Alcoholics Anonymous

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

You have three choices: keep on fighting, ignore each other, or make up and be friends. --John Knoblauch Once there were four sixth-graders - two boys and two girls - who started to fight even though they'd been friends for years. One morning at the bus stop, the boys started playing keep-away with the...

pinkchip · pinkchip

Well guys, I was in a Ph.D. program when I had my first bout with clinical depression...I was a binge drinker before that- I was at the dissertation stage and never could get back on track.. Add to that, I started self-medicating through alcohol and that got worse and worse to the point of being a full bl...

Jerry F · Jerry F

Try this for a definition of Crosstalking at a meeting. My Sunday version of AA by the bay is right off the Pacific Ocean and the water gets as close as about 30 feet. Today it was calm and glassy, warm and breezy and a great day to just jump up and enjoy it and so...the whales did. Yeppers it's the season...

gonee · gonee

I pray for all of you today, that you may have peace in your hearts. Just for today, I pray God that you will not let our troubles overtake us.

John · John

First and foremost, I stayed sober... and second, I did some marketing stuff on my truck and online. Here are some pictures of what I created today. Just getting ready for a spring and summer full of good work, but it doesn't happen without my participating in bringing it about. John

gonee · gonee

For every successful person there is a 1st step. The 1st step always begins with powerlessness and unmanageability. One may say, but that is weak. Yes it is from the human perspective, but not from God's. He made us weak so that we may be strong in Him. Imagine having a strong 2 year old son, who knows ever...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

I've started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things. Waiting can be very, very powerful. Time is a valuable thing. If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you threw up in the ai...

justadrunk · justadrunk

They are putting huge power lines up in our front yard. I over reacted immediately. They put the pole up, and I called the realtor and told her I wanted her to put my house up for sale. I spent 2 hours reading about kids and leukemia and all kinds of other stuff that can happen when you live under power lin...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

On any journey, we must find out where we are before we can plan the first step. --Kathy Boevink Our lives in all aspects are a journey toward a destination, one fitting to our purpose, our special gifts, and our particular needs. Each day contributes to our journey, carrying us closer to our destinati...

HJF454 · HJF454

Today I don't have to act on emotion. I can slow down and not have to impulsively fix it right now. Since that is the old way to self centered gratification. I can take a moment or day to ask God for advice and pray on it. I don't have to figure it out right away. This is unnatural for a Alcoholic to do. Today I ha...

AlcoHater · AlcoHater

As I sit here thinking about the bullet I dodge on a daily basis due to this program, I think of family members and alcoholism. My father died of alcoholism. My uncle destroyed himself due to alcohol (he's not long for this world) If my brother's not careful, his alcoholism will get him, too. I wish I co...

Mike B. · Mike B.

March 14"In the years ahead we shall, of course, make mistakes. Experience has taught us that we need have no fear of doing this, providing that we always remain willing to confess our faults and to correct them promptly."

AdamMoz · AdamMoz

Hi everyone, I have been making a list lately of everything that I have appreciated most about spending the past month sober. At the top of my list is starting to feel my physical body making a recovery. Clearly, a month is not going to heal the damage of ten years of heavy drinking, but I have very much enj...

Col · Col

Im working on step 9 amends. I'm writing the letters- at this point I am willing and eager to make amends to all but 1 person on my list (this 1 person has displayed predator type behavior towards me, and I'm unwilling to attempt to reach out to him again, because he refuses to treat me with respect). Ok- my...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

You can observe a lot just by watching. --Yogi Berra When we watch others, we learn how to "act as if." We watch a patient person and then we "act as if" we're a patient person. The result? Over time, we'll become a patient person. We watch how good listeners listen, and we "ac...

Tanin · Tanin

"Members attend an average of 2.6 A.A. meetings per week."So reports the latest AA membership survey (2011). The new average is up .2 from the 2007 survey.This is a useful statistic, since we can get an idea of what is going on across A.A. as a whole. (We'd know a lot more, IMO, if they had publ...

Tracey C · Tracey C

Ok its tantrum time. Powerless, powerless, powerless I'm so sick of powerless!!!! Will there ever be a time where things will work out how Ild like it to? Just for this once..... Tracey

John · John

Well, it's actually two days well spent. Yesterday i completed a good job, spent time with a sponsee, put a new wood floor in my work/utility trailer, made a meeting and then i actually cooked a dinner for myself. I'm really amazed about how my dinner turned out because i am not a cook at all. I just ask...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Disappointment and Frustration How can disappointments be opportunities to grow? When we feel thwarted, frustrated or empty it is difficult - but not impossible - to see the positive side of our pain. Most disappointments come from a sense of failure when our expectations of ourselves or others ar...

Mike B. · Mike B.

March 13 "When the shadows of my past were placed in the light, I was thankful for the 'design for living' that the Twelve Steps provide. It helps me to handle the shock of who I was, who I am today, and who I want to be."

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

HOW TO INSTALL A SOUTHERN HOME SECURITY SYSTEM1. Go to Goodwill and buy a pair of size 14 -16 men's work boots.2. Place them on your front porch, along with a copy of Guns & Ammo Magazine.3. Put four giant dog dishes next to the boots and magazines.4. Leave a note on your door that reads ......Bubba, ...

AdamMoz · AdamMoz

I recently read in an article that one of the most difficult parts of getting sober is realizing how the people who tried the hardest to save us were often the ones that we pushed away with the most force. These are those people who called us out on our drinking and who we in turn became enraged at and cut out...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Just show up. Don't worry about setting records. Don't worry about doing it right. Don't even worry about whether you are completely in the mood. Don't worry about your overall goal. Just show up. Just show up and trust your HP to take care of the rest. Repeat regularly. Results will follow.

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

I have had the pleasure of witnessing some extraordinary courage here on the MIP message board among our ladies ... some of the stories I've read here this past year convince me that some of the most courageous women on this planet are right here ... I would like everyone to take the 2/3 minutes it takes t...

mike1 · mike1

Hi I'm mIke and I'm an alcoholic. I'm coming up on 90 days and really struggling. I'm having a lot of urges to drink and am on an emotional roller coaster. I'm hitting as meetings as I can, I have a sponsor w/ 27 years sobriety and just tonight i joined a homegroup. I'm also reading my big book and Daily Refle...

flipper · flipper

Thank you all for your replies regarding my grandmother. She pasted last week. Toughest days of my sobriety yet, and i managed very well. Deep breathing, relaxation, and inventory got me through. So on a lighter note! So, working towards a year sober, I know, one day at a time, but I now am 100 perce...

AlcoHater · AlcoHater

Hi, all. what's shakin'? Here's a nutty one for ya. A couple of years back, I did a step 9 with a woman I left for (all together now...) ALKY-HOL! She was a little too complicated for me at the time, and my thirst helped matters none. Well, a couple of weeks ago, I get an e-mail from her and...SHE WANTS ME BAC...

justadrunk · justadrunk

The people in AA keep caring about me. They keep on asking me how I'm doing, and they keep on giving me hugs when they see I'm a tad quiet. They just keep doing it and doing it. I keep expecting them to stop caring. But it's been over a year now, and they keep on loving me. I've never had this before. Neve...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

When we lose God, it is not God who is lost. --Anonymous At times any of us can fall into the trap of trying to make deals with God. The thought seems to be, if I can make a deal with God, then I can control the outcome that God alone seems to determine. We cannot make deals with God - not because God is so hard-no...

tomsteve · tomsteve

i posted this on another board and for some reason( i think it was God), i wanted to post it here. i am gonna start with my good friend, joe's, obituary: Joseph was born Sept. 1, 1939 in Detroit, to Joseph B. and Gertrude (Ruth) Breaugh. He attended St Ritas School in Detroit until 10th grade, then graduat...

Col · Col

I FINALLY finished step 4. This overwhelming sense of needing to swept over me and I stayed up most of the night to do so. One thing that struck me- how much time and money I spent in therapists offices throughout my life to get to this- the root of the issues. I'd sit in the office trying to articulate just w...

gonee · gonee

Ultimately my prayer turned from petition to thanksgiving. To know and understand the nature of God is the objective of the 12 steps. They looked like big steps to me, but if taken in baby steps, they yield the results, which God intended for them to yield. As an alcoholic the spiritual language of the s...

brentblack88 · brentblack88

middle of my last smester of college. huge jobs lined up but my booze is fucking shit up. my parents dont care,, they dont drink, just a trust fund kis kid, cant run outta money,, not bragging thats a problem but god damn im fucked.

justadrunk · justadrunk

We've had a lot of snow this year. A lot. This is more snow than I remember in my adulthood. Snow days were scary days for me before. If I was snowed in and stuck at home, like I have been many many times this year... I would have to begin to detox. Scary. I would have ventured out for alcohol if at all pos...

gonee · gonee

Heard recently: AA is a hospital for the weak and powerless, not a social club for saints!

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

March 11, 2013 Quote of the Week "I may not always know what God's will is, but I ALWAYS know what His will is NOT." In the beginning of my recovery, I had a hard time figuring out what God's will for me might be. It helped a little when my sponsor explained that turning my "will and my li...

Rebecca51 · Rebecca51

Hello everyone. I hope everyone had a good weekend. I am going on 5 months sober and things are really going well. I am working a good program and have a great sponsor. I attend meetings every day and on weekends I attend 2 or 3 a day. This weekend I even went with my sponsor to speak at a detox center. T...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

The love, the acceptance of other persons makes me into the unique person I am meant to be. --Peter G. van Breemen, S.J. Our destinies are fulfilled through our loving involvement with the men, women, and children sharing our experiences. It is not by accident but by design that we've been drawn toget...

Frodo · Frodo

So I'm driving the 300kms home after dropping my kids at their mum's at the end of their near month long summer holiday with me. It's a great day. 40C and blue, blues skies. I'm driving past wheat-field after wheat-field, and the long straight country road shimmers and merges into the heat. I get an id...

Jerry F · Jerry F

Aloha all...if you were doing your recovery here locally you would come across a guy named Albert. Pleasant looking guy...easy smile on his face...never loud and obnoxous and very easy going. He's a target for guffaws and snide more superior than thou under comments. See Albert has been affe...

Tanin · Tanin

Here's a nice piece of history from another forum (AA History Lovers) I am on. Fitz M. and Jimmy B were VERY important influences at the birth of AA. They disagreed greatly but AA was (and is) better off for it. A heavily Christian/religious Big Book, or one devoid of any "God" references wo...

Col · Col

I'm currently working step 9. It feels... Odd to say the least. I'm going back to all these people, most of whom are no longer in my life whether by their choosing or my own. I'm revisiting the person I used to be and people I used to know. I feel very detached from most of the things I did, lies I told, crazy be...

RubyTues · RubyTues

Hi folks. I am working on step four with my sponsor. I don't know how else to put it, but I feel really yucky. Just mired in the crap that that is coming out. Any advice on feeling a bit better through this process?

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

March 10 "Few victims of this illness can expect sobriety without a major change in most aspects of living." Rocky Hill, Conn., July 1973From: "My Good Sponsor" AA Grapevine

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Good Grief "The strangest thing happened," said my friend, a lovably neurotic, very obsessive businessman in his mid-forties. "I was watching one of those afternoon TV talk show. This one was about problem kids. A parent comes on. She talks about how out of control her child is. The...

AdamMoz · AdamMoz

Dear MIP Community I just wanted to announce that today is my 30th day of sobriety. Complete and total, glorious sobriety. This is the longest I have gone without a drink in ten years. I also feel compelled to mention that I spent the past seven days in Las Vegas - of ALL places - for a conference. In a weir...

justadrunk · justadrunk

I had to admit that my husband was doing the right thing when he said he would make sure my children would no longer be in my care if I didn't get sober and stay sober. I see now why most mothers do not end up in recovery until their children ARE taken away. Usually we lose our marriage, and we're single Mom'...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Okay, back in the 60's there was a commercial I will never forget on TV ... Don't know if this was nationwide or not, but it was for 'Lay's Potato Chips' ... ... ... and the 'catch line' was "Betcha can't eat just one" ... ... ... which I think turned out to be some kind of psycological trap of some...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

Last day of skiing on this trip. Demo-ing some highly rated skis today, plenty of snow. A blessed B-day

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Today's Gift 03-17 (Preview) You have three choices: keep on fighting, ignore each other, or make up and be friends. --John Knoblauch Once there were four sixth-graders - two boys and two girls - who started to fight even though they'd been friends for years. One morning at the bus stop, the boys started playing keep-away with the...	Pythonpappy	1	294	Mar 17, 2013 by justadrunk
	Licensed (Preview) Well guys, I was in a Ph.D. program when I had my first bout with clinical depression...I was a binge drinker before that- I was at the dissertation stage and never could get back on track.. Add to that, I started self-medicating through alcohol and that got worse and worse to the point of being a full bl...	pinkchip	17	547	Mar 17, 2013 by mike1
	Cross talking at meetings... (Preview) Try this for a definition of Crosstalking at a meeting. My Sunday version of AA by the bay is right off the Pacific Ocean and the water gets as close as about 30 feet. Today it was calm and glassy, warm and breezy and a great day to just jump up and enjoy it and so...the whales did. Yeppers it's the season...	Jerry F	8	551	Mar 17, 2013 by mike1
	Just for today. if you have anything else just for today add it on. (Preview) I pray for all of you today, that you may have peace in your hearts. Just for today, I pray God that you will not let our troubles overtake us.	gonee	7	1016	Mar 17, 2013 by RubyTues
	What I did today... (Preview) First and foremost, I stayed sober... and second, I did some marketing stuff on my truck and online. Here are some pictures of what I created today. Just getting ready for a spring and summer full of good work, but it doesn't happen without my participating in bringing it about. John	John	4	439	Mar 17, 2013 by RubyTues
	When we are weak. (Preview) For every successful person there is a 1st step. The 1st step always begins with powerlessness and unmanageability. One may say, but that is weak. Yes it is from the human perspective, but not from God's. He made us weak so that we may be strong in Him. Imagine having a strong 2 year old son, who knows ever...	gonee	4	523	Mar 17, 2013 by Sports dude
	Today's Gift 03-16 (Preview) I've started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things. Waiting can be very, very powerful. Time is a valuable thing. If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you threw up in the ai...	Pythonpappy	0	300	Mar 16, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Just playing God again. (Preview) They are putting huge power lines up in our front yard. I over reacted immediately. They put the pole up, and I called the realtor and told her I wanted her to put my house up for sale. I spent 2 hours reading about kids and leukemia and all kinds of other stuff that can happen when you live under power lin...	justadrunk	14	597	Mar 16, 2013 by StPeteDean
	Indian 10 commandments (Preview)	justadrunk	8	3351	Mar 16, 2013 by Jerry F
	Today's Gift 03-15 (Preview) On any journey, we must find out where we are before we can plan the first step. --Kathy Boevink Our lives in all aspects are a journey toward a destination, one fitting to our purpose, our special gifts, and our particular needs. Each day contributes to our journey, carrying us closer to our destinati...	Pythonpappy	0	408	Mar 15, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Patience and impulsiveness (Preview) Today I don't have to act on emotion. I can slow down and not have to impulsively fix it right now. Since that is the old way to self centered gratification. I can take a moment or day to ask God for advice and pray on it. I don't have to figure it out right away. This is unnatural for a Alcoholic to do. Today I ha...	HJF454	2	463	Mar 15, 2013 by Fyne Spirit
	Helpless To Help (Preview) As I sit here thinking about the bullet I dodge on a daily basis due to this program, I think of family members and alcoholism. My father died of alcoholism. My uncle destroyed himself due to alcohol (he's not long for this world) If my brother's not careful, his alcoholism will get him, too. I wish I co...	AlcoHater	9	692	Mar 15, 2013 by nezyb
	Grapevine (Preview) March 14"In the years ahead we shall, of course, make mistakes. Experience has taught us that we need have no fear of doing this, providing that we always remain willing to confess our faults and to correct them promptly."	Mike B.	2	328	Mar 14, 2013 by Col
	Health (Preview) Hi everyone, I have been making a list lately of everything that I have appreciated most about spending the past month sober. At the top of my list is starting to feel my physical body making a recovery. Clearly, a month is not going to heal the damage of ten years of heavy drinking, but I have very much enj...	AdamMoz	17	880	Mar 14, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Question regarding step 9 amends (Preview) Im working on step 9 amends. I'm writing the letters- at this point I am willing and eager to make amends to all but 1 person on my list (this 1 person has displayed predator type behavior towards me, and I'm unwilling to attempt to reach out to him again, because he refuses to treat me with respect). Ok- my...	Col	24	1534	Mar 14, 2013 by justadrunk
	Today's Gift 03-14 (Preview) You can observe a lot just by watching. --Yogi Berra When we watch others, we learn how to "act as if." We watch a patient person and then we "act as if" we're a patient person. The result? Over time, we'll become a patient person. We watch how good listeners listen, and we "ac...	Pythonpappy	2	382	Mar 14, 2013 by Mike B.
	2.6 Meetings Per Week (Preview) *"Members attend an average of 2.6 A.A. meetings per week."*So reports the latest AA membership survey (2011). The new average is up .2 from the 2007 survey.This is a useful statistic, since we can get an idea of what is going on across A.A. as a whole. (We'd know a lot more, IMO, if they had publ...	Tanin	20	8476	Mar 13, 2013 by StPeteDean
	Powerless (Preview) Ok its tantrum time. Powerless, powerless, powerless I'm so sick of powerless!!!! Will there ever be a time where things will work out how Ild like it to? Just for this once..... Tracey	Tracey C	16	1068	Mar 14, 2013 by AlcoHater
	A day well spent! (Preview) Well, it's actually two days well spent. Yesterday i completed a good job, spent time with a sponsee, put a new wood floor in my work/utility trailer, made a meeting and then i actually cooked a dinner for myself. I'm really amazed about how my dinner turned out because i am not a cook at all. I just ask...	John	6	1091	Mar 14, 2013 by leeu
	Today's Gift 03-13 (Preview) Disappointment and Frustration How can disappointments be opportunities to grow? When we feel thwarted, frustrated or empty it is difficult - but not impossible - to see the positive side of our pain. Most disappointments come from a sense of failure when our expectations of ourselves or others ar...	Pythonpappy	0	367	Mar 13, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) March 13 "When the shadows of my past were placed in the light, I was thankful for the 'design for living' that the Twelve Steps provide. It helps me to handle the shock of who I was, who I am today, and who I want to be."	Mike B.	0	591	Mar 13, 2013 by Mike B.
	Southern Home Security (Preview) HOW TO INSTALL A SOUTHERN HOME SECURITY SYSTEM1. Go to Goodwill and buy a pair of size 14 -16 men's work boots.2. Place them on your front porch, along with a copy of Guns & Ammo Magazine.3. Put four giant dog dishes next to the boots and magazines.4. Leave a note on your door that reads ......Bubba, ...	Pythonpappy	1	907	Mar 13, 2013 by 2granddaughters
	The people who tried to rescue us from alcohol abuse (Preview) I recently read in an article that one of the most difficult parts of getting sober is realizing how the people who tried the hardest to save us were often the ones that we pushed away with the most force. These are those people who called us out on our drinking and who we in turn became enraged at and cut out...	AdamMoz	6	879	Mar 13, 2013 by pinkchip
	Just show up (Preview) Just show up. Don't worry about setting records. Don't worry about doing it right. Don't even worry about whether you are completely in the mood. Don't worry about your overall goal. Just show up. Just show up and trust your HP to take care of the rest. Repeat regularly. Results will follow.	justadrunk	5	1145	Mar 13, 2013 by Rob84
	Courage ... Dedicated to all the women here on this Board! (Preview) I have had the pleasure of witnessing some extraordinary courage here on the MIP message board among our ladies ... some of the stories I've read here this past year convince me that some of the most courageous women on this planet are right here ... I would like everyone to take the 2/3 minutes it takes t...	Pythonpappy	8	406	Mar 13, 2013 by Col
	New guy here (Preview) Hi I'm mIke and I'm an alcoholic. I'm coming up on 90 days and really struggling. I'm having a lot of urges to drink and am on an emotional roller coaster. I'm hitting as meetings as I can, I have a sponsor w/ 27 years sobriety and just tonight i joined a homegroup. I'm also reading my big book and Daily Refle...	mike1	17	645	Mar 12, 2013 by mike1
	updates (Preview) Thank you all for your replies regarding my grandmother. She pasted last week. Toughest days of my sobriety yet, and i managed very well. Deep breathing, relaxation, and inventory got me through. So on a lighter note! So, working towards a year sober, I know, one day at a time, but I now am 100 perce...	flipper	3	916	Mar 12, 2013 by mikef
	Who'da thunk it? (Preview) Hi, all. what's shakin'? Here's a nutty one for ya. A couple of years back, I did a step 9 with a woman I left for (all together now...) ALKY-HOL! She was a little too complicated for me at the time, and my thirst helped matters none. Well, a couple of weeks ago, I get an e-mail from her and...SHE WANTS ME BAC...	AlcoHater	5	742	Mar 12, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	People (Preview) The people in AA keep caring about me. They keep on asking me how I'm doing, and they keep on giving me hugs when they see I'm a tad quiet. They just keep doing it and doing it. I keep expecting them to stop caring. But it's been over a year now, and they keep on loving me. I've never had this before. Neve...	justadrunk	10	1103	Mar 12, 2013 by Mike B.
	Today's Gift 03-12 (Preview) When we lose God, it is not God who is lost. --Anonymous At times any of us can fall into the trap of trying to make deals with God. The thought seems to be, if I can make a deal with God, then I can control the outcome that God alone seems to determine. We cannot make deals with God - not because God is so hard-no...	Pythonpappy	1	877	Mar 12, 2013 by Mike B.
	a success story. (Preview) i posted this on another board and for some reason( i think it was God), i wanted to post it here. i am gonna start with my good friend, joe's, obituary: Joseph was born Sept. 1, 1939 in Detroit, to Joseph B. and Gertrude (Ruth) Breaugh. He attended St Ritas School in Detroit until 10th grade, then graduat...	tomsteve	5	1010	Mar 12, 2013 by Fyne Spirit
	Step 5 (Preview) I FINALLY finished step 4. This overwhelming sense of needing to swept over me and I stayed up most of the night to do so. One thing that struck me- how much time and money I spent in therapists offices throughout my life to get to this- the root of the issues. I'd sit in the office trying to articulate just w...	Col	12	922	Mar 12, 2013 by Fyne Spirit
	Re: The steps. (Preview) Ultimately my prayer turned from petition to thanksgiving. To know and understand the nature of God is the objective of the 12 steps. They looked like big steps to me, but if taken in baby steps, they yield the results, which God intended for them to yield. As an alcoholic the spiritual language of the s...	gonee	2	1288	Mar 12, 2013 by Jerry F
	well i wanta get clean but i dont have time, anyone know this (Preview) middle of my last smester of college. huge jobs lined up but my booze is fucking shit up. my parents dont care,, they dont drink, just a trust fund kis kid, cant run outta money,, not bragging thats a problem but god damn im fucked.	brentblack88	13	1205	Mar 12, 2013 by Jerry F
	Ice road truckers (Preview) We've had a lot of snow this year. A lot. This is more snow than I remember in my adulthood. Snow days were scary days for me before. If I was snowed in and stuck at home, like I have been many many times this year... I would have to begin to detox. Scary. I would have ventured out for alcohol if at all pos...	justadrunk	5	979	Mar 12, 2013 by Jerry F
	AA club or hospital? (Preview) Heard recently: AA is a hospital for the weak and powerless, not a social club for saints!	gonee	2	1019	Mar 12, 2013 by Zoomtopz
	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) March 11, 2013 Quote of the Week "I may not always know what God's will is, but I ALWAYS know what His will is NOT." In the beginning of my recovery, I had a hard time figuring out what God's will for me might be. It helped a little when my sponsor explained that turning my "will and my li...	Pythonpappy	1	942	Mar 12, 2013 by Tracey C
	Isolation (Preview) Hello everyone. I hope everyone had a good weekend. I am going on 5 months sober and things are really going well. I am working a good program and have a great sponsor. I attend meetings every day and on weekends I attend 2 or 3 a day. This weekend I even went with my sponsor to speak at a detox center. T...	Rebecca51	7	881	Mar 12, 2013 by Rebecca51
	Today's Gift 03-11 (Preview) The love, the acceptance of other persons makes me into the unique person I am meant to be. --Peter G. van Breemen, S.J. Our destinies are fulfilled through our loving involvement with the men, women, and children sharing our experiences. It is not by accident but by design that we've been drawn toget...	Pythonpappy	0	876	Mar 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	God is either everything or He is nothing (Preview) So I'm driving the 300kms home after dropping my kids at their mum's at the end of their near month long summer holiday with me. It's a great day. 40C and blue, blues skies. I'm driving past wheat-field after wheat-field, and the long straight country road shimmers and merges into the heat. I get an id...	Frodo	10	787	Mar 11, 2013 by Sports dude
	About Albert... (Preview) Aloha all...if you were doing your recovery here locally you would come across a guy named Albert. Pleasant looking guy...easy smile on his face...never loud and obnoxous and very easy going. He's a target for guffaws and snide more superior than thou under comments. See Albert has been affe...	Jerry F	7	425	Mar 11, 2013 by Col
	"God, As We Understood Him" Jimmy B. Fitz M. God Big Book (Preview) Here's a nice piece of history from another forum (AA History Lovers) I am on. Fitz M. and Jimmy B were VERY important influences at the birth of AA. They disagreed greatly but AA was (and is) better off for it. A heavily Christian/religious Big Book, or one devoid of any "God" references wo...	Tanin	7	9155	Mar 11, 2013 by mikef
	Step 9+ journals= who was that girl?? (Preview) I'm currently working step 9. It feels... Odd to say the least. I'm going back to all these people, most of whom are no longer in my life whether by their choosing or my own. I'm revisiting the person I used to be and people I used to know. I feel very detached from most of the things I did, lies I told, crazy be...	Col	5	1072	Mar 11, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Getting through step four (Preview) Hi folks. I am working on step four with my sponsor. I don't know how else to put it, but I feel really yucky. Just mired in the crap that that is coming out. Any advice on feeling a bit better through this process?	RubyTues	8	1139	Mar 11, 2013 by RubyTues
	Grapevine (Preview) March 10 "Few victims of this illness can expect sobriety without a major change in most aspects of living." Rocky Hill, Conn., July 1973From: "My Good Sponsor" AA Grapevine	Pythonpappy	0	349	Mar 10, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift 03-10 (Preview) Good Grief "The strangest thing happened," said my friend, a lovably neurotic, very obsessive businessman in his mid-forties. "I was watching one of those afternoon TV talk show. This one was about problem kids. A parent comes on. She talks about how out of control her child is. The...	Pythonpappy	0	292	Mar 10, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	30 Days!!! (Preview) Dear MIP Community I just wanted to announce that today is my 30th day of sobriety. Complete and total, glorious sobriety. This is the longest I have gone without a drink in ten years. I also feel compelled to mention that I spent the past seven days in Las Vegas - of ALL places - for a conference. In a weir...	AdamMoz	8	701	Mar 10, 2013 by RubyTues
	As much as I didn't like it... (Preview) I had to admit that my husband was doing the right thing when he said he would make sure my children would no longer be in my care if I didn't get sober and stay sober. I see now why most mothers do not end up in recovery until their children ARE taken away. Usually we lose our marriage, and we're single Mom'...	justadrunk	4	459	Mar 10, 2013 by StPeteDean
	Just Try One! (Preview) Okay, back in the 60's there was a commercial I will never forget on TV ... Don't know if this was nationwide or not, but it was for 'Lay's Potato Chips' ... ... ... and the 'catch line' was "Betcha can't eat just one" ... ... ... which I think turned out to be some kind of psycological trap of some...	Pythonpappy	5	451	Mar 10, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	I'm having a good birthday (Preview) Last day of skiing on this trip. Demo-ing some highly rated skis today, plenty of snow. A blessed B-day	StPeteDean	24	694	Mar 10, 2013 by StPeteDean
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