Alcoholics Anonymous

Rick · Rick

The art of life is to show your hand. --C.V. Lucas Newcomer I've been thinking about talking to another sponsor. Not to replace you -- our relationship is important to me, and I get a lot from it -- but in addition to you. Sponsor We're lucky to have such an abundance of s...

recovering jb · recovering jb

Hey- I have 11 days now, after a really vicious cycle of 2 months on the run from everything, which included several visits to the ER- I've been to abt 20 meetings, got a sponsor, calling lots of people- I almost drank on day 2 but God and keeping myself busy seem to hav...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Relationships There is a gift for us in each relationship that comes our way.Sometimes the gift is a behavior we're learning to acquire: detachment, self esteem, becoming confident enough to set a boundary, or owning our power in another way.Some relationships trigger healing in us - healing...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

A.A. Thought for the Day I have lost many of my resentments. I have found that getting even with people doesn't do any good. When we try to get revenge, instead of making us feel better, it leaves us frustrated and cheated. Instead of punishing our enemies, we've only hurt our own peace of mind. It do...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Food Is Not Mother In the mind of a baby, "food" is synonymous with "mother." As the baby grows, the two concepts become differentiated, but perhaps never completely separated. We compulsive overeaters may still be confusing food with mother.Often we feel a great deal of hostility and resentm...

GammyRose · GammyRose

Just for today, I will stay sober, I will live life on lifes terms, I will be grateful for the small things and if anything big should happen, that's the icing on the cake.Today I will work a program, one of recovery and spirituality, I will turn my will over to the God of my understanding. Today I'm glad to...

Doll · Doll

Well, guys. Alcohol has taken out another one. A dear friend, 42 yrs old, passed away tonight as a result of 25+ yrs of heavy drinking. Some friends and I were heading down to Charleston in the morning to see him, so, instead we will take the bikes out for a ride in his mem...

wagon · wagon

If you only quit one day at a time, every day that you don't drink will be an accomplishment. If you quit forever, you won't have accomplished anything until you're dead. take care wagon

Doll · Doll

Hi Rosie. I have a question for you. I read your posts and I identify with your feelings, however I'm a bit confused as to where you are. Are you an alcoholic? One post you said "mental addiction, not physical" regarding alcohol. You talk about food alot and being co-dependent, who...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six footer......Wilt Chamberlain In childhood many of us dreamed of being somebody else, anybody but who we are. As time went on, and we lost touch with our feelings, we also lost who we were. We hung in limbo, not being w...

GammyRose · GammyRose

Just wondering if anyone has heard from Badger? I hope he checks in soon. And Doll how are you doing? I saw that Phil was headed your way. How are things with your son today? I remember those kind of things with my kids, I was thinking about some of them today, they were not easy to deal with at the time,&nb...

Doll · Doll

OK, MIP family. What the Hell is in the air today? Seems to have been an intense one for a lot. I contracted the heeby-geebys (how do you spell that??!) around 2pm today. A customer was talking to me about his favorite mexican restaurant which happens to be mine also and my favorite place...

Phil · Phil

Some of us need a break guys. See yus in a few days. With Love.

wantneeda · wantneeda

Today is November 5, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! FEAR "The spirit of liberty . . . is the spirit which is not too sure it is always right." -- Judge Learned Hand I am free to make mistakes. It is okay for me to be wrong. I can say or do something that proves to be incorrect. I am not perfec...

wantneeda · wantneeda

i made a promise to myself that i was going to a meeting today...no matter what i talked to a fellow member last night and we agreed to meet at the meeting....so i called the next morning to confirm...found out there was no meeting. Our detox here is apparently putting in new windows...so no meetings t...

cheri · cheri

There are times in my life that I feel as if I am standing at the edge of an abyss...so wide that I can't see the other side, so deep I can't see the bottom and so dark that no light can shine through. As I stand there I find myself wondering if I should turn back and pretend that I never reached that point, if I sh...

Badger · Badger

im sitting here, writing this its 11.38 am ive just been to the off-licence and bought a bottle of smirnoff vodka, wich im drinking now, the lady offered me a bag but i said id put it in my pocket as i didnt want to look like an alkie walking down the street...she laughed..how easily the pretence starts aga...

FraKctured · FraKctured

Hey all- I'm sure that this topic has come up more than once. I really get tired of this labeling bullsh*t at meetings. Being a "newbie" makes my opinion of less merit???? Being an "oldtimer" makes a person some kind of "higher power" (for lack of a better word) Us "newbies" have opinions and feelin...

GammyRose · GammyRose

THE A.A. TRADITION To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous has made the difference between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death. A.A. can, of course, mean just as much to uncounted alcoholics not yet reached. Therefore, no society of men and women ever had...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

How Much Is Enough? We continue to weigh and measure our food when we are maintaining as well as when we are losing. Since we are compulsive overeaters, we do not have a built in concept of how much food is enough. Exact measurements relieve us of the anxiety of deciding how much is enough. Since we ar...

Phil · Phil

I am willing to trust. I know that to the degree I am willing to give up my search for a healthy love relationship, I can have it. I know I can have whatever I am ready and willing to receive. Individual receptivity is everything. Without it, nothing changes. With it, all things are possible. I no longer...

Phil · Phil

"When we were wrong..promptly admitted it" Yu know guys.....it just doesnt matter how many days, that we have in this program.. we never get it perfect.... Ive been in AA a lotta days, and still have those days where I screw up. Its a good job we are human eh? I guess if we didnt screw up, there would...

Badger · Badger

do i stick it out, its my partners house, or make a break, i have to play the system now, get drunk.. threaten suicide in order to get help, unless i want to sleep on the beach tonight.. pester my doctor?

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. --Sigmund Freud The truth is our friend. It is a rough and humble kind of friend--but a friend nonetheless. Each of us will need to learn to spend time with this friend because it is one that is not easy to escape. It is always turning up when we le...

Rick · Rick

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. --Sigmund Freud The truth is our friend. It is a rough and humble kind of friend--but a friend nonetheless. Each of us will need to learn to spend time with this friend because it is one that is not easy to escape. It is always turning up when we...

Rick · Rick

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. --Henry Ford One of the biggest problems of addiction began with the initial desire to increase and continue to use an addictive substance. All of us who have gotten to the point of overdoing th...

Doll · Doll

A DAILY DISCIPLINE  

Doll · Doll

Just a "thanks" for posting your blog site. It inspired me to start my own. My sponsor wants me to put pen to paper, but I just can't seem to do it. I prefer typing. I tried keeping a file on my PC, but wasn't comfortable with that. My son uses the PC alot and I was a afraid he'd find it. Blogging is...

Phil · Phil

FORGIVENESS Part I. Forgiveness of Others At the root of the difficulty in learning to forgive someone is mistaking the action of a person for their being, and not seeing that the two are separate. Actions th...

TipsyMcStagger · TipsyMcStagger

I had a very tough time walking away from a drink yesterday. At about 3 o'clock my boss asked me and a co-worker to come with him for a few beers and something to eat while we went over some reports. This was a very common occurrence with my boss, we have spent many a night boozing and carousing over the years...

Doll · Doll

A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, "Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like." The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot...

Phil · Phil

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."--Proverbs 16:32 Anger is an appropriate response to physical danger and pain. Anger is not an appropriate response to mental, ego, or self-esteem danger and pain. Anger is a...

jim · jim

I've sent messages or resonses out but I was confused on were to click on this here machine I think I've got that part down now Hope I did'nt mess anything up for anybody Jim

Phil · Phil

People come into your life for a Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime. When you know which one it is for a person, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They h...

Phil · Phil

When someone loves you, it helps you to feel good about yourself. Noone has the right, to verbally abuse you, and make you feel bad, or confused. When someone loves you.. you feel valued, respected, and free to be yourself. You shouldnt be mad...

Doll · Doll

Personal Stories From The First Edition EDUCATED AGNOSTIC WHY go into the drinking pattern that is so much the same with all of us? Three times I had left the hospital with hope that I was saying goodbye forever. And here I was again. The first day there I told the kindly doctor that I was a thorough...

Rick · Rick

When Is Trouble Not Trouble? By Dr. Robert Schuller When is trouble not trouble, you ask? When it protects you from an unknown hazard on the road ahead, or shelters you from a sin that, unknown to you, lurks furtively in your path waiting to tempt and trip you, then trouble is not trouble! When t...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Days of Healing Days of Joy by Earnie Larsen and Carol Larsen Hegarty, Daily Meditations for Adult Children Many of us are afraid of the wounded child living within us. We are afraid of remembering too much, afraid of feeling overwhelmed, afraid of the rage that will be stirred up. But in...

wantneeda · wantneeda

THE PROMISES OF ALCOHOL If we are casual with this phase of our development, we will be drunk before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new imprisonment and a new misery. We will relive the past and won't be able to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word CONFLICT and we will know PAI...

wantneeda · wantneeda

Today is November 3, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! CHOICES "Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back." -- Robert Quillen I am an alcoholic and today I choose not to drink. When alcohol is offered, I say "no". I do not go i...

Rick · Rick

You can feel only your own feelings, not another person's. Having empathy for those we love, and being able to share their joys and sorrows, is part of our nature as warm, caring human beings. Taken to an extreme, however, too much empathy can mean that we lose our boundaries as emotionally...

Rick · Rick

Though these principles were advocated according to the whim or liking of each of us, and though in Akron and Cleveland they still stuck by the O.G. absolutes of honesty, purity, unselfishness and love, this was the gist of our message to incoming alcoholics up to 1939, when our present Twelve Steps w...

Phil · Phil

Always Be Honest A relationship is built on trust. If you cannot trust your partner, or your partner cannot trust you, then there is no foundation for the relationship. If a partner is capable of lying about small things, there is only his or her judgement to draw the line between those...

wallsal55 · wallsal55

When I came into my program, I had very little money to myself. (alanon side). However, just as sick or sicker than my alcoholic and I have had to work my program with AA members and Open AA mtgs. Anyway, the gratitude thing was a mystery to me for a very long time. Sometimes I wo...

Rick · Rick

For no actual process happens twice; only we meet the same sort of occasion again. --Suzanne K. Langer Today is not going to be like yesterday. Nor will it resemble tomorrow. Each day is special and promises us many new ideas--perhaps the chance to make a friend, or to learn something interesti...

TipsyMcStagger · TipsyMcStagger

I finally started dragging may ass to meetings and boy what a difference! I don't know how or why sitting in musty church basements and stuffy Legion Halls listening to other drunks yak about stuff works but it does. I've also been introducing myself as someone coming back/beginner and participatin...

Hanuman · Hanuman

This article, from the London Times, was sent to me by a program friend. George Best, considered the best British footballer (soccer star) of his generation, has been hovering near death, and is presently slowly recovering. He was a terminal case of cirrhosis a couple of years ago, recei...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. --Gretel Ehrlich We owe our brothers and sisters in this program our honest feedback. And we need the same honesty from them. There are times in meetings when it would be easiest to give someone sympathy and priva...

wallsal55 · wallsal55

I think it would help me greatly to give "Anonymously".......without getting found out. [We live in a small town!] I see folks who need this or that....right here at hometown level...but would like to do the good turn without the credit and remain anonymous. Any ideas?

Phil · Phil

The Grief Process To let ourselves wholly grieve our losses is how we surrender to the process of life and recovery. Some experts, like Patrick Carnes, call the Twelve Steps "a program for dealing with our losses, a program for dealing with our grief." How do we grieve? Awkwardly. Imperfect...

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	today's gift 11/6 (Preview) *The art of life is to show your hand. --C.V. Lucas* Newcomer I've been thinking about talking to another sponsor. Not to replace you -- our relationship is important to me, and I get a lot from it -- but in addition to you. Sponsor We're lucky to have such an abundance of s...	Rick	2	534	Nov 7, 2005 by rosie light shines
	one more day sober (Preview) Hey- I have 11 days now, after a really vicious cycle of 2 months on the run from everything, which included several visits to the ER- I've been to abt 20 meetings, got a sponsor, calling lots of people- I almost drank on day 2 but God and keeping myself busy seem to hav...	recovering jb	2	589	Nov 7, 2005 by rosie light shines
	gratitude/ even for the "pains in the butt" (Preview) Relationships There is a gift for us in each relationship that comes our way.Sometimes the gift is a behavior we're learning to acquire: detachment, self esteem, becoming confident enough to set a boundary, or owning our power in another way.Some relationships trigger healing in us - healing...	rosie light shines	0	506	Nov 7, 2005 by rosie light shines
	revenge....short term high...long term low (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day I have lost many of my resentments. I have found that getting even with people doesn't do any good. When we try to get revenge, instead of making us feel better, it leaves us frustrated and cheated. Instead of punishing our enemies, we've only hurt our own peace of mind. It do...	rosie light shines	0	707	Nov 7, 2005 by rosie light shines
	my mom is not in my refridgerator (Preview) Food Is Not Mother In the mind of a baby, "food" is synonymous with "mother." As the baby grows, the two concepts become differentiated, but perhaps never completely separated. We compulsive overeaters may still be confusing food with mother.Often we feel a great deal of hostility and resentm...	rosie light shines	0	584	Nov 7, 2005 by rosie light shines
	Today... (Preview) Just for today, I will stay sober, I will live life on lifes terms, I will be grateful for the small things and if anything big should happen, that's the icing on the cake.Today I will work a program, one of recovery and spirituality, I will turn my will over to the God of my understanding. Today I'm glad to...	GammyRose	4	537	Nov 7, 2005 by cheri
	Prayers and thoughts please (Preview) Well, guys. Alcohol has taken out another one. A dear friend, 42 yrs old, passed away tonight as a result of 25+ yrs of heavy drinking. Some friends and I were heading down to Charleston in the morning to see him, so, instead we will take the bikes out for a ride in his mem...	Doll	4	485	Nov 6, 2005 by wantneeda
	i liked this one (Preview) If you only quit one day at a time, every day that you don't drink will be an accomplishment. If you quit forever, you won't have accomplished anything until you're dead. take care wagon	wagon	2	555	Nov 6, 2005 by CAM
	Rosie? (Preview) Hi Rosie. I have a question for you. I read your posts and I identify with your feelings, however I'm a bit confused as to where you are. Are you an alcoholic? One post you said "mental addiction, not physical" regarding alcohol. You talk about food alot and being co-dependent, who...	Doll	0	528	Nov 6, 2005 by Doll
	if i were given a change of life (Preview) *If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six footer......Wilt Chamberlain* In childhood many of us dreamed of being somebody else, anybody but who we are. As time went on, and we lost touch with our feelings, we also lost who we were. We hung in limbo, not being w...	rosie light shines	1	636	Nov 6, 2005 by GammyRose
	Badger? Doll? (Preview) Just wondering if anyone has heard from Badger? I hope he checks in soon. And Doll how are you doing? I saw that Phil was headed your way. How are things with your son today? I remember those kind of things with my kids, I was thinking about some of them today, they were not easy to deal with at the time,&nb...	GammyRose	1	592	Nov 6, 2005 by Doll
	What the Hell....... (Preview) OK, MIP family. What the Hell is in the air today? Seems to have been an intense one for a lot. I contracted the heeby-geebys (how do you spell that??!) around 2pm today. A customer was talking to me about his favorite mexican restaurant which happens to be mine also and my favorite place...	Doll	4	623	Nov 5, 2005 by cheri
	Taken a mini vacation (Preview) Some of us need a break guys. See yus in a few days. With Love.	Phil	3	465	Nov 5, 2005 by rosie light shines
	'tis a great day for recovery! (Preview) Today is November 5, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! FEAR "The spirit of liberty . . . is the spirit which is not too sure it is always right." -- Judge Learned Hand I am free to make mistakes. It is okay for me to be wrong. I can say or do something that proves to be incorrect. I am not perfec...	wantneeda	0	473	Nov 5, 2005 by wantneeda
	what a day! (Preview) i made a promise to myself that i was going to a meeting today...no matter what i talked to a fellow member last night and we agreed to meet at the meeting....so i called the next morning to confirm...found out there was no meeting. Our detox here is apparently putting in new windows...so no meetings t...	wantneeda	3	693	Nov 5, 2005 by wantneeda
	Standing at the edge (Preview) There are times in my life that I feel as if I am standing at the edge of an abyss...so wide that I can't see the other side, so deep I can't see the bottom and so dark that no light can shine through. As I stand there I find myself wondering if I should turn back and pretend that I never reached that point, if I sh...	cheri	8	843	Nov 5, 2005 by Sick of being sick
	ive blown it guys i am sorry (Preview) im sitting here, writing this its 11.38 am ive just been to the off-licence and bought a bottle of smirnoff vodka, wich im drinking now, the lady offered me a bag but i said id put it in my pocket as i didnt want to look like an alkie walking down the street...she laughed..how easily the pretence starts aga...	Badger	9	981	Nov 5, 2005 by FraKctured
	Getting really frickin' frustrated! (Preview) Hey all- I'm sure that this topic has come up more than once. I really get tired of this labeling bullsh*t at meetings. Being a "newbie" makes my opinion of less merit???? Being an "oldtimer" makes a person some kind of "higher power" (for lack of a better word) Us "newbies" have opinions and feelin...	FraKctured	11	842	Nov 5, 2005 by FraKctured
	The AA Traditions (Preview) THE A.A. TRADITION To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous has made the difference between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death. A.A. can, of course, mean just as much to uncounted alcoholics not yet reached. Therefore, no society of men and women ever had...	GammyRose	0	742	Nov 5, 2005 by GammyRose
	how MUCH is enough???? (Preview) How Much Is Enough? We continue to weigh and measure our food when we are maintaining as well as when we are losing. Since we are compulsive overeaters, we do not have a built in concept of how much food is enough. Exact measurements relieve us of the anxiety of deciding how much is enough. Since we ar...	rosie light shines	2	764	Nov 4, 2005 by Doll
	Letting Go (Preview) I am willing to trust. I know that to the degree I am willing to give up my search for a healthy love relationship, I can have it. I know I can have whatever I am ready and willing to receive. Individual receptivity is everything. Without it, nothing changes. With it, all things are possible. I no longer...	Phil	3	705	Nov 4, 2005 by Phil
	Step ten and anger. (Preview) "When we were wrong..promptly admitted it" Yu know guys.....it just doesnt matter how many days, that we have in this program.. we never get it perfect.... Ive been in AA a lotta days, and still have those days where I screw up. Its a good job we are human eh? I guess if we didnt screw up, there would...	Phil	7	770	Nov 4, 2005 by rosie light shines
	been here before (Preview) do i stick it out, its my partners house, or make a break, i have to play the system now, get drunk.. threaten suicide in order to get help, unless i want to sleep on the beach tonight.. pester my doctor?	Badger	4	539	Nov 4, 2005 by Cabbageheadchris
	the truth.....my PAINFUL pal (Preview) *Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. --Sigmund Freud* The truth is our friend. It is a rough and humble kind of friend--but a friend nonetheless. Each of us will need to learn to spend time with this friend because it is one that is not easy to escape. It is always turning up when we le...	rosie light shines	1	568	Nov 4, 2005 by Phil
	today's thought (Preview) *Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. --Sigmund Freud* The truth is our friend. It is a rough and humble kind of friend--but a friend nonetheless. Each of us will need to learn to spend time with this friend because it is one that is not easy to escape. It is always turning up when we...	Rick	0	508	Nov 4, 2005 by Rick
	10/3today's gift (Preview) Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. --Henry Ford* One of the biggest problems of addiction began with the initial desire to increase and continue to use an addictive substance. All of us who have gotten to the point of overdoing th...	Rick	0	444	Nov 4, 2005 by Rick
	A DAILY DISCIPLINE (Preview) A DAILY DISCIPLINE	Doll	0	558	Nov 4, 2005 by Doll
	Badger, Thank you. (Preview) Just a "thanks" for posting your blog site. It inspired me to start my own. My sponsor wants me to put pen to paper, but I just can't seem to do it. I prefer typing. I tried keeping a file on my PC, but wasn't comfortable with that. My son uses the PC alot and I was a afraid he'd find it. Blogging is...	Doll	2	440	Nov 4, 2005 by Doll
	Forgiveness And Blame (Preview) FORGIVENESS Part I. Forgiveness of Others *At the root of the difficulty in learning to forgive someone is mistaking the action* of a person for their being, and not seeing that the two are separate. Actions th...**	Phil	1	927	Nov 4, 2005 by Phil
	Difficult situations... (Preview) I had a very tough time walking away from a drink yesterday. At about 3 o'clock my boss asked me and a co-worker to come with him for a few beers and something to eat while we went over some reports. This was a very common occurrence with my boss, we have spent many a night boozing and carousing over the years...	TipsyMcStagger	15	864	Nov 4, 2005 by TipsyMcStagger
	Heaven and Hell (Preview) A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, "Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like." The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot...	Doll	2	788	Nov 3, 2005 by Hanuman
	Anger (Preview) He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."--Proverbs 16:32 Anger is an appropriate response to physical danger and pain. Anger is not an appropriate response to mental, ego, or self-esteem danger and pain. Anger is a...	Phil	3	618	Nov 3, 2005 by Hanuman
	I've been submitting when I mean't to reply (Preview) I've sent messages or resonses out but I was confused on were to click on this here machine I think I've got that part down now Hope I did'nt mess anything up for anybody Jim	jim	1	514	Nov 3, 2005 by Sick of being sick
	A reason, a season, or a lifetime (Preview) People come into your life for a Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime. When you know which one it is for a person, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They h...	Phil	9	1321	Nov 3, 2005 by wagon
	Verbal Abuse (Preview) When someone loves you, it helps you to feel good about yourself. Noone has the right, to verbally abuse you, and make you feel bad, or confused. When someone loves you.. you feel valued, respected, and free to be yourself. You shouldnt be mad...	Phil	4	455	Nov 3, 2005 by rosie light shines
	EDUCATED AGNOSTIC (Preview) Personal Stories From The First Edition EDUCATED AGNOSTIC WHY go into the drinking pattern that is so much the same with all of us? Three times I had left the hospital with hope that I was saying goodbye forever. And here I was again. The first day there I told the kindly doctor that I was a thorough...	Doll	2	665	Nov 3, 2005 by rosie light shines
	When Is Trouble Not Trouble? (Preview) When Is Trouble Not Trouble? By Dr. Robert Schuller When is trouble not trouble, you ask? When it protects you from an unknown hazard on the road ahead, or shelters you from a sin that, unknown to you, lurks furtively in your path waiting to tempt and trip you, then trouble is not trouble! When t...	Rick	2	404	Nov 3, 2005 by rosie light shines
	meet my IC BOTH of them!!!! (Preview) Days of Healing Days of Joy by Earnie Larsen and Carol Larsen Hegarty, Daily Meditations for Adult Children Many of us are afraid of the wounded child living within us. We are afraid of remembering too much, afraid of feeling overwhelmed, afraid of the rage that will be stirred up. But in...	rosie light shines	1	701	Nov 3, 2005 by Phil
	the promises of ALCOHOL (Preview) THE PROMISES OF ALCOHOL If we are casual with this phase of our development, we will be drunk before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new imprisonment and a new misery. We will relive the past and won't be able to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word CONFLICT and we will know PAI...	wantneeda	2	430	Nov 3, 2005 by Doll
	a great day for recovery :) (Preview) Today is November 3, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! CHOICES "Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back." -- Robert Quillen I am an alcoholic and today I choose not to drink. When alcohol is offered, I say "no". I do not go i...	wantneeda	2	518	Nov 3, 2005 by wantneeda
	todays gift (Preview) You can feel only your own feelings, not another person's. Having empathy for those we love, and being able to share their joys and sorrows, is part of our nature as warm, caring human beings. Taken to an extreme, however, too much empathy can mean that we lose our boundaries as emotionally...	Rick	2	401	Nov 3, 2005 by Rick
	12 step story (Preview) Though these principles were advocated according to the whim or liking of each of us, and though in Akron and Cleveland they still stuck by the O.G. absolutes of honesty, purity, unselfishness and love, this was the gist of our message to incoming alcoholics up to 1939, when our present Twelve Steps w...	Rick	1	686	Nov 3, 2005 by Phil
	Relationship Stuff (Preview) Always Be Honest A relationship is built on trust. If you cannot trust your partner, or your partner cannot trust you, then there is no foundation for the relationship. If a partner is capable of lying about small things, there is only his or her judgement to draw the line between those...	Phil	4	610	Nov 3, 2005 by Cabbageheadchris
	I think Pennies are from Heaven (Preview) When I came into my program, I had very little money to myself. (alanon side). However, just as sick or sicker than my alcoholic and I have had to work my program with AA members and Open AA mtgs. Anyway, the gratitude thing was a mystery to me for a very long time. Sometimes I wo...	wallsal55	2	583	Nov 2, 2005 by Doll
	todays thought (Preview) *For no actual process happens twice; only we meet the same sort of occasion again. --Suzanne K. Langer* Today is not going to be like yesterday. Nor will it resemble tomorrow. Each day is special and promises us many new ideas--perhaps the chance to make a friend, or to learn something interesti...	Rick	2	468	Nov 2, 2005 by Doll
	Meetings... (Preview) I finally started dragging may ass to meetings and boy what a difference! I don't know how or why sitting in musty church basements and stuffy Legion Halls listening to other drunks yak about stuff works but it does. I've also been introducing myself as someone coming back/beginner and participatin...	TipsyMcStagger	8	663	Nov 2, 2005 by Doll
	a British perspective (Preview) This article, from the London Times, was sent to me by a program friend. George Best, considered the best British footballer (soccer star) of his generation, has been hovering near death, and is presently slowly recovering. He was a terminal case of cirrhosis a couple of years ago, recei...	Hanuman	1	623	Nov 2, 2005 by Phil
	honesty or sympathy????? (Preview) *Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. --Gretel Ehrlich* We owe our brothers and sisters in this program our honest feedback. And we need the same honesty from them. There are times in meetings when it would be easiest to give someone sympathy and priva...	rosie light shines	3	638	Nov 2, 2005 by Phil
	Giving Anonymously (Preview) I think it would help me greatly to give "Anonymously".......without getting found out. [We live in a small town!] I see folks who need this or that....right here at hometown level...but would like to do the good turn without the credit and remain anonymous. Any ideas?	wallsal55	4	514	Nov 2, 2005 by wallsal55
	Today (Preview) The Grief Process To let ourselves wholly grieve our losses is how we surrender to the process of life and recovery. Some experts, like Patrick Carnes, call the Twelve Steps "a program for dealing with our losses, a program for dealing with our grief." How do we grieve? Awkwardly. Imperfect...	Phil	4	718	Nov 2, 2005 by Cabbageheadchris
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