Alcoholics Anonymous

deb365 · deb365

"Am I not leading you faithfully? Directly you put your cares into My hands, and I began to effect a cure of all the disharmony and disorder. You must know that I shall cause you no more pain in the doing of it than a physician, who knows he can effect a cure, would cause his patient. I will do all as ten...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

August 27, 2012 Quote of the Week "Those who laugh - last" I remember hearing the phrase, "We are not a glum lot" when I was new in recovery - I didn't believe it. I mean, here I was sentenced to attending meetings, prohibited from partying, and forced to believe in God. Things...

sarge · sarge

May 15, 2010 I have found through the years being a sober person one of the most relaxing therapeutic things to do is pull weeds. I know sounds insane but it saves on therapy bill. One day i realized for years i had been walking matilda(my velcro dog) pulling up weeds trying to put my mind at ease. Even th...

pinkchip · pinkchip

It would seem I've been sober for a long time (coming up on 4 years right?). So I live in Ft. Lauderdale. Currently we have a tropical storm going to the west of us and are feeling severe rain bands and some wind. Nothing that bad. Nonetheless, we have not been hit by a hurricane or even a bad storm since...

Col · Col

There is a 'gentleman' I work with who has caused me a lot of grief. He is 'in and out' of AA..he preaches to all of his coworkers about drinking and AA to the point where it's a bit obnoxious- then he shows up to work drunk. This has happened several times. He has sexually harrassed me, spread rumors about m...

Mike B. · Mike B.

She's 15. Her negative emotions are blocking her from the Spirit and enjoyment of life. She's looking for external things to fill the God hole inside. Never enough. Boyfriend, friends, relationships etc........... She can't sit with herself for to long before the anxiety kicks in. Sounds...

deb365 · deb365

"Trials and troubles may seem to overwhelm you. They cannot do more than work My will, and that will you have said is your will. Do you not see that you cannot be destroyed? From now a new life is opening out before you. Yours to enter into the kingdom I have prepared for you. The sunlight of My prese...

Col · Col

So, I've had somewhat of a 'revelation'.. Not a huge revelation like when I realized I'm not angry with God anymore, more of a 'huh' type of thing. So as many of you may have read here lately, I've been struggling with anger and a lot of self pity, general confusion about things. So I'm thinking, thinking...

Neophyte · Neophyte

This is perhaps difficult, especially discussing our defects with another person. We think we have done well enough in admitting these things to ourselves. There is doubt about that. In actual practice, we usually find a solitary self-appraisal insufficient. I read this. Tommorrow I do my 5th...

Stepchild · Stepchild

I just realized I became an old timer after 500 posts...If I had known that I would have passed that mark on my first week here.....I guess this program is teaching me....Let things happen in God's time.

Col · Col

Hey all.. So here I am, working on 4th step, still on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. My emotional maturity is embarrassing at times. I'm completely all over the place some days. Im generally pretty laid back and even- keeled, but every once in a while, MAN am I a train wreck lol. Here's the thing......

justadrunk · justadrunk

In reading and working through the final steps with deep reflection to the best of my ability, I've discovered some astonishing things. After I found my ex had shot himself in the head, there was fear, there was stress, there was trauma... but there was also... a fleeting moment of joy. Instantly I...

mich · mich

Mich here... went to the 7am meeting today. I shared about my drunk dream which I am sure everyone has had. Had a glass of wine in my dream. Then I thought oh no I have to start all over. What have I done. So, upset in the dream. Woke up glad I was sober. I am sure everybody has had this experience too. I...

mich · mich

Hello. I went to my meeting the other day. Even as I drove there I was still on the fence about keeping my sponsor or talking with her. I got there and spoke to a women I trust and she informed me that it is my choice, but that the person I asked indeed has some issues. Don't we all. I felt bad. After the me...

Neophyte · Neophyte

I hate mint. Especially in toothpaste. So we bought cinnamon toothpaste. Now, after I brush my teeth (I do this morning, after work and bedtime) he asks, have you been drinking? Of course not. I'm not upset, I think it's funny. But my brain was like "now I can drink and blame it on toothpaste!"...

justadrunk · justadrunk

I would love to say that I have 8 months sober today. But I don't. I came into this program just after Christmas, but I had a slip in March because I wasn't really going to meetings, and not being completely honest (mostly minimizing) with my sponsor. I went to 5 meetings in a row - thought I had things do...

Closer · Closer

I came home with the greatest feeling from a meeting today and it was because of a certain thing I realized and heard while I was at the club today, and it's the fact that this is a WE program. When us alcoholics are sick, we dont know that we have other people in our lives who care and who can relate to our pro...

justadrunk · justadrunk

Dr. Bob's Farewell TalkDr. Bob and Bill W. were co-founders of A.A. My good friends in A.A. and of A.A., I get a big thrill out of looking over a vast sea of faces like this with a feeling that possibly some small thing I did a number of years ago played an infinitely small part in making this meeting po...

runnergrl82 · runnergrl82

Hi im ashley,and im a alcoholic and im new, i need a online sponor that i can call or i have skype.i will go to any lengths to get this. im miserable and broken inside and need help,,i can go to meetings but have two toddlers and husband works.so

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

BAPTIST SHAMPOOWhile shopping in a grocery store, two Baptist church ladies happened to passby the beer, wine and liquor section.One asked the other if she would like a beer. The second good Baptist sister answered that, indeed, it would be very nice to have one, but that she would feel unco...

Jerry F · Jerry F

and inner reaction to an outside event, my AC told me at the VA alcoholism center. He had asked me how I felt about a certain relationship event that had gone sideways for me and I responded "like shit". "So you feel like a warm, smelly lump of dog feces left on the front lawn" he r...

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...

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	God Calling - Tangled Skeins (Preview) "Am I not leading you faithfully? Directly you put your cares into My hands, and I began to effect a cure of all the disharmony and disorder. You must know that I shall cause you no more pain in the doing of it than a physician, who knows he can effect a cure, would cause his patient. I will do all as ten...	deb365	2	536	Aug 28, 2012 by justadrunk
	Those Who Laugh --- Last (Preview) August 27, 2012 Quote of the Week "Those who laugh - last" I remember hearing the phrase, "We are not a glum lot" when I was new in recovery - I didn't believe it. I mean, here I was sentenced to attending meetings, prohibited from partying, and forced to believe in God. Things...	Pythonpappy	4	779	Aug 28, 2012 by justadrunk
	Pulling up weeds (Preview) May 15, 2010 I have found through the years being a sober person one of the most relaxing therapeutic things to do is pull weeds. I know sounds insane but it saves on therapy bill. One day i realized for years i had been walking matilda(my velcro dog) pulling up weeds trying to put my mind at ease. Even th...	sarge	13	1460	Aug 28, 2012 by abbottmorris
	Hurricanes, elections, and olympics. (Preview) It would seem I've been sober for a long time (coming up on 4 years right?). So I live in Ft. Lauderdale. Currently we have a tropical storm going to the west of us and are feeling severe rain bands and some wind. Nothing that bad. Nonetheless, we have not been hit by a hurricane or even a bad storm since...	pinkchip	10	784	Aug 28, 2012 by Col
	Pray for those who still suffer (Preview) There is a 'gentleman' I work with who has caused me a lot of grief. He is 'in and out' of AA..he preaches to all of his coworkers about drinking and AA to the point where it's a bit obnoxious- then he shows up to work drunk. This has happened several times. He has sexually harrassed me, spread rumors about m...	Col	8	1182	Aug 28, 2012 by justadrunk
	My Daugther (Preview) She's 15. Her negative emotions are blocking her from the Spirit and enjoyment of life. She's looking for external things to fill the God hole inside. Never enough. Boyfriend, friends, relationships etc........... She can't sit with herself for to long before the anxiety kicks in. Sounds...	Mike B.	8	1436	Aug 27, 2012 by Mike B.
	God Calling - Accept Trials (Preview) "Trials and troubles may seem to overwhelm you. They cannot do more than work My will, and that will you have said is your will. Do you not see that you cannot be destroyed? From now a new life is opening out before you. Yours to enter into the kingdom I have prepared for you. The sunlight of My prese...	deb365	3	408	Aug 27, 2012 by Mr_David
	Revelation (Preview) So, I've had somewhat of a 'revelation'.. Not a huge revelation like when I realized I'm not angry with God anymore, more of a 'huh' type of thing. So as many of you may have read here lately, I've been struggling with anger and a lot of self pity, general confusion about things. So I'm thinking, thinking...	Col	8	466	Aug 27, 2012 by Rob84
	"and to another human being" (Preview) This is perhaps difficult, especially discussing our defects with another person. We think we have done well enough in admitting these things to ourselves. There is doubt about that. In actual practice, we usually find a solitary self-appraisal insufficient. I read this. Tommorrow I do my 5th...	Neophyte	17	847	Aug 27, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	MIP Oldtimer (Preview) I just realized I became an old timer after 500 posts...If I had known that I would have passed that mark on my first week here.....I guess this program is teaching me....Let things happen in God's time.	Stepchild	23	6334	Aug 27, 2012 by Tanin
	Taking control of emotions (Preview) Hey all.. So here I am, working on 4th step, still on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. My emotional maturity is embarrassing at times. I'm completely all over the place some days. Im generally pretty laid back and even- keeled, but every once in a while, MAN am I a train wreck lol. Here's the thing......	Col	16	575	Aug 27, 2012 by justadrunk
	not mine. (Preview) In reading and working through the final steps with deep reflection to the best of my ability, I've discovered some astonishing things. After I found my ex had shot himself in the head, there was fear, there was stress, there was trauma... but there was also... a fleeting moment of joy. Instantly I...	justadrunk	9	957	Aug 26, 2012 by justadrunk
	Not feeling good.... but I got a sponsor? (Preview) Mich here... went to the 7am meeting today. I shared about my drunk dream which I am sure everyone has had. Had a glass of wine in my dream. Then I thought oh no I have to start all over. What have I done. So, upset in the dream. Woke up glad I was sober. I am sure everybody has had this experience too. I...	mich	25	739	Aug 26, 2012 by Tanin
	Mich here... Update on my sponsor! (Preview) Hello. I went to my meeting the other day. Even as I drove there I was still on the fence about keeping my sponsor or talking with her. I got there and spoke to a women I trust and she informed me that it is my choice, but that the person I asked indeed has some issues. Don't we all. I felt bad. After the me...	mich	10	601	Aug 26, 2012 by mich
	Cinnamon toothpaste (Preview) I hate mint. Especially in toothpaste. So we bought cinnamon toothpaste. Now, after I brush my teeth (I do this morning, after work and bedtime) he asks, have you been drinking? Of course not. I'm not upset, I think it's funny. But my brain was like "now I can drink and blame it on toothpaste!"...	Neophyte	10	4460	Aug 26, 2012 by Pythonpappy
	5 months (Preview) I would love to say that I have 8 months sober today. But I don't. I came into this program just after Christmas, but I had a slip in March because I wasn't really going to meetings, and not being completely honest (mostly minimizing) with my sponsor. I went to 5 meetings in a row - thought I had things do...	justadrunk	12	543	Aug 26, 2012 by vixen
	This is a WE program. You have more people than you think! (Preview) I came home with the greatest feeling from a meeting today and it was because of a certain thing I realized and heard while I was at the club today, and it's the fact that this is a WE program. When us alcoholics are sick, we dont know that we have other people in our lives who care and who can relate to our pro...	Closer	6	663	Aug 26, 2012 by Stepchild
	Dr. Bob's Farewell Talk (Preview) Dr. Bob's Farewell TalkDr. Bob and Bill W. were co-founders of A.A. My good friends in A.A. and of A.A., I get a big thrill out of looking over a vast sea of faces like this with a feeling that possibly some small thing I did a number of years ago played an infinitely small part in making this meeting po...	justadrunk	5	1318	Aug 26, 2012 by Rob84
	Need a online sponsor (Preview) Hi im ashley,and im a alcoholic and im new, i need a online sponor that i can call or i have skype.i will go to any lengths to get this. im miserable and broken inside and need help,,i can go to meetings but have two toddlers and husband works.so	runnergrl82	14	1212	Aug 26, 2012 by Tanin
	Baptist Shampoo (Preview) BAPTIST SHAMPOOWhile shopping in a grocery store, two Baptist church ladies happened to passby the beer, wine and liquor section.One asked the other if she would like a beer. The second good Baptist sister answered that, indeed, it would be very nice to have one, but that she would feel unco...	Pythonpappy	3	611	Aug 25, 2012 by justadrunk
	Feelings are (Preview) and inner reaction to an outside event, my AC told me at the VA alcoholism center. He had asked me how I felt about a certain relationship event that had gone sideways for me and I responded "like shit". "So you feel like a warm, smelly lump of dog feces left on the front lawn" he r...	Jerry F	9	556	Aug 25, 2012 by justadrunk
	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	754	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	679	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	619	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	711	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	680	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	717	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	513	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	517	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	901	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	610	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	678	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	534	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	617	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	421	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	541	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	482	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	424	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	816	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	902	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	491	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	749	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	742	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	832	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	621	Aug 21, 2012 by Closer
	iam new and a week clean, need support, and friends (Preview) .	brenda78	13	506	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	967	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	1310	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	732	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	673	Aug 20, 2012 by mich
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