Alcoholics Anonymous

Phil · Phil

A.A. Thought for the Day Sometimes we try too hard to get this pro gram. It is better to relax and accept it. It will be given to us, with no effort on our part, if we stop trying too hard to get it. Sobriety can be a free gift of God, which he gives us by His grace when He knows we are ready for it. But we have to...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

okay... I think it is group conscience time. This is getting out of hand. amanda

Phil · Phil

Recovery is a learning process Recovery is about learning to love and valve yourself enough to stop destroying yourself. It's about learning to change your mind and your heart. It's about forgiving yourself and others. It's about letting go of shame and learning to accept your true self. Recov...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

"When we were taking drugs we were looking for fulfillment and happiness. We couldn't face the reality of life, so we tried to create a world that we could feel comfortable in. We searched for our pleasures in sources outside ourselves - in people, places and things. "In working our spiritual progr...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

I just want to say hi. I hope everything is going alright for ya. love in recovery, amanda

Rob · Rob

I think this is gona get confusing.. Im Robert too.but hav registered as Rob... lol.. Hey Robert.. .. ok so EVERYONE will have to make a point of saying ROB or ROBERT.. lol.../ Where you from Robert btw??

Rob · Rob

Oh ffs.. why do i drink.. ffs.. its stupid.. .. i know what it does to me.. i know that if I keep on doing it, it will ruin me or kill me.. yet i do it none the less. Thing is.. i love being drunk.. .. I love drinking.. I love to put on a film or ps2 game and drink.. makes me part of that world...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Hello I thought I was going to be getting off PC for today, but oh well. Had some thoughts about the word Trust, more than a word, it is what can keep something between two people alive, and without the Trust, you will have NOTHING left to keep it in tact, kind of like the glue holdi...

Phil · Phil

Welcome to the the board eh? Im from Canada..and up here..we speak funny...so Ile print slow..so you can read this ok.:) Hows it goin?

Phil · Phil

God!! I wish youde change your last name... Ive gained 10 lbs..since Ive known yu...hahaha And "Still Breathin..This too shall pass?" Yup..Life is short....When I stop breathin...theres going to be some anxiety set in...in one hell of a hurry...lol Keep Smilin!! Everyone here have a g...

John · John

Hello Miracle In Progress Family Please keep sending in those recipies for the Miracles In Progress cook book. I am planning this book to be very big and filled with recipies from all over the world. I have several already but if you have not sent your in.. please do so. Empty thos...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Hi Everyone, We have new person on the Board that is on Page two. His Post of his story is a good one and hope you will take the time. He is having trouble getting around on this Board at the moment. Thanks, Toni -- Edited by Toni Baloney at 11:17, 2006-03-04

Phil · Phil

by Robert Burney One of the hardest things for any of us to do is to learn to have compassion for our self. In childhood we felt like it was our fault that our wounded parents treated us in the way they did. We felt that any abuse, deprivation, neglect, and/or abandonment (actual or emot...

Rick · Rick

celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume, you shall assume. --Walt Whitman Some of us may think Walt Whitman must have been terribly conceited to have written words like that. But he wasn't. He knew himself well, and accepted himself, even his darker side. He could laugh at himse...

Rick · Rick

Make yourself at home. It was night, only a few months after I'd begun my skydiving adventure.One of the other skydivers was sitting in a lawn chair. The evening lights had been turned on and he was wrapped up in a sleeping bag, reading a book under the hazy glow. He was one of the full-time sky...

nmike · nmike

I am jumping over from the Alanon board to gain some insight. I have to ask why did my A quit having sex with me? He moved out in June. Said he didn't love me, never did. Life's too short. I am not happy in this relationship. He hasn't drank in over 20 years. He has other addictions and fixations. He wor...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

hi there, Have been doing some thinking about all the chatter on this Board about newbies, and Oldtimers. Cannot RELATE to any of it. I have today, Period. So an accumulation of 24 hours is just that, an accumulations of 24 hours. I did love my 1st Birthday, ONLY because it gave me so...

paul · paul

These last two days I have been discovering and rediscovering prayers I just rediscovered this one: -paul Teach me, Father, to be kind and gentle in all the events of life, in disappointments, in the thoughtlessness of others, in the insincerity of those I trusted, in the unfaithfulne...

wagon · wagon

hi everyone, been having this stupid voice in my head talking about drinking well, off to another meeting take care wagon

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

hey, rosie, precious,, I'm glad you had confidence that I am including you, too. If there is anyone else whose name I didn't mention and who needs recognition and affirmation,,, please let me know. This is a total 'we' program, without exception. love to all in recovery, amanda

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

I just want to let you all know that I am praying for you all,,, Phil, Toni, Rick, benny, chris, chrisb, gammyrose, helen, doll, Rob, jb, mike from boston, dan, jersey, and all the 'guests'. This is a 'we' program. Sometimes we can do more in the way of support, and sometimes less,,, ...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Hi my friend, I was just thinking about you and all your troubles today. I know this treatment can make you feel like, well you know what, and just want you to know that you have been on my mind, and in my Prayers for a speedy recovery, I know you said there is no speedy recovery to this. Hope all the peo...

Rick · Rick

Is this all u do ???????????? kidding I see u again. Outta here !

paul · paul

You all have been a Life-line to me through these last two mornings. I am so grateful for your words of love, and hope, and peace. Thank You all! -paul

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

I am reminded this morning, with all that I have read, (the whole page) that this is a Spiritual Program, nothing less, even when it appears to be something else, that is only an illusion. Reminding myself not to be deceived by outward appearances. Recovery in this Program &nbs...

Rick · Rick

" The storm has passed. I've learned a little more about peace. It was inside all the time."

Rick · Rick

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. --Thomas Jefferson Some of the necessary things we do are tiring and annoying. Many of these things we must do regardless of how we feel about them. Doing dishes day after day can be a tiresome job, but no matter how much we hate it, it must be done soone...

Rick · Rick

Being alone and feeling vulnerable. Like two separate themes, these two parts of myself unite in my being and sow the seeds of my longing for unconditional love. --Mary Casey How easily we slip into self-doubt, fearing we're incapable or unlovable, perhaps both. How common for us to lo...

Phil · Phil

Being patient or tolerant is a practice. Daily we have the opportunity to practice either or both of these qualities. Some days we are better at it than others depending on what else is happening in our personal reality. Perhaps having compassion and empathy for what might be going on in an individu...

Phil · Phil

A.A. Thought for the Day After we've made a surrender, the drink problem is out of our hands and in the hands of God. The thing we have to do is to be sure that we never reach out and take the problem back into our own hands. Leave it in God's hands. Whenever I'm tempted to take a drink, I must say to my self:...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

I remember very well my first months in recovery. I went to my first meeting with a determination to do what I had to do so that by the end of a year I would be fine and 'graduate'. I looked and listened to everyone who was sharing, and I looked at the people who had obviously been in the program for a lon...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

I'm cleaning out and sorting through my stuff, and found a few NA pamphlets. I think Rosie is doing a good thing by putting some of their stuff. It is as good as the other sources we're using. I found a pamphlet that is about doing the 10th Step.. our daily inventory, and it ha...

Doll · Doll

Post the Daily Reflections, that is if you all still want them posted, someone else will have to take over. I think I'm finished with this forum. My time here has been great for the most part but it's time to move on. Seems as if there's a downward pattern here and I need something more.....

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

  &nbs...

Doll · d

thank you so much for your support last nite (god seems like forever ago) it really helped me when i really needed it, today has been really hard but i have been able to be there for my friend today with a clear mind i feel i have been able to give her so much more than iwould have been able to give her a week ago s...

Pauly · Pauly

I keep checking in here on a regular basis to receive: advice, wisdom, life experiences..it is helping in so many ways. Regarding my punch drunk feelings, I wonder if endorphins help? After a run I do feel better, still got the headaches, am going to take all your advice and re-assess thi...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Hi Everyone, Will anyone having Problems with navigating around the Board let me know, so I just just stop trying for a while. it could be my PC, but if you are having similar problems, or not having any problems getting around, will you let know, Please. Thank you in Advance, Toni

Rick · Rick

"Yes, there is a long period of reconstruction ahead. We must take the lead. A remorseful mumbling that we are sorry won't fill the bill at all. We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we now see it, being very careful not to criticize them. Their defects may be gl...

Phil · Phil

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 have warped our mi...

Rob · Rob

I feel like such a fraud.. I am reading on here bout some peoples stuff.. about losing their babies etc.. Soo horrible.. I am on here.. cos i need to stop drinking.. I stoped last week for 7 nights!!.. but since sunday i have been drinking agian..inc tonight.. ffs I have phoned AA this week and...

paul · paul

It is hard for me to accept that I have been sober for 8 yrs, and am having to just keep reading page 449 in the big book. My van is in the shop and seems to be taking forever. I will have to continue to wait. Financial pressure has my head working overtime. I believe I need to just get my van and get to my next jo...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

hey,, I found these two links, which I added to my favorites. They are research and resource lists. One has a concordance to the Big Book: http://open-mind.org/Alcohol.htm http://open-mind.org/Directory/index.php?ax=list&cat_id=1 love in recovery, amanda

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Success "Any form of success was frightening and unfamiliar." Basic Text, p. 14 Before coming to NA, few of us had much experience with success. Every attempt to stop using on our own had ended in failure. We had begun to give up hope of finding any relief from active addiction. We had grown acc...

Rick · Rick

Easy Does It” “Easy Does It” One of A.A.’s Most Workable and Useful Sayings A.A. Grapevine, July, 1948 One of the most useful of the sayings that have been adopted in A.A. is that which advises, “Easy Does It.” So universally workable is this good advice that it qualifies as the expression of o...

Phil · Phil

Im not an alcoholic...Im a drunk..Alcoholics go to meetings Drugs lead to nowwhere...but it is a scenic route. Ive got a photographic memory..I just dont have any film. Wanted: Meaningful overnight relationship. Some people are only alive...because its illegal to shoot them. I try no...

Rick · Rick

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. --Albert Einstein Anger can be a healthy emotion, provided we don't wallow in it or attack other people. When we express anger honestly and without reservation, we can prevent walls of resentment from building up and blocking us off from the inti...

Phil · Phil

Defenses Following is a list of defenses and some information about them. The list is not exhaustive, but covers the big ones. Displacement -- One way to avoid the risk associated with feeling unpleasant emotions is to displace them, or put them somewhere other than where they bel...

trudi · trudi

Just to say thanks to everyone on this site as it has helped me no end when I am at a loss as to what to do and feel like a drink I just log in and read all the posts. Thanks again.

Cabbageheadchris · Cabbageheadchris

Hi all, I'm fully aware that this post is totally irrelevent, I may not even post it. Just venting. I got called out to collect a deceased at 01:06 this morning. No problem, easy job, small person, no stairs. Driving through a rural village a badger ran out in front of my ambulance. Swerved to avoid it,...

Doll · Doll

HOPE Do not be discouraged. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 Few experiences are of less value to me than fast sobriety. Too many times discouragement has been the bonus for unrealistic expectations, not to mention self-pity or fatigue from my wanting to change the world by the weekend. Discouragement...

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	Hazelden Thoughts For Sunday (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day Sometimes we try too hard to get this pro gram. It is better to relax and accept it. It will be given to us, with no effort on our part, if we stop trying too hard to get it. Sobriety can be a free gift of God, which he gives us by His grace when He knows we are ready for it. But we have to...	Phil	0	338	Mar 5, 2006 by Phil
	group conscience time - John? (Preview) *okay... I think it is group conscience time. This is getting out of hand.* *amanda*	amanda2u2	12	400	Mar 6, 2006 by Hanuman
	Recovery And Acceptance (Preview) Recovery is a learning process Recovery is about learning to love and valve yourself enough to stop destroying yourself. It's about learning to change your mind and your heart. It's about forgiving yourself and others. It's about letting go of shame and learning to accept your true self. Recov...	Phil	1	264	Mar 5, 2006 by wandajf
	24 hrs a day - mar. 5 (Preview) "When we were taking drugs we were looking for fulfillment and happiness. We couldn't face the reality of life, so we tried to create a world that we could feel comfortable in. We searched for our pleasures in sources outside ourselves - in people, places and things. *"In working our spiritual progr...*	amanda2u2	6	980	Mar 5, 2006 by Doll
	hi, hanuman (Preview) *I just want to say hi. I hope everything is going alright for ya.* *love in recovery,* *amanda*	amanda2u2	0	215	Mar 4, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Rob and Robert.... (Preview) I think this is gona get confusing.. Im Robert too.but hav registered as Rob... lol.. Hey Robert.. .. ok so EVERYONE will have to make a point of saying ROB or ROBERT.. lol.../ Where you from Robert btw??	Rob	6	357	Mar 6, 2006 by Robert
	Drinking is so stupid.. (Preview) Oh ffs.. why do i drink.. ffs.. its stupid.. .. i know what it does to me.. i know that if I keep on doing it, it will ruin me or kill me.. yet i do it none the less. Thing is.. i love being drunk.. .. I love drinking.. I love to put on a film or ps2 game and drink.. makes me part of that world...	Rob	2	975	Mar 4, 2006 by Phil
	TRUST (Preview) Hello I thought I was going to be getting off PC for today, but oh well. Had some thoughts about the word Trust, more than a word, it is what can keep something between two people alive, and without the Trust, you will have NOTHING left to keep it in tact, kind of like the glue holdi...	Toni Baloney	4	263	Mar 4, 2006 by Phil
	Howdy Robert (Preview) Welcome to the the board eh? Im from Canada..and up here..we speak funny...so Ile print slow..so you can read this ok.:) Hows it goin?	Phil	1	227	Mar 4, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Hey Baloney??? (Preview) God!! I wish youde change your last name... Ive gained 10 lbs..since Ive known yu...hahaha And "Still Breathin..This too shall pass?" Yup..Life is short....When I stop breathin...theres going to be some anxiety set in...in one hell of a hurry...lol Keep Smilin!! Everyone here have a g...	Phil	3	250	Mar 4, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	more recipies needed (Preview) Hello Miracle In Progress Family Please keep sending in those recipies for the Miracles In Progress cook book. I am planning this book to be very big and filled with recipies from all over the world. I have several already but if you have not sent your in.. please do so. Empty thos...	John	3	437	Mar 5, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Robert is NEW Here, on 2nd Page (Preview) Hi Everyone, We have new person on the Board that is on Page two. His Post of his story is a good one and hope you will take the time. He is having trouble getting around on this Board at the moment. Thanks, Toni -- Edited by Toni Baloney at 11:17, 2006-03-04	Toni Baloney	5	452	Mar 5, 2006 by Robert
	Emotional Intimacy (Preview) by Robert Burney One of the hardest things for any of us to do is to learn to have compassion for our self. In childhood we felt like it was our fault that our wounded parents treated us in the way they did. We felt that any abuse, deprivation, neglect, and/or abandonment (actual or emot...	Phil	1	309	Mar 4, 2006 by amanda2u2
	today's thought (Preview) *celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume, you shall assume. --Walt Whitman* Some of us may think Walt Whitman must have been terribly conceited to have written words like that. But he wasn't. He knew himself well, and accepted himself, even his darker side. He could laugh at himse...	Rick	0	359	Mar 4, 2006 by Rick
	today's gift (Preview) Make yourself at home. It was night, only a few months after I'd begun my skydiving adventure.One of the other skydivers was sitting in a lawn chair. The evening lights had been turned on and he was wrapped up in a sleeping bag, reading a book under the hazy glow. He was one of the full-time sky...	Rick	0	216	Mar 4, 2006 by Rick
	I have to ask.... (Preview) I am jumping over from the Alanon board to gain some insight. I have to ask why did my A quit having sex with me? He moved out in June. Said he didn't love me, never did. Life's too short. I am not happy in this relationship. He hasn't drank in over 20 years. He has other addictions and fixations. He wor...	nmike	5	313	Mar 4, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	24 Hours is the Recond in this Program (Preview) hi there, Have been doing some thinking about all the chatter on this Board about newbies, and Oldtimers. Cannot RELATE to any of it. I have today, Period. So an accumulation of 24 hours is just that, an accumulations of 24 hours. I did love my 1st Birthday, ONLY because it gave me so...	Toni Baloney	7	357	Mar 5, 2006 by Doll
	A Prayer... (Preview) These last two days I have been discovering and rediscovering prayers I just rediscovered this one: -paul Teach me, Father, to be kind and gentle in all the events of life, in disappointments, in the thoughtlessness of others, in the insincerity of those I trusted, in the unfaithfulne...	paul	3	296	Mar 4, 2006 by Rick
	hey (Preview) hi everyone, been having this stupid voice in my head talking about drinking well, off to another meeting take care wagon	wagon	3	243	Mar 3, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	hi, rosie light shines (Preview) hey, rosie, precious,, I'm glad you had confidence that I am including you, too. If there is anyone else whose name I didn't mention and who needs recognition and affirmation,,, please let me know. This is a total 'we' program, without exception. *love to all* *in recovery,* *amanda*	amanda2u2	1	381	Mar 3, 2006 by rosie light shines
	hi, there, everybody! (Preview) I just want to let you all know that I am praying for you all,,, Phil, Toni, Rick, benny, chris, chrisb, gammyrose, helen, doll, Rob, jb, mike from boston, dan, jersey, and all the 'guests'. This is a 'we' program. Sometimes we can do more in the way of support, and sometimes less,,, ...	amanda2u2	4	248	Mar 3, 2006 by sheilasdad
	Hi There Phil! (Preview) Hi my friend, I was just thinking about you and all your troubles today. I know this treatment can make you feel like, well you know what, and just want you to know that you have been on my mind, and in my Prayers for a speedy recovery, I know you said there is no speedy recovery to this. Hope all the peo...	Toni Baloney	3	282	Mar 3, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Toni (Preview) Is this all u do ???????????? kidding I see u again. Outta here !	Rick	2	268	Mar 3, 2006 by paul
	Thank You, Posters (Preview) You all have been a Life-line to me through these last two mornings. I am so grateful for your words of love, and hope, and peace. Thank You all! -paul	paul	3	260	Mar 3, 2006 by wandajf
	A Spiritual Program (Preview) I am reminded this morning, with all that I have read, (the whole page) that this is a Spiritual Program, nothing less, even when it appears to be something else, that is only an illusion. Reminding myself not to be deceived by outward appearances. Recovery in this Program &nbs...	Toni Baloney	3	290	Mar 3, 2006 by Rick
	Quote of the month Jan 1980 grapevine (Preview) " *The storm has passed. I've learned a little more about peace. It was inside all the time."*	Rick	2	274	Mar 3, 2006 by helen
	today's thought (Preview) *Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. --Thomas Jefferson* Some of the necessary things we do are tiring and annoying. Many of these things we must do regardless of how we feel about them. Doing dishes day after day can be a tiresome job, but no matter how much we hate it, it must be done soone...	Rick	3	280	Mar 3, 2006 by wandajf
	today's gift (Preview) *Being alone and feeling vulnerable. Like two separate themes, these two parts of myself unite in my being and sow the seeds of my longing for unconditional love. --Mary Casey* How easily we slip into self-doubt, fearing we're incapable or unlovable, perhaps both. How common for us to lo...	Rick	3	271	Mar 3, 2006 by paul
	Out of the cardboard box.. (Preview) Being patient or tolerant is a practice. Daily we have the opportunity to practice either or both of these qualities. Some days we are better at it than others depending on what else is happening in our personal reality. Perhaps having compassion and empathy for what might be going on in an individu...	Phil	0	273	Mar 3, 2006 by Phil
	Friday (Preview) A.A. Thought for the Day After we've made a surrender, the drink problem is out of our hands and in the hands of God. The thing we have to do is to be sure that we never reach out and take the problem back into our own hands. Leave it in God's hands. Whenever I'm tempted to take a drink, I must say to my self:...	Phil	3	267	Mar 3, 2006 by Rick
	newbies and old-timers (Preview) I remember very well my first months in recovery. I went to my first meeting with a determination to do what I had to do so that by the end of a year I would be fine and 'graduate'. I looked and listened to everyone who was sharing, and I looked at the people who had obviously been in the program for a lon...	amanda2u2	3	318	Mar 3, 2006 by paul
	10th Step (Preview) *I'm cleaning out and sorting through my stuff, and found a few NA pamphlets. I think Rosie is doing a good thing by putting some of their stuff. It is as good as the other sources we're using.* *I found a pamphlet that is about doing the 10th Step.. our daily inventory, and it ha...*	amanda2u2	0	205	Mar 2, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Can someone Else please (Preview) Post the Daily Reflections, that is if you all still want them posted, someone else will have to take over. I think I'm finished with this forum. My time here has been great for the most part but it's time to move on. Seems as if there's a downward pattern here and I need something more.....	Doll	8	380	Mar 5, 2006 by Rob
	Step Eleven & Step Twelve (Preview)   &nbs...	Toni Baloney	0	228	Mar 2, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Thankyou xxx (Preview) thank you so much for your support last nite (god seems like forever ago) it really helped me when i really needed it, today has been really hard but i have been able to be there for my friend today with a clear mind i feel i have been able to give her so much more than iwould have been able to give her a week ago s...	d	2	270	Mar 2, 2006 by Doll
	Hi Folks, nothing much to say (Preview) I keep checking in here on a regular basis to receive: advice, wisdom, life experiences..it is helping in so many ways. Regarding my punch drunk feelings, I wonder if endorphins help? After a run I do feel better, still got the headaches, am going to take all your advice and re-assess thi...	Pauly	5	445	Mar 3, 2006 by Hanuman
	I am having Problems Sending messages (Preview) Hi Everyone, Will anyone having Problems with navigating around the Board let me know, so I just just stop trying for a while. it could be my PC, but if you are having similar problems, or not having any problems getting around, will you let know, Please. Thank you in Advance, Toni	Toni Baloney	3	391	Mar 2, 2006 by Phil
	BB Quote (Preview) "Yes, there is a long period of reconstruction ahead. We must take the lead. A remorseful mumbling that we are sorry won't fill the bill at all. We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we now see it, being very careful not to criticize them. Their defects may be gl...	Rick	0	233	Mar 2, 2006 by Rick
	Step One ..of the 12 Steps Of Alcoholics Anonymous (Preview) 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 have warped our mi...	Phil	0	324	Mar 2, 2006 by Phil
	I feel like such a fraud when there are other people with REAL problems and real reasons to drink (Preview) I feel like such a fraud.. I am reading on here bout some peoples stuff.. about losing their babies etc.. Soo horrible.. I am on here.. cos i need to stop drinking.. I stoped last week for 7 nights!!.. but since sunday i have been drinking agian..inc tonight.. ffs I have phoned AA this week and...	Rob	11	454	Mar 4, 2006 by sheilasdad
	It's Working (Preview) It is hard for me to accept that I have been sober for 8 yrs, and am having to just keep reading page 449 in the big book. My van is in the shop and seems to be taking forever. I will have to continue to wait. Financial pressure has my head working overtime. I believe I need to just get my van and get to my next jo...	paul	9	286	Mar 2, 2006 by Doll
	a couple of neat links (Preview) *hey,, I found these two links, which I added to my favorites. They are research and resource lists. One has a concordance to the Big Book:* *http://open-mind.org/Alcohol.htm* *http://open-mind.org/Directory/index.php?ax=list&cat_id=1* *love in recovery,* *amanda*	amanda2u2	2	278	Mar 2, 2006 by amanda2u2
	a setback can be a step forward?? (Preview) Success "Any form of success was frightening and unfamiliar." Basic Text, p. 14 Before coming to NA, few of us had much experience with success. Every attempt to stop using on our own had ended in failure. We had begun to give up hope of finding any relief from active addiction. We had grown acc...	rosie light shines	2	268	Mar 2, 2006 by Phil
	Easy Does It” (Preview) Easy Does It” “Easy Does It” One of A.A.’s Most Workable and Useful Sayings A.A. Grapevine, July, 1948 One of the most useful of the sayings that have been adopted in A.A. is that which advises, “Easy Does It.” So universally workable is this good advice that it qualifies as the expression of o...	Rick	6	601	Mar 2, 2006 by paul
	Thoughts For Today (Preview) Im not an alcoholic...Im a drunk..Alcoholics go to meetings Drugs lead to nowwhere...but it is a scenic route. Ive got a photographic memory..I just dont have any film. Wanted: Meaningful overnight relationship. Some people are only alive...because its illegal to shoot them. I try no...	Phil	2	253	Mar 2, 2006 by rosie light shines
	anger (Preview) *Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. --Albert Einstein* Anger can be a healthy emotion, provided we don't wallow in it or attack other people. When we express anger honestly and without reservation, we can prevent walls of resentment from building up and blocking us off from the inti...	Rick	8	731	Mar 2, 2006 by Rick
	An Article About Defences (Preview) Defenses Following is a list of defenses and some information about them. The list is not exhaustive, but covers the big ones. Displacement -- One way to avoid the risk associated with feeling unpleasant emotions is to displace them, or put them somewhere other than where they bel...	Phil	5	294	Mar 2, 2006 by Phil
	Thanks everyone (Preview) Just to say thanks to everyone on this site as it has helped me no end when I am at a loss as to what to do and feel like a drink I just log in and read all the posts. Thanks again.	trudi	2	268	Mar 2, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Bad night (Preview) Hi all, I'm fully aware that this post is totally irrelevent, I may not even post it. Just venting. I got called out to collect a deceased at 01:06 this morning. No problem, easy job, small person, no stairs. Driving through a rural village a badger ran out in front of my ambulance. Swerved to avoid it,...	Cabbageheadchris	10	401	Mar 2, 2006 by Cabbageheadchris
	Daily Reflections March 2 (Preview) HOPE Do not be discouraged. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 Few experiences are of less value to me than fast sobriety. Too many times discouragement has been the bonus for unrealistic expectations, not to mention self-pity or fatigue from my wanting to change the world by the weekend. Discouragement...	Doll	1	239	Mar 2, 2006 by rosie light shines
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