Alcoholics Anonymous

beachbaby · beachbaby

"Anonymity is the Spiritual Foundation of All our Principles, ever reminding us to place principles above personalities." I am really upset, something I shared in an AA meeting was mentioned to my sister, twice by two different AA members, one sober for 4 or 5 years and the other celebrat...

Doll · Doll

A NECESSARY PRUNING . . . . we know that the pains of drinking had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 94 I love spending time in my garden feeding and pruning my beautiful flowers. One day, as I was busily snipping away, a neighbor stop...

Dolphin123 · Dolphin123

Hi all, I have a question for ya. As many of you know I am an alanon. -----------------Sooner or later I will stop announcing that, like a disclaimer lol

I am currently taking a class called Chemical Dependency 101 and I have a term paper to write up. And I have been bouncing back and forth b...

Robert · Robert

checking in, met up with my sponcer, realised how much my partner is wearing me out, seems like a conditional relationship of what we can get rather than give, its all fear related. I do love her, dont get me wrong, but I believe that things cant make you happy, happiness is a choice and if one chooses to...

jessiesgirl · jessiesgirl

Just needed a place to vent and all advice is welcome. The last few months have been extremely intense. First I had a miscarriage after trying for a year, I was devastated. Then a few weeks later I took my sister in because her husband is an a$$ and kicked her out. But that's another issue that I wont get int...

LisaF · LisaF

Anyone here done vocational rehabilitation? Apparently that's something I'll be doing soon... So I'm trying to figure out school, and how to get those grants for the disabled... couldn't find anything online. Finally called the university here and asked financial aid about it, they sent me o...

CAM · CAM

I went to the local meeting here in my town. I like this one better but it's only twice a week so I go the other one in between that has two everyday. I found the earlier in the day, the better day I have. I still haven't shared. I can't the word "alcoholic" passed my lips. I stammer &...

Phil · Phil

It seems that everybody has a plan, a goal to which they give their heart and soul; they plot a course, do everything they can... and suddenly the keyword is control. I see how everybody hits a wall, from time to time it’s just what comes to be; no matter how they do it, they seem to fall... despite their p...

jonibaloni · jonibaloni

"School Days, School Days Dear old Golden Rule days Reading and writing and 'Rythmetic Talk to the tune of the Hickory Stick She was my Queen in calico, I was her bashful barefoot Beau And she wrote on my slate, "I love you Joe" When we were a couple of kids..." My grammy used to si...

Wren · Wren

Owning Your Tendencies Understanding All Sides Whenever we examine our lives, we examine them from a particular side or angle. Most of us tend to favor one side over the others. For example, we may tend to look at things from an emotional perspective rather than a financial perspective, or we may pref...

jeannie · jeannie

' HAPPY FALL TO YOU' From one pumpkin to another!!!!!!! A woman was asked by a coworker, "What is it like to be a Christian?" The coworker replied, "It is like being a pumpkin." God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. Then He cuts off the top a...

Quetzal · Quetzal

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -- Eden Phillpotts We hear others talk about how they got out of debt. We see people who have peace and serenity in their lives, who have healthy relationships and dream jobs. We realize that being debt-free me...

Doll · Doll

I made if off the couch...........2nd step, I made it into work, I'm not happy about it, but I'm here........ya'll pray my "punishment will fit the crime" and they won't want to give me the death penalty. My boss will be here in a hour. I'm soooooo nervous.........thanks for all the love and support......

Doll · Doll

SERENITY AFTER THE STORM Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.'s can agree with him. . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p p. 93-94 When on the roller coaster of emotional turmoil, I remember that grow...

SheIsSober · SheIsSober

I just wanted to say that I'm still around and still sober, thanks to God and a great support system, including this board! I read, but don't have a lot of time, as I'm in therapy for an eating disorder right now. Take care and remember, if you don't take the first drink, you can't take the 2nd...

Sick of being sick · Sick of being sick

Hi everyone, Sorry I haven't been seen around here much lately. I'm gonna try to step back a little from the break-neck pace I've had at work for the past 6 weeks. I've also been wrestling a little with that dark demon called depression during that same time. I came across a little fi...

RyanS · RyanS

You know, you guys, life is one -helluva- lesson in life, aint it?

LisaF · LisaF

You know, I love how you can find AA online, I love this message board so much, and I have a couple of others with chat that I go to... one of them has been nothing but problems... I stay there because I tell myself those are just sick people... and because there are people there I love. But when I relapsed, th...

Wren · Wren

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. -Anonymous Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. -Ann Landers If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers There is no psychiat rist...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Step One "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable." Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we hav...

Doll · Doll

I called into work (again) today. I didn't go to work Friday, either. I have no sick days left, they were all used up when I had surgery over the summer, so I'll be written up. I called in BEFORE my boss gets in so I could just leave him a voice mail and not have to talk to him...This is the first day I've g...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. -- Henry David Thoreau What comes to mind when you think about time? Is it a quantity that you measure? Time is certainly how we measure our lives in hours, years, or decades. We kill it, we waste it, we pass it, and we sometimes savor it...

Doll · Doll

THE ACID TEST As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure of a new life. But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way of living to practical use, day by day, in fair weather or foul. Then comes the acid test: can we stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and live to...

Phil · Phil

If you want to follow your dream? Go for it. But first? You hafta wake up.

jonibaloni · jonibaloni

Prayer works. When all else has failed in my marital woes, I stop trying to control manipulate and change, and I start praying. I pray for God to heal the relationship, instead of "Make my husband do such and such". And the results are good, for today. Praying changes me. It keeps me centered on what is...

kittn38 · kittn38

hello all: i don't want to get into much. but, i have alot on my plate. have for yrs. poor mom just had another seizure last night. along with congestive heart failure. im going to need time. u probably won't see me in here for awhile. i will keep u posted...

LisaF · LisaF

I'm actually really wanting to go to meetings now, and get together with my sponsor to do stepwork and all that... I was supposed to meet with my sponsor yesterday, and also supposed to go to my mom's, I was actually considering meeting with my sponsor over going to my mom's, but then my sponsor wound up w...

Dolphin123 · Dolphin123

(((Hi all))), Can an alanon have too much program?

Ok this was weird and funny so I wanted to share it. And yes I know I am bonkers, lol just more proof of it. Last night I was dreaming. I was trying to find an oyster burried in a shrimp. (yes strange, but hey it's me). While I was hunting fo...

Elizabeth · Elizabeth

Hello, Has anyone heard of Sobrenity Ranch? Does anyone know anything about it? www.sobrenityranch.com

Phil · Phil

- By Dr. Al Infande Have you ever tried to control things in your life that you cannot control? The Serenity Prayer is a gift from God that teaches us how to separate those things in life that we can change, from those things that we cannot change. The Serenity Prayer goes like...

Robert · Robert

I have reduced the dose yesterday from top whack to half dose, things are good but i just dont feel good, I cant get happy anymore, i feel like a living dead, when I was drinking I may as well been dead, I want to enjoy being sober, I am going to see the dr and see a way to come off altogether, he said to drop the do...

Quetzal · Quetzal

All human beings hold to the tools of their own destruction. -- Barbara Gordon, author of "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can" [1979] People who live in the forests and mountains of India have an age-old method of catching monkeys. They do not run after the monkeys, and they do not use ropes. Rather they re...

LisaF · LisaF

I decided I'm going back to school!!! I only went for less than a year, the year after I graduated high school, flunked out both semesters because my anxiety was so bad I'd hardly ever go to class. Well I think I'm ready for it now, my anxiety's getting a lot better, and they have so many classes online now t...

kittn38 · kittn38

hi friends: well hope u are my friends after i tell u this. im so bad. im so ashamed. i been feeling so down and sick and weird these last few days. feel better now. except only if for one thing. (please don't kill me.) i had one. just one rum. i know.....

jonibaloni · jonibaloni

Welp, it is in the 40's here now in Northeastern Ohio, rainy and dark as night all day long... and I have today come down with a sinus infection!! So glad it waited until my trip was over... school is next week!! UGH... I was just thinking of what a blessing sobriety is.. that when I am sick I can justify go...

LisaF · LisaF

I don't feel quite so overwhelmed today... actually I pretty much feel at peace today. Maybe everything's starting to fall into place and sort itself out. I know once I start back on my workbook for counseling I'll get overwhelmed again, I always do... but for now I feel really good. I'm enjoying this p...

Phil · Phil

My head says one thing My emotions says another I hide behind walls of denial Fear, doubt, what ifs Scared to cross bridges Whats on the other side? Some of those bridges I've tried to cross before But the storms turn me back Walking through those storms Is the only way To get to the other side Or o...

soberdrunk · soberdrunk

Just wanted to drop in and send out a big HELLO! Met up with my sponsor Wednesday and went over my 8th step. He wants me to do some stuff with it, like breaking it up into columns like I did my 4th, with different headings. Okay! This whole making amends deal is kind of frightening! This is definitely on...

CAM · CAM

I see at the top of this page that there's supposed to be a meeting tonight online. It seems everytime I try it, the room is empty. Will there be one tonight? Christine

Quetzal · Quetzal

Acceptance When we have given our lives back to our Higher Power, we gradually learn to accept what happens to us as part of God's plan. Most of us made a mess of trying to run our own lives. We are amazed at how much better things go when we acknowledge that the Power greater than ourselves is i...

kittn38 · kittn38

hello all: there was alot of talk at the first meeting that i went to about the higher power. i was chatting with someone tonight. he told me online that he could never touch a drink. his higher power won't let him. i asked him to explain this. but, he was having a bad ni...

cindy · cindy

hi guys, sorry i havent been in touch, had some computer trouble and took a long time to get up and running again. really missed all of you, i love you guys!

LisaF · LisaF

I've been soooo overwhelmed lately... at first it was overwhelmed with tons of bad memories, things I'm trying to deal with now... it was a bad kind of being overwhelmed... and I just couldn't back off from it either, I couldn't just take a break... I was just diving in with my workbook I'm using and goin...

kittn38 · kittn38

hello all: going to my second meeting tonight. probably a different group of people. i hate going alone. my bro in law is not coming tonight. he is busy. i allways been that way though. anything is better when u have someone to do it with or go with.&n...

Phil · Phil

Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change The Courage to change the things I cannot accept And the Wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill today because they peeved me off And also help me to be careful of the toes I step on As they may be connected to the butt That...

Phil · Phil

You mean theres two of us?? Well..Don't that beat all...eh... Im South of Owen Sound in Durham....Where you at?? If youre around Orillia..theres a one day Roundup there...on November 18th... Im thinkin of goig up... You in AA... Area 86? -------------- I just realized that youre a new...

CAM · CAM

I'm doing better. Went to a meeting yesterday & then saw a friend perform. It was at a bar but I didn't drink. I had non-alcoholic beer. I know some people of different views on this but it's what I did & I'm sooooo glad I did. Cheered me up to see some of the drunks...

Quetzal · Quetzal

A new guy in town walks into a bar and reads a sign that hangs over the bar... FREE BEER! FREE BEER FOR THE PERSON WHO CAN PASS THE TEST! So the guy asks the bartender what the test is. Bartender replies "Well, first you have to drink that whole gallon of pepper tequila, the WHOLE thing at once and you can...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Do we manage ourselves to the best of our ability? Some of us are in the program because the drinkers in our lives are out of control and we feel crazy. Others of us come to the program certain that we are managing our lives very well but hoping to learn how to better manage someone else. For some of us, t...

Robert · Robert

I have noticed that when I am not entirly focussed on me, and focussed on helping others in either face to face 12 step or generally helping others less fortunate than me, I get a real sense of escape that I sought after all those years at the bottom of a bottle or a cardboard wine box in my case.

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Anonymity Broken (Preview) "Anonymity is the Spiritual Foundation of All our Principles, ever reminding us to place principles above personalities." I am really upset, something I shared in an AA meeting was mentioned to my sister, twice by two different AA members, one sober for 4 or 5 years and the other celebrat...	beachbaby	8	427	Oct 5, 2006 by soberdrunk
	Daily Reflections Oct 4 (Preview) A NECESSARY PRUNING . . . . we know that the pains of drinking had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 94 I love spending time in my garden feeding and pruning my beautiful flowers. One day, as I was busily snipping away, a neighbor stop...	Doll	2	344	Oct 4, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Common Misconceptions?????????? (Preview) Hi all, I have a question for ya. As many of you know I am an alanon. -----------------Sooner or later I will stop announcing that, like a disclaimer lol I am currently taking a class called Chemical Dependency 101 and I have a term paper to write up. And I have been bouncing back and forth b...	Dolphin123	6	1303	Oct 4, 2006 by Phil
	checking in (Preview) checking in, met up with my sponcer, realised how much my partner is wearing me out, seems like a conditional relationship of what we can get rather than give, its all fear related. I do love her, dont get me wrong, but I believe that things cant make you happy, happiness is a choice and if one chooses to...	Robert	4	357	Oct 4, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Just needed a place to vent (Preview) Just needed a place to vent and all advice is welcome. The last few months have been extremely intense. First I had a miscarriage after trying for a year, I was devastated. Then a few weeks later I took my sister in because her husband is an a$$ and kicked her out. But that's another issue that I wont get int...	jessiesgirl	8	361	Oct 4, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Vocational Rehabilitation... (Preview) Anyone here done vocational rehabilitation? Apparently that's something I'll be doing soon... So I'm trying to figure out school, and how to get those grants for the disabled... couldn't find anything online. Finally called the university here and asked financial aid about it, they sent me o...	LisaF	3	350	Oct 4, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Meeting in town (Preview) I went to the local meeting here in my town. I like this one better but it's only twice a week so I go the other one in between that has two everyday. I found the earlier in the day, the better day I have. I still haven't shared. I can't the word "alcoholic" passed my lips. I stammer &...	CAM	2	327	Oct 3, 2006 by Quetzal
	Having Enough (Preview) It seems that everybody has a plan, a goal to which they give their heart and soul; they plot a course, do everything they can... and suddenly the keyword is control. I see how everybody hits a wall, from time to time it’s just what comes to be; no matter how they do it, they seem to fall... despite their p...	Phil	1	347	Oct 3, 2006 by CAM
	SKOOL DAYZ (Preview) "School Days, School Days Dear old Golden Rule days Reading and writing and 'Rythmetic Talk to the tune of the Hickory Stick She was my Queen in calico, I was her bashful barefoot Beau And she wrote on my slate, "I love you Joe" When we were a couple of kids..." My grammy used to si...	jonibaloni	2	362	Oct 3, 2006 by Quetzal
	Owning our Tendencies~OM (Preview) Owning Your Tendencies Understanding All Sides Whenever we examine our lives, we examine them from a particular side or angle. Most of us tend to favor one side over the others. For example, we may tend to look at things from an emotional perspective rather than a financial perspective, or we may pref...	Wren	0	292	Oct 3, 2006 by Wren
	FALL (Preview) ' HAPPY FALL TO YOU' From one pumpkin to another!!!!!!! A woman was asked by a coworker, "What is it like to be a Christian?" The coworker replied, "It is like being a pumpkin." God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. Then He cuts off the top a...	jeannie	1	409	Oct 3, 2006 by Phil
	The universe is full of magical things ... (Preview) The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -- Eden Phillpotts We hear others talk about how they got out of debt. We see people who have peace and serenity in their lives, who have healthy relationships and dream jobs. We realize that being debt-free me...	Quetzal	1	362	Oct 3, 2006 by jonibaloni
	First step (Preview) I made if off the couch...........2nd step, I made it into work, I'm not happy about it, but I'm here........ya'll pray my "punishment will fit the crime" and they won't want to give me the death penalty. My boss will be here in a hour. I'm soooooo nervous.........thanks for all the love and support......	Doll	7	380	Oct 3, 2006 by Doll
	Daily Reflections Oct 3 (Preview) SERENITY AFTER THE STORM Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.'s can agree with him. . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p p. 93-94 When on the roller coaster of emotional turmoil, I remember that grow...	Doll	4	347	Oct 4, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Hey all! (Preview) I just wanted to say that I'm still around and still sober, thanks to God and a great support system, including this board! I read, but don't have a lot of time, as I'm in therapy for an eating disorder right now. Take care and remember, if you don't take the first drink, you can't take the 2nd...	SheIsSober	4	332	Oct 3, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Music for the soul (Preview) Hi everyone, Sorry I haven't been seen around here much lately. I'm gonna try to step back a little from the break-neck pace I've had at work for the past 6 weeks. I've also been wrestling a little with that dark demon called depression during that same time. I came across a little fi...	Sick of being sick	6	1106	Sep 24, 2024 by peterjohnson
	Life (Preview) You know, you guys, life is one -helluva- lesson in life, aint it?	RyanS	14	386	Oct 3, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Time to just step back for a minute... (Preview) You know, I love how you can find AA online, I love this message board so much, and I have a couple of others with chat that I go to... one of them has been nothing but problems... I stay there because I tell myself those are just sick people... and because there are people there I love. But when I relapsed, th...	LisaF	4	372	Oct 2, 2006 by RyanS
	A Human's Best Friend (Preview) The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. -Anonymous Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. -Ann Landers If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers There is no psychiat rist...	Wren	9	483	Oct 3, 2006 by Phil
	Step One...... (Preview) Step One "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable." Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we hav...	Toni Baloney	2	410	Oct 2, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Life is kicking my butt (Preview) I called into work (again) today. I didn't go to work Friday, either. I have no sick days left, they were all used up when I had surgery over the summer, so I'll be written up. I called in BEFORE my boss gets in so I could just leave him a voice mail and not have to talk to him...This is the first day I've g...	Doll	8	423	Oct 2, 2006 by Phil
	Emotional Time and Mental Time (Preview) Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. -- Henry David Thoreau What comes to mind when you think about time? Is it a quantity that you measure? Time is certainly how we measure our lives in hours, years, or decades. We kill it, we waste it, we pass it, and we sometimes savor it...	Quetzal	4	367	Oct 2, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Daily Reflections Oct 2 (Preview) THE ACID TEST As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure of a new life. But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way of living to practical use, day by day, in fair weather or foul. Then comes the acid test: can we stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and live to...	Doll	0	310	Oct 2, 2006 by Doll
	Thought For The Night (Preview) If you want to follow your dream? Go for it. But first? You hafta wake up.	Phil	4	373	Oct 2, 2006 by RyanS
	Update.... (Preview) Prayer works. When all else has failed in my marital woes, I stop trying to control manipulate and change, and I start praying. I pray for God to heal the relationship, instead of "Make my husband do such and such". And the results are good, for today. Praying changes me. It keeps me centered on what is...	jonibaloni	3	360	Oct 2, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Time... (Preview) hello all: i don't want to get into much. but, i have alot on my plate. have for yrs. poor mom just had another seizure last night. along with congestive heart failure. im going to need time. u probably won't see me in here for awhile. i will keep u posted...	kittn38	6	374	Oct 2, 2006 by freeatlast44
	wanting to go to meetings (Preview) I'm actually really wanting to go to meetings now, and get together with my sponsor to do stepwork and all that... I was supposed to meet with my sponsor yesterday, and also supposed to go to my mom's, I was actually considering meeting with my sponsor over going to my mom's, but then my sponsor wound up w...	LisaF	4	336	Oct 2, 2006 by LisaF
	Too much program????? (Preview) (((Hi all))), Can an alanon have too much program? Ok this was weird and funny so I wanted to share it. And yes I know I am bonkers, lol just more proof of it. Last night I was dreaming. I was trying to find an oyster burried in a shrimp. (yes strange, but hey it's me). While I was hunting fo...	Dolphin123	13	532	Oct 1, 2006 by Dolphin123
	Sobrenity Ranch (Preview) Hello, Has anyone heard of Sobrenity Ranch? Does anyone know anything about it? www.sobrenityranch.com	Elizabeth	1	548	Oct 1, 2006 by Phil
	The Power Of The Serenity Prayer (Preview) - By Dr. Al Infande Have you ever tried to control things in your life that you cannot control? The Serenity Prayer is a gift from God that teaches us how to separate those things in life that we can change, from those things that we cannot change. The Serenity Prayer goes like...	Phil	4	422	Oct 1, 2006 by Wren
	antidepressants (Preview) I have reduced the dose yesterday from top whack to half dose, things are good but i just dont feel good, I cant get happy anymore, i feel like a living dead, when I was drinking I may as well been dead, I want to enjoy being sober, I am going to see the dr and see a way to come off altogether, he said to drop the do...	Robert	2	469	Oct 1, 2006 by cindy
	Letting Go (Preview) All human beings hold to the tools of their own destruction. -- Barbara Gordon, author of "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can" [1979] People who live in the forests and mountains of India have an age-old method of catching monkeys. They do not run after the monkeys, and they do not use ropes. Rather they re...	Quetzal	2	350	Oct 1, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Off Topic... Guess what?! (Preview) I decided I'm going back to school!!! I only went for less than a year, the year after I graduated high school, flunked out both semesters because my anxiety was so bad I'd hardly ever go to class. Well I think I'm ready for it now, my anxiety's getting a lot better, and they have so many classes online now t...	LisaF	3	362	Oct 2, 2006 by freeatlast44
	Last Longer Next Go... (Preview) hi friends: well hope u are my friends after i tell u this. im so bad. im so ashamed. i been feeling so down and sick and weird these last few days. feel better now. except only if for one thing. (please don't kill me.) i had one. just one rum. i know.....	kittn38	10	402	Oct 1, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	~~WHAM!!!!~~ (Preview) Welp, it is in the 40's here now in Northeastern Ohio, rainy and dark as night all day long... and I have today come down with a sinus infection!! So glad it waited until my trip was over... school is next week!! UGH... I was just thinking of what a blessing sobriety is.. that when I am sick I can justify go...	jonibaloni	15	410	Oct 1, 2006 by HDoggie
	maybe things are starting to fall into place... (Preview) I don't feel quite so overwhelmed today... actually I pretty much feel at peace today. Maybe everything's starting to fall into place and sort itself out. I know once I start back on my workbook for counseling I'll get overwhelmed again, I always do... but for now I feel really good. I'm enjoying this p...	LisaF	2	386	Sep 30, 2006 by kittn38
	What Is Real (Preview) My head says one thing My emotions says another I hide behind walls of denial Fear, doubt, what ifs Scared to cross bridges Whats on the other side? Some of those bridges I've tried to cross before But the storms turn me back Walking through those storms Is the only way To get to the other side Or o...	Phil	6	356	Sep 30, 2006 by Phil
	Mornin' Family (Preview) Just wanted to drop in and send out a big HELLO! Met up with my sponsor Wednesday and went over my 8th step. He wants me to do some stuff with it, like breaking it up into columns like I did my 4th, with different headings. Okay! This whole making amends deal is kind of frightening! This is definitely on...	soberdrunk	5	451	Oct 1, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Online Meetings? (Preview) I see at the top of this page that there's supposed to be a meeting tonight online. It seems everytime I try it, the room is empty. Will there be one tonight? Christine	CAM	2	412	Sep 30, 2006 by CAM
	Acceptance (Preview) Acceptance When we have given our lives back to our Higher Power, we gradually learn to accept what happens to us as part of God's plan. Most of us made a mess of trying to run our own lives. We are amazed at how much better things go when we acknowledge that the Power greater than ourselves is i...	Quetzal	2	421	Sep 30, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Higher Power.. (Preview) hello all: there was alot of talk at the first meeting that i went to about the higher power. i was chatting with someone tonight. he told me online that he could never touch a drink. his higher power won't let him. i asked him to explain this. but, he was having a bad ni...	kittn38	6	385	Sep 30, 2006 by jonibaloni
	apology (Preview) hi guys, sorry i havent been in touch, had some computer trouble and took a long time to get up and running again. really missed all of you, i love you guys!	cindy	3	649	Sep 30, 2006 by jonibaloni
	overwhelmed (Preview) I've been soooo overwhelmed lately... at first it was overwhelmed with tons of bad memories, things I'm trying to deal with now... it was a bad kind of being overwhelmed... and I just couldn't back off from it either, I couldn't just take a break... I was just diving in with my workbook I'm using and goin...	LisaF	7	918	Sep 30, 2006 by LisaF
	Second Meeting... (Preview) hello all: going to my second meeting tonight. probably a different group of people. i hate going alone. my bro in law is not coming tonight. he is busy. i allways been that way though. anything is better when u have someone to do it with or go with.&n...	kittn38	7	359	Sep 30, 2006 by kittn38
	The "Other" Serenity Prayer (Preview) Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change The Courage to change the things I cannot accept And the Wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill today because they peeved me off And also help me to be careful of the toes I step on As they may be connected to the butt That...	Phil	8	670	Sep 30, 2006 by Quetzal
	Yo..Pytbull (Preview) You mean theres two of us?? Well..Don't that beat all...eh... Im South of Owen Sound in Durham....Where you at?? If youre around Orillia..theres a one day Roundup there...on November 18th... Im thinkin of goig up... You in AA... Area 86? -------------- I just realized that youre a new...	Phil	4	365	Sep 30, 2006 by Phil
	thank you all - update (Preview) I'm doing better. Went to a meeting yesterday & then saw a friend perform. It was at a bar but I didn't drink. I had non-alcoholic beer. I know some people of different views on this but it's what I did & I'm sooooo glad I did. Cheered me up to see some of the drunks...	CAM	7	366	Sep 29, 2006 by CAM
	The Dangers Of Alcohol (Humour) (Preview) A new guy in town walks into a bar and reads a sign that hangs over the bar... FREE BEER! FREE BEER FOR THE PERSON WHO CAN PASS THE TEST! So the guy asks the bartender what the test is. Bartender replies "Well, first you have to drink that whole gallon of pepper tequila, the WHOLE thing at once and you can...	Quetzal	7	774	Sep 29, 2006 by Quetzal
	Do we manage ourselves to the best of our ability? (Preview) Do we manage ourselves to the best of our ability? Some of us are in the program because the drinkers in our lives are out of control and we feel crazy. Others of us come to the program certain that we are managing our lives very well but hoping to learn how to better manage someone else. For some of us, t...	Quetzal	1	401	Sep 29, 2006 by Phil
	noticing (Preview) I have noticed that when I am not entirly focussed on me, and focussed on helping others in either face to face 12 step or generally helping others less fortunate than me, I get a real sense of escape that I sought after all those years at the bottom of a bottle or a cardboard wine box in my case.	Robert	9	460	Sep 29, 2006 by RyanS
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