Alcoholics Anonymous

Moon · Moon

Irritable, impatience, not tolerant, capable of raging, uncontrolable feelings, grouchy. Is this considered dry drunk? Uh oh, I think I might fit this category...sometimes, not all the time. While you respond know this, remember I am still in denial (some days) that I'm an alcoholic...I don'...

Doll · Doll

A GREAT PARADOX These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that today animates A.A.'s all around the globe. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151 The great paradox o...

Quetzal · Quetzal

The goal is balance. We need balance between work and play. We need balance between giving and receiving. We need balance in thought and feelings. We need balance in caring for our physical self and our spiritual self. A balanced life has harmony between a professional life and a personal life. There...

LisaF · LisaF

We've had 3 hens sitting... and I've seen one with 5 chicks, we've got 2 more around here somewhere with their chicks too! And... Our friend went crazy today... bought 60 baby ducks, 6 baby turkeys, 2 baby guineas, and 300 baby chicks... lol and... she surprised me with 4 baby turkeys and 3 baby gui...

LisaF · LisaF

Hey y'all... just checkin in... I'm doing good... 3 days sober... getting to meetings, got a sponsor, doing my first step... It's funny, my roommate and I went to our Thursday night meeting last night, and when I shared I said something about how I'd been on a dry drunk... and after the meeting, m...

POOKISTAN · POOKISTAN

I've been feeling so much anxiety throughout this but I really don't think it's a symptom of anything - It's just a practical reaction to what's happening... The worst part about this whole ordeal is not having any life insurance - The answers are out there they're just not within practical financia...

ally · ally

Bonjour Hey, just a quick update, remember the girl who wanted to end her life, who was depressed, bla bla bla. Because her recovering alcoholic friend could not give her love in return.....lol Well guess what.. That girl who was scared of everything, heights, flying, people, life... Has just had...

learning · learning

This week I've encountered how really helpless/powerless one can be over life events. My beloved sister underwent colon surgery this past Mon. They took a malignant mass along with 1/2 the colon plus a part of her small intestine. The tumor perforated the wall of her colon, grew and had a...

Auburndelight · Auburndelight

I have recently relapsed, about 3 months ago and when this happens, my 2 adult children, do not call, do not e-mail and I am not allowed to go to their homes or see my grandchildren. I had been sober for almost 4 years and I decided to pick up one evening after work. I drink at home, but that evening my son an...

nancyjo59 · nancyjo59

Into my 4th week of treatment its required that my addiction history is given to my group....which means all the attention is given to me. This is going to be so hard for me because I dont like to be the center of attention...at all... Durning high school if it was speech time you would find me anywhere bu...

Phil · Phil

Cigars it is then! :) Yup, she delivered a tiny lil six pound fifteen ounce baby boy at 5:30 this morning. Just got back from the hospital about an hour ago. Every one is happy healthy and wonderfull. This is the second grandbaby now ... and what a wonderfull thing... to be able to be there and be sober... f...

Doll · Doll

GROUP AUTONOMY Some may think that we have carried the principle of group autonomy to extremes. For example, in its original "long form," Tradition Four declares: "Any two or three gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that as a group they have...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ We're so glad to be free from liquor that we do something about it. We get into action. We come to meetings regularly. We go out and try to help other alcoholics. We pass on the good news whenever we get a chance. In a spirit of thankfulness to God, we get into action. The A.A. progra...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Often, we can learn much about ourselves from the people to whom we are attracted. As we progress through recovery, we learn we can no longer form relationships solely on the basis of attraction. We learn to be patient, to allow ourselves to take into account important facts, and to process informati...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The A.A. program is one of faith, hope, and charity. It's a program of hope because when new members come into A.A., the first thing they get is hope. They hear older members tell how they had been through the same kind of hell that they have and how they found the way out through A....

Wren · Wren

Who am I? Where do I come from? Why am I here? Do these questions sound familiar? These are universal questions, voiced by people from all walks of life at some point during their journey here...For many of us it takes something major, perhaps catastrophic, for us to stop from the hustle and bustle of da...

Wren · Wren

Flying Home As earthbound beings, humans have always had a fascination with winged creatures of all kinds. The idea of being able to spontaneously lift off from the earth and fly is so compelling to us that we invented airplanes and helicopters and myriad other flying machines in order to provide our...

Quetzal · Quetzal

You have three choices: keep on fighting, ignore each other, or make up and be friends. -- John Knoblauch Once there were four sixth-graders - two boys and two girls - who started to fight even though they'd been friends for years. One morning at the bus stop, the boys started playing keep-away with the...

Doll · Doll

TWO "MAGNIFICENT STANDARDS" All A.A. progress can be reckoned in terms of just two words: humility and responsibility. Our whole spiritual development can be accurately measured by our degree of adherence to these magnificent standards. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 271 To acknowledge and resp...

miller2 · miller2

My wife just called. Seems my youngest daughter (18) is on the way to the hospital. I'll prolly have a new grandson by morning.

alligot · alligot

Hello all, i'm looking for some help, haven't been to a meeting for a while, since i lost the desire. Got so mixed up at meetings and often left me feeling drained seemed to go home with my problems and yours too. Became dissilusioned and stopped going, when i first read the 12 steps my heart skipped a bea...

Phil · Phil

Anger can be a Cover Up for Guilt, Shame and Vulnerability Lynne Namka, Ed. D Anger is a normal emotion that we all have. Humans have had anger since the caveman days, and it is necessary for our survival as a species. Anger, as an emotion, is neither good nor bad, it is just a feeling. Anger, as a response o...

Moon · Moon

Hey all, it's been awile since checking in. So sorry to dump this but I really need to vent. Picture this, the gosslings have hatched...5 of them, so cute! So after my children 5 and 2 beg me to go feed them, I decide that it would be a good idea. We take some bread down and are feeding them. My 5 year old a...

Phil · Phil

Blaming others for the pain we feel each time someone fails to live up to our expectations is no different than burning our tongue on coffee that's too hot to swallow, and then calling our cup an idiot! - Guy Finley ---------------------- Unfulfilled expectations always cause problems. Having expe...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ By submitting to God, we're released from the power of liquor. It has no more hold on us. We're also released from the things that were holding us down: pride, selfishness, and fear. And we're free to grow into a new life, which is so much better than the old life that there's no co...

Doll · Doll

JOYFUL DISCOVERIES We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven't g...

TenderheartsKS · TenderheartsKS

As I sit and write this, my 29 year old daughter who is an active alcoholic/addict sits in jail...again. I had watched her life parallel mine in so many ways, hoping that age 28 might be the turning point for her as that is the age I went to rehab. It was not her time. This past weekend I sat with my 11 year old g...

Quetzal · Quetzal

The rewards from detachment are great: serenity; a deep sense of peace; the ability to give and receive love in self-enhancing, energizing ways, and the freedom to find real solutions to our problems. -- Codependent No More Letting go of our need to control can set others and us free. It can set our Hig...

jeannie · jeannie

Hey everyone and welcome to the newcomers Yeah I know I haven't been around for a while - life happens. The new job which was suppose to be full time-assistant manager well the manager lied to me just to relieve her eighty hour work week. The just of the story is that she fired me because I had a confront...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Resentments are sneaky, tricky little things. They can convince us they're justified. They can dry up our hearts. They can sabotage our happiness. They can sabotage love. Most of us have been at the receiving end of an injustice at some time in our lives. Most of us know someone who's complained of an i...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The A.A. program is one of submission, release, and action. When we're drinking, we're submitting to a power greater than ourselves, liquor. Our own wills are no use against the power of liquor. One drink and we're sunk. In A.A. we stop submitting to the power of liquor. Inste...

Doll · Doll

HAPPINESS IS NOT THE POINT I don't think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? AS BILL SEES IT, p. 306 In my search "to be happy," I changed jobs,...

Mobirdie · Mobirdie

To give you a little background, my husband and I were asked last year to start an Alanon group at our church. At the time I told them that we could not be affiliated with the church, we would have to rent the room etc. Recently an AA meeting was started at the same church, same time as Al-Anon and both non s...

worriedfriend · worriedfriend

I know my friend needs to decide on his own to quit drinking but are there any books that maybe someone could recommend? Something to motivate him a little. He won't attend meetings right now so maybe something in the meantime.

Quetzal · Quetzal

We must each discover our own truth. It does not help us if those we love find their truth. They cannot give it to us. It does not help if someone we love knows a particular truth in our life. We must discover our truth for ourselves. We must each discover and stand in our own light. We often need to struggle,...

Doll · Doll

ENTERING A NEW DIMENSION In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension - freedom under God as we understand Him. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 283 I am for...

Wren · Wren

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the brea...

LisaF · LisaF

I screwed up... 8 months down the drain... I knew what I needed to be doing, I talked about how I'm going to stay sober, and get to meetings, etc... and I did try to get to a meeting last night, didn't make it because I had to pick up some stuff way across town and didn't realize how long that would take... ...

Doll · Doll

My sponsor, since 2005, has been the very first one I chose. She had quantity and quality and of all the women in this area, she had the most of what I wanted! I found out a few weeks back, she's retiring from her job and moving away. I really wasn't worried, I know God will send me who he wants me to have. BUT...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ It's been proved that we alcoholics can't get sober by our willpower. We've failed again and again. Therefore I believe there must be a Higher Power which helps me. I think of that power as the grace of God. And I pray to God every morning for the strength to stay sober today. I kno...

Quetzal · Quetzal

"You silly thing," said Fritz, my eldest son, sharply, "don't you know that we must not settle what God is to do for us? We must have patience and wait His time." -- Johann R. Wyss The story of the shipwrecked Robinson family is a lesson in patience. It was years before their rescue...

Doll · Doll

LEARNING TO LOVE OURSELVES Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were surrounded by people who loved us... We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others . . . We still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy sort of domination or depend...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Men and women keep coming into A.A., licked by alcohol, often given up by doctors as hopeless cases, they themselves admitting they're helpless to stop drinking. When I see these men and women get sober and stay sober over a period of months and years, I know that A.A. works. Th...

Wren · Wren

Printed from www.care2.com Feed Your Soul - 3 Easy Ways Adapted from Fifty Ways to Feed Your Soul by Rosemary Cunningham (Red Wheel/Weiser, 2004). Simple Solution When the world is too much with us, or personal crises erupt, or were just plain having a bad day, these three simple but potent ideas can b...

Phil · Phil

There are two types of fear, deluded or unhealthy and non-deluded or healthy. These can also be divided into fear of the inevitable and fear of the evitable. The key to dealing with fear is to check which type of fear we have, and to transform our unhealthy fears of what we can do nothing about into heal...

mels · mels

I need to quit drinking and I dont know how to go about it I heard you can die during detox what should I do? I have no insurance to be monitored!!!

Wren · Wren

Problems exist only in the human mind. -- Anthony de Mello For most of us, theres always a long to do list. Thats a fact. And its easy to feel victimized. Poor me! Thats not a fact thats a choice. Experiment with your life to explore how much your mind is your jailer. Simply let go of the oh woe kinds of though...

Doll · Doll

A.A. IS NOT A CURE-ALL It would be a product of false pride to claim that A.A. is a cure-all, even for alcoholism. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 285 In my early years of sobriety I was full of pride, thinking that A.A. was the only source of treatment for a good and happy life. It certainly was the basic ingredient for m...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain It is not unusual to feel afraid. It is unusual, however, to hear anyone admit to feeling afraid. Sometimes we think there are some people who are so cool and calm that they never feel afraid. This may make us think we're not...

LisaF · LisaF

There's too much crap going on right now... but I'm getting to meetings again even though the drive into town kills my back, it was getting better, now it's all screwed up again... but I need meetings right now. I guess everyone was right... not about moving up here to Nebraska... I still think that...

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	Dry drunk (Preview) Irritable, impatience, not tolerant, capable of raging, uncontrolable feelings, grouchy. Is this considered dry drunk? Uh oh, I think I might fit this category...sometimes, not all the time. While you respond know this, remember I am still in denial (some days) that I'm an alcoholic...I don'...	Moon	13	745	Apr 30, 2007 by Auburndelight
	Daily Reflections Apr 30 (Preview) A GREAT PARADOX These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that today animates A.A.'s all around the globe. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151 The great paradox o...	Doll	0	292	Apr 30, 2007 by Doll
	Balance (Preview) The goal is balance. We need balance between work and play. We need balance between giving and receiving. We need balance in thought and feelings. We need balance in caring for our physical self and our spiritual self. A balanced life has harmony between a professional life and a personal life. There...	Quetzal	0	384	Apr 30, 2007 by Quetzal
	I'm a mommy! lol (Preview) We've had 3 hens sitting... and I've seen one with 5 chicks, we've got 2 more around here somewhere with their chicks too! And... Our friend went crazy today... bought 60 baby ducks, 6 baby turkeys, 2 baby guineas, and 300 baby chicks... lol and... she surprised me with 4 baby turkeys and 3 baby gui...	LisaF	7	447	Apr 29, 2007 by LisaF
	just checkin in... (Preview) Hey y'all... just checkin in... I'm doing good... 3 days sober... getting to meetings, got a sponsor, doing my first step... It's funny, my roommate and I went to our Thursday night meeting last night, and when I shared I said something about how I'd been on a dry drunk... and after the meeting, m...	LisaF	8	434	Apr 29, 2007 by Doll
	Anxiety - Man is it ever a big part of this - Justifiably so... (Preview) I've been feeling so much anxiety throughout this but I really don't think it's a symptom of anything - It's just a practical reaction to what's happening... The worst part about this whole ordeal is not having any life insurance - The answers are out there they're just not within practical financia...	POOKISTAN	4	489	Apr 29, 2007 by amanda2u2
	MIRACLE OF THE 12 STEPS (Preview) Bonjour Hey, just a quick update, remember the girl who wanted to end her life, who was depressed, bla bla bla. Because her recovering alcoholic friend could not give her love in return.....lol Well guess what.. That girl who was scared of everything, heights, flying, people, life... Has just had...	ally	5	457	Apr 29, 2007 by learning
	Powerlessness (Preview) This week I've encountered how really helpless/powerless one can be over life events. My beloved sister underwent colon surgery this past Mon. They took a malignant mass along with 1/2 the colon plus a part of her small intestine. The tumor perforated the wall of her colon, grew and had a...	learning	2	302	Apr 29, 2007 by learning
	I would like some input, please (Preview) I have recently relapsed, about 3 months ago and when this happens, my 2 adult children, do not call, do not e-mail and I am not allowed to go to their homes or see my grandchildren. I had been sober for almost 4 years and I decided to pick up one evening after work. I drink at home, but that evening my son an...	Auburndelight	7	405	Apr 29, 2007 by ally
	Addiction History (Preview) Into my 4th week of treatment its required that my addiction history is given to my group....which means all the attention is given to me. This is going to be so hard for me because I dont like to be the center of attention...at all... Durning high school if it was speech time you would find me anywhere bu...	nancyjo59	9	496	Apr 29, 2007 by ally
	Moving this one to the top of the board..."MILLER2" :) (Preview) Cigars it is then! :) Yup, she delivered a tiny lil six pound fifteen ounce baby boy at 5:30 this morning. Just got back from the hospital about an hour ago. Every one is happy healthy and wonderfull. This is the second grandbaby now ... and what a wonderfull thing... to be able to be there and be sober... f...	Phil	8	947	Apr 29, 2007 by ally
	Daily Reflections apr 29 (Preview) GROUP AUTONOMY Some may think that we have carried the principle of group autonomy to extremes. For example, in its original "long form," Tradition Four declares: "Any two or three gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that as a group they have...	Doll	0	361	Apr 29, 2007 by Doll
	24 Hours a Day ~ 28th April 2007 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ We're so glad to be free from liquor that we do something about it. We get into action. We come to meetings regularly. We go out and try to help other alcoholics. We pass on the good news whenever we get a chance. In a spirit of thankfulness to God, we get into action. The A.A. progra...	Sobrietyspell	3	568	Apr 29, 2007 by johnn101259
	Initiating Relationships (Preview) Often, we can learn much about ourselves from the people to whom we are attracted. As we progress through recovery, we learn we can no longer form relationships solely on the basis of attraction. We learn to be patient, to allow ourselves to take into account important facts, and to process informati...	Quetzal	1	396	Apr 29, 2007 by ally
	24 Hours a Day ~ 29th April 2007 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The A.A. program is one of faith, hope, and charity. It's a program of hope because when new members come into A.A., the first thing they get is hope. They hear older members tell how they had been through the same kind of hell that they have and how they found the way out through A....	Sobrietyspell	0	303	Apr 29, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Food for Thought (Preview) Who am I? Where do I come from? Why am I here? Do these questions sound familiar? These are universal questions, voiced by people from all walks of life at some point during their journey here...For many of us it takes something major, perhaps catastrophic, for us to stop from the hustle and bustle of da...	Wren	8	471	Apr 29, 2007 by learning
	Free of Gravity (Preview) Flying Home As earthbound beings, humans have always had a fascination with winged creatures of all kinds. The idea of being able to spontaneously lift off from the earth and fly is so compelling to us that we invented airplanes and helicopters and myriad other flying machines in order to provide our...	Wren	1	320	Apr 28, 2007 by Phil
	Three Choices (Preview) You have three choices: keep on fighting, ignore each other, or make up and be friends. -- John Knoblauch Once there were four sixth-graders - two boys and two girls - who started to fight even though they'd been friends for years. One morning at the bus stop, the boys started playing keep-away with the...	Quetzal	1	309	Apr 28, 2007 by Doll
	Daily Reflections Apr 28 (Preview) TWO "MAGNIFICENT STANDARDS" All A.A. progress can be reckoned in terms of just two words: humility and responsibility. Our whole spiritual development can be accurately measured by our degree of adherence to these magnificent standards. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 271 To acknowledge and resp...	Doll	0	278	Apr 28, 2007 by Doll
	OK, this is anxiety LOL (Preview) My wife just called. Seems my youngest daughter (18) is on the way to the hospital. I'll prolly have a new grandson by morning.	miller2	10	410	Apr 27, 2007 by miller2
	need some help (Preview) Hello all, i'm looking for some help, haven't been to a meeting for a while, since i lost the desire. Got so mixed up at meetings and often left me feeling drained seemed to go home with my problems and yours too. Became dissilusioned and stopped going, when i first read the 12 steps my heart skipped a bea...	alligot	15	651	Apr 27, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Sharing an article on "ANGER"....long (Preview) Anger can be a Cover Up for Guilt, Shame and Vulnerability Lynne Namka, Ed. D Anger is a normal emotion that we all have. Humans have had anger since the caveman days, and it is necessary for our survival as a species. Anger, as an emotion, is neither good nor bad, it is just a feeling. Anger, as a response o...	Phil	3	822	Apr 27, 2007 by Moon
	I am beyond angry (Preview) Hey all, it's been awile since checking in. So sorry to dump this but I really need to vent. Picture this, the gosslings have hatched...5 of them, so cute! So after my children 5 and 2 beg me to go feed them, I decide that it would be a good idea. We take some bread down and are feeding them. My 5 year old a...	Moon	10	1074	Apr 27, 2007 by Moon
	Relationship Expectations.....long (Preview) Blaming others for the pain we feel each time someone fails to live up to our expectations is no different than burning our tongue on coffee that's too hot to swallow, and then calling our cup an idiot! - Guy Finley ---------------------- Unfulfilled expectations always cause problems. Having expe...	Phil	4	495	Apr 27, 2007 by Laura
	24 Hours a Day ~ 27th April 2007 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ By submitting to God, we're released from the power of liquor. It has no more hold on us. We're also released from the things that were holding us down: pride, selfishness, and fear. And we're free to grow into a new life, which is so much better than the old life that there's no co...	Sobrietyspell	0	386	Apr 27, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Daily Reflections Apr 27 (Preview) JOYFUL DISCOVERIES We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven't g...	Doll	0	279	Apr 27, 2007 by Doll
	Recovery is possible (Preview) As I sit and write this, my 29 year old daughter who is an active alcoholic/addict sits in jail...again. I had watched her life parallel mine in so many ways, hoping that age 28 might be the turning point for her as that is the age I went to rehab. It was not her time. This past weekend I sat with my 11 year old g...	TenderheartsKS	4	351	Apr 27, 2007 by Laura
	Letting Go of the Need to Control (Preview) The rewards from detachment are great: serenity; a deep sense of peace; the ability to give and receive love in self-enhancing, energizing ways, and the freedom to find real solutions to our problems. -- Codependent No More Letting go of our need to control can set others and us free. It can set our Hig...	Quetzal	1	1207	Apr 27, 2007 by Wren
	just checking in (Preview) Hey everyone and welcome to the newcomers Yeah I know I haven't been around for a while - life happens. The new job which was suppose to be full time-assistant manager well the manager lied to me just to relieve her eighty hour work week. The just of the story is that she fired me because I had a confront...	jeannie	1	324	Apr 26, 2007 by Laura
	Let Go Of Resentments (Preview) Resentments are sneaky, tricky little things. They can convince us they're justified. They can dry up our hearts. They can sabotage our happiness. They can sabotage love. Most of us have been at the receiving end of an injustice at some time in our lives. Most of us know someone who's complained of an i...	Quetzal	4	547	Apr 26, 2007 by Phil
	24 Hours a Day ~ 26th April 2007 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The A.A. program is one of submission, release, and action. When we're drinking, we're submitting to a power greater than ourselves, liquor. Our own wills are no use against the power of liquor. One drink and we're sunk. In A.A. we stop submitting to the power of liquor. Inste...	Sobrietyspell	0	314	Apr 26, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Daily Reflections apr 26 (Preview) HAPPINESS IS NOT THE POINT I don't think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? AS BILL SEES IT, p. 306 In my search "to be happy," I changed jobs,...	Doll	0	288	Apr 26, 2007 by Doll
	Looking for opinions (Preview) To give you a little background, my husband and I were asked last year to start an Alanon group at our church. At the time I told them that we could not be affiliated with the church, we would have to rent the room etc. Recently an AA meeting was started at the same church, same time as Al-Anon and both non s...	Mobirdie	8	390	Apr 25, 2007 by jeannie
	Books (Preview) I know my friend needs to decide on his own to quit drinking but are there any books that maybe someone could recommend? Something to motivate him a little. He won't attend meetings right now so maybe something in the meantime.	worriedfriend	3	313	Apr 25, 2007 by worriedfriend
	Finding Our Own Truth (Preview) We must each discover our own truth. It does not help us if those we love find their truth. They cannot give it to us. It does not help if someone we love knows a particular truth in our life. We must discover our truth for ourselves. We must each discover and stand in our own light. We often need to struggle,...	Quetzal	1	531	Apr 25, 2007 by amanda2u2
	Daily Reflections Apr 25 (Preview) ENTERING A NEW DIMENSION In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension - freedom under God as we understand Him. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 283 I am for...	Doll	0	274	Apr 25, 2007 by Doll
	Feeling Safe (Preview) Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the brea...	Wren	0	330	Apr 24, 2007 by Wren
	I screwed up (Preview) I screwed up... 8 months down the drain... I knew what I needed to be doing, I talked about how I'm going to stay sober, and get to meetings, etc... and I did try to get to a meeting last night, didn't make it because I had to pick up some stuff way across town and didn't realize how long that would take... ...	LisaF	14	549	Apr 24, 2007 by amanda2u2
	Sponsor 'giving away' sponsees! (Preview) My sponsor, since 2005, has been the very first one I chose. She had quantity and quality and of all the women in this area, she had the most of what I wanted! I found out a few weeks back, she's retiring from her job and moving away. I really wasn't worried, I know God will send me who he wants me to have. BUT...	Doll	6	1447	Apr 24, 2007 by Doll
	24 Hours a Day ~ 24th April 2007 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ It's been proved that we alcoholics can't get sober by our willpower. We've failed again and again. Therefore I believe there must be a Higher Power which helps me. I think of that power as the grace of God. And I pray to God every morning for the strength to stay sober today. I kno...	Sobrietyspell	1	431	Apr 24, 2007 by Phil
	Patience (Preview) "You silly thing," said Fritz, my eldest son, sharply, "don't you know that we must not settle what God is to do for us? We must have patience and wait His time." -- Johann R. Wyss The story of the shipwrecked Robinson family is a lesson in patience. It was years before their rescue...	Quetzal	2	294	Apr 24, 2007 by Phil
	Daily Reflections Apr 24 (Preview) LEARNING TO LOVE OURSELVES Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were surrounded by people who loved us... We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others . . . We still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy sort of domination or depend...	Doll	0	284	Apr 24, 2007 by Doll
	24 Hours a Day ~ 23rd April 2007 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Men and women keep coming into A.A., licked by alcohol, often given up by doctors as hopeless cases, they themselves admitting they're helpless to stop drinking. When I see these men and women get sober and stay sober over a period of months and years, I know that A.A. works. Th...	Sobrietyspell	0	289	Apr 23, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Feed Your Soul (from care2.com) (Preview) Printed from www.care2.com Feed Your Soul - 3 Easy Ways Adapted from Fifty Ways to Feed Your Soul by Rosemary Cunningham (Red Wheel/Weiser, 2004). Simple Solution When the world is too much with us, or personal crises erupt, or were just plain having a bad day, these three simple but potent ideas can b...	Wren	2	382	Apr 23, 2007 by Phil
	Types Of Fear (Preview) There are two types of fear, deluded or unhealthy and non-deluded or healthy. These can also be divided into fear of the inevitable and fear of the evitable. The key to dealing with fear is to check which type of fear we have, and to transform our unhealthy fears of what we can do nothing about into heal...	Phil	0	313	Apr 23, 2007 by Phil
	How to go about quitting??? (Preview) I need to quit drinking and I dont know how to go about it I heard you can die during detox what should I do? I have no insurance to be monitored!!!	mels	12	676	Apr 23, 2007 by Marti
	Imprisoned by your thoughts (Preview) Problems exist only in the human mind. -- Anthony de Mello For most of us, theres always a long to do list. Thats a fact. And its easy to feel victimized. Poor me! Thats not a fact thats a choice. Experiment with your life to explore how much your mind is your jailer. Simply let go of the oh woe kinds of though...	Wren	3	374	Apr 23, 2007 by Doll
	Daily Reflections April 23 (Preview) A.A. IS NOT A CURE-ALL It would be a product of false pride to claim that A.A. is a cure-all, even for alcoholism. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 285 In my early years of sobriety I was full of pride, thinking that A.A. was the only source of treatment for a good and happy life. It certainly was the basic ingredient for m...	Doll	0	327	Apr 23, 2007 by Doll
	Courage (Preview) Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain It is not unusual to feel afraid. It is unusual, however, to hear anyone admit to feeling afraid. Sometimes we think there are some people who are so cool and calm that they never feel afraid. This may make us think we're not...	Quetzal	0	263	Apr 23, 2007 by Quetzal
	Guess everyone was right... (Preview) There's too much crap going on right now... but I'm getting to meetings again even though the drive into town kills my back, it was getting better, now it's all screwed up again... but I need meetings right now. I guess everyone was right... not about moving up here to Nebraska... I still think that...	LisaF	11	402	Apr 23, 2007 by Wren
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