Alcoholics Anonymous

Bryan39 · Bryan39

I thought with all the new people here lately I would tell my story, I've heard it said if you hang around AA you'll hear your own story in someone else . A bit of back ground I grew up with a controling parent who is the daughter of an alcoholic. I was akward and uncoordinated, I was the kid picked last for eve...

jc2008 · jc2008

Thanks for all the warm messages of concern. I'm back home now, and so grateful to be here. I made it through the conference unscathed. In fact, a few remarkable things happened. I read the 3rd step prayer in the big book (finally -- a crusty old timer told me to read it weeks ago) when I couldn't sleep...

jonijoni · jonijoni

Surprise, surprise world....... since I am the new girl on the block at work, and semi-full-time (PRN), I get the next 6 days off, as one of our prescribers has her wedding/honeymoon starting this weekend. Sooooo.... Dean, are you listening? I want to make a list of maybe just a couple of things I will d...

lani · lani

here tis -- Edited by lani at 17:13, 2008-05-23 -- Edited by lani at 17:14, 2008-05-23

jennson88 · jennson88

He said that it's usually best to have a girl sponsor a girl and a guy sponsor a guy because they'll be more on the person's mind than just getting them better (sober) but it is allowed. He also said that it has to be an unbiased person but I don't know who else I'd want to be my sponsor than him as he's a lot to me...

TLH · TLH

Very heart wrenching story. I have two uncles on two sides of the family that for parts of their lives could have been the subject of a documentary like this. I could have watched this every time I thought I didn't give a damn and circumvented a lot of self destructive crap. The Trailer: http://www.yout...

Doll · Doll

It saddens me that my son's father has never wanted to help with the financial responsibility of raising a child. And has never been a role model either. He's a drunk and a drug addict and has been for 30 yrs. In 1994 he was court ordered to pay $61.00. Period! He quit his job so that was all they could take a...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ One of the finest things about A.A. is the sharing. Sharing is a wonderful thing because the more you share the more you have. In our old drinking days, we didn't do much sharing. We used to keep things to ourselves, partly because we were ashamed, but mostly because we were sel...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

Hey Cool, Lady ~ Well Done! Would you like to go over & calculate how many days/heartbeats that is on the Silkworth calculator :D Thanks for all the love, commitment, ES&H you share with us on MIP. GO GURL! Danielle x

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The Twelfth Step of A.A., working with others, can be subdivided into five parts, five words beginning with the letter C confidence, confession, conviction, con version, and continuance. The first thing in trying to help other alcoholics is to get their confidence. We do t...

Eve · Eve

Hello everyone! I hope it's okay to post an introduction here...I wasn't sure if there were other forums for that purpose. First I would like (well actually need) to say that I am an alcoholic. It is very difficult for me to accept this b/c I can go without a drink for a few days but then as soon as I do have...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ What impresses us most at an A.A. meeting is the willingness to share, without holding anything back. And pretty soon we find ourselves sharing also. We start telling our own experiences and by so doing we help the other person. And when we've got these things off our chest, we...

Pam P · Pam P

To everyone, Just thinking and praying for God's Wisdom and devine intervention and the answers will come that I am seeking. Here is what my head is saying to myself The Lord, and you right now. Should we attend this wedding at there home in Arizona or not? My 27 year old Nephew that lives in Ariz...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Life is not to be endured; life is to be enjoyed and embraced. The belief that we must square our shoulders and get through a meager, deprived existence for far off rewards in Heaven is a codependent belief. Yes, most of us still have times when life will be stressful and challenge our endurance ski...

jc2008 · jc2008

The best laid plans...I tried to set up in advance a meeting each night -- I emailed the local AA chapter rep, who at first was responsive and sounded like he would help me get to meetings. Now, he won't return my emails, and no one is answering the "24 hour line." I don't have a car here, and th...

jennson88 · jennson88

Like I say in my bio, I am an alcoholic and need help but it was gettting help that was always the hardest part for me. My boyfriend who also used to go to AA says that I am spiritually sick, which I definitely have to agree with. I've lost my faith in God and I know that in order to get better I have to regain my...

mnstar · mnstar

I like to talk about the things I have some experience with, and after struggling with this disease for 28 years this is one of them.... Invariably someone, somewhere, sometime will offer us a drink. A polite "no thanks" is usually followed by "You don't drink? Why not?" Early i...

Quetzal · Quetzal

I want to change careers . . . I need a friend . . .I'm ready to be in a relationship . . . Regularly, we become aware of new needs. We may need to change our behavior with our children. We may need a new couch, love and nurturing, a dollar, or help. Do not be afraid to recognize a want or need. The birth of a wa...

Doll · Doll

How you holding up, gal? Thinking of you.......

mnstar · mnstar

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, Dr. Silkworth was the doctor who wrote "the doctor's opinion" in the Big Book. The website bearing his name has some interesting material on it. If you are into the mp3 player thing, you can download several audio recordings here. Some great stuff,...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

One of my biggest pet peeves and fears is about/surrounds losing stuff. I'm not a "a place for everything and everything in it's place" kinda person. Don't get me wrong, I'm not completely disorganized, I just tend to keep the stuff that I'm using regularly or stuff that involes things...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

Sobriety Calculator http://www.silkworth.net/aa/bb.html -

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ If we get up in a meeting and tell something about ourselves in order to help the other person, we feel a whole lot better. It's the old law of the more you give the more you get. Witnessing and confession are part of keeping sober. You never know when you may help somebody. Helping...

Bella73 · Bella73

i'm back to waltzing. you know, steps 1, 2, 3, ...1, 2, 3. at 34 years old i started back to college and actually made the dean's list! i was certain that i had killed more brain cells than that! lol i started to become self sufficient, which was my big mistake. i forgot that i am powerless--not only with alc...

jc2008 · jc2008

I'm going on a business trip to SC this afternoon and will stay through Friday. The schedule indicates that there are receptions in the evenings with hors d'ouevres and wine. I don't trust myself to go. I've been looking up meetings online and plan to go to one each night. I'm still nervous, though...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

My Recovery has been slowly taking over in capability. Such knowledge seeping & simpering through waiting to take flight. Building up like an inferno of fire & brimstone in the depths of my belly & sanity. I've been becoming well. I was frustrated for a little while. The knowledge but no...

Doll · Doll

Had a WONDERFUL time at Bike Week. The weather was a bit cool the first couple of days, but it warmed up nicely by Wednesday. Did a LOT of riding and a TON of eating (I'm sure I gained 10lbs). We ate twice at my favorite hole n the wall "River City Cafe'" - they've got burgers the size of your head an...

jonijoni · jonijoni

Refuse to do ANYTHING useful today. Love that concept. Instead of obssessing about my home and laundry today, just gonna AA-up later, and vegetate. Will not remove pajamas today (until meeting time)!!!!!! I have that right on occasion!!! LOL... what are YOUR plans for this beautiful Sunday?

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Fellowship is a big part of staying sober. The doctors call it group therapy. We never go to an A.A. meeting without taking something out of it. Sometimes we don't feel like going to a meeting and we think of excuses for not going. But we usually end up by going anyway. And we alway...

TLH · TLH

Ummm.....looks like there's no more Mackeral left in the milk crate.

Bella73 · Bella73

hello everyone. i am new to this site and so glad i found it. i am just beginning my road to recovery...again. it'll be great talking to all of you.

eugene · eugene

Been reading the board for a few weeks , posted couple of times and thought I should introduce myself. I am a 44 year old male living in Johannesburg, South Africa and a gratefull member of AA. Been sober for 15 months and am unbelievably gratefull. I am one of the fortunate ones who got it through my thic...

lani · lani

Well I feel like the possee looking for the lost ones and realized were missing our good buddy Tugboat!!!!!! May be annoying and the ones who are lost for a moment that I forget, I apologize!!!! Hope all is well with our dear friend....... Lani

jc2008 · jc2008

I didn't go to my usual Saturday morning meeting. It's the anchor of my week. Instead, I decided we should have family time. And we were going to have fun like a nice normal family that doesn't have a drunk for a mom! So needless to say it was tense and messy. Everything had to be perfect and fun at all t...

mnstar · mnstar

What's different about this time? That's what my CD counselor said to me as I graduated from my third CD treatment several weeks ago. Good question, said I. So I took a look back at my struggles with alcohol and my relapses. Had 13 years at one point, relapsed. Had 5 years, relapsed. This time I've been so...

jc2008 · jc2008

I was moved by everyone's responses to my last post. I don't feel deserving of any of it, but I thank you all. I feel a little less wretched than yesterday, less angry, and somewhat reflective. I went to church this morning and wound up substituting for a Sunday school teacher who didn't show up. I ha...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

Hillarious enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go

lateforthesky · lateforthesky

i think i read the brain runs on glucose i was reading book "sugar blues" again and it talks about alchoholism i think eating white sugar makes us crave alcohol more i think sucrose isnt gluscose google glucose

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ We're in A.A. for two main reasons: to keep sober ourselves and to help others to keep sober. It's a well-known fact that helping others is a big part of keeping sober yourself. It's also been proved that it's very hard to keep sober all by yourself. A lot of people have tried it an...

Quetzal · Quetzal

So often, when a problem occurs, inside or around us, we revert to thinking that if we put our life on hold we can positively contribute to the solution. If a relationship isn't working, if we face a difficult decision, if we're feeling depressed, we may put our life on hold and torment ourselves with ob...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles per year. Another study found Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon. ...

mnstar · mnstar

I decided recently to shore up my support system by adding an online element. While I feel it is no subsitute for a face to face meeting, I feel it will help me with those difficult times at 3:00 am, etc. Or like now. :) It's before 8:00 am and I would not feel right calling someone this early. Anyway, my poin...

mnstar · mnstar

New to the site, just finding another tool in my quest for continued sobriety. Name is Larry, glad to be here and sober today. Sobriety dates: 1-20-1980 (lasted for 13 years) 2-20-1997 (lasted for 5 years) 2-2-2008 (still working on it) Take care.

Quetzal · Quetzal

Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. -- Step Five of Al-Anon Talking openly and honestly to another person about ourselves, in an attitude that reflects self-responsibility, is critical to recovery. It's important to admit what we have done...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ A lot of well meaning people treat an alcoholic like the priest and the Levite. They pass by on the other side by scorning him and telling him what a low person he is, with no willpower. Whereas, he really has fallen for alcohol, in the same way as the man in the story fell among robb...

jonijoni · jonijoni

A young-buck with one year sober was leading the meeting tonight, and I had never seen him before. (It was at a Dry Club I do not go all that much.) He was the spitting DNA- image of a young man I dated years ago when starting out in the program. One of those "two sickies don't make a wellie" t...

Tipsy McStagger · Tipsy McStagger

with girls I meet at meetings? Because there's some pretty hot ones...and I don't imagine that they're the "saving themselves for marriage" types. Being former boozers and all. Seriously though, are there rules regarding this? Some sort of AA intercourse etiquette? I can't fin...

Quetzal · Quetzal

A helpful tool in our recovery, especially in the behavior we call detachment, is learning to identify who owns what. Then we let each person own and possess his or her rightful property. If another person has an addiction, a problem, a feeling, or a self-defeating behavior, that is their property...

Quetzal · Quetzal

"I woke up this morning and I had a hard time for a while," said one recovering man. "Then I realized it was because I wasn't liking myself very much." Recovering people often say: I just don't like myself. When will I start liking myself? The answer is: start now. We can learn to...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

http://youtube.com/watch?v=usqevWXUNQg

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	My Story (Preview) I thought with all the new people here lately I would tell my story, I've heard it said if you hang around AA you'll hear your own story in someone else . A bit of back ground I grew up with a controling parent who is the daughter of an alcoholic. I was akward and uncoordinated, I was the kid picked last for eve...	Bryan39	7	498	May 24, 2008 by Bryan39
	Hi folks (Preview) Thanks for all the warm messages of concern. I'm back home now, and so grateful to be here. I made it through the conference unscathed. In fact, a few remarkable things happened. I read the 3rd step prayer in the big book (finally -- a crusty old timer told me to read it weeks ago) when I couldn't sleep...	jc2008	5	423	May 24, 2008 by Bryan39
	Suggestions on Spontaneity?? (Preview) Surprise, surprise world....... since I am the new girl on the block at work, and semi-full-time (PRN), I get the next 6 days off, as one of our prescribers has her wedding/honeymoon starting this weekend. Sooooo.... Dean, are you listening? I want to make a list of maybe just a couple of things I will d...	jonijoni	13	945	May 24, 2008 by StPeteDean
	check the big deck (Preview) here tis -- Edited by lani at 17:13, 2008-05-23 -- Edited by lani at 17:14, 2008-05-23	lani	6	434	May 24, 2008 by Doll
	Can Your Sponsor Be Your Boyfriend? (Preview) He said that it's usually best to have a girl sponsor a girl and a guy sponsor a guy because they'll be more on the person's mind than just getting them better (sober) but it is allowed. He also said that it has to be an unbiased person but I don't know who else I'd want to be my sponsor than him as he's a lot to me...	jennson88	9	451	May 23, 2008 by StPeteDean
	Movie: Drunk in Public (by David J Sperling) (Preview) Very heart wrenching story. I have two uncles on two sides of the family that for parts of their lives could have been the subject of a documentary like this. I could have watched this every time I thought I didn't give a damn and circumvented a lot of self destructive crap. The Trailer: http://www.yout...	TLH	20	14864	May 23, 2008 by TLH
	God, please bless that Son of a Bitch!!!!!!!!!!! (Preview) It saddens me that my son's father has never wanted to help with the financial responsibility of raising a child. And has never been a role model either. He's a drunk and a drug addict and has been for 30 yrs. In 1994 he was court ordered to pay $61.00. Period! He quit his job so that was all they could take a...	Doll	14	540	May 23, 2008 by lani
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 21st May 08 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ One of the finest things about A.A. is the sharing. Sharing is a wonderful thing because the more you share the more you have. In our old drinking days, we didn't do much sharing. We used to keep things to ourselves, partly because we were ashamed, but mostly because we were sel...	Sobrietyspell	5	481	May 23, 2008 by lani
	Congrats on 7mths, Lani!!! (Preview) Hey Cool, Lady ~ Well Done! Would you like to go over & calculate how many days/heartbeats that is on the Silkworth calculator :D Thanks for all the love, commitment, ES&H you share with us on MIP. GO GURL! Danielle x	Sobrietyspell	15	531	May 23, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 23rd May 08 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The Twelfth Step of A.A., working with others, can be subdivided into five parts, five words beginning with the letter C confidence, confession, conviction, con version, and continuance. The first thing in trying to help other alcoholics is to get their confidence. We do t...	Sobrietyspell	0	327	May 23, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	Brand Spankin' New (Preview) Hello everyone! I hope it's okay to post an introduction here...I wasn't sure if there were other forums for that purpose. First I would like (well actually need) to say that I am an alcoholic. It is very difficult for me to accept this b/c I can go without a drink for a few days but then as soon as I do have...	Eve	10	490	May 23, 2008 by eugene
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 22nd May 08 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ What impresses us most at an A.A. meeting is the willingness to share, without holding anything back. And pretty soon we find ourselves sharing also. We start telling our own experiences and by so doing we help the other person. And when we've got these things off our chest, we...	Sobrietyspell	1	351	May 23, 2008 by Pam P
	Nephews Wedding Invitation (Preview) To everyone, Just thinking and praying for God's Wisdom and devine intervention and the answers will come that I am seeking. Here is what my head is saying to myself The Lord, and you right now. Should we attend this wedding at there home in Arizona or not? My 27 year old Nephew that lives in Ariz...	Pam P	6	1343	May 23, 2008 by Pam P
	Enjoyment (Preview) Life is not to be endured; life is to be enjoyed and embraced. The belief that we must square our shoulders and get through a meager, deprived existence for far off rewards in Heaven is a codependent belief. Yes, most of us still have times when life will be stressful and challenge our endurance ski...	Quetzal	0	249	May 23, 2008 by Quetzal
	stuck! (Preview) The best laid plans...I tried to set up in advance a meeting each night -- I emailed the local AA chapter rep, who at first was responsive and sounded like he would help me get to meetings. Now, he won't return my emails, and no one is answering the "24 hour line." I don't have a car here, and th...	jc2008	5	416	May 22, 2008 by jennson88
	decided to join AA (Preview) Like I say in my bio, I am an alcoholic and need help but it was gettting help that was always the hardest part for me. My boyfriend who also used to go to AA says that I am spiritually sick, which I definitely have to agree with. I've lost my faith in God and I know that in order to get better I have to regain my...	jennson88	8	437	May 22, 2008 by jennson88
	How do you answer the question, "Why don't you drink?" (Preview) I like to talk about the things I have some experience with, and after struggling with this disease for 28 years this is one of them.... Invariably someone, somewhere, sometime will offer us a drink. A polite "no thanks" is usually followed by "You don't drink? Why not?" Early i...	mnstar	22	1321	May 22, 2008 by beachgirl
	Getting Needs Met (Preview) I want to change careers . . . I need a friend . . .I'm ready to be in a relationship . . . Regularly, we become aware of new needs. We may need to change our behavior with our children. We may need a new couch, love and nurturing, a dollar, or help. Do not be afraid to recognize a want or need. The birth of a wa...	Quetzal	4	376	May 22, 2008 by lani
	((jc2008)) (Preview) How you holding up, gal? Thinking of you.......	Doll	4	396	May 22, 2008 by Bryan39
	Everyone know about Silkworth.net? (Preview) Sorry if this has been mentioned before, Dr. Silkworth was the doctor who wrote "the doctor's opinion" in the Big Book. The website bearing his name has some interesting material on it. If you are into the mp3 player thing, you can download several audio recordings here. Some great stuff,...	mnstar	3	2909	May 21, 2008 by mnstar
	Losing Stuff (Preview) One of my biggest pet peeves and fears is about/surrounds losing stuff. I'm not a "a place for everything and everything in it's place" kinda person. Don't get me wrong, I'm not completely disorganized, I just tend to keep the stuff that I'm using regularly or stuff that involes things...	StPeteDean	15	696	May 21, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	594,049,808 Sober Heatbeats! (Preview) Sobriety Calculator http://www.silkworth.net/aa/bb.html -	StPeteDean	3	572	May 21, 2008 by Doll
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 20th May 08 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ If we get up in a meeting and tell something about ourselves in order to help the other person, we feel a whole lot better. It's the old law of the more you give the more you get. Witnessing and confession are part of keeping sober. You never know when you may help somebody. Helping...	Sobrietyspell	0	350	May 20, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	waltzing (Preview) i'm back to waltzing. you know, steps 1, 2, 3, ...1, 2, 3. at 34 years old i started back to college and actually made the dean's list! i was certain that i had killed more brain cells than that! lol i started to become self sufficient, which was my big mistake. i forgot that i am powerless--not only with alc...	Bella73	3	275	May 20, 2008 by Doll
	travel (Preview) I'm going on a business trip to SC this afternoon and will stay through Friday. The schedule indicates that there are receptions in the evenings with hors d'ouevres and wine. I don't trust myself to go. I've been looking up meetings online and plan to go to one each night. I'm still nervous, though...	jc2008	9	497	May 20, 2008 by cooncatbob
	My Alcoholic Beginnings ~ Teenaged to 05 (Preview) My Recovery has been slowly taking over in capability. Such knowledge seeping & simpering through waiting to take flight. Building up like an inferno of fire & brimstone in the depths of my belly & sanity. I've been becoming well. I was frustrated for a little while. The knowledge but no...	Sobrietyspell	6	385	May 20, 2008 by lani
	Home Sweet(?)Home (Preview) Had a WONDERFUL time at Bike Week. The weather was a bit cool the first couple of days, but it warmed up nicely by Wednesday. Did a LOT of riding and a TON of eating (I'm sure I gained 10lbs). We ate twice at my favorite hole n the wall "River City Cafe'" - they've got burgers the size of your head an...	Doll	6	394	May 20, 2008 by lani
	ON STRIKE TODAY (Preview) Refuse to do ANYTHING useful today. Love that concept. Instead of obssessing about my home and laundry today, just gonna AA-up later, and vegetate. Will not remove pajamas today (until meeting time)!!!!!! I have that right on occasion!!! LOL... what are YOUR plans for this beautiful Sunday?	jonijoni	21	773	May 19, 2008 by StPeteDean
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 19th May 08 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Fellowship is a big part of staying sober. The doctors call it group therapy. We never go to an A.A. meeting without taking something out of it. Sometimes we don't feel like going to a meeting and we think of excuses for not going. But we usually end up by going anyway. And we alway...	Sobrietyspell	0	321	May 19, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	You think you're having a bad day? (Preview) Ummm.....looks like there's no more Mackeral left in the milk crate.	TLH	8	689	May 19, 2008 by TLH
	new to site (Preview) hello everyone. i am new to this site and so glad i found it. i am just beginning my road to recovery...again. it'll be great talking to all of you.	Bella73	10	427	May 19, 2008 by Doll
	Hi,I'M EUGENE (Preview) Been reading the board for a few weeks , posted couple of times and thought I should introduce myself. I am a 44 year old male living in Johannesburg, South Africa and a gratefull member of AA. Been sober for 15 months and am unbelievably gratefull. I am one of the fortunate ones who got it through my thic...	eugene	11	622	May 19, 2008 by Doll
	Where is Tuggboat!!!! (Preview) Well I feel like the possee looking for the lost ones and realized were missing our good buddy Tugboat!!!!!! May be annoying and the ones who are lost for a moment that I forget, I apologize!!!! Hope all is well with our dear friend....... Lani	lani	3	405	May 19, 2008 by StPeteDean
	sick of everything (Preview) I didn't go to my usual Saturday morning meeting. It's the anchor of my week. Instead, I decided we should have family time. And we were going to have fun like a nice normal family that doesn't have a drunk for a mom! So needless to say it was tense and messy. Everything had to be perfect and fun at all t...	jc2008	10	402	May 19, 2008 by StPeteDean
	So what's different about this time? (Preview) What's different about this time? That's what my CD counselor said to me as I graduated from my third CD treatment several weeks ago. Good question, said I. So I took a look back at my struggles with alcohol and my relapses. Had 13 years at one point, relapsed. Had 5 years, relapsed. This time I've been so...	mnstar	5	496	May 19, 2008 by seeking serenity
	still here (Preview) I was moved by everyone's responses to my last post. I don't feel deserving of any of it, but I thank you all. I feel a little less wretched than yesterday, less angry, and somewhat reflective. I went to church this morning and wound up substituting for a Sunday school teacher who didn't show up. I ha...	jc2008	3	392	May 18, 2008 by jonijoni
	Achmed the dead Terrorist (Preview) Hillarious enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go	StPeteDean	3	537	May 18, 2008 by Doll
	what you need most is glucose (Preview) i think i read the brain runs on glucose i was reading book "sugar blues" again and it talks about alchoholism i think eating white sugar makes us crave alcohol more i think sucrose isnt gluscose google glucose	lateforthesky	6	403	May 18, 2008 by learning
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 18th May 08 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ We're in A.A. for two main reasons: to keep sober ourselves and to help others to keep sober. It's a well-known fact that helping others is a big part of keeping sober yourself. It's also been proved that it's very hard to keep sober all by yourself. A lot of people have tried it an...	Sobrietyspell	0	309	May 18, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	Don't stop living your life! (Preview) So often, when a problem occurs, inside or around us, we revert to thinking that if we put our life on hold we can positively contribute to the solution. If a relationship isn't working, if we face a difficult decision, if we're feeling depressed, we may put our life on hold and torment ourselves with ob...	Quetzal	2	326	May 18, 2008 by mnstar
	Walking and Beer (Preview) A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles per year. Another study found Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon. ...	StPeteDean	8	447	May 18, 2008 by jonijoni
	What might work for them is not for me. (Preview) I decided recently to shore up my support system by adding an online element. While I feel it is no subsitute for a face to face meeting, I feel it will help me with those difficult times at 3:00 am, etc. Or like now. :) It's before 8:00 am and I would not feel right calling someone this early. Anyway, my poin...	mnstar	11	482	May 18, 2008 by jonijoni
	Howdy! (Preview) New to the site, just finding another tool in my quest for continued sobriety. Name is Larry, glad to be here and sober today. Sobriety dates: 1-20-1980 (lasted for 13 years) 2-20-1997 (lasted for 5 years) 2-2-2008 (still working on it) Take care.	mnstar	10	463	May 18, 2008 by Quetzal
	Honesty (Preview) Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. -- Step Five of Al-Anon Talking openly and honestly to another person about ourselves, in an attitude that reflects self-responsibility, is critical to recovery. It's important to admit what we have done...	Quetzal	3	320	May 18, 2008 by Pam P
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 17th May 08 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ A lot of well meaning people treat an alcoholic like the priest and the Levite. They pass by on the other side by scorning him and telling him what a low person he is, with no willpower. Whereas, he really has fallen for alcohol, in the same way as the man in the story fell among robb...	Sobrietyspell	0	299	May 17, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	Saw a Ghost at the meeting tonight.... (Preview) A young-buck with one year sober was leading the meeting tonight, and I had never seen him before. (It was at a Dry Club I do not go all that much.) He was the spitting DNA- image of a young man I dated years ago when starting out in the program. One of those "two sickies don't make a wellie" t...	jonijoni	2	414	May 17, 2008 by Doll
	If I were a single man would it be alright to sleep... (Preview) with girls I meet at meetings? Because there's some pretty hot ones...and I don't imagine that they're the "saving themselves for marriage" types. Being former boozers and all. Seriously though, are there rules regarding this? Some sort of AA intercourse etiquette? I can't fin...	Tipsy McStagger	50	1976	May 17, 2008 by Doll
	Property Lines (Preview) A helpful tool in our recovery, especially in the behavior we call detachment, is learning to identify who owns what. Then we let each person own and possess his or her rightful property. If another person has an addiction, a problem, a feeling, or a self-defeating behavior, that is their property...	Quetzal	2	1314	May 17, 2008 by mnstar
	Self Love (Preview) "I woke up this morning and I had a hard time for a while," said one recovering man. "Then I realized it was because I wasn't liking myself very much." Recovering people often say: I just don't like myself. When will I start liking myself? The answer is: start now. We can learn to...	Quetzal	4	2244	May 17, 2008 by mnstar
	Phil at work on a new cab for winter use! (Preview) http://youtube.com/watch?v=usqevWXUNQg	StPeteDean	1	440	May 17, 2008 by Phil
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