Alcoholics Anonymous

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

A teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories. "Johnny, do you have a story to share?" "Yes Ma'am. My daddy told a story about my Aunt Karen. Sh...

Doll · Doll

TURNING IT OVER Every man and woman who has joined A.A. and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on Step Three. Isn't it true that in all matters touching upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her life over to the care, protection, and guidance of Alcoholics Anonym...

timverton · timverton

Hi there! I just noticed your name in the mods section and thought that you had retired to follow your dreams, checking in at times. What's up Dear One?...Tim

Nisha · Nisha

I had a strange couple of days.I didn't feel like working too much.Lots of conflicting thoughts kept hitting me.I popped on pills.Some nites I slept, some, I didn't.Some day I felt very, very low, and frustrated.Some day I was proud of myself, being able to keep sobre.One point, I was humble in accept...

ChicknLittle · ChicknLittle

Finally drew my AA tattoo... still working on it cuz I'm not quite happy with it yet.... but wanting some feedback so thought I'd post it. It's my dog, whom I'd planned to get a tattoo of, decided to combine it with my AA tat cuz she's been such a big part of my sobriety (yes, I'm insane lol) I gotta work...

eastcoastscott · eastcoastscott

A.A. Thought for the Day We must go to A.A. meetings regularly. We must learn to think differently. We must change from alcoholic thinking to sober thinking. We must reeducate our minds. We must try to help other alcoholics. We must cooperate with God by spending at l...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him. -- Step Three of Al-Anon Surrendering to a Power greater than ourselves is how we become empowered. We become empowered in a new, better, more effective way than we believed possible. Doors open. Windows...

jc2008 · jc2008

I am grouchy today for no good reason. I have moments of extreme happiness, then the moodiness comes back. I think it might be a women's issue (you know what I mean), which I guess I always medicated before. Not this month. Blah. Pooh. Poor me. Anyway, still sober. I got on my knees this morning even tho...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Everything I need shall be provided today. Everything. Say it, until you believe it. Say it at the beginning of the day. Say it throughout the day. Sometimes, it helps to know what we want and need. But if we don't, we can trust that God does. When we ask, trust, and believe that our needs will be met, o...

jc2008 · jc2008

I've managed to make it 15 days without drinking. I've listened to folks in meetings talk about surrender, turning their will over to God/Higher Power, etc. I thought, maybe there is something to this? Yesterday morning I actually got onto my knees, thanked God (or whoever/whatever) for keepin...

lani · lani

01. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. 02. Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often. 03. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car. 04. Artificial intelligence is no match fo...

Doll · Doll

THE KEY IS WILLINGNESS Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 35 The willingness to give up my pride and self-will to a Power greater than myself has proved to be the o...

eastcoastscott · eastcoastscott

A.A. Thought for the Day There are two important things we have to do if we want to get sober and stay sober. First, having admitted that we're helpless before alcohol, we have to turn our alcoholic problem over to God and trust Him to take care of it for us. This means ask...

lani · lani

Where have you been!!! Hope all is well...Its been a long time since weve heard from you! Were you afraid we were all heading to your island!!!!! Good to see ya, let us know how youre doing!!! Lani

jonijoni · jonijoni

Anybody ever feel positive stress weighing down? As an alcoholic, I have just as much trouble coping with positive stress as I do the negative version. Tomorrow is my last day of class, then Finals, then it is all on me. No more hand-holding, no more kind instructors looking over my shoulder helping me...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

Well this doesn't have much to do with not drinking other than it not being possible without sobriety. Maybe a bit about spirituality because I prayed my butt off and turned it over. I put an offer in on a nice little house on the water in mid december and the bank that owns it finally accepted it. Yeah! Onl...

eastcoastscott · eastcoastscott

A.A. Thought for the Day In A.A. we must surrender, give up, admit that we're helpless. We surrender our lives to God and ask Him for help. When He knows that we're ready, He gives us by His grace the free gift of sobriety. And we can't take any credit for having stopped dr...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Anxiety is often our first reaction to conflict, problems, or even our own fears. In those moments, detaching and getting peaceful may seem disloyal or apathetic. We think: If I really care, I'll worry; if this is really important to me, I must stay upset. We convince ourselves that outcomes will be p...

Tuggboat · Tuggboat

I'm a bit tortured tonight. Simple really. My Mom 79 recently had a new hip 10 days ago. She has been in debilitating pain for about five years and it finally brought her to a stop and the conclusion that either no pain or death were her only options. For her it was a couragous option to try the surgery. We al...

Doll · Doll

THE IDEA OF FAITH Do not let any prejudice you might have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 47 The idea of faith is a very large chunk to swallow when fear, doubt and anger abound in and around me. Sometimes just the idea of doi...

Quetzal · Quetzal

When I meet people or get in a new relationship, I start putting all these repressive restrictions on myself. I can't have my feelings. Can't have my wants and needs. Can't have my history. Can't do the things I want, feel the feelings I'm feeling, or say what I need to say. I turn into this repressed, per...

eastcoastscott · eastcoastscott

A.A. Thought for the Day Sometimes we try too hard to get this program. It is better to relax and accept it. It will be given to us, with no effort on our part, if we stop trying too hard to get it. Sobriety can be a free gift of God, which He gives us by His grace when He knows we...

Doll · Doll

WEEDING THE GARDEN The essence of all growth is a willingness to make a change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 115 By the time I had reached Step Three I had been freed of my dependence on alcohol, but bitter experi...

Doll · Doll

A LIFELONG TASK "But just how, in these circumstances, does a fellow 'take it easy?' That's what I want to know." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 26 I was never known for my patience. How many times have I asked, "Why should I wait, when I can have it all right now?" Indeed, w...

Pse2313 · Pse2313

Hi all, Ive spent several hours reading the entire forum. There is a lot of good advice out there everyone here seems very supportive and open. To tell you a little about myself I am a 26 year old white male living in the sunshine state. I'm a college grad and have a decent job. This past friday night I had a m...

jc2008 · jc2008

I may have mentioned this, but I moved with my family to Florida from up north several months ago. I left behind a therapist who I had grown to trust. She was helping me deal with some terrible childhood abuse at the hands of my father (I won't elaborate in order to spare anyone who has gone through somethi...

Nisha · Nisha

I virtually did nothing over the weekend.Just slept off the whole day yesterday and today.I am on anti-depressant since last 4 days. It does make me go to sleep.But also leaves a feeling of lethargy for the next day.Needless to say I didn't do any work at home, all those files that I brought home stood st...

John · John

-- Edited by John at 03:12, 2008-03-04

eastcoastscott · eastcoastscott

A.A. Thought for the Day Having surrendered our lives to God and put our drink problem in His hands doesn't mean that we'll never be tempted to drink. So we must build up strength for the time when temptation will come. In this quiet time, we read and pray and get our min...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

While attending the wedding of my wife's neice yesterday I expereinced a range of emotions, of mostly the unpredictable kind. Along with the thoughts of wonder if this young marriage (I think they are 22, and 24) will last were thoughts of my expereinces past and oddly a culmination of feelings abou...

Quetzal · Quetzal

I've learned I can take care of myself, and what I can't do, God will do for me. -- Al-Anon member God, a Higher Power as we understand Him, is our source of guidance and positive change. This doesn't mean we're not responsible for ourselves. We are. But we aren't in this alone. Recovery is not a do-it...

jc2008 · jc2008

I grew up in a family of half-hearted Lutherans. We seldom went to church, and never talked about God. So it feels foreign to me to hear people talk about God or a higher power. I wonder sometimes, if one isn't raised to believe in God, can one come to it later in life? Over the past several years I've atte...

jonijoni · jonijoni

Here is the link if anyone is interested in attending Founder's Day in Akron, OH this year: http://shop.aafoundersday.org/ ...it is June 6th - 8th this year. Joni

lani · lani

Who is to Blame At Step four we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened? Though a given situation had not been entirely our fault, we often tried to cast the whole blame on the other person involved. We finally saw that the inventory sh...

Phil · Phil

And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation, some fact of my life, unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be...

Doll · Doll

OVERCOMING SELF-WILL So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us! AL...

eastcoastscott · eastcoastscott

A.A. Thought for the Day After we've made a surrender, the drink problem is out of our hands and in the hands of God. The thing we have to do is to be sure that we never reach out and take the problem back into our own hands. Leave it in God's hands. Whenever I'm tempted to tak...

Doll · Doll

ONE A.A. MIRACLE Save for the brief moments of temptation the thought of drink has never returned; and at such times a great revulsion has risen up in him. Seemingly he could not drink even if he would. God had restored his sanity. Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 37 The word "God" was fr...

Quetzal · Quetzal

While driving one day, a woman's attention focused on the license plate of the car ahead. The license read: B WHO UR. How can I? she thought. I don't know who I am! Some of us may have felt confused when people encouraged us to be ourselves. How could we know ourselves, or be who we are, when, for years, ma...

Tina · Tina

Just thought I'd drop in and say hi let you I'm doing fine, and the kids are well. Settin things up for my son to get back into school, and well next month will be 1 year for him beening clean of meth. i'm proud,,,,,. Daughter got 71.5 % on first semistier and well one day at a time. Bye now and check in soon. T...

jc2008 · jc2008

I can't believe I've made it this far. One week without drinking. I owe a lot to all of you here, and to the people from meetings who have given me their numbers. I've called someone every day. I've wanted to drink every day. It's only been the past two or three days that I haven't felt sick. The fact that i...

eastcoastscott · eastcoastscott

This is a video of a fellow on Oprah, who is dying. Very powerful messages in it. http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw

lani · lani

We Cannot stand still In the first days of A.A.. I wasn't much bothered about the areas of my life in which I was standing still. There was always the alibi: "After all," I said to myself, "Im far too busy with much more important matters." That was my near perfect prescription for...

eastcoastscott · eastcoastscott

A.A. Thought for the Day Over a period of drinking years, we've proved to ourselves and to everybody else that we can't stop drinking by our own will power. We have been proved helpless before the power of alcohol. So the only way we could stop drinking was by turning to...

lani · lani

True ambition-and False We have had a much keener look at ourselves and those about us. We have seen that we were prodded by unreasonable fears or anxieties into making a life business of winning fame, money, and what we thought was leadership. So false pride became the reverse side of that ruinous coi...

Doll · Doll

HOPE Do not be discouraged. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 Few experiences are of less value to me than fast sobriety. Too many times discouragement has been the bonus for unrealistic expectations, not to mention self-pity or fatigue from my wanting to change the world by the weekend. Discouragement...

Quetzal · Quetzal

I'm furious about my job. Another man got a promotion that I believe I deserve. I'm so mad I feel like quitting. Now my wife says I should deal with my feelings. What good will that do? He still got the promotion. -- Anonymous Our feelings at work are as important as our feelings in any other area of our li...

Quetzal · Quetzal

We go back and back and back...through the layers of fear, shame, rage, hurt, and negative incantations until we discover the exuberant, unencumbered, delightful, and lovable child that was, and still is, in us. -- Beyond Codependency You are lovable. Yes, you. Just because people haven't be...

Dave Harm · Dave Harm

I am a grateful alcoholic. Early in my recovery my HP gave me a therapist who was truly a "gift from above." She understood the power of the 12 steps and kept drilling it into my head that sobriety could never last without a strong foundation with the first three steps. And through almost a yea...

ChicknLittle · ChicknLittle

Hey y'all, The night I got my birds, I broke my computer... well, the power cord... I was lunging after my cat who was going after my birds, and I pulled the cord out of the computer, something messed up in the cord. I have 2 desktop computers I tried to get working, both are screwed up. So I've been goin...

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	Joke of the Day (Preview) A teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories. "Johnny, do you have a story to share?" "Yes Ma'am. My daddy told a story about my Aunt Karen. Sh...	StPeteDean	5	413	Mar 8, 2008 by Tina
	Turning It Over - Daily Reflections - 3/8 (Preview) TURNING IT OVER Every man and woman who has joined A.A. and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on Step Three. Isn't it true that in all matters touching upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her life over to the care, protection, and guidance of Alcoholics Anonym...	Doll	0	274	Mar 8, 2008 by Doll
	Where's Wren? (Preview) Hi there! I just noticed your name in the mods section and thought that you had retired to follow your dreams, checking in at times. What's up Dear One?...Tim	timverton	3	370	Mar 8, 2008 by learning
	Am I ok? (Preview) I had a strange couple of days.I didn't feel like working too much.Lots of conflicting thoughts kept hitting me.I popped on pills.Some nites I slept, some, I didn't.Some day I felt very, very low, and frustrated.Some day I was proud of myself, being able to keep sobre.One point, I was humble in accept...	Nisha	8	457	Mar 8, 2008 by Tuggboat
	My AA Tattoo I'm getting :) (Preview) Finally drew my AA tattoo... still working on it cuz I'm not quite happy with it yet.... but wanting some feedback so thought I'd post it. It's my dog, whom I'd planned to get a tattoo of, decided to combine it with my AA tat cuz she's been such a big part of my sobriety (yes, I'm insane lol) I gotta work...	ChicknLittle	4	6590	Mar 8, 2008 by learning
	24 Hours a day - March 8 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day We must go to A.A. meetings regularly. We must learn to think differently. We must change from alcoholic thinking to sober thinking. We must reeducate our minds. We must try to help other alcoholics. We must cooperate with God by spending at l...	eastcoastscott	0	462	Mar 8, 2008 by eastcoastscott
	Surrender (Preview) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him. -- Step Three of Al-Anon Surrendering to a Power greater than ourselves is how we become empowered. We become empowered in a new, better, more effective way than we believed possible. Doors open. Windows...	Quetzal	0	265	Mar 8, 2008 by Quetzal
	Grrrr (Preview) I am grouchy today for no good reason. I have moments of extreme happiness, then the moodiness comes back. I think it might be a women's issue (you know what I mean), which I guess I always medicated before. Not this month. Blah. Pooh. Poor me. Anyway, still sober. I got on my knees this morning even tho...	jc2008	12	528	Mar 7, 2008 by jonijoni
	Fulfillment (Preview) Everything I need shall be provided today. Everything. Say it, until you believe it. Say it at the beginning of the day. Say it throughout the day. Sometimes, it helps to know what we want and need. But if we don't, we can trust that God does. When we ask, trust, and believe that our needs will be met, o...	Quetzal	2	286	Mar 7, 2008 by lani
	Two weeks yesterday (Preview) I've managed to make it 15 days without drinking. I've listened to folks in meetings talk about surrender, turning their will over to God/Higher Power, etc. I thought, maybe there is something to this? Yesterday morning I actually got onto my knees, thanked God (or whoever/whatever) for keepin...	jc2008	13	489	Mar 7, 2008 by jonijoni
	cute stuff (Preview) 01. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. 02. Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often. 03. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car. 04. Artificial intelligence is no match fo...	lani	10	508	Mar 7, 2008 by lani
	The Key Is Willingness - Daily Reflections - 3/7 (Preview) THE KEY IS WILLINGNESS Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 35 The willingness to give up my pride and self-will to a Power greater than myself has proved to be the o...	Doll	1	414	Mar 7, 2008 by lani
	24 Hours a day - March 7 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day There are two important things we have to do if we want to get sober and stay sober. First, having admitted that we're helpless before alcohol, we have to turn our alcoholic problem over to God and trust Him to take care of it for us. This means ask...	eastcoastscott	0	624	Mar 7, 2008 by eastcoastscott
	TLH?????!!!!! (Preview) Where have you been!!! Hope all is well...Its been a long time since weve heard from you! Were you afraid we were all heading to your island!!!!! Good to see ya, let us know how youre doing!!! Lani	lani	2	413	Mar 6, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	"Happy" Stress (Preview) Anybody ever feel positive stress weighing down? As an alcoholic, I have just as much trouble coping with positive stress as I do the negative version. Tomorrow is my last day of class, then Finals, then it is all on me. No more hand-holding, no more kind instructors looking over my shoulder helping me...	jonijoni	8	581	Mar 6, 2008 by Sept_19_2002
	Got some great news today! (Preview) Well this doesn't have much to do with not drinking other than it not being possible without sobriety. Maybe a bit about spirituality because I prayed my butt off and turned it over. I put an offer in on a nice little house on the water in mid december and the bank that owns it finally accepted it. Yeah! Onl...	StPeteDean	15	751	Mar 6, 2008 by jonijoni
	24 Hours a day - March 6 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day In A.A. we must surrender, give up, admit that we're helpless. We surrender our lives to God and ask Him for help. When He knows that we're ready, He gives us by His grace the free gift of sobriety. And we can't take any credit for having stopped dr...	eastcoastscott	0	361	Mar 6, 2008 by eastcoastscott
	Peace (Preview) Anxiety is often our first reaction to conflict, problems, or even our own fears. In those moments, detaching and getting peaceful may seem disloyal or apathetic. We think: If I really care, I'll worry; if this is really important to me, I must stay upset. We convince ourselves that outcomes will be p...	Quetzal	1	444	Mar 6, 2008 by Phil
	Should I tell her (Preview) I'm a bit tortured tonight. Simple really. My Mom 79 recently had a new hip 10 days ago. She has been in debilitating pain for about five years and it finally brought her to a stop and the conclusion that either no pain or death were her only options. For her it was a couragous option to try the surgery. We al...	Tuggboat	7	474	Mar 6, 2008 by Doll
	The Idea Of Faith - Daily Reflections - 3/6 (Preview) THE IDEA OF FAITH Do not let any prejudice you might have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 47 The idea of faith is a very large chunk to swallow when fear, doubt and anger abound in and around me. Sometimes just the idea of doi...	Doll	0	277	Mar 6, 2008 by Doll
	Be Who You Are (Preview) When I meet people or get in a new relationship, I start putting all these repressive restrictions on myself. I can't have my feelings. Can't have my wants and needs. Can't have my history. Can't do the things I want, feel the feelings I'm feeling, or say what I need to say. I turn into this repressed, per...	Quetzal	10	487	Mar 5, 2008 by StPeteDean
	24 Hours a day - March 5 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day Sometimes we try too hard to get this program. It is better to relax and accept it. It will be given to us, with no effort on our part, if we stop trying too hard to get it. Sobriety can be a free gift of God, which He gives us by His grace when He knows we...	eastcoastscott	0	1215	Mar 5, 2008 by eastcoastscott
	Weeding the Garden - Daily Reflections - 3/4 (Preview) WEEDING THE GARDEN The essence of all growth is a willingness to make a change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 115 By the time I had reached Step Three I had been freed of my dependence on alcohol, but bitter experi...	Doll	1	357	Mar 5, 2008 by Phil
	A Lifelong Task - Daily Reflections - 3/5 (Preview) A LIFELONG TASK "But just how, in these circumstances, does a fellow 'take it easy?' That's what I want to know." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 26 I was never known for my patience. How many times have I asked, "Why should I wait, when I can have it all right now?" Indeed, w...	Doll	0	312	Mar 5, 2008 by Doll
	New Guy here, wanted to introduce myself (Preview) Hi all, Ive spent several hours reading the entire forum. There is a lot of good advice out there everyone here seems very supportive and open. To tell you a little about myself I am a 26 year old white male living in the sunshine state. I'm a college grad and have a decent job. This past friday night I had a m...	Pse2313	14	869	Mar 5, 2008 by TenderheartsKS
	feeling very conflicted (Preview) I may have mentioned this, but I moved with my family to Florida from up north several months ago. I left behind a therapist who I had grown to trust. She was helping me deal with some terrible childhood abuse at the hands of my father (I won't elaborate in order to spare anyone who has gone through somethi...	jc2008	10	566	Mar 5, 2008 by TenderheartsKS
	Feeling Low (Preview) I virtually did nothing over the weekend.Just slept off the whole day yesterday and today.I am on anti-depressant since last 4 days. It does make me go to sleep.But also leaves a feeling of lethargy for the next day.Needless to say I didn't do any work at home, all those files that I brought home stood st...	Nisha	9	585	Mar 5, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	Good Video I found... Ya might enjoy watching it. (Preview) -- Edited by John at 03:12, 2008-03-04	John	3	443	Mar 4, 2008 by StPeteDean
	24 Hours a day - March 4 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day Having surrendered our lives to God and put our drink problem in His hands doesn't mean that we'll never be tempted to drink. So we must build up strength for the time when temptation will come. In this quiet time, we read and pray and get our min...	eastcoastscott	0	1477	Mar 4, 2008 by eastcoastscott
	Observations from a family wedding (Preview) While attending the wedding of my wife's neice yesterday I expereinced a range of emotions, of mostly the unpredictable kind. Along with the thoughts of wonder if this young marriage (I think they are 22, and 24) will last were thoughts of my expereinces past and oddly a culmination of feelings abou...	StPeteDean	13	731	Mar 4, 2008 by StPeteDean
	Higher Power as a Source (Preview) I've learned I can take care of myself, and what I can't do, God will do for me. -- Al-Anon member God, a Higher Power as we understand Him, is our source of guidance and positive change. This doesn't mean we're not responsible for ourselves. We are. But we aren't in this alone. Recovery is not a do-it...	Quetzal	0	384	Mar 4, 2008 by Quetzal
	made it through the weekend (Preview) I grew up in a family of half-hearted Lutherans. We seldom went to church, and never talked about God. So it feels foreign to me to hear people talk about God or a higher power. I wonder sometimes, if one isn't raised to believe in God, can one come to it later in life? Over the past several years I've atte...	jc2008	11	565	Mar 4, 2008 by Sept_19_2002
	FOUNDER'S DAY!!! (Preview) Here is the link if anyone is interested in attending Founder's Day in Akron, OH this year: http://shop.aafoundersday.org/ ...it is June 6th - 8th this year. Joni	jonijoni	0	310	Mar 3, 2008 by jonijoni
	As Bill see's it (Preview) Who is to Blame At Step four we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened? Though a given situation had not been entirely our fault, we often tried to cast the whole blame on the other person involved. We finally saw that the inventory sh...	lani	0	548	Mar 3, 2008 by lani
	Acceptance (Preview) And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation, some fact of my life, unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be...	Phil	5	471	Mar 3, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	Overcoming Self-Will - Daily Reflections - 3/3 (Preview) OVERCOMING SELF-WILL So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us! AL...	Doll	0	383	Mar 3, 2008 by Doll
	24 Hours a day - March 3 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day After we've made a surrender, the drink problem is out of our hands and in the hands of God. The thing we have to do is to be sure that we never reach out and take the problem back into our own hands. Leave it in God's hands. Whenever I'm tempted to tak...	eastcoastscott	0	724	Mar 3, 2008 by eastcoastscott
	One AA Miracle - Daily Reflections - 2/29/08 (Preview) ONE A.A. MIRACLE Save for the brief moments of temptation the thought of drink has never returned; and at such times a great revulsion has risen up in him. Seemingly he could not drink even if he would. God had restored his sanity. Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 37 The word "God" was fr...	Doll	4	515	Mar 3, 2008 by Quetzal
	Accepting Ourselves (Preview) While driving one day, a woman's attention focused on the license plate of the car ahead. The license read: B WHO UR. How can I? she thought. I don't know who I am! Some of us may have felt confused when people encouraged us to be ourselves. How could we know ourselves, or be who we are, when, for years, ma...	Quetzal	0	333	Mar 3, 2008 by Quetzal
	It's been a while (Preview) Just thought I'd drop in and say hi let you I'm doing fine, and the kids are well. Settin things up for my son to get back into school, and well next month will be 1 year for him beening clean of meth. i'm proud,,,,,. Daughter got 71.5 % on first semistier and well one day at a time. Bye now and check in soon. T...	Tina	4	417	Mar 2, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	One week! (Preview) I can't believe I've made it this far. One week without drinking. I owe a lot to all of you here, and to the people from meetings who have given me their numbers. I've called someone every day. I've wanted to drink every day. It's only been the past two or three days that I haven't felt sick. The fact that i...	jc2008	16	724	Mar 2, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	Wow, this is heavy.... (Preview) This is a video of a fellow on Oprah, who is dying. Very powerful messages in it. http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw	eastcoastscott	7	613	Mar 2, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	As Bill see's it (Preview) We Cannot stand still In the first days of A.A.. I wasn't much bothered about the areas of my life in which I was standing still. There was always the alibi: "After all," I said to myself, "Im far too busy with much more important matters." That was my near perfect prescription for...	lani	8	516	Mar 2, 2008 by Tuggboat
	24 Hours a day - March 2 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day Over a period of drinking years, we've proved to ourselves and to everybody else that we can't stop drinking by our own will power. We have been proved helpless before the power of alcohol. So the only way we could stop drinking was by turning to...	eastcoastscott	1	467	Mar 2, 2008 by lani
	As Bill see's it (Preview) True ambition-and False We have had a much keener look at ourselves and those about us. We have seen that we were prodded by unreasonable fears or anxieties into making a life business of winning fame, money, and what we thought was leadership. So false pride became the reverse side of that ruinous coi...	lani	0	340	Mar 2, 2008 by lani
	HOPE - Daily Reflections - 3/2 (Preview) HOPE Do not be discouraged. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 Few experiences are of less value to me than fast sobriety. Too many times discouragement has been the bonus for unrealistic expectations, not to mention self-pity or fatigue from my wanting to change the world by the weekend. Discouragement...	Doll	1	302	Mar 2, 2008 by lani
	Feelings about the Job (Preview) I'm furious about my job. Another man got a promotion that I believe I deserve. I'm so mad I feel like quitting. Now my wife says I should deal with my feelings. What good will that do? He still got the promotion. -- Anonymous Our feelings at work are as important as our feelings in any other area of our li...	Quetzal	0	336	Mar 2, 2008 by Quetzal
	You Are Lovable (Preview) We go back and back and back...through the layers of fear, shame, rage, hurt, and negative incantations until we discover the exuberant, unencumbered, delightful, and lovable child that was, and still is, in us. -- Beyond Codependency You are lovable. Yes, you. Just because people haven't be...	Quetzal	4	416	Mar 1, 2008 by Tuggboat
	The Power of the 3rd Step Prayer (Preview) I am a grateful alcoholic. Early in my recovery my HP gave me a therapist who was truly a "gift from above." She understood the power of the 12 steps and kept drilling it into my head that sobriety could never last without a strong foundation with the first three steps. And through almost a yea...	Dave Harm	1	926	Mar 1, 2008 by Tuggboat
	My computer's broken still (Preview) Hey y'all, The night I got my birds, I broke my computer... well, the power cord... I was lunging after my cat who was going after my birds, and I pulled the cord out of the computer, something messed up in the cord. I have 2 desktop computers I tried to get working, both are screwed up. So I've been goin...	ChicknLittle	0	313	Mar 1, 2008 by ChicknLittle
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