Alcoholics Anonymous

TwelveSteps · TwelveSteps

This documentary was brought up briefly way back in the threads when it first came out, but I'm wondering if anyone has seen it? I can't find a way to watch it besides paying $30 to buy the DVD, but I was thinking I might do that and then donate it to my local library. It would seem like a good resource to have,...

leeu · leeu

Such a great trip to my soul city, and long-overdue renewed bonding with my sister. Very grateful for all the blessings we were given on our trip, especially hooking up with people decades sober & straight, from back in the day! NH feels like a dead zone in comparison to NY, so I am needing to work on n...

soberdrunk · soberdrunk

For some reason these words keep ringing in my head throughout the day. I know it's a one day at a time program. The Book says we have a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Think I got that right. Anyways, I go to a bunch of meetings, pretty much every day and this isn'...

Jamie D · Jamie D

So it was rainy today and it affected my work and as a result I've had the day off. Short on funds at the moment so rather than stay home bored and broke I thought I'd go to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. Did something today when asked to share I never thought I would. I said " Hello my name is Jamie...

gladlee · gladlee

"My children, I come. Hearts eager to do My will, send out a call that ever I find irresistible. I know no barrier then. Resignation to My will keeps Me barred out from more hearts than does unbelief. Can anything be such a crime against love as being resigned? My will should be welcomed with a g...

Almedingen · Almedingen

I'm a year and a half sober and feel so lost. I look in the mirror and don't recognize myself. I feel empty in the few relationships I do have and I don't know what my life goals are anymore because I have changed so much since completing the 12 steps. Has anyone else felt this way? Any replies will be much a...

Byrd · Byrd

I'm now 75 days clean from drugs and alcohol....I'm so thankful for the grace...this is not an easy journey but then again something worth doing never is...my problems haven't gone away but I now can at least face them with a clear head. My relationship with my wife whose also an alcoholic is drifting a...

gonee · gonee

This is such a comfort to me, knowing that God could, knowing that He has the capacity to. That He has all the resources and that no human being can mess that up. Knowing that He is the ultimate authority. That He will authorise circumstances to make me grow. Knowing that He will not put me beyond my endura...

TwelveSteps · TwelveSteps

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/...

bikerbill · bikerbill

That time of year again. Bonus time. Was on target for 12.5% bonus at the end of February. Final figures are in. 8%. How did I drop 4.5% in one month? apparantly there is the fiddle factor, the How - How did I achieve my targets, apparantly not in an honourable way, so my bonus rate has been revised down. I'l...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of the normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 66 Dubious luxury. How often have I remembered those words. Its not just anger thats best lef...

Gzepe · Gzepe

If Bill was the sail Dr. Bob was the anchor The least two likely of men , as they were less than kin and more than kind, more than friends and less than brothers. Bill was the consummate entrepreneur, someone of import I reckon, a mover and a shaker with a masculine allure was his conjured up se...

LinBaba · LinBaba

This was an answer to a PM someone sent me, so I thought it was time for this to be reposted here, some of it was written by a friend of mine, the first part was written by me, but none of this is "mine", this is just stuff I have heard1, 2, 3, slip 1, 2, 3, slip is called the "AA Waltz", we se...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 64 As I look at myself practicing the Fourth Step, it is e...

ratdog113 · ratdog113

Hi guys, I know it's usually bad internet etiquette to start a forum post without lurking around the site a bit first but I'm kind of drunk and I apologize for my rudeness. So without further ado: Hi, my name is Leslie and I'm pretty sure I'm an alcoholic.... or at the very least have some serious alcohol...

gladlee · gladlee

"Obey My commands. They are steps in the ladder that leads to success. Above all, keep calm, unmoved. Go back into the silence to recover this calm when it is lost even for one moment. You accomplish more by this than by all the activities of a long day. At all cost, keep calm, you can help nobod...

bikerbill · bikerbill

One of those mornings. The ones where you wake up just before the alarm goes off and lay there. You know you should feel grateful for where and how you are and what you have, but you just lay there. Eyes wide, alone, letting your mind wander unproductively. or at least you think it's unproductive. Tune ou...

Aquaman · Aquaman

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2063930,00.htmlWho's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe and The Lost Weekend. I bet We The Peopl...

Sunnylost · Sunnylost

Hi I just need someone to talk to right now. I don't know where to begin. Ever since I was 17 I wanted to be a bartender. I was one on and off I am 25 now. I began partying with high school friends my junior year. I was 15 or16. I buy beautiful cocktail dresses... For when I go to places to drink. I have pretty...

gladlee · gladlee

"Love and laugh. Make your world the happier for your being in it. Love and rejoice on the grey days. Be gentle with all. Try to see the heart I see, to know the pain and difficulty of the other life that I know. Try, before you interview anyone or speak to anyone, to ask Me to act as interpreter bet...

Jamie D · Jamie D

What are you supposed to do when your wife has never seperated from her mother emotionally or mentally and all her opinions are her mothers ???? This includes the "truth" about people places and things and sometimes they are important things that affect our marriage. I've tried pointin...

bikerbill · bikerbill

tonight that special someone called and asked me to help. Asked me to take her to a meeting. So I took her and she had her drinking hat on. Somethimg wrong with this picture and I so desperately wanted to fix her.. But a flash of reality. I'm as powerless over alcohol re:her as I am with me. Nothing I could do...

Just Toni · Just Toni

Really dont know why I titled this the way I did, but whatever. When GOD pulled my up and out of gutter, many years ago, the road has sure been full of the ups and downs in life....so greatful to my HP, that I have lived to expience them all, good and bad. This current update is neither good nor bad, it is well...

TwelveSteps · TwelveSteps

I was at a meeting last week where the speaker basically pressured the one newcomer to share (I HATE when people do that!). It turns out she had had years of sobriety, went out, and now has terminal cancer. She came back because she wants to die sober, and she wants to be fully present and not drinking...

gladlee · gladlee

"I am your Guide. Strength and help will come to you; just trust Me wholly. Fear not. I am ever more ready to hear than you to ask. Walk in my ways and know that help will come. Man's need is God's chance to help. Man's need is God's golden opportunity for him of letting his faith find expression. ...

Jerry F · Jerry F

Another event where I rely on experience and God and program. As it happens I was on my way to the bank to join a couple other members of my Sunday group to sign checking account cards. We're changing treasurers and alternates and I was stepping up. Made a decision to take the shortest route even with l...

bikerbill · bikerbill

It's pretty small but it's a sketch of a proposed tattoo that someone would like. I've suggested that it should wait a year tho' as tats are pretty permanent. Text reads 'it's not who we are that holds us back, it's who we think we're not.' If anyone can get the meaning of that, then let me know! Other than...

bikerbill · bikerbill

Talking with a civvy buddy last night, he suggested that I was having a mid life crisis and recommended that I look for the Mid Life Crisis forum. I'll look for that later. Over here, MLC has particular negative and comedic connotations aong the lines of: Mid Life crisis - grow your hair, dress too youn...

bikerbill · bikerbill

Just got an e mail from Fleet Management, telling me that because I have done 57 miles less than the annual requirement for provision of a business needs car and have used it for 13 days less than the requirement, then either I hand the car back by 11th June or submit a new business case. So the business cas...

gladlee · gladlee

"Remember that My followers are to be a peculiar people, separated from among others. Different ways, a different standard of living different customs, actuated by different motives. Pray for love. Pray for My spirit of love to be showered on all you meet. Deal with yourself severely. Le...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

To see how erratic emotions victimized us often took a long time. We could perceive them quickly in others, but only slowly in ourselves. First of all, we had to admit that we had many of these defects, even though such disclosures were painful and humiliating. Where other people were concerned, we ha...

bikerbill · bikerbill

.....just had a long chat with one of my civvy buddies. His wife died 4 years ago and he just found an old letter she wrote him several years ago and read a bit out to me. She said'.....and the worst place to live is on a pedestal.' Blew me away.

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

. . . where alcohol has been involved, we have been strangely insane. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 38 Alcoholism required me to drink, whether I wanted to or not. Insanity dominated my life and was the essence of my disease. It robbed me of the freedom of choice over drinking and, therefore, robbed me of al...

puzzled · puzzled

I drank again in February after 3 and-a-half years due to my panic attacks. I managed to get back to a few meetings but wasn't enjoying them, still I made myself show up. A Consultant psychiatrist put me on an anti-depressant meant to help with panic disorder, but initially - I've been on it 4 and-a-hal...

barisax · barisax

Over the years I've seen several people go through an accident, injury or surgery while sober, only to become addicted to pain pills in the process which led to a relapse on alcohol. So here I am getting older, generally in good health except for being diabetic, and I get hit with back to back things th...

turninggrey · turninggrey

http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-wakes-up-from-bender-with-financial-problems-s,19858/?utm_source=recentnews-- Edited by turninggrey on Wednesday 6th of April 2011 08:35:45 PM

TwelveSteps · TwelveSteps

Hi all, I just have to share my joy that I finally convinced my parents to go to their first AlAnon meeting last night! I'm an only child, which I think has impeded their ability to draw boundaries about my alcoholism, even though I'm 36 and live 400 miles away -- they try to make it THEIR problem, rather th...

leeu · leeu

Went to "Living Now" on St. Mark's Place (old stomping grounds-East Village). This meeting has been running continuously for 40-some odd years, I think. My sister presented me with my 28th medallion (they don't normally do chips, so the crowd enjoyed the surprize as much as I did)...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

. . . let us not suppose even for an instant that we are not under constraint. . . . Our former tyrant, King Alcohol, always stands ready again to clutch us to him. Therefore, freedom from alcohol is the great must that has to be achieved, else we go mad or die. As Bill Sees It, p. 134 When drinking, I lived in s...

Mad_Jasper · Mad_Jasper

After several visits, I have began attending the FreeLife meetings at church. They are very similar to AA, but with more emphasis on Christ and the overall groups meeting encompasses alcoholic, narcotics, divorce, etc. We break off an focus on our addiction/problem. I have what essentially is...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

The Story & Struggle of Me.. Ever since I was a little child I never knew who I was. I felt special, connected, different, lost. I have been & so often felt confused. I thought something brilliant might happen with me as I grew & mastered this world. As it happened, this didn't happen & i...

Jamie D · Jamie D

I've seen it shared before on this board in a post by another member that at about the five year point in a members sobriety things "can" get hellish and turbulent emotionally. I've also heard Bob Earl of whom I am a great fan, say once before in one of his recorded talks ( not the about you...

gladlee · gladlee

"Be calm, be true, be quiet. I watch over you. Rest in My love. Joy in the very beauty of holiness. You are Mine. Deliverance is here for you, but thankfulness and joy open the gates. Try in all things to be very glad, very happy, very thankful. It is not to quiet resignation I give My blessings,...

bikerbill · bikerbill

Got a call from my ex wife wanting to know who was in the car wiith me. I declined to answer beyond not your concern. Then she had a tirade of abuse about me seeing some other woman. I cut her off. Turned the phone off. Unplugged the landline. After a bit when I was on my own I turned the mobile back on and liste...

barisax · barisax

Most of us have heard this in AA meetings. I heard it fairly early on, and for some reason I got it. You hear the same idea expressed many different ways, i.e. "simple pleasures" and all that, but this particular wording sunk in to me. LinBaba mentions it in his post, i.e. happiness lies in...

LinBaba · LinBaba

One of my favorite all time books about a spiritual path is "A Path With Heart" by Jack Kornfield, he was a college student in the sixties who came from a "good family" his father was a biophysicist who developed artificial hearts and artificial lungs, worked on the space progra...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us. We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves. By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p.43 Today I a...

Just Toni · Just Toni

Hi, Someone just called me and said there was an editorial on AA, in this mornings paper, that AA has become the top organization as far as the people being the most intelligent, even used the words Brillant, and gifted, and creative people ever to gather in one organization. Also went on to say that...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldnt control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldnt make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldnt seem to be of real help to other people. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANO...

Klaatu · Klaatu

It dawned on me this evening at my HG meeting (sponsor pointed it out) that today, April 4, 2009 makes it 2 years of soberiety. I'm grateful to the fellowship and all the support I've recieved from friends (including you all here) to help me achieve it. Here's a bit of irony for you... I'm sitting here a...

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	Documentary, "Drunk in Public" (Preview) This documentary was brought up briefly way back in the threads when it first came out, but I'm wondering if anyone has seen it? I can't find a way to watch it besides paying $30 to buy the DVD, but I was thinking I might do that and then donate it to my local library. It would seem like a good resource to have,...	TwelveSteps	5	7108	Apr 19, 2011 by zzworldontheweb
	Higher Powered (Preview) Such a great trip to my soul city, and long-overdue renewed bonding with my sister. Very grateful for all the blessings we were given on our trip, especially hooking up with people decades sober & straight, from back in the day! NH feels like a dead zone in comparison to NY, so I am needing to work on n...	leeu	4	748	Apr 19, 2011 by leeu
	Daily Reprieve (Preview) For some reason these words keep ringing in my head throughout the day. I know it's a one day at a time program. The Book says we have a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Think I got that right. Anyways, I go to a bunch of meetings, pretty much every day and this isn'...	soberdrunk	8	2398	Apr 19, 2011 by recovered55
	Getting Dumber and feeling more serene (Preview) So it was rainy today and it affected my work and as a result I've had the day off. Short on funds at the moment so rather than stay home bored and broke I thought I'd go to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. Did something today when asked to share I never thought I would. I said " Hello my name is Jamie...	Jamie D	8	1146	Apr 19, 2011 by Jamie D
	God Calling - The Two Joys (Preview) "My children, I come. Hearts eager to do My will, send out a call that ever I find irresistible. I know no barrier then. Resignation to My will keeps Me barred out from more hearts than does unbelief. Can anything be such a crime against love as being resigned? My will should be welcomed with a g...	gladlee	1	914	Apr 18, 2011 by Mr_David
	Trouble with relationships (Preview) I'm a year and a half sober and feel so lost. I look in the mirror and don't recognize myself. I feel empty in the few relationships I do have and I don't know what my life goals are anymore because I have changed so much since completing the 12 steps. Has anyone else felt this way? Any replies will be much a...	Almedingen	7	989	Apr 18, 2011 by pinkchip
	75 days (Preview) I'm now 75 days clean from drugs and alcohol....I'm so thankful for the grace...this is not an easy journey but then again something worth doing never is...my problems haven't gone away but I now can at least face them with a clear head. My relationship with my wife whose also an alcoholic is drifting a...	Byrd	11	1254	Apr 18, 2011 by pinkchip
	...that God could... BB Pg 60. (Preview) This is such a comfort to me, knowing that God could, knowing that He has the capacity to. That He has all the resources and that no human being can mess that up. Knowing that He is the ultimate authority. That He will authorise circumstances to make me grow. Knowing that He will not put me beyond my endura...	gonee	7	983	Apr 18, 2011 by Mike B.
	NPR on "wet houses" (Preview) http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/...	TwelveSteps	1	1150	Apr 17, 2011 by Mr_David
	Grumble (Preview) That time of year again. Bonus time. Was on target for 12.5% bonus at the end of February. Final figures are in. 8%. How did I drop 4.5% in one month? apparantly there is the fiddle factor, the How - How did I achieve my targets, apparantly not in an honourable way, so my bonus rate has been revised down. I'l...	bikerbill	5	1098	Apr 16, 2011 by Jerry F
	Daily Reflections ~ Anger: A "Dubious Luxury" & 24hrs a Day (Preview) If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of the normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 66 Dubious luxury. How often have I remembered those words. Its not just anger thats best lef...	Sobrietyspell	1	3609	Apr 16, 2011 by Mr_David
	If Bill was the sail Dr. Bob was the anchor (Preview) If Bill was the sail Dr. Bob was the anchor The least two likely of men , as they were less than kin and more than kind, more than friends and less than brothers. Bill was the consummate entrepreneur, someone of import I reckon, a mover and a shaker with a masculine allure was his conjured up se...	Gzepe	2	1367	Apr 16, 2011 by Mr_David
	AA Waltz/Absitinence is the leading cause of relapse (Preview) This was an answer to a PM someone sent me, so I thought it was time for this to be reposted here, some of it was written by a friend of mine, the first part was written by me, but none of this is "mine", this is just stuff I have heard1, 2, 3, slip 1, 2, 3, slip is called the "AA Waltz", we se...	LinBaba	8	1797	Apr 16, 2011 by mental defect
	Daily Reflections ~ Resentment is the "Number One Offender" & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 64 As I look at myself practicing the Fourth Step, it is e...	Sobrietyspell	2	4194	Apr 15, 2011 by Guelph_Doug
	Is there a middle ground? (Preview) Hi guys, I know it's usually bad internet etiquette to start a forum post without lurking around the site a bit first but I'm kind of drunk and I apologize for my rudeness. So without further ado: Hi, my name is Leslie and I'm pretty sure I'm an alcoholic.... or at the very least have some serious alcohol...	ratdog113	9	1505	Apr 15, 2011 by Guelph_Doug
	God Calling - Never Feel Inadequate (Preview) "Obey My commands. They are steps in the ladder that leads to success. Above all, keep calm, unmoved. Go back into the silence to recover this calm when it is lost even for one moment. You accomplish more by this than by all the activities of a long day. At all cost, keep calm, you can help nobod...	gladlee	1	693	Apr 15, 2011 by Mr_David
	One of those mornings. (Preview) One of those mornings. The ones where you wake up just before the alarm goes off and lay there. You know you should feel grateful for where and how you are and what you have, but you just lay there. Eyes wide, alone, letting your mind wander unproductively. or at least you think it's unproductive. Tune ou...	bikerbill	4	838	Apr 15, 2011 by Mr_David
	A list from people who know... (Preview) http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2063930,00.htmlWho's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe and The Lost Weekend. I bet We The Peopl...	Aquaman	9	1381	Apr 14, 2011 by Just Toni
	Im hoping I'm using this forum correctly. (Preview) Hi I just need someone to talk to right now. I don't know where to begin. Ever since I was 17 I wanted to be a bartender. I was one on and off I am 25 now. I began partying with high school friends my junior year. I was 15 or16. I buy beautiful cocktail dresses... For when I go to places to drink. I have pretty...	Sunnylost	10	831	Apr 14, 2011 by Sunnylost
	God Calling - Gentle With All (Preview) "Love and laugh. Make your world the happier for your being in it. Love and rejoice on the grey days. Be gentle with all. Try to see the heart I see, to know the pain and difficulty of the other life that I know. Try, before you interview anyone or speak to anyone, to ask Me to act as interpreter bet...	gladlee	1	782	Apr 13, 2011 by Mr_David
	Wifes opinion is her Mothers (Preview) What are you supposed to do when your wife has never seperated from her mother emotionally or mentally and all her opinions are her mothers ???? This includes the "truth" about people places and things and sometimes they are important things that affect our marriage. I've tried pointin...	Jamie D	10	1070	Apr 13, 2011 by LinBaba
	maybe I'm learning (Preview) tonight that special someone called and asked me to help. Asked me to take her to a meeting. So I took her and she had her drinking hat on. Somethimg wrong with this picture and I so desperately wanted to fix her.. But a flash of reality. I'm as powerless over alcohol re:her as I am with me. Nothing I could do...	bikerbill	11	1004	Apr 13, 2011 by Jerry F
	Upate on my little life.........the blessings of Sobriety (Preview) Really dont know why I titled this the way I did, but whatever. When GOD pulled my up and out of gutter, many years ago, the road has sure been full of the ups and downs in life....so greatful to my HP, that I have lived to expience them all, good and bad. This current update is neither good nor bad, it is well...	Just Toni	11	1026	Apr 13, 2011 by HeatherK
	Inspiring Story (Preview) I was at a meeting last week where the speaker basically pressured the one newcomer to share (I HATE when people do that!). It turns out she had had years of sobriety, went out, and now has terminal cancer. She came back because she wants to die sober, and she wants to be fully present and not drinking...	TwelveSteps	5	1050	Apr 13, 2011 by HeatherK
	God Calling - Golden Opportunity (Preview) "I am your Guide. Strength and help will come to you; just trust Me wholly. Fear not. I am ever more ready to hear than you to ask. Walk in my ways and know that help will come. Man's need is God's chance to help. Man's need is God's golden opportunity for him of letting his faith find expression. ...	gladlee	2	745	Apr 13, 2011 by mikef
	Here we go again... (Preview) Another event where I rely on experience and God and program. As it happens I was on my way to the bank to join a couple other members of my Sunday group to sign checking account cards. We're changing treasurers and alternates and I was stepping up. Made a decision to take the shortest route even with l...	Jerry F	3	830	Apr 13, 2011 by mikef
	changed my avatar (Preview) It's pretty small but it's a sketch of a proposed tattoo that someone would like. I've suggested that it should wait a year tho' as tats are pretty permanent. Text reads 'it's not who we are that holds us back, it's who we think we're not.' If anyone can get the meaning of that, then let me know! Other than...	bikerbill	5	872	Apr 13, 2011 by Mr_David
	Am i having a mid Life Crisis? (Preview) Talking with a civvy buddy last night, he suggested that I was having a mid life crisis and recommended that I look for the Mid Life Crisis forum. I'll look for that later. Over here, MLC has particular negative and comedic connotations aong the lines of: Mid Life crisis - grow your hair, dress too youn...	bikerbill	4	1469	Apr 13, 2011 by Mr_David
	remember it's not happening today, so it don't count. (Preview) Just got an e mail from Fleet Management, telling me that because I have done 57 miles less than the annual requirement for provision of a business needs car and have used it for 13 days less than the requirement, then either I hand the car back by 11th June or submit a new business case. So the business cas...	bikerbill	6	981	Apr 13, 2011 by Mr_David
	God Calling - April 11 (Preview) "Remember that My followers are to be a peculiar people, separated from among others. Different ways, a different standard of living different customs, actuated by different motives. Pray for love. Pray for My spirit of love to be showered on all you meet. Deal with yourself severely. Le...	gladlee	2	811	Apr 13, 2011 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ A Word to Drop: "Blame" & 24hrs a Day (Preview) To see how erratic emotions victimized us often took a long time. We could perceive them quickly in others, but only slowly in ourselves. First of all, we had to admit that we had many of these defects, even though such disclosures were painful and humiliating. Where other people were concerned, we ha...	Sobrietyspell	1	837	Apr 13, 2011 by Mr_David
	The worst place to live..... (Preview) .....just had a long chat with one of my civvy buddies. His wife died 4 years ago and he just found an old letter she wrote him several years ago and read a bit out to me. She said'.....and the worst place to live is on a pedestal.' Blew me away.	bikerbill	6	792	Apr 13, 2011 by Mr_David
	Daily Reflections ~ Giving Up Insanity & 24hrs a day (Preview) . . . where alcohol has been involved, we have been strangely insane. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 38 Alcoholism required me to drink, whether I wanted to or not. Insanity dominated my life and was the essence of my disease. It robbed me of the freedom of choice over drinking and, therefore, robbed me of al...	Sobrietyspell	1	838	Apr 13, 2011 by Mr_David
	I just can't stay at meetings - valium doesn't help. (Preview) I drank again in February after 3 and-a-half years due to my panic attacks. I managed to get back to a few meetings but wasn't enjoying them, still I made myself show up. A Consultant psychiatrist put me on an anti-depressant meant to help with panic disorder, but initially - I've been on it 4 and-a-hal...	puzzled	19	7160	Apr 12, 2011 by redtara
	Pain Pills and Sobriety (Preview) Over the years I've seen several people go through an accident, injury or surgery while sober, only to become addicted to pain pills in the process which led to a relapse on alcohol. So here I am getting older, generally in good health except for being diabetic, and I get hit with back to back things th...	barisax	11	2222	Apr 11, 2011 by Oblong
	Did anyone ever have a bender like this one? (Preview) http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-wakes-up-from-bender-with-financial-problems-s,19858/?utm_source=recentnews-- Edited by turninggrey on Wednesday 6th of April 2011 08:35:45 PM	turninggrey	14	1265	Apr 11, 2011 by Oblong
	Parents went to first Alanon meeting last night! (Preview) Hi all, I just have to share my joy that I finally convinced my parents to go to their first AlAnon meeting last night! I'm an only child, which I think has impeded their ability to draw boundaries about my alcoholism, even though I'm 36 and live 400 miles away -- they try to make it THEIR problem, rather th...	TwelveSteps	2	883	Apr 10, 2011 by happycamper
	NYC-28 years and four days (Preview) Went to "Living Now" on St. Mark's Place (old stomping grounds-East Village). This meeting has been running continuously for 40-some odd years, I think. My sister presented me with my 28th medallion (they don't normally do chips, so the crowd enjoyed the surprize as much as I did)...	leeu	5	623	Apr 10, 2011 by billyjack
	Daily Reflections ~ Freedom From King Alcohol & 24hrs a Day (Preview) . . . let us not suppose even for an instant that we are not under constraint. . . . Our former tyrant, King Alcohol, always stands ready again to clutch us to him. Therefore, freedom from alcohol is the great must that has to be achieved, else we go mad or die. As Bill Sees It, p. 134 When drinking, I lived in s...	Sobrietyspell	1	858	Apr 9, 2011 by Mr_David
	AA / FreeLife Church Group (Preview) After several visits, I have began attending the FreeLife meetings at church. They are very similar to AA, but with more emphasis on Christ and the overall groups meeting encompasses alcoholic, narcotics, divorce, etc. We break off an focus on our addiction/problem. I have what essentially is...	Mad_Jasper	7	815	Apr 9, 2011 by pinkchip
	The Crux of My Alcoholism (Preview) The Story & Struggle of Me.. Ever since I was a little child I never knew who I was. I felt special, connected, different, lost. I have been & so often felt confused. I thought something brilliant might happen with me as I grew & mastered this world. As it happened, this didn't happen & i...	Sobrietyspell	9	1016	Apr 9, 2011 by Sobrietyspell
	The Dreaded ((((((((((( 5 year mark )))))))))))) (Preview) I've seen it shared before on this board in a post by another member that at about the five year point in a members sobriety things "can" get hellish and turbulent emotionally. I've also heard Bob Earl of whom I am a great fan, say once before in one of his recorded talks ( not the about you...	Jamie D	11	5032	Apr 9, 2011 by redtara
	God Calling - Deliverance (Preview) "Be calm, be true, be quiet. I watch over you. Rest in My love. Joy in the very beauty of holiness. You are Mine. Deliverance is here for you, but thankfulness and joy open the gates. Try in all things to be very glad, very happy, very thankful. It is not to quiet resignation I give My blessings,...	gladlee	8	1053	Apr 8, 2011 by LinBaba
	So far So Good (Preview) Got a call from my ex wife wanting to know who was in the car wiith me. I declined to answer beyond not your concern. Then she had a tirade of abuse about me seeing some other woman. I cut her off. Turned the phone off. Unplugged the landline. After a bit when I was on my own I turned the mobile back on and liste...	bikerbill	25	1254	Apr 8, 2011 by Just Toni
	It's a Process Not An Event (Preview) Most of us have heard this in AA meetings. I heard it fairly early on, and for some reason I got it. You hear the same idea expressed many different ways, i.e. "simple pleasures" and all that, but this particular wording sunk in to me. LinBaba mentions it in his post, i.e. happiness lies in...	barisax	2	989	Apr 8, 2011 by barisax
	Spiritual Maturity (Preview) One of my favorite all time books about a spiritual path is "A Path With Heart" by Jack Kornfield, he was a college student in the sixties who came from a "good family" his father was a biophysicist who developed artificial hearts and artificial lungs, worked on the space progra...	LinBaba	5	983	Apr 8, 2011 by cindy
	Daily Reflections ~ An Inside Look & 24hrs a Day (Preview) We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us. We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves. By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p.43 Today I a...	Sobrietyspell	1	780	Apr 8, 2011 by Mr_David
	Article in New York Times this morning (Preview) Hi, Someone just called me and said there was an editorial on AA, in this mornings paper, that AA has become the top organization as far as the people being the most intelligent, even used the words Brillant, and gifted, and creative people ever to gather in one organization. Also went on to say that...	Just Toni	9	1252	Apr 7, 2011 by Just Toni
	Daily Reflections ~ A Lifetime Process & 24hrs a Day (Preview) We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldnt control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldnt make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldnt seem to be of real help to other people. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANO...	Sobrietyspell	2	763	Apr 6, 2011 by Mr_David
	I forgot that today is 2 years for me! (Preview) It dawned on me this evening at my HG meeting (sponsor pointed it out) that today, April 4, 2009 makes it 2 years of soberiety. I'm grateful to the fellowship and all the support I've recieved from friends (including you all here) to help me achieve it. Here's a bit of irony for you... I'm sitting here a...	Klaatu	12	856	Apr 6, 2011 by jaunwaun
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