Alcoholics Anonymous

buckeyebear · buckeyebear

Hi Brothers and Sisters Hope all went well over the holiday weekend. I tell you the best years of my life have been while I was working the program. I would be dead by now if it wasn't for AA and all my friends. I do not regret going back out; I hope it helped some of my AA friends, to see what it turned me to while...

jj · jj

I found this website http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/en_tableofcnt.cfm where we can read it online. ;) jj

FlyingSquirrel · FlyingSquirrel

I really respect the intelligence of cats. I was looking into my cat's eyes today and thinking, this cat has never once questioned why he's here. But he has a pretty good life. The answer to the question of why he's here is completely beyond his ability to comprehend anyway, even if he did ask it - and...

senior member · SUSIE

I just noticed that I am now a senior member Feel like I just received a chip!!! Love the boards!! Have a great sober day every one! On my way to a meeting!

Carlotta · Carlotta

I have been clean & sober now almost 9 months, taking in a couple of meetings a week but I have noticed something I think is quite peculiar....I have become very dis-interested in people. I still enjoy the meetings and sharing. I get calls to go places and find I don't return calls because I am bore...

jj · jj

LOL i am very self centered, so this is a great reminder. I am where I am supposed to be for SOMEONE ELSE. no room for self righteousness for doing the right thing.... sheesh! talk about a new way of living. but it is possible, my HP is here to help me see the greater good outside and inside. like, it's an...

Lexie · Lexie

I took today off to take care of some last-minute stuff before my ungodly-early (5:45 am!!) flight tomorrow morning. I have several friends who are going, and I hope to make some new ones at the convention. Anybody else going? Maybe we could meet somewhere?

mandm · mandm

So I have been drinking for my entire 20's i am 26 years old and I had decided enough is enough, I am done with the throwing up I am done with wasting away my life. I was a heavy drinking at least a half a bottle a night, any night. My main problem is since I work for myself with my online business there was no one r...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

kittykatNewbie4 days ago4 days agojpmyraNewbie---10h, 21m agoDFWM247Newbie---7 days agokitkat87Newbie---7 days agomariposaNewbie---6 days agosinbadNewbie---6 days agoPO002Newbie8 days ago8 days agoJEFFERSONNewbie10 days ago10 days agoMurfNewbie---June 14thzenNewbi...

turninggrey · turninggrey

I am in my little basement in Queens New York on standby for work. There is some serious partying going on outside! I never got called to work today, so I worked on my car, cleaned up the basement, and watched a LOT of John Wayne movies. I currently am watching "The Cowboys" where John Wayne h...

kld47 · kld47

Hi All Today is my 8 Year AA Birthday. Yeah I still made it. I will be getting the 8 Year Token/Chip at a meeting tommorrow night.

buckeyebear · buckeyebear

Hope all is well with you. I have 22 days thus far. I messed up pretty good this time. I keep thinking I've hit bottom so many times it sounds like a spanking. I'm the slowly get it type, verrrry slowly. I do know if I work the steps and and do the first step perfectly, that I can fumble around and do my best with...

turninggrey · turninggrey

Its Saturday the 3rd and all around me there is partying and drinking. I am happily sitting down in my basement watching "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy". I am very happy to be sober. Tomorrow, I will wake up healthy and ready for the world. It really is Independence Day verses &qu...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

. . . deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old a...

FlyingSquirrel · FlyingSquirrel

Well, most of them. That is all.

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

I can see that we've had 10 guest in the last 10 minutes. Please sign up and join us.

Mike B. · Mike B.

As some of you know I've been having a rough week. My life's been unmanageable. I've been praying, talking to my sponsor alittle, probably not as much as I should be. I've been trying to practice our principles in all my affairs but I was being blocked by something. This morning, I picked up As Bill...

Simple · Simple

I just thought I'd "get current" with everyone here. I have a lot of changes happening and more on the horizon, and I learned a long time ago that when life changes, upping my AA "practice" is a good thing. I only have one day of work left, I've been here for 3 years and 3 months. Th...

TwelveSteps · TwelveSteps

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5150_%28Involuntary_psychiatric_hold%29)

Mike B. · Mike B.

Today is my wife's birthday. She is 40. She wanted to do something special on her B-day. I had planned to hike Mt Washington here in NH with her and her sister and husband. We were going to do this after July 9th. because of the kids/work schedules. My sister in-law is worried about hiking that far so...

AGO · AGO

This is what it was like for me

pinkchip · pinkchip

Okay. So what happened today? It was uneventful, but yet possibly the best birthday I have had. I had a day were just about everything was as it was supposed to be at this moment in time and it was the first birthday I have ever felt like this...not caring what I got but just grateful for where I am and wha...

bikerbill · bikerbill

Blows me away sometimes. As some of you know and others will learn now, my Mother in Law died on Monday 14th June 2010. I was really upset but my brothers and sisters in the fellowship back here have picked me up and carried me through this. I initially decided that I wouldn't go to the funeral, I thought I w...

barisax · barisax

When I got divorced at 5 years sober, I started seeing a psychologist almost immediately when I found out my wife was leaving. I think as much as anything I just wanted someone's undivided attention for 50 minutes a week. I deliberately chose a psychologist rather than a psychiatrist because I didn...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS , p. 87 Some say that experience is the best teacher, but I believe that experience is the only teacher. I have been able to learn of God's love...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: We have the power to direct our minds to replace the feelings of being upset, depressed, and fearful with the feeling of inner peace. --Gerald G. Jampolsky Learning to identify negative thoughts is a powerful way to begin changing our negative behavior. We always t...

AGO · AGO

Sound familiar? -- Edited by AGO on Sunday 27th of June 2010 06:58:10 PM

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Happy Sober Day, Mark. I hope you're enjoying a wonderfully serene & joyous 24hours all for you. Thank you for your sobriety & sharing your experience, strength & hope here continuously. May your day be a celebration of all that is you & all that is life. Thank you for being here. God b...

learning · learning

Last night as my daughter, grandson, and I were getting her car loaded up to go swimming at a relative's home, we heard sirens. We waited a few mins. before taking off as to allow the vehicles passage on the highway we were going to travel over. The wailing did not cease as more soon followed. A wre...

Red2goBlue · Red2goBlue

Hello, I am frustrated and a bit scared right now with the situation Im in. I am hoping someone out there has some information or has been in this situation and knows how to handle it. Any comments, words of wisdom, suggestions, information on my situation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you fo...

sarge · sarge

Need advice. My daughter is engaged to a guy living in London. His parents are in France and want to meet her. She is 7 months sober and clean. He has told her that his family would consider it an insult if he doesn't have a drink with them. Of course she can't drink they are in there 70's and don't seem to unde...

Dave Harm · Dave Harm

September is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month in the United States. A couple of months ago, a facility in Hot Springs, Arkansas contacted me about the possibility of speaking at their treatment center. This is another dream of mine to just travel around the States and share my ESH...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program. Willingness, honesty and open-mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But these are indispensable. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 570 Am I honest enough to accept myself as I am and let this be the "me" that I let...

janet · janet

They say, you are what you eat,but maybe it is closer to the truth to say you are the way you live. A look at how we live shows that our use of alcohol and other mind-altering drugs has become a way of life. Living the high life gradually takes on a chemical hue until we can't party,swim,ski, or make love with...

Reffner · Reffner

I'm sick . Been sick for the last 2 days. Fever, aches and pains, and don't even want to think about food. Last night while I was lying in bed I had one of those moments when everything seems to make sense. For me, these are very spiritual experiences, and love the fact that I can recognize them today. I...

Kieran · Kieran

If i have access to drink, i normaly drink the lot, well if able to drink the lot, food becomes 2-3 if not 4th place. i also play comp games and at times i run out of acholl, then coffee will be ok, even non cafirnr coffee. ok i can't spell.

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

The principles we have set down are guides to progress. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 Just as a sculptor will use different tools to achieve desired effects in creating a work of art, in Alcoholics Anonymous the Twelve Steps are used to bring about results in my own life. I do not overwhelm myself with li...

AGO · AGO

Size Click me to see Does This make you feel small? Click me to see Time Click me to see After watching those? maybe a little -- Edited by AGO on Wednesday 23rd of June 2010 11:13:20 PM

jj · jj

In my dream last night i walked away from my sobriety. Just gave it away like it was nothing.... told my Sponsor, "so what" .... It Shook me up as I was waking to think I had to start all over again with day one, but I remember thinking that I can not continue in this relapse... it will kill m...

TwelveSteps · TwelveSteps

Hi all, I was hoping you might be able to share some advice on changing sponsors and whether in fact that might be warranted. My sponsor is a very nice woman and has a lot of life experience, but I am her first sponsee, and I'm starting to think that maybe she just doesn't have the AA experience to help a newc...

MLB · MLB

90 days sober today. 89 days ago I was downing a 5th of whiskey a day. Its really been tough, but I'm thankful for this time. The first 30 days were hell,no sleep, detox...the next 60 have been no cakewalk either. Ive really had to fight for this. I need to redouble my efforts if I want to stay sober.

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: Forewarned, forearmed; being prepared is half the victory. --Miguel de Cervantes There will be hard times in our program. There will be hard times in our life. That's the way life is. It helps if we accept this. Then we can prepare for tough times. We can prepare by get...

Mike B. · Mike B.

Well, I've had a nice stretch of sobriety and recovery. Peace and serenity. I continue to work the program but my diesase is active. My diesase has found a new obession, baseball. I help coach my sons All Star team and this has become the biggest thing in my life. Not good I know, but my sickness has f...

new member · srw

Am I an alcoholic if I only drink wine (everyday), don't get drunk, but need to do this almost everyday? Acoholic - I think I am - My wife thinks I am. I don't want to stop all together, I just want to stop most of the time. For years I thought it was not having an impact on my way of being, today I know that...

EricStephen · EricStephen

I wanted to narrow this down by age category as not everyone can relate to the same decade since things change, as do characteristics of drinkers. I never 'officially' drank until about the age of 17 in high school. It was my first real party, and a friend and myself went shot for shot until I ended about 1...

sarge · sarge

I asked God for strength that I might achieve;I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.I asked God for health that I might do greater things;I was given infirmity that I might do better things.I asked for riches that I might be happy;I was given poverty that I might be wise.I asked for power that I...

TwelveSteps · TwelveSteps

Hi guys, Let me start by saying that I just really need to vent -- but I full appreciate that gaining a few pounds is 100% worth the gift of sobriety! Anyway, I find the AA advice to beware of "HALT" very effective... and while I can't always control the A-L-T, the H is pretty easy to control. And...

bikerbill · bikerbill

Glasgow is a beautiful place if you can open your eyes and look. But I've been there for 4 days and nights, for work. I arrived at 1 p.m. on Monday, worked until 7, went to the hotel, checked in showered shaved ate early night. Then my days went like this, up at 5 to the sound of traffic and reversing lorries,...

sarge · sarge

The trouble with holding onto hurt instead of letting go is that you continue to make decisions based on what hasn't been for a long time and you live in that long ago affixing fault and blame.

blacktile · blacktile

Hi all, I used to post under a different account last year but I've forgotten the login details. Been drunk for 16 years pretty much - drink every day, mostly to drunkeness. Anyway, I'd be interested to specifically know your experience of how long specific symptoms last after quitting. I'm on day 5 an...

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	Another holiday over with. (Preview) Hi Brothers and Sisters Hope all went well over the holiday weekend. I tell you the best years of my life have been while I was working the program. I would be dead by now if it wasn't for AA and all my friends. I do not regret going back out; I hope it helped some of my AA friends, to see what it turned me to while...	buckeyebear	3	678	Jul 6, 2010 by Mike B.
	For those who don't have a Big Book (Preview) I found this website http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/en_tableofcnt.cfm where we can read it online. ;) jj	jj	3	743	Jul 6, 2010 by Mike B.
	My cat has better sense than me. (Preview) I really respect the intelligence of cats. I was looking into my cat's eyes today and thinking, this cat has never once questioned why he's here. But he has a pretty good life. The answer to the question of why he's here is completely beyond his ability to comprehend anyway, even if he did ask it - and...	FlyingSquirrel	9	1056	Jul 5, 2010 by Aquaman
	senior member (Preview) I just noticed that I am now a senior member Feel like I just received a chip!!! Love the boards!! Have a great sober day every one! On my way to a meeting!	SUSIE	8	791	Jul 5, 2010 by SUSIE
	Is it just me, but.... (Preview) I have been clean & sober now almost 9 months, taking in a couple of meetings a week but I have noticed something I think is quite peculiar....I have become very dis-interested in people. I still enjoy the meetings and sharing. I get calls to go places and find I don't return calls because I am bore...	Carlotta	8	993	Jul 5, 2010 by Carlotta
	Thought for Today: To Live for a greater purpose than myself (Preview) LOL i am very self centered, so this is a great reminder. I am where I am supposed to be for SOMEONE ELSE. no room for self righteousness for doing the right thing.... sheesh! talk about a new way of living. but it is possible, my HP is here to help me see the greater good outside and inside. like, it's an...	jj	3	622	Jul 5, 2010 by jj
	Anyone else going to San Antonio this weekend? (Preview) I took today off to take care of some last-minute stuff before my ungodly-early (5:45 am!!) flight tomorrow morning. I have several friends who are going, and I hope to make some new ones at the convention. Anybody else going? Maybe we could meet somewhere?	Lexie	9	1328	Jul 5, 2010 by Lexie
	Sleeping problems, and a relapse ? am I dependant on drinking? help please drinking sleeping problems cannot sleep relapse (Preview) So I have been drinking for my entire 20's i am 26 years old and I had decided enough is enough, I am done with the throwing up I am done with wasting away my life. I was a heavy drinking at least a half a bottle a night, any night. My main problem is since I work for myself with my online business there was no one r...	mandm	31	12964	Jul 5, 2010 by mandm
	Welcome to all of our newbies, that signed up in the last month, that we haven't heard from yet. (Preview) kittykatNewbie4 days ago4 days agojpmyraNewbie---10h, 21m agoDFWM247Newbie---7 days agokitkat87Newbie---7 days agomariposaNewbie---6 days agosinbadNewbie---6 days agoPO002Newbie8 days ago8 days agoJEFFERSONNewbie10 days ago10 days agoMurfNewbie---June 14thzenNewbi...	StPeteDean	3	1042	Jul 5, 2010 by FlyingSquirrel
	4th of July and all is well. (Preview) I am in my little basement in Queens New York on standby for work. There is some serious partying going on outside! I never got called to work today, so I worked on my car, cleaned up the basement, and watched a LOT of John Wayne movies. I currently am watching "The Cowboys" where John Wayne h...	turninggrey	1	657	Jul 5, 2010 by Jerry F
	AA Birthday (Preview) Hi All Today is my 8 Year AA Birthday. Yeah I still made it. I will be getting the 8 Year Token/Chip at a meeting tommorrow night.	kld47	13	1046	Jul 4, 2010 by pinkchip
	HI you all (Preview) Hope all is well with you. I have 22 days thus far. I messed up pretty good this time. I keep thinking I've hit bottom so many times it sounds like a spanking. I'm the slowly get it type, verrrry slowly. I do know if I work the steps and and do the first step perfectly, that I can fumble around and do my best with...	buckeyebear	9	1112	Jul 4, 2010 by pinkchip
	3rd of July and all is well. (Preview) Its Saturday the 3rd and all around me there is partying and drinking. I am happily sitting down in my basement watching "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy". I am very happy to be sober. Tomorrow, I will wake up healthy and ready for the world. It really is Independence Day verses &qu...	turninggrey	5	1139	Jul 4, 2010 by Just Toni
	Daily Reflections ~ A Natural Faith & 24hrs a Day (Preview) . . . deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old a...	Sobrietyspell	0	618	Jul 4, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	Feelings suck. (Preview) Well, most of them. That is all.	FlyingSquirrel	7	1616	Jul 4, 2010 by FlyingSquirrel
	Hello to All of our Guests. (Preview) I can see that we've had 10 guest in the last 10 minutes. Please sign up and join us.	StPeteDean	3	581	Jul 3, 2010 by Aquaman
	Spiritual Experience (Preview) As some of you know I've been having a rough week. My life's been unmanageable. I've been praying, talking to my sponsor alittle, probably not as much as I should be. I've been trying to practice our principles in all my affairs but I was being blocked by something. This morning, I picked up As Bill...	Mike B.	5	966	Jul 3, 2010 by Aquaman
	Update on life changes (Preview) I just thought I'd "get current" with everyone here. I have a lot of changes happening and more on the horizon, and I learned a long time ago that when life changes, upping my AA "practice" is a good thing. I only have one day of work left, I've been here for 3 years and 3 months. Th...	Simple	2	699	Jul 3, 2010 by ljc
	Drinking Again (Preview) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5150_%28Involuntary_psychiatric_hold%29)	TwelveSteps	17	1210	Jul 3, 2010 by jj
	Resentment (Preview) Today is my wife's birthday. She is 40. She wanted to do something special on her B-day. I had planned to hike Mt Washington here in NH with her and her sister and husband. We were going to do this after July 9th. because of the kids/work schedules. My sister in-law is worried about hiking that far so...	Mike B.	10	642	Jul 3, 2010 by Pablomoses
	What IS it like to go a meeting of AA? (Preview) This is what it was like for me	AGO	8	1167	Jul 3, 2010 by Pablomoses
	My Birthday (Preview) Okay. So what happened today? It was uneventful, but yet possibly the best birthday I have had. I had a day were just about everything was as it was supposed to be at this moment in time and it was the first birthday I have ever felt like this...not caring what I got but just grateful for where I am and wha...	pinkchip	10	1119	Jul 3, 2010 by Pablomoses
	The strength of this fellowship (Preview) Blows me away sometimes. As some of you know and others will learn now, my Mother in Law died on Monday 14th June 2010. I was really upset but my brothers and sisters in the fellowship back here have picked me up and carried me through this. I initially decided that I wouldn't go to the funeral, I thought I w...	bikerbill	5	843	Jul 2, 2010 by AGO
	Psychology, Psychiatry, Meds, Sobriety (Preview) When I got divorced at 5 years sober, I started seeing a psychologist almost immediately when I found out my wife was leaving. I think as much as anything I just wanted someone's undivided attention for 50 minutes a week. I deliberately chose a psychologist rather than a psychiatrist because I didn...	barisax	19	1386	Jul 2, 2010 by Aquaman
	Daily Reflections ~ Experience: The Best Teacher & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS , p. 87 Some say that experience is the best teacher, but I believe that experience is the only teacher. I have been able to learn of God's love...	Sobrietyspell	0	974	Jul 2, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	Learning to identify negative thoughts (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: We have the power to direct our minds to replace the feelings of being upset, depressed, and fearful with the feeling of inner peace. --Gerald G. Jampolsky Learning to identify negative thoughts is a powerful way to begin changing our negative behavior. We always t...	Larry_H	5	1694	Jul 2, 2010 by Simple
	Now HERE's a med that works (Preview) Sound familiar? -- Edited by AGO on Sunday 27th of June 2010 06:58:10 PM	AGO	12	1070	Jul 2, 2010 by slugcat
	Happy Bellybutton Birthday, Pinkchip! (Preview) Happy Sober Day, Mark. I hope you're enjoying a wonderfully serene & joyous 24hours all for you. Thank you for your sobriety & sharing your experience, strength & hope here continuously. May your day be a celebration of all that is you & all that is life. Thank you for being here. God b...	Sobrietyspell	12	1280	Jul 2, 2010 by Rob84
	Sad (Preview) Last night as my daughter, grandson, and I were getting her car loaded up to go swimming at a relative's home, we heard sirens. We waited a few mins. before taking off as to allow the vehicles passage on the highway we were going to travel over. The wailing did not cease as more soon followed. A wre...	learning	3	1014	Jul 1, 2010 by learning
	Scared of not having a sponser (Preview) Hello, I am frustrated and a bit scared right now with the situation Im in. I am hoping someone out there has some information or has been in this situation and knows how to handle it. Any comments, words of wisdom, suggestions, information on my situation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you fo...	Red2goBlue	14	1408	Jul 1, 2010 by pinkchip
	Help (Preview) Need advice. My daughter is engaged to a guy living in London. His parents are in France and want to meet her. She is 7 months sober and clean. He has told her that his family would consider it an insult if he doesn't have a drink with them. Of course she can't drink they are in there 70's and don't seem to unde...	sarge	11	1055	Jul 1, 2010 by pinkchip
	September Date (Preview) September is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month in the United States. A couple of months ago, a facility in Hot Springs, Arkansas contacted me about the possibility of speaking at their treatment center. This is another dream of mine to just travel around the States and share my ESH...	Dave Harm	5	1047	Jul 1, 2010 by Just Toni
	Daily Reflections ~ The Heart of True Sobriety & 24hrs a Day (Preview) We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program. Willingness, honesty and open-mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But these are indispensable. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 570 Am I honest enough to accept myself as I am and let this be the "me" that I let...	Sobrietyspell	0	417	Jul 1, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	From Better Living to Bitter Living through Chemistry (Preview) They say, you are what you eat,but maybe it is closer to the truth to say you are the way you live. A look at how we live shows that our use of alcohol and other mind-altering drugs has become a way of life. Living the high life gradually takes on a chemical hue until we can't party,swim,ski, or make love with...	janet	0	449	Jul 1, 2010 by janet
	My HP giving me a break (Preview) I'm sick . Been sick for the last 2 days. Fever, aches and pains, and don't even want to think about food. Last night while I was lying in bed I had one of those moments when everything seems to make sense. For me, these are very spiritual experiences, and love the fact that I can recognize them today. I...	Reffner	2	902	Jun 30, 2010 by mikef
	AA and a no dependeancy on alchol. (Preview) If i have access to drink, i normaly drink the lot, well if able to drink the lot, food becomes 2-3 if not 4th place. i also play comp games and at times i run out of acholl, then coffee will be ok, even non cafirnr coffee. ok i can't spell.	Kieran	4	683	Jun 30, 2010 by jj
	Daily Reflections ~ The Best For Today & 24hrs a Day (Preview) The principles we have set down are guides to progress. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 Just as a sculptor will use different tools to achieve desired effects in creating a work of art, in Alcoholics Anonymous the Twelve Steps are used to bring about results in my own life. I do not overwhelm myself with li...	Sobrietyspell	0	749	Jun 30, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	Self Centered? Me? (Preview) Size Click me to see Does This make you feel small? Click me to see Time Click me to see After watching those? maybe a little -- Edited by AGO on Wednesday 23rd of June 2010 11:13:20 PM	AGO	9	1002	Jun 30, 2010 by janet
	I had a bad dream last night (Preview) In my dream last night i walked away from my sobriety. Just gave it away like it was nothing.... told my Sponsor, "so what" .... It Shook me up as I was waking to think I had to start all over again with day one, but I remember thinking that I can not continue in this relapse... it will kill m...	jj	10	1231	Jun 30, 2010 by janet
	Sponsor issue (Preview) Hi all, I was hoping you might be able to share some advice on changing sponsors and whether in fact that might be warranted. My sponsor is a very nice woman and has a lot of life experience, but I am her first sponsee, and I'm starting to think that maybe she just doesn't have the AA experience to help a newc...	TwelveSteps	6	1150	Jun 29, 2010 by TwelveSteps
	Today is a milestone.. (Preview) 90 days sober today. 89 days ago I was downing a 5th of whiskey a day. Its really been tough, but I'm thankful for this time. The first 30 days were hell,no sleep, detox...the next 60 have been no cakewalk either. Ive really had to fight for this. I need to redouble my efforts if I want to stay sober.	MLB	12	590	Jun 29, 2010 by ljc
	There will be hard times in our program (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: Forewarned, forearmed; being prepared is half the victory. --Miguel de Cervantes There will be hard times in our program. There will be hard times in our life. That's the way life is. It helps if we accept this. Then we can prepare for tough times. We can prepare by get...	Larry_H	3	568	Jun 29, 2010 by mikef
	Ripples on my pond (Preview) Well, I've had a nice stretch of sobriety and recovery. Peace and serenity. I continue to work the program but my diesase is active. My diesase has found a new obession, baseball. I help coach my sons All Star team and this has become the biggest thing in my life. Not good I know, but my sickness has f...	Mike B.	4	554	Jun 29, 2010 by mikef
	new member (Preview) Am I an alcoholic if I only drink wine (everyday), don't get drunk, but need to do this almost everyday? Acoholic - I think I am - My wife thinks I am. I don't want to stop all together, I just want to stop most of the time. For years I thought it was not having an impact on my way of being, today I know that...	srw	7	1257	Jun 29, 2010 by StPeteDean
	Alcoholics: Ages 18 - 30's: Post your stories here to better relate. (Preview) I wanted to narrow this down by age category as not everyone can relate to the same decade since things change, as do characteristics of drinkers. I never 'officially' drank until about the age of 17 in high school. It was my first real party, and a friend and myself went shot for shot until I ended about 1...	EricStephen	9	1088	Jun 28, 2010 by SoberSteve
	From Anonymous Soldier (Preview) I asked God for strength that I might achieve;I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.I asked God for health that I might do greater things;I was given infirmity that I might do better things.I asked for riches that I might be happy;I was given poverty that I might be wise.I asked for power that I...	sarge	3	694	Jun 28, 2010 by turninggrey
	H-A-L-T --> F-A-T! (Preview) Hi guys, Let me start by saying that I just really need to vent -- but I full appreciate that gaining a few pounds is 100% worth the gift of sobriety! Anyway, I find the AA advice to beware of "HALT" very effective... and while I can't always control the A-L-T, the H is pretty easy to control. And...	TwelveSteps	14	1008	Jun 28, 2010 by MLB
	I'm Back from the concrete wildeness of the city. (Preview) Glasgow is a beautiful place if you can open your eyes and look. But I've been there for 4 days and nights, for work. I arrived at 1 p.m. on Monday, worked until 7, went to the hotel, checked in showered shaved ate early night. Then my days went like this, up at 5 to the sound of traffic and reversing lorries,...	bikerbill	5	872	Jun 28, 2010 by cindy
	Holding onto hurt (Preview) The trouble with holding onto hurt instead of letting go is that you continue to make decisions based on what hasn't been for a long time and you live in that long ago affixing fault and blame.	sarge	7	943	Jun 28, 2010 by angelov8
	Symptoms Longevity (Preview) Hi all, I used to post under a different account last year but I've forgotten the login details. Been drunk for 16 years pretty much - drink every day, mostly to drunkeness. Anyway, I'd be interested to specifically know your experience of how long specific symptoms last after quitting. I'm on day 5 an...	blacktile	8	958	Jun 28, 2010 by angelov8
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