Alcoholics Anonymous

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...

worriedfriend · worriedfriend

To make a really long story short my husband and I have a couple that we are very close friends with. The husband in the couple is an alcoholic. He has had numerous close calls ie. serious fall of his bike resulting in a brain injury leaving him with damage and now no drivers license to keep a job. He has b...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ People believe in A.A. when they see it work. An actual demonstration is what convinces them. What they read in books, what they hear people say doesn't always convince them. But when they see a real honest-to-goodness change take place in a person, a change from a drunkard to...

Phil · Phil

http://www.12stepforums.net/interviewwithgod.html

Doll · Doll

NEW SOIL . . . NEW ROOTS Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know. Roots of reality, supplanting the neurotic underbrush, will hold fast despite the high winds of the forces which would destroy us, or which we would use to destroy ourselv...

Phil · Phil

When life seems like an up hill climbTake comfort in the factThat you are mooning everyone behind you

Quetzal · Quetzal

Inevitably, there are times of stress in our lives, no matter how long we've been in recovery. Sometimes, the stress is outside or around us. We're feeling balanced, but our circumstances are stressful. Sometimes, the stress is within; we feel out of balance. When the stress is external and interna...

LisaF · LisaF

Well, I'm an... ex-aunt? lol um, my ex-husband's sister had her baby on the 18th... they just sent pics, they didn't get a whole lot of good ones, but here's a couple... My ex-father-in-law and Shannon Kimi and Shannon His name is Shannon Michael Thomas Knight, weighed 6lb 13oz, not sure of his len...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

I'd love to take part in an online meeting with everybody but being a 5hour behind Scouser means it'd be way past my bedtime! Have a good meeting for those of you who can make it ;) Maybe I'll catch up with you soon or read the minutes! lol Happy Sober Day dears & if you're struggling it's because you're...

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

A.A. Thought for the Day ~ After we've been in A.A. for a while, we find out that if we're going to stay sober, we have to be humble people. The men and women in A.A. who have achieved sobriety are all humble people. When I stop to think that but for the grace of God I might be drunk right now, I can't help feelin...

Tina · Tina

Morning all Just Thought I would check in to say hi, and things are progressing well. It's been a few days or so since my last post, my daughter and are doing fine, son is doing well. He's started home schooling not along ago, and done 2 exams already and is doing well in that area, he's seeing a counciler o...

Doll · Doll

CULTIVATING FAITH "I don't think we can do anything very well in this world unless we practice it. And I don't believe we do A.A. too well unless we practice it. . . . We should practice . . . acquiring the spirit of service. We should attempt to acquire some faith, which isn't easily done, especiall...

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 a m...

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	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	596	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	422	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	327	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	496	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	345	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	339	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	308	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	446	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	674	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	864	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	1101	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	522	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	418	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	308	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	376	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	1237	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	347	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	574	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	336	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	312	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	414	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	342	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	557	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	297	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	352	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	580	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	1491	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	461	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	317	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	309	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	313	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	411	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	338	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	702	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	401	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	353	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	290	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	441	Apr 23, 2007 by Wren
	We've had it! (Preview) To make a really long story short my husband and I have a couple that we are very close friends with. The husband in the couple is an alcoholic. He has had numerous close calls ie. serious fall of his bike resulting in a brain injury leaving him with damage and now no drivers license to keep a job. He has b...	worriedfriend	5	419	Apr 23, 2007 by miller2
	24 Hours a Day ~ 22nd April 2007 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ People believe in A.A. when they see it work. An actual demonstration is what convinces them. What they read in books, what they hear people say doesn't always convince them. But when they see a real honest-to-goodness change take place in a person, a change from a drunkard to...	Sobrietyspell	0	313	Apr 22, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	From MIP...For those that haven't seen this (Preview) http://www.12stepforums.net/interviewwithgod.html	Phil	2	445	Apr 22, 2007 by timverton
	Daily Reflections Apr 22 (Preview) NEW SOIL . . . NEW ROOTS Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know. Roots of reality, supplanting the neurotic underbrush, will hold fast despite the high winds of the forces which would destroy us, or which we would use to destroy ourselv...	Doll	0	287	Apr 22, 2007 by Doll
	An Uphill Climb (Preview) When life seems like an up hill climbTake comfort in the factThat you are mooning everyone behind you	Phil	3	383	Apr 22, 2007 by Tina
	Coping With Stress (Preview) Inevitably, there are times of stress in our lives, no matter how long we've been in recovery. Sometimes, the stress is outside or around us. We're feeling balanced, but our circumstances are stressful. Sometimes, the stress is within; we feel out of balance. When the stress is external and interna...	Quetzal	0	1016	Apr 22, 2007 by Quetzal
	baby! (Preview) Well, I'm an... ex-aunt? lol um, my ex-husband's sister had her baby on the 18th... they just sent pics, they didn't get a whole lot of good ones, but here's a couple... My ex-father-in-law and Shannon Kimi and Shannon His name is Shannon Michael Thomas Knight, weighed 6lb 13oz, not sure of his len...	LisaF	2	336	Apr 22, 2007 by destinydreamer
	Online Meeting 2nite :D (Preview) I'd love to take part in an online meeting with everybody but being a 5hour behind Scouser means it'd be way past my bedtime! Have a good meeting for those of you who can make it ;) Maybe I'll catch up with you soon or read the minutes! lol Happy Sober Day dears & if you're struggling it's because you're...	Sobrietyspell	0	372	Apr 21, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	24 Hours a Day ~ 21st April 2007 (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day ~ After we've been in A.A. for a while, we find out that if we're going to stay sober, we have to be humble people. The men and women in A.A. who have achieved sobriety are all humble people. When I stop to think that but for the grace of God I might be drunk right now, I can't help feelin...	Sobrietyspell	0	366	Apr 21, 2007 by Sobrietyspell
	Just checking in (Preview) Morning all Just Thought I would check in to say hi, and things are progressing well. It's been a few days or so since my last post, my daughter and are doing fine, son is doing well. He's started home schooling not along ago, and done 2 exams already and is doing well in that area, he's seeing a counciler o...	Tina	1	356	Apr 21, 2007 by miller2
	Daily Reflections Apr 21 (Preview) CULTIVATING FAITH "I don't think we can do anything very well in this world unless we practice it. And I don't believe we do A.A. too well unless we practice it. . . . We should practice . . . acquiring the spirit of service. We should attempt to acquire some faith, which isn't easily done, especiall...	Doll	0	365	Apr 21, 2007 by Doll
	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 a m...	Quetzal	0	346	Apr 21, 2007 by Quetzal
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