Alcoholics Anonymous

Phil · Phil

The Language of Letting Go Owning Our Power There is one feeling we need to pay particular attention to in recovery: feeling victimized. We do not need to become comfortable with that feeling. How do we feel when we've been victimized? Helpless. Rageful. Powerless. Frustrated. Feeling victim...

Quetzal · Quetzal

WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to use a Higher POWER. -- Anonymous One of the greatest decisions any of us ever made concerned our Third Step. This decision seemed to go against everthing we wanted to do. We all know so well that every time we tried to manage our own lives, we produced misery and heartache...

tina · tina

Just thought in Haven't been on lately, but things are going ok. Been busy, with work, kids and went to a GSR meetin last week and it felt great to actually be sittin around fellow AA members. Things with my son are a slow process, he still has his own path to take and makin some progress,...

Doll · Doll

ROUND-THE-CLOCK FAITH Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.16 The essence of my spiritually, and my sobriety, rests on a round-the-clock faith in a Higher Power. I need to remember and rely on the God of my understanding as I pursue all of my...

Phil · Phil

Once upon a time, a young lad was born without a belly button. In its place was a golden screw. All the doctors told his mother that there was nothing they could do. Like it or not, he was stuck with it. All the years of growing up was real tough on him because ...

tina · tina

REFLECTIONS You know, time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years. It seems just yesterday that I was young, just married and embarking on my new life with my mate. And yet in a way, it seems like eons ago, and I wonder where all the years went. I know tha...

Phil · Phil

The Language of Letting Go Gratitude 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 pe...

timverton · timverton

Wow!! It's been about six weeks since he and I have gotten together after having lunch at least once a week and maybe throwing a day or two of woodworking in there also. I feel like I'm meeting a friend for lunch tomorrow whom I haven't seen in years. It was both of our schedules over the Holidays; me with th...

mmerlino · mmerlino

I am asking for everyone's prayers today. I have two very dear friends that are having issues. They both are in the program. I found a possible indication of both them possibly using. And, I am concerned about them. They both have 2 boys a piece and I just would like for all of u...

Doll · Doll

WOULD A DRINK HELP? By going back in our drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 23 When I was still drinking, I co...

Quetzal · Quetzal

When am I manipulative? Without understanding our motives, we can easily lapse into behavior aimed at manipulating others. Sulking is a means of letting others know we are displeased and forcing them to attempt to win our approval. Flattery is a false expression of approval that we don't reall...

CAM · CAM

Not sure where it's from this phrase helps me when i need to take a "leap of faith." “Jump and the net will appear” christine

Phil · Phil

The Language of Letting Go 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 fe...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

I just heard Ron Hutchcraft tell a story that hit home with me: He said that one of his nephews decided to try on a dog collar that his father had. It wasn't a regular one, but was one of those that gives a little shock when the dog barks. The child decided to call out to a friend that was in the d...

Quetzal · Quetzal

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Rarely does a chain break in a strong link. Only the weak links fail. If we fail this day-by-day program, it will likely be where we are weakest. To be more steadfast, we emphasize constant contact with our Higher Power. Do I still have secret thoughts that I am in complete contro...

debbi · debbi

looking for suggestions.....how to get out of that stuck in a rut place inside myself....in my head i know exactly what i need to be doing to take care of myself.....that's as far as i can get tho!....im sure ya all can understand what im saying when i say, ive been thru an aweful lot the past 5 years....it...

Doll · Doll

HAPPINESS COMES QUIETLY "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 weren't successful. But when we take time to find out some of the spiritual laws, and familiariz...

RyanS · RyanS

This smoking deal is by degrees no different than drinking. And my reaction, waking up to it, has been about the same (by degrees) as drinking. All hell broke loose. Powerdrive against it with all my might, when exact opposite is what I need. Only this time around, I am now recognizing that I ha...

Doll · Doll

My HG's speaker didn't show up, so it happened that a woman who got sober there 12 yrs ago, and had moved away, was visiting family this weekend. She was asked to speak. Telling her story she included that she had been married and often cheated on her then husband by picking up men at bars w...

wallsal55 · wallsal55

www.normanrosenthal.com new book out in 2005 on Seasonal Affective Disorder by Dr. Norman Rosenthal. This book can be ordered to check out for free from your local library system. Also, "Beating the Blues" New Approaches to Overcoming Dysthymia and Chronic M...

wagon · wagon

hope all is well with everyone, things here in iowa are good, just very busy, these days. i always wonder what i would do with spare time when not drinking, i still womder cause i have none. lol , oh by the way picking up my 2 year chip tonight. be safe all and thanks heaps wagon

Quetzal · Quetzal

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare. -- Ai Ibn-Abu-Talib When we entered recovery, we had buddies we drank or used with and people we hung out with, but often no one we could really call a friend. For a long time, we hadn't been "friend material." Too poor in body, mind, and spirit...

Doll · Doll

HITTING BOTTOM Why all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom first? The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom. For practicing A.A.'s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic...

Phil · Phil

We learn some behaviors have self-defeating consequences, while others have beneficial consequences. We learn we have choices. 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 fight their battles, become...

Phil · Phil

Having an unsound mind....and the odd moment of Sometimers... I would like to take the opportunity, to Congratulate YOU on ELEVEN Biggies..as of this comming Saturday... Thats a lot of days...one day at a time..And you have accomplished many great things, within that time.. Keep on truckin...

Quetzal · Quetzal

What I think about surrounds me. What I allow to be entertained in my mind becomes a reality. If I think negatively, I will attract negativity in my life. On the other hand, if I concentrate on developing positive thoughts, I will attract positive people and events to my life. My potential will be incre...

Sally · Sally

OOps I put this as a reply on my own topic and think I should have it as a new topic...anyway. Thanks for advice and support from everyone. I managed to get through last night without a drink and felt pretty pleased with myself as a result! I feel like the week will be OK because I have never really had...

Doll · Doll

AN UNSUSPECTED INNER RESOURCE 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 sobri...

Wren · Wren

"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself." -- Rita Mae Brown Where do you need to think for yourself? When we begin to cultivate awareness of our thoughts and emotions, we begin to see just how much we live according to other people’s and society’s beliefs an...

Quetzal · Quetzal

We have days when we experience the small coincidences in life -- our car breaks down and we run into an old friend at the service station; we're thinking about someone and she calls just because we've been on her mind; we ask ourselves a question and the answer appears on the side of a bus or out of the mout...

Lucky McSober · Lucky McSober

I dont count the day before yesterday because I woke up drunk...so the way I see it it's day two. I'm feeling pretty good...fortunate that I've decided to face reality and salvage the incredible life that I have. I've even been "shudders* praying every time my mind starts to obsess about bo...

Doll · Doll

Today is January 14, 2007 A Great Day for Recovery! RESPONSIBILITY "The fault is in us." -- Hannah Arendt As a drunk I would blame everybody for my problems: My family was too controlling. I did not have people around who understood me. I worked too hard and the people were too deman...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Part of the ego reduction necessary to our recovery is the acceptance of the fact that we are not and never will be perfect. Perfectionism gets in the way of recovery because it imposes impossible, unrealistic goals which guarantee failure. If we do not think we have to be perfect, then we can accept ou...

LisaF · LisaF

I'm moving this weekend, Monday at the latest... to Nebraska. My new roommate will be here tomorrow!!! eek! I'm really nervous... we've been online friends for around 7 months but we've never met... He was driving a friend down here to buy a semi about 5 hours east of here... and has a couple of days to ki...

Phil · Phil

Undoing alcohol's damage to the mind With sobriety, the brain can begin to restore some lost function, researchers find.By Melissa Healy Times Staff Writer December 25, 2006 In addition to claiming lives, marriages, homes and careers, alcoholism has a greedy way of robbing its victims of bra...

Doll · Doll

NO REGRETS 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 program's Fourth and Fifth Steps assisted me enormously in healing those t...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Using the 24-hour plan In our drinking days, we often had such bad times that we swore, "Never again." We took pledges for as long as a year, or promised someone we would not touch the stuff for three weeks, or three months. And of course, we tried going on the wagon for various periods of time...

Doll · Doll

So, my last encounter, shall we call it, was with the cured alcoholic, which posed many questions in my own mind, and now, I'm wondering about the phone call I got an hour ago! Someone I used to drink with, not really friends, but ya know......called me to say she was somewhat concerned about her own dr...

Tipsy McStagger · Tipsy McStagger

So I went to my wife's company Christmas party and proceeded to drain two bottles of red wine with dinner. I was pretty "on" and I really had the table yuking it up...right up until I decided to stagger out for a cigarette and shit my pants. Pardon my language but there's no polite way to say it. I wen...

Tipsy McStagger · Tipsy McStagger

I'm kind of feeling angry at alcohol....like I want to battle and fight it with a furious vengence! Anyone else ever feel that way? Think it's a useful state of mind to be in? All I knowis that it certainly has me fired up!

Tipsy McStagger · Tipsy McStagger

I know I've burned my bridges with some of you on this site. I know that I've been rude, arrogant, obnoxious...I wish I could take it all back. I wish I had listened to what you people told me the first time I came here, or the second, or the third, fourth, etc. I hope that you will forgive me and believe me t...

Doll · Doll

IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT 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 don't drink, everything will be all right." Once the fog...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Diamonds are only chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs, you see. -- Malcolm Forbes How has your determination paid off for you in your life? So often it is difficult to know when to continue pushing forward and when to let go of a project or an idea. Leslie wanted to change the culture of her s...

Phil · Phil

The Language of Letting Go. The goal of recovery is balance - that precious middle ground. Many of us have gone from one extreme to another: years of taking care of everyone but ourselves, followed by a time of refusing to focus on anyone's needs but our own. We may have spent years refusing to ide...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Being humiliated is not the same as having humility. We have all suffered humiliation. Perhaps a spouse ridiculed us in public or a parent's disorderly conduct shamed us in front of our friends. Perhaps a boss criticized us in front of co-workers. However, we could have refused to let our...

mmerlino · mmerlino

Yesterday Just for Today says alot of us growing up spiritually. Today, I am faced with truly growing up and letting go. And, boy is this something new. Facing the past, so that it does not effect my present way of life. In relationships I always thought that I had to do for the man. And, not him taking care...

Phil · Phil

People Pleasing - Having Trouble Saying No? by Kali Munro, M.Ed., Psychotherapist, 2001 Do you have trouble saying NO? Do you do things for other people but almost never ask anybody to do things for you? You may be a people pleaser. People pleasers think of other people’s needs before their own...

Doll · Doll

THE 100% STEP 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 t...

Quetzal · Quetzal

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. -- M. C. Richards What you do for a living is not who you are. You are more, much more, than that. It's easy to get so caught up in what we do that we're only identifying ourselves through our daily tasks. I am a mechanic. I am a pa...

tina · tina

I went to a party mom, and remembered what you you said. You told me not to drink mom, so I drank a soda instead I felt really proud inside mom, Just like you said I would. I didn't drink and drive mom, even though others said I should. I know I did the right thing mom, I know your always right. Now th...

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	And The Snow Justa Keeps on acommin eh... (Preview) The Language of Letting Go Owning Our Power There is one feeling we need to pay particular attention to in recovery: feeling victimized. We do not need to become comfortable with that feeling. How do we feel when we've been victimized? Helpless. Rageful. Powerless. Frustrated. Feeling victim...	Phil	0	473	Jan 19, 2007 by Phil
	Will Power (Preview) WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to use a Higher POWER. -- Anonymous One of the greatest decisions any of us ever made concerned our Third Step. This decision seemed to go against everthing we wanted to do. We all know so well that every time we tried to manage our own lives, we produced misery and heartache...	Quetzal	1	460	Jan 19, 2007 by amanda2u2
	Just dropped in to say hi (Preview) Just thought in Haven't been on lately, but things are going ok. Been busy, with work, kids and went to a GSR meetin last week and it felt great to actually be sittin around fellow AA members. Things with my son are a slow process, he still has his own path to take and makin some progress,...	tina	3	452	Jan 19, 2007 by tina
	Daily Reflections jan 19 (Preview) ROUND-THE-CLOCK FAITH Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.16 The essence of my spiritually, and my sobriety, rests on a round-the-clock faith in a Higher Power. I need to remember and rely on the God of my understanding as I pursue all of my...	Doll	0	442	Jan 19, 2007 by Doll
	An Alky had to have written this.. (Preview) Once upon a time, a young lad was born without a belly button. In its place was a golden screw. All the doctors told his mother that there was nothing they could do. Like it or not, he was stuck with it. All the years of growing up was real tough on him because ...	Phil	2	481	Jan 18, 2007 by Doll
	Just giving a little back (Preview) *REFLECTIONS* You know, time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years. It seems just yesterday that I was young, just married and embarking on my new life with my mate. And yet in a way, it seems like eons ago, and I wonder where all the years went. I know tha...	tina	5	416	Jan 18, 2007 by tina
	Makes Sense hu...and have a nice day.:) (Preview) The Language of Letting Go Gratitude 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 pe...	Phil	1	480	Jan 18, 2007 by timverton
	Seeing my sponsor (Preview) Wow!! It's been about six weeks since he and I have gotten together after having lunch at least once a week and maybe throwing a day or two of woodworking in there also. I feel like I'm meeting a friend for lunch tomorrow whom I haven't seen in years. It was both of our schedules over the Holidays; me with th...	timverton	4	431	Jan 18, 2007 by Phil
	Asking For Everyones Prayers (Preview) I am asking for everyone's prayers today. I have two very dear friends that are having issues. They both are in the program. I found a possible indication of both them possibly using. And, I am concerned about them. They both have 2 boys a piece and I just would like for all of u...	mmerlino	4	440	Jan 18, 2007 by amanda2u2
	Daily Reflections Jan 18 (Preview) WOULD A DRINK HELP? By going back in our drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 23 When I was still drinking, I co...	Doll	0	364	Jan 18, 2007 by Doll
	When am I manipulative? (Preview) When am I manipulative? Without understanding our motives, we can easily lapse into behavior aimed at manipulating others. Sulking is a means of letting others know we are displeased and forcing them to attempt to win our approval. Flattery is a false expression of approval that we don't reall...	Quetzal	0	472	Jan 18, 2007 by Quetzal
	safety net (Preview) Not sure where it's from this phrase helps me when i need to take a "leap of faith." “Jump and the net will appear” christine	CAM	1	427	Jan 17, 2007 by Phil
	Acting "As If" (Preview) The Language of Letting Go 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 fe...	Phil	1	657	Jan 17, 2007 by wandajf
	the dog collar (Preview) *I just heard Ron Hutchcraft tell a story that hit home with me:* He said that one of his nephews decided to try on a dog collar that his father had. It wasn't a regular one, but was one of those that gives a little shock when the dog barks. The child decided to call out to a friend that was in the d...	amanda2u2	0	414	Jan 17, 2007 by amanda2u2
	Constant Contact With Our Higher Power (Preview) THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Rarely does a chain break in a strong link. Only the weak links fail. If we fail this day-by-day program, it will likely be where we are weakest. To be more steadfast, we emphasize constant contact with our Higher Power. Do I still have secret thoughts that I am in complete contro...	Quetzal	1	812	Jan 17, 2007 by amanda2u2
	stuck in a rut (Preview) looking for suggestions.....how to get out of that stuck in a rut place inside myself....in my head i know exactly what i need to be doing to take care of myself.....that's as far as i can get tho!....im sure ya all can understand what im saying when i say, ive been thru an aweful lot the past 5 years....it...	debbi	4	513	Jan 17, 2007 by CAM
	Daily Reflections Jan 17 (Preview) HAPPINESS COMES QUIETLY "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 weren't successful. But when we take time to find out some of the spiritual laws, and familiariz...	Doll	0	360	Jan 17, 2007 by Doll
	Smoking (cough cough) (Preview) This smoking deal is by degrees no different than drinking. And my reaction, waking up to it, has been about the same (by degrees) as drinking. All hell broke loose. Powerdrive against it with all my might, when exact opposite is what I need. Only this time around, I am now recognizing that I ha...	RyanS	2	467	Jan 17, 2007 by timverton
	Moral of THIS story ? (Preview) My HG's speaker didn't show up, so it happened that a woman who got sober there 12 yrs ago, and had moved away, was visiting family this weekend. She was asked to speak. Telling her story she included that she had been married and often cheated on her then husband by picking up men at bars w...	Doll	8	450	Jan 16, 2007 by Doll
	SAD book, mood disorders book (Preview) www.normanrosenthal.com new book out in 2005 on Seasonal Affective Disorder by Dr. Norman Rosenthal. This book can be ordered to check out for free from your local library system. Also, "Beating the Blues" New Approaches to Overcoming Dysthymia and Chronic M...	wallsal55	1	537	Jan 16, 2007 by Phil
	hey (Preview) hope all is well with everyone, things here in iowa are good, just very busy, these days. i always wonder what i would do with spare time when not drinking, i still womder cause i have none. lol , oh by the way picking up my 2 year chip tonight. be safe all and thanks heaps wagon	wagon	4	433	Jan 16, 2007 by Phil
	Friends (Preview) He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare. -- Ai Ibn-Abu-Talib When we entered recovery, we had buddies we drank or used with and people we hung out with, but often no one we could really call a friend. For a long time, we hadn't been "friend material." Too poor in body, mind, and spirit...	Quetzal	1	413	Jan 16, 2007 by Phil
	Daily Reflections Jan 16 (Preview) HITTING BOTTOM Why all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom first? The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom. For practicing A.A.'s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic...	Doll	1	409	Jan 16, 2007 by Phil
	Standing Up For Ourselves (Preview) We learn some behaviors have self-defeating consequences, while others have beneficial consequences. We learn we have choices. 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 fight their battles, become...	Phil	1	637	Jan 15, 2007 by wallsal55
	HEY!! Mike In Boston!! (Preview) Having an unsound mind....and the odd moment of Sometimers... I would like to take the opportunity, to Congratulate YOU on ELEVEN Biggies..as of this comming Saturday... Thats a lot of days...one day at a time..And you have accomplished many great things, within that time.. Keep on truckin...	Phil	4	426	Jan 15, 2007 by Wren
	Optimism (Preview) What I think about surrounds me. What I allow to be entertained in my mind becomes a reality. If I think negatively, I will attract negativity in my life. On the other hand, if I concentrate on developing positive thoughts, I will attract positive people and events to my life. My potential will be incre...	Quetzal	1	467	Jan 15, 2007 by amanda2u2
	Binging or alcoholism? (Preview) OOps I put this as a reply on my own topic and think I should have it as a new topic...anyway. Thanks for advice and support from everyone. I managed to get through last night without a drink and felt pretty pleased with myself as a result! I feel like the week will be OK because I have never really had...	Sally	6	452	Jan 15, 2007 by Phil
	Daily Reflections Jan 15 (Preview) AN UNSUSPECTED INNER RESOURCE 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 sobri...	Doll	0	362	Jan 15, 2007 by Doll
	Think for Yourself (Preview) "I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself." -- Rita Mae Brown Where do you need to think for yourself? When we begin to cultivate awareness of our thoughts and emotions, we begin to see just how much we live according to other people’s and society’s beliefs an...	Wren	1	913	Jan 15, 2007 by TLH
	Be aware of wonder (Preview) We have days when we experience the small coincidences in life -- our car breaks down and we run into an old friend at the service station; we're thinking about someone and she calls just because we've been on her mind; we ask ourselves a question and the answer appears on the side of a bus or out of the mout...	Quetzal	3	2464	Jan 14, 2007 by timverton
	Day two... (Preview) I dont count the day before yesterday because I woke up drunk...so the way I see it it's day two. I'm feeling pretty good...fortunate that I've decided to face reality and salvage the incredible life that I have. I've even been "shudders* praying every time my mind starts to obsess about bo...	Lucky McSober	7	437	Jan 14, 2007 by Sally
	RESPONSIBILITY (Preview) Today is January 14, 2007 A Great Day for Recovery! RESPONSIBILITY "The fault is in us." -- Hannah Arendt As a drunk I would blame everybody for my problems: My family was too controlling. I did not have people around who understood me. I worked too hard and the people were too deman...	Doll	0	372	Jan 14, 2007 by Doll
	Perfectionism (Preview) Part of the ego reduction necessary to our recovery is the acceptance of the fact that we are not and never will be perfect. Perfectionism gets in the way of recovery because it imposes impossible, unrealistic goals which guarantee failure. If we do not think we have to be perfect, then we can accept ou...	Quetzal	4	470	Jan 14, 2007 by amanda2u2
	Moving... so nervous (Preview) I'm moving this weekend, Monday at the latest... to Nebraska. My new roommate will be here tomorrow!!! eek! I'm really nervous... we've been online friends for around 7 months but we've never met... He was driving a friend down here to buy a semi about 5 hours east of here... and has a couple of days to ki...	LisaF	4	427	Jan 14, 2007 by cindy
	Mentally Retarded...And Can't Get It Started.. (Preview) Undoing alcohol's damage to the mind With sobriety, the brain can begin to restore some lost function, researchers find.By Melissa Healy Times Staff Writer December 25, 2006 In addition to claiming lives, marriages, homes and careers, alcoholism has a greedy way of robbing its victims of bra...	Phil	8	753	Jan 14, 2007 by amanda2u2
	Daily Reflections Jan 14 (Preview) NO REGRETS 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 program's Fourth and Fifth Steps assisted me enormously in healing those t...	Doll	0	379	Jan 14, 2007 by Doll
	Using the 24-hour plan (Preview) Using the 24-hour plan In our drinking days, we often had such bad times that we swore, "Never again." We took pledges for as long as a year, or promised someone we would not touch the stuff for three weeks, or three months. And of course, we tried going on the wagon for various periods of time...	Quetzal	1	1003	Jan 13, 2007 by nmike
	Hitting the fan, more being revealed, or gearing up? (Preview) So, my last encounter, shall we call it, was with the cured alcoholic, which posed many questions in my own mind, and now, I'm wondering about the phone call I got an hour ago! Someone I used to drink with, not really friends, but ya know......called me to say she was somewhat concerned about her own dr...	Doll	8	541	Jan 13, 2007 by Doll
	Worst Christmas party EVER.... (Preview) So I went to my wife's company Christmas party and proceeded to drain two bottles of red wine with dinner. I was pretty "on" and I really had the table yuking it up...right up until I decided to stagger out for a cigarette and shit my pants. Pardon my language but there's no polite way to say it. I wen...	Tipsy McStagger	8	503	Jan 13, 2007 by Doll
	Kicking Booze's ass! (Preview) I'm kind of feeling angry at alcohol....like I want to battle and fight it with a furious vengence! Anyone else ever feel that way? Think it's a useful state of mind to be in? All I knowis that it certainly has me fired up!	Tipsy McStagger	3	493	Jan 13, 2007 by Doll
	Please, I need some help. (Preview) I know I've burned my bridges with some of you on this site. I know that I've been rude, arrogant, obnoxious...I wish I could take it all back. I wish I had listened to what you people told me the first time I came here, or the second, or the third, fourth, etc. I hope that you will forgive me and believe me t...	Tipsy McStagger	7	479	Jan 13, 2007 by sheilasdad
	Daily Reflections Jan 13 (Preview) IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT 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 don't drink, everything will be all right." Once the fog...	Doll	0	341	Jan 13, 2007 by Doll
	Determination (Preview) Diamonds are only chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs, you see. -- Malcolm Forbes How has your determination paid off for you in your life? So often it is difficult to know when to continue pushing forward and when to let go of a project or an idea. Leslie wanted to change the culture of her s...	Quetzal	0	439	Jan 13, 2007 by Quetzal
	Finding Balance (Preview) *The Language of Letting Go*. The goal of recovery is balance - that precious middle ground. Many of us have gone from one extreme to another: years of taking care of everyone but ourselves, followed by a time of refusing to focus on anyone's needs but our own. We may have spent years refusing to ide...	Phil	0	436	Jan 12, 2007 by Phil
	Being humiliated is not the same as having humility. (Preview) Being humiliated is not the same as having humility. We have all suffered humiliation. Perhaps a spouse ridiculed us in public or a parent's disorderly conduct shamed us in front of our friends. Perhaps a boss criticized us in front of co-workers. However, we could have refused to let our...	Quetzal	4	1437	Jan 12, 2007 by RyanS
	Growing Up (Preview) Yesterday Just for Today says alot of us growing up spiritually. Today, I am faced with truly growing up and letting go. And, boy is this something new. Facing the past, so that it does not effect my present way of life. In relationships I always thought that I had to do for the man. And, not him taking care...	mmerlino	2	482	Jan 11, 2007 by RyanS
	People Pleasing (Preview) People Pleasing - Having Trouble Saying No? by Kali Munro, M.Ed., Psychotherapist, 2001 Do you have trouble saying NO? Do you do things for other people but almost never ask anybody to do things for you? You may be a people pleaser. People pleasers think of other people’s needs before their own...	Phil	5	506	Jan 11, 2007 by mmerlino
	Daily Reflections Jan 11 (Preview) THE 100% STEP 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 t...	Doll	1	392	Jan 11, 2007 by mmerlino
	What we do for a living is not who we are (Preview) All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. -- M. C. Richards What you do for a living is not who you are. You are more, much more, than that. It's easy to get so caught up in what we do that we're only identifying ourselves through our daily tasks. I am a mechanic. I am a pa...	Quetzal	2	461	Jan 11, 2007 by mmerlino
	The Death of an innocent (Preview) I went to a party mom, and remembered what you you said. You told me not to drink mom, so I drank a soda instead I felt really proud inside mom, Just like you said I would. I didn't drink and drive mom, even though others said I should. I know I did the right thing mom, I know your always right. Now th...	tina	0	418	Jan 11, 2007 by tina
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