Alcoholics Anonymous

Doll · Doll

The First Drink It is the first drink which triggers, immediately or some time later, the compulsion to drink more and more until we are in drinking trouble again. Many of us have come to believe that our alcoholism is an addiction to the drug alcohol; like addicts of any sort who want to maintain recove...

JJ fitz · JJ fitz

Hi I am jack I am having a troubled time-I have been going to meetings for 34 years-i relapsed in '99 I just celebraed my 6th year. tonight. I should be happy but the last 6 years have been a night mare. I watched my brother perish in the 9/11 =wtc bldg 1. I survived that with out drinking-last august I wa...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Good morning all, I just want to mention something - that came with me when I moved from the bay area. There was a Suggestion at the beginning of ALL AA Meetings that before the meeting began, it was stated, Please limit your shares to five minutes if you can, so that others will have their turn, a...

Doll · Doll

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 to allow learning from natural consequences. To "let go" is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome...

jersey · jersey

"Acceptance" "And acceptance is the answer to *all* my problems. today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation---some fact of my life---unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, p...

Doll · Doll

FREEDOM FROM . . . FREEDOM TO We are going to know a new freedom. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 83 Freedom for me is both freedom from and freedom to. The first freedom I enjoy is freedom from the slavery of alcohol. What a relief! Then I begin to experience freedom from fear - fear of people, of economic ins...

trudi · trudi

I am a mother of two children 3 and 2 I have had 13 months sober upto November 2005 and I was secretary for a meeting. But I picked up 8th November 2005 and got done for drink driving. Since then I have found it hard to put the drink down for good. I can go several weeks or even a few days and then it happens...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

Many of us have not had a healthy concept of 'boundaries', and have been, rather, 'all of nothing' in our attitudes. Many of us have come from dysfunctional families in which we were not allowed to have healthy boundaries. We were violated in many ways, and witnessed others being violat...

Michelle · Michelle

I just felt like sharing a bit of my happiness. It's raining here again, but yesterday we had a few hours of no rain. It's always nice to get outside and play. Did some soccer practice with my 10 year old girl, she just started playing indoor soccer at the boys&girls club.&nbs...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

I just got back from the cultural celebration at church. I enjoyed myself. There was music, food, people. I didn't used to be able to join in and feel like I belonged anywhere. But I am making progress, even though I am not yet perfect. The topics of this morning? Good topic...

jersey · jersey

Living the Compassionate Life by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama As human beings we all have the potential to be happy and compassionate people, and we also have the potential to be miserable and harmful to others. The potential for all these things is present within each of us. If we wa...

franklin · franklin

I haven't had the time to post about my personal struggle lately, but things are going ok for me. Still have some hard times ofcourse but I'm still able tofight them, and it is getting easier! But Í just had to share the following stuff with you guys: * I got a new job starting this monday, paying real g...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Good Morning, I am going to spend the day cleaning up, washing windows, polishing wood, vacuuming, and making things look really their best. I am Roasting a Duck, tommorow, by Request, for a person that I have only known for 8 months, that is moving out of state. It is a farewell to someone...

Doll · Doll

1 ) Stay away from that first drink, taking the 1st step daily. 2 ) Attend AA regularly and get involved. 3 ) Progress is made ONE DAY AT A TIME. 4 ) Use the 24 Hour plan. 5 ) Remember, your disease is incurable, progressive and fatal. 6 ) Do first things first. 7 ) Don't become too tired. 8 ) Eat at regular hours...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Just wanted to share what tolerance means to me. The first thing that comes to mind, before I look elsewhere, Is to practice Tolerance with myself - my shortcomings, -self forgiveness must come before we can extend that to others, as was mentioned in an Earlier Post. Forgiveness...

recovering jb · recovering jb

Hey- I had read about this forum on Buddhism and Neuroscience at Stanford University, featuring the Dalai Lama and a panel scientists- Very interesting lectures- One series is on Craving, Suffering, and Choice. You can download them from this site- http://itunes.stanford.edu/ Yo...

Doll · Doll

THE JOY OF SHARING Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you. to have a host of friends - this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and...

Phil · Phil

Principles of the 12 Steps: STEP: (The steps are printed on pages 59 & 60 of the Big Book.) 1. Surrender. (Capitulation to hopelessness.) 2. Hope. (Step 2 is the mirror image or opposite of step 1. In step 1 we admit that alcohol is our higher power, and that our lives are unmanageabl...

Rick · Rick

The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. --Martin Luther King, Jr. An essential aid to following the path of the inner voice is practicing forgiveness. Resentment comes from the Latin word resentir to feel over and over again. By repeatedly re-experiencing the old resentments...

wagon · wagon

AA Thought for the Day January 28, 2006 Tolerance Honesty with ourselves and others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way. Experience shows that few alcoholics will long stay away from a group just because they don't like the way it is run. Most return and adjust themselves to...

jersey · jersey

The self-defined “Victim” uses stealth personal power strategies to cope with anger, to“control” situations and other people in order to punish and to maintain a sense of superiority. Making use of "stealth" behavior provides the self-defined "Victim" a safety net while acting out this negativ...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

"Practice these principles in all our affairs" That is really not easy to do,, but what is the point otherwise? If I only practice the principles at certain times, when I feel like it, or with certain easy-to-get-along-with likable favorites, or if I practice them only half way, I wil...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Question: how many Alcoholics do you need to change a lightbulb? Answer: Only one, but the Lightbulb really has to want to be changed! Quiz for the day is OVER, thank God! Love you all and Have a Great Saturday! Toni

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

Well, here we are. We made it thru the week. Thank God. Things are mostly the same, but.. I'm plodding through it all. How about you all? love in recovery, amanda

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Well I did go to a meeting today and it was really good - am starting to fit in, first I had to tell them why I was not feeling like I was fitting in, my old thinking stuff. But I have a Problem today with my PC, and it is making me feel #*$$#*&##$%&(*...

jeannie · jeannie

I have something good to say today because it is my sixth month of sobriety today. I can not believe that it has been this long! It has been especially hard the last couple of weeks with the loss of a very close friend. This to shall pass. The s...

Phil · Phil

Staying in the Present Moment Often, one of our biggest questions is "What's going to happen?" We may ask this about our relationships, our career, our recovery, and our life. It is easy to tangle us up in worrisome thoughts. Worrying about what's going to happen blocks us from functioning eff...

Doll · Doll

What do you call cheese that isn't yours? Nacho Cheese.

Doll · Doll

THE TREASURE OF THE PAST Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have -- the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and m...

Rick · Rick

I'm slipping when I begin to dislike the company and conversation of the Program. --Anonymous There is a reason why a lamb gets separated from a flock. The flock will be eating on a particular pasture and a lamb will take a fancy to graze just off to the edge of the field. So the lamb takes a li...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Just want to say hello and hope you are feeling a little better, sounds like you have a duzzy with the flu and a cold on top of if. Wishing you a Speedy Recovery!! Take good care of Phil! we need you around here! Toni NO B...

Doll · Doll

Thanks all for sharing your stuff with me yesterday. It was all excellent! Although I still feel a bit dis-come-bob-u-lated, I got up this morning feeling some better. Every now and then I have a fleeting moment of clarity and it hit me last night, maybe this hole is god's way of sayin...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

People appreciated the topic discussion shared on earlier.. so I decided to try my hand at posting up a topic. I have an approved list of discussion topics here, and was looking at them, cuz they fell off my shelf.. and decided that I'd pick one and put it up... and it turned out to be:...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

I am writing this almost reluctantly, but her goes. When I joined MIP, I talked a lot about how difficult it was to lose a llitle friend of mine, Annie, my Kitty of 15+ years. I talked about it a lot, cryed a lot, prayed and prayed about her. Then I began to feel some relief from the excuiat...

Doll · Doll

FREEDOM FROM GUILT Where other people were concerned, we had to drop the word "blame" from our speech and thought. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 47 When I become willing to accept my own powerlessness, I begin to realize that blaming myself for all the trouble in my life can be an ego trip back i...

Phil · Phil

When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden. --John Ruskin What do we need most in order to be happy? Certainly we all need to be loved. Yet we need even more than that. The spirit also wishes to be needed. When we...

Doll · Doll

Well, what the Hell is my problem?! I don't get it. I really am happier than I've ever been in my life. I work this program, I'm practicing truth, I'm trying the solutions, nothing seems to be working today. I'm grateful for the fact that I have no desire to drink at this.... I'...

Rick · Rick

The process of living, for each of us, is pretty similar. For every gain there is a setback. For every success, a failure. For every moment of joy, a time of sadness. For every hope realized, one is dashed. --Sue Atchley Ebaugh The balance of events in our lives is much like the balance of na...

wallsal55 · wallsal55

Email: aa_springfling@yahoo.com (may have to type in) or contact phone # is 309-484-6012 (Larry)Alanon, AA, speakers [Rooms at COMFORT INN near Mall, $49. through April 7th with the mention of SPRING FLING.]&n...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

The term 'dry drunk' is an important concept in the AA program. We say that first the alcoholic needs to dry out. When this is accomplished, by detox or whatever,,, we have an alcoholic with no alcohol in his or her system. But being dry, simply not drinking, is not the same as...

Phil · Phil

If you are in a relationship, check it out the next time you have a fight: Maybe you are both coming out of your twelve-year-olds. If you are a parent, maybe the reason you have a problem sometimes is because you are reacting to your six-year-old child out of the six-year-old child within y...

Rick · Rick

Breathing your native air By Dr. Robert Schuller It's terribly important to understand that a believer is a normal person. Faith is the mark of normality. A persistently negative and cynical attitude is a mark of emotional illness. Birds were designed to fly. The air under the wings of a bir...

Rick · Rick

TRYING TO CATCH UP ON POSTS What a job after a few days off. Toni I went thru losing 3 dogs and a cat. The first dog I had to put down. I beat myself up for a long time. Was it time?? Even though the vet said it was. The pain is unreal. I couldn't eat for days, then it was for ever bef...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Hi does anyone feel like sharing: My Topic is: The Way out is in the 12 Steps (Thought I would copy something Jen did last night- it felt like an on-line meeting) How the 12 steps have changed who I am as a person, have given up being a manipulative, self-seeking person only inter...

Chrisb · Chrisb

I did it. I admit it. My Mother died 2 &1/2 years ago. Her value exceeded 1.5 mil. dollars in real estate and investments. When my step-father took control, I realized and accepted that whatever her wishes were for her part of her estate would be ignored and the will would be changed...

Doll · Doll

WHAT WE NEED - EACH OTHER . . . . A.A. is really saying to every serious drinker, "You are an A.A. member if you say so . . . nobody can keep you out." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 139 For years, whenever I reflected on Tradition Three ("The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop dr...

Doll · Doll

RIGOROUS HONESTY Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant? Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done? Who cares anything about a Higher Power, let alone meditation and prayer? Who wants to sacrifice time and energy in trying to carry A.A.'s message to the ne...

Rick · Rick

A nice man was being tailgated by a stressed out woman on a busy boulevard. Suddenly, the light turned yellow, just in front of him. He did the right thing, stopping at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection. The tailgating woman hit the r...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Well you all know that I poured my heart out the other day, about some hurt that was inside me, that felt unconsolable. Well, it did get consoled, by your love and support, and my begging for help from my Higher Power. Today, what has changed in me is that the hurt is still there, but my Attitude ab...

Rick · Rick

ANSWER FROM THE OTHER DAY'S POST MY GRANDAUGHTER IS 3 AND ABLESSING FROM GOD I DON'T KNOW IF U READ MY POSTS FROM A WHILE BACK ANYWAY SHE WAS RAN OVER BY A SKID STEER ( BOB CAT LOADER ) SHE WAS CRITICAL AND IN INTENSIVE CARE AT THE MEDICAL CENTER NOW SHE IS DOING WELL**CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH** WE CA...

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	The 1st Drink, Tolerance, Guilt (Preview) The First Drink It is the first drink which triggers, immediately or some time later, the compulsion to drink more and more until we are in drinking trouble again. Many of us have come to believe that our alcoholism is an addiction to the drug alcohol; like addicts of any sort who want to maintain recove...	Doll	2	499	Jan 30, 2006 by Phil
	need a sincere reply (Preview) Hi I am jack I am having a troubled time-I have been going to meetings for 34 years-i relapsed in '99 I just celebraed my 6th year. tonight. I should be happy but the last 6 years have been a night mare. I watched my brother perish in the 9/11 =wtc bldg 1. I survived that with out drinking-last august I wa...	JJ fitz	6	525	Jan 30, 2006 by Chrisb
	No Cross Talk - Please (Preview) Good morning all, I just want to mention something - that came with me when I moved from the bay area. There was a Suggestion at the beginning of ALL AA Meetings that before the meeting began, it was stated, Please limit your shares to five minutes if you can, so that others will have their turn, a...	Toni Baloney	5	585	Jan 30, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	To "LET GO" (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 to allow learning from natural consequences. To "let go" is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome...	Doll	4	741	Jan 30, 2006 by rosie light shines
	acceptance-449 BB (Preview) "Acceptance" "And acceptance is the answer to all my problems. today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation---some fact of my life---unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, p...	jersey	5	2591	Jan 30, 2006 by Doll
	Daily Reflection Jan 30 (Preview) FREEDOM FROM . . . FREEDOM TO We are going to know a new freedom. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 83 Freedom for me is both freedom from and freedom to. The first freedom I enjoy is freedom from the slavery of alcohol. What a relief! Then I begin to experience freedom from fear - fear of people, of economic ins...	Doll	4	506	Jan 30, 2006 by rosie light shines
	please help (Preview) I am a mother of two children 3 and 2 I have had 13 months sober upto November 2005 and I was secretary for a meeting. But I picked up 8th November 2005 and got done for drink driving. Since then I have found it hard to put the drink down for good. I can go several weeks or even a few days and then it happens...	trudi	16	960	Jan 30, 2006 by trudi
	topic - boundaries (Preview) Many of us have not had a healthy concept of 'boundaries', and have been, rather, 'all of nothing' in our attitudes. Many of us have come from dysfunctional families in which we were not allowed to have healthy boundaries. We were violated in many ways, and witnessed others being violat...	amanda2u2	8	584	Jan 30, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Hi everyone! (Preview) I just felt like sharing a bit of my happiness. It's raining here again, but yesterday we had a few hours of no rain. It's always nice to get outside and play. Did some soccer practice with my 10 year old girl, she just started playing indoor soccer at the boys&girls club.&nbs...	Michelle	3	445	Jan 29, 2006 by Doll
	have a great day! (Preview) I just got back from the cultural celebration at church. I enjoyed myself. There was music, food, people. I didn't used to be able to join in and feel like I belonged anywhere. But I am making progress, even though I am not yet perfect. *The topics of this morning? Good topic...*	amanda2u2	2	406	Jan 29, 2006 by Doll
	compassion (Preview) Living the Compassionate Life by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama As human beings we all have the potential to be happy and compassionate people, and we also have the potential to be miserable and harmful to others. The potential for all these things is present within each of us. If we wa...	jersey	3	474	Jan 29, 2006 by Doll
	Luck is coming my way! (Preview) I haven't had the time to post about my personal struggle lately, but things are going ok for me. Still have some hard times ofcourse but I'm still able tofight them, and it is getting easier! But Í just had to share the following stuff with you guys: * I got a new job starting this monday, paying real g...	franklin	5	762	Jan 29, 2006 by GammyRose
	Gratitude! (Preview) Good Morning, I am going to spend the day cleaning up, washing windows, polishing wood, vacuuming, and making things look really their best. I am Roasting a Duck, tommorow, by Request, for a person that I have only known for 8 months, that is moving out of state. It is a farewell to someone...	Toni Baloney	3	448	Jan 29, 2006 by Cabbageheadchris
	90 Tools For Sobriety (Preview) 1 ) Stay away from that first drink, taking the 1st step daily. 2 ) Attend AA regularly and get involved. 3 ) Progress is made ONE DAY AT A TIME. 4 ) Use the 24 Hour plan. 5 ) Remember, your disease is incurable, progressive and fatal. 6 ) Do first things first. 7 ) Don't become too tired. 8 ) Eat at regular hours...	Doll	4	1337	Jan 29, 2006 by Cabbageheadchris
	On Tolerance ..... Want to share? (Preview) Just wanted to share what tolerance means to me. The first thing that comes to mind, before I look elsewhere, Is to practice Tolerance with myself - my shortcomings, -self forgiveness must come before we can extend that to others, as was mentioned in an Earlier Post. Forgiveness...	Toni Baloney	10	943	Jan 29, 2006 by ZuZu
	Craving, Suffering, and Choice lectures (Preview) Hey- I had read about this forum on Buddhism and Neuroscience at Stanford University, featuring the Dalai Lama and a panel scientists- Very interesting lectures- One series is on Craving, Suffering, and Choice. You can download them from this site- http://itunes.stanford.edu/ Yo...	recovering jb	0	492	Jan 29, 2006 by recovering jb
	Daily Reflection Jan 29 (Preview) THE JOY OF SHARING Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you. to have a host of friends - this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and...	Doll	3	779	Jan 29, 2006 by Bonzo43
	Principles Of The 12 Steps (Preview) Principles of the 12 Steps: STEP: (The steps are printed on pages 59 & 60 of the Big Book.) 1. Surrender. (Capitulation to hopelessness.) 2. Hope. (Step 2 is the mirror image or opposite of step 1. In step 1 we admit that alcohol is our higher power, and that our lives are unmanageabl...	Phil	5	1135	Jan 28, 2006 by rosie light shines
	Let go of it (Preview) *The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. --Martin Luther King, Jr.* An essential aid to following the path of the inner voice is practicing forgiveness. Resentment comes from the Latin word resentir to feel over and over again. By repeatedly re-experiencing the old resentments...	Rick	1	442	Jan 28, 2006 by wagon
	big book (Preview) AA Thought for the Day January 28, 2006 Tolerance Honesty with ourselves and others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way. Experience shows that few alcoholics will long stay away from a group just because they don't like the way it is run. Most return and adjust themselves to...	wagon	1	450	Jan 28, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	the victim (Preview) The self-defined “Victim” uses stealth personal power strategies to cope with anger, to“control” situations and other people in order to punish and to maintain a sense of superiority. Making use of "stealth" behavior provides the self-defined "Victim" a safety net while acting out this negativ...	jersey	5	1669	Jan 28, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	topic - Practice These Principles (Preview) *"Practice these principles in all our affairs"* That is really not easy to do,, but what is the point otherwise? If I only practice the principles at certain times, when I feel like it, or with certain easy-to-get-along-with likable favorites, or if I practice them only half way, I wil...	amanda2u2	3	532	Jan 28, 2006 by GammyRose
	How Many Alcoholic Do You Need (Preview) Question: how many Alcoholics do you need to change a lightbulb? Answer: Only one, but the Lightbulb really has to want to be changed! Quiz for the day is OVER, thank God! Love you all and Have a Great Saturday! Toni	Toni Baloney	0	468	Jan 28, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Friday night (Preview) *Well, here we are. We made it thru the week. Thank God. Things are mostly the same, but.. I'm plodding through it all. How about you all?* *love in recovery,* *amanda*	amanda2u2	4	649	Jan 28, 2006 by Rick
	Feeling out of Control! (Preview) Well I did go to a meeting today and it was really good - am starting to fit in, first I had to tell them why I was not feeling like I was fitting in, my old thinking stuff. But I have a Problem today with my PC, and it is making me feel #$$#&##$%&(*...	Toni Baloney	3	624	Jan 28, 2006 by Rick
	SHARE (Preview) I have something good to say today because it is my sixth month of sobriety today. I can not believe that it has been this long! It has been especially hard the last couple of weeks with the loss of a very close friend. This to shall pass. The s...	jeannie	5	699	Jan 28, 2006 by Rick
	Saturday (Preview) Staying in the Present Moment Often, one of our biggest questions is "What's going to happen?" We may ask this about our relationships, our career, our recovery, and our life. It is easy to tangle us up in worrisome thoughts. Worrying about what's going to happen blocks us from functioning eff...	Phil	0	474	Jan 28, 2006 by Phil
	Sorry, but I just HAD to (Preview) What do you call cheese that isn't yours? Nacho Cheese.	Doll	5	692	Jan 28, 2006 by franklin
	Daily Reflection Jan 28 (Preview) THE TREASURE OF THE PAST Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have -- the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and m...	Doll	2	680	Jan 28, 2006 by Doll
	So True (Preview) *I'm slipping when I begin to dislike the company and conversation of the Program. --Anonymous* There is a reason why a lamb gets separated from a flock. The flock will be eating on a particular pasture and a lamb will take a fancy to graze just off to the edge of the field. So the lamb takes a li...	Rick	5	821	Jan 28, 2006 by Bonzo43
	Yoo Hoo Phil (Preview) Just want to say hello and hope you are feeling a little better, sounds like you have a duzzy with the flu and a cold on top of if. Wishing you a Speedy Recovery!! Take good care of Phil! we need you around here! Toni NO B...	Toni Baloney	5	728	Jan 27, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	possibly a moment of clarity ??? (Preview) Thanks all for sharing your stuff with me yesterday. It was all excellent! Although I still feel a bit dis-come-bob-u-lated, I got up this morning feeling some better. Every now and then I have a fleeting moment of clarity and it hit me last night, maybe this hole is god's way of sayin...	Doll	3	678	Jan 27, 2006 by rosie light shines
	topic - living one day at a time (Preview) People appreciated the topic discussion shared on earlier.. so I decided to try my hand at posting up a topic. I have an approved list of discussion topics here, and was looking at them, cuz they fell off my shelf.. and decided that I'd pick one and put it up... and it turned out to be:...	amanda2u2	7	973	Jan 27, 2006 by GammyRose
	Feels like I've fallen into a Big Hole (Preview) I am writing this almost reluctantly, but her goes. When I joined MIP, I talked a lot about how difficult it was to lose a llitle friend of mine, Annie, my Kitty of 15+ years. I talked about it a lot, cryed a lot, prayed and prayed about her. Then I began to feel some relief from the excuiat...	Toni Baloney	6	760	Jan 27, 2006 by trudi
	Daily Reflection Jan 27 (Preview) FREEDOM FROM GUILT Where other people were concerned, we had to drop the word "blame" from our speech and thought. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 47 When I become willing to accept my own powerlessness, I begin to realize that blaming myself for all the trouble in my life can be an ego trip back i...	Doll	2	459	Jan 27, 2006 by Rick
	Friday (Preview) *When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden. --John Ruskin* What do we need most in order to be happy? Certainly we all need to be loved. Yet we need even more than that. The spirit also wishes to be needed. When we...	Phil	3	532	Jan 27, 2006 by Rick
	MY Big Hole (Preview) Well, what the Hell is my problem?! I don't get it. I really am happier than I've ever been in my life. I work this program, I'm practicing truth, I'm trying the solutions, nothing seems to be working today. I'm grateful for the fact that I have no desire to drink at this.... I'...	Doll	8	791	Jan 26, 2006 by amanda2u2
	THe pink cloud and the deep hole ? (Preview) The process of living, for each of us, is pretty similar. For every gain there is a setback. For every success, a failure. For every moment of joy, a time of sadness. For every hope realized, one is dashed. --Sue Atchley Ebaugh The balance of events in our lives is much like the balance of na...	Rick	3	833	Jan 26, 2006 by amanda2u2
	13th Annual Spring Fling, Galesburg, IL (Preview) Email: aa_springfling@yahoo.com (may have to type in) or contact phone # is 309-484-6012 (Larry)Alanon, AA, speakers [Rooms at COMFORT INN near Mall, $49. through April 7th with the mention of SPRING FLING.]&n...	wallsal55	1	604	Jan 26, 2006 by recovering jb
	dry drunk (Preview) The term 'dry drunk' is an important concept in the AA program. We say that first the alcoholic needs to dry out. When this is accomplished, by detox or whatever,,, we have an alcoholic with no alcohol in his or her system. But being dry, simply not drinking, is not the same as...	amanda2u2	8	2073	Jan 26, 2006 by Cabbageheadchris
	Relationship Co-Dependence (Preview) If you are in a relationship, check it out the next time you have a fight: Maybe you are both coming out of your twelve-year-olds. If you are a parent, maybe the reason you have a problem sometimes is because you are reacting to your six-year-old child out of the six-year-old child within y...	Phil	0	1074	Jan 26, 2006 by Phil
	Faith (Preview) Breathing your native air By Dr. Robert Schuller It's terribly important to understand that a believer is a normal person. Faith is the mark of normality. A persistently negative and cynical attitude is a mark of emotional illness. Birds were designed to fly. The air under the wings of a bir...	Rick	3	422	Jan 26, 2006 by GammyRose
	wow !! (Preview) TRYING TO CATCH UP ON POSTS What a job after a few days off. Toni I went thru losing 3 dogs and a cat. The first dog I had to put down. I beat myself up for a long time. Was it time?? Even though the vet said it was. The pain is unreal. I couldn't eat for days, then it was for ever bef...	Rick	1	644	Jan 26, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Anyone want to share? II (Preview) Hi does anyone feel like sharing: My Topic is: The Way out is in the 12 Steps (Thought I would copy something Jen did last night- it felt like an on-line meeting) How the 12 steps have changed who I am as a person, have given up being a manipulative, self-seeking person only inter...	Toni Baloney	6	764	Jan 26, 2006 by Rick
	Now it's my turn to get real! (Preview) I did it. I admit it. My Mother died 2 &1/2 years ago. Her value exceeded 1.5 mil. dollars in real estate and investments. When my step-father took control, I realized and accepted that whatever her wishes were for her part of her estate would be ignored and the will would be changed...	Chrisb	8	778	Jan 26, 2006 by Chrisb
	Daily Reflection Jan 25 (Preview) WHAT WE NEED - EACH OTHER . . . . A.A. is really saying to every serious drinker, "You are an A.A. member if you say so . . . nobody can keep you out." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 139 For years, whenever I reflected on Tradition Three ("The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop dr...	Doll	2	668	Jan 26, 2006 by Bonzo43
	Daily Reflection Jan 26 (Preview) RIGOROUS HONESTY Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant? Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done? Who cares anything about a Higher Power, let alone meditation and prayer? Who wants to sacrifice time and energy in trying to carry A.A.'s message to the ne...	Doll	1	572	Jan 25, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	a program story (Preview) A nice man was being tailgated by a stressed out woman on a busy boulevard. Suddenly, the light turned yellow, just in front of him. He did the right thing, stopping at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection. The tailgating woman hit the r...	Rick	3	654	Jan 25, 2006 by Chrisb
	Attitude about Pain has Changed! (Preview) Well you all know that I poured my heart out the other day, about some hurt that was inside me, that felt unconsolable. Well, it did get consoled, by your love and support, and my begging for help from my Higher Power. Today, what has changed in me is that the hurt is still there, but my Attitude ab...	Toni Baloney	3	782	Jan 25, 2006 by Chrisb
	AMANDA (Preview) ANSWER FROM THE OTHER DAY'S POST MY GRANDAUGHTER IS 3 AND ABLESSING FROM GOD I DON'T KNOW IF U READ MY POSTS FROM A WHILE BACK ANYWAY SHE WAS RAN OVER BY A SKID STEER ( BOB CAT LOADER ) SHE WAS CRITICAL AND IN INTENSIVE CARE AT THE MEDICAL CENTER NOW SHE IS DOING WELLCLEAN BILL OF HEALTH WE CA...	Rick	1	580	Jan 25, 2006 by amanda2u2
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