Alcoholics Anonymous

Quetzal · Quetzal

Experiencing feelings can be a challenge if we've had no previous experience or permission to do that. Learning to identify what we're feeling is a challenge we can meet, but we will not become experts overnight. Nor do we have to deal with our feelings perfectly. Here are some ideas that mig...

Quetzal · Quetzal

We don't always have to be strong. Sometimes, our strength is expressed in being vulnerable. Sometimes, we need to fall apart to regroup and stay on track. We all have days when we cannot push any harder, cannot hold back self-doubt, cannot stop focusing on fear, cannot be strong. There are days w...

CAM · CAM

*********************************************************** February 23, 2007 A.A. Thought For The Day Besides our jobs, our families, our friends and our sobriety, we have something else which many of us found through A.A. That's faith in a Power greater than ourselves, to which we can...

psychoktty · psychoktty

Hey All - thanks for your feedback on my business meeting post last week; I did show up for last nights business meeting. As it turns out, one of the individuals with the strong opinions last week didn't show up, the other seemed to have amnesia regarding her opinions of the previous week and sudd...

Doll · Doll

MYSTERIOUS PARADOXES Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one's old life as a condition for finding a new one. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46 What glorious mysteries paradoxes are! They do not compute, yet when recognized and accep...

jeannie · jeannie

An older friend of mine always lived by the rule, "Let your conscience be your guide. Whenever he was faced by a tough decision, he said, "I stop thinking and I start feeling." For this wide old gentleman, wisdom came from listening not so much to his mind, but more to his heart. He a...

Marti · Marti

Hello, I joined this forum a few months back because I felt like I did not want to go to face to face AA. So I figured i'd turn to an online support group. I never posted and I kept drinking. I've been on a drinking binge for the last year or so. I cannot remember the last time i've gone a...

TenderheartsKS · TenderheartsKS

Thought I would briefly introduce myself before jumping into threads. My name is DeVon, and I am an active member of AA. I hail from a small agricultural town, but we do have 3 meetings here a week. I have a hard-nosed sponsor which is exactly what I need, I also sponsor others, and am glad I hung in there lo...

CAM · CAM

*********************************************************** February 21, 2007 A.A. Thought For The Day I go to the A.A. meetings because it helps me in my business of keeping sober. And I try to help other alcoholics when I can, because that's my part of my business of keeping sober. I also h...

CAM · CAM

February 22, 2007 A.A. Thought For The Day Now we can take an inventory of the good things that have come to us through A.A. To begin with, we're sober today. That's the biggest asset on any alcoholic's books. Sobriety to us is like good-will in business. Everything else depends on that. M...

Doll · Doll

GUIDANCE ... this means a belief in a Creator who is all power, justice, and love; a God who intends for me a purpose, a meaning, and a destiny to grow, however... haltingly, toward His own likeness and image. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 51 As I began to understand my own powerlessness and my dependence on God, as I...

Quetzal · Quetzal

I ask that You might help me work through all my problems, to Your Glory and Honor. - Alcoholics Anonymous Many of us lived in situations where it wasn't okay to identify, have, or talk about problems. Denial became a way of life -- our way of dealing with problems In recovery, many of us still fear pr...

barisax · barisax

From the moment I started drinking, I loved it, and I loved it so much I planned and plotted so that I would not become an alcoholic like my father. I thought I knew about alcoholism - an alcoholic was someone who craved alcohol and went into withdrawal without it. I didn't want to be come one of thos...

Laura · Laura

Hey guys, I had a rough day--actually, it really wasn't all that bad, just full of stuff and as the day started ebbing towards a close I felt very irritable, depressed and tense. I said to myself in the car as I started the long drive home "When I get home, if one of my friends has a bottle of wine op...

Doll · Doll

I'M PART OF THE WHOLE At once, I became a part--if only a tiny part--of a cosmos.... AS BILL SEES IT, p. 225 When I first came to A.A., I decided that "they" were very nice people--perhaps a little naive, a little too friendly, but basically decent, earnest people (with whom I had nothing...

Quetzal · Quetzal

The present moment is all we have. Yes, we have plans and goals, a vision for tomorrow. But now is the only time we possess. And it is enough. We can clear our mind of the residue of yesterday. We can clear our mind of fears of tomorrow. We can be present, now. We can make ourselves available to this moment, t...

Quetzal · Quetzal

We are powerless over other people's expectations of us. We cannot control what others want, what they expect, or what they want us to do and be. We can control how we respond to other people's expectations. During the course of any day, people may make demands on our time, talents, energy, mo...

Doll · Doll

THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER At this juncture, his A.A. sponsor usually laughs. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 26 Before my recovery from alcoholism began, laughter was one of the most painful sounds I knew. I never laughed and I felt that anyone else's laughter was directed at me! My self-pity a...

hippietrippiechick · hippietrippiechick

I posted on here a while back asking if anyone had any recovery tapes/CDs they could send me. I got a whole bunch and my A actually listened to one already with me. You are helping two at the same time. Also, someone sent me a little variety of books and stuff, maybe this was from Al-anon, but I have to put ou...

CAM · CAM

*********************************************************** February 20, 2007 A.A. Thought For The Day Liquor used to be my friend. I used to have a lot of fun drinking. Practically all the fun I had was connected with drinking. But the time came when liquor became my enemy. I don't know jus...

Phil · Phil

Add alcohol to this one...and its disasterous PTSD and RELATIONSHIPS A National Center Fact Sheet Trauma survivors with PTSD often experience problems in their intimate and family relationships or close friendships. PTSD involves symptoms that interfere with trust, emotional closeness, com...

Doll · Doll

I'M NOT DIFFERENT In the beginning, it was four whole years before A.A. brought permanent sobriety to even one alcoholic woman. Like the "high bottoms, " the women said they were different; . . . The Skid-Rower said he was different . . . so did the artists and the professional people, t...

Doll · Doll

OUR PATHS ARE OUR OWN ... there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25 My first attempt at the Steps was one of obligation and necessity, which resulted in a deep feeling of discouragement in the face of all those adverbs: cour...

Doll · Doll

THE LOVE IN THEIR EYES Some of us won't believe in God, others can't, and still others who do not believe that God exists have no faith whatever He will perform this miracle. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 25 It was the changes I saw in the new people who came into the Fellowship that help...

CAM · CAM

*********************************************************** A.A. Thought For The Day Many things we do in A.A. are in preparation for that crucial moment when, walking down the street on a nice sunshiny day, we see a nice cool cocktail lounge and the idea of having a drink pops into our minds. If...

Doll · Doll

WE CAN'T THINK OUR WAY SOBER To the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman, many A.A.'s can say, "Yes, we were like you--far too smart for our own good.... Secretly, we felt we could float above the rest of the folks on our brain power alone." AS BILL SEES IT, p. 60 Even the most...

Tina · Tina

Um the last couple of days were alright, but my computer screwed up and had to take it in to get it looked at. and ya know funny thing was, I tried signing in to this forum and damn I forgot my stupid pass word, Uh duh. I'm doing well, daughter has still got a sore angkle, a little embarrassed to go to schoo...

Doll · Doll

Well, all, it's been a LONG week.....My ex husband had one of his hips replaced on Wed., the surgery went very well, but he's looking at a long recovery just to go back in and have the other hip done......My b/f left Thursday night for his mother's, 150mi away, she was diagnosed with ova...

Quetzal · Quetzal

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it. -- Aeschylus The Fellowship keeps us grounded in the current moment. We learn to live today. Our planning and scheming and dreaming about tomorrow becomes less time consuming. The idea of living one day at a time makes sense to us. Our P...

Laura · Laura

Hi, I was wondering, are severe headaches a common withdrawal symptom? I've gone eight days without alcohol and I started getting headaches around the same time--I didn't make the connection until last night. I usually don't get headaches and I'm very conscious about eating rig...

CAM · CAM

February 18, 2007 *********************************************************** Twenty-Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought For The Day After I became an alcoholic, alcohol poisoned my love for my family and friends, it poisoned my ambition, it poisoned my self-respect. It poisoned my whole life, u...

Laura · Laura

Hi everyone, I've a question for those of you who've written that you don't crave alcohol anymore: What does that mean? I'm sorry if this sounds like an ignorant question and I certainly don't mean it to sound rude, but I'm curious. I thought part of what makes a alcoholic pe...

Doll · Doll

COMMITMENT Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 125 There came a time in my program of recovery when the third stanza of the Serenity Prayer -- "The wisdom to know the difference" -- be...

Doll · Doll

TAKING ACTION Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us--sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 One of the most important things A.A. has given me, in addition to freedom from booze,...

Doll · Doll

Happy Valentine's Day! EXPECTATIONS vs. DEMANDS Burn the idea into the consciousness of every man that he can get well regardless of anyone. The only condition is that he trust in God and clean house. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 98 Dealing with expectations is a frequent topic at meetings. It isn...

DougD · DougD

Hi All, I want to stop drinking. I've never been to an AA meeting but this is my first attempt to get help. I have a great life if not for my habits - that I put before everything at times. I noticed there is a chat room on here. Do you guys meet in the chat room regularly or at a scheduled time? I like the anon...

TLH · TLH

So I was thinking the other day- my dad wasn't an alcoholic. My mom showed some really serious alcohol issues when I was a kid but doesn't really now, both grandpas died drunks. Anyhow- I think to me alcohol always was about a party- festivity. I remember going to company dinners and being disa...

Doll · Doll

"THE ROOT OF OUR TROUBLES" Selfishness--self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of all our troubles. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 62 How amazing the revelation that the world, and everyone in it, can get along just fine with or without me. What a relief to know that people, places and...

Doll · Doll

THE LIMITS OF SELF-RELIANCE We asked ourselves why we had them [fears]. Wasn't it because self-reliance failed us? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.68 All of my character defects separate me from God's will. When I ignore my association with Him I face the world and my alcoholism alone and must dep...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Recovery is not about being right; it's about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are. That concept can be difficult for many of us if we have lived in systems that functioned on the "right/wrong" justice scale. The person who was right was okay; the person w...

Doll · Doll

GETTING THE "SPIRITUAL ANGLE" How often do we sit in AA meetings and hear the speaker declare, "But I haven't yet got the spiritual angle." Prior to this statement, he had described a miracle of transformation which had occurred in him -- not only his release from alcohol,...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Believing in change At first, drugs or booze turned us on; later they turned on us. We couldn't find any peace anywhere. We began turning into the kind of person we didn't want to be, but we didn't know what was happening to us or how to change. When we came to believe that our lives could and w...

Doll · Doll

CONVINCING "MR. HYDE" Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy will still elude us. That's the place so many of us A.A. oldsters have come to. And it's a hell of a spot, literally. How shall our unconscious--from which so many of our fears, compulsions and phony aspirations still st...

LisaF · LisaF

So I kinda had a wake up call today... I haven't had my priorities straight at all since I moved, I'm being horribly selfish with my boyfriend, not accepting his feelings on our relationship... how he feels it's wrong because I'm still in my first year... he does want me here, he do...

Wren · Wren

"Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’&quo...

Phil · Phil

To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off, it's the realization I can't control another. To let go is not to enable, but allow learning from natural consequences. To let go is to admit powerlessness, which mean...

Phil · Phil

"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable." Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have...

psychoktty · psychoktty

Hi there, I'm pretty new to this board; have been lurking, haven't made a post yet til now. My homegroup is on Wednesday nights, it's called the "Artist's AA" it's been there and relatively the same for something like 25 years, even in the same location. I have been at...

CAM · CAM

February 16, 2007 *********************************************************** Twenty-Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought For The Day One drink started a train of thought that became an obsession, and from then on, we couldn't stop drinking. We developed a mental compulsion to keep drinking u...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Our basic recovery concept that never loses its power to work miracles is the concept called acceptance. We do not achieve acceptance in a moment. We often have to work through a mirage of feelings - sometimes anger, outrage, shame, self-pity, or sadness. But if acceptance is our goal, we will achiev...

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	Recognizing Feelings (Preview) Experiencing feelings can be a challenge if we've had no previous experience or permission to do that. Learning to identify what we're feeling is a challenge we can meet, but we will not become experts overnight. Nor do we have to deal with our feelings perfectly. Here are some ideas that mig...	Quetzal	1	503	Feb 24, 2007 by amanda2u2
	Strength (Preview) We don't always have to be strong. Sometimes, our strength is expressed in being vulnerable. Sometimes, we need to fall apart to regroup and stay on track. We all have days when we cannot push any harder, cannot hold back self-doubt, cannot stop focusing on fear, cannot be strong. There are days w...	Quetzal	2	384	Feb 23, 2007 by Phil
	Twenty-Four Hours A Day (Preview) *********************************************************** February 23, 2007 A.A. Thought For The Day Besides our jobs, our families, our friends and our sobriety, we have something else which many of us found through A.A. That's faith in a Power greater than ourselves, to which we can...	CAM	0	357	Feb 23, 2007 by CAM
	Business Meeting 2 (Preview) Hey All - thanks for your feedback on my business meeting post last week; I did show up for last nights business meeting. As it turns out, one of the individuals with the strong opinions last week didn't show up, the other seemed to have amnesia regarding her opinions of the previous week and sudd...	psychoktty	5	410	Feb 23, 2007 by CAM
	Daily Reflections Feb 23 (Preview) MYSTERIOUS PARADOXES Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one's old life as a condition for finding a new one. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46 What glorious mysteries paradoxes are! They do not compute, yet when recognized and accep...	Doll	0	835	Feb 23, 2007 by Doll
	Keep an open mind (Preview) An older friend of mine always lived by the rule, "Let your conscience be your guide. Whenever he was faced by a tough decision, he said, "I stop thinking and I start feeling." For this wide old gentleman, wisdom came from listening not so much to his mind, but more to his heart. He a...	jeannie	3	632	Feb 22, 2007 by Quetzal
	New (Preview) Hello, I joined this forum a few months back because I felt like I did not want to go to face to face AA. So I figured i'd turn to an online support group. I never posted and I kept drinking. I've been on a drinking binge for the last year or so. I cannot remember the last time i've gone a...	Marti	7	481	Feb 22, 2007 by destinydreamer
	Hello to everyone! (Preview) Thought I would briefly introduce myself before jumping into threads. My name is DeVon, and I am an active member of AA. I hail from a small agricultural town, but we do have 3 meetings here a week. I have a hard-nosed sponsor which is exactly what I need, I also sponsor others, and am glad I hung in there lo...	TenderheartsKS	5	501	Feb 22, 2007 by destinydreamer
	Twenty-Four Hours A Day (Preview) *********************************************************** February 21, 2007 A.A. Thought For The Day I go to the A.A. meetings because it helps me in my business of keeping sober. And I try to help other alcoholics when I can, because that's my part of my business of keeping sober. I also h...	CAM	4	438	Feb 22, 2007 by CAM
	Twenty-Four Hours A Day (Preview) February 22, 2007 A.A. Thought For The Day Now we can take an inventory of the good things that have come to us through A.A. To begin with, we're sober today. That's the biggest asset on any alcoholic's books. Sobriety to us is like good-will in business. Everything else depends on that. M...	CAM	0	360	Feb 22, 2007 by CAM
	Daily Reflections Feb 22 (Preview) GUIDANCE ... this means a belief in a Creator who is all power, justice, and love; a God who intends for me a purpose, a meaning, and a destiny to grow, however... haltingly, toward His own likeness and image. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 51 As I began to understand my own powerlessness and my dependence on God, as I...	Doll	0	997	Feb 22, 2007 by Doll
	Facing and Solving Problems (Preview) I ask that You might help me work through all my problems, to Your Glory and Honor. - Alcoholics Anonymous Many of us lived in situations where it wasn't okay to identify, have, or talk about problems. Denial became a way of life -- our way of dealing with problems In recovery, many of us still fear pr...	Quetzal	0	450	Feb 22, 2007 by Quetzal
	Mental Obsession (Preview) From the moment I started drinking, I loved it, and I loved it so much I planned and plotted so that I would not become an alcoholic like my father. I thought I knew about alcoholism - an alcoholic was someone who craved alcohol and went into withdrawal without it. I didn't want to be come one of thos...	barisax	3	956	Feb 21, 2007 by barisax
	Had a rough day (Preview) Hey guys, I had a rough day--actually, it really wasn't all that bad, just full of stuff and as the day started ebbing towards a close I felt very irritable, depressed and tense. I said to myself in the car as I started the long drive home "When I get home, if one of my friends has a bottle of wine op...	Laura	3	414	Feb 21, 2007 by Wren
	Daily Reflections Feb 21 (Preview) I'M PART OF THE WHOLE At once, I became a part--if only a tiny part--of a cosmos.... AS BILL SEES IT, p. 225 When I first came to A.A., I decided that "they" were very nice people--perhaps a little naive, a little too friendly, but basically decent, earnest people (with whom I had nothing...	Doll	1	548	Feb 21, 2007 by Phil
	Living In The Present (Preview) The present moment is all we have. Yes, we have plans and goals, a vision for tomorrow. But now is the only time we possess. And it is enough. We can clear our mind of the residue of yesterday. We can clear our mind of fears of tomorrow. We can be present, now. We can make ourselves available to this moment, t...	Quetzal	0	650	Feb 21, 2007 by Quetzal
	People Pleasing (Preview) We are powerless over other people's expectations of us. We cannot control what others want, what they expect, or what they want us to do and be. We can control how we respond to other people's expectations. During the course of any day, people may make demands on our time, talents, energy, mo...	Quetzal	1	454	Feb 20, 2007 by kbstandup
	Daily Reflections Feb 20 (Preview) THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER At this juncture, his A.A. sponsor usually laughs. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 26 Before my recovery from alcoholism began, laughter was one of the most painful sounds I knew. I never laughed and I felt that anyone else's laughter was directed at me! My self-pity a...	Doll	1	414	Feb 20, 2007 by kbstandup
	Big thank you to anonymous (Preview) I posted on here a while back asking if anyone had any recovery tapes/CDs they could send me. I got a whole bunch and my A actually listened to one already with me. You are helping two at the same time. Also, someone sent me a little variety of books and stuff, maybe this was from Al-anon, but I have to put ou...	hippietrippiechick	0	492	Feb 20, 2007 by hippietrippiechick
	Twenty-Four Hours A Day (Preview) *********************************************************** February 20, 2007 A.A. Thought For The Day Liquor used to be my friend. I used to have a lot of fun drinking. Practically all the fun I had was connected with drinking. But the time came when liquor became my enemy. I don't know jus...	CAM	0	370	Feb 20, 2007 by CAM
	Another Article That I can Identify with..from the Outside In (Preview) Add alcohol to this one...and its disasterous PTSD and RELATIONSHIPS A National Center Fact Sheet Trauma survivors with PTSD often experience problems in their intimate and family relationships or close friendships. PTSD involves symptoms that interfere with trust, emotional closeness, com...	Phil	8	644	Feb 19, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Daily Reflections Feb 19 (Preview) I'M NOT DIFFERENT In the beginning, it was four whole years before A.A. brought permanent sobriety to even one alcoholic woman. Like the "high bottoms, " the women said they were different; . . . The Skid-Rower said he was different . . . so did the artists and the professional people, t...	Doll	1	512	Feb 19, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Daily Reflections Feb 18 (Preview) OUR PATHS ARE OUR OWN ... there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25 My first attempt at the Steps was one of obligation and necessity, which resulted in a deep feeling of discouragement in the face of all those adverbs: cour...	Doll	1	578	Feb 19, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Daily Reflections Feb 17 (Preview) THE LOVE IN THEIR EYES Some of us won't believe in God, others can't, and still others who do not believe that God exists have no faith whatever He will perform this miracle. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 25 It was the changes I saw in the new people who came into the Fellowship that help...	Doll	1	801	Feb 19, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Twenty-Four Hours A Day (Preview) *********************************************************** A.A. Thought For The Day Many things we do in A.A. are in preparation for that crucial moment when, walking down the street on a nice sunshiny day, we see a nice cool cocktail lounge and the idea of having a drink pops into our minds. If...	CAM	0	365	Feb 19, 2007 by CAM
	Daily Reflections Feb 13 (Preview) WE CAN'T THINK OUR WAY SOBER To the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman, many A.A.'s can say, "Yes, we were like you--far too smart for our own good.... Secretly, we felt we could float above the rest of the folks on our brain power alone." AS BILL SEES IT, p. 60 Even the most...	Doll	2	741	Feb 19, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	This is funny!!!! (Preview) Um the last couple of days were alright, but my computer screwed up and had to take it in to get it looked at. and ya know funny thing was, I tried signing in to this forum and damn I forgot my stupid pass word, Uh duh. I'm doing well, daughter has still got a sore angkle, a little embarrassed to go to schoo...	Tina	0	398	Feb 19, 2007 by Tina
	Prayers please ? (Preview) Well, all, it's been a LONG week.....My ex husband had one of his hips replaced on Wed., the surgery went very well, but he's looking at a long recovery just to go back in and have the other hip done......My b/f left Thursday night for his mother's, 150mi away, she was diagnosed with ova...	Doll	6	425	Feb 19, 2007 by Doll
	Recovery Is About Today (Preview) The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it. -- Aeschylus The Fellowship keeps us grounded in the current moment. We learn to live today. Our planning and scheming and dreaming about tomorrow becomes less time consuming. The idea of living one day at a time makes sense to us. Our P...	Quetzal	0	386	Feb 19, 2007 by Quetzal
	Headaches--Withdrawal Symptoms? (Preview) Hi, I was wondering, are severe headaches a common withdrawal symptom? I've gone eight days without alcohol and I started getting headaches around the same time--I didn't make the connection until last night. I usually don't get headaches and I'm very conscious about eating rig...	Laura	3	428	Feb 18, 2007 by destinydreamer
	24 Hours A Day (Preview) February 18, 2007 *********************************************************** Twenty-Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought For The Day After I became an alcoholic, alcohol poisoned my love for my family and friends, it poisoned my ambition, it poisoned my self-respect. It poisoned my whole life, u...	CAM	1	409	Feb 18, 2007 by Quetzal
	You Don't Crave It Anymore? (Preview) Hi everyone, I've a question for those of you who've written that you don't crave alcohol anymore: What does that mean? I'm sorry if this sounds like an ignorant question and I certainly don't mean it to sound rude, but I'm curious. I thought part of what makes a alcoholic pe...	Laura	9	4503	Feb 18, 2007 by Laura
	Daily Reflections Feb 16 (Preview) COMMITMENT Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 125 There came a time in my program of recovery when the third stanza of the Serenity Prayer -- "The wisdom to know the difference" -- be...	Doll	1	576	Feb 18, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Daily Reflections Feb 15 (Preview) TAKING ACTION Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us--sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 One of the most important things A.A. has given me, in addition to freedom from booze,...	Doll	1	870	Feb 18, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Daily Reflections Feb 14 (Preview) *Happy Valentine's Day!* EXPECTATIONS vs. DEMANDS Burn the idea into the consciousness of every man that he can get well regardless of anyone. The only condition is that he trust in God and clean house. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 98 Dealing with expectations is a frequent topic at meetings. It isn...	Doll	1	584	Feb 18, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Hello (Preview) Hi All, I want to stop drinking. I've never been to an AA meeting but this is my first attempt to get help. I have a great life if not for my habits - that I put before everything at times. I noticed there is a chat room on here. Do you guys meet in the chat room regularly or at a scheduled time? I like the anon...	DougD	8	454	Feb 18, 2007 by DougD
	A question re: my Alcoholism (Preview) So I was thinking the other day- my dad wasn't an alcoholic. My mom showed some really serious alcohol issues when I was a kid but doesn't really now, both grandpas died drunks. Anyhow- I think to me alcohol always was about a party- festivity. I remember going to company dinners and being disa...	TLH	8	632	Feb 18, 2007 by Doll
	Daily Reflections Feb 12 (Preview) "THE ROOT OF OUR TROUBLES" Selfishness--self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of all our troubles. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 62 How amazing the revelation that the world, and everyone in it, can get along just fine with or without me. What a relief to know that people, places and...	Doll	1	539	Feb 18, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Daily Reflections Feb 11 (Preview) THE LIMITS OF SELF-RELIANCE We asked ourselves why we had them [fears]. Wasn't it because self-reliance failed us? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.68 All of my character defects separate me from God's will. When I ignore my association with Him I face the world and my alcoholism alone and must dep...	Doll	3	946	Feb 18, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Right and Wrong (Preview) Recovery is not about being right; it's about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are. That concept can be difficult for many of us if we have lived in systems that functioned on the "right/wrong" justice scale. The person who was right was okay; the person w...	Quetzal	0	813	Feb 18, 2007 by Quetzal
	Daily Reflections Feb 9 (Preview) GETTING THE "SPIRITUAL ANGLE" How often do we sit in AA meetings and hear the speaker declare, "But I haven't yet got the spiritual angle." Prior to this statement, he had described a miracle of transformation which had occurred in him -- not only his release from alcohol,...	Doll	2	545	Feb 18, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Believing In Change (Preview) Believing in change At first, drugs or booze turned us on; later they turned on us. We couldn't find any peace anywhere. We began turning into the kind of person we didn't want to be, but we didn't know what was happening to us or how to change. When we came to believe that our lives could and w...	Quetzal	3	443	Feb 18, 2007 by Quetzal
	Daily Reflections Feb 8 (Preview) CONVINCING "MR. HYDE" Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy will still elude us. That's the place so many of us A.A. oldsters have come to. And it's a hell of a spot, literally. How shall our unconscious--from which so many of our fears, compulsions and phony aspirations still st...	Doll	2	598	Feb 18, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	priorities (Preview) So I kinda had a wake up call today... I haven't had my priorities straight at all since I moved, I'm being horribly selfish with my boyfriend, not accepting his feelings on our relationship... how he feels it's wrong because I'm still in my first year... he does want me here, he do...	LisaF	1	443	Feb 18, 2007 by destinydreamer
	On Sadness (Preview) "Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’&quo...	Wren	1	564	Feb 17, 2007 by TLH
	A Friend Asked For This One... (Preview) To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off, it's the realization I can't control another. To let go is not to enable, but allow learning from natural consequences. To let go is to admit powerlessness, which mean...	Phil	3	508	Feb 17, 2007 by Wren
	The Biggy (Preview) "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable." Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have...	Phil	0	367	Feb 17, 2007 by Phil
	Business Meeting Chaos (Preview) Hi there, I'm pretty new to this board; have been lurking, haven't made a post yet til now. My homegroup is on Wednesday nights, it's called the "Artist's AA" it's been there and relatively the same for something like 25 years, even in the same location. I have been at...	psychoktty	7	1567	Feb 17, 2007 by TLH
	24 Hours A Day (Preview) February 16, 2007 ********************************************************* Twenty-Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought For The Day One drink started a train of thought that became an obsession, and from then on, we couldn't stop drinking. We developed a mental compulsion to keep drinking u...**	CAM	1	1792	Feb 17, 2007 by TLH
	Acceptance (Preview) Our basic recovery concept that never loses its power to work miracles is the concept called acceptance. We do not achieve acceptance in a moment. We often have to work through a mirage of feelings - sometimes anger, outrage, shame, self-pity, or sadness. But if acceptance is our goal, we will achiev...	Quetzal	0	351	Feb 17, 2007 by Quetzal
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