Alcoholics Anonymous

EmptyNest · EmptyNest

I am so disgusted with myself. After 8 years of sobriety, I have relapsed and been heavily drinking for the past 2 months. My youngest son moving away triggered it. No excuse though. I need to stop. Just pulled out all my AA coins and some jewelry that I had engraved myself. Tonight is the last ni...

Col · Col

Just a silly story that I wanted to share with you all:) I left college about 10 years ago.. It was about that time that years of drinking started to catch up with me and I ceased being a "functional alcoholic". I simply cared nothing for anything aside from my torrid affair with the bottle. So...

Arian · Arian

Hi, I just got out of jail 9 days ago for a DUI and I am in desperate for a sponsor. I asked someone to be my sponsor when I first came home, they said yes and I called and called and they Never called me back. I thought it might helpful if I had a sponsor that had also experienced jail because I am going through...

pinkchip · pinkchip

Just remembering my first Thanksgiving and Christmas sober. My sobriety date is October 1st so, by the time Thanksgiving rolled around, I had just under 2 months sober. I recall being really immersed in AA and in the midsts of doing my 90 in 90. I had Thanksgiving with my sponsor at his house. There...

Mike B. · Mike B.

The Grapevie will push a quote each day to your e-mail address. I've enjoyed receiving these each day and thought I would pass it on to my brothers and sisters. You can sign up below. An open mind is a fertile environment for growth. November 15 ...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Here is a 2 ... 1/2 minute movie clip that is sure to touch your heart ... :http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/paid-in-full/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-FR-_-11.16.12-_-PaidInFullmovie&j=27565&e=rgpapaw@gmail.com&l=3516_HTML&u=1253778&mid=7001668&jb...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. --Leo Buscaglia We are each special, which means there is not another person just like ourselves. Nobody looks just like us. Nobody's voice sounds quite like our own. And nobody thinks through a story just like we do. E...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and o...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Welcome to MIP Chad, glad you found us ... you wrote: hucksley wrote: Hello everyone, my name is Chad, I'm 21 years old and I'm an alcoholic. I haven't started attending meetings yet but will in the very near future (as in tomorrow). A little bit about my story/situation...It all started last year in m...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

When one door closes, fortune will usually open another. -- Fernando De RojasSometimes, especially in early recovery, we concentrate on our losses instead of our gains. We see a chapter in our life closing, and we mourn. We must leave some friends behind, or say good-bye to a social life we enjoyed. W...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be. --Raymond Charles Barker The attitude that we carry with us into a particular setting will greatly influence our perceptions of any event. Our attitude also influences, positive...

justadrunk · justadrunk

My daughter did something so amazing this morning, that I literally jumped up and down clapping like a little kid with excitement for her. The house shook a little, things rattled, and I suddenly remember I am a big person ; ) Still... these days, I'm so much more involved in my life, and I can actually f...

Wolfie55 · Wolfie55

Hi. Hope you're all enjoying sobriety. I am. Haven't been here for a while. Still active in AA just not coming here as often as I was. Got an anniversary on the horizon. 15 years they tell me. God, I'm almost an oldtimer. How did that happen? So, what else have I been up to? Well, I'll just share this with ya....

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Okay, so I'm standing on the back deck a little while ago and there's this sudden 'thump' near me that caught my attention ... I look over and see this beautiful little bird, laying upside down on the walk beside the house ... I reach down and pick up the bird not expecting much, but the poor thing was still...

Neophyte · Neophyte

"I hate [person]! and you know why? [names inconvenient action]! they do this all the time. I mean, all I did was [insert understated action] and they went a head and [fill in this blank]!" and then I looked at myself after ranting and thought "this happens all the time to me. If you do...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. --MontaigneOur program isn't working. We are misunderstood. Nothing's going well at work. We just can't see it through. Why doesn't someone help u...

zangkitty95 · zangkitty95

Please check out my friend's new book she wrote long term alcoholic/physician in recovery "You Can Trust Me I'm A Doctor' AC Gross very good book iuniverse

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

... all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. --Julian of Norwich Why are we prone to exaggerating the seriousness of the circumstances in our lives? Perhaps it's because we lived for years barely on the fringe of sensible choices. We reacted hysterically to all ma...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 For many years I pondered over God's will for me, believing that perhaps a great destiny had been ordained for my life. After all, having been born into a specific faith, hadn't I been...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

November 12, 2012 Quote of the Week "Things aren't necessarily going wrong justbecause they're not going my way" This is still hard for me to accept. My ego tells me that my plans and ideas about how things should go, and how you should act, are 99% right, and that if everybody wou...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

We fear to trust our wings. We plume and feather them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling too often to the perch. --Charles B. Newcomb Even before it has learned to fly; a baby bird is pushed from its nest. It will totter upon the ground, stubby wings outstretched from its body, following th...

justadrunk · justadrunk

I looked at my husband after watching the movie flight last night - and I said "The powerlessness? If you would have told me I was losing my kids and my family while I was drinking, I would not have been able to stop even if I wanted to. With out help, I would have so badly not wanted to drink again, but...

mikef · mikef

Today I would like to salute all those I served with,the ones that didnt make it back and the ones that made it back and are still suffering. The Vietnam Era was a rude awakening for this young pup and alcoholic.I made it thru that conflict and came back to the other war ,my addiction.That battle continu...

justadrunk · justadrunk

I started taking banjo lessons last Friday. I asked if I could also learn the flute, something I was told no to many years ago - and it's always bugged me. I was a bad student. I got really frustrated, and threw my hands up "I'm too old for this" a few times - but the teacher kept gently nudging...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Home is my favorite hippie mint and rosemary soap washing off a day of trouble. It's two children pushing two lovers to opposite sides of sleepy oblivion at 3 a.m. only to rustle us awake in a few short hours. I watch as they bend heads together like flowers drooping in the autumn sun, finding it - their d...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

I won't mention years just my bestest wish for you enjoying a beautiful day full of love & sobriety! Godbless, Lady. I see how much we appreciate your message, experience, strength & hope. Thank you for being here :D Recovery love & fellowship, Danielle x

bikerbill · bikerbill

HOW TO START A FIGHT One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift... The next year, I didn't buy her a gift. When she asked me why, I replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!" And that's how the fight started...... _____________...

Zoomtopz · Zoomtopz

True Story. A patient at a public Psych hospital in Sydney , in one of the 'drug & alcohol brain damage wards' , had to attend several 'outside' meetings , as well as All the hospital meetings . Old mate had been going allright for awhile , had even started the ward's own meeting . Which they named afte...

pinkchip · pinkchip

The longer I'm sober, the more it becomes apparent to me that my entire 20s and half of my 30s were a hazy mess of dysfunction and alcholism. I do not regret the past, because it took what it took for me to get to where I am today, but I can't help but shake my head at how I spent such a long time half dead. Wow. ...

justadrunk · justadrunk

-- Edited by justadrunk on Sunday 4th of November 2012 09:12:28 AM

pinkchip · pinkchip

This came up in another post here and also in a conversation with my sponsor. He was saying to me that he didn't understand why people drank vodka because it tasted so awful. In my drinking, it eventually progressed to me drinking gallons of vodka so I had an answer for that. I never drank for the taste...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Last night my sponsee's room mate called to ask me what to do about my sponsee being drunk and passed out. About the fact that she's now drinking at work. She asked me if they should do an intervention and then put her in treatment. She's been drinking every day for 4 yrs. Her father just died. "Her fr...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 That's what it is belonging! After a session of meditation I knew that the feeling I was experiencing was a sense of belonging because I was so relaxed. I...

Picaposie · Picaposie

When ever I don't get my way, or I get something that I don't want, or I don't get something I want.....I am grateful today that I can find comfort in the knowledge that maybe if I'm not getting my way, then maybe God is getting His way.

justadrunk · justadrunk

Jumping up and down screaming "don't drink, don't drink!" to my group, and worrying about how I sound, more than what's really going on inside me... focusing so very much on the message, and if it's being delivered "right" as I am saying to them "who you are is good enough - w...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Accepting the past Noted psychiatrist Carl Jung once said, "If one can accept one's sin, one can live with it. If one cannot accept it, one has to suffer the inevitable consequences." We must come to accept our past acts before they will stop causing us pain. All the Steps help us do this, but...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Sorry if I've already posted this ... I really can't remember ... but if you're new here, maybe you'll get a chuckle out of it ... have a great day! I have been in many places, but I've never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can't go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone. I've also never been in Cog...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

A.A. Thought for the DayLet us consider the term "spiritual experience" as given in Appendix II of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous. A spiritual experience is something that brings about a personality change. By surrendering our lives to God as we understand Him, we are changed....

Jerry F · Jerry F

I was shopping Home Depot the other day and bumped into my cousin who has been missing for a year and a half. She was working for Home Depot when she disappeared and then she was gone. She is a mysteriously discovered relative from my natural family on the natural father's side. This is one of the alc...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10 Sometimes I think I don't have time for prayer and meditation, forgetting that I always found the time to drink. It is possible to make time for anything I want to do if...

Picaposie · Picaposie

Just reaching out a hand and indrocucing myself to the group. Not sure if I'm posting it where I should be, but oh well! I'm Robin and I am an alcoholic. I live in Princeton, TX and my homegroup is ODAAT in Plano. I recently had surgery and have not been released yet so I'm kinda stuck at home for another week...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

This is a re-post from much earlier ... I thought it was great ... the second time too!!! Funny Air Traffic Controllers QuotesTower: Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 oclock, 6 miles!Delta 351: Give us another hint! We have digital watches!TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees.Centre...

Cindyloo · Cindyloo

I'm just going to get straight into my thought. I am a "newcomer", almost 60days sober. I love AA. I have met some wonderful people! We are indeed a very unique group of people. We all have interesting and sometimes helpful opinions. Sadly, opinions do not save lives, they can ac...

pinkchip · pinkchip

I went to a meeting I used to go to more frequently as a newcomer and one of my old timer friends remarked how nice it was to see the changes in me. More specifically, he stated that it sounded like I got everything I wanted. I got a better job, a loving partner, I finished the schooling I needed, am about to...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

As life is action and passion, it is required of man that he should share the action and passion of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. --Oliver Wendell HolmesAmerica's greatest killer is. . . What? Car wreaks? Heart attacks? Cancer? Alcoholism? How about suffocation by a sense of inf...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Here's a short 3 min. inspirational movie clip ... enjoy! http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/richest-man-in-town-v/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-FR-_-11.09.12-_-RMITmovie&j=25835&e=rgpapaw@gmail.com&l=3516_HTML&u=1135466&mid=7001668&jb=40

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Inner Peace: This is so trueIf you can start the day without caffeine, If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it, If you can understand when your loved ones a...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

I know this is a repeat, but it seems like a good time of year to re-post it ... Summary of LifeGREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED: 1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats..2) When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let herbrush your hair.3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her b...

Neophyte · Neophyte

There was a game my friends and I used to play "have you ever" and you sit in a circle and go around each person asks "have you ever...[names something they've done]" I've been exploring meetings lately in my area and there was a candle lit meeting that played this game during th...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Okay, Pappy has a problem and if Im not careful, itll become a resentment I woke up today and found that I was given an extra hour of time this requires me to go and change all the freakin clocks in my house after which Ill spend the next two weeks coming across clocks, watches, radios, etc. that all need t...

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	Relapse after 8 years (Preview) I am so disgusted with myself. After 8 years of sobriety, I have relapsed and been heavily drinking for the past 2 months. My youngest son moving away triggered it. No excuse though. I need to stop. Just pulled out all my AA coins and some jewelry that I had engraved myself. Tonight is the last ni...	EmptyNest	13	745	Nov 18, 2012 by Cindyloo
	Progress ( nowhere near perfection:) (Preview) Just a silly story that I wanted to share with you all:) I left college about 10 years ago.. It was about that time that years of drinking started to catch up with me and I ceased being a "functional alcoholic". I simply cared nothing for anything aside from my torrid affair with the bottle. So...	Col	4	655	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	I NEED A SPONSOR!!!!!!!!!!! VIRGINIA BEACH AREA (Preview) Hi, I just got out of jail 9 days ago for a DUI and I am in desperate for a sponsor. I asked someone to be my sponsor when I first came home, they said yes and I called and called and they Never called me back. I thought it might helpful if I had a sponsor that had also experienced jail because I am going through...	Arian	6	3894	Nov 17, 2012 by Rob84
	Sober Holidays (Preview) Just remembering my first Thanksgiving and Christmas sober. My sobriety date is October 1st so, by the time Thanksgiving rolled around, I had just under 2 months sober. I recall being really immersed in AA and in the midsts of doing my 90 in 90. I had Thanksgiving with my sponsor at his house. There...	pinkchip	9	1276	Nov 17, 2012 by Fyne Spirit
	Thought I Would Share This (Preview) The Grapevie will push a quote each day to your e-mail address. I've enjoyed receiving these each day and thought I would pass it on to my brothers and sisters. You can sign up below. An open mind is a fertile environment for growth. November 15 ...	Mike B.	9	443	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	"Thanks'Giving'" (Preview) Here is a 2 ... 1/2 minute movie clip that is sure to touch your heart ... :http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/paid-in-full/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-FR-_-11.16.12-_-PaidInFullmovie&j=27565&e=rgpapaw@gmail.com&l=3516_HTML&u=1253778&mid=7001668&jb...	Pythonpappy	4	477	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Today's Gift 11-16 (Preview) Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. --Leo Buscaglia We are each special, which means there is not another person just like ourselves. Nobody looks just like us. Nobody's voice sounds quite like our own. And nobody thinks through a story just like we do. E...	Pythonpappy	1	361	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ Vital Sustenance & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and o...	Sobrietyspell	1	556	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Welcome Chad (Preview) Welcome to MIP Chad, glad you found us ... you wrote: hucksley wrote: Hello everyone, my name is Chad, I'm 21 years old and I'm an alcoholic. I haven't started attending meetings yet but will in the very near future (as in tomorrow). A little bit about my story/situation...It all started last year in m...	Pythonpappy	7	565	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Today's Gift 11-15 (Preview) When one door closes, fortune will usually open another. -- Fernando De RojasSometimes, especially in early recovery, we concentrate on our losses instead of our gains. We see a chapter in our life closing, and we mourn. We must leave some friends behind, or say good-bye to a social life we enjoyed. W...	Pythonpappy	2	550	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Today's Gift (Preview) The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be. --Raymond Charles Barker The attitude that we carry with us into a particular setting will greatly influence our perceptions of any event. Our attitude also influences, positive...	Pythonpappy	1	349	Nov 17, 2012 by Mr_David
	Jumping up and down. (Preview) My daughter did something so amazing this morning, that I literally jumped up and down clapping like a little kid with excitement for her. The house shook a little, things rattled, and I suddenly remember I am a big person ; ) Still... these days, I'm so much more involved in my life, and I can actually f...	justadrunk	8	526	Nov 16, 2012 by justadrunk
	Checking In (Preview) Hi. Hope you're all enjoying sobriety. I am. Haven't been here for a while. Still active in AA just not coming here as often as I was. Got an anniversary on the horizon. 15 years they tell me. God, I'm almost an oldtimer. How did that happen? So, what else have I been up to? Well, I'll just share this with ya....	Wolfie55	8	521	Nov 16, 2012 by SteveP
	The Visit (Preview) Okay, so I'm standing on the back deck a little while ago and there's this sudden 'thump' near me that caught my attention ... I look over and see this beautiful little bird, laying upside down on the walk beside the house ... I reach down and pick up the bird not expecting much, but the poor thing was still...	Pythonpappy	8	497	Nov 15, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	It's never them. It's always me. (Preview) "I hate [person]! and you know why? [names inconvenient action]! they do this all the time. I mean, all I did was [insert understated action] and they went a head and [fill in this blank]!" and then I looked at myself after ranting and thought "this happens all the time to me. If you do...	Neophyte	14	636	Nov 14, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift 11-13 (Preview) Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. --MontaigneOur program isn't working. We are misunderstood. Nothing's going well at work. We just can't see it through. Why doesn't someone help u...	Pythonpappy	3	396	Nov 14, 2012 by Mr_David
	my friend AC wrote a book (Preview) Please check out my friend's new book she wrote long term alcoholic/physician in recovery "You Can Trust Me I'm A Doctor' AC Gross very good book iuniverse	zangkitty95	3	386	Nov 14, 2012 by zangkitty95
	Today's Gift 11-11 (Preview) ... all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. --Julian of Norwich Why are we prone to exaggerating the seriousness of the circumstances in our lives? Perhaps it's because we lived for years barely on the fringe of sensible choices. We reacted hysterically to all ma...	Pythonpappy	4	389	Nov 13, 2012 by Travel an
	Daily Reflections ~ Morning Thoughts & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 For many years I pondered over God's will for me, believing that perhaps a great destiny had been ordained for my life. After all, having been born into a specific faith, hadn't I been...	Sobrietyspell	1	636	Nov 13, 2012 by Mr_David
	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) November 12, 2012 Quote of the Week "Things aren't necessarily going wrong justbecause they're not going my way" This is still hard for me to accept. My ego tells me that my plans and ideas about how things should go, and how you should act, are 99% right, and that if everybody wou...	Pythonpappy	3	438	Nov 13, 2012 by Mr_David
	Today's Gift 11-12 (Preview) We fear to trust our wings. We plume and feather them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling too often to the perch. --Charles B. Newcomb Even before it has learned to fly; a baby bird is pushed from its nest. It will totter upon the ground, stubby wings outstretched from its body, following th...	Pythonpappy	1	365	Nov 13, 2012 by Mr_David
	Was that really me? (Preview) I looked at my husband after watching the movie flight last night - and I said "The powerlessness? If you would have told me I was losing my kids and my family while I was drinking, I would not have been able to stop even if I wanted to. With out help, I would have so badly not wanted to drink again, but...	justadrunk	11	905	Nov 13, 2012 by justadrunk
	The other War (Preview) Today I would like to salute all those I served with,the ones that didnt make it back and the ones that made it back and are still suffering. The Vietnam Era was a rude awakening for this young pup and alcoholic.I made it thru that conflict and came back to the other war ,my addiction.That battle continu...	mikef	10	545	Nov 12, 2012 by Picaposie
	Walking out of a meeting (Preview) I started taking banjo lessons last Friday. I asked if I could also learn the flute, something I was told no to many years ago - and it's always bugged me. I was a bad student. I got really frustrated, and threw my hands up "I'm too old for this" a few times - but the teacher kept gently nudging...	justadrunk	23	1256	Nov 12, 2012 by Mr_David
	Pride (Preview) Home is my favorite hippie mint and rosemary soap washing off a day of trouble. It's two children pushing two lovers to opposite sides of sleepy oblivion at 3 a.m. only to rustle us awake in a few short hours. I watch as they bend heads together like flowers drooping in the autumn sun, finding it - their d...	justadrunk	5	548	Nov 12, 2012 by Rob84
	Happy Bellybutton Birthday, nezyb!!! (Kelley!!) (Preview) I won't mention years just my bestest wish for you enjoying a beautiful day full of love & sobriety! Godbless, Lady. I see how much we appreciate your message, experience, strength & hope. Thank you for being here :D Recovery love & fellowship, Danielle x	Sobrietyspell	6	430	Nov 12, 2012 by Rob84
	And that's how the fight started - british humour (Preview) HOW TO START A FIGHT One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift... The next year, I didn't buy her a gift. When she asked me why, I replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!" And that's how the fight started...... _____________...	bikerbill	7	465	Nov 12, 2012 by Rob84
	Some of the 'best' 'advice' stories you have heard. (Preview) True Story. A patient at a public Psych hospital in Sydney , in one of the 'drug & alcohol brain damage wards' , had to attend several 'outside' meetings , as well as All the hospital meetings . Old mate had been going allright for awhile , had even started the ward's own meeting . Which they named afte...	Zoomtopz	14	544	Nov 11, 2012 by Zoomtopz
	Lost time (Preview) The longer I'm sober, the more it becomes apparent to me that my entire 20s and half of my 30s were a hazy mess of dysfunction and alcholism. I do not regret the past, because it took what it took for me to get to where I am today, but I can't help but shake my head at how I spent such a long time half dead. Wow. ...	pinkchip	20	807	Nov 11, 2012 by Cindyloo
	Grateful to be sober today (Preview) -- Edited by justadrunk on Sunday 4th of November 2012 09:12:28 AM	justadrunk	11	670	Nov 11, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	The taste of alcohol (Preview) This came up in another post here and also in a conversation with my sponsor. He was saying to me that he didn't understand why people drank vodka because it tasted so awful. In my drinking, it eventually progressed to me drinking gallons of vodka so I had an answer for that. I never drank for the taste...	pinkchip	10	646	Nov 11, 2012 by bikerbill
	A new thread (Preview) Last night my sponsee's room mate called to ask me what to do about my sponsee being drunk and passed out. About the fact that she's now drinking at work. She asked me if they should do an intervention and then put her in treatment. She's been drinking every day for 4 yrs. Her father just died. "Her fr...	justadrunk	11	623	Nov 10, 2012 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ A Sense of Belonging & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 That's what it is belonging! After a session of meditation I knew that the feeling I was experiencing was a sense of belonging because I was so relaxed. I...	Sobrietyspell	1	1903	Nov 11, 2012 by Mr_David
	Comfort in not getting my way (Preview) When ever I don't get my way, or I get something that I don't want, or I don't get something I want.....I am grateful today that I can find comfort in the knowledge that maybe if I'm not getting my way, then maybe God is getting His way.	Picaposie	3	419	Nov 11, 2012 by Fyne Spirit
	I had some serious thoughts about drinking. (Preview) Jumping up and down screaming "don't drink, don't drink!" to my group, and worrying about how I sound, more than what's really going on inside me... focusing so very much on the message, and if it's being delivered "right" as I am saying to them "who you are is good enough - w...	justadrunk	19	633	Nov 10, 2012 by Mr_David
	Today's Gift 11-10 (Preview) Accepting the past Noted psychiatrist Carl Jung once said, "If one can accept one's sin, one can live with it. If one cannot accept it, one has to suffer the inevitable consequences." We must come to accept our past acts before they will stop causing us pain. All the Steps help us do this, but...	Pythonpappy	3	375	Nov 10, 2012 by Mr_David
	Memory Getting Bad (Preview) Sorry if I've already posted this ... I really can't remember ... but if you're new here, maybe you'll get a chuckle out of it ... have a great day! I have been in many places, but I've never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can't go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone. I've also never been in Cog...	Pythonpappy	4	608	Nov 10, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift 11-04 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the DayLet us consider the term "spiritual experience" as given in Appendix II of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous. A spiritual experience is something that brings about a personality change. By surrendering our lives to God as we understand Him, we are changed....	Pythonpappy	2	381	Nov 10, 2012 by Picaposie
	A Family disease more evidence... (Preview) I was shopping Home Depot the other day and bumped into my cousin who has been missing for a year and a half. She was working for Home Depot when she disappeared and then she was gone. She is a mysteriously discovered relative from my natural family on the natural father's side. This is one of the alc...	Jerry F	8	542	Nov 10, 2012 by Picaposie
	Daily Reflections ~ Stepping Into The Sunlight & 24hrs a Day (Preview) But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10 Sometimes I think I don't have time for prayer and meditation, forgetting that I always found the time to drink. It is possible to make time for anything I want to do if...	Sobrietyspell	2	409	Nov 10, 2012 by learning
	Hi everyone... (Preview) Just reaching out a hand and indrocucing myself to the group. Not sure if I'm posting it where I should be, but oh well! I'm Robin and I am an alcoholic. I live in Princeton, TX and my homegroup is ODAAT in Plano. I recently had surgery and have not been released yet so I'm kinda stuck at home for another week...	Picaposie	10	486	Nov 10, 2012 by Picaposie
	Humor Helps Us Heal - Air Traffic Controller Quotes (Preview) This is a re-post from much earlier ... I thought it was great ... the second time too!!! Funny Air Traffic Controllers QuotesTower: Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 oclock, 6 miles!Delta 351: Give us another hint! We have digital watches!TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees.Centre...	Pythonpappy	11	4080	Nov 10, 2012 by bikerbill
	Hear me out AA AA Topic AA Newcomers AA Oldtimers (Preview) I'm just going to get straight into my thought. I am a "newcomer", almost 60days sober. I love AA. I have met some wonderful people! We are indeed a very unique group of people. We all have interesting and sometimes helpful opinions. Sadly, opinions do not save lives, they can ac...	Cindyloo	17	8927	Nov 10, 2012 by Cindyloo
	I got everything I wanted (Preview) I went to a meeting I used to go to more frequently as a newcomer and one of my old timer friends remarked how nice it was to see the changes in me. More specifically, he stated that it sounded like I got everything I wanted. I got a better job, a loving partner, I finished the schooling I needed, am about to...	pinkchip	7	511	Nov 10, 2012 by Rob84
	Today's Gift 11-09 (Preview) As life is action and passion, it is required of man that he should share the action and passion of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. --Oliver Wendell HolmesAmerica's greatest killer is. . . What? Car wreaks? Heart attacks? Cancer? Alcoholism? How about suffocation by a sense of inf...	Pythonpappy	2	407	Nov 10, 2012 by Mr_David
	A Bit of Inspiration (Preview) Here's a short 3 min. inspirational movie clip ... enjoy! http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/richest-man-in-town-v/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-FR-_-11.09.12-_-RMITmovie&j=25835&e=rgpapaw@gmail.com&l=3516_HTML&u=1135466&mid=7001668&jb=40	Pythonpappy	1	469	Nov 10, 2012 by Mr_David
	If You: (Preview) Inner Peace: This is so trueIf you can start the day without caffeine, If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it, If you can understand when your loved ones a...	Pythonpappy	1	445	Nov 10, 2012 by Mr_David
	Summary of Life (Preview) I know this is a repeat, but it seems like a good time of year to re-post it ... Summary of LifeGREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED: 1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats..2) When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let herbrush your hair.3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her b...	Pythonpappy	2	450	Nov 10, 2012 by Mr_David
	"have you ever" (Preview) There was a game my friends and I used to play "have you ever" and you sit in a circle and go around each person asks "have you ever...[names something they've done]" I've been exploring meetings lately in my area and there was a candle lit meeting that played this game during th...	Neophyte	9	529	Nov 9, 2012 by Picaposie
	Pappy Has a BIG Problem! (Preview) Okay, Pappy has a problem and if Im not careful, itll become a resentment I woke up today and found that I was given an extra hour of time this requires me to go and change all the freakin clocks in my house after which Ill spend the next two weeks coming across clocks, watches, radios, etc. that all need t...	Pythonpappy	13	870	Nov 9, 2012 by Picaposie
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