Alcoholics Anonymous

Rick · Rick

Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize that we only know a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning mediation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit so...

Doll · Doll

We DIE TO LIVE. That is a beautiful paradox straight out of the Biblical idea of being "born again" or "in losing one's life to find it." When we work at our Twelve Steps, the old life of guzzling and fuzzy thinking, and all that goes with it, gradually dies, and we acquire a different and a better way of l...

Rick · Rick

OLD TIME AA: 1. It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it. 2. If you're looking to have an image in AA, look around at the meetings you go to and take a look at whom you're trying to impress. 3. An alcoholic is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating. 4. Sobriety is the leading cause of relapse. 5...

flumpy · flumpy

Hi all, I don't think any of you will remember me coz I spend all my time on the other site (Al-anon). Anyways I have and did find recovery through that and am greatful. But I now have a problem. Last year, the day after my 28th birthday infact, it all went pear shaped, cut a VERY long story short, I h...

Doll · Doll

Feeling the need to be perfect, comparing our progress with what we assume is the progress another woman has made, is one of the dangers we face. Women have been comparing themselves with others since childhood. The habit is not easily broken. Yet we must compare our progress today with where we were y...

Rick · Rick

Life deals more rigorously with some than others. --Lewis F. Presnall How often we think about a friend, He sure is lucky! And probably just as often we say to ourselves, Why did that happen to me? It's not fair! The truth is, life isn't always fair. We don't all get the same experiences, the same l...

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 depend o...

Michelle · Michelle

go to: http://www.recoverylane.com/jokes__humor.htm you know, you gotta laugh at your problems or you will go crazy. It's what gets me through every day! Humor is good medicine. Happy Friday everyone!

Doll · Doll

Break Free Of Anger Buried resentments are difficult to escape, but there is always grace. With God's help, spiritual healing is possible. Whenever the pain of life becomes too much for you, turn immediately to Him. He may seem to ask the impossible, but hHs words supply the he...

Pauly · Pauly

Hi Folks just checking in to give you a weekly update of sorts, hope thats OK with you guys? 2 weeks since not a drop, been to the pub tonight to meet a few friends, just still Orange juice. Quite comfortable with others drinking around me, no great "thirst". Reality is starting to hit as to what I`m...

Michelle · Michelle

I had my 6th education class tonight, this one was about drink sizes and equivalents. I had no idea I'd been drinking so much. I didn't know that a regular 12 oz beer was actually 1.5 drinks, and how it affects you. There was quite a bit of math involved, but I got a lot of new informatio...

Doll · Doll

Hi all. Just wanted to ask if you all would include my ex, who's still out there, in your prayers. I've been praying for him to be given the gift of desperation for quite some time now and I think I need some reinforments! He really needs help, but he's got to want it, so I figure it will take desperation fo...

Doll · Doll

I DON'T RUN THE SHOW When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.53 Today my choic...

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, but a complete change in his w...

Doll · Doll

WE GIVE AWAY TO KEEP. That seems absurd and untrue. How can you keep anything if you give it away? But in order to keep whatever it is we get in AA, we must go about giving it away to others, for no fees or rewards of any kind. When we cannot afford to give away what we have received so freely in AA, we had bette...

Rick · Rick

Some days my life feels so confusing and overwhelming that I think I'll scream. Sometimes life is like moving from one place to another. When I move into a new house, it is unorganized and chaotic until everything gets put in the right place. In life, my emotions and thoughts are often like t...

Phil · Phil

Something that I pulled outa the hat...along with the rabbit... You were asking a few days ago..Benny...and I dont know about you Buddy...but Impatience with this kid...is a work on thing...every day... Take what you need and leave the rest... Patience is the ability to: Sit back and w...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

CHANGE: Willingness, Openness, and Consciousness “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” —Herbert Spencer

benny33 · benny33

hello every one . just got back from a meeting and im still feeling a little down .thought i share a little with you all.today i got the call that a familey member passed.my first thought was where is the closest bar.i was angry and mad and all those things agian i was a week ago when i asked for helpp.iam so g...

jersey · jersey

APPENDIX II THE terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms. Yet it is tr...

Michelle · Michelle

How does alcohol affect what you have to say? Here's a few ways ... THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Innovative 2. Preliminary 3. Proliferation 4. Cinnamon THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Specificity 2. British Constitution 3. Passive-aggressive disorder THINGS...

Michelle · Michelle

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4057591681481453187-- Edited by Michel...

Michelle · Michelle

WARNING: consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not. WARNING: consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like a TOTAL DORK!. WARNING: consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends want to SLAP Y...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

i took the 12 Steps to the latrine last night i decided i was going to tile my master bathroom floor....' i dug up all the old linoleum tiles, and i had the floor nice and clean and ready to go!!! things were going GREAT till i got around having to "tile around the toidie" and thats when thi...

Doll · Doll

5 Laws of Life You Can Depend On 1. This, too, shall pass. Nothing stays the same. The only constant in life is change. With every decision we make, we initiate change. Even when we decide not to decide, life still goes on, and changes still occur. When we are in a state of discomfort, sadness, grief, or pa...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

This Is Not A Test "We have found a loving, personal God to whom we can turn." Basic Text p. 27 Some of us come into recovery with the impression that life's hardships are a series of cosmic tests designed to teach us something. This belief is readily apparent when something traumatic happens a...

jeannie · jeannie

Great White North humour, come naked. > Now that Vancouver has won the chance to host the 2010 Winter Olympics these are some questions people the world over are asking!!!! Believe it or not > these questions about Canada were posted on an Interna...

Doll · Doll

We SURRENDER TO WIN. On the face of it, surrendering does not seem like winning. But it is in AA. Only after we have come to the end of our rope, hit a stone wall in some aspect of our lives beyond which we can go no further; only when we hit "bottom" in despair and surrender, can we accomplish sobrie...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

A.A. Thought for the Day A nightclub crowded with men and women all dressed up in evening clothes looks like a very gay place. But you should see the men's room of that nightclub the next morning. What a mess! People have been sick all over the place and does it smell! The glamour of the night...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

I was brought up by a very controlling father, with a very 'submissive' but manipulative mother. I was taught that I had to respond, and the response had to be one that pleased them, or else terrible punishments... my sister has a brain lesion from one beating. Since we tend to generalize and to t...

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 stream--be brought int...

Michelle · Michelle

Somebody on my block is barbecuing tonight and it smells wonderful! but it's only February, and it's usually still very cold. Today, it's at 54 right now, but it feels like spring after all the cold and wind and rain we've had lately! I have the doors and windows open, neighbors are...

Michelle · Michelle

They would stop advertising alcohol on TV. It seems like there is at least one ad during every commercial break, even during the day. They should at least show it how it really is, people stumbling around in bars or wherever and then getting arrested on the way home. There should be...

Doll · Doll

If we earnestly and conscientiously apply the tools of our program, we are certain to experience positive change. We are promised new freedom and happiness and assured that a Higher Power can and will remove our negative characteristics. The question is, are we ready to change? If we hang on tightly...

Rob · Rob

I drink too much.. im gona be 30 in about 6 months and iv been gettin pissed almost every night since i was about 17 or 18. somtimes i give it up for a couple of days.. and sometimes i manage a week, though not very often.. once a few years ago i quit for 3 months.... But i cant seem to stay of...

Michelle · Michelle

I am so fed up with all these commercialized hollidays and their advertisements. It's just so depressing, they make you feel like if you don't buy stuff for your loved ones, then you don't really love them. Well, I don't care if my man buys me jewelry, I mostly make my own, diamonds a...

Sick of being sick · Sick of being sick

Hey Toni, your post got me to thinking a lot about where I was, what it was like, and where I am now. I was surfing the 'net today and came across a religion that I think I might finally be able to call my own. It is Unitarian Universalism. It's a lot about tolerance. It accepts p...

Doll · Doll

A PATH TO FAITH True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 My last drunk had landed me in the hospital, totally broken. It was then that I was ab...

jersey · jersey

Hope is for the weak: The challenge of a broken world Hope requires humility and humanity by Robert Jensen My title may seem unnecessarily harsh. After all, hope is an enduring feature of our species, something people search for (often quite desperately) and hang onto (usually quit...

Doll · Doll

Ya'll may be familiar w/this but in case someone is not: My area AA f2fs have a chip system. Different color poker like chips that mark time in sobriety. At the end of the f2f when someone gives them out, they go thru the colors and say how much time each one represents, white-24 hours or surrender, silver...

John · John

Hello everyone, This is Rose, From time to time I have been in the rooms and I have found that people are talking about food. Who is cooking what, oh let me have that recipe, Oh that sounds good. All it does is make everyone hungry!! So I have decided to put all this food talk to...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

I have heard both of these phrases by people in the program,,,, "take what you like and leave the rest', and ' take what you need and leave the rest'. There is actually a big difference between the two. If I only take what I like I will miss a lot of what I need. I don't lik...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Today's thought is: If you go around thinking you are being cheated, life becomes very unpleasant. --Felix Salten Sometimes we feel cheated that we have been given this darn disease to cope with. Why us? Why can't we just be like normal people? Why did we have to get into so much trouble and pai...

Phil · Phil

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. --Arthur Schopenhauer Pride, like all emotions, has two faces: one healthy and one sick. It is our challenge to use the healthy side well. Sick pride fills us with ourselves, looks down on others, and has no room for generosity...

Phil · Phil

Step Seven "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings." Since this Step so specifically concerns itself with humility, we should pause here to consider what humility is and what the practice of it can mean to us. Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principl...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Hi to everyone, I havent Posted for a while, had to get this transition down to DSL, but I think I managed o.k. Transferring files is a little bit hard, but no pain, no gain. Life here in California does feel different since I moved to the Southernmost part, it never rains, have n...

Phil · Phil

Heavy week...needed a time out... Had to go back to 4 and 5... My opinion...Some say ..that once youve done 4 and 5 once...thats the end of it..I disagree with that.. there can be layers of that onion...that are still there...regardless of how much time..one has in this program.. Suppre...

Pauly · Pauly

The last 10 nights without a drink have not been without ups and downs. I have honestly not had huge cravings/urges, atlhough I`m well aware that it`s very early days. Home life is good, feeling very tired at odd times of the day. I`ve also had horrendous tonsilitis, something I su...

Doll · Doll

A RALLYING POINT Therefore, Step Two is the rallying point for all of us. "Whether agnostic, atheist, or former believer, we can stand together on this Step. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 I feel that A.A. is a God-inspired program and that God is at every A.A. meeting. I see, believe, and ha...

benny33 · benny33

well sunday has seem to come with great new chalenges for me. while things have been going steady and i have been working on my steps ,other things seem to keep pileing up .im not sure how to react to.my children i think have noticed that im different.they seem to be pushing further than they ever had .now...

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	BB Pg ** I really like (Preview) Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize that we only know a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning mediation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit so...	Rick	0	344	Feb 11, 2006 by Rick
	Paradox - WE DIE TO LIVE (Preview) We DIE TO LIVE. That is a beautiful paradox straight out of the Biblical idea of being "born again" or "in losing one's life to find it." When we work at our Twelve Steps, the old life of guzzling and fuzzy thinking, and all that goes with it, gradually dies, and we acquire a different and a better way of l...	Doll	4	503	Feb 11, 2006 by Rick
	old time AA (Preview) OLD TIME AA: 1. It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it. 2. If you're looking to have an image in AA, look around at the meetings you go to and take a look at whom you're trying to impress. 3. An alcoholic is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating. 4. Sobriety is the leading cause of relapse. 5...	Rick	2	295	Feb 11, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Hmmmmmmmmmmmm (Preview) Hi all, I don't think any of you will remember me coz I spend all my time on the other site (Al-anon). Anyways I have and did find recovery through that and am greatful. But I now have a problem. Last year, the day after my 28th birthday infact, it all went pear shaped, cut a VERY long story short, I h...	flumpy	6	403	Feb 11, 2006 by Doll
	The Little Red Book for Women (Preview) Feeling the need to be perfect, comparing our progress with what we assume is the progress another woman has made, is one of the dangers we face. Women have been comparing themselves with others since childhood. The habit is not easily broken. Yet we must compare our progress today with where we were y...	Doll	0	381	Feb 11, 2006 by Doll
	today's thought (Preview) *Life deals more rigorously with some than others. --Lewis F. Presnall* How often we think about a friend, He sure is lucky! And probably just as often we say to ourselves, Why did that happen to me? It's not fair! The truth is, life isn't always fair. We don't all get the same experiences, the same l...	Rick	1	365	Feb 11, 2006 by Rick
	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 depend o...	Doll	1	585	Feb 11, 2006 by Rick
	another funny website! (Preview) go to: http://www.recoverylane.com/jokes__humor.htm you know, you gotta laugh at your problems or you will go crazy. It's what gets me through every day! Humor is good medicine. Happy Friday everyone!	Michelle	1	329	Feb 11, 2006 by GammyRose
	Break Free Of Anger (Preview) Break Free Of Anger Buried resentments are difficult to escape, but there is always grace. With God's help, spiritual healing is possible. Whenever the pain of life becomes too much for you, turn immediately to Him. He may seem to ask the impossible, but hHs words supply the he...	Doll	5	482	Feb 11, 2006 by GammyRose
	Checking in (Preview) Hi Folks just checking in to give you a weekly update of sorts, hope thats OK with you guys? 2 weeks since not a drop, been to the pub tonight to meet a few friends, just still Orange juice. Quite comfortable with others drinking around me, no great "thirst". Reality is starting to hit as to what I`m...	Pauly	4	309	Feb 10, 2006 by GammyRose
	I learned a lot tonight! (Preview) I had my 6th education class tonight, this one was about drink sizes and equivalents. I had no idea I'd been drinking so much. I didn't know that a regular 12 oz beer was actually 1.5 drinks, and how it affects you. There was quite a bit of math involved, but I got a lot of new informatio...	Michelle	2	382	Feb 10, 2006 by Doll
	Prayer Request (Preview) Hi all. Just wanted to ask if you all would include my ex, who's still out there, in your prayers. I've been praying for him to be given the gift of desperation for quite some time now and I think I need some reinforments! He really needs help, but he's got to want it, so I figure it will take desperation fo...	Doll	2	307	Feb 9, 2006 by Doll
	Daily Reflection Feb 10 (Preview) I DON'T RUN THE SHOW When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.53 Today my choic...	Doll	0	290	Feb 9, 2006 by Doll
	Daily Reflection 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, but a complete change in his w...	Doll	2	316	Feb 9, 2006 by Doll
	Paradox - WE GIVE AWAY TO KEEP. (Preview) WE GIVE AWAY TO KEEP. That seems absurd and untrue. How can you keep anything if you give it away? But in order to keep whatever it is we get in AA, we must go about giving it away to others, for no fees or rewards of any kind. When we cannot afford to give away what we have received so freely in AA, we had bette...	Doll	3	350	Feb 9, 2006 by Doll
	todays gift (Preview) Some days my life feels so confusing and overwhelming that I think I'll scream. Sometimes life is like moving from one place to another. When I move into a new house, it is unorganized and chaotic until everything gets put in the right place. In life, my emotions and thoughts are often like t...	Rick	0	288	Feb 9, 2006 by Rick
	You were asking Benny..heres a biggy (Preview) Something that I pulled outa the hat...along with the rabbit... You were asking a few days ago..Benny...and I dont know about you Buddy...but Impatience with this kid...is a work on thing...every day... Take what you need and leave the rest... Patience is the ability to: Sit back and w...	Phil	3	547	Feb 9, 2006 by rosie light shines
	Am I Still willing to Keep Changing (Preview) CHANGE: Willingness, Openness, and Consciousness “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” —Herbert Spencer	Toni Baloney	4	378	Feb 9, 2006 by rosie light shines
	the hits just keep coming (Preview) hello every one . just got back from a meeting and im still feeling a little down .thought i share a little with you all.today i got the call that a familey member passed.my first thought was where is the closest bar.i was angry and mad and all those things agian i was a week ago when i asked for helpp.iam so g...	benny33	7	349	Feb 9, 2006 by Cabbageheadchris
	appendix II (Preview) APPENDIX II THE terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms. Yet it is tr...	jersey	2	1679	Feb 9, 2006 by Phil
	more funnies! (Preview) How does alcohol affect what you have to say? Here's a few ways ... THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Innovative 2. Preliminary 3. Proliferation 4. Cinnamon THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Specificity 2. British Constitution 3. Passive-aggressive disorder THINGS...	Michelle	0	350	Feb 9, 2006 by Michelle
	This is so funny, especially if you're a cat lover (Preview) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4057591681481453187-- Edited by Michel...	Michelle	0	371	Feb 9, 2006 by Michelle
	Some really good reasons not to drink :) (Preview) WARNING: consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not. WARNING: consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like a TOTAL DORK!. WARNING: consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends want to SLAP Y...	Michelle	0	370	Feb 9, 2006 by Michelle
	i took the 12steps to the latrine (Preview) i took the 12 Steps to the latrine last night i decided i was going to tile my master bathroom floor....' i dug up all the old linoleum tiles, and i had the floor nice and clean and ready to go!!! things were going GREAT till i got around having to "tile around the toidie" and thats when thi...	rosie light shines	3	354	Feb 8, 2006 by amanda2u2
	5 Laws of Life You Can Depend On (Preview) 5 Laws of Life You Can Depend On 1. This, too, shall pass. Nothing stays the same. The only constant in life is change. With every decision we make, we initiate change. Even when we decide not to decide, life still goes on, and changes still occur. When we are in a state of discomfort, sadness, grief, or pa...	Doll	2	503	Feb 8, 2006 by rosie light shines
	awsome!!!! HP does NOT test us (Preview) This Is Not A Test "We have found a loving, personal God to whom we can turn." Basic Text p. 27 Some of us come into recovery with the impression that life's hardships are a series of cosmic tests designed to teach us something. This belief is readily apparent when something traumatic happens a...	rosie light shines	6	373	Feb 8, 2006 by Doll
	HUMOUR - CANADIAN STYLE (Preview) *Great White North humour, come naked.* *> Now that Vancouver has won the chance to host the 2010 Winter Olympics these are some questions people the world over are asking!!!! Believe it or not* *> these questions about Canada were posted on an Interna...*	jeannie	3	358	Feb 8, 2006 by Bonzo43
	Paradox (Preview) We SURRENDER TO WIN. On the face of it, surrendering does not seem like winning. But it is in AA. Only after we have come to the end of our rope, hit a stone wall in some aspect of our lives beyond which we can go no further; only when we hit "bottom" in despair and surrender, can we accomplish sobrie...	Doll	1	420	Feb 8, 2006 by benny33
	AA_thought for today (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day A nightclub crowded with men and women all dressed up in evening clothes looks like a very gay place. But you should see the men's room of that nightclub the next morning. What a mess! People have been sick all over the place and does it smell! The glamour of the night...	rosie light shines	1	389	Feb 8, 2006 by amanda2u2
	detachment, disengagement, letting go (Preview) I was brought up by a very controlling father, with a very 'submissive' but manipulative mother. I was taught that I had to respond, and the response had to be one that pleased them, or else terrible punishments... my sister has a brain lesion from one beating. Since we tend to generalize and to t...	amanda2u2	4	434	Feb 8, 2006 by amanda2u2
	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 stream--be brought int...	Doll	0	327	Feb 7, 2006 by Doll
	Here's a happy thought! (Preview) Somebody on my block is barbecuing tonight and it smells wonderful! but it's only February, and it's usually still very cold. Today, it's at 54 right now, but it feels like spring after all the cold and wind and rain we've had lately! I have the doors and windows open, neighbors are...	Michelle	2	398	Feb 7, 2006 by jeannie
	I wish... (Preview) They would stop advertising alcohol on TV. It seems like there is at least one ad during every commercial break, even during the day. They should at least show it how it really is, people stumbling around in bars or wherever and then getting arrested on the way home. There should be...	Michelle	6	355	Feb 7, 2006 by Michelle
	Readiness is a precondition for change. (Preview) If we earnestly and conscientiously apply the tools of our program, we are certain to experience positive change. We are promised new freedom and happiness and assured that a Higher Power can and will remove our negative characteristics. The question is, are we ready to change? If we hang on tightly...	Doll	0	329	Feb 7, 2006 by Doll
	I need to stop drinking.. (Preview) I drink too much.. im gona be 30 in about 6 months and iv been gettin pissed almost every night since i was about 17 or 18. somtimes i give it up for a couple of days.. and sometimes i manage a week, though not very often.. once a few years ago i quit for 3 months.... But i cant seem to stay of...	Rob	8	534	Feb 7, 2006 by Doll
	Anyone else here hate Valentine's Day? (Preview) I am so fed up with all these commercialized hollidays and their advertisements. It's just so depressing, they make you feel like if you don't buy stuff for your loved ones, then you don't really love them. Well, I don't care if my man buys me jewelry, I mostly make my own, diamonds a...	Michelle	6	532	Feb 7, 2006 by Bonzo43
	Spiritual Experience and AA(my long story) (Preview) Hey Toni, your post got me to thinking a lot about where I was, what it was like, and where I am now. I was surfing the 'net today and came across a religion that I think I might finally be able to call my own. It is Unitarian Universalism. It's a lot about tolerance. It accepts p...	Sick of being sick	1	374	Feb 7, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Daily Reflections Feb 7 (Preview) A PATH TO FAITH True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 My last drunk had landed me in the hospital, totally broken. It was then that I was ab...	Doll	0	397	Feb 6, 2006 by Doll
	Hope requires humility and humanity (Preview) Hope is for the weak: The challenge of a broken world Hope requires humility and humanity by Robert Jensen My title may seem unnecessarily harsh. After all, hope is an enduring feature of our species, something people search for (often quite desperately) and hang onto (usually quit...	jersey	0	354	Feb 6, 2006 by jersey
	? about sobriety time (Preview) Ya'll may be familiar w/this but in case someone is not: My area AA f2fs have a chip system. Different color poker like chips that mark time in sobriety. At the end of the f2f when someone gives them out, they go thru the colors and say how much time each one represents, white-24 hours or surrender, silver...	Doll	8	1682	Feb 6, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Miracles In Progress Cookbook (Preview) Hello everyone, This is Rose, From time to time I have been in the rooms and I have found that people are talking about food. Who is cooking what, oh let me have that recipe, Oh that sounds good. All it does is make everyone hungry!! So I have decided to put all this food talk to...	John	0	487	Feb 6, 2006 by John
	'what you like' or 'what you need' (Preview) I have heard both of these phrases by people in the program,,,, "take what you like and leave the rest', and ' take what you need and leave the rest'. There is actually a big difference between the two. *If I only take what I like I will miss a lot of what I need. I don't lik...*	amanda2u2	3	462	Feb 6, 2006 by amanda2u2
	AA---today's thought (Preview) Today's thought is: *If you go around thinking you are being cheated, life becomes very unpleasant. --Felix Salten* Sometimes we feel cheated that we have been given this darn disease to cope with. Why us? Why can't we just be like normal people? Why did we have to get into so much trouble and pai...	rosie light shines	1	374	Feb 6, 2006 by Phil
	Monday (Preview) Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. --Arthur Schopenhauer Pride, like all emotions, has two faces: one healthy and one sick. It is our challenge to use the healthy side well. Sick pride fills us with ourselves, looks down on others, and has no room for generosity...	Phil	2	362	Feb 6, 2006 by Phil
	Humility (Preview) Step Seven "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings." Since this Step so specifically concerns itself with humility, we should pause here to consider what humility is and what the practice of it can mean to us. Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principl...	Phil	4	458	Feb 6, 2006 by Phil
	Just checking in (Preview) Hi to everyone, I havent Posted for a while, had to get this transition down to DSL, but I think I managed o.k. Transferring files is a little bit hard, but no pain, no gain. Life here in California does feel different since I moved to the Southernmost part, it never rains, have n...	Toni Baloney	2	365	Feb 6, 2006 by rosie light shines
	Blocked Anger (Preview) Heavy week...needed a time out... Had to go back to 4 and 5... My opinion...Some say ..that once youve done 4 and 5 once...thats the end of it..I disagree with that.. there can be layers of that onion...that are still there...regardless of how much time..one has in this program.. Suppre...	Phil	6	1084	Feb 5, 2006 by jeannie
	Hi Folks just a quick update and firstly thanks for the PMs (Preview) The last 10 nights without a drink have not been without ups and downs. I have honestly not had huge cravings/urges, atlhough I`m well aware that it`s very early days. Home life is good, feeling very tired at odd times of the day. I`ve also had horrendous tonsilitis, something I su...	Pauly	3	387	Feb 5, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Daily Reflections Feb 6 (Preview) A RALLYING POINT Therefore, Step Two is the rallying point for all of us. "Whether agnostic, atheist, or former believer, we can stand together on this Step. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 I feel that A.A. is a God-inspired program and that God is at every A.A. meeting. I see, believe, and ha...	Doll	0	356	Feb 5, 2006 by Doll
	hi every one (Preview) well sunday has seem to come with great new chalenges for me. while things have been going steady and i have been working on my steps ,other things seem to keep pileing up .im not sure how to react to.my children i think have noticed that im different.they seem to be pushing further than they ever had .now...	benny33	4	390	Feb 5, 2006 by Pauly
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