Alcoholics Anonymous

turninggrey · turninggrey

So I used a paint called "Kilz" today. It is a product I have used a lot in the past for tough stains and problematic priming. It is a pigmented shellac that is realy STRONG smelling! The problem is that I needed to paint a bathroom. The fumes were really powerful in the small space to the poi...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

It may be possible to find explanations of spiritual experiences such as ours, but I have often tried to explain my own and have succeeded only in giving the story of it. I know the feeling it gave me and the results it has brought, but I realize I may never fully understand its deeper why and how. AS BILL S...

SoberSteve · SoberSteve

Tomorrow I go in for my extractions, doing full top and getting immediate dentures, very nervous. Could use some prayers to ease my surgery. Thanks in advance.

Angell · Angell

Ive got an issue raising its head. Its not an Im going to go out and drink issue but it is a quality of life issue. I wanted to throw it out there and see what I get back. My wife and I love animals. As a matter of fact, that love has affected us sufficiently that we are both vegetarians. On December 1st my wi...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Last Tuesday evening, while I was in transit to go see my Dad, he 'passed away' ... For a while, my world kind of turned upside down ... The range of emotions I've been through this past few days have been incredible ... I thought I was prepared, but when it happened, my brain 'kind of' took a vacation ... ...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Spent several hours in the back corner of perkins getting direction for my 9th step. It felt instantly freeing to talk about this stuff, and truly admit the worst things I've ever done. I didn't talk about a lot of it in my 5th step. It's all out on the table now. WOWOWOWOWOW, now I have a person in this...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Below is a video from a show on TV ... To read the lyrics, click on the lyrics below the video to show all the words "Show More" ... pay attention to the last part especially ... ummm, turn up the speakers, enjoy ... and learn! Pappy ...

deb365 · deb365

"See not the small trials and vexations of each hour of the day. See the purpose and plan to which all are leading. If in climbing a mountain you keep your eyes on each stony or difficult place as you ascend, how weary and profitless your climb! But if you think of each step as leading to the summit o...

sooze · sooze

Hi, I have posted before about sponsorship and feel good about that. I found this forum helped me deal with that question, but now finding something else I need direction or support about. I am starting steps over from Step 1 due to having a new sponsor. My issue is I cry all the time, I have 57 days now...

odat · odat

Another post I decided to take back! -- Edited by odat on Wednesday 22nd of August 2012 07:04:14 AM

Ruhig · Ruhig

Going back over my #4, I've been trying to work on my most obvious (and probably common) hang ups. And after a few hours of letting go, calming myself down, someone threatened that specific area of security. They have since apologized, and it's been almost a week since the incident occured. I'm not mad...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

August 20, 2012 Quote of the Week "We may be powerless, but we're not helpless" Accepting that I was powerless over people, places and things was a concept I rebelled against on almost every level in the beginning. Before recovery, I labored under the belief that I could not only co...

justadrunk · justadrunk

How would you like to go up in the sky... up in the sky so blue? Oh I do think it's the most beautiful thing, ever a child could do. Up in the sky, over the hills, I can see so high, over the fields of daffodils, over the country side! I recite this little poem to my children as I push them on the swing, over and o...

mattbox2 · mattbox2

2nd round on interviews for Chi contract. Would like to get the lowdown on AA there. I will be in Chi weds night. Looking for meeting, if any recs. Will call their intergroup as well. Thx!

gonee · gonee

Today I had a conversation with a person that dismissed me 19 years ago, because of personality differences. He nearly destroyed me and destroyed a company that so many of us had worked so hard to build. I felt so much compassion for this individual, because he is spiritually sick. I was sober in AA and t...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive. THE BEST OF BILL, pp. 46-47 As long as I try, with all my heart and soul, to pass along to others what has been passed along to me, and do not demand anything in return, life is good to me. Before entering this program of Alcoholic...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Today's thought from Hazelden is: A weed is but an unloved flower. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox Through actively loving one another we nurture the richness of everyone's fuller expression. With no more than a nod of attention we can elicit a smile or perhaps a commitment to attempt again a challenge that de...

mich · mich

Mich here... I feel stuck. Ug. My weekend was wonderful. I was faced with alcohol, but not only did I not want it I was able to have a really good time without it. Why do I feel down. I feel like my mind has not been focused on staying in the present. Thoughts wondering. Focusing on being an alcoholic...

gonee · gonee

My gratitude to God and the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, for restoring me to sanity. In the last 2 years of my drinking, I thought of little else but alcohol, the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. I was not an evil person, but just sick and suffering from an illness for which medicine ha...

Closer · Closer

I've been sober 8 and a half months now and what can I say? I've got this life that is so calm and peaceful, still have some rough times, but I have this ocean of serenity in my life and it just keeps getting better, as long as I dont slip, it just keeps getting better.

Neophyte · Neophyte

Went to the movies Friday. You know what that means? A trip to the 7-11!!! For cheaper candy of course. So I go... Milkyway, fastbreak, liter of soda and.... Mystery skittles. We watch the movie. We come home. Next day rolls around, and I open my bag of skittles. I pick out 5 matching colored spheres and p...

Aura_lee · Aura_lee

I've been going to meetings everyday, working with a sponsor and calling people like they're always telling me to do. I've been throwing myself into my aa community and I'm trying really hard. I truly hope that this program works for me because I can't go back to living the way I was living before. W...

gonee · gonee

"Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us." pg 84 Alcoholics Anonymous book. This promise materialises after working diligently on steps 4 to 9. I use this as a yardstick for my own recovery, because it covers the fundamental nature of my personal defects. It also ties up w...

LivingSober · LivingSober

Hi i am new to this, and the first time talking about my alcohol problem online, I am in my early 20's, and have decided to get sober, It has been 1 week since I have been sober and its just getting more difficult over the time. For me it started as fun a year back in a pub, and till recent didnt realize it became...

brenda78 · brenda78

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nursedeborah · nursedeborah

Hi My name has been nursedeborah for so many years given to me by my home group back when I first got sober in 1/3/88. Then I was so very happy, and lived a life I never thought possible, until I was 19 days short of 7 years , and I went out. From there it went so fast, and ME< the rich nurse was living on the s...

nursedeborah · nursedeborah

HI EVERYONE, I HAVE THE BIG QUESTION, OR THE CONTROVERSIAL ONE THAT EVERYONE HAS AN OPINION ON. IS IT OK TO TAKE PAIN MEDICATION AS IT IS ORDERED BY THE DOCTOR, NOT HOW YOU WANT TO IT? IT SAYS IN THE BIG BOOK THAT GOD GAVE US DOCTORS, LAWYERS, SHRINKS, BUT BOY THERE ARE SO MANY WHO CLAIM TO KNOW BETTER, AND S...

mich · mich

Ok I went to my meeting this morning. I was chatting and doing my thing. Then I started talking to two guys. One starts talking about going to have a cigarette. He invites me. I say no thanks I don't smoke. The other guy is like I have not had one in 10 years. So then I say yea I quite 5 years ago. I don't...

justadrunk · justadrunk

The online life unreliable? Hmmm. That does sound like something I might say when drunk. But I wouldn't know truly as I was a black out drinker. The scariest thing about this disease is knowing that we are capable of so much harm and destruction when we are in the height of our disease. I am eternally grat...

Col · Col

Hey all:) just a quick post about gratitude, forgiveness, understanding and love. So, I'm not going to rehash the details of my relationship with my mother. It's been dysfunctional, abusive, hostile, passive, love/hate- just a mess. I think I spoke to her briefly on my 2nd day sober.. Not much since...

SoberSteve · SoberSteve

Im a social media telemarketer (I sell Google adwords) It was easier when I drank to get enough "courage" to call. I think part of my recent relapse was due to starting my own company and having a little office of my own in the backyard. I figured it wont hurt I can have one and we all know wher...

Closer · Closer

In our meetings we often pray for those who are still suffering, but as theres no rules in our fellowship has anyone here ever felt the need to get down and pray for someone they've seen in they're life (i.e. the streets, at the grocery store etc.) and have you ever found in this program that we obviously...

Tracey C · Tracey C

I just came across this and thought I'ld share them here. Again not sure why. Don't let what someone did to you keep you from seeing how deeply your HP loves you. Missing out on the greatest love in your life. Tracey

Bryan39 · Bryan39

A recovered alcoholic was sitting at a bar staring at his drink for ages. Suddenly, a big biker came along, snatched his glass, guzzled down the contents and laughed, "Hah! So what you gonna do about that, little man?" "Nothing," sighed the little guy despondently. "You...

Jerry F · Jerry F

well actually it was a wake up reaction in the dentist chair this morning. Yeppers ...broken bridge with the need to pull the anchor tooth blah blah blah. I wanted to tell the young doc (they are all so young) that I was chemically tolerant but thought otherwise. ("This ain't a party, it's a to...

pinkchip · pinkchip

Of course it's sort of futile to think I have any power to sell the program to newcomers, as it will sell itself most of the time, but something was shared at my last AA meeting that got me thinking. Someone read from "AA comes of age" and it was Dr. Silkworth giving some advice about how "p...

Ruhig · Ruhig

Step Nine "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others." So, as of the past... 6? Months... I've been actin up something fierce. And posting some rather negative things. So, my apologies. To col, for posting inapropriate math r...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Have you ever been to a meeting where someone came in sobbing - probably still sort of drunk and high - apologizing - flew off the handle at many people or threatened to leave - called people names and called them out on drinking - stuff like that - just basically alcoholism at it's worst - right in front of...

JoyOfLiving · JoyOfLiving

I've witnessed so many people stuck on Step Three, trying to "identify" their God/Higher Power as well as trying to figure out how to "turn over their will" that they never proceed to the rest of the Steps and then go out. I recall reading somewhere that we should not get hung up o...

Col · Col

My sponser tells me it's now my duty, or "job", to begin helping others in the program. She says that now that I've got 90 days, and a bit of experience with sobriety, I must begin sharing it with others. Seems simple enough, but I'm still so new myself. I cant imagine that anything I can say wou...

desi2222 · desi2222

Hi I am just coming back, 12 days sober. I have been coming in and out of the rooms of AA for nearly 25 years. I would consider myself the poster child for chronic relapsers. I am so gun ho in the beginning, I get on my knees in the morning, throughout the day, call on God to overcome obscessions, attend me...

Tracey C · Tracey C

In the book When Love Is Not Enough - The Lois Wilson Story, it's written that Lois loved what Bill used to share when he would close the meeting each year at the Stepping Stones picnic. He'ld say, "We AAs don't stay away from drinking, we grow away from drinking. And if our spouses don't grow alo...

justadrunk · justadrunk

I just returned home from our noon meeting. It's heavily populated by males, and today it was no different. A woman came in and let us know it was her first meeting at the club. I noticed after the meeting that the other two females had left without welcoming this woman, so I hurried over to do so. She c...

Tracey C · Tracey C

The last few days, I'd been feeling a bit out of wack. I tried to focus on helping others, to get out of my head. My cravings crept back in and of I was again eating like anything again. While doing my reading this morning, a sentence popped out at me. The more we try to fix our problems by ourselves, the wo...

Neophyte · Neophyte

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIr1fjjjFQQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Yoda

flipper · flipper

My last post was about how I couldn't grasp the whole HP idea, and there is some mental block I'm having about the whole idea but I think its all starting to make sense. The past three months have been great but boy there have been many hurdles and road blocks. I had to travel to FL, when I got there I was to ren...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Stop expecting too much from yourself. --Anonymous When there is too wide a gap between standards we set for ourselves and our actual achievement, unhappiness follows. If we can't improve the performance, we should lower the demands. When we are true to ourselves, we come to expect only that which w...

Col · Col

Hi:) I've noticed a more positive outlook on things over the course of the past week or so. Positive outlook on pretty much everything.. Don't get me wrong- I know I know nothing and I'm not dancing around on a pink cloud. It's a little more realistically positive. Basically, I'm starting to get my s**t...

Twingo · Twingo

Hi there, I have recently joined a CoDA (Co-Dependents Anonymous) group in my town, and am eager to work the steps. However, there are not many CoDA people out there, let alone actively working the steps. I'd like to go to step-study meetings in my town, but these don't seem to exist for Al-Anon / CoDA...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

. . . and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with every human being we know. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 77 As I faced the Eighth Step, everything that was required fo...

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	Kilz (Preview) So I used a paint called "Kilz" today. It is a product I have used a lot in the past for tough stains and problematic priming. It is a pigmented shellac that is realy STRONG smelling! The problem is that I needed to paint a bathroom. The fumes were really powerful in the small space to the poi...	turninggrey	7	723	Aug 25, 2012 by Jerry F
	Daily Reflections ~ A Riddle That Works & 24hrs a Day (Preview) It may be possible to find explanations of spiritual experiences such as ours, but I have often tried to explain my own and have succeeded only in giving the story of it. I know the feeling it gave me and the results it has brought, but I realize I may never fully understand its deeper why and how. AS BILL S...	Sobrietyspell	1	651	Aug 24, 2012 by Mr_David
	Could use some prayers.. (Preview) Tomorrow I go in for my extractions, doing full top and getting immediate dentures, very nervous. Could use some prayers to ease my surgery. Thanks in advance.	SoberSteve	15	595	Aug 24, 2012 by Rob84
	Having an issue (Preview) Ive got an issue raising its head. Its not an Im going to go out and drink issue but it is a quality of life issue. I wanted to throw it out there and see what I get back. My wife and I love animals. As a matter of fact, that love has affected us sufficiently that we are both vegetarians. On December 1st my wi...	Angell	13	682	Aug 24, 2012 by justadrunk
	I Will Never be the Person my Dad Was! (Preview) Last Tuesday evening, while I was in transit to go see my Dad, he 'passed away' ... For a while, my world kind of turned upside down ... The range of emotions I've been through this past few days have been incredible ... I thought I was prepared, but when it happened, my brain 'kind of' took a vacation ... ...	Pythonpappy	24	654	Aug 24, 2012 by LinBabaAgo-go
	Now I just have to do it. (Preview) Spent several hours in the back corner of perkins getting direction for my 9th step. It felt instantly freeing to talk about this stuff, and truly admit the worst things I've ever done. I didn't talk about a lot of it in my 5th step. It's all out on the table now. WOWOWOWOWOW, now I have a person in this...	justadrunk	10	694	Aug 24, 2012 by Tanin
	A Song about Some of Us!!! (Preview) Below is a video from a show on TV ... To read the lyrics, click on the lyrics below the video to show all the words "Show More" ... pay attention to the last part especially ... ummm, turn up the speakers, enjoy ... and learn! Pappy ...	Pythonpappy	2	489	Aug 24, 2012 by Tracey C
	God Calling - The Summit (Preview) "See not the small trials and vexations of each hour of the day. See the purpose and plan to which all are leading. If in climbing a mountain you keep your eyes on each stony or difficult place as you ascend, how weary and profitless your climb! But if you think of each step as leading to the summit o...	deb365	4	495	Aug 24, 2012 by Mr_David
	When does the crying stop? (Preview) Hi, I have posted before about sponsorship and feel good about that. I found this forum helped me deal with that question, but now finding something else I need direction or support about. I am starting steps over from Step 1 due to having a new sponsor. My issue is I cry all the time, I have 57 days now...	sooze	15	864	Aug 23, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	Mispost (Preview) Another post I decided to take back! -- Edited by odat on Wednesday 22nd of August 2012 07:04:14 AM	odat	1	584	Aug 23, 2012 by Mr_David
	Security has been threatened (Preview) Going back over my #4, I've been trying to work on my most obvious (and probably common) hang ups. And after a few hours of letting go, calming myself down, someone threatened that specific area of security. They have since apologized, and it's been almost a week since the incident occured. I'm not mad...	Ruhig	6	654	Aug 23, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	the Wisdom of the rooms (Preview) August 20, 2012 Quote of the Week "We may be powerless, but we're not helpless" Accepting that I was powerless over people, places and things was a concept I rebelled against on almost every level in the beginning. Before recovery, I labored under the belief that I could not only co...	Pythonpappy	4	512	Aug 22, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	How would you like to go up in the sky? (Preview) How would you like to go up in the sky... up in the sky so blue? Oh I do think it's the most beautiful thing, ever a child could do. Up in the sky, over the hills, I can see so high, over the fields of daffodils, over the country side! I recite this little poem to my children as I push them on the swing, over and o...	justadrunk	4	592	Aug 22, 2012 by odat
	Anybody in Chicago? I may be working there for 6+ months (Preview) 2nd round on interviews for Chi contract. Would like to get the lowdown on AA there. I will be in Chi weds night. Looking for meeting, if any recs. Will call their intergroup as well. Thx!	mattbox2	1	400	Aug 22, 2012 by Mr_David
	I learned not to resent people. (Preview) Today I had a conversation with a person that dismissed me 19 years ago, because of personality differences. He nearly destroyed me and destroyed a company that so many of us had worked so hard to build. I felt so much compassion for this individual, because he is spiritually sick. I was sober in AA and t...	gonee	3	519	Aug 22, 2012 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ We Just Try & 24hrs a Day (Preview) My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive. THE BEST OF BILL, pp. 46-47 As long as I try, with all my heart and soul, to pass along to others what has been passed along to me, and do not demand anything in return, life is good to me. Before entering this program of Alcoholic...	Sobrietyspell	2	459	Aug 22, 2012 by Mr_David
	todays thoughts (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: A weed is but an unloved flower. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox Through actively loving one another we nurture the richness of everyone's fuller expression. With no more than a nod of attention we can elicit a smile or perhaps a commitment to attempt again a challenge that de...	justadrunk	2	402	Aug 22, 2012 by Mr_David
	Stuck... AA Limbo. (Preview) Mich here... I feel stuck. Ug. My weekend was wonderful. I was faced with alcohol, but not only did I not want it I was able to have a really good time without it. Why do I feel down. I feel like my mind has not been focused on staying in the present. Thoughts wondering. Focusing on being an alcoholic...	mich	19	792	Aug 22, 2012 by justadrunk
	24 years sober in recovery. (Preview) My gratitude to God and the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, for restoring me to sanity. In the last 2 years of my drinking, I thought of little else but alcohol, the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. I was not an evil person, but just sick and suffering from an illness for which medicine ha...	gonee	20	874	Aug 22, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	I think I love AA... (Preview) I've been sober 8 and a half months now and what can I say? I've got this life that is so calm and peaceful, still have some rough times, but I have this ocean of serenity in my life and it just keeps getting better, as long as I dont slip, it just keeps getting better.	Closer	7	466	Aug 22, 2012 by Sobrietyspell
	Skittles? Really? C'mon!!! (Preview) Went to the movies Friday. You know what that means? A trip to the 7-11!!! For cheaper candy of course. So I go... Milkyway, fastbreak, liter of soda and.... Mystery skittles. We watch the movie. We come home. Next day rolls around, and I open my bag of skittles. I pick out 5 matching colored spheres and p...	Neophyte	9	724	Aug 21, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	I'm feeling really discouraged right now. (Preview) I've been going to meetings everyday, working with a sponsor and calling people like they're always telling me to do. I've been throwing myself into my aa community and I'm trying really hard. I truly hope that this program works for me because I can't go back to living the way I was living before. W...	Aura_lee	10	719	Aug 21, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	Fear or faith? (Preview) "Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us." pg 84 Alcoholics Anonymous book. This promise materialises after working diligently on steps 4 to 9. I use this as a yardstick for my own recovery, because it covers the fundamental nature of my personal defects. It also ties up w...	gonee	3	807	Aug 21, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	Hi I Am New Here ! Looking for some help.. (Preview) Hi i am new to this, and the first time talking about my alcohol problem online, I am in my early 20's, and have decided to get sober, It has been 1 week since I have been sober and its just getting more difficult over the time. For me it started as fun a year back in a pub, and till recent didnt realize it became...	LivingSober	9	599	Aug 21, 2012 by Closer
	iam new and a week clean, need support, and friends (Preview) .	brenda78	13	484	Aug 21, 2012 by Closer
	Hi I am new Too, and Need HELP, SUPPORT, AND FRIENDS, PLEASE pain feelings isolation no life anxiety (Preview) Hi My name has been nursedeborah for so many years given to me by my home group back when I first got sober in 1/3/88. Then I was so very happy, and lived a life I never thought possible, until I was 19 days short of 7 years , and I went out. From there it went so fast, and ME< the rich nurse was living on the s...	nursedeborah	10	908	Aug 21, 2012 by Closer
	The Use Of Pain Medication When In AA As Per Doctors ORDER ONLY (Preview) HI EVERYONE, I HAVE THE BIG QUESTION, OR THE CONTROVERSIAL ONE THAT EVERYONE HAS AN OPINION ON. IS IT OK TO TAKE PAIN MEDICATION AS IT IS ORDERED BY THE DOCTOR, NOT HOW YOU WANT TO IT? IT SAYS IN THE BIG BOOK THAT GOD GAVE US DOCTORS, LAWYERS, SHRINKS, BUT BOY THERE ARE SO MANY WHO CLAIM TO KNOW BETTER, AND S...	nursedeborah	10	1272	Aug 20, 2012 by Tanin
	Weed at my AA meeting? Really?! What do I do? (Preview) Ok I went to my meeting this morning. I was chatting and doing my thing. Then I started talking to two guys. One starts talking about going to have a cigarette. He invites me. I say no thanks I don't smoke. The other guy is like I have not had one in 10 years. So then I say yea I quite 5 years ago. I don't...	mich	10	707	Aug 20, 2012 by mich
	wild and crazy alcholism (take 2) (Preview) The online life unreliable? Hmmm. That does sound like something I might say when drunk. But I wouldn't know truly as I was a black out drinker. The scariest thing about this disease is knowing that we are capable of so much harm and destruction when we are in the height of our disease. I am eternally grat...	justadrunk	6	652	Aug 20, 2012 by mich
	Honestly the best gift (Preview) Hey all:) just a quick post about gratitude, forgiveness, understanding and love. So, I'm not going to rehash the details of my relationship with my mother. It's been dysfunctional, abusive, hostile, passive, love/hate- just a mess. I think I spoke to her briefly on my 2nd day sober.. Not much since...	Col	10	497	Aug 20, 2012 by mich
	What do you do for work? Is it harder/easier since you quit drinking? (Preview) Im a social media telemarketer (I sell Google adwords) It was easier when I drank to get enough "courage" to call. I think part of my recent relapse was due to starting my own company and having a little office of my own in the backyard. I figured it wont hurt I can have one and we all know wher...	SoberSteve	16	687	Aug 20, 2012 by Ruhig
	Praying for Alcoholics and Addicts who havent yet found a solution. (Preview) In our meetings we often pray for those who are still suffering, but as theres no rules in our fellowship has anyone here ever felt the need to get down and pray for someone they've seen in they're life (i.e. the streets, at the grocery store etc.) and have you ever found in this program that we obviously...	Closer	4	535	Aug 20, 2012 by Db1105
	Just wondering (2)..... (Preview) I just came across this and thought I'ld share them here. Again not sure why. Don't let what someone did to you keep you from seeing how deeply your HP loves you. Missing out on the greatest love in your life. Tracey	Tracey C	4	455	Aug 20, 2012 by vixen
	"not a glum lot" (Preview) A recovered alcoholic was sitting at a bar staring at his drink for ages. Suddenly, a big biker came along, snatched his glass, guzzled down the contents and laughed, "Hah! So what you gonna do about that, little man?" "Nothing," sighed the little guy despondently. "You...	Bryan39	2	722	Aug 19, 2012 by odat
	Did a knee jerk reaction... (Preview) well actually it was a wake up reaction in the dentist chair this morning. Yeppers ...broken bridge with the need to pull the anchor tooth blah blah blah. I wanted to tell the young doc (they are all so young) that I was chemically tolerant but thought otherwise. ("This ain't a party, it's a to...	Jerry F	6	620	Aug 19, 2012 by leeu
	How to do 12th step work? (Preview) Of course it's sort of futile to think I have any power to sell the program to newcomers, as it will sell itself most of the time, but something was shared at my last AA meeting that got me thinking. Someone read from "AA comes of age" and it was Dr. Silkworth giving some advice about how "p...	pinkchip	9	918	Aug 18, 2012 by pinkchip
	Sincerely, #9 (Preview) Step Nine "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others." So, as of the past... 6? Months... I've been actin up something fierce. And posting some rather negative things. So, my apologies. To col, for posting inapropriate math r...	Ruhig	5	439	Aug 18, 2012 by Ruhig
	wild and crazy - alcoholism (Preview) Have you ever been to a meeting where someone came in sobbing - probably still sort of drunk and high - apologizing - flew off the handle at many people or threatened to leave - called people names and called them out on drinking - stuff like that - just basically alcoholism at it's worst - right in front of...	justadrunk	11	568	Aug 18, 2012 by Stepchild
	Where is this found? (Preview) I've witnessed so many people stuck on Step Three, trying to "identify" their God/Higher Power as well as trying to figure out how to "turn over their will" that they never proceed to the rest of the Steps and then go out. I recall reading somewhere that we should not get hung up o...	JoyOfLiving	18	594	Aug 18, 2012 by Stepchild
	Duty (Preview) My sponser tells me it's now my duty, or "job", to begin helping others in the program. She says that now that I've got 90 days, and a bit of experience with sobriety, I must begin sharing it with others. Seems simple enough, but I'm still so new myself. I cant imagine that anything I can say wou...	Col	21	604	Aug 18, 2012 by Rob84
	Need friends (Preview) Hi I am just coming back, 12 days sober. I have been coming in and out of the rooms of AA for nearly 25 years. I would consider myself the poster child for chronic relapsers. I am so gun ho in the beginning, I get on my knees in the morning, throughout the day, call on God to overcome obscessions, attend me...	desi2222	36	849	Aug 18, 2012 by sooze
	Lois's recollection (Preview) In the book When Love Is Not Enough - The Lois Wilson Story, it's written that Lois loved what Bill used to share when he would close the meeting each year at the Stepping Stones picnic. He'ld say, "We AAs don't stay away from drinking, we grow away from drinking. And if our spouses don't grow alo...	Tracey C	10	535	Aug 17, 2012 by Frodo
	How do you welcome newcomers at their very first ever meeting? (Preview) I just returned home from our noon meeting. It's heavily populated by males, and today it was no different. A woman came in and let us know it was her first meeting at the club. I noticed after the meeting that the other two females had left without welcoming this woman, so I hurried over to do so. She c...	justadrunk	10	727	Aug 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Not Feeling To Good (Preview) The last few days, I'd been feeling a bit out of wack. I tried to focus on helping others, to get out of my head. My cravings crept back in and of I was again eating like anything again. While doing my reading this morning, a sentence popped out at me. The more we try to fix our problems by ourselves, the wo...	Tracey C	4	749	Aug 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Yoda on 4th step (Preview) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIr1fjjjFQQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player Yoda	Neophyte	3	705	Aug 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Im starting to get it......I think..... (Preview) My last post was about how I couldn't grasp the whole HP idea, and there is some mental block I'm having about the whole idea but I think its all starting to make sense. The past three months have been great but boy there have been many hurdles and road blocks. I had to travel to FL, when I got there I was to ren...	flipper	7	572	Aug 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Ah - again just what I needed to hear : ) (Preview) Stop expecting too much from yourself. --Anonymous When there is too wide a gap between standards we set for ourselves and our actual achievement, unhappiness follows. If we can't improve the performance, we should lower the demands. When we are true to ourselves, we come to expect only that which w...	justadrunk	2	510	Aug 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Putting one foot in front of the other (Preview) Hi:) I've noticed a more positive outlook on things over the course of the past week or so. Positive outlook on pretty much everything.. Don't get me wrong- I know I know nothing and I'm not dancing around on a pink cloud. It's a little more realistically positive. Basically, I'm starting to get my s**t...	Col	8	587	Aug 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	AA Step Study for co-dependents / non-alcoholics? (Preview) Hi there, I have recently joined a CoDA (Co-Dependents Anonymous) group in my town, and am eager to work the steps. However, there are not many CoDA people out there, let alone actively working the steps. I'd like to go to step-study meetings in my town, but these don't seem to exist for Al-Anon / CoDA...	Twingo	4	746	Aug 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ A Clean Sweep & 24hrs a Day (Preview) . . . and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with every human being we know. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 77 As I faced the Eighth Step, everything that was required fo...	Sobrietyspell	1	469	Aug 17, 2012 by Mr_David
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