Alcoholics Anonymous

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: I Am Who I Am Sometimes we want to be someone else anyone but who we are. We want to be someone who feels more free and at peace. We want to be someone who doesn't have to take medications day after day. We want to be free of the pain and loneliness our illness has brought us. B...

kld47 · kld47

Hi New Meds seem to be to working. I am not under as much stress and am sleeping a lot better. No more waking up 2 or 3 times during the night and no more nightmares like I used to, this while being on the Celexa. Just have to watch out the time of night I take the Xanax though, took one Monday night and then sle...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought for Hazelden is: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY In our group we often hear the slogan "Easy Does It." We who suffer our affliction always do everything to excess. We indulge our emotions. We worry too much. We have too much resentment. We tend to be addictive. We tend to hurt ourselves p...

Aquaman · Aquaman

So today I picked up the 5 year old from school and I have two fishing rods in the car and she says" where are we going, Daddy?" and I anser "I want to show you something really, really cool." I took her to a place called "The Cut".It's a concrete canal that was put in the bot...

bikerbill · bikerbill

It seems that a volcano has erupted in Finland or somewhere like that, so for the second day running UK airspace is shut, because of the danger of volcanic ash getting in the jet engines and putting the fires out. Hmmm. wonder when the tree huggers will start ravign about climate change causing this? Do...

AGO · AGO

You know it's funny, but I want to say "No" They don't "understand" My entire being screams Noooo!!!! They don't "get it"!!!! But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confi...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Welcome back, Avril.. Just in time for your Bellybutton Birthday too hey!!! What a Celebration :) Have a Wonderfully Happy Sober 24hrs.. Liverpool Love, Danielle & Carl XXXX

Nola_Alex · Nola_Alex

Tomorrow morning I go in work to talk to my manager about the incident last night. The incident is that I was drinking at work (I work the graveyard shift at a shell station so no manager present) and I passed out. A customer called an ambulance because I was unresponsive. When I came to the place was surro...

Jundrewia · Jundrewia

Tomorrow is day 19 of my sobriety and I have plans to go to a comedy club with my friend. Ironically it's the friend I was with the last time I drank (and blacked out...really bad). This will be the first real test for me because it's the first time I'll be out, in a place serving alcohol, and I won't be drin...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: Having realistic expectations. Sometimes we expect much too much of people and things. We will never be happy if we expect our doctor to work instant cures or if we blame our teacher for what we failed to learn. We need to examine what's realistic to expect of others a...

whitewhineoh · whitewhineoh

First and foremost I am grateful that I made it through last night without a drink. It was beyond difficult. For those who didn't see my post yesterday, after a stressful day at work, I had to go first to a wake and then to a bar for a date. (Yes, yes, I know, bad on two counts with the date.) Oddly enough I...

lukin · lukin

All right, so yesterday I was a little conflicted as to whether I should switch meetings, got some great feedback which I really appreciated- went back to this awesome beginner's meeting last night and spilled my guts. Owned up to my relapse, the reason that I thought I had relapsed, the fact that I fee...

Simple · Simple

I just thought I'd start a post for people to share their favorite prayers/meditations, or ones that they are focusing on currently. I'm in a bit of a rut and would like a little inspiration, something new to spark that god-thing. So tell all - set prayers, things that you do to quiet your brain, whate...

Aquaman · Aquaman

39 weeks...3.5 cm...feelin' kinda stressed out...can't go more than 30 minutes from town...can't go out of cell-phone range...praying that they both come out of it healthy...this whole thing isn't about ME but WOW am I feelin' it...ANG-ZYE-IT-TEE! The last three kids I "took the edge off...

Avril G · Avril G

I'M BAAAACK!!! Hi everyone, I do hope y'all have missed me a quarter as much as I have missed this place!! Just got reconnected today with a brand new computer and modem, so hopefully I will stay put for a while now. I'm trying to remember what I used to do before computers (and it WASN'T drinking, I only...

Avril G · Avril G

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tu0PAbW75A&feature=related

franny · franny

Today is day 6. This will be the first Friday I have not drank in a long time. Oh boy......feels like I am climbing a mountain. I will not drink tonight. It seems silly I bet, but I feel like I have come a long way already and it hasn't even been a full week yet. I will check out that song recommendation th...

itsmichael · itsmichael

...this is GOOD. I'm feeling great, and my sleep disturbances seem to have subsided over the last couple of nights. Feeling rested this morning, and grateful. Off to work today, then my home group this evening, one of my favorite meetings, which I so look forward to. I'm going to hand off to my sponsor...

gonee · gonee

If I have an obsession with alcohol only, it would mean that I have this idea to drink when I don't have to. So I take a drink against my better judgement. In other words against my will. So I drink without the, physical allergy that Dr Silkworth talks about. On pg 20/21 of the book I am defined as a moderate o...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49 "Fear knocked at the door; faith answered; no one was there." I don't know to whom this quote should be attributed, but it certainly indicates clearly that fear is an illusion. I c...

whitewhineoh · whitewhineoh

Wow. Yesterday was a close one. Even though I made it through the night before, I was still feeling a bit stressed. Not feeling like I had connected at either meeting the past two days had been hurting more than anything. I think if that happens again, I will need to try call someone. Anyhow, yester...

Sid · Sid

I'm just completing my fourth week attending AA meetings and it's been great and I'm starting to see change. The first thing I noticed was that I am no longer feeling quite as much a newcomer. I was at a newcomers meeting on Tuesday and there was one person there for the first time and one person who was co...

franny · franny

Just privately messaged with my now sober alcoholic friend on Facebook. He has been sober for 2.5 years now. Sober today and want to be. It is such a change of behavior. It is like you have to learn how to do things over again. I have been keeping busy. There is an annual event at my husband's work...

lukin · lukin

Things have been tough for me recently. When I first came into the program, I was so happy to be sober for the first time ever really that I got through 90 days, 6 months with relative ease. Worked the program & it worked for me. The meetings in & around my hometown (or, where I live now) have a re...

turninggrey · turninggrey

So the other day I ripped up a t shirt that had beer and guitars on it because I did not need the thought process that went with the shirt. So today, I am out grinding on some mower blades with a side grinder, and I realized I was throwing a lot of sparks, and then I noticed my t shirt was on fire! Not only did it...

runnergirl · runnergirl

I assume these really don't happen on Tuesdays and Saturdays... Is that right? I just checked there and see nothin'.

joanie73 · joanie73

This is Day 5 for me being sober. I just got out of the hospital this afternoon. I slept ALOT while I was there and tonite cannot sleep. Is from the not drinking? something I just have to go thru? I have had insomnia in the past, but this is crazy!!!

gonee · gonee

Every meeting I go to is an opportunity to get rid of self. I am a very self-centred person. When I am working with other alcoholics, I have no time to think of myself. I did not come to AA to improve my standard of living. I came here primarily to find a solution for my alcoholism. They suggested meetings. I...

LastOneLeft · LastOneLeft

Recently when people ask me "how are you man " I answer " Im Greatful..." I have'nt posted here in a while.Just wanted to stop in and say a BIG thank you to everyone that helped kick me in the butt to get sober. Im so thankful and greatful for my second chance.I check in daily to read...

camitch · camitch

74 days without a drink, drug, or cigarette. This is the longest I have gone without that I can seriously remember. I never thought I had a problem because I never thought about it. I worked, got paid, and drank. Never got close to anyone for years. Dont let them in you cant get disappointed and you c...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: God does not ask your ability Or your inability. He asks only your availability. --Mary Kay Ash Reasons for gratitude are easy to find. If we're breathing, we can think of people hooked up to oxygen tanks. If our skin is smooth, we can remember people suffering in burn...

franny · franny

I did not make it here yesterday to post. I was so tired after school. I came home and got some things ready for school and went to bed by 8:00. I did not make it to the meeting obviously. I am so tired today too. I just want to get my laundry done, get ready for school tomorrow and go to bed again. I think I...

gonee · gonee

Ch 5. AA book. The 1st thing you are going to hear is our story. You might like the story or you may not. It's the story of an alcoholic. When we finish tell you our story, we are going to ask you whether you want what we have. Note it does not ask whether you liked the story. We also do not tell, we disclose. That...

Avril G · Avril G

Hell, if you ever thought you were pretty good at living in the day, just read this email which is from my eldest nephew, Karl, who is the sweetest person you could ever wish to meet, and at best, he's looking at living to the age of 35 - he is now 31, and has two young kiddies, and has a wedding planned for this...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

. . . harboring resentment is infinitely grave. For then we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the spirit. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 5 It has been said, "Anger is a luxury I cannot afford." Does this suggest I ignore this human emotion? I believe not. Before I learned of the A.A. program, I was a s...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: Taking an honest look at ourselves is necessary if we want peace. Step Four asks us to admit our character defects. That's not an easy assignment. How "defective" could we be? In truth, we do have many assets, and it will help us to admit our defects if we al...

bigv · bigv

http://www.barefootsworld.net/imemine.html I wanted to write and thank barefoot Bob but he died last year in January but his website has been left open , it's really a wonderful legacy he's left behind for all of us, he'd been sober since 1974 up until his death in 2009. http://www.barefootsworld...

whitewhineoh · whitewhineoh

Okay, well here I am at day 3. So far the support I have received both here and at meetings has been absolutely awe inspiring. I never ever expected so much support and it's what keeps me coming back. I swear some days I wish I could just stay at meetings all day. They are so comforting. I always do feel...

jonijoni1 · jonijoni1

Thanks all for the love and support in welcoming me back from the greasey mean streets. Went to a great meeting tonight with my very best friend and sister in sobriety, Erin. She and her hubby have been sober for close to 10 years and they offered me to come stay with them, bring my dog and all, next time thi...

bikerbill · bikerbill

it's the fluff balls they nest in. I heard repeatedly that it will be something like the top of the salt pot coming off that pushes your buttons. How true. My pal has left for Australia with his child bride, to build a new life. I miss the pair of them already but I offered to foster their cat until they could...

Larry_H · Larry_H

I found this on wikiHow I did not write it but I like it. I would like your comments. Are any additions or subtractions needed? Remember the subect is "How to get through your first Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting" I am going to print this and keep it handy for 12th step work Larry, ----------...

AGO · AGO

I have always liked the way Clancy handles the first step, about how he explains "powerless over alcohol" and how it doesn't mean the bad things alcohol does for us, but the good things, how special it makes us feel, how we are the only people that can drink to forget we have a drinking problem...

whitewhineoh · whitewhineoh

Thanks everyone for all the support after going to my first meeting. I went to another one yesterday, got some phone numbers and met a few more people more my own age, which was nice. Just got through my first 24 hours (now on 36 hours thank you very much) and going to another meeting tonight, then home t...

AGO · AGO

Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, d...

turninggrey · turninggrey

O.K. So everything is going along fine, the sun is out and I reached into the t=shirt pile and pulled out a t-shirt with crossed guitars and stout beer as the emblem. I actually started planning the next drink for a few seconds, so I went out to my wife and told her the situation and ripped up the shirt and h...

AGO · AGO

On a Saturday night several weeks ago, this pastor was working late, and decided to call his wife before he left for home. It was about 10:00 pm, but his wife didn't answer the phone. The pastor let the phone ring many times. He thought it was odd that she didn't answer, but decided to wrap up a few things an...

franny · franny

Working on day 2 today. Feeling good and I actually slept decent last night. Read some more of the Big Book online before I went to bed. Yikes, this is some scary stuff. While reading chapter three I saw that I too did try "strategies" to control my drinking that never worked. Today I wil...

bikerbill · bikerbill

.I'm coughing lumps up, have a snotty nose and generally feel shite. So i do what every sensible person does, pop out to the corner shop for some makes you better. As i picked up the bottle of cheap cough syrup for chesty coughs, I remembered the thread from weeks ago about robitussin and thought aha, bet...

bikerbill · bikerbill

mine have. They've got broader. I still like the old rythmn and booze but I've started to listen to a lot of stuff that was background noise when I was drinking and I hear the words and the chord progressions and the style differently. Currently spending a lot of time listening to Billy Bragg. Simple cho...

gonee · gonee

AA Book pg 53. We Agnostics "When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be?" Born in a Hindu home, I...

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	I Am Who I Am ---- from Hazelden (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: I Am Who I Am Sometimes we want to be someone else anyone but who we are. We want to be someone who feels more free and at peace. We want to be someone who doesn't have to take medications day after day. We want to be free of the pain and loneliness our illness has brought us. B...	Larry_H	2	480	Apr 18, 2010 by jonijoni1
	Meds Working (Preview) Hi New Meds seem to be to working. I am not under as much stress and am sleeping a lot better. No more waking up 2 or 3 times during the night and no more nightmares like I used to, this while being on the Celexa. Just have to watch out the time of night I take the Xanax though, took one Monday night and then sle...	kld47	5	1039	Apr 17, 2010 by jonijoni1
	"Easy Does It." (Preview) Today's thought for Hazelden is: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY In our group we often hear the slogan "Easy Does It." We who suffer our affliction always do everything to excess. We indulge our emotions. We worry too much. We have too much resentment. We tend to be addictive. We tend to hurt ourselves p...	Larry_H	1	1299	Apr 17, 2010 by jonijoni1
	Why "Aquaman"? (Preview) So today I picked up the 5 year old from school and I have two fishing rods in the car and she says" where are we going, Daddy?" and I anser "I want to show you something really, really cool." I took her to a place called "The Cut".It's a concrete canal that was put in the bot...	Aquaman	12	989	Apr 17, 2010 by Aquaman
	UK Panic? (Preview) It seems that a volcano has erupted in Finland or somewhere like that, so for the second day running UK airspace is shut, because of the danger of volcanic ash getting in the jet engines and putting the fires out. Hmmm. wonder when the tree huggers will start ravign about climate change causing this? Do...	bikerbill	13	1111	Apr 17, 2010 by bikerbill
	Can non-alcoholics help alcoholics? (Preview) You know it's funny, but I want to say "No" They don't "understand" My entire being screams Noooo!!!! They don't "get it"!!!! But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confi...	AGO	6	1065	Apr 17, 2010 by Avril G
	Happy Birthday, Avril! XXX (Preview) Welcome back, Avril.. Just in time for your Bellybutton Birthday too hey!!! What a Celebration :) Have a Wonderfully Happy Sober 24hrs.. Liverpool Love, Danielle & Carl XXXX	Sobrietyspell	11	1473	Apr 17, 2010 by Avril G
	Fearful of tomorrow (Preview) Tomorrow morning I go in work to talk to my manager about the incident last night. The incident is that I was drinking at work (I work the graveyard shift at a shell station so no manager present) and I passed out. A customer called an ambulance because I was unresponsive. When I came to the place was surro...	Nola_Alex	14	1265	Apr 17, 2010 by Avril G
	Day 19 and My First Social Outing (Preview) Tomorrow is day 19 of my sobriety and I have plans to go to a comedy club with my friend. Ironically it's the friend I was with the last time I drank (and blacked out...really bad). This will be the first real test for me because it's the first time I'll be out, in a place serving alcohol, and I won't be drin...	Jundrewia	19	1336	Apr 17, 2010 by Oblong
	Having realistic expectations. (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: Having realistic expectations. Sometimes we expect much too much of people and things. We will never be happy if we expect our doctor to work instant cures or if we blame our teacher for what we failed to learn. We need to examine what's realistic to expect of others a...	Larry_H	1	629	Apr 17, 2010 by leeu
	Day 4 supercrankypants! (Preview) First and foremost I am grateful that I made it through last night without a drink. It was beyond difficult. For those who didn't see my post yesterday, after a stressful day at work, I had to go first to a wake and then to a bar for a date. (Yes, yes, I know, bad on two counts with the date.) Oddly enough I...	whitewhineoh	13	1023	Apr 17, 2010 by Just Toni
	Get Away From Me With Your Crosstalk!!! (Preview) All right, so yesterday I was a little conflicted as to whether I should switch meetings, got some great feedback which I really appreciated- went back to this awesome beginner's meeting last night and spilled my guts. Owned up to my relapse, the reason that I thought I had relapsed, the fact that I fee...	lukin	6	1032	Apr 17, 2010 by leeu
	Prayer Ideas (Preview) I just thought I'd start a post for people to share their favorite prayers/meditations, or ones that they are focusing on currently. I'm in a bit of a rut and would like a little inspiration, something new to spark that god-thing. So tell all - set prayers, things that you do to quiet your brain, whate...	Simple	11	1195	Apr 17, 2010 by leeu
	Waiting For A Baby... (Preview) 39 weeks...3.5 cm...feelin' kinda stressed out...can't go more than 30 minutes from town...can't go out of cell-phone range...praying that they both come out of it healthy...this whole thing isn't about ME but WOW am I feelin' it...ANG-ZYE-IT-TEE! The last three kids I "took the edge off...	Aquaman	21	1248	Apr 17, 2010 by leeu
	Just when you thought it was safe................... (Preview) I'M BAAAACK!!! Hi everyone, I do hope y'all have missed me a quarter as much as I have missed this place!! Just got reconnected today with a brand new computer and modem, so hopefully I will stay put for a while now. I'm trying to remember what I used to do before computers (and it WASN'T drinking, I only...	Avril G	9	1095	Apr 17, 2010 by Avril G
	And now for something completely different (Preview) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tu0PAbW75A&feature=related	Avril G	5	846	Apr 17, 2010 by Avril G
	Day 6 Sober (Preview) Today is day 6. This will be the first Friday I have not drank in a long time. Oh boy......feels like I am climbing a mountain. I will not drink tonight. It seems silly I bet, but I feel like I have come a long way already and it hasn't even been a full week yet. I will check out that song recommendation th...	franny	6	1472	Apr 16, 2010 by Aquaman
	21 Days Sober (Preview) ...this is GOOD. I'm feeling great, and my sleep disturbances seem to have subsided over the last couple of nights. Feeling rested this morning, and grateful. Off to work today, then my home group this evening, one of my favorite meetings, which I so look forward to. I'm going to hand off to my sponsor...	itsmichael	9	2264	Apr 16, 2010 by itsmichael
	Obsession and allergy (Preview) If I have an obsession with alcohol only, it would mean that I have this idea to drink when I don't have to. So I take a drink against my better judgement. In other words against my will. So I drink without the, physical allergy that Dr Silkworth talks about. On pg 20/21 of the book I am defined as a moderate o...	gonee	7	5924	Apr 16, 2010 by AGO
	Daily Reflections ~ Love & Fear As Opposites & 24hrs a Day (Preview) All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49 "Fear knocked at the door; faith answered; no one was there." I don't know to whom this quote should be attributed, but it certainly indicates clearly that fear is an illusion. I c...	Sobrietyspell	0	694	Apr 16, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	Day five and still alive (Preview) Wow. Yesterday was a close one. Even though I made it through the night before, I was still feeling a bit stressed. Not feeling like I had connected at either meeting the past two days had been hurting more than anything. I think if that happens again, I will need to try call someone. Anyhow, yester...	whitewhineoh	6	1124	Apr 16, 2010 by whitewhineoh
	Noticing Change (Preview) I'm just completing my fourth week attending AA meetings and it's been great and I'm starting to see change. The first thing I noticed was that I am no longer feeling quite as much a newcomer. I was at a newcomers meeting on Tuesday and there was one person there for the first time and one person who was co...	Sid	4	804	Apr 16, 2010 by Larry_H
	Day 5 Sober (Preview) Just privately messaged with my now sober alcoholic friend on Facebook. He has been sober for 2.5 years now. Sober today and want to be. It is such a change of behavior. It is like you have to learn how to do things over again. I have been keeping busy. There is an annual event at my husband's work...	franny	10	1217	Apr 16, 2010 by whitewhineoh
	Need Some Feedback, or an Opinion (Preview) Things have been tough for me recently. When I first came into the program, I was so happy to be sober for the first time ever really that I got through 90 days, 6 months with relative ease. Worked the program & it worked for me. The meetings in & around my hometown (or, where I live now) have a re...	lukin	6	911	Apr 16, 2010 by angelov8
	Now I've burnt a t shirt...... (Preview) So the other day I ripped up a t shirt that had beer and guitars on it because I did not need the thought process that went with the shirt. So today, I am out grinding on some mower blades with a side grinder, and I realized I was throwing a lot of sparks, and then I noticed my t shirt was on fire! Not only did it...	turninggrey	7	888	Apr 15, 2010 by Just Toni
	Online Meetings (Preview) I assume these really don't happen on Tuesdays and Saturdays... Is that right? I just checked there and see nothin'.	runnergirl	2	646	Apr 15, 2010 by Avril G
	sleep issues (Preview) This is Day 5 for me being sober. I just got out of the hospital this afternoon. I slept ALOT while I was there and tonite cannot sleep. Is from the not drinking? something I just have to go thru? I have had insomnia in the past, but this is crazy!!!	joanie73	12	977	Apr 15, 2010 by Avril G
	Meetings (Preview) Every meeting I go to is an opportunity to get rid of self. I am a very self-centred person. When I am working with other alcoholics, I have no time to think of myself. I did not come to AA to improve my standard of living. I came here primarily to find a solution for my alcoholism. They suggested meetings. I...	gonee	4	751	Apr 15, 2010 by SteveP
	Im greatful... (Preview) Recently when people ask me "how are you man " I answer " Im Greatful..." I have'nt posted here in a while.Just wanted to stop in and say a BIG thank you to everyone that helped kick me in the butt to get sober. Im so thankful and greatful for my second chance.I check in daily to read...	LastOneLeft	5	911	Apr 15, 2010 by SteveP
	74 days and still going strong..... (Preview) 74 days without a drink, drug, or cigarette. This is the longest I have gone without that I can seriously remember. I never thought I had a problem because I never thought about it. I worked, got paid, and drank. Never got close to anyone for years. Dont let them in you cant get disappointed and you c...	camitch	7	1297	Apr 15, 2010 by SteveP
	4-15-2010 Today's thought from Hazelden (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: God does not ask your ability Or your inability. He asks only your availability. --Mary Kay Ash Reasons for gratitude are easy to find. If we're breathing, we can think of people hooked up to oxygen tanks. If our skin is smooth, we can remember people suffering in burn...	Larry_H	0	536	Apr 15, 2010 by Larry_H
	Day 4......Sober (Preview) I did not make it here yesterday to post. I was so tired after school. I came home and got some things ready for school and went to bed by 8:00. I did not make it to the meeting obviously. I am so tired today too. I just want to get my laundry done, get ready for school tomorrow and go to bed again. I think I...	franny	11	3481	Apr 15, 2010 by SteveP
	Our stories disclose..... (Preview) Ch 5. AA book. The 1st thing you are going to hear is our story. You might like the story or you may not. It's the story of an alcoholic. When we finish tell you our story, we are going to ask you whether you want what we have. Note it does not ask whether you liked the story. We also do not tell, we disclose. That...	gonee	5	1796	Apr 15, 2010 by leeu
	ONE DAY AT A TIME (Preview) Hell, if you ever thought you were pretty good at living in the day, just read this email which is from my eldest nephew, Karl, who is the sweetest person you could ever wish to meet, and at best, he's looking at living to the age of 35 - he is now 31, and has two young kiddies, and has a wedding planned for this...	Avril G	12	1320	Apr 15, 2010 by Mike B.
	Daily Reflections ~ The Bondage of Resentments & 24hrs a Day (Preview) . . . harboring resentment is infinitely grave. For then we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the spirit. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 5 It has been said, "Anger is a luxury I cannot afford." Does this suggest I ignore this human emotion? I believe not. Before I learned of the A.A. program, I was a s...	Sobrietyspell	2	1105	Apr 15, 2010 by Larry_H
	Taking an honest look at ourselves is necessary if we want peace. - Hazelden (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: Taking an honest look at ourselves is necessary if we want peace. Step Four asks us to admit our character defects. That's not an easy assignment. How "defective" could we be? In truth, we do have many assets, and it will help us to admit our defects if we al...	Larry_H	2	710	Apr 15, 2010 by Jerry F
	What i think is a great explanation of leveling of ego (Preview) http://www.barefootsworld.net/imemine.html I wanted to write and thank barefoot Bob but he died last year in January but his website has been left open , it's really a wonderful legacy he's left behind for all of us, he'd been sober since 1974 up until his death in 2009. http://www.barefootsworld...	bigv	7	1587	Apr 14, 2010 by StPeteDean
	Day 3. Challenging day ahead... (Preview) Okay, well here I am at day 3. So far the support I have received both here and at meetings has been absolutely awe inspiring. I never ever expected so much support and it's what keeps me coming back. I swear some days I wish I could just stay at meetings all day. They are so comforting. I always do feel...	whitewhineoh	8	947	Apr 14, 2010 by itsmichael
	It Gets Better... it really does (Preview) Thanks all for the love and support in welcoming me back from the greasey mean streets. Went to a great meeting tonight with my very best friend and sister in sobriety, Erin. She and her hubby have been sober for close to 10 years and they offered me to come stay with them, bring my dog and all, next time thi...	jonijoni1	10	1016	Apr 14, 2010 by Avril G
	It ain't the monsters under the bed that are the problem (Preview) it's the fluff balls they nest in. I heard repeatedly that it will be something like the top of the salt pot coming off that pushes your buttons. How true. My pal has left for Australia with his child bride, to build a new life. I miss the pair of them already but I offered to foster their cat until they could...	bikerbill	10	1080	Apr 14, 2010 by Avril G
	"How to get through your first Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting" (Preview) I found this on wikiHow I did not write it but I like it. I would like your comments. Are any additions or subtractions needed? Remember the subect is "How to get through your first Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting" I am going to print this and keep it handy for 12th step work Larry, ----------...	Larry_H	8	1143	Apr 14, 2010 by Larry_H
	Speaker 2 (great for newcomers good speaker) (Preview) I have always liked the way Clancy handles the first step, about how he explains "powerless over alcohol" and how it doesn't mean the bad things alcohol does for us, but the good things, how special it makes us feel, how we are the only people that can drink to forget we have a drinking problem...	AGO	0	656	Apr 13, 2010 by AGO
	Day one done! (Preview) Thanks everyone for all the support after going to my first meeting. I went to another one yesterday, got some phone numbers and met a few more people more my own age, which was nice. Just got through my first 24 hours (now on 36 hours thank you very much) and going to another meeting tonight, then home t...	whitewhineoh	11	1032	Apr 13, 2010 by Just Toni
	Can You add to the list? (Preview) Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, d...	AGO	14	984	Apr 13, 2010 by SteveP
	Just ripped up a t shirt (Preview) O.K. So everything is going along fine, the sun is out and I reached into the t=shirt pile and pulled out a t-shirt with crossed guitars and stout beer as the emblem. I actually started planning the next drink for a few seconds, so I went out to my wife and told her the situation and ripped up the shirt and h...	turninggrey	12	2697	Apr 13, 2010 by turninggrey
	God and Caller ID (Preview) On a Saturday night several weeks ago, this pastor was working late, and decided to call his wife before he left for home. It was about 10:00 pm, but his wife didn't answer the phone. The pastor let the phone ring many times. He thought it was odd that she didn't answer, but decided to wrap up a few things an...	AGO	4	742	Apr 13, 2010 by AGO
	Day 2 With a Positive Attitude (Preview) Working on day 2 today. Feeling good and I actually slept decent last night. Read some more of the Big Book online before I went to bed. Yikes, this is some scary stuff. While reading chapter three I saw that I too did try "strategies" to control my drinking that never worked. Today I wil...	franny	11	1054	Apr 13, 2010 by SteveP
	meds not suitable for... (Preview) .I'm coughing lumps up, have a snotty nose and generally feel shite. So i do what every sensible person does, pop out to the corner shop for some makes you better. As i picked up the bottle of cheap cough syrup for chesty coughs, I remembered the thread from weeks ago about robitussin and thought aha, bet...	bikerbill	6	1074	Apr 13, 2010 by bikerbill
	Have your musical tastes changed? (Preview) mine have. They've got broader. I still like the old rythmn and booze but I've started to listen to a lot of stuff that was background noise when I was drinking and I hear the words and the chord progressions and the style differently. Currently spending a lot of time listening to Billy Bragg. Simple cho...	bikerbill	8	941	Apr 13, 2010 by AGO
	What was our choice to be? (Preview) AA Book pg 53. We Agnostics "When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be?" Born in a Hindu home, I...	gonee	7	1036	Apr 13, 2010 by Simple
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