Alcoholics Anonymous

Phil · Phil

To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off, it's the realization I can't control another. To let go is not to enable, but allow learning from natural consequences. To let g...

Doll · Doll

HOLD YOUR FACE TO THE LIGHT Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the Light, even though for the moment you do not see. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 3 One Sunday in October, during my morning meditation, I glanced out the window at the ash tree in our front yard. At once I was overwhelmed by its magnificent, golde...

Scott · Scott

Hope everyone has a happy and sober Thanksgiving! I'm on day 9 today...which, if the past is any indication, is usually when I begin to suffer strong temptations...so when the wine is being poured with the family tomorrow, it's going to be hard for me. Wish me luck! ~ Scott

cooncatbob · cooncatbob

I just got this off another forum (machinery) thought I share it with all you. Quote: I would like to share with you something we (as a family) read in our household every night before bed. These words are based upon The Thanksgiving Address, an ancient message of peace and appreciat...

Robert · Robert

some thing has sparked the old insecuritys off with me, and I am making music 247, to once again "prove to the world im impotant" (big book) I dont know why. I was doing so well then I think its because my brother has gone on a trip for 9 months across the world, and on the leaving party he made me feel real sm...

tina · tina

I've been dealing with a 17 year old whom has a problem with drugs. He did stop drinking as a result of me asking him to leave my home. But the drug use is still in prscess, this morning I told him how I felt and told him if he doesn't stop. I'm gonna have no choice but to wash hands of it for g...

Tmarch · Tmarch

I have noticed that people tend to relapse around the holidays and old feelings of drinking resurfaces out of the blue.... We all need to stay strong and know Tis the Season to be Greatful for Sobriety! Happy Holidays my friends Tina/march

Tmarch · Tmarch

To All I have been away for a few weeks now and haven't been able to post during that time. I promised a member on this board that I would keep them posted on my recovery...It's been 3 weeks and 4 days without a drink and I feel great! It's funny because when you are...

Doll · Doll

ONLY TWO SINS . . . . there are only two sins; the first is to interfere with the growth of another human being, and the second is to interfere with one's own growth. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 542 Happiness is such an elusive state. How often do my "prayers" for others involve "hidden" prayers for my own ag...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Hi everyone, I have just come off the 'phone to my Mum. She is going to have a series of scans and tests tomorrow and I know that she is very worried about the results. She has a tumour on her parathyroid gland, which is making her very ill, and we'll soon know just how bad or otherwise it is. She has a...

Jo · Jo

Hi, What a day this has been. I've been walking around trying so hard to deal with things and I thought keeping quiet was the "sober" way to do it. I thought that me being sober meant that things weren't suppose to bother me. I thought I was suppose to be above it all. Well I fel...

Frenzle · Frenzle

Often I think of how great sobriety is but then remember how great being drunk is waking up sober is a great feeling but the promise that alcohol offeres is so ...fulfilling. does that make any sense

soberdrunk · soberdrunk

I've been doing alot of praying. I am being overcome with urges to get all messed up. It sounds so good right now. God help me. I was at a 1st step meeting yesterday after battling this obsession all day long. I was actually praying during the meeting, God please!!! Take these thoughts from my mind. There...

Quetzal · Quetzal

"If onlys" are lonely. -- Morgan Jennings The circumstances of our lives seldom live up to our expectations or desires. However, in each circumstance we are offered an opportunity for growth or change, a chance for greater understanding of life's heights and pitfalls. Each time we choose to la...

lanchas · lanchas

It seems we have some new comers, so I thought I'd tell my story again, especially since it's changed a little. I've been on this board for 1 year, 8 months, 11 days. So here's my story: I am an only child. My mom has been an A all my life - even while she had me.

From the time I was a baby to...

Phil · Phil

By silently withdrawing into myself, isolating myself from others, I show anger in a passive way. I am: angry over some real or perceived offense. incapable of venting my anger openly and prefer to remain silent. afraid of an outburst of anger, afraid I'll be unable to stop. stuffing my fe...

Doll · Doll

Is it the holidays approaching? So many memories of past Thanksgivings and Christmas's drinking a whole bottle of wine while cooking for 15 of my ex hubby's family, so many years ago. Then more wine with dinner, then drinks later in the evening. I can't lie, I loved it! Then having the excuse of the bloo...

Phil · Phil

We've all heard about people having guts or balls. But do you really know the difference between them? In an effort to keep you informed, the definition for each is listed below... GUTS - is arriving home late after a night out with the guys, being met by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to ask: "...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Seeking strength from others prevents us from finding our own strength. -- Georgette Vickstrom The principles of this program, the friends we have made here, sponsors, and the contact we have with an ever-available Higher Power afford us valuable strength. However, it's important that we de...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Hi everyone, Thank you so very much for your thoughts and prayers over the last day or two. It has meant a lot to me. Mum was scanned and tested yesterday and needs to have more tests done. She was tired, but tried to sound upbeat. I have been reading and researching about her condition and I have r...

toni baloney · toni baloney

Good Morning, Was doing some reading, and SO SURPRISED to see you!!! YEAH! It sure has been a while, think of you almost everyday, and how the Board just was not the same without you. So write, when you have a chance, and that trip to see you husband, life on life's terms, is not al...

Doll · Doll

A CLASSIC PRAYER Lord, make me a channel for thy peace - that where there is hatred, I may bring love - that where there is wrong. I may bring the spirit of forgiveness - that where there is discord, I may bring harmony - that where there is error, I may bring truth - that where there is doubt, I may bring faith...

Phil · Phil

Step Seven "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings." Since this Step so specifically concerns itself with humility, we should pause here to consider what humility is and what the practice of it can mean to us. Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each o...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. -- Eleanor Roosevelt When we were using alcohol and other drugs, we often thought that we were different from others. We secretly thought that no one could understand us. Maybe we tried to be one o...

cindy · cindy

i love my dad, though he's been addicted since before i was born. they say dont try to 12 step family, but i tried anyway. now finally his battered body has had enough and he's on his way out. i have mixed emotions because it has been a love hate thing. he's a tough old guy, and lived a hard life. a logger in his...

wantneeda · wantneeda

heard lots of stuff i liked, brought lots of it home with me... bought 2 books...one called coming to believe...its on step 2 a pocket size Big Book for my purse then today i met an old fellow that came all the way from Kenora, Ontario for the roundup, He wanted to buy me a book, the 12 by 12...1...

Doll · Doll

"THY WILL, NOT MINE" . . . when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification. ." . . . if it be Thy will." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 102-03 I ask simply that throughout the day God place in me the best understanding of His will that I can have for that day...

timverton · timverton

God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to know the difference. O.K. If you've seen it before, chalk it up to late-arriving spam...Tim -- Edited by timverton at 09:56, 2006-11-20

Phil · Phil

5 Corporate Lessons Corporate Lesson 1 A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbour. ...

Phil · Phil

Accepting Our Feelings Why do we struggle so with our feelings? Why do we work so hard to deny our emotions, especially concerning other people? They are only feelings! In the course of a day, we may deny we feel frustrated in reaction to someone who is selling us a service. We may deny that we feel...

ZB · ZB

Hi All, I'm newly sober (today is day 9 after a week-long relapse from 6 weeks of sobriety) and am looking for some kind of online community to fill in the cracks between meetings. Hope to get to know some of you better while I'm here. ZB

Wren · Wren

How often do we get caught up in life's events, the days just roll on by, and we forget how rich and beautiful our lives are today? And I find it is in the small events, the little moments, that my memory is jolted. Today was like most days for me. Yknow, get up, get your coffee or tea, visit the loo, and check y...

Zster · Zster

Hi all! I am finally able to log in here, after a long time trying. Thought I would take a sec to introduce myself to y'all... I am Leszlie, alcoholic. I have managed to put together 15 months sobriety, with the grace of God and AA. Most recently, I am being challenged by the loss of my beloved&n...

Sick of being sick · Sick of being sick

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!......Turrrkeeeeeeeeeeyyyy!!!........

Quetzal · Quetzal

The greatest gift we can give another person is the gift of ourselves. When we can share our deepest convictions and failures, our ideals and disillusionments, our hopes and frustrations, our dreams and despairs, our answers and our questions then we are loving our neighbors as ourselves as well as...

Wren · Wren

How do you work with anger? "Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." -- Helen Douglas How do you feel about anger, in yourse...

RyanS · RyanS

Toni, I want to apologize if my temper tantrum over a post being edited triggered whatever went on here. I think editing ought be for spam or pure filth, but I dont run this deal and could have discussed it with the moderator like an adult. My reaction was far more childish than the incident I allowed to tr...

wantneeda · wantneeda

is the name of the roundup I am fortunate and grateful to be able to attend this week end. Thanks to the group i'm considering joining, they gave me a ticket to go to. i love roundups! what does unity mean to you? for me.... WE cannot do alone what WE can do together. :) the fi...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Fending off loneliness (Extract from Living Sober) Alcoholism has been described as "the lonely disease," and very few recovered alcoholics argue the point. Looking back at the last years or months of our drinking, literally hundreds of thousands of us remember feeling isolated eve...

Phil · Phil

"Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they all deflate our egos. When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five. But scarcely any Step is more necessary...

Quetzal · Quetzal

Do not compare yourself with others, for you are a unique and wonderful creation. Make your own beautiful footprints in the snow. -- Barbara Kimball Comparisons we make of ourselves to other women do destruction far greater than our conscious minds are aware of. Positioning ourselves or her...

Wren · Wren

“Balance is a dynamic process; it changes with the days, the seasons, the years.” -- Sherrill Sellman How rigid are your routines? Do you exercise for 30 minutes, three times each week no matter how you feel? Routines and structure can provide a valuable framework to bring disciplin...

RyanS · RyanS

"Not Allied With Any Sect . . ." "While A.A. has restored thousands of poor Christians to their churches, and has made believers out of atheists and agnostics, it has also made good A.A.'s out of those belonging to the Buddhist, Islamic, and Jewish faiths. For example, we question very muc...

Wren · Wren

Perception There is no secret recipe for happiness and contentment. The individuals who move through life joyously have not necessarily been blessed with lives of abundance, love, success, and prosperity. Such people have, however, been blessed with the ability to take the circumstances the...

Doll · Doll

OVERCOMING LONELINESS Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn't quite belong. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 90 The agonies and the void that I often felt inside occur less...

LisaF · LisaF

Talked to my sponsor today... we agreed more or less the whole thing about the pills and how I'm doing was a communication problem... I should've asked her for clarification before asking anyone else about it. But she had flat out said I wasn't sober, how do you take that wrong? I assumed ok I need to pick...

Robert · Robert

PEEK A BOO! OH NO ITS A BIRD!! thats better -- Edited by Robert at 14:33, 2006-11-17

Quetzal · Quetzal

I think happiness is like the effect on an audience (when acting), if you think of it all the time you will not get it, you must get lost in the part, lost in your purposes and let the effect be the criterion of your success. -- Joanna Field Happiness is a gift that accompanies every instance of our li...

Scott · Scott

Just to give a little update on where I am, for those of you who I've spoken with before... Since October 29, I have stumbled twice. A week ago today, I went out and had 3 beers at the bar. Then on Monday of this week, I had a particularly bad day, and I ended up binging that night and missing wo...

Phil · Phil

The Language of Letting Go. Trust in God and do something. --Mary Lyon It's important to let ourselves grieve as a passage between yesterday and tomorrow. But we do not have to be controlled unduly by our grief, or our pain. There are times when we have grieved, surrendered to the h...

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	Review of the Letting Go Stuff.. (Preview) To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off, it's the realization I can't control another. To let go is not to enable, but allow learning from natural consequences. To let g...	Phil	1	510	Nov 23, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Daily Reflections Nov 23 (Preview) HOLD YOUR FACE TO THE LIGHT Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the Light, even though for the moment you do not see. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 3 One Sunday in October, during my morning meditation, I glanced out the window at the ash tree in our front yard. At once I was overwhelmed by its magnificent, golde...	Doll	0	512	Nov 23, 2006 by Doll
	Happy Sober Thanksgiving (Preview) Hope everyone has a happy and sober Thanksgiving! I'm on day 9 today...which, if the past is any indication, is usually when I begin to suffer strong temptations...so when the wine is being poured with the family tomorrow, it's going to be hard for me. Wish me luck! ~ Scott	Scott	4	540	Nov 22, 2006 by Wren
	Thanks Giving Prayer (Preview) I just got this off another forum (machinery) thought I share it with all you. Quote: I would like to share with you something we (as a family) read in our household every night before bed. These words are based upon The Thanksgiving Address, an ancient message of peace and appreciat...	cooncatbob	2	637	Nov 22, 2006 by Wren
	hungry angry lonely TIRED (Preview) some thing has sparked the old insecuritys off with me, and I am making music 247, to once again "prove to the world im impotant" (big book) I dont know why. I was doing so well then I think its because my brother has gone on a trip for 9 months across the world, and on the leaving party he made me feel real sm...	Robert	5	621	Nov 22, 2006 by Wren
	Frustrated/Fed Up (Preview) I've been dealing with a 17 year old whom has a problem with drugs. He did stop drinking as a result of me asking him to leave my home. But the drug use is still in prscess, this morning I told him how I felt and told him if he doesn't stop. I'm gonna have no choice but to wash hands of it for g...	tina	2	463	Nov 22, 2006 by tina
	Holiday Blues (Preview) I have noticed that people tend to relapse around the holidays and old feelings of drinking resurfaces out of the blue.... We all need to stay strong and know Tis the Season to be Greatful for Sobriety! Happy Holidays my friends Tina/march	Tmarch	1	470	Nov 22, 2006 by Phil
	Update for my peeps (Preview) To All I have been away for a few weeks now and haven't been able to post during that time. I promised a member on this board that I would keep them posted on my recovery...It's been 3 weeks and 4 days without a drink and I feel great! It's funny because when you are...	Tmarch	1	496	Nov 22, 2006 by Phil
	Daily Reflections Nov 22 (Preview) ONLY TWO SINS . . . . there are only two sins; the first is to interfere with the growth of another human being, and the second is to interfere with one's own growth. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 542 Happiness is such an elusive state. How often do my "prayers" for others involve "hidden" prayers for my own ag...	Doll	1	449	Nov 22, 2006 by tina
	Prayers Needed/Wanted (Preview) Hi everyone, I have just come off the 'phone to my Mum. She is going to have a series of scans and tests tomorrow and I know that she is very worried about the results. She has a tumour on her parathyroid gland, which is making her very ill, and we'll soon know just how bad or otherwise it is. She has a...	Quetzal	11	572	Nov 22, 2006 by tina
	Eating HUMBLE PIE - aagghh (Preview) Hi, What a day this has been. I've been walking around trying so hard to deal with things and I thought keeping quiet was the "sober" way to do it. I thought that me being sober meant that things weren't suppose to bother me. I thought I was suppose to be above it all. Well I fel...	Jo	4	469	Nov 22, 2006 by Jo
	hi (Preview) Often I think of how great sobriety is but then remember how great being drunk is waking up sober is a great feeling but the promise that alcohol offeres is so ...fulfilling. does that make any sense	Frenzle	5	485	Nov 22, 2006 by Tmarch
	Insane Urges (Preview) I've been doing alot of praying. I am being overcome with urges to get all messed up. It sounds so good right now. God help me. I was at a 1st step meeting yesterday after battling this obsession all day long. I was actually praying during the meeting, God please!!! Take these thoughts from my mind. There...	soberdrunk	11	503	Nov 22, 2006 by Tmarch
	If Onlys Are Lonely (Preview) "If onlys" are lonely. -- Morgan Jennings The circumstances of our lives seldom live up to our expectations or desires. However, in each circumstance we are offered an opportunity for growth or change, a chance for greater understanding of life's heights and pitfalls. Each time we choose to la...	Quetzal	0	610	Nov 22, 2006 by Quetzal
	my story (Preview) It seems we have some new comers, so I thought I'd tell my story again, especially since it's changed a little. I've been on this board for 1 year, 8 months, 11 days. So here's my story: I am an only child. My mom has been an A all my life - even while she had me.From the time I was a baby to...	lanchas	0	520	Nov 22, 2006 by lanchas
	Is Silent Withdrawal An Expression Of Anger? (Preview) *By silently withdrawing into myself, isolating myself from others, I show anger in a passive way. I am:* angry over some real or perceived offense. incapable of venting my anger openly and prefer to remain silent. afraid of an outburst of anger, afraid I'll be unable to stop. stuffing my fe...	Phil	9	877	Nov 22, 2006 by Robert
	Identifying with Justin S. (Preview) Is it the holidays approaching? So many memories of past Thanksgivings and Christmas's drinking a whole bottle of wine while cooking for 15 of my ex hubby's family, so many years ago. Then more wine with dinner, then drinks later in the evening. I can't lie, I loved it! Then having the excuse of the bloo...	Doll	1	494	Nov 21, 2006 by Phil
	Received from an AA buddy...Just hafta share it..:) (Preview) We've all heard about people having guts or balls. But do you really know the difference between them? In an effort to keep you informed, the definition for each is listed below... GUTS - is arriving home late after a night out with the guys, being met by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to ask: "...	Phil	0	516	Nov 21, 2006 by Phil
	Personal Strength (Preview) Seeking strength from others prevents us from finding our own strength. -- Georgette Vickstrom The principles of this program, the friends we have made here, sponsors, and the contact we have with an ever-available Higher Power afford us valuable strength. However, it's important that we de...	Quetzal	2	536	Nov 21, 2006 by Quetzal
	Update (Preview) Hi everyone, Thank you so very much for your thoughts and prayers over the last day or two. It has meant a lot to me. Mum was scanned and tested yesterday and needs to have more tests done. She was tired, but tried to sound upbeat. I have been reading and researching about her condition and I have r...	Quetzal	3	447	Nov 21, 2006 by Quetzal
	GAMMY - - HEELLLOOOOOO!!!!!! (Preview) Good Morning, Was doing some reading, and SO SURPRISED to see you!!! YEAH! It sure has been a while, think of you almost everyday, and how the Board just was not the same without you. So write, when you have a chance, and that trip to see you husband, life on life's terms, is not al...	toni baloney	0	464	Nov 21, 2006 by toni baloney
	Daily Reflections Nov 21 (Preview) A CLASSIC PRAYER Lord, make me a channel for thy peace - that where there is hatred, I may bring love - that where there is wrong. I may bring the spirit of forgiveness - that where there is discord, I may bring harmony - that where there is error, I may bring truth - that where there is doubt, I may bring faith...	Doll	0	457	Nov 21, 2006 by Doll
	Humility (Preview) Step Seven "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings." Since this Step so specifically concerns itself with humility, we should pause here to consider what humility is and what the practice of it can mean to us. Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each o...	Phil	0	434	Nov 20, 2006 by Phil
	The Right To Be An Individual (Preview) Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. -- Eleanor Roosevelt When we were using alcohol and other drugs, we often thought that we were different from others. We secretly thought that no one could understand us. Maybe we tried to be one o...	Quetzal	2	540	Nov 20, 2006 by amanda2u2
	family disease (Preview) i love my dad, though he's been addicted since before i was born. they say dont try to 12 step family, but i tried anyway. now finally his battered body has had enough and he's on his way out. i have mixed emotions because it has been a love hate thing. he's a tough old guy, and lived a hard life. a logger in his...	cindy	2	543	Nov 20, 2006 by cindy
	round up was awesome!!! (Preview) heard lots of stuff i liked, brought lots of it home with me... bought 2 books...one called coming to believe...its on step 2 a pocket size Big Book for my purse then today i met an old fellow that came all the way from Kenora, Ontario for the roundup, He wanted to buy me a book, the 12 by 12...1...	wantneeda	4	554	Nov 20, 2006 by cindy
	Daily Reflections Nov 20 (Preview) "THY WILL, NOT MINE" . . . when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification. ." . . . if it be Thy will." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 102-03 I ask simply that throughout the day God place in me the best understanding of His will that I can have for that day...	Doll	1	466	Nov 20, 2006 by Phil
	The Senility Prayer (Preview) God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to know the difference. O.K. If you've seen it before, chalk it up to late-arriving spam...Tim -- Edited by timverton at 09:56, 2006-11-20	timverton	2	555	Nov 20, 2006 by Phil
	Corporate Lessons From Cana..Du eh... (Preview) 5 Corporate Lessons Corporate Lesson 1 A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbour. ...	Phil	3	568	Nov 20, 2006 by Doll
	The Language of Letting Go. (Preview) Accepting Our Feelings Why do we struggle so with our feelings? Why do we work so hard to deny our emotions, especially concerning other people? They are only feelings! In the course of a day, we may deny we feel frustrated in reaction to someone who is selling us a service. We may deny that we feel...	Phil	1	605	Nov 19, 2006 by Jo
	Hiya (Preview) Hi All, I'm newly sober (today is day 9 after a week-long relapse from 6 weeks of sobriety) and am looking for some kind of online community to fill in the cracks between meetings. Hope to get to know some of you better while I'm here. ZB	ZB	8	584	Nov 19, 2006 by ZB
	Gratitude for Today (look out, I'm in a mood) (Preview) How often do we get caught up in life's events, the days just roll on by, and we forget how rich and beautiful our lives are today? And I find it is in the small events, the little moments, that my memory is jolted. Today was like most days for me. Yknow, get up, get your coffee or tea, visit the loo, and check y...	Wren	2	464	Nov 19, 2006 by Quetzal
	Greetings - just got here (Preview) Hi all! I am finally able to log in here, after a long time trying. Thought I would take a sec to introduce myself to y'all... I am Leszlie, alcoholic. I have managed to put together 15 months sobriety, with the grace of God and AA. Most recently, I am being challenged by the loss of my beloved&n...	Zster	3	441	Nov 19, 2006 by Quetzal
	Addiction confession (Preview) MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!......Turrrkeeeeeeeeeeyyyy!!!........	Sick of being sick	8	577	Nov 19, 2006 by Robert
	The Gift Of Ourselves (Preview) The greatest gift we can give another person is the gift of ourselves. When we can share our deepest convictions and failures, our ideals and disillusionments, our hopes and frustrations, our dreams and despairs, our answers and our questions then we are loving our neighbors as ourselves as well as...	Quetzal	0	522	Nov 19, 2006 by Quetzal
	Work with causes instead of effects (Preview) How do you work with anger? "Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." -- Helen Douglas How do you feel about anger, in yourse...	Wren	1	458	Nov 18, 2006 by Phil
	Toni (Preview) Toni, I want to apologize if my temper tantrum over a post being edited triggered whatever went on here. I think editing ought be for spam or pure filth, but I dont run this deal and could have discussed it with the moderator like an adult. My reaction was far more childish than the incident I allowed to tr...	RyanS	1	446	Nov 18, 2006 by toni baloney
	unity (Preview) is the name of the roundup I am fortunate and grateful to be able to attend this week end. Thanks to the group i'm considering joining, they gave me a ticket to go to. i love roundups! what does unity mean to you? for me.... WE cannot do alone what WE can do together. :) the fi...	wantneeda	1	473	Nov 18, 2006 by Phil
	Fending off loneliness (Preview) Fending off loneliness (Extract from Living Sober) Alcoholism has been described as "the lonely disease," and very few recovered alcoholics argue the point. Looking back at the last years or months of our drinking, literally hundreds of thousands of us remember feeling isolated eve...	Quetzal	1	542	Nov 18, 2006 by Phil
	Numb Ba Five (Preview) "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they all deflate our egos. When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five. But scarcely any Step is more necessary...	Phil	0	464	Nov 18, 2006 by Phil
	Comparisons (Preview) Do not compare yourself with others, for you are a unique and wonderful creation. Make your own beautiful footprints in the snow. -- Barbara Kimball Comparisons we make of ourselves to other women do destruction far greater than our conscious minds are aware of. Positioning ourselves or her...	Quetzal	1	454	Nov 18, 2006 by Wren
	Be Open to Change (Preview) “Balance is a dynamic process; it changes with the days, the seasons, the years.” -- Sherrill Sellman How rigid are your routines? Do you exercise for 30 minutes, three times each week no matter how you feel? Routines and structure can provide a valuable framework to bring disciplin...	Wren	1	482	Nov 18, 2006 by ZB
	As Bill Sees It (Preview) "Not Allied With Any Sect . . ." "While A.A. has restored thousands of poor Christians to their churches, and has made believers out of atheists and agnostics, it has also made good A.A.'s out of those belonging to the Buddhist, Islamic, and Jewish faiths. For example, we question very muc...	RyanS	0	519	Nov 18, 2006 by RyanS
	Making Life Yours~OM (Preview) Perception There is no secret recipe for happiness and contentment. The individuals who move through life joyously have not necessarily been blessed with lives of abundance, love, success, and prosperity. Such people have, however, been blessed with the ability to take the circumstances the...	Wren	2	465	Nov 18, 2006 by Phil
	Daily Reflections Nov 17 (Preview) OVERCOMING LONELINESS Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn't quite belong. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 90 The agonies and the void that I often felt inside occur less...	Doll	1	465	Nov 17, 2006 by Wren
	communication... (Preview) Talked to my sponsor today... we agreed more or less the whole thing about the pills and how I'm doing was a communication problem... I should've asked her for clarification before asking anyone else about it. But she had flat out said I wasn't sober, how do you take that wrong? I assumed ok I need to pick...	LisaF	1	527	Nov 17, 2006 by Phil
	This'll make me laugh/hopefully you too (Preview) PEEK A BOO! OH NO ITS A BIRD!! thats better -- Edited by Robert at 14:33, 2006-11-17	Robert	2	507	Nov 17, 2006 by Phil
	Happiness (Preview) I think happiness is like the effect on an audience (when acting), if you think of it all the time you will not get it, you must get lost in the part, lost in your purposes and let the effect be the criterion of your success. -- Joanna Field Happiness is a gift that accompanies every instance of our li...	Quetzal	0	487	Nov 17, 2006 by Quetzal
	Update (Preview) Just to give a little update on where I am, for those of you who I've spoken with before... Since October 29, I have stumbled twice. A week ago today, I went out and had 3 beers at the bar. Then on Monday of this week, I had a particularly bad day, and I ended up binging that night and missing wo...	Scott	8	537	Nov 17, 2006 by Scott
	Grief And Action (Preview) *The Language of Letting Go. Trust in God and do something. --Mary Lyon* It's important to let ourselves grieve as a passage between yesterday and tomorrow. But we do not have to be controlled unduly by our grief, or our pain. There are times when we have grieved, surrendered to the h...	Phil	0	505	Nov 17, 2006 by Phil
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