejected, or when it is accepted a...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Anger is one of the many profound effects life has on us. It's one of our emotions. And we're going to feel it when it comes our way -- or else repress it. -- Codependent No More If I were working a good program, I wouldn't get angry.... If I were a good Christian, I wouldn't feel angry.... If I were really u...

texaa · texaa

A couple of people have mentioned to me that the full moon seems to affect them.....I haven't thought about this before, and initially brushed it off as superstition, but there may be something to it, and if so, it may be helpful for me to be aware of the moon phases. Has anyone else noticed anything in th...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 The most common alcoholic fantasy seems to be: If I just dont drink, everything will be all right. Once the fog cleared for me, I saw for the firs...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day When we were drinking, we were living an unnatural life physically and mentally. We were punishing our bodies by loading them with alcohol. We didn't eat enough and we ate the wrong things. We didn't get enough sleep or the right kind of rest. We were ruining ourselves physical...

Doll · Doll

Nothing in particular. Physical pain has been better. Feel pretty much OK. But haven't been to work the last 2 days (thank God for sick time). Just got the 'don't wanna be there' funk! I have isolated since Saturday. Haven't talked to anyone, not even my sponsor, haven't been to a meeting since last wee...

Codependent2 · Codependent2

Just curious about this topic...

Jane05 · Jane05

A.A. Thought for the Day January 13, 2009Isolation Isolation is bad for new people, old people, and in-between people if they are alcoholic people. Isolation sneaks up on us. We can mask it with familiar props that are not in themselves bad. We can isolate ourselves in an attempt to clean up our apart...

Quetzal · Quetzal

When we talk about feelings in recovery, we often focus on the troublesome trio - pain, fear, and anger. But there are other feelings available in the emotional realm - happiness, joy, peace, contentment, love, closeness, and excitement. It's okay to let ourselves feel pleasurable feelings too...

Doll · Doll

Big ole southern (((hug))) Love ya, my friend. ~ Jen -- Edited by Doll at 12:51, 2009-01-10

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can even begin. Again and again, we shall need to return to that unflattering point of departure. Th...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day The longer we're in A.A., the more natural this way of life seems. Our old drinking lives were a very unnatural way of living. Our present sober lives are the most natural way we could possibly live. During the early years of our drinking, our lives weren't so different from the l...

Jane05 · Jane05

Pocket Sponsor Today we have a choice! Don't take this gift lightly. You can chose to do right, you can choose to do wrong; with enough wrong choosing, your choices will be gone. My Higher Power gives the best to me when I give my choice to Him. Thought for the Day Staying Peaceful Desires cause peace...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees Itp. 11 Quantity or Quality "About this slip business--I would not be too discouraged. I think you are suffering a great deal from a needless guilt. For some reason or other, the Lord has laid out tougher paths for some of us, and I guess you are treading one of them. God is not askin...

Jane05 · Jane05

A.A. Thought for the Day January 12,2009Reprieve It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent upon our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we mus...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees ItPg. 12 Seeking Fool's Gold Pride is the basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to true progress. Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing our God-given instincts. When the satisfaction of ou...

Jane05 · Jane05

Pocket Sponsor There will be times when people around you act like absolute jerks. If they are a jerk and the problem is with them, time will reveal it. Likewise, if you are the jerk and the problem is with you, time will reveal it. Do the next right thing and give time time. Today, I don't let assholes re...

Codependent2 · Codependent2

I am on 9 days of sobriety and as one who didn't drink every day, but in binges, I am questioning, well, and others are questioning me to as to whether or not I could have a few glasses of wine on vacation or special occasion or for sex. haha. You know a planned thing. Does everyone believe you must be comp...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Only Step One, where we made the 100 percent admission we were powerless over alcohol, can be practiced with absolute perfection. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 68 Long before I was able to obtain sobriety in A.A., I knew without a doubt that alcohol was killing me, yet even with this knowledg...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day When we were drinking most of us never thought of helping others. We liked to buy drinks for people, because that made us feel like big shots. But we only used others for our own pleasure. To really go out and try to help somebody who needed help never occurred to us. To us, helping o...

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	A.A. Thought for the Day (Preview) AA Thought for the DayJanuary 18, 2009No Barriers Many of my AA friends now are a generation or two older, but there is no barrier. AA is big enough for all. Each generation contributes its own gifts, talents, and thinking to AA. Each brings its own ideas and beliefs. We each bring our common disease of a...	Jane05	0	271	Jan 18, 2009 by Jane05
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) It is easier for us to blame others (parents, spouses, friends) for our predicaments then it is to look at self. Victims not only suffer pain, but they act as if someone else has the power to take that pain away. *The Blame Game is not a part of my recovery program.* Excerpt from the Pocket Sponsor, By The Ha...	Jane05	1	273	Jan 18, 2009 by Dakota
	Companion and Partner (Preview) As Bill Sees It Pg. 18 Companion and Partner "Dr. Bob was my constant companion and partner in the great A.A. adventure. As the physician and great human being that he was, he chose work with others as his prime A.A. vocation and achieved a record which, in quantity and in quality, none will ever...	Jane05	1	436	Jan 18, 2009 by StPeteDean
	Acting As If (Preview) The behavior we call "acting as if" can be a powerful recovery tool. Acting as if is a way to practice the positive. It's a positive form of pretending. It's a tool we use to get ourselves unstuck. It's a tool we make a conscious decision to use. Acting as if can be helpful when a feeling begin...	Quetzal	2	2117	Jan 18, 2009 by Dakota
	Gratitude (Preview) Sometimes in life, things happen too fast. We barely solve one problem when two new problems surface. We're feeling great in the morning, but we're submerged in misery by nightfall. Every day we face interruptions, delays, changes, and challenges. We face personality conflicts and disappoint...	Quetzal	1	313	Jan 18, 2009 by Jane05
	Daily Reflections ~ Happiness Comes Quietly (Preview) The trouble with us alcoholics was this: We demanded that the world give us happiness and peace of mind in just the particular order we wanted to get it - by the alcohol route. And we werent successful. But when we take time to find out some of the spiritual laws, and familiarize ourselves with them, and p...	Sobrietyspell	0	1308	Jan 17, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 17th Jan 2009 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day It doesn't do much good to come to meetings only once in a while and sit around, hoping to get something out of the program. That's all right at first, but it won't help us very long. Sooner or later we have to get into action by coming to meetings regularly, by giving a personal witn...	Sobrietyspell	0	370	Jan 17, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Day Seventeen/3:00 AM: When egos collide, use kind words, do what you have control over, and do what you think is right. Surrender what you don't have control over, even if you think what others are doing is wrong. Others have the right to be wrong. I define myself by what I do and how I do it, not b...	Jane05	1	334	Jan 17, 2009 by jonijoni1
	INTANGIBLE GRATITUDE LIST TIME (Preview) Let's start another gratitude list, but this time, things that cannot be touched, bought, sold, etc. Nothing material. Has to be all intangible, and very special to you. Anyone want to start? .....tick tick tick..... OK, I will... 1. People can count on me to show up 2. My family is sleeping better 3. I...	jonijoni1	4	803	Jan 17, 2009 by lani
	Toward Honesty (Preview) As Bill Sees It Pg. 17 Toward Honesty, p. 17 The perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one permeates human affairs from top to bottom. This subtle and elusive kind of selfish-righteousness can underlie the smallest act or thought. Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaw...	Jane05	2	1258	Jan 17, 2009 by jonijoni1
	A.A. Thought for the Day (Preview) AA Thought for the Day January 17, 2009 Powerless I did not know that it is physically impossible for me to drink moderately. I did not know that my body's drinking machinery had worn out, and that the parts could not be replaced. I did not know that just one drink made it impossible to control my behavior...	Jane05	0	331	Jan 17, 2009 by Jane05
	Never Again! (Preview) As Bill Sees It Pg. 16 Never Again!"Most people feel more secure on the twenty-four hour basis than they do in the resolution that they will never drink again. Most of them have broken too many resolutions. It's really a matter of personal choice; every A.A. has the privilege of interpreting...	Jane05	1	355	Jan 16, 2009 by jonijoni1
	A.A. Thought for the Day (Preview) AA Thought for the Day January 16, 2009 Simplicity Repeated experiences have forced us to this logically inescapable conclusion: If we do not take the first drink, we never get drunk. Therefore, instead of planning never to get drunk, or trying to limit the number of drinks or the amount of alcohol, w...	Jane05	0	283	Jan 16, 2009 by Jane05
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Pocket Sponsor Some members of the fellowship say "Our mind is a dangerous neighborhood to be in alone." But together we can be on block watch! Don't let your mind get the better of you. Turn that "M" in me upside down, like we are asked to turn it over, and make a "We" out...	Jane05	0	357	Jan 16, 2009 by Jane05
	Recession (Preview) Recession It is all around us. I walk through the downtown area and the trees are black spines that stretch toward the skies. They are like people without money. They are wiry and they are hard and they fight the winter as does every creature. They are thin and have lost the verdure of summe...	sigurd	1	305	Jan 15, 2009 by jonijoni1
	Daily Reflections ~ An Unsuspected Inner Resource (Preview) With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 569-70 From my first days in A.A., as I struggled for sobriety, I found hope in these words...	Sobrietyspell	0	445	Jan 15, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 15th Jan 2009 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day The A.A. program is a way of life. It's a way of living and we have to learn to live the program if we're going to stay sober. The twelve steps in the book are like guide-posts. They point the direction in which we have to go. But all members of the group have to find their own best way to...	Sobrietyspell	0	347	Jan 15, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Good Eeeeeebening (Preview) Steady as she goes.... giving these new hours and responsibilities at work to God, and amazingly enough, like everything else in my life, it is easier to go on "autopilot" when I am connected to my Higher Power. I oftentimes run around trying to find power in situations, people, contacts,...	jonijoni1	4	429	Jan 15, 2009 by lani
	Sober and Still Married (Preview) StPeteDean wrote: Hi Jane, I just read your bio, thanks for posting it. I've been around AA since the '70's and sober since the late '80's. My mother joined in '75 when I was 15 and I was drinking hard liquor straight and doing a lot of drugs at the time. I went to my first meeting that year and subsequen...	Jane05	1	309	Jan 15, 2009 by lani
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Pocket Sponsor Self will and running the show' can be like the monkey who sticks his hand into the trap for food. He grasps the food tightly creating a fist that won't slide out the trap door. The monkey struggles but won't release the food and he is trapped. Holding tight to your will and your way can be th...	Jane05	0	356	Jan 15, 2009 by Jane05
	Thinking about a Meeting? (Preview) Quote From "Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book" If you're thinking about going to a meeting, go to the meeting, and then think about it.	Jane05	0	343	Jan 15, 2009 by Jane05
	AA Thought for the Day (Preview) AA Thought for the Day January 15, 2009 Survey We should make an accurate and really exhaustive survey of our past life as it has affected other people. In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has. Very deep, sometime...	Jane05	0	314	Jan 15, 2009 by Jane05
	Eternal Values (Preview) As Bill Sees ItEternal Values, p. 15 Many people will have no truck at all with absolute spiritual values. Perfectionists, they say, are either full of conceit because they fancy they have reached some impossible goal, or else they are swamped in self-condemnation because they have not done so. Yet...	Jane05	0	428	Jan 15, 2009 by Jane05
	Standing Up for Ourselves (Preview) We learn some behaviors have self-defeating consequences, while others have beneficial consequences. We learn we have choices. -- Beyond Codependency It is so easy to come to the defense of others. How clear it is when others are being used, controlled, manipulated, or abused. It is so easy to fi...	Quetzal	0	489	Jan 15, 2009 by Quetzal
	Daily Reflections ~ No Regrets (Preview) We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.83 Once I became sober, I began to see how wasteful my life had been and I experienced overwhelming guilt and feelings of regret. The programs Fourth and Fifth Steps assisted me enormously in healing those troubling re...	Sobrietyspell	0	353	Jan 14, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 14th Jan 2009 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day When we first came into A.A., a sober life seemed strange. We wondered what life could possibly be like without ever taking a drink. At first, a sober life seemed unnatural. But the longer we're in A.A., the more natural this way of life seems. And now we know that the life we're li...	Sobrietyspell	0	314	Jan 14, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	HI!! (Preview) Just thought I'd drop in, it's been awhile. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years Sober. I'm doing fine, and the kids are well. Been keeping busy and not letting people, places and things get to me, and some days that is harder than others. Had a wonderful Christmas and New Years, my daught...	Tina	5	394	Jan 14, 2009 by Jane05
	A question about honesty... (Preview) Well, as I said I slipped and I feel terrible about it. I no-showed for my last 2 days of work and my parents are furious with me, but somehow my boss is willing to let me come back in and have a talk with him about keeping my job. The only problem is, all I feel like doing is laying in bed by myself and not going an...	paul86	14	511	Jan 14, 2009 by cramcj01
	A.A. Thought for the Day (Preview) AA Thought for the DayJanuary 14, 2009Tradition Three "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking." Tradition Three defines the personal liberty of the AA member. It says, in effect, that any alcoholic can be an AA member the moment he says so. Neither can any of us...	Jane05	0	264	Jan 14, 2009 by Jane05
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Pocket Sponsor It's hard to believe that this simple program can work for us. But it does. We see it each time an old timer celebrates a birthday, a newcomer picks up a token, or a former skid row drunk reaches out to help an alcoholic doctor that has hit his first meeting in desperation. Believe. I make be...	Jane05	0	300	Jan 14, 2009 by Jane05
	Newcomer Problems (Preview) As Bill Sees ItNewcomer Problems, p. 14 The temptation is to become rather possessive of newcomers. Perhaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't really competent to give or ought not give at all. Then we are hurt and confused when the advice is rejected, or when it is accepted a...	Jane05	1	319	Jan 14, 2009 by Jane05
	Accepting Anger (Preview) Anger is one of the many profound effects life has on us. It's one of our emotions. And we're going to feel it when it comes our way -- or else repress it. -- Codependent No More If I were working a good program, I wouldn't get angry.... If I were a good Christian, I wouldn't feel angry.... If I were really u...	Quetzal	0	278	Jan 14, 2009 by Quetzal
	The full moon (Preview) A couple of people have mentioned to me that the full moon seems to affect them.....I haven't thought about this before, and initially brushed it off as superstition, but there may be something to it, and if so, it may be helpful for me to be aware of the moon phases. Has anyone else noticed anything in th...	texaa	11	2379	Jan 13, 2009 by jonijoni1
	Daily Reflections ~ It Doesn't Happen Overnight (Preview) We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 The most common alcoholic fantasy seems to be: If I just dont drink, everything will be all right. Once the fog cleared for me, I saw for the firs...	Sobrietyspell	0	324	Jan 13, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 13th Jan 2009 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day When we were drinking, we were living an unnatural life physically and mentally. We were punishing our bodies by loading them with alcohol. We didn't eat enough and we ate the wrong things. We didn't get enough sleep or the right kind of rest. We were ruining ourselves physical...	Sobrietyspell	0	305	Jan 13, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Can't get out of my FUNK! (Preview) Nothing in particular. Physical pain has been better. Feel pretty much OK. But haven't been to work the last 2 days (thank God for sick time). Just got the 'don't wanna be there' funk! I have isolated since Saturday. Haven't talked to anyone, not even my sponsor, haven't been to a meeting since last wee...	Doll	9	1200	Jan 13, 2009 by jonijoni1
	Anybody ever find sobriety while incarcerated? (Preview) Just curious about this topic...	Codependent2	3	487	Jan 13, 2009 by Doll
	A.A. Thought for the Day (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day January 13, 2009Isolation Isolation is bad for new people, old people, and in-between people if they are alcoholic people. Isolation sneaks up on us. We can mask it with familiar props that are not in themselves bad. We can isolate ourselves in an attempt to clean up our apart...	Jane05	0	263	Jan 13, 2009 by Jane05
	Good Feelings (Preview) When we talk about feelings in recovery, we often focus on the troublesome trio - pain, fear, and anger. But there are other feelings available in the emotional realm - happiness, joy, peace, contentment, love, closeness, and excitement. It's okay to let ourselves feel pleasurable feelings too...	Quetzal	0	329	Jan 13, 2009 by Quetzal
	Dean - O! (Preview) Big ole southern (((hug))) Love ya, my friend. ~ Jen -- Edited by Doll at 12:51, 2009-01-10	Doll	4	441	Jan 12, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Daily Reflections ~ Accepting Our Present Circumstances (Preview) Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can even begin. Again and again, we shall need to return to that unflattering point of departure. Th...	Sobrietyspell	0	383	Jan 12, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 12th Jan 2009 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day The longer we're in A.A., the more natural this way of life seems. Our old drinking lives were a very unnatural way of living. Our present sober lives are the most natural way we could possibly live. During the early years of our drinking, our lives weren't so different from the l...	Sobrietyspell	0	349	Jan 12, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Pocket Sponsor Today we have a choice! Don't take this gift lightly. You can chose to do right, you can choose to do wrong; with enough wrong choosing, your choices will be gone. My Higher Power gives the best to me when I give my choice to Him. Thought for the Day Staying Peaceful Desires cause peace...	Jane05	2	260	Jan 12, 2009 by texaa
	Quantity or Quality (Preview) As Bill Sees Itp. 11 Quantity or Quality "About this slip business--I would not be too discouraged. I think you are suffering a great deal from a needless guilt. For some reason or other, the Lord has laid out tougher paths for some of us, and I guess you are treading one of them. God is not askin...	Jane05	2	427	Jan 12, 2009 by Dakota
	A.A. Thought for the Day (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day January 12,2009Reprieve It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent upon our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we mus...	Jane05	1	321	Jan 12, 2009 by Dakota
	Seeking Fool's Gold (Preview) As Bill Sees ItPg. 12 Seeking Fool's Gold Pride is the basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to true progress. Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing our God-given instincts. When the satisfaction of ou...	Jane05	0	425	Jan 12, 2009 by Jane05
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Pocket Sponsor There will be times when people around you act like absolute jerks. If they are a jerk and the problem is with them, time will reveal it. Likewise, if you are the jerk and the problem is with you, time will reveal it. Do the next right thing and give time time. Today, I don't let assholes re...	Jane05	1	770	Jan 11, 2009 by jonijoni1
	Can you drink a little? (Preview) I am on 9 days of sobriety and as one who didn't drink every day, but in binges, I am questioning, well, and others are questioning me to as to whether or not I could have a few glasses of wine on vacation or special occasion or for sex. haha. You know a planned thing. Does everyone believe you must be comp...	Codependent2	11	3242	Jan 11, 2009 by greygoosensoda
	Daily Reflections ~ The 100% Step (Preview) Only Step One, where we made the 100 percent admission we were powerless over alcohol, can be practiced with absolute perfection. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 68 Long before I was able to obtain sobriety in A.A., I knew without a doubt that alcohol was killing me, yet even with this knowledg...	Sobrietyspell	0	950	Jan 11, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 11th Jan 2009 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day When we were drinking most of us never thought of helping others. We liked to buy drinks for people, because that made us feel like big shots. But we only used others for our own pleasure. To really go out and try to help somebody who needed help never occurred to us. To us, helping o...	Sobrietyspell	0	286	Jan 11, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
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