Alcoholics Anonymous

Vinohrady · Vinohrady

Hi everyone! This is my first post on this forum. Just thought I would introduce myself. I am 26 and have been abusing alcohol for about 7 or 8 years. I decided to get help two weeks ago today and haven't drank since. After a course of Valium and plenty of recouperation, I feel a lot better and have started...

lost4now · lost4now

Hello group, I am new to all this and could use a few words of both encouragement and advice. I have been sober for 1 day. I recently had an incident that made me realize that I want to get sober, I need to get sober. I have made an appointment with an AODA counselor, and I have found the location of a meeting t...

cramcj01 · cramcj01

Edging on 5 months now. Woo hoo! A couple of weeks ago I had the flu....bad. I laid on the couch and was thinking, why me? I mean, I felt like total junk. Then, I closed my eyes for a minute and started to think of the feeling I had every morning before I got enough alcohol in my body to rid the shakes. ...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Therefore, Step Two is the rallying point for all of us. Whether agnostic, atheist, or former believer, we can stand together on this Step. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 I feel that A.A. is a God-inspired program and that God is at every A.A. meeting. I see, believe, and have come to know tha...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day On a dark night, the bright lights of the corner tavern look mighty inviting. Inside, there seems to be warmth and good cheer. But we don't stop to think that if we go in there we'll probably end up drunk, with our money spent and an awful hangover. A long mahogany bar in the tropica...

laurenrich777 · laurenrich777

I think there will be different answers to this however, I hear repeatedly that you should attend on a daily basis. That beings said, how in the world do you do this with a family (who you are feeding around meeting times in the evenings) and a full time career? I saw someone say "you made the time to d...

Jane05 · Jane05

This is something I got this morning, in an e-mail, that made me sit up. Have a good day! Thought for Today Thursday, February 5, 2009 Is it possible that I am so busy doing That I no longer have time to enjoy being? Wilson

Jane05 · Jane05

Good morningFriendsDay Six/9:00 PM: We often miss opportunity knocking at the door because it can be disguised as a huge problem. With the next problem you encounter, ask, "What can I learn from this?" I watch for big problems; they disguise BIG opportunities. Excerpt from the Pocket S...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Before recovery, many of us lacked a frame of reference with which to name the victimization and abuse in our life. We may have thought it was normal that people mistreated us. We may have believed we deserved mistreatment; we may have been attracted to people who mistreated us. We need to let go, on a...

tomvlll · tomvlll

Do you think it's ok for a person to identify him/herself as an alcoholic ANDA drug addict, given our fifth tradition?

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees ItPg. 37 A Full and Thankful Heart One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings and then for a right acceptance of the many gifts that are mineboth temporal and spiritual. Here I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude. When such a brand of gratitude is repea...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 6, 2009 Irrationality Few indeed are the practicing alcoholics who have any idea how irrational they are, or seeing their irrationality, can bear to face it. Some will be willing to term themselves "problem drinkers" but cannot e...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day One thing we learn in A.A. is to take a long view of drinking instead of a short view. When we were drinking we thought more about the pleasure or release that a drink would give us than we did about the consequences that would result from our taking that drink. Liquor looks good fro...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

[img]https://i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv314/oldsmobuble/DeanSBXLIIIinsidepr...

Jane05 · Jane05

Day Five/11:00 AM: It's a very interesting thing about human nature, when you stop treating yourself poorly, it will become unacceptable for others to do so. If I don't take care of myself, why should anyone else? Excerpt from the Pocket Sponsor, By The Hazelden author of ' Day By Day' & other Medi...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 5, 2009 Footprints Stepping into the first footprint that led from the dismal swamp of alcoholism toward the sunlight of sobriety would not take me far enough. Would I muddle along some little trail of my own in the weeds, vaguely paralleling t...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Sometimes A.A. comes harder to those who have lost or rejected faith than to those who never had any faith at all, for they think they have faith and found it wanting. They have tried the way of faith and the way of no faith. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 28 I was so sure God had failed me that I becam...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day Treating others to drinks gave us a kind of satisfaction. We liked to say, "Have a drink on me." But we were not really doing the other people a favor. We were only helping them to get drunk, especially if they happened to be alcoholic. In A.A., we really try to help othe...

Jane05 · Jane05

How to Stay Awake in AA Meetings - A Public Service Announcement Do you keep falling asleep in meetings? What about those long and boring drinkables? Here is a way to change all that... 1. Before (or during) your next meeting, prepare yourself by drawing a square. I find that a 5" x5" is a good...

Daveypoos · Daveypoos

Does anyone know where I can download stuf like this? Such as the films I've seen of Bill W. I'm not looking for copyrighted material and I would hopefully be making up some discs for newcommers, I've done the same with speaker MP3 downloads. Many thanks Dave M

chester · chester

Hi I haven't drank in over a month and the last time was newyears. I had 4 beers and a glass of very cheap champane. Someone posted the 5 types of A's. If I have a label I am the functioning one. I used to have 4-5 beers and when the buzz started I would stop although I have to admitt that some times 3-4 times a ye...

Jane05 · Jane05

Day Four/4:00 PM: Part of recovery is becoming whole and that includes relationships. But we must be a whole person seeking a whole person, not a broken person seeking another to become whole. It's not a question of me finding the right person, but becoming the right person. (Especially if I'm al...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It Pg. 35 Suffering Transmuted "A.A. is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress." {{{{{{{{{{}}}}}}}}}} For Dr. Bob, the insatiable craving for alcohol was evidently a physical phenome...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 4, 2009 Usefulness We hear a lot in meetings that a grateful alcoholic doesn't get drunk. What I have found, though, reaches far beyond feeling grateful, and that is feeling useful. I believe that when I am grateful, It is usually for what I have...

Quetzal · Quetzal

What a journey! This process of growth and change takes us along an ever-changing road. Sometimes the way is hard and craggy. Sometimes we climb mountains. Sometimes we slide down the other side on a toboggan. Sometimes we rest. Sometimes we grope through the darkness. Sometimes we're blind...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It Pg. 34 "Not Allied with Any Sect..." "While A.A. has restored thousands of poor Christians to their churches, and has made believers out of atheists and agnostics, it has also made good A.A.'s out of those belonging to the Buddhist, Islamic, and Jewish faiths. For...

Tipsy McStagger · Tipsy McStagger

I never understood how the people I met in AA were able to deal with the thought of never being able to drink again. I believed that they must secretly be suffering and living miserable unhappy lives. I told myself that they probably we're just nice and happy at meetings but then went home and yelled at t...

barisax · barisax

I posted this in the Alanon forum but I thought I's post it here too... since I'm both. I was thinking about it with regard to people in Alanon and their expectations from their recovering alcoholic.... you know, expectations = premeditated resentments . Anyway, here it is... --------------- I...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day By drinking, we escaped from boredom for a while. We almost forgot our troubles. But when we sobered up, our troubles were twice as bad. Drinking had only made them worse. In A.A., we really escape boredom. Nobody's bored at an A.A. meeting. We stick around after it's over and we...

Jane05 · Jane05

Day Three/12:00 AM: Egoism isn't necessarily thinking a lot of yourself--just thinking of yourself a lot. I begin this day by thinking of another first. Who is distressed or frightened that I may offer words of comfort? Excerpt from the Pocket Sponsor, By The Hazelden author of ' Day By Day' &...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 3, 2009 Philosophy For me, AA is a synthesis of all the philosophy I've ever read, all of the positive, good philosophy, all of it based on love. I have seen that there is only one law, the law of love, and there are only two sins: the first is to inter...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Shame can be a powerful force in our life. It is the trademark of dysfunctional families. Authentic, legitimate guilt is the feeling or thought that what we did is not okay. It indicates that our behavior needs to be corrected or altered, or an amend needs to be made. Shame is an overwhelming negat...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Characteristic of the so-called typical alcoholic is a narcissistic egocentric core, dominated by feelings of omnipotence, intent on maintaining at all costs its inner integrity. Inwardly the alcoholic brooks no control from man or God. He, the alcoholic, is and must be the master of his destiny...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day We got a kick out of the first few drinks, before we got stupefied by alcohol. For a while, the world seemed to look brighter. But how about the letdown, the terrible depression that comes the morning after? In A.A., we get a real kick: not a false feeling of exhilaration, but a rea...

pinkchip · pinkchip

Today marks 4 months of continuous sobriety. I am still keeping track of my days which are now at 124. But I am really starting to count months now. Some weird changes are occurring at meetings, in the fellowship, and with me. Beginners meetings have turned over completely and many of the people t...

Phil · Phil

Hellooooo....to the wonderful world of living in recovery.....and all the loving people in it...:) Its been a while. Have been off line for a couple of weeks now...due to f***d up telephone lines..so..have been borrowing and begging computer use from others, just to get a fix...and forward email j...

Jane05 · Jane05

Wisdom of the Rooms February 2, 2009 Quote of the Week "It works if you work it." It happens every time - when I get too busy, or too stressed, or too tired, I slow down on the things that make me feel better and, before long, I'm a little bit irritable, slightly discontented, and I feel a growing...

Jane05 · Jane05

I Didn't Have Time I got up early one morning And rushed right into the day. I had so much to accomplish That I didn't have time to pray. Problems just tumbled about me and heavier came each task. "Why doesn't God help me," I wondered. He answered, "You didn't ask." I wanted to see jo...

Jane05 · Jane05

Good MorningFriendsStill no lights here may be another week or 2Day Two/3:00 PM: "For a time we are living inside a scream where there seems to be no exit, only echoes. The small cares that seemed so important yesterday seem like nothing, and our daily concerns become petty and irrelevant. Wh...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 2, 2009 An Answer If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which keeps you from accepting what is in this book, I feel sorry for you. If you still think you are strong enough to beat the gam...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him. -- Step Three of Al-Anon So much talk about a Higher Power, God, as we understand God. So much joy as we come to understand Him. Spirituality and spiritual growth are the foundations of change. Recovery from cod...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I cant say upon what occasion or on what day I came to believe in a power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 27 Came to believe! I gave lip service to my belief when I felt like it or...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day When we think about having a drink, we're thinking of the kick we get out of drinking, the pleasure, the escape from boredom, the feeling of self-importance, and the companionship of other drinkers. What we don't think of is the letdown, the hang over, the remorse, the waste of...

Codependent2 · Codependent2

Went to a psychiatrist today. I had been on zoloft and ativan per my primary MD. Today my psych left the zoloft but swapped out ativan for Kolonopin. Just wanted feedback on this. I have generalized anxiety disorder and history of panic attacks.

Jane05 · Jane05

Day One/6:00 PM: Gaining our strength in recovery by admitting our powerlessness in addiction is a mystery to us. But, the First Step says we are powerless over "our drug of choice" and not powerless over "our recovery." Don't limit yourself. I am powerfully recovering. Exc...

Jane05 · Jane05

As Bill Sees It Pg. 32 Moral Responsibility "Some strongly object to the A.A. position that alcoholism is an illness. This concept, they feel, removes moral responsibility from alcoholics. As any A.A. knows, this is far from true. We do not use the concept of sickness to absolve our members...

Jane05 · Jane05

AA Thought for the Day February 1, 2009 Going to Any Length Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now. If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it -- then you are ready to take certain steps. At some of these w...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. -- Step Two of Al-Anon We come to believe in a better life through the powerful gift of other people - hearing them, seeing them, and watching the gift of recovery at work in their lives. There is a Power greater than us. T...

Jane05 · Jane05

Day Thirty-one/12:00 AM: "An attitude of gratitude is simply practicing focusing ones thoughts on appreciating what one has rather than what one does not have." ~Robert Johansson, Recovering Self-Esteem It's not so much that my glass is half empty or half full, as it is being grate...

Jane05 · Jane05

My Medallion I always carry my medallion,A simple reminder of meOf the fact that I'm in recoveryNo matter where I may be. This little chip is not magicNor is it a good luck charm.It isn't supposed to protect meFrom every possible harm. It's not meant for comparison,Or for all the world to see,It's simp...

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	Hello (Preview) Hi everyone! This is my first post on this forum. Just thought I would introduce myself. I am 26 and have been abusing alcohol for about 7 or 8 years. I decided to get help two weeks ago today and haven't drank since. After a course of Valium and plenty of recouperation, I feel a lot better and have started...	Vinohrady	6	440	Feb 6, 2009 by Tipsy McStagger
	new to all of this (Preview) Hello group, I am new to all this and could use a few words of both encouragement and advice. I have been sober for 1 day. I recently had an incident that made me realize that I want to get sober, I need to get sober. I have made an appointment with an AODA counselor, and I have found the location of a meeting t...	lost4now	10	501	Feb 6, 2009 by Tipsy McStagger
	Hi guys.... (Preview) Edging on 5 months now. Woo hoo! A couple of weeks ago I had the flu....bad. I laid on the couch and was thinking, why me? I mean, I felt like total junk. Then, I closed my eyes for a minute and started to think of the feeling I had every morning before I got enough alcohol in my body to rid the shakes. ...	cramcj01	5	412	Feb 6, 2009 by Tipsy McStagger
	Daily Reflections ~ A Rallying Point (Preview) Therefore, Step Two is the rallying point for all of us. Whether agnostic, atheist, or former believer, we can stand together on this Step. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 I feel that A.A. is a God-inspired program and that God is at every A.A. meeting. I see, believe, and have come to know tha...	Sobrietyspell	0	383	Feb 6, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 6th Feb 09 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day On a dark night, the bright lights of the corner tavern look mighty inviting. Inside, there seems to be warmth and good cheer. But we don't stop to think that if we go in there we'll probably end up drunk, with our money spent and an awful hangover. A long mahogany bar in the tropica...	Sobrietyspell	0	327	Feb 6, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	My Question About Meetings~ (Preview) I think there will be different answers to this however, I hear repeatedly that you should attend on a daily basis. That beings said, how in the world do you do this with a family (who you are feeding around meeting times in the evenings) and a full time career? I saw someone say "you made the time to d...	laurenrich777	4	466	Feb 6, 2009 by laurenrich777
	Just a Thought (Preview) This is something I got this morning, in an e-mail, that made me sit up. Have a good day! Thought for Today Thursday, February 5, 2009 Is it possible that I am so busy doing That I no longer have time to enjoy being? Wilson	Jane05	1	422	Feb 6, 2009 by pinkchip
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) *Good morningFriendsDay Six/9:00 PM:* We often miss opportunity knocking at the door because it can be disguised as a huge problem. With the next problem you encounter, ask, "What can I learn from this?" *I watch for big problems; they disguise BIG opportunities.* Excerpt from the Pocket S...	Jane05	0	298	Feb 6, 2009 by Jane05
	Stopping Victimization (Preview) Before recovery, many of us lacked a frame of reference with which to name the victimization and abuse in our life. We may have thought it was normal that people mistreated us. We may have believed we deserved mistreatment; we may have been attracted to people who mistreated us. We need to let go, on a...	Quetzal	0	336	Feb 6, 2009 by Quetzal
	question about ANDA's (Preview) Do you think it's ok for a person to identify him/herself as an alcoholic ANDA drug addict, given our fifth tradition?	tomvlll	9	770	Feb 6, 2009 by Daveypoos
	A Full and Thankful Heart (Preview) As Bill Sees ItPg. 37 A Full and Thankful Heart One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings and then for a right acceptance of the many gifts that are mineboth temporal and spiritual. Here I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude. When such a brand of gratitude is repea...	Jane05	0	299	Feb 6, 2009 by Jane05
	AA Thought for the Day (Preview) AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 6, 2009 Irrationality Few indeed are the practicing alcoholics who have any idea how irrational they are, or seeing their irrationality, can bear to face it. Some will be willing to term themselves "problem drinkers" but cannot e...	Jane05	0	297	Feb 6, 2009 by Jane05
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 5th Feb 09 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day One thing we learn in A.A. is to take a long view of drinking instead of a short view. When we were drinking we thought more about the pleasure or release that a drink would give us than we did about the consequences that would result from our taking that drink. Liquor looks good fro...	Sobrietyspell	0	337	Feb 5, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	A little off topic but... (Preview) [img]https://i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv314/oldsmobuble/DeanSBXLIIIinsidepr...	StPeteDean	5	486	Feb 5, 2009 by lani
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Day Five/11:00 AM: It's a very interesting thing about human nature, when you stop treating yourself poorly, it will become unacceptable for others to do so. *If I don't take care of myself, why should anyone else?* Excerpt from the Pocket Sponsor, By The Hazelden author of ' Day By Day' & other Medi...	Jane05	0	463	Feb 5, 2009 by Jane05
	AA Thought for the Day (Preview) AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 5, 2009 Footprints Stepping into the first footprint that led from the dismal swamp of alcoholism toward the sunlight of sobriety would not take me far enough. Would I muddle along some little trail of my own in the weeds, vaguely paralleling t...	Jane05	0	495	Feb 5, 2009 by Jane05
	Daily Reflections ~ When Faith Is Missing (Preview) Sometimes A.A. comes harder to those who have lost or rejected faith than to those who never had any faith at all, for they think they have faith and found it wanting. They have tried the way of faith and the way of no faith. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 28 I was so sure God had failed me that I becam...	Sobrietyspell	0	364	Feb 4, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 4th Feb 09 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day Treating others to drinks gave us a kind of satisfaction. We liked to say, "Have a drink on me." But we were not really doing the other people a favor. We were only helping them to get drunk, especially if they happened to be alcoholic. In A.A., we really try to help othe...	Sobrietyspell	0	370	Feb 4, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	How to Stay Awake in AA Meetings (Preview) How to Stay Awake in AA Meetings - A Public Service Announcement Do you keep falling asleep in meetings? What about those long and boring drinkables? Here is a way to change all that... 1. Before (or during) your next meeting, prepare yourself by drawing a square. I find that a 5" x5" is a good...	Jane05	5	584	Feb 4, 2009 by barisax
	AA related videos DIVX MP4 etc (Preview) Does anyone know where I can download stuf like this? Such as the films I've seen of Bill W. I'm not looking for copyrighted material and I would hopefully be making up some discs for newcommers, I've done the same with speaker MP3 downloads. Many thanks Dave M	Daveypoos	2	447	Feb 4, 2009 by StPeteDean
	A little about things that are happening in my so called life (Preview) Hi I haven't drank in over a month and the last time was newyears. I had 4 beers and a glass of very cheap champane. Someone posted the 5 types of A's. If I have a label I am the functioning one. I used to have 4-5 beers and when the buzz started I would stop although I have to admitt that some times 3-4 times a ye...	chester	7	504	Feb 4, 2009 by chester
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Day Four/4:00 PM: Part of recovery is becoming whole and that includes relationships. But we must be a whole person seeking a whole person, not a broken person seeking another to become whole. It's not a question of me finding the right person, but becoming the right person. (Especially if I'm al...	Jane05	0	469	Feb 4, 2009 by Jane05
	Suffering Transmuted (Preview) As Bill Sees It Pg. 35 Suffering Transmuted "A.A. is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress." {{{{{{{{{{}}}}}}}}}} For Dr. Bob, the insatiable craving for alcohol was evidently a physical phenome...	Jane05	0	343	Feb 4, 2009 by Jane05
	AA Thought for the Day (Preview) AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 4, 2009 Usefulness We hear a lot in meetings that a grateful alcoholic doesn't get drunk. What I have found, though, reaches far beyond feeling grateful, and that is feeling useful. I believe that when I am grateful, It is usually for what I have...	Jane05	0	326	Feb 4, 2009 by Jane05
	Enjoying Recovery (Preview) What a journey! This process of growth and change takes us along an ever-changing road. Sometimes the way is hard and craggy. Sometimes we climb mountains. Sometimes we slide down the other side on a toboggan. Sometimes we rest. Sometimes we grope through the darkness. Sometimes we're blind...	Quetzal	0	272	Feb 4, 2009 by Quetzal
	Not Allied with Any Sect (Preview) As Bill Sees It Pg. 34 "Not Allied with Any Sect..." "While A.A. has restored thousands of poor Christians to their churches, and has made believers out of atheists and agnostics, it has also made good A.A.'s out of those belonging to the Buddhist, Islamic, and Jewish faiths. For...	Jane05	3	424	Feb 3, 2009 by Rob84
	When the desire is removed (Preview) I never understood how the people I met in AA were able to deal with the thought of never being able to drink again. I believed that they must secretly be suffering and living miserable unhappy lives. I told myself that they probably we're just nice and happy at meetings but then went home and yelled at t...	Tipsy McStagger	6	502	Feb 3, 2009 by BGG
	Growth (Preview) I posted this in the Alanon forum but I thought I's post it here too... since I'm both. I was thinking about it with regard to people in Alanon and their expectations from their recovering alcoholic.... you know, expectations = premeditated resentments . Anyway, here it is... --------------- I...	barisax	2	450	Feb 3, 2009 by StPeteDean
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 3rd Feb 09 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day By drinking, we escaped from boredom for a while. We almost forgot our troubles. But when we sobered up, our troubles were twice as bad. Drinking had only made them worse. In A.A., we really escape boredom. Nobody's bored at an A.A. meeting. We stick around after it's over and we...	Sobrietyspell	0	523	Feb 3, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Day Three/12:00 AM: Egoism isn't necessarily thinking a lot of yourself--just thinking of yourself a lot. *I begin this day by thinking of another first. Who is distressed or frightened that I may offer words of comfort?* Excerpt from the Pocket Sponsor, By The Hazelden author of ' Day By Day' &...	Jane05	0	367	Feb 3, 2009 by Jane05
	AA Thought for the Day (Preview) AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 3, 2009 Philosophy For me, AA is a synthesis of all the philosophy I've ever read, all of the positive, good philosophy, all of it based on love. I have seen that there is only one law, the law of love, and there are only two sins: the first is to inter...	Jane05	0	511	Feb 3, 2009 by Jane05
	Rejecting Shame (Preview) Shame can be a powerful force in our life. It is the trademark of dysfunctional families. Authentic, legitimate guilt is the feeling or thought that what we did is not okay. It indicates that our behavior needs to be corrected or altered, or an amend needs to be made. Shame is an overwhelming negat...	Quetzal	0	401	Feb 3, 2009 by Quetzal
	Daily Reflections ~ Rescued By Surrendering (Preview) Characteristic of the so-called typical alcoholic is a narcissistic egocentric core, dominated by feelings of omnipotence, intent on maintaining at all costs its inner integrity. Inwardly the alcoholic brooks no control from man or God. He, the alcoholic, is and must be the master of his destiny...	Sobrietyspell	0	348	Feb 2, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 2nd Feb 09 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day We got a kick out of the first few drinks, before we got stupefied by alcohol. For a while, the world seemed to look brighter. But how about the letdown, the terrible depression that comes the morning after? In A.A., we get a real kick: not a false feeling of exhilaration, but a rea...	Sobrietyspell	0	601	Feb 2, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	4 months (Preview) Today marks 4 months of continuous sobriety. I am still keeping track of my days which are now at 124. But I am really starting to count months now. Some weird changes are occurring at meetings, in the fellowship, and with me. Beginners meetings have turned over completely and many of the people t...	pinkchip	6	520	Feb 2, 2009 by Doll
	Saying Hi (Preview) Hellooooo....to the wonderful world of living in recovery.....and all the loving people in it...:) Its been a while. Have been off line for a couple of weeks now...due to f***d up telephone lines..so..have been borrowing and begging computer use from others, just to get a fix...and forward email j...	Phil	2	467	Feb 2, 2009 by Doll
	Wisdom of the Rooms (Preview) Wisdom of the Rooms February 2, 2009 Quote of the Week "It works if you work it." It happens every time - when I get too busy, or too stressed, or too tired, I slow down on the things that make me feel better and, before long, I'm a little bit irritable, slightly discontented, and I feel a growing...	Jane05	0	315	Feb 2, 2009 by Jane05
	I Didn't Have Time (Preview) I Didn't Have Time I got up early one morning And rushed right into the day. I had so much to accomplish That I didn't have time to pray. Problems just tumbled about me and heavier came each task. "Why doesn't God help me," I wondered. He answered, "You didn't ask." I wanted to see jo...	Jane05	0	302	Feb 2, 2009 by Jane05
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Good MorningFriendsStill no lights here may be another week or 2Day Two/3:00 PM: "For a time we are living inside a scream where there seems to be no exit, only echoes. The small cares that seemed so important yesterday seem like nothing, and our daily concerns become petty and irrelevant. Wh...	Jane05	0	460	Feb 2, 2009 by Jane05
	AA Thought for the Day (Preview) AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 2, 2009 An Answer If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which keeps you from accepting what is in this book, I feel sorry for you. If you still think you are strong enough to beat the gam...	Jane05	0	470	Feb 2, 2009 by Jane05
	Trusting Our Higher Power (Preview) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him. -- Step Three of Al-Anon So much talk about a Higher Power, God, as we understand God. So much joy as we come to understand Him. Spirituality and spiritual growth are the foundations of change. Recovery from cod...	Quetzal	0	329	Feb 2, 2009 by Quetzal
	Daily Reflections ~ Goal: Sanity (Preview) Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I cant say upon what occasion or on what day I came to believe in a power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 27 Came to believe! I gave lip service to my belief when I felt like it or...	Sobrietyspell	0	363	Feb 1, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 1st Feb 09 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day When we think about having a drink, we're thinking of the kick we get out of drinking, the pleasure, the escape from boredom, the feeling of self-importance, and the companionship of other drinkers. What we don't think of is the letdown, the hang over, the remorse, the waste of...	Sobrietyspell	0	329	Feb 1, 2009 by Sobrietyspell
	Psychiatrist (Preview) Went to a psychiatrist today. I had been on zoloft and ativan per my primary MD. Today my psych left the zoloft but swapped out ativan for Kolonopin. Just wanted feedback on this. I have generalized anxiety disorder and history of panic attacks.	Codependent2	6	521	Feb 1, 2009 by pinkchip
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Day One/6:00 PM: Gaining our strength in recovery by admitting our powerlessness in addiction is a mystery to us. But, the First Step says we are powerless over "our drug of choice" and not powerless over "our recovery." Don't limit yourself. I am powerfully recovering. Exc...	Jane05	0	306	Feb 1, 2009 by Jane05
	Moral Responsibility (Preview) As Bill Sees It Pg. 32 Moral Responsibility "Some strongly object to the A.A. position that alcoholism is an illness. This concept, they feel, removes moral responsibility from alcoholics. As any A.A. knows, this is far from true. We do not use the concept of sickness to absolve our members...	Jane05	0	335	Feb 1, 2009 by Jane05
	AA Thought for the Day (Preview) AA Thought for the Day February 1, 2009 Going to Any Length Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now. If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it -- then you are ready to take certain steps. At some of these w...	Jane05	0	1960	Feb 1, 2009 by Jane05
	Step Two (Preview) Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. -- Step Two of Al-Anon We come to believe in a better life through the powerful gift of other people - hearing them, seeing them, and watching the gift of recovery at work in their lives. There is a Power greater than us. T...	Quetzal	0	338	Feb 1, 2009 by Quetzal
	Pocket Sponsor (Preview) Day Thirty-one/12:00 AM: "An attitude of gratitude is simply practicing focusing ones thoughts on appreciating what one has rather than what one does not have." ~Robert Johansson, Recovering Self-Esteem It's not so much that my glass is half empty or half full, as it is being grate...	Jane05	0	557	Jan 31, 2009 by Jane05
	My Medallion (Preview) My Medallion I always carry my medallion,A simple reminder of meOf the fact that I'm in recoveryNo matter where I may be. This little chip is not magicNor is it a good luck charm.It isn't supposed to protect meFrom every possible harm. It's not meant for comparison,Or for all the world to see,It's simp...	Jane05	2	421	Jan 31, 2009 by Jane05
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