Alcoholics Anonymous

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...

John · John

Arthritis A drunk that smelled like a brewery got on a bus one day. He sat down next to a priest. The drunk’s shirt was stained, his face was full of bright red lipstick and he had a half-empty bottle of wine sticking out of his pocket. He opened his newspaper and started reading. A couple minutes later, he...

turninggrey · turninggrey

So, Connie has her Double Mastectomy tomorrow. Quick visit to the doctor today, a nice romantic dinner by the water, and time to head home. Just as the sun was setting, the stretch of road we were on had the sun right in our eyes. It was brutal seeing but I got just the right angle where I could drive safel...

gonee · gonee

Despite circumstances and situations in my own life, I came to believe in AA of a loving God. For a long time I could not see God as my Father and therefore I missed out on many gifts that He was willing to give me. The transformation process began in the steps of recovery: Step 2: power greater than myself....

doctorate_student · doctorate_student

Hello everyone. I previous posted a link to a study that I am conducting. I am having a hard time with getting people to participate. Again I have no way of know who you are or where you are from. Right now I only have 11 who have decided to participate and I need at least 50. I plan to pursue a doctorate de...

MissT · MissT

I am about at that familar ground..of hitting bottom. I can feel it coming and am so scared of having to start over again. Sept. 3, 2003 was my date, I would have had 7 years being sober coming up in a few days. I've been back out since July - 2 years now. I wake up in the mornings with such dread. I put on my wo...

stress69 · stress69

I am a recovering alcohilic. I used to drink all of the time for any reason. It continued to get worse and worse and my husband drank with me. I got to a point where I needed a drink when I woke upAugust 6 of 2009 I looked in the mirror and I was not me anymore. I went out crying to my husband and told him I needed to...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Another part of the answer to how people can live without turmoil and be happy lies in being bound to other members of the group with new ties. They will escape disaster together. New group feeling helps provide them all with a way to identify with ea...

pinkchip · pinkchip

One of my friend posted a link to this on facebook. It reads like a revised version of the promises to me....It seems to describe the starting point for change, but also the journey. Take from it whatever you want. I liked it. The Awakening (Author unknown) A time comes in your life when you finally ge...

attilio · attilio

hi there can someone help me as to how this all works?thank you

Buster Parkie · Buster Parkie

Hi Ya'll I'm Buster Parkie, a faithful member of the Preston Group in Dallas, Texas. I've got 3 years of sobriety. I'm thankful to God for that. I love AA, keep the faith!

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

. . . . and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59 I was beginning to approach my new life of sobriety with unaccustomed enthusiasm. New friends were cropping up and some of my battered friendships had begun to be repaired. Life was exciting, and I even began to enjoy my wor...

bikerbill · bikerbill

...may break my bones etc. Last night and the night before a few of us had a brief chat about nicknames. I'm a bugger for giving folks nicknames, but usually to differentiate between two or more people with the same first name. So I know three Marks, three daves, two pauls, but only one Tim and one Gary. Th...

gonee · gonee

The things that I loved the most was the things that my God hated the most. So for many years I lived outside the grace of God. I drank what I wanted to drink and I did what I wanted to do. I never hated God but I just could not find His power working in my life. I longed to have what my sponsor had and many men of God...

anonymous1 · anonymous1

My family brought me to court and forced me into a rehab, I was there for 23 days. I'm now in my 2nd month being sober. Most days I'm ok, some even great. But I don't know. There are times that I feel angry and sad at the same time and I don't know why. I know in my mind what I need to do; AA meetings, therapy, get a s...

gonee · gonee

As I progressed into my self made hell during my drinking, a feeling of utter hopelessness had engulfed me. The feeling that I was going to die of alcoholism because I did not know what to do about it. My pride would not allow me to ask for help. I did not even know what was wrong with me. Alcoholics like me on...

SUSIE · SUSIE

I have been in the 12 step program just under 3 years. It has been the best journey I have ever been on. Seeing a family member who just started Sat. come into the program made me realize how the steps have changed me. She is saying that she knows the program...... was on it for lots of things..... her rep...

gonee · gonee

I was recently diagnosed with diabetes. My doctor put me on a course of insulin and tablets. It would not help. So I sat in prayer and asked God to help me to manage this disease just like He helped me with my alcoholism. It worked wonderfully and I am almost a normal person now. I find that although we are af...

John · John

AA Big Book, pg 132, 16 lines from the top, 16 lines from the bottom, 2 words to the right and 2 words to the left, ... right in the middle of the page... "We absolutely insist on enjoying life" Rose and I have to take time out for ourselves from time to time and just let God blow the dust of life off of us.. this i...

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	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	1002	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	712	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	878	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	607	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	685	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	531	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	1474	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	1061	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	882	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	1594	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	1291	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	503	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	648	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	948	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	619	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	1110	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	467	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	422	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	2924	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	797	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	830	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	800	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	1537	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	570	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	1234	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	611	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	934	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	611	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	596	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	6503	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	547	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	652	Oct 9, 2010 by Just Toni
	Humor (Preview) Arthritis A drunk that smelled like a brewery got on a bus one day. He sat down next to a priest. The drunk’s shirt was stained, his face was full of bright red lipstick and he had a half-empty bottle of wine sticking out of his pocket. He opened his newspaper and started reading. A couple minutes later, he...	John	2	616	Oct 9, 2010 by Larry_H
	Connie's double mastectomy (Preview) So, Connie has her Double Mastectomy tomorrow. Quick visit to the doctor today, a nice romantic dinner by the water, and time to head home. Just as the sun was setting, the stretch of road we were on had the sun right in our eyes. It was brutal seeing but I got just the right angle where I could drive safel...	turninggrey	15	1278	Oct 9, 2010 by mikef
	He is Father. BB Step3 (Preview) Despite circumstances and situations in my own life, I came to believe in AA of a loving God. For a long time I could not see God as my Father and therefore I missed out on many gifts that He was willing to give me. The transformation process began in the steps of recovery: Step 2: power greater than myself....	gonee	2	697	Oct 9, 2010 by mikef
	Respondents are needed for survey (Preview) Hello everyone. I previous posted a link to a study that I am conducting. I am having a hard time with getting people to participate. Again I have no way of know who you are or where you are from. Right now I only have 11 who have decided to participate and I need at least 50. I plan to pursue a doctorate de...	doctorate_student	32	1974	Oct 8, 2010 by Dave Harm
	been back out for 2 years :( (Preview) I am about at that familar ground..of hitting bottom. I can feel it coming and am so scared of having to start over again. Sept. 3, 2003 was my date, I would have had 7 years being sober coming up in a few days. I've been back out since July - 2 years now. I wake up in the mornings with such dread. I put on my wo...	MissT	21	789	Oct 8, 2010 by SteveP
	I could use some help and guidance. I am a recovering alcoholic help drinking spouse (Preview) I am a recovering alcohilic. I used to drink all of the time for any reason. It continued to get worse and worse and my husband drank with me. I got to a point where I needed a drink when I woke upAugust 6 of 2009 I looked in the mirror and I was not me anymore. I went out crying to my husband and told him I needed to...	stress69	14	9849	Oct 8, 2010 by LinBaba
	We will escape disaster together (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Another part of the answer to how people can live without turmoil and be happy lies in being bound to other members of the group with new ties. They will escape disaster together. New group feeling helps provide them all with a way to identify with ea...	Larry_H	0	489	Oct 8, 2010 by Larry_H
	Interesting poem (Preview) One of my friend posted a link to this on facebook. It reads like a revised version of the promises to me....It seems to describe the starting point for change, but also the journey. Take from it whatever you want. I liked it. The Awakening (Author unknown) A time comes in your life when you finally ge...	pinkchip	1	717	Oct 8, 2010 by louisa
	new to this (Preview) hi there can someone help me as to how this all works?thank you	attilio	10	767	Oct 8, 2010 by susanbiel
	New Here (Preview) Hi Ya'll I'm Buster Parkie, a faithful member of the Preston Group in Dallas, Texas. I've got 3 years of sobriety. I'm thankful to God for that. I love AA, keep the faith!	Buster Parkie	13	921	Oct 7, 2010 by TwelveSteps
	Daily Reflections ~ Daily Inventory & 24hrs a Day (Preview) . . . . and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59 I was beginning to approach my new life of sobriety with unaccustomed enthusiasm. New friends were cropping up and some of my battered friendships had begun to be repaired. Life was exciting, and I even began to enjoy my wor...	Sobrietyspell	0	726	Oct 7, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	Sticks and stones (Preview) ...may break my bones etc. Last night and the night before a few of us had a brief chat about nicknames. I'm a bugger for giving folks nicknames, but usually to differentiate between two or more people with the same first name. So I know three Marks, three daves, two pauls, but only one Tim and one Gary. Th...	bikerbill	4	1095	Oct 7, 2010 by Aquaman
	Spiritual awakening. (Preview) The things that I loved the most was the things that my God hated the most. So for many years I lived outside the grace of God. I drank what I wanted to drink and I did what I wanted to do. I never hated God but I just could not find His power working in my life. I longed to have what my sponsor had and many men of God...	gonee	0	608	Oct 7, 2010 by gonee
	I've never felt this way before... (Preview) My family brought me to court and forced me into a rehab, I was there for 23 days. I'm now in my 2nd month being sober. Most days I'm ok, some even great. But I don't know. There are times that I feel angry and sad at the same time and I don't know why. I know in my mind what I need to do; AA meetings, therapy, get a s...	anonymous1	9	1108	Oct 7, 2010 by pinkchip
	God is faithful. (Preview) As I progressed into my self made hell during my drinking, a feeling of utter hopelessness had engulfed me. The feeling that I was going to die of alcoholism because I did not know what to do about it. My pride would not allow me to ask for help. I did not even know what was wrong with me. Alcoholics like me on...	gonee	2	708	Oct 7, 2010 by StPeteDean
	Program (Preview) I have been in the 12 step program just under 3 years. It has been the best journey I have ever been on. Seeing a family member who just started Sat. come into the program made me realize how the steps have changed me. She is saying that she knows the program...... was on it for lots of things..... her rep...	SUSIE	4	862	Oct 6, 2010 by pinkchip
	Grace is sufficient. (Preview) I was recently diagnosed with diabetes. My doctor put me on a course of insulin and tablets. It would not help. So I sat in prayer and asked God to help me to manage this disease just like He helped me with my alcoholism. It worked wonderfully and I am almost a normal person now. I find that although we are af...	gonee	4	752	Oct 6, 2010 by Just Toni
	Fun In Recovery (Preview) AA Big Book, pg 132, 16 lines from the top, 16 lines from the bottom, 2 words to the right and 2 words to the left, ... right in the middle of the page... "We absolutely insist on enjoying life" Rose and I have to take time out for ourselves from time to time and just let God blow the dust of life off of us.. this i...	John	7	1034	Oct 6, 2010 by SteveP
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