Alcoholics Anonymous

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...

itsmichael · itsmichael

...thank you, GOD... ...thank you, AA... ...otherwise this would NOT be possible. I've done something like 23 meetings in 17 days, and just following suggestions, keeping it simple: go to meetings, get a sponsor, ask God for help, read the Big Book... Online resources like this are tremendously he...

whitewhineoh · whitewhineoh

Went to my first AA meeting today. Planning on having my first sober day tomorrow. (Today I was just checking it out, and needed to decide on my own terms when I would start. Didn't think it would be tomorrow, but turns out that's what I want.) Anyhow, any advice? Warnings about what I should expect?...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. --Thomas Fuller We have all seen adventure movies in which the heroes or villains are caught on a bridge that collapses. As they fall to whatever lie...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Congratulations on these *4*0**B*I*G**O*N*E*S*, MARK!!!!!! I hope you're enjoying many Soberly loving celebrations dear brother. Have a very special 24hrs All About You!!!! Godbless, my good friend & fellow, Danielle xxx

slugcat · slugcat

i not sure where this belongs (maybe alanon? geeze i will have to go to more of their meetings now) and no one needs to reply but i need to put this out of me somewhere. my hubby went to the gym then stopped at grocery store on way home. while he was at the gym i did some pilates at home. i am almost finishing up i...

gonee · gonee

My alcoholism had now reached it's final destination. I was powerless. Only an alcoholic will know. I cried out to a God that I did not understand. Please get me sober. I will pay any price. He heard the cry of this sick alcoholic child afflicted by an illness he could not do any thing about. He had to send s...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

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

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

Congrats Just Toni for reaching "Old Timer" status by writing 500 insightful posts.

gonee · gonee

Thank you for the online meetings, your posts I mean. There is so much encouragement and hope on this forum. Thank you, all. I can catch a meeting before starting work. I am not the early morning praying type. God bless, Gonee.

bikerbill · bikerbill

..but not heavy as in boozing of course. Spent a few hours with one of my sponsees on Friday night, after the meeting, before launching myself into helping one of my friends move house. Well by move house, I mean pack up his and his wife's goods and chattels, taking some into my home and some down to his MiL...

New Member · camitch

I am an alcoholic. I have been sober for 2 months and 10 days now with the help of a councelor that specializes in addiction. He has been a lot of help but I need more support and am planning on attending my first AA meeting today. Reading some of the posts last night helped me with the anxiety I felt sitti...

gonee · gonee

I thank God for my sobriety. I thank Him for the most wonderful wife in the world. I thank Him for my 2 children. All this would not have been possible without AA. So now my gratitude to AA. To help in whatever way possible the still suffering. So many times I have been rescued by other people. To all of you wh...

franny · franny

Good morning. Today is the big day. I woke up extremely crabby just thinking about quitting. I am holding your words near to my heart that life will get better and I will be happy. UUUUUGHHHH!!!! I know it will be hard. There is no choice for me but to quit now. My husband is behind me 110%. My frien...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Today's thought from Hazelden is: Self-control is one of the greatest skills I've learned. --Jim Burns Most of us assume we have mastered self-control by now. And perhaps we have. A good test is to monitor how we respond to a nagging spouse or a disrespectful postman or vile-mouthed teenager. Do inst...

Jerry F · Jerry F

Aloha Fellowship!! So we are not a glum lot are we and we do absolutely great stuff for our recovery and absolutely insist upon it. A sponsee called me last night when I was practicing "Letting Go and Letting God" and turning all aspects of my life over to Him who I call Father and enjoying the...

jonijoni1 · jonijoni1

Relapse.... some hate the word even being used, but dammit, it is what it is. Sobriety lost its priority in my life and I CHOSE to start drinking again. Loneliness? Divorce problems? Whatever the excuse may be, I looked for that sense of ease and comfort and I got it... temporarily. It led to the drugs, w...

Larry_H · Larry_H

The Lois Wilson Story, Hazelden's artfully written biography of the co-founder of Al-Anon, is now a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie starring Winona Ryder and Barry Pepper. Tune in to CBS on April 25 at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT to watch When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story, a beautifully produced movie t...

Larry_H · Larry_H

Chapter 5 of the Big Book says in part; "Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; th...

Jundrewia · Jundrewia

Wow, what a true testiment that this disease is an obsession! Tomorrow will be 2 weeks sober for me and I just woke up from a nap where I was dreaming that I was drinking wine. I was drinking it from a plastic cup the way I would when I would hide my drinking during the day. OMG, it really freaked me out. Howeve...

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	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	737	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	1155	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	841	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	1244	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	939	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	912	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	684	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	1017	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	777	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	937	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	1357	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	578	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	3512	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	1864	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	1349	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	1153	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	740	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	1641	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	972	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	1046	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	1122	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	1168	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	691	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	1063	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	1041	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	2722	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	771	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	1082	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	1110	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	972	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	1065	Apr 13, 2010 by Simple
	16 days sober.... (Preview) ...thank you, GOD... ...thank you, AA... ...otherwise this would NOT be possible. I've done something like 23 meetings in 17 days, and just following suggestions, keeping it simple: go to meetings, get a sponsor, ask God for help, read the Big Book... Online resources like this are tremendously he...	itsmichael	12	1252	Apr 13, 2010 by angelov8
	First AA meeting today (Preview) Went to my first AA meeting today. Planning on having my first sober day tomorrow. (Today I was just checking it out, and needed to decide on my own terms when I would start. Didn't think it would be tomorrow, but turns out that's what I want.) Anyhow, any advice? Warnings about what I should expect?...	whitewhineoh	10	1141	Apr 12, 2010 by angelov8
	4-13-2010 Today's thought from Hazelden (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. --Thomas Fuller We have all seen adventure movies in which the heroes or villains are caught on a bridge that collapses. As they fall to whatever lie...	Larry_H	0	563	Apr 12, 2010 by Larry_H
	Happy 40th Bellybutton Bday, MDC!!! (Preview) Congratulations on these 40*BIGONES*, MARK!!!!!! I hope you're enjoying many Soberly loving celebrations dear brother. Have a very special 24hrs All About You!!!! Godbless, my good friend & fellow, Danielle xxx	Sobrietyspell	6	682	Apr 12, 2010 by MDC
	buttons pressed sorry need to vent (Preview) i not sure where this belongs (maybe alanon? geeze i will have to go to more of their meetings now) and no one needs to reply but i need to put this out of me somewhere. my hubby went to the gym then stopped at grocery store on way home. while he was at the gym i did some pilates at home. i am almost finishing up i...	slugcat	7	872	Apr 12, 2010 by Jerry F
	He Answered (Preview) My alcoholism had now reached it's final destination. I was powerless. Only an alcoholic will know. I cried out to a God that I did not understand. Please get me sober. I will pay any price. He heard the cry of this sick alcoholic child afflicted by an illness he could not do any thing about. He had to send s...	gonee	2	869	Apr 12, 2010 by Jerry F
	Daily Reflections ~ The "Number One Offender" & 24hrs a Day (Preview) Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 64 As I look at myself practicing the Four...	Sobrietyspell	0	811	Apr 12, 2010 by Sobrietyspell
	Congrats to our newest "Old Timer" (Preview) Congrats Just Toni for reaching "Old Timer" status by writing 500 insightful posts.	StPeteDean	7	890	Apr 12, 2010 by Aquaman
	Thanks (Preview) Thank you for the online meetings, your posts I mean. There is so much encouragement and hope on this forum. Thank you, all. I can catch a meeting before starting work. I am not the early morning praying type. God bless, Gonee.	gonee	2	593	Apr 12, 2010 by itsmichael
	Oh boy - another heavy weekend (Preview) ..but not heavy as in boozing of course. Spent a few hours with one of my sponsees on Friday night, after the meeting, before launching myself into helping one of my friends move house. Well by move house, I mean pack up his and his wife's goods and chattels, taking some into my home and some down to his MiL...	bikerbill	2	796	Apr 12, 2010 by gonee
	New Member (Preview) I am an alcoholic. I have been sober for 2 months and 10 days now with the help of a councelor that specializes in addiction. He has been a lot of help but I need more support and am planning on attending my first AA meeting today. Reading some of the posts last night helped me with the anxiety I felt sitti...	camitch	11	1062	Apr 11, 2010 by AGO
	Grateful (Preview) I thank God for my sobriety. I thank Him for the most wonderful wife in the world. I thank Him for my 2 children. All this would not have been possible without AA. So now my gratitude to AA. To help in whatever way possible the still suffering. So many times I have been rescued by other people. To all of you wh...	gonee	4	1156	Apr 11, 2010 by Jerry F
	Today is the Day (Preview) Good morning. Today is the big day. I woke up extremely crabby just thinking about quitting. I am holding your words near to my heart that life will get better and I will be happy. UUUUUGHHHH!!!! I know it will be hard. There is no choice for me but to quit now. My husband is behind me 110%. My frien...	franny	11	949	Apr 11, 2010 by AGO
	4-11-2010 Today's thought from Hazelden (Preview) Today's thought from Hazelden is: Self-control is one of the greatest skills I've learned. --Jim Burns Most of us assume we have mastered self-control by now. And perhaps we have. A good test is to monitor how we respond to a nagging spouse or a disrespectful postman or vile-mouthed teenager. Do inst...	Larry_H	0	480	Apr 11, 2010 by Larry_H
	Program practice in Hawaii (Preview) Aloha Fellowship!! So we are not a glum lot are we and we do absolutely great stuff for our recovery and absolutely insist upon it. A sponsee called me last night when I was practicing "Letting Go and Letting God" and turning all aspects of my life over to Him who I call Father and enjoying the...	Jerry F	6	1063	Apr 11, 2010 by mikef
	back out now back in (Preview) Relapse.... some hate the word even being used, but dammit, it is what it is. Sobriety lost its priority in my life and I CHOSE to start drinking again. Loneliness? Divorce problems? Whatever the excuse may be, I looked for that sense of ease and comfort and I got it... temporarily. It led to the drugs, w...	jonijoni1	11	1024	Apr 11, 2010 by itsmichael
	The Lois Wilson Story (Preview) The Lois Wilson Story, Hazelden's artfully written biography of the co-founder of Al-Anon, is now a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie starring Winona Ryder and Barry Pepper. Tune in to CBS on April 25 at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT to watch When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story, a beautifully produced movie t...	Larry_H	4	769	Apr 11, 2010 by itsmichael
	What is your opinion of Rigorous Honesty? (Preview) Chapter 5 of the Big Book says in part; "Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; th...	Larry_H	20	8499	Apr 11, 2010 by AGO
	Ever Dreamed of Drinking? (Preview) Wow, what a true testiment that this disease is an obsession! Tomorrow will be 2 weeks sober for me and I just woke up from a nap where I was dreaming that I was drinking wine. I was drinking it from a plastic cup the way I would when I would hide my drinking during the day. OMG, it really freaked me out. Howeve...	Jundrewia	11	1060	Apr 11, 2010 by angelov8
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