Alcoholics Anonymous

cindy · cindy

despite all we can say, many who are real alcoholics are not going to believe they are in that class. by every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic. if anyone who is showing inability to control his drinking can...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Do not be discouraged. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 Few experiences are of less value to me than fast sobriety. Too many times discouragement has been the bonus for unrealistic expectations, not to mention self-pity or fatigue from my wanting to change the world by the weekend. Discouragement is a w...

Arle · Arle

I was reading todays quote out of the little book I was given and it really applies to me...it said when starting recovery we may not know who we are, how to act, what to say or even how to dress. I feel like most of my life I have used alcohol to build up my confidence level to get through everything! Now im so s...

Phil · Phil

Love without condition "I love you as you are, as you seek to find your own special way to relate to the world, or the way you feel that is right for you. It is important that you are the person you want to be and not someone that I or others think you should be." Unconditional love is enlarging the...

Gregory · Gregory

I am chairing my home group meeting in Barbados and wanted to ask for temporary sponsors as I heard them say it in the states but do not knohorse say it correctly?

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

The circle stands for the whole world of A.A., and the triangle stands for A.A.'s Three Legacies of Recovery, Unity, and Service. Within our wonderful new world, we have found freedom from our fatal obsession. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 139 Early in my A.A. life, I became employed in its services and I found...

jbodaat · jbodaat

Hi everyone, great day to be sober. What is the meanings of our Slogans hanging in our meeting rooms. 1-think-THINK-think 2-First things First 3-By the Grace of God 4- Live & let Live.

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

I love this quote. I never heard it until I started in AA. Now, if I can only remember it when I need to.... Being a people pleaser a lot of my life, it really bothers me when I am not liked by everybody and their dog, cat, mouse in the house, potted plant. I notice that if I am going through a down funk (well, mos...

Tanin · Tanin

Bill W.: The Creative Force Behind Alcoholics Anonymous Premieres September 29, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. on PBS SoCal http://www.pbssocal.org/tv/programs/bill-w/

Aquaman · Aquaman

http://www.barefootsworld.net/aaworkstepsintro.html#indexDear Creator, Thank You for the Life, Love, and...

Pabhougs · Pabhougs

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

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

December 5, 2016Quote of the WeekI have a God shaped hole. For most of my life I have felt an emptiness in my core. As a child I tried to fill this emptiness with constant TV watching or by pigging out on candy. When I discovered alcohol and drugs, I devoured both trying to fill the void I felt. When I be...

toni baloney · toni baloney

Hi All, I had some interesting writings yesterday back and fourth with a friend about PEOPLE PLEASING. We might all have a different view of this, but for me, even before recovery or drinking for that matter, I learned that people pleasing was the way to get around in this world. And as I grew up, m...

RamaSethu2001 · RamaSethu2001

Quotes About Recovery and Addictions "For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the oth...

Angell · Angell

I've been accompanying someone on their 90 in 90 lately and every so often I've heard expressions that I haven't heard in a long time. It's gotten me thinking and I've tried to go back in my memory and find some other long lost sayings from AA (okay, maybe they aren't lost but I haven't heard them for a whi...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Gratitude should go forward, rather than backward. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 29 I am very grateful that my Higher Power has given me a second chance to live a worthwhile life. Through Alcoholics Anonymous, I have been restored to sanity. The promises are being fulfilled in my life. I am grateful to be free fro...

soberdrunk · soberdrunk

And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation-- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed t...

Doll · Doll

TURNING POINT, p.301 A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something we must have. 12 & 12, p.75 Either the A.A. way of life becomes one of joy or I return to the darkness and despair of alcoholism. Joy comes to me when my atti...

Richard M · Richard M

What does it mean when someone calls for a group consensus? Is it different from a Group conscientious?

virgo · virgo

Can anyone help me I am at my wits end and my head has gone I am in a bad state. I dont know what to do to deal with this person, yes I pray but nothing resentment wont lift can anyone out there help me I feel like drinking...

kc2fya · kc2fya

AGO · AGO

When I got to AA I was presented with a barrage on information, much of it conflicting, however I believed everything I heard in meetings, they all seemed so wise, so recovered I even heard this beautiful woman say: Do What you love and the money will follow" I thought it was AA, so I quit my job and be...

davep12and12 · davep12and12

Hi all, Well it's that time of year again and I'll be heading off on my annual trip to some new country. This time it's Ecuador. I'll be spending about three weeks traveling through the Andes mountains from Quito to Cuenca, via some small mountain towns and villages along the way. I have located an Engl...

prmanandhar · prmanandhar

The schedule of our meetings are listed below. Day : Every Sunday (English - International A.A. Meeting) Venue : A.R.V. Office, Bhimsenthan - 20, Kathmandu Time : 6:00 pm Contact No. : 4264667,9808331822 Day : Every Monday Venue : A.R.V. Office, Bhimsenthan Time : 3:00 pm Contact No...

Suneel121 · Suneel121

I'm a sober AA member from India. Yesterday a group converted its regular AA Open Meeting in to a Memorial Meeting for a member who had passed away a fortnight back. We are told that the group had taken a "group conscience" (may be of "well informed one" variety) before making ann...

Codependent2 · Codependent2

I was thinking today of all the things I have done while intoxicated and feel an embarrassed regret. Just wondering if you all have any advice on how to forgive myself?

Phil · Phil

Understanding the addiction cycle is important because it helps explain why for both the Oxford Group and for Bill Wilson, the admission of powerlessness is the first step to recovery. Otherwise, we remain caught. If we rely on willpower alone, then the only thing we know to do is to escalate our addi...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

. . . what comes to us alone may be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking. The bene-fit of talking to another person is that we can get his direct comment and counsel on our situation. . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 60 I cannot count the times when I have been angry and frus...

justadrunk · justadrunk

My husband pointed it out. He said "Honey, this feels weird to say, but I think this is the alcholic talking". I thought that no one sat by us at his Christmas party last night because of me. I went on about all the ways it was all about me all the way home. Today, him having to leave for another...

barisax · barisax

Is this perhaps the most important of the promises? It's buried in the middle... when it comes to the promises, the ones that usually stand out for me are "We will comprehend the word serenity.." and "We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us". My...

Phil · Phil

To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off, it's the realization I can't control another. To let go is not to enable, but allow learning from natural consequences. To let g...

Give me strength · Give me strength

I have not drank in 3 months, been with the program for 6 months...I am still very new to all of this and have only been thinking of my lists of people to make amends to. In the process of explaining AA to my husband I have mentioned this amends list. I was surprised to hear him say the other day "you t...

jonijoni1 · jonijoni1

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.--Oprah Winfrey Blow, blow, thou winter wind,Thou are not so unkindAs man's ingratitude.--William Shakespeare (As You Like It) Develop an attitude of gratitude,...

cybrownaz · cybrownaz

Does anyone know where I can find a meeting format / preamble for giving out sobriety chips prior to a meeting? I've looked and looked but still haven't found it. I've been asked to do the chips and want to just read it off a sheet. Thanks,CyNAZ

AA Viking · AA Viking

I have heard time and again that you "have to put your sobriety first, before anything else, or you won't have anything else", which i can totally agree with and groove on. Alcohol had invaded and taken over parts of my life where it didn't belong. I am DEEPLY grateful to God, AA and my AA frie...

Stepchild · Stepchild

"Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for the alcoholic! For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If he did not work, he would surely dr...

Doll · Doll

GIVING UP CENTER STAGE, p.202 For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all. . . Without it, they cannot live to much useful purpose, or, in adversity, be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency. 12 & 12, p.70 Why do I balk at the word "humility"? I am n...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Above all, take it one day at a time. AS BILL SEES IT, p.11 Why do I kid myself that I must stay away from a drink for only one day, when I know perfectly well I must never drink again as long as I live? I am not kidding myself because one day at a time is probably the only way I can reach the long-range objective of...

Fyne Spirit · Fyne Spirit

While I pray all day long, asking guidance and inspiration with this or that, I feel, at certain times, the need to humble myself by kneeling in prayer. This might be during private prayer time at the ends of the day, but also when taking some important prayer related step like step 3,or step 7 when I am as...

justadrunk · justadrunk

I'm trying to figure it all out again... all by myself again...

If you had a sponsor that was gossipy about people in the program, and you've already hinted that you don't want to gossip so much anymore... but it just keeps comin, and you find yourself easily sucked back in... do you: Keep t...

MaybeIAm · MaybeIAm

well i thought i would stop back in because i decided what better folks to reason with than those who might possibly understand 'better .. better to reason with those seeking recovery than those seeking the drink .. a family member of mine (alcoholic) came in town today .. i feel guilt because i don't wa...

S3r3n1ty · S3r3n1ty

Hi guys - I`m brand new to this site and would welcome some advice. I`m a new sponsor & have known my sponsee from AA meetings for over a year. We`ve gone for coffee various times one to one. She asked me to be her sponsor in June when she called me from a hotel at 6am after a night drinking. I went ov...

mikef · mikef

Brought back so many memories! Truly grateful to be alive and in God's grace......a powerful story of the devastation of our illness,I went into the movie blind and came out in the Light.......It literally reached my core and had me crying in relief and feeling the freedom from that horrible 25 ye...

maire rua · maire rua

I got a sponsor early on in my recovery. All was going well and we used to talk a lot. I would always ring and she would answer when she could and if she couldn't, we would usually talk every few days and I started working on the steps. I am now on step 4. We didn't fall out but unfortunately she began to get very...

barisax · barisax

Not long ago, I was at one of my regular meetings. There is a young guy there who has some sobriety, talks a lot -- he just seems to get a lot of attention, even has "groupies" it seems. I've seen the type before, didn't really give it much thought. After the meeting, my girlfriend - who is not...

AGO · AGO

When I initially got sober I suffered from mood swings, I couldn't sleep, I would get obsessive, I would cry, I fell in love at least 18 times...the first week...in short I was a mess. Now I was going to meetings and talking to others but they would say things like "this is normal" and "no...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

You Can't Make Me Angry by Dr. Paul O. (I was researching on the internet last week trying to find a AA related book which deals with anger issues as I posted I was having a rough time of it. I did find a book which I am confident will help me deal with people, places and things better. Dr. Paul was a popular spe...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thoughts from Hazelden are: Living in the Present One day at a time, This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past. For it is gone. . . And do not be troubled about the future. For it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful. That it will be worth remembering.

AGO · AGO

Welcome To A.A. Recovery When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of A.A. always to be there. And for that: I am responsible. What does that mean to me? What is the hand of AA? Does that mean I am supposed to be the hand of AA? What does that statement mean "I am responsible" an...

Sochi · Sochi

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

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	Getting really selfish and self centered again. (Preview) My husband pointed it out. He said "Honey, this feels weird to say, but I think this is the alcholic talking". I thought that no one sat by us at his Christmas party last night because of me. I went on about all the ways it was all about me all the way home. Today, him having to leave for another...	justadrunk	9	1299	Nov 27, 2025 by Abamenko
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	The Let Go Poem (Preview) To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off, it's the realization I can't control another. To let go is not to enable, but allow learning from natural consequences. To let g...	Phil	7	12702	Nov 25, 2025 by Alianse88
	How long did it take you to make amends? (Preview) I have not drank in 3 months, been with the program for 6 months...I am still very new to all of this and have only been thinking of my lists of people to make amends to. In the process of explaining AA to my husband I have mentioned this amends list. I was surprised to hear him say the other day "you t...	Give me strength	15	6856	Nov 25, 2025 by HexZero
	Thankfulness from around the world..... (Preview) Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.--Oprah Winfrey Blow, blow, thou winter wind,Thou are not so unkindAs man's ingratitude.--William Shakespeare (As You Like It) Develop an attitude of gratitude,...	jonijoni1	31	4931	Nov 24, 2025 by dubaiconsultant207
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	Does AA Have to Be the Center of my Life!? aa beginner question addict center take over takeover (Preview) I have heard time and again that you "have to put your sobriety first, before anything else, or you won't have anything else", which i can totally agree with and groove on. Alcohol had invaded and taken over parts of my life where it didn't belong. I am DEEPLY grateful to God, AA and my AA frie...	AA Viking	20	10484	Nov 23, 2025 by Coek
	"Faith without works was dead"....What does that mean to you? (Preview) "Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for the alcoholic! For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If he did not work, he would surely dr...	Stepchild	25	10135	Nov 23, 2025 by gldart
	Daily Reflections July 12 (Preview) GIVING UP CENTER STAGE, p.202 For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all. . . Without it, they cannot live to much useful purpose, or, in adversity, be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency. 12 & 12, p.70 Why do I balk at the word "humility"? I am n...	Doll	2	1587	Nov 22, 2025 by Abamenko
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	Gossip (Preview) I'm trying to figure it all out again... all by myself again... If you had a sponsor that was gossipy about people in the program, and you've already hinted that you don't want to gossip so much anymore... but it just keeps comin, and you find yourself easily sucked back in... do you: Keep t...	justadrunk	19	1840	Nov 19, 2025 by AlexSeen
	Guilt & Attachment (Preview) well i thought i would stop back in because i decided what better folks to reason with than those who might possibly understand 'better .. better to reason with those seeking recovery than those seeking the drink .. a family member of mine (alcoholic) came in town today .. i feel guilt because i don't wa...	MaybeIAm	6	2315	Nov 19, 2025 by Abamenko
	I`m a new sponsor and my new sponsee won`t stop drinking. (Preview) Hi guys - I`m brand new to this site and would welcome some advice. I`m a new sponsor & have known my sponsee from AA meetings for over a year. We`ve gone for coffee various times one to one. She asked me to be her sponsor in June when she called me from a hotel at 6am after a night drinking. I went ov...	S3r3n1ty	14	3330	Nov 18, 2025 by gldart
	FLIGHT (Preview) Brought back so many memories! Truly grateful to be alive and in God's grace......a powerful story of the devastation of our illness,I went into the movie blind and came out in the Light.......It literally reached my core and had me crying in relief and feeling the freedom from that horrible 25 ye...	mikef	12	1603	Nov 17, 2025 by AlexSeen
	flaky sponsor (Preview) I got a sponsor early on in my recovery. All was going well and we used to talk a lot. I would always ring and she would answer when she could and if she couldn't, we would usually talk every few days and I started working on the steps. I am now on step 4. We didn't fall out but unfortunately she began to get very...	maire rua	11	1568	Nov 17, 2025 by Abamenko
	Drama! (Preview) Not long ago, I was at one of my regular meetings. There is a young guy there who has some sobriety, talks a lot -- he just seems to get a lot of attention, even has "groupies" it seems. I've seen the type before, didn't really give it much thought. After the meeting, my girlfriend - who is not...	barisax	7	3733	Nov 16, 2025 by Abamenko
	PAWS early sobriety (Preview) When I initially got sober I suffered from mood swings, I couldn't sleep, I would get obsessive, I would cry, I fell in love at least 18 times...the first week...in short I was a mess. Now I was going to meetings and talking to others but they would say things like "this is normal" and "no...	AGO	5	9058	Nov 16, 2025 by dinarikas
	You Can't Make Me Angry Dr. Paul O.'s book (his story is in 3rd Ed. of BB) (Preview) You Can't Make Me Angry by Dr. Paul O. (I was researching on the internet last week trying to find a AA related book which deals with anger issues as I posted I was having a rough time of it. I did find a book which I am confident will help me deal with people, places and things better. Dr. Paul was a popular spe...	betterthanyesterday52	7	5416	Nov 14, 2025 by kirurumaru
	Living in the Present (Preview) Today's thoughts from Hazelden are: Living in the Present One day at a time, This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past. For it is gone. . . And do not be troubled about the future. For it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful. That it will be worth remembering.	Larry_H	10	6868	Nov 12, 2025 by dinarikas
	The responsibility declaration (Preview) Welcome To A.A. Recovery When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of A.A. always to be there. And for that: I am responsible. What does that mean to me? What is the hand of AA? Does that mean I am supposed to be the hand of AA? What does that statement mean "I am responsible" an...	AGO	1	3146	Nov 11, 2025 by gldart
	Meeting attendance verified electronically Meeting Slip verify attendance Electronic verification meeting attendance (Preview) I recently got a DUI and the court made me pay $8 for a phone application that verifies meeting attendance. All our local meetings are supposed to have a code that we scan, but one of the meetings I went to didn't have the code. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can get credit for that meeting? -- Edite...	Sochi	21	8894	Nov 11, 2025 by peterparker1
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