Alcoholics Anonymous

mosinjoe · mosinjoe

Hey folks, I just joined and am enjoying this forum immensely. I have been sober for a year and a few twenty four hours and have an alcoholic history that dates back to childhood. I'm 56 now. This site is helping me to understand AA and some of the issues that arise at meetings and with the recovery process...

Toad · Toad

Hi, She is pissed at God. She wants to die and escape her illnesses. She wants to live and to heal and she keeps getting older and weaker. Depth and Weight Wayne

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Obviously, the dilemma of the wanderer from faith is that of profound confusion. He thinks himself lost to the comfort of any conviction at all. He cannot attain in even a small degree the assurance of the believer, the agnostic, or the atheist. He is the bewildered one. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADIT...

Kigs · Kigs

While helping my mother pack, we came across a ring that we believe to be my grandfathers. He wasn't an alcoholic, but she said the ring was given to him for going with my grandmother to all her meetings and setting up the meetings (chairs, coffee, donuts, etc). I've tried to find more info on the ring...

gonee · gonee

You know many of us made resolutions never to lie or never to drink alcohol, but we always failed with our strong resolve. Just like we are powerless over alcohol, we are also powerless over our defects of character. That is why we have step6&7. When we are ready, then God removes. If we are not ready...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung and flowered. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 21-22 Defeated, and knowing it, I arrived at the doors of A.A., alone and afraid of the unknown....

Rainspa · Rainspa

I need some help. I want to talk to someone in the Sacramento Area that is very strong in the AA basics. Please respond.

louisa · louisa

Excerpt from a letter Bill wrote in 1958. "About this slip business - I would not be too discouraged. I think you are suffering a great deal from a needless guilt. God is not asking us to be successful. He is only asking us to try to be. That you surely are doing and have been doing.. So I would not stay...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our activities. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 How do I maintain my spiritual condition? For me it's quite simple: on a daily basis I ask my Higher Power to grant me the gift of sobriety for that day! I have talked to many alcoholics who h...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. --Albert Einstein Anger can be a healthy emotion, provided we don't wallow in it or attack other people. When we express anger honestly and without reservation, we can prevent walls of resentment from building up and blockin...

AmyWillWin · AmyWillWin

I found out last night that my mother was hospitalized Wednesday night for a supposed suicide attempt. This isn't her first one...ahhh, memories of holding her in my car by her hair driving her to the ER after she OD'ed when I was nineteen (she kept trying to jump out of the car), what a Brady Bunch mome...

jj · jj

just a heads up on the share by gonee, "step 2" very good reminder. jj/sheila

Gzepe · Gzepe

We often use the terms happy and joy (joyous in anticipation) synonymously. Happy is a reaction to the immediate environment and circumstance, truly a flash in the pan, as it made me happy, I was happy to see you ,that it really makes me happy. Consequently when things go a rye then that makes me unhappy...

Jorvick · Jorvick

I bet this has been posted loads of times... Initially I struggled to get a grip on page 69 of BB, I don't/didn't have a sex inventory but I got around it by changing the word sex to love. And boy was it there. I find nobody talks about it, except for the don't do it bit. I find it difficult to associate with pe...

Tina · Tina

Hi Just thought I'd drop in, I'm doing ok. Guess I have to get out of myself and start working on a few things. Missed a few meetings do to work and being sick for week and starting to feel it. Things are changing financially and feeling a bit a crunch out my pocket book, as well as my surroundings. So I gue...

FlyingSquirrel · FlyingSquirrel

Sorry I've been absent - my internet went bye bye, due to lack of interest in paying the bill (sigh, still working on certain areas) and due to the fact that I have become much more productive as a result, I'm probably not gonna have internet at my house for a good long time. But I'll check in once in awhile...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: When you do all the talking you only learn what you already know. --Anonymous One of the secrets for finding answers to any emotional problem is to talk with fellow members we can confide in fully. We don't need to look any farther than our sponsor or the members who are...

MAL · MAL

I'm really getting sick and tired of struggling with this disease and trying to make myself better for other people. I hate what I come home to every night - an alcoholic husband who looks like hell and sometimes can't put a sentence together. Now my precious son is coming home from Afghanistan and he...

AmyWillWin · AmyWillWin

Should I get a sponsor? First meeting last night, went wonderfully, can't wait to go back (really). I would really like to get to know the person somewhat, but I know it's vital that I get one asap. Does it HAVE to be same sex? Does that really matter? I don't really care either way but I wondered why t...

losinIt · losinIt

Hi All, I need help but don't know how to get it...There's no doubt I'm an alcoholic but I've also been diagnosed with a mood disorder (which I believe most of my extended paternal family suffers from in some form, along with alcoholism - go figure!). I'm on medication which has helped immensely but st...

Gzepe · Gzepe

Humble Pie Humility is a difficult subject at best we mostly associate humility with humiliation or being humble as being less than. I have come to the understanding that its not about thinking less of yourself, its about thinking of yourself less. For when we are in the service of our fellows are we no...

bikerbill · bikerbill

Is it a self fullfilling expectation? I'm running up to my soberversary and find I'm getting petulant (That's mardy), demanding, critical, all this negative vibe man! It happened like this last year and the year before and the year before that. I've taken a week off work, but need to get busy. It's jus...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too. Here we are not trying to help those we criticize; we are trying to proclaim our own righteousness. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 67 Sometimes I don't realize that I gossiped...

attilio · attilio

Today i missed my aa meeting and i realized the immense good a meeting does for me.I know how i feel when i get to a meeting and when i dont.I say AA is beautiful because of all the beautiful people that mustard all their courage to share to,to shake hands,to make the best coffee ever,to give of their time.f...

Just Toni · Just Toni

Hi Everyone, Was re-reading a few times a Post that got so involved with the Chips and what they mean to each of us. For me I was such a hard and fast relapser, for soooo long, about 7 years of relapsing, and in the first 2 or 3 years would go in and get a white 24 Chip..after that 3 years was too humiliating to...

AmyWillWin · AmyWillWin

Going to my first meeting tonight. Enough is enough. I've been in tears on and off all day, so I'll make sure to take some kleenex. I thought that if I admitted that I was an alcoholic then everyone would think I was weak because I couldn't just stop drinking on my own, but I no longer car what anyone else...

unhappy · unhappy

My partner has been out of rehab for 6 months now. He goes to AA but is in at the time of the meeting and out as soon as he leaves. I attend Al-alon and AA. I am becoming healthy and learning so much about the disesase. I try to encourage him by talking to him and telling him to think about decisions for mor...

chiquita2201 · chiquita2201

Hey all...I have been clean and sober since april 15, 2010. I was a binge drinker, but my addiction of choice was always prescription pills. Today, I decided to take 1 percocet that I found at my parents house (which was my usual source until a few years ago). I did not look for the bottle, or take the no...

Larry_H · Larry_H

If I was doing any better, I would need to be two people. I spent Tuesday morning in an operating room under general anesthesia in yet another failed attempt to remove a boulder size kidney stone from my right kidney. By the Grace of God and AA I woke up on the green side of the grass and sober. Over the yea...

anonprogrammer · anonprogrammer

Hi brothers and sisters, I've created an app to help AA members worldwide. Pay nothing other than what your phone company charges to send and receive texts. Text "AA" followed by your zip code to 484-843-1767 details at www.mytextupdate.com I apologize if this comes off as spam. I create...

gonee · gonee

What a precious gift my God chose to give me. Without sobriety in my life nothing worked. When I got sober in AA and started to live life again, I realised what it was just to breathe again. I stopped asking my God for petty little things. He had given me the most precious of all gifts SOBRIETY which was LIFE...

Just Toni · Just Toni

Good Morning, Just thinking of you and wishing you one wonderful day! 365 days at 24 hours each, so fantastic. BIg Hugs and Love being sent to you. Tonicakes

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: Misery is optional. We may have learned to be miserable, but we can choose to unlearn it. Though we can't control what happens to us, we can determine how we will interpret and react to what happens. We can moan about the things we don't like, using them as excuses for se...

AnDreaM · AnDreaM

Hi there. I got sober four months ago in Virginia and am now visiting my mother and step-father for 3 weeks in Switzerland. I know that doesn't sound that bad, rather good, but, they are driving me crazy and I find myself very angry at them just for the way they are. I'm finding that I am blaming them (in my h...

Jerry F · Jerry F

is an amazement Tom...That your Dad is also still here for you and for her is a large proof for me what I learned early on...this is a spiritual program...Only a spiritual program. We are touched by each other and those who came before us who trudged this same road to happy destiny. The prayers continu...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: When am I manipulative? Without understanding our motives, we can easily lapse into behavior aimed at manipulating others. Sulking is a means of letting others know we are displeased and forcing them to attempt to win our approval. Flattery is a false expression o...

Ennzo · Ennzo

Hi just a bit about myself Both my grandfathers drank to the extent it affected their families in a detrimental way My mums dad tended to have heavy sessions over the w/e and she had memories of he and her mum fighting when he got home from the pub-she used to dread it My dad`s dad spent most evenings down th...

Jorvick · Jorvick

Sorry if this has been done before.... I went for the spiritual side quite early on .... but not christian(/abrahamist) but more obscure religion. The only advice I've heard about is to not go it alone... I've made initial contact with a local group but I'm not sure their exact leanings.. (The reply st...

Jerry F · Jerry F

Thinking about Connie and yourself this morning and continuing the focus and prayers. Will take you both to the morning meeting and sit detached while HP attends you both. (((((hugs)))))

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: It only takes one person to change your life - you. --Ruth Casey Change is not easy, but it's absolutely unavoidable. Doors will close. Barriers will surface. Frustrations will mount. Nothing stays the same forever, and it's such folly to wish otherwise. Growth ac...

Tina · Tina

Just dropping in To Wish everyone on this side of the Canadian Border a HAPPY THANKSGIVING. And thankyou for being here. Hugs Tina

Carlotta · Carlotta

Hello you ole timers in AA:It will be one year on Oct 12th since my last drink, AA has been very good to me as I attended at least one meeting a week for the past 12 months. I am very happy to be sober and out of the depression, loneliness, etc but my sponsor has been haunting me to sign up for a one-year recogni...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Our first objective will be the development of self-restraint. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91 My drive to work provides me with an opportunity for self-examination. One day while making this trip, I began to review my progress in sobriety, and was not happy with what I saw. I hoped that, as...

texasmama · texasmama

Hello everyone, I am new to the board and to AA. I haven't been to a meeting but need and plan to. Quick. I just want to say that I am so very tired of the things I miss out on because I am drunk all the time. Like time with my small children (the best most important time of their lives), like time with my husban...

bikerbill · bikerbill

So what changed. After the previous post, I gave myself a stiff talking to, listed on paper what I have to be grateful for and called my Mum. It's her birthday on Sunday (85) so we had a good talk about her health (it's good),what she's gonna do today (Go for lunch with other brother)and how my big brother i...

mikef · mikef

For today I will continue to stop just using God and concentrate on God using me to carry His will! We will not tell God what we want but put ourselves in prayer and meditation so we can know what He wants.....We will pray not trying to change His will but finding out what His will is......The God of your und...

Gzepe · Gzepe

step - thirteen The Twelve and Twelve says To think of liking lust seems impossible. But how many men and women speak love with their lips, and believe what they say, so that they can hide lust in a dark corner of their minds? And even while staying within conventional bounds, many people have to admit th...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: Persons who habitually drink water become just as good gourmets about water as wine drinkers on wine. --Alexandre Dumas How fortunate are those among us who have the ability to turn things around - to transform liabilities into assets. Life deals them lemons: they...

kld47 · kld47

Hi All Here we go again. Now I have Red Eye--it is like Pink Eye but twice as bad. It makes me look like I am high on something. I have had to wear sunglasses for the past 3 days. Luckly they are rose colored so it makes it hard for anyone to see what my eyes really look like. At first I thought it was a med react...

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	Greetings and a question... (Preview) Hey folks, I just joined and am enjoying this forum immensely. I have been sober for a year and a few twenty four hours and have an alcoholic history that dates back to childhood. I'm 56 now. This site is helping me to understand AA and some of the issues that arise at meetings and with the recovery process...	mosinjoe	18	1063	Oct 20, 2010 by John
	Paradox (Preview) Hi, She is pissed at God. She wants to die and escape her illnesses. She wants to live and to heal and she keeps getting older and weaker. Depth and Weight Wayne	Toad	4	697	Oct 19, 2010 by leeu
	Daily Reflections ~ Solace For Confusion & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Obviously, the dilemma of the wanderer from faith is that of profound confusion. He thinks himself lost to the comfort of any conviction at all. He cannot attain in even a small degree the assurance of the believer, the agnostic, or the atheist. He is the bewildered one. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADIT...	Sobrietyspell	0	558	Oct 19, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	Found an AA Ring..... (Preview) While helping my mother pack, we came across a ring that we believe to be my grandfathers. He wasn't an alcoholic, but she said the ring was given to him for going with my grandmother to all her meetings and setting up the meetings (chairs, coffee, donuts, etc). I've tried to find more info on the ring...	Kigs	3	920	Oct 19, 2010 by Dave Harm
	Steps 6&7 (Preview) You know many of us made resolutions never to lie or never to drink alcohol, but we always failed with our strong resolve. Just like we are powerless over alcohol, we are also powerless over our defects of character. That is why we have step6&7. When we are ready, then God removes. If we are not ready...	gonee	9	1211	Oct 19, 2010 by Jorvick
	Daily Reflections ~ A.A.'s "Main Taproot" & 24hrs a Day (Preview) The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung and flowered. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 21-22 Defeated, and knowing it, I arrived at the doors of A.A., alone and afraid of the unknown....	Sobrietyspell	0	1046	Oct 18, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	California Help (Preview) I need some help. I want to talk to someone in the Sacramento Area that is very strong in the AA basics. Please respond.	Rainspa	1	486	Oct 18, 2010 by Rainspa
	Hopefully, comforting words ...... (Preview) Excerpt from a letter Bill wrote in 1958. "About this slip business - I would not be too discouraged. I think you are suffering a great deal from a needless guilt. God is not asking us to be successful. He is only asking us to try to be. That you surely are doing and have been doing.. So I would not stay...	louisa	4	1048	Oct 18, 2010 by AmyWillWin
	Daily Reflections ~ A Daily Tune-Up & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our activities. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 How do I maintain my spiritual condition? For me it's quite simple: on a daily basis I ask my Higher Power to grant me the gift of sobriety for that day! I have talked to many alcoholics who h...	Sobrietyspell	0	452	Oct 17, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	Anger can be a healthy emotion, provided we don't wallow in it or attack other people (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. --Albert Einstein Anger can be a healthy emotion, provided we don't wallow in it or attack other people. When we express anger honestly and without reservation, we can prevent walls of resentment from building up and blockin...	Larry_H	4	1294	Oct 17, 2010 by Rainspa
	As if I need MORE of a reason (Preview) I found out last night that my mother was hospitalized Wednesday night for a supposed suicide attempt. This isn't her first one...ahhh, memories of holding her in my car by her hair driving her to the ER after she OD'ed when I was nineteen (she kept trying to jump out of the car), what a Brady Bunch mome...	AmyWillWin	12	869	Oct 16, 2010 by SteveP
	PLEASE READ STEP 2 BY GONEE.... (Preview) just a heads up on the share by gonee, "step 2" very good reminder. jj/sheila	jj	0	351	Oct 16, 2010 by jj
	Happy Joyous and free (Preview) We often use the terms happy and joy (joyous in anticipation) synonymously. Happy is a reaction to the immediate environment and circumstance, truly a flash in the pan, as it made me happy, I was happy to see you ,that it really makes me happy. Consequently when things go a rye then that makes me unhappy...	Gzepe	2	1391	Oct 15, 2010 by gonee
	Relationships.. (women!) (Preview) I bet this has been posted loads of times... Initially I struggled to get a grip on page 69 of BB, I don't/didn't have a sex inventory but I got around it by changing the word sex to love. And boy was it there. I find nobody talks about it, except for the don't do it bit. I find it difficult to associate with pe...	Jorvick	6	1408	Oct 15, 2010 by jj
	Morning (Preview) Hi Just thought I'd drop in, I'm doing ok. Guess I have to get out of myself and start working on a few things. Missed a few meetings do to work and being sick for week and starting to feel it. Things are changing financially and feeling a bit a crunch out my pocket book, as well as my surroundings. So I gue...	Tina	4	530	Oct 15, 2010 by mikef
	HI EVERYONE! (Preview) Sorry I've been absent - my internet went bye bye, due to lack of interest in paying the bill (sigh, still working on certain areas) and due to the fact that I have become much more productive as a result, I'm probably not gonna have internet at my house for a good long time. But I'll check in once in awhile...	FlyingSquirrel	5	552	Oct 15, 2010 by Mike B.
	When you do all the talking you only learn what you already know (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: When you do all the talking you only learn what you already know. --Anonymous One of the secrets for finding answers to any emotional problem is to talk with fellow members we can confide in fully. We don't need to look any farther than our sponsor or the members who are...	Larry_H	2	913	Oct 15, 2010 by Mike B.
	Sometimes, is it just better to quit and say, I've had a good life? (Preview) I'm really getting sick and tired of struggling with this disease and trying to make myself better for other people. I hate what I come home to every night - an alcoholic husband who looks like hell and sometimes can't put a sentence together. Now my precious son is coming home from Afghanistan and he...	MAL	9	1189	Oct 15, 2010 by mikef
	How soon? (Preview) Should I get a sponsor? First meeting last night, went wonderfully, can't wait to go back (really). I would really like to get to know the person somewhat, but I know it's vital that I get one asap. Does it HAVE to be same sex? Does that really matter? I don't really care either way but I wondered why t...	AmyWillWin	15	977	Oct 15, 2010 by louisa
	New to all this... (Preview) Hi All, I need help but don't know how to get it...There's no doubt I'm an alcoholic but I've also been diagnosed with a mood disorder (which I believe most of my extended paternal family suffers from in some form, along with alcoholism - go figure!). I'm on medication which has helped immensely but st...	losinIt	9	691	Oct 15, 2010 by louisa
	Humble Pie (Preview) Humble Pie Humility is a difficult subject at best we mostly associate humility with humiliation or being humble as being less than. I have come to the understanding that its not about thinking less of yourself, its about thinking of yourself less. For when we are in the service of our fellows are we no...	Gzepe	2	828	Oct 15, 2010 by louisa
	I'm a real mardy arse at the moment. (Preview) Is it a self fullfilling expectation? I'm running up to my soberversary and find I'm getting petulant (That's mardy), demanding, critical, all this negative vibe man! It happened like this last year and the year before and the year before that. I've taken a week off work, but need to get busy. It's jus...	bikerbill	2	589	Oct 15, 2010 by Jorvick
	Daily Reflections ~ My Checklist, Not Yours & 24 hrs a Day (Preview) Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too. Here we are not trying to help those we criticize; we are trying to proclaim our own righteousness. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 67 Sometimes I don't realize that I gossiped...	Sobrietyspell	0	665	Oct 14, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	AA is beautiful (Preview) Today i missed my aa meeting and i realized the immense good a meeting does for me.I know how i feel when i get to a meeting and when i dont.I say AA is beautiful because of all the beautiful people that mustard all their courage to share to,to shake hands,to make the best coffee ever,to give of their time.f...	attilio	4	516	Oct 14, 2010 by Jerry F
	Most of us are IN recovery from Alcoholism, but we still have different preceptions (Preview) Hi Everyone, Was re-reading a few times a Post that got so involved with the Chips and what they mean to each of us. For me I was such a hard and fast relapser, for soooo long, about 7 years of relapsing, and in the first 2 or 3 years would go in and get a white 24 Chip..after that 3 years was too humiliating to...	Just Toni	10	1432	Oct 14, 2010 by Klaatu
	New to Sobriety (Preview) Going to my first meeting tonight. Enough is enough. I've been in tears on and off all day, so I'll make sure to take some kleenex. I thought that if I admitted that I was an alcoholic then everyone would think I was weak because I couldn't just stop drinking on my own, but I no longer car what anyone else...	AmyWillWin	17	1042	Oct 14, 2010 by Klaatu
	How can I encourage my partner to make healthy decision's (Preview) My partner has been out of rehab for 6 months now. He goes to AA but is in at the time of the meeting and out as soon as he leaves. I attend Al-alon and AA. I am becoming healthy and learning so much about the disesase. I try to encourage him by talking to him and telling him to think about decisions for mor...	unhappy	4	864	Oct 14, 2010 by pinkchip
	Do I need to pick up a 24 hour chip and start my time over? (Preview) Hey all...I have been clean and sober since april 15, 2010. I was a binge drinker, but my addiction of choice was always prescription pills. Today, I decided to take 1 percocet that I found at my parents house (which was my usual source until a few years ago). I did not look for the bottle, or take the no...	chiquita2201	9	1557	Oct 14, 2010 by chiquita2201
	If I was doing any better, I would need to be two people (Preview) If I was doing any better, I would need to be two people. I spent Tuesday morning in an operating room under general anesthesia in yet another failed attempt to remove a boulder size kidney stone from my right kidney. By the Grace of God and AA I woke up on the green side of the grass and sober. Over the yea...	Larry_H	7	1263	Oct 14, 2010 by AmyWillWin
	Find a meeting anywhere in the US by text. FREE (Preview) Hi brothers and sisters, I've created an app to help AA members worldwide. Pay nothing other than what your phone company charges to send and receive texts. Text "AA" followed by your zip code to 484-843-1767 details at www.mytextupdate.com I apologize if this comes off as spam. I create...	anonprogrammer	0	465	Oct 14, 2010 by anonprogrammer
	Sobriety- a precious gift (Preview) What a precious gift my God chose to give me. Without sobriety in my life nothing worked. When I got sober in AA and started to live life again, I realised what it was just to breathe again. I stopped asking my God for petty little things. He had given me the most precious of all gifts SOBRIETY which was LIFE...	gonee	1	633	Oct 13, 2010 by Klaatu
	Congratulations on your 1st Soberversary, CARLOTTA !!! (Preview) Good Morning, Just thinking of you and wishing you one wonderful day! 365 days at 24 hours each, so fantastic. BIg Hugs and Love being sent to you. Tonicakes	Just Toni	9	930	Oct 13, 2010 by carlasober
	We may have learned to be miserable, but we can choose to unlearn it (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: Misery is optional. We may have learned to be miserable, but we can choose to unlearn it. Though we can't control what happens to us, we can determine how we will interpret and react to what happens. We can moan about the things we don't like, using them as excuses for se...	Larry_H	3	604	Oct 13, 2010 by Bob K
	New to recovery and stuck in close quarters with family - they're driving me crazy! (Preview) Hi there. I got sober four months ago in Virginia and am now visiting my mother and step-father for 3 weeks in Switzerland. I know that doesn't sound that bad, rather good, but, they are driving me crazy and I find myself very angry at them just for the way they are. I'm finding that I am blaming them (in my h...	AnDreaM	10	1088	Oct 12, 2010 by Rainspa
	Tom...That your Dad has been there for her also... (Preview) is an amazement Tom...That your Dad is also still here for you and for her is a large proof for me what I learned early on...this is a spiritual program...Only a spiritual program. We are touched by each other and those who came before us who trudged this same road to happy destiny. The prayers continu...	Jerry F	2	457	Oct 12, 2010 by ferrisdp
	Daily Reflections ~ Unremitting Inventories & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p...	Sobrietyspell	0	389	Oct 12, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	Manipulative behavior is almost always selfish behavior (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: When am I manipulative? Without understanding our motives, we can easily lapse into behavior aimed at manipulating others. Sulking is a means of letting others know we are displeased and forcing them to attempt to win our approval. Flattery is a false expression o...	Larry_H	3	2869	Oct 12, 2010 by louisa
	Hello everyone (Preview) Hi just a bit about myself Both my grandfathers drank to the extent it affected their families in a detrimental way My mums dad tended to have heavy sessions over the w/e and she had memories of he and her mum fighting when he got home from the pub-she used to dread it My dad`s dad spent most evenings down th...	Ennzo	10	782	Oct 12, 2010 by bikerbill
	Other religions (Preview) Sorry if this has been done before.... I went for the spiritual side quite early on .... but not christian(/abrahamist) but more obscure religion. The only advice I've heard about is to not go it alone... I've made initial contact with a local group but I'm not sure their exact leanings.. (The reply st...	Jorvick	12	814	Oct 12, 2010 by Jorvick
	Prayers still coming Tom... (Preview) Thinking about Connie and yourself this morning and continuing the focus and prayers. Will take you both to the morning meeting and sit detached while HP attends you both. (((((hugs)))))	Jerry F	9	785	Oct 11, 2010 by gonee
	It only takes one person to change your life - you (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: It only takes one person to change your life - you. --Ruth Casey Change is not easy, but it's absolutely unavoidable. Doors will close. Barriers will surface. Frustrations will mount. Nothing stays the same forever, and it's such folly to wish otherwise. Growth ac...	Larry_H	1	1445	Oct 11, 2010 by Rainspa
	Hi (Preview) Just dropping in To Wish everyone on this side of the Canadian Border a HAPPY THANKSGIVING. And thankyou for being here. Hugs Tina	Tina	3	558	Oct 11, 2010 by Just Toni
	Don't Want Recognition (closed) (Preview) Hello you ole timers in AA:It will be one year on Oct 12th since my last drink, AA has been very good to me as I attended at least one meeting a week for the past 12 months. I am very happy to be sober and out of the depression, loneliness, etc but my sponsor has been haunting me to sign up for a one-year recogni...	Carlotta	17	1216	Oct 11, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	Daily Reflections ~ Self-Restraint & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Our first objective will be the development of self-restraint. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91 My drive to work provides me with an opportunity for self-examination. One day while making this trip, I began to review my progress in sobriety, and was not happy with what I saw. I hoped that, as...	Sobrietyspell	0	591	Oct 11, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	Just Beginning (Preview) Hello everyone, I am new to the board and to AA. I haven't been to a meeting but need and plan to. Quick. I just want to say that I am so very tired of the things I miss out on because I am drunk all the time. Like time with my small children (the best most important time of their lives), like time with my husban...	texasmama	9	924	Oct 11, 2010 by chiquita2201
	here we go, feeling better,not such a mardy arse after all (Preview) So what changed. After the previous post, I gave myself a stiff talking to, listed on paper what I have to be grateful for and called my Mum. It's her birthday on Sunday (85) so we had a good talk about her health (it's good),what she's gonna do today (Go for lunch with other brother)and how my big brother i...	bikerbill	1	589	Oct 10, 2010 by turninggrey
	God's will before our own! (Preview) For today I will continue to stop just using God and concentrate on God using me to carry His will! We will not tell God what we want but put ourselves in prayer and meditation so we can know what He wants.....We will pray not trying to change His will but finding out what His will is......The God of your und...	mikef	2	583	Oct 10, 2010 by Dave Harm
	Step Thirteen (Preview) step - thirteen The Twelve and Twelve says To think of liking lust seems impossible. But how many men and women speak love with their lips, and believe what they say, so that they can hide lust in a dark corner of their minds? And even while staying within conventional bounds, many people have to admit th...	Gzepe	31	6234	Oct 10, 2010 by Gzepe
	We can't respond authentically to the moment if we're concealing the truth (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: Persons who habitually drink water become just as good gourmets about water as wine drinkers on wine. --Alexandre Dumas How fortunate are those among us who have the ability to turn things around - to transform liabilities into assets. Life deals them lemons: they...	Larry_H	0	522	Oct 10, 2010 by Larry_H
	Eye Trouble (Preview) Hi All Here we go again. Now I have Red Eye--it is like Pink Eye but twice as bad. It makes me look like I am high on something. I have had to wear sunglasses for the past 3 days. Luckly they are rose colored so it makes it hard for anyone to see what my eyes really look like. At first I thought it was a med react...	kld47	6	638	Oct 9, 2010 by Just Toni
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