Alcoholics Anonymous

Wren · Wren

As some of you know, I took a break in order to write and teach a class on eco-awareness to a group of women. It went awesomely well ( and I was so very nervous about writing and teaching a class--tsk, where's all that confidence I thought I'd built up?) I had fifteen students within the first 8 hours, and h...

Doll · Doll

RESCUED BY SURRENDERING 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 mus...

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 re...

Quetzal · Quetzal

The Program works if you want it to work. -- Anonymous Rarely do climbers stare up to see how far away the top still is. Instead, when they rest, they look down toward the starting point of their journey. The view they see assures them that they have already come a long, long way. Like the climbers, we...

1phillip · 1phillip

I am new here, I had quit on my own and was doing very well until November when I lost my job. (quit for almost 2 years) Now I am back to every day. The main reason I never tried AA before is I do not believe in god, but maybe you folks can help anyway. Please do not try to talk me into going to meetings because I won...

Missy123 · Missy123

I just found this and i wanted to introduce myself and say hi to everyone. I havent been an alchoholic for very long, about 3 years, but i fell hard and fast. I just turned 22 last week and i feel like im out of control. I had gastric bypass surgery in march of this year and i was only able to stop drinking fo...

Wren · Wren

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is akind of prison for us, restricting us to our p...

Quetzal · Quetzal

We can enrich our interior monologue. We can seek the company of people who inspire us with a loving approach to life. We can absorb the written thoughts of writers who encourage our positive emotions. We can decide to be cheerful and optimistic, just for today. Whom would you rather be around - some...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Alcoholics carry an awful load around with them. What a load lying puts on your shoulders! Drinking makes liars out of all of us alcoholics. In order to get the liquor we want, we have to lie about where we've been and what we've been doing. When you are lying you are only half aliv...

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 hangover, the remorse, the waste o...

ChicknLittle · ChicknLittle

God's really doing something for me right now... I haven't had a cigarette in the past 7 or 8 hours... I didn't plan to quit, though I needed to. I finished a pack and I'm really broke. I was gonna scrounge up change for a pack and run to the gas station, but I didn't feel like it, so I took a shower, after t...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Drinking cuts you off from God. No matter what your religion is, no matter if you say you believe in God, nevertheless you build up a wall between you & God by your drinking. You know you're not living the way God wants you to. As a result, you have that terrible remorse. When y...

lani · lani

"I prayed for you today, gave thanks for your life, wished you the best, asked the heaven's to bless you with good health and happiness. I sent you good thoughts, surrounded you with hope and faith and love. I asked the earth to be good to you and asked God to show you His perfect way. I prayed for you...

Quetzal · Quetzal

One evening, I was alone, weary, and exhausted. I was in the midst of extensive traveling, disconnected from friends and family. I had flown home for the evening, but it seemed like nobody noticed. People were used to me being gone. It was late at night, and I began arguing with God. "I'm out t...

Phil · Phil

Key to Serenity The Key that Unlocks the Door to Happiness By BuddyT It seems almost too simple to be true, but acceptance -- accepting things exactly as they are -- can be the key that unlocks the door to happiness. It may be one of the most referenced passages in recovery literature. It's from Page 449 o...

Doll · Doll

OUR COMMON WELFARE COMES FIRST The unity of Alcoholics Anonymous is the most cherished quality our Society has. . . . We stay whole, or A.A. dies. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 129 Our Traditions are key elements in the ego deflation process necessary to achieve and maintain sobriety in Alco...

Tina · Tina

Just thought I'd drop a line, to say I'm still here and sober. Things are doing as well as can be expected, taking slow. Son is now back up in this area and looking into going back to school, and showing signs of doing the walk the walk thing instead of the talk the talk. We"ll see how things go, in Mar...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ A drinking life isn't a happy life. Drinking cuts you off from other people and from God. One of the worst things about drinking is the loneliness. And one of the best things about A.A. is the fellowship. Drinking cuts you off from other people, at least from the people who reall...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Everyone has his own fingerprints. The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. -- Charles R. Brown We are often amazed at how different members of the same family seem to be. Contrasts are ofte...

Doll · Doll

FREEDOM FROM . . . FREEDOM TO We are going to know a new freedom. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 83 Freedom for me is both freedom from and freedom to. The first freedom I enjoy is freedom from the slavery of alcohol. What a relief! Then I begin to experience freedom from fear - fear of people, of economic ins...

StPeteDean · StPeteDean

Lord: In the past several hours I have not hurt any one. I have not drank. I have peacefully coexisted with life. For that I am gratefull. But I'm about to get out of bed now and I'm really going to need your help.

Kittie · Kittie

I have drank for 22 years. Today I am an alcoholic in recovery for 4 months. I am a single mother with only a part time job right now and have no health insurance or I would go to a doctor about this. I have been so tired since I quit drinking. I only work 5 hours a day and when I get home I just want to sleep. I...

Quetzal · Quetzal

I am still amazed, after years of recovering, at how easily I can begin to talk myself out of attending meetings. I am also still amazed at how good I feel when I go. -- Anonymous We don't have to stay stuck in our misery and discomfort. An immediate option is available that will help us feel better: go to...

Doll · Doll

THE JOY OF SHARING Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you. to have a host of friends - this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ What a load wasting money puts on your shoulders! They say that members of A.A. have paid the highest initiation fee of any club members in the world, because we've wasted so much money on liquor. We'll never be able to figure out how much it was. We not only wasted our own money, b...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ What a load hangovers put on your shoulders! What terrible physical punishment we've all been through. The pounding headaches and jumpy nerves, the shakes and the jitters, the hot and cold sweats! When you come into A.A. and stop drinking, that terrible load of hangovers fa...

Doll · Doll

THE TREASURE OF THE PAST Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have -- the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and m...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Often, one of our biggest questions is "What's going to happen?" We may ask this about our relationships, our career, our recovery, and our life. It is easy to tangle us up in worrisome thoughts. Worrying about what's going to happen blocks us from functioning effectively today. It kee...

eastcoastscott · eastcoastscott

Hi folks, new to this board, seems there is a lot of great info here. I'm a 48 yr old guy who's just completed a 28 day treatment program for my alcohol addiction. I am pumped, full of great info and desire (pink cloud) and am in the process of going to meetings etc. One of the things I must do is get a sponsor. I...

nmike · nmike

I attended a Sat morn Alanon mtg. The reading was about adversity. It spoke to many of us. One member shared that she had a dilemma. Another member quoted the Big Book hmm I don't know what page. She said to stop and pause and adjust your attitude. She also said that she was told that to get in the way of some...

lani · lani

Well, as tradition has it ((mine), I'd like to welcome back our fine friend Deano....Know he probably hasnt gotten back from his ski trip yet but just a quick hello and welcome back! Hope all your limbs are still intact!!!! (and, no messed up thumbs! Mine still bother me!!) We missed ya!!!!! Lani

Quetzal · Quetzal

We can find the balance between needing people too much and not letting ourselves need anyone at all. Many of us have unmet dependency needs lingering from the past. While we want others to fulfill our desire to be loved unconditionally, we may have chosen people who cannot, or will not, be there for...

Quetzal · Quetzal

We can learn not to get hooked into unhealthy, self-defeating behaviors in relationships - behaviors such as caretaking, controlling, discounting ourselves, and believing lies. We can learn to watch for and identify hooks, and choose not to allow ourselves to be hooked. Often, people do thi...

eastcoastscott · eastcoastscott

I love these Joe and Charlie tapes. They are free and download-able from this site. I copied them onto my mp3 player to listen to at night in bed. I listened to the " there is a solution" ones last night (chapter 2, P. 17 in BB)......mindblowing stuff. http://silkworth.net/freestuff.ht...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ As we became alcoholics, the bad effects of drinking came more and more to outweigh the good effects. But the strange part of it is that, no matter what drinking did to us, loss of our health, our jobs, our money, and our homes, we still stuck to it and depended on it. Our dependenc...

HBN · HBN

Jack D - no coke for me. What about you guys?

Mister Acceptance · Mister Acceptance

This a pretty long and complicated story, but I will try to keep it simple. The purpose of me posting this here is to get some feedback that's not just regurgitated AA cliches'. I would really like to hear some true, honest experience, strength and hope on this. Me and my girlfriend met about 2 years ag...

zeke · zeke

Hi everyone, I just wnted to thank all of you for ES&H. I don't know how to reply so I just started a new topic. It means a lot to know that people are truely interested in my recovery when we may be miles apart. It is also nice to know that JoniJoni had said that I might have said that she needed to hea...

Doll · Doll

Daily Reflections RIGOROUS HONESTY Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant? Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done? Who cares anything about a Higher Power, let alone meditation and prayer? Who wants to sacrifice time and energy in trying to carry A.A....

Phil · Phil

THE WASHINGTON POST© Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1971 Known to Thousands as Bill W. Alcoholics Anonymous Founder Dies By Donald E. Graham Washington Post Staff Writer Scores of thousands of people learned for the first time the name of the man who helped them recover from alcoholism when William Griffith W...

Doll · Doll

WHAT WE NEED - EACH OTHER . . . . A.A. is really saying to every serious drinker, "You are an A.A. member if you say so . . . nobody can keep you out." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 139 For years, whenever I reflected on Tradition Three ("The only requirement for A.A. membership is...

Quetzal · Quetzal

In order to arrive at possessing everything, desire to possess nothing. - St. John of the Cross Expectations can cause havoc in our daily living. We all have a basic right to be treated with dignity and respect, but that doesn't mean life will always go our way. The twists and turns of life often carry...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ We used to depend on drinking for a lot of things. We depended on drinking to help us enjoy things. It gave us a "kick". It broke down our shyness and helped us to have a "good time". We depended on drinking to help us when we felt low physically. If we had a too...

ChicknLittle · ChicknLittle

I put in my application for school down here... for June Semester... maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, and I really don't know if I'll be ready to start school then, but I think it helps me some to have that done and say I'm starting then, God willing... and if it doesn't work I can keep putting it off to t...

vinrouge · vinrouge

Hi all For a long time I have realised I do not sleep like other people. I have noticed many effects, some powerful and some subtle, that alcohol has on my sleep. I am looking for somewhere I can discuss this. I am only interested in discussing it with other people who know what it is to be a habitual heavy dr...

Lee · Lee

Hi. I have been looking for an online something to write and post my feelings on. I came across this board last night after a google search and decided to give it a try. I registered and here I am. I am a 38 year old male. I have been married for 10 years and have 3 kids. Their ages range from 11 to 8 year...

matay · matay

Hi folks, I'd like to introudce myself, my name's Bruce, and I'm a recovered alcoholic. How it was. I'm long winded, especially today, after finding this place, and I'm writing this part last. Just like an alcoholic, huh, can't do things in order. My parents were divorced when I was 6. My mother remarr...

jonijoni · jonijoni

This is the official site, and it will be updated regularly as more information becomes available. http://www.akronaa.org/foundersday/

zeke · zeke

I just lost about 60 words because I hit the tab button. Thank God I can just start over. It wasn't so easy with relapse. I will get back to the subject at hand and try to get close to my original document. In the begining you all told me that I am the most important person in the room. I think this might hav...

jonijoni · jonijoni

What kinds of meetings do you like best and why? All meetings, where one alcoholic can speak the "Language of the Heart" to another are a blessing. But some prefer, or are especially blessed by, certain types of meetings. Mine right now are Big Book Studies. It is the first time that these t...

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	My Hiatus is DONE (Preview) As some of you know, I took a break in order to write and teach a class on eco-awareness to a group of women. It went awesomely well ( and I was so very nervous about writing and teaching a class--tsk, where's all that confidence I thought I'd built up?) I had fifteen students within the first 8 hours, and h...	Wren	5	451	Feb 3, 2008 by Quetzal
	RESCUED BY SURRENDERING - Daily Reflections - 2/2 (Preview) RESCUED BY SURRENDERING 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 mus...	Doll	2	337	Feb 2, 2008 by Doll
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 2nd February 2008 (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 re...	Sobrietyspell	1	368	Feb 2, 2008 by Wren
	The Program works if you want it to work (Preview) The Program works if you want it to work. -- Anonymous Rarely do climbers stare up to see how far away the top still is. Instead, when they rest, they look down toward the starting point of their journey. The view they see assures them that they have already come a long, long way. Like the climbers, we...	Quetzal	1	304	Feb 2, 2008 by Doll
	Hello, I am Phillip (Preview) I am new here, I had quit on my own and was doing very well until November when I lost my job. (quit for almost 2 years) Now I am back to every day. The main reason I never tried AA before is I do not believe in god, but maybe you folks can help anyway. Please do not try to talk me into going to meetings because I won...	1phillip	7	623	Feb 2, 2008 by Doll
	Newbie (Preview) I just found this and i wanted to introduce myself and say hi to everyone. I havent been an alchoholic for very long, about 3 years, but i fell hard and fast. I just turned 22 last week and i feel like im out of control. I had gastric bypass surgery in march of this year and i was only able to stop drinking fo...	Missy123	13	681	Feb 2, 2008 by Wren
	Raising our Sights (Preview) "A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is akind of prison for us, restricting us to our p...	Wren	0	298	Feb 2, 2008 by Wren
	As we think, so we become (Preview) We can enrich our interior monologue. We can seek the company of people who inspire us with a loving approach to life. We can absorb the written thoughts of writers who encourage our positive emotions. We can decide to be cheerful and optimistic, just for today. Whom would you rather be around - some...	Quetzal	3	593	Feb 2, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 27th January 2008 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Alcoholics carry an awful load around with them. What a load lying puts on your shoulders! Drinking makes liars out of all of us alcoholics. In order to get the liquor we want, we have to lie about where we've been and what we've been doing. When you are lying you are only half aliv...	Sobrietyspell	1	348	Feb 1, 2008 by LINDA
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 1st February 2008 (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 hangover, the remorse, the waste o...	Sobrietyspell	1	328	Feb 1, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	God's doing somethin for me... (Preview) God's really doing something for me right now... I haven't had a cigarette in the past 7 or 8 hours... I didn't plan to quit, though I needed to. I finished a pack and I'm really broke. I was gonna scrounge up change for a pack and run to the gas station, but I didn't feel like it, so I took a shower, after t...	ChicknLittle	7	413	Jan 31, 2008 by LINDA
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 31st January 2008 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Drinking cuts you off from God. No matter what your religion is, no matter if you say you believe in God, nevertheless you build up a wall between you & God by your drinking. You know you're not living the way God wants you to. As a result, you have that terrible remorse. When y...	Sobrietyspell	0	310	Jan 31, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	I prayed for you today (Preview) "I prayed for you today, gave thanks for your life, wished you the best, asked the heaven's to bless you with good health and happiness. I sent you good thoughts, surrounded you with hope and faith and love. I asked the earth to be good to you and asked God to show you His perfect way. I prayed for you...	lani	3	359	Jan 31, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	Asking for What We Need (Preview) One evening, I was alone, weary, and exhausted. I was in the midst of extensive traveling, disconnected from friends and family. I had flown home for the evening, but it seemed like nobody noticed. People were used to me being gone. It was late at night, and I began arguing with God. "I'm out t...	Quetzal	3	389	Jan 31, 2008 by StPeteDean
	Yupper :) (Preview) Key to Serenity The Key that Unlocks the Door to Happiness By BuddyT It seems almost too simple to be true, but acceptance -- accepting things exactly as they are -- can be the key that unlocks the door to happiness. It may be one of the most referenced passages in recovery literature. It's from Page 449 o...	Phil	4	477	Jan 31, 2008 by lani
	OUR COMMON WELFARE COMES FIRST - Daily Reflections - 1/31 (Preview) OUR COMMON WELFARE COMES FIRST The unity of Alcoholics Anonymous is the most cherished quality our Society has. . . . We stay whole, or A.A. dies. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 129 Our Traditions are key elements in the ego deflation process necessary to achieve and maintain sobriety in Alco...	Doll	1	341	Jan 31, 2008 by lani
	Hey all (Preview) Just thought I'd drop a line, to say I'm still here and sober. Things are doing as well as can be expected, taking slow. Son is now back up in this area and looking into going back to school, and showing signs of doing the walk the walk thing instead of the talk the talk. We"ll see how things go, in Mar...	Tina	1	327	Jan 30, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 30th January 2008 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ A drinking life isn't a happy life. Drinking cuts you off from other people and from God. One of the worst things about drinking is the loneliness. And one of the best things about A.A. is the fellowship. Drinking cuts you off from other people, at least from the people who reall...	Sobrietyspell	0	298	Jan 30, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	Uniqueness (Preview) Everyone has his own fingerprints. The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. -- Charles R. Brown We are often amazed at how different members of the same family seem to be. Contrasts are ofte...	Quetzal	0	296	Jan 30, 2008 by Quetzal
	FREEDOM FROM . . . FREEDOM TO - Daily Reflections - 1/30 (Preview) FREEDOM FROM . . . FREEDOM TO We are going to know a new freedom. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 83 Freedom for me is both freedom from and freedom to. The first freedom I enjoy is freedom from the slavery of alcohol. What a relief! Then I begin to experience freedom from fear - fear of people, of economic ins...	Doll	1	302	Jan 30, 2008 by lani
	AA Prayer (Preview) Lord: In the past several hours I have not hurt any one. I have not drank. I have peacefully coexisted with life. For that I am gratefull. But I'm about to get out of bed now and I'm really going to need your help.	StPeteDean	6	883	Jan 29, 2008 by Phil
	HELP ME understand (Preview) I have drank for 22 years. Today I am an alcoholic in recovery for 4 months. I am a single mother with only a part time job right now and have no health insurance or I would go to a doctor about this. I have been so tired since I quit drinking. I only work 5 hours a day and when I get home I just want to sleep. I...	Kittie	12	699	Jan 29, 2008 by lani
	Going to Meetings (Preview) I am still amazed, after years of recovering, at how easily I can begin to talk myself out of attending meetings. I am also still amazed at how good I feel when I go. -- Anonymous We don't have to stay stuck in our misery and discomfort. An immediate option is available that will help us feel better: go to...	Quetzal	1	332	Jan 29, 2008 by lostmdboy
	THE JOY OF SHARING - Daily Reflections - 1/29 (Preview) THE JOY OF SHARING Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you. to have a host of friends - this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and...	Doll	0	320	Jan 29, 2008 by Doll
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 29th January 2008 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ What a load wasting money puts on your shoulders! They say that members of A.A. have paid the highest initiation fee of any club members in the world, because we've wasted so much money on liquor. We'll never be able to figure out how much it was. We not only wasted our own money, b...	Sobrietyspell	1	389	Jan 29, 2008 by StPeteDean
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 28th January 2008 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ What a load hangovers put on your shoulders! What terrible physical punishment we've all been through. The pounding headaches and jumpy nerves, the shakes and the jitters, the hot and cold sweats! When you come into A.A. and stop drinking, that terrible load of hangovers fa...	Sobrietyspell	0	594	Jan 28, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	THE TREASURE OF THE PAST - Daily Reflections - 1/29 (Preview) THE TREASURE OF THE PAST Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have -- the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and m...	Doll	0	257	Jan 28, 2008 by Doll
	Staying in the Present Moment (Preview) Often, one of our biggest questions is "What's going to happen?" We may ask this about our relationships, our career, our recovery, and our life. It is easy to tangle us up in worrisome thoughts. Worrying about what's going to happen blocks us from functioning effectively today. It kee...	Quetzal	0	340	Jan 28, 2008 by Quetzal
	Sponsor? (Preview) Hi folks, new to this board, seems there is a lot of great info here. I'm a 48 yr old guy who's just completed a 28 day treatment program for my alcohol addiction. I am pumped, full of great info and desire (pink cloud) and am in the process of going to meetings etc. One of the things I must do is get a sponsor. I...	eastcoastscott	7	324	Jan 27, 2008 by matay
	Today's Alanon Meeting (Preview) I attended a Sat morn Alanon mtg. The reading was about adversity. It spoke to many of us. One member shared that she had a dilemma. Another member quoted the Big Book hmm I don't know what page. She said to stop and pause and adjust your attitude. She also said that she was told that to get in the way of some...	nmike	3	454	Jan 27, 2008 by Tuggboat
	Welcome back Dean-- (Preview) Well, as tradition has it ((mine), I'd like to welcome back our fine friend Deano....Know he probably hasnt gotten back from his ski trip yet but just a quick hello and welcome back! Hope all your limbs are still intact!!!! (and, no messed up thumbs! Mine still bother me!!) We missed ya!!!!! Lani	lani	2	564	Jan 27, 2008 by Phil
	Needing People (Preview) We can find the balance between needing people too much and not letting ourselves need anyone at all. Many of us have unmet dependency needs lingering from the past. While we want others to fulfill our desire to be loved unconditionally, we may have chosen people who cannot, or will not, be there for...	Quetzal	0	260	Jan 27, 2008 by Quetzal
	Off The Hook (Preview) We can learn not to get hooked into unhealthy, self-defeating behaviors in relationships - behaviors such as caretaking, controlling, discounting ourselves, and believing lies. We can learn to watch for and identify hooks, and choose not to allow ourselves to be hooked. Often, people do thi...	Quetzal	4	299	Jan 27, 2008 by Tuggboat
	Free Stuff (Preview) I love these Joe and Charlie tapes. They are free and download-able from this site. I copied them onto my mp3 player to listen to at night in bed. I listened to the " there is a solution" ones last night (chapter 2, P. 17 in BB)......mindblowing stuff. http://silkworth.net/freestuff.ht...	eastcoastscott	4	3213	Jan 26, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 26th January 2008 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ As we became alcoholics, the bad effects of drinking came more and more to outweigh the good effects. But the strange part of it is that, no matter what drinking did to us, loss of our health, our jobs, our money, and our homes, we still stuck to it and depended on it. Our dependenc...	Sobrietyspell	0	300	Jan 26, 2008 by Sobrietyspell
	Favorite Drink? (Preview) Jack D - no coke for me. What about you guys?	HBN	13	674	Jan 26, 2008 by StPeteDean
	I'm dying inside, but I'm sober. Need some feedback please. (Preview) This a pretty long and complicated story, but I will try to keep it simple. The purpose of me posting this here is to get some feedback that's not just regurgitated AA cliches'. I would really like to hear some true, honest experience, strength and hope on this. Me and my girlfriend met about 2 years ag...	Mister Acceptance	14	912	Jan 26, 2008 by LINDA
	Thanks (Preview) Hi everyone, I just wnted to thank all of you for ES&H. I don't know how to reply so I just started a new topic. It means a lot to know that people are truely interested in my recovery when we may be miles apart. It is also nice to know that JoniJoni had said that I might have said that she needed to hea...	zeke	3	1014	Jan 26, 2008 by lani
	Daily Reflections - RIGOROUS HONESTY - 1-26 (Preview) Daily Reflections RIGOROUS HONESTY Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant? Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done? Who cares anything about a Higher Power, let alone meditation and prayer? Who wants to sacrifice time and energy in trying to carry A.A....	Doll	1	1784	Jan 26, 2008 by lani
	Bill W. passed away on January 24, 1971 (Preview) THE WASHINGTON POST© Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1971 Known to Thousands as Bill W. Alcoholics Anonymous Founder Dies By Donald E. Graham Washington Post Staff Writer Scores of thousands of people learned for the first time the name of the man who helped them recover from alcoholism when William Griffith W...	Phil	4	1879	Jan 25, 2008 by Tuggboat
	WHAT WE NEED - EACH OTHER - Daily Reflections - 1/25 (Preview) WHAT WE NEED - EACH OTHER . . . . A.A. is really saying to every serious drinker, "You are an A.A. member if you say so . . . nobody can keep you out." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 139 For years, whenever I reflected on Tradition Three ("The only requirement for A.A. membership is...	Doll	2	324	Jan 25, 2008 by lani
	Expectations (Preview) In order to arrive at possessing everything, desire to possess nothing. - St. John of the Cross Expectations can cause havoc in our daily living. We all have a basic right to be treated with dignity and respect, but that doesn't mean life will always go our way. The twists and turns of life often carry...	Quetzal	3	6397	Jan 25, 2008 by lani
	24 Hrs a Day ~ 25th January 2008 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ We used to depend on drinking for a lot of things. We depended on drinking to help us enjoy things. It gave us a "kick". It broke down our shyness and helped us to have a "good time". We depended on drinking to help us when we felt low physically. If we had a too...	Sobrietyspell	1	326	Jan 25, 2008 by lani
	Maybe I'm jumpin the gun but... (Preview) I put in my application for school down here... for June Semester... maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, and I really don't know if I'll be ready to start school then, but I think it helps me some to have that done and say I'm starting then, God willing... and if it doesn't work I can keep putting it off to t...	ChicknLittle	7	407	Jan 25, 2008 by Quetzal
	Importance of sleep (Preview) Hi all For a long time I have realised I do not sleep like other people. I have noticed many effects, some powerful and some subtle, that alcohol has on my sleep. I am looking for somewhere I can discuss this. I am only interested in discussing it with other people who know what it is to be a habitual heavy dr...	vinrouge	11	515	Jan 25, 2008 by lani
	Newby (Preview) Hi. I have been looking for an online something to write and post my feelings on. I came across this board last night after a google search and decided to give it a try. I registered and here I am. I am a 38 year old male. I have been married for 10 years and have 3 kids. Their ages range from 11 to 8 year...	Lee	16	404	Jan 24, 2008 by Lee
	A long Introduction. (Preview) Hi folks, I'd like to introudce myself, my name's Bruce, and I'm a recovered alcoholic. How it was. I'm long winded, especially today, after finding this place, and I'm writing this part last. Just like an alcoholic, huh, can't do things in order. My parents were divorced when I was 6. My mother remarr...	matay	12	425	Jan 24, 2008 by Lee
	AA Founder's Day 2008 (Preview) This is the official site, and it will be updated regularly as more information becomes available. http://www.akronaa.org/foundersday/	jonijoni	0	304	Jan 24, 2008 by jonijoni
	It' not all about me! (Preview) I just lost about 60 words because I hit the tab button. Thank God I can just start over. It wasn't so easy with relapse. I will get back to the subject at hand and try to get close to my original document. In the begining you all told me that I am the most important person in the room. I think this might hav...	zeke	4	303	Jan 24, 2008 by jonijoni
	~~Types of Meetings?~~ (Preview) What kinds of meetings do you like best and why? All meetings, where one alcoholic can speak the "Language of the Heart" to another are a blessing. But some prefer, or are especially blessed by, certain types of meetings. Mine right now are Big Book Studies. It is the first time that these t...	jonijoni	6	1158	Jan 24, 2008 by lani
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