Alcoholics Anonymous

The1nonly36 · The1nonly36

Hi Folks, Next month I'll be chairing my home group's weekly, open AA meeting on Zoom, and I'm looking for folks that want to tell their stories. Our format, like many others, starts with some readings, reminding folks of ground rules, then introductions before the meat of the meeting (see what I di...

WebHelper · WebHelper

Our GoDaddy annual subscription of $187.87 for web hosting is due May 15, 2021. A MIP member has graciously volunteered to collect donations via PayPal and use the funds to pay our bill. Please use PayPal to send donations of any amount to lightning711@yahoo.com For our Sparklit account, which m...

WebHelper · WebHelper

The MIP Business board has been set up at https://mipbusiness.activeboard.com MIP Business is a place where members of all the fellowships in Miracles in Progress can be informed and have a say in changes that affect the MIP website pages. This is a place to communicate, discuss, and, when necess...

hotrod990 · hotrod990

Reply DeleteKennyFenderjazz Hi everyone the bills to cover the operations of the MIP Boards are again due I have established a pay pal account to receive funds for the Go Daddy bill of: $187.05 and urge all to contribute . Remember a contribution of as little as $5.-- helps. Please note...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

Use this thread to post your sobriety date and any other related stuff like where you got sober, and what group if you like. I got this idea from the NA board, which has 3 pages of replies, most of which are less than a year. Mine is July 25th, 1989. I got sober at the Unity Club in Falls Church, Va. -- Edited...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

This thread is an archive for members to post their "Story" in a collection in a convenient location for others to read. Please be sure to include the post sobriety portion. Please create an original thread for your story, so that others can reply. After your thread is a few days old, cut...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

Please use this thread to post (and find) links to sites containing AA literature, step work, or other spiritual material that has helped you. No spam, self promotion, or sites that could be deemed as controversial with regards to the program or specific religious content, thanks. I found this wh...

John · John

Source: Good Housekeeping, March 1954 A Letter To A Woman Alcoholic Wherever you are, at whatever stage in the long descent, this is for you. It says nothing of shame or scorn or ridicule; it brings only love and understanding. And help If I lived across the street from you and saw you gallantly but hop...

John · John

Please accept this as your personal invitation to join us at the Miracles In Progress 12 Step Recovery Forums Step Work Board and share with us, your own experience, strength and hope. If you are new to recovery, you can ask questions related to the 12 Steps here, see how others work and apply the step...

BigZen · BigZen

Hello Everyone, Last year I made several amends to people and I am wondering if these people actually accepted my apology. The reason I say this, is that after several attempts since then to keep in touch via email, these people have not replied. The amends I made concerned things that took place 35 yea...

Larry_H · Larry_H

What Conference Approved Literature Means I receive questions about this all the time; and people at conferences, Central Offices, and meetings are confronted with the "conference approved" nonsense with great frequency. Any AA can read anything any time anywhere for any purpose....

Phil · Phil

The Blame/Guilt game has two players. The person who blames. The partner who says and does things with the intent to make the other person feel guilty. And the receiver of blame. The partner who takes on the guilt. 1. There is no such thing as healthy guilt! 2. Blame is a manipulative tool used by som...

roth1971 · roth1971

Hey there everyone, First off, I hope all are well and happy. I am not an alcoholic but my brother is. Over these past couple of months he has been showing all signs of ARD. I researched everything and he has all the signs. It's very heart breaking to see a 56 year old man laying on the floor of my parent...

Bryan39 · Bryan39

I'm sure this has been covered here before. But how and when do you tell someone you're an alcoholic. I finally have ask a woman out!!!! I Don'y hear from the comittee in my head as often as i used to but man they are sounding of on this one. Any advice helpful thanks Bryan

Enigma · Enigma

Today I wrote out six ammends as part of my 9th step work. Got very emotional with one of them. My feelings of hurt must go deep it's been 16 yrs since I spoke with them. Peeling another layer of the onion I guess and trimming the dead wood for new growth. I don't want to be the drink or the tornado anymore I act...

fenners · fenners

Hi all, I 34 days in and I reach an all time low day. My partner went to a kids Christmas party and I don't no why I was at work from 8 this morning until 6 got kept back as part of a group bollicking not fun. The incredible overwhelming feeling of anxiety has been terrible all day long. Been home an hour and sti...

kriti99 · kriti99

Training is essential for everybody. With the aid of analyzing you can make your destiny better and AIIMES assist you too properly on this. Due to the fact AIIMES offers you Hotel management from distance education, BE from distance education, Education by AIIMES Provides You Better Future, Best e...

kriti99 · kriti99

If you are locating the first-class MBA college for excellent training in India. To your excellent future so I want to tell you something about NIET Ranked Amongst Best schools, MBA Colleges, Leading Education Institutes in India, mba colleges near me, mba college fees, Best MBA College, best coll...

bikerbill · bikerbill

...... I suppose we all know or know of some 'famous' people who are in recovery. I could list several autobiographies which break the anonymity of the author - I suppose it's a case of how and why it's done. One I read, the author made it clear that 'at meetings I'm just an alcoholic called Eric - another...

420 Guy · 420 Guy

I used to think I was an Atheist because I did not believe in the same manner or degree as other people. It took me a long time to figure out exactly why I felt like that and it was not until I got away from AA for many years that I put it all together. I had been mentally conditioned to think I had to look outside m...

SoberSteve · SoberSteve

Heard this said before, wondering your thoughts, I believe it was, I mean we know man created it but I believe a HP inspired them on things to write etc...

Zoein · Zoein

Hi, So I'm really new to this, and I've been talking to this guy for a little over a year now. We finally started to date back on November 7th. Everything was great or so I thought and He was two years sober. I wanted to support him through his recovery, offered to go to meetings with him and whatever he need...

AdamMoz · AdamMoz

When I was a college student and started drinking, I was obsessed with Charles Bukowski - along with many other literary drunks. There was something in his words that made me feel like getting drunk was a viable way to resist the dull and boring status quo of the middle class. Why go to work every day and l...

Pabhougs · Pabhougs

looking for meetings in and around Liverpool...at present i visit all the anfield meetings, old swan, and town centre...wanting meetings in kirkby, rainhill and any others close to these, can anyone help please?

DavidG · DavidG

Hi Y'all from NZ. When I was in the USA I attend various groups- in AA clubrooms- which are dotted everywhere. I am a member of Alanon and ACA. I qualify for being an AA member, but have never really joined. I am the group rep for my local Alanon group, at the moment- and If I joined Aa, I would be disquali...

BigZen · BigZen

Hello Everyone, I am currently working on Step 9. My sponsor suggested I begin with living family members, so I contacted my two brothers and sister-in-law. They all agreed to chat with me on Zoom, and the amends went very well. Now I am trying to begin the process of contacting friends to ask if it is OK...

owlbutterfly · owlbutterfly

Greetings, everyone. I am an Adult Child of an Alcoholic, and I am also a masters student studying biology at Miami University. For a research project this semester, I am interested in learning about how individuals with experiences with addiction connect to nature. Please take 5 minutes to fill...

Sochi · Sochi

I recently got a DUI and the court made me pay $8 for a phone application that verifies meeting attendance. All our local meetings are supposed to have a code that we scan, but one of the meetings I went to didn't have the code. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can get credit for that meeting? -- Edite...

SoberSteve · SoberSteve

I know its not SUGGESTED to be in a relationship in the first year however I really believe my higher power directed me to be with her. We click like we have known each other forever and both of us support each other. Our parents get along like best friends and our kids are like brothers. Please dont com...

MaryBoyd · MaryBoyd

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Scott J · Scott J

Tradition Three: The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. Tough traditions question here. Online AA meetings often have something I had never experienced in face-to-face meetings. Trolls. People who show up to disrupt the meeting, and who may return day after day to haras...

Spi1ke · Spi1ke

Don't know if you can play free online casino games? I know a lot of royalty-free myself, it depends on which site, but better than this site I don't know who will tell you about free casino games. The site drbet uk will tell you popular free casino games, free casino games technology, how to play free g...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

March 24, 2014Quote of the Week"A Big Book that's falling apart is usually carried by a person who isn't." I have heard so many times in meetings that the answers to my alcoholism and to the problems in my life are to be found in the Big Book. The question I have to ask myself is how often...

TenderheartsKS · TenderheartsKS

I know, for me, the holidays were painful, unsettling, and generally depressing for several years after I got sober. Our tiny AA group here has been struggling the past couple of years. It's always been a tradition for them to host a New Year's Eve party, complete with finger foods, board games, cards...

Chatillon · Chatillon

Hi Last night we were out for dinner, it was a set meal with no choices. At the end of the meal there was some home made chocolate ice-cream and chocolate cake. Half way through eating this I got to thinking what's this made of? Is there alcohol in it? This time I don't think there was, but do you ask in resta...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

Hello Fellow Sobrarians, sorry for my absence, been a little busy navigating C-19. Celebrated XXXII in July, everything is good. 6 years cancer free. I spent 30 minutes kicking out the spammers and deleting their posts. getting a little burned out on zuckerburgs place. hopefully I'll be in h...

Tim K · Tim K

With John's permission we would like to introduce ourselves to the board. John stopped in recently to visit our shop, "Station 12". Over a cup of coffee we looked through my collection of early editions of the Big Book. The collection is available for viewing at the store anytime during re...

xIceman · xIceman

I got a call from the veterans administration they suggested I get a service dog (for PTSD) but they don't have any funding right now so I bought a puppie and I'm going to train it myself but I seem to be getting a lot flack about bring him to meetings with me. I'm trying to better my life the dog has very well b...

Jane05 · Jane05

Maintenance and Growth It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permint these, do we squander the hours that might have been worthwhile. But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritu...

GammyRose · GammyRose

August 7 We in our turn, sought the same escape with all the desperation of drowning men. What seemed at first a flimsy reed, has proved to be the loving and powerful hand of God. A new life has been given us or, if you prefer, "a design for living" that real...

Cafe6 · Cafe6

Hello New to this board, wanted to see what anyone knows about wet brain? Is it very common, how long does it last, does it go away, what are the symptoms etc?

jonijoni · jonijoni

Done!!!! It has taken me 4 weekends. AARGH!! I love the results though, and my kitchen is much happier now too. I had 3 different kinds of mis-matched wood in there, and it was dark and tiny. hope I have brightened it up a bit. I made the knobs myself out of cermaic that you bake in the oven. Have not put them a...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

Eastern High was a new team and most of the players were freshman. They were playing Central that day, a team that had already won many prizes, and they had 3 players that were accomplished seniors. It was the first quarter. One of Eastern's best players was out with an injury. It was the first time tha...

Leslief · Leslief

pinkchip · pinkchip

I wanted to find out what thoughts you all have on people coming into AA cross addicted (concurrent drug or poly substance dependence). Obviously the BB is not outdated and there's been some discussion of not wanting AA to blend with other programs. I do see how it inevitably is going to blend with or be...

adrianzegar2022 · adrianzegar2022

I'm coming back from a relapse in December and I have about 4 1/2 months sober. Yesterday, my sponsor told me the anger that's been coming up for me is understandable, because I "haven't been working a program". I'm in school and have mostly been procrastinating on my 4th step, but I do go to 8-10 meeting...

p1evansen · p1evansen

Anyone know if Bob Earl (writer, speaker 70's 80's) is still alive? lost touch after his auto accident a few years ago. Thanks!

Beausoleil · Beausoleil

Today, someone mentioned the three Ps of recovery. Two of them are paranoia and paralysis. Anyone know the third? Anyone know where there might be readings on the topic?

SoberSteve · SoberSteve

I assume its not clean house like make the bed, do the dishes etc/?

mikef · mikef

It was a very cold December 2nd morning in 1984 as I "came to" from another drug induced evening. I was 6 months into my 3rd marriage and the more than two and a half decades of active drug addiction/alcoholism was devastating my life and everything and everyone in its path. I lifted my head from the floor...

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	Cross addiction (Preview) I wanted to find out what thoughts you all have on people coming into AA cross addicted (concurrent drug or poly substance dependence). Obviously the BB is not outdated and there's been some discussion of not wanting AA to blend with other programs. I do see how it inevitably is going to blend with or be...	pinkchip	17	2542	May 14th by AA-Aaron
	Is my sponsor correct in saying I'm "not working a program" Sponsor Issues Resentments (Preview) I'm coming back from a relapse in December and I have about 4 1/2 months sober. Yesterday, my sponsor told me the anger that's been coming up for me is understandable, because I "haven't been working a program". I'm in school and have mostly been procrastinating on my 4th step, but I do go to 8-10 meeting...	adrianzegar2022	1	102	May 12th by Scott J
	Bob Earl (Preview) Anyone know if Bob Earl (writer, speaker 70's 80's) is still alive? lost touch after his auto accident a few years ago. Thanks!	p1evansen	3	2287	April 29th by Daniel Den
	The Three Ps (Preview) Today, someone mentioned the three Ps of recovery. Two of them are paranoia and paralysis. Anyone know the third? Anyone know where there might be readings on the topic?	Beausoleil	14	1399	April 24th by LoneStar
	What exactly does "clean house" mean? (Preview) I assume its not clean house like make the bed, do the dishes etc/?	SoberSteve	10	8031	April 23rd by johnson4852
	ANNIVERSARY THROUGH GODS GRACE AND MERCY Hey to all be blessed and keep doing the daily work.In support and prayer One day at a time WE take this journey (Preview) It was a very cold December 2nd morning in 1984 as I "came to" from another drug induced evening. I was 6 months into my 3rd marriage and the more than two and a half decades of active drug addiction/alcoholism was devastating my life and everything and everyone in its path. I lifted my head from the floor...	mikef	3	1053	April 20th by johnson4852
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