Alcoholics Anonymous

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...

Michelle · Michelle

At least here in my corner of the world, Portland Oregon. The rain has stopped, the sky is blue, the sun is shining! It's still cold outside, but I don't care, just to see the sun again after about a month of rain seem like a miracle! And, the husband is in the basement, leaving me alone.&nb...

wallsal55 · wallsal55

On the Alanon board I posted a Sixth Step Prayer. If you can click it and get it on this board for others, appreciate it...still have a lot to learn about 'puters!

recovering jb · recovering jb

90 days free of alcohol and other intoxicants- Wow, how a life can change so much so quickly. I was very alone, unemployed, in hospitals, losing my mind and falling apart physically, unable to go a day without drinking or using- when something got me to a meeting. Some things that I think have hel...

Doll · Doll

The topic I have picked - SOLUTIONS I'm an alcoholic and my problem today is Jennifer. For me there are many solutions I can use, ALL of them I have learned from AA and it's members, f2f and MIP. It depends on what the problem at hand is. It could be something simple, so I apply the "this to...

zoomie · zoomie

My sponcer passed away the other day after a long battle with cancer. I wrote this poem for him and he read right before he died. I will remember "the big D" always. Remember me. Remember me when the days are long, for I will not be here to share them with you. Remember me on short nights when sleep e...

Doll · Doll

I hear so many things that ARE NOT in the literature. So much psycho babble and so many profound-sounding statements rattling out of the mouths of those who want to either sound good or put someone else down. Then there are those who say those things just because they've heard them over and over....

Phil · Phil

1) DENIAL In the denial stage we refuse to believe what has happened. We try in our mind to tell ourselves that life is as it was before our loss. We can even make believe to an extent by re enacting rituals that we used to go through with our loved one. Making an extra cup of tea for our loved one who is no l...

Phil · Phil

The Ten Practical Points Of Recovery found in Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd. Edition Pages 58-60 1)"...thoroughly followed our path." p.58 line 2 2)"...completely give themselves..." p.58 line 3 3)"...developing...rigorous honesty." p.58 line 9 4)"...willing to go to...

Doll · Doll

Twenty Questions Revisited By: Charles N. Roper, PhD I feel healthy; I have energy and stamina. I like waking up in the morning to the promise of a new day. I have a healthy appetite for good, nutritious food. I make appropriate, rational decisions which usually turn out well. My gut-level feelings ab...

Michelle · Michelle

Hi, I'm new here, and I hope someone can give me some practical advice. How can I explain to my husband that his attitude really brings me down? He's very depressing to be around. He complains all the time about something or other, seems to hate the world, his life, and everyone ar...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

Well, I woke up this morning. It's all still here. Landlord, room, mess, shoulder. Last night I wanted to get drunk. The thing is that,,, even though we might not take a drink,,,, a dry drunk can be just as bad. I can do a great dry drunk,,,, carry on and all without the drink. That is...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

    &nb...

Doll · Doll

An alcoholic fell in a hole and couldn't get out. A businessman went by and the alcoholic called our for help. The businessman threw him some money and told him to buy himself a ladder. But the alcoholic would not buy a ladder in this hole he was in. A doctor walked by. The alcoholic said, "Help I can't ge...

amanda2u2 · amanda2u2

See? now... all of a sudden it hit me. I want to get drunk. I mean really schockered. I want the oblivion that comes from drinking enough to escape the present moment. I have H.A.L.T. I thought I was dealing with this hard day okay.... but... it is a...

Doll · Doll

And here's the proof, folks! I have been on thin ice w/my job for a while now, before I got sober I called in a LOT, so every call in over my 40 hour sick leave time is an occurance that goes on my record and it affects raises, bonuses, promotions etc. Well, the danger zone for these is 4 in a 12 month peri...

Doll · Doll

GETTING INVOLVED There is action and more action. "Faith without works is dead." . . . To be helpful is our only aim. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , pp. 88-89 I understand that service is a vital part of recovery but I often wonder, "What can I do?" Simply start with what I have today! I look around to see where the...

trudi · trudi

It would be nice to talk to other mothers who have had young children while they were drinking and the guilt that is associated with this.

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	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	1279	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	609	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	593	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	1798	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	665	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	612	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	789	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	779	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	843	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	622	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	850	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	844	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	989	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	892	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	838	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	1127	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	916	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	598	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	667	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	946	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	982	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	755	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	2380	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	1218	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	575	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	795	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	929	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	946	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	826	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	718	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	797	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	960	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	712	Jan 25, 2006 by amanda2u2
	It's a beautiful day!! (Preview) At least here in my corner of the world, Portland Oregon. The rain has stopped, the sky is blue, the sun is shining! It's still cold outside, but I don't care, just to see the sun again after about a month of rain seem like a miracle! And, the husband is in the basement, leaving me alone.&nb...	Michelle	4	818	Jan 25, 2006 by recovering jb
	Phil.....anyone (Preview) On the Alanon board I posted a Sixth Step Prayer. If you can click it and get it on this board for others, appreciate it...still have a lot to learn about 'puters!	wallsal55	2	625	Jan 25, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	I have 90 days sober today- (Preview) 90 days free of alcohol and other intoxicants- Wow, how a life can change so much so quickly. I was very alone, unemployed, in hospitals, losing my mind and falling apart physically, unable to go a day without drinking or using- when something got me to a meeting. Some things that I think have hel...	recovering jb	9	989	Jan 25, 2006 by GammyRose
	anyone want to share ? (Preview) The topic I have picked - SOLUTIONS I'm an alcoholic and my problem today is Jennifer. For me there are many solutions I can use, ALL of them I have learned from AA and it's members, f2f and MIP. It depends on what the problem at hand is. It could be something simple, so I apply the "this to...	Doll	6	927	Jan 25, 2006 by rosie light shines
	My sponcer passed away (Preview) My sponcer passed away the other day after a long battle with cancer. I wrote this poem for him and he read right before he died. I will remember "the big D" always. Remember me. Remember me when the days are long, for I will not be here to share them with you. Remember me on short nights when sleep e...	zoomie	8	865	Jan 25, 2006 by rosie light shines
	Where did this s%$t come from ???? (Preview) I hear so many things that ARE NOT in the literature. So much psycho babble and so many profound-sounding statements rattling out of the mouths of those who want to either sound good or put someone else down. Then there are those who say those things just because they've heard them over and over....	Doll	4	885	Jan 25, 2006 by rosie light shines
	5 stages of Grief (Preview) 1) DENIAL In the denial stage we refuse to believe what has happened. We try in our mind to tell ourselves that life is as it was before our loss. We can even make believe to an extent by re enacting rituals that we used to go through with our loved one. Making an extra cup of tea for our loved one who is no l...	Phil	4	1194	Jan 25, 2006 by GammyRose
	Recovering (Preview) The Ten Practical Points Of Recovery found in Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd. Edition Pages 58-60 1)"...thoroughly followed our path." p.58 line 2 2)"...completely give themselves..." p.58 line 3 3)"...developing...rigorous honesty." p.58 line 9 4)"...willing to go to...	Phil	1	776	Jan 24, 2006 by jersey
	results of recovery (Preview) Twenty Questions Revisited By: Charles N. Roper, PhD I feel healthy; I have energy and stamina. I like waking up in the morning to the promise of a new day. I have a healthy appetite for good, nutritious food. I make appropriate, rational decisions which usually turn out well. My gut-level feelings ab...	Doll	2	735	Jan 24, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Need avice please (Preview) Hi, I'm new here, and I hope someone can give me some practical advice. How can I explain to my husband that his attitude really brings me down? He's very depressing to be around. He complains all the time about something or other, seems to hate the world, his life, and everyone ar...	Michelle	13	726	Jan 24, 2006 by trudi
	well,,, here we are again (Preview) *Well, I woke up this morning. It's all still here. Landlord, room, mess, shoulder.* Last night I wanted to get drunk. The thing is that,,, even though we might not take a drink,,,, a dry drunk can be just as bad. I can do a great dry drunk,,,, carry on and all without the drink. That is...	amanda2u2	3	720	Jan 24, 2006 by Phil
	Thank you all!!Bunches (Preview)     &nb...	Toni Baloney	1	772	Jan 24, 2006 by Michelle
	You are not alone (especially for Amanda and Toni today) (Preview) An alcoholic fell in a hole and couldn't get out. A businessman went by and the alcoholic called our for help. The businessman threw him some money and told him to buy himself a ladder. But the alcoholic would not buy a ladder in this hole he was in. A doctor walked by. The alcoholic said, "Help I can't ge...	Doll	2	681	Jan 24, 2006 by Michelle
	uh oh (Preview) See? now... all of a sudden it hit me. I want to get drunk. I mean really schockered. I want the oblivion that comes from drinking enough to escape the present moment. I have H.A.L.T. I thought I was dealing with this hard day okay.... but... it is a...	amanda2u2	12	894	Jan 24, 2006 by amanda2u2
	God is doing for me what I can't do for myself (Preview) And here's the proof, folks! I have been on thin ice w/my job for a while now, before I got sober I called in a LOT, so every call in over my 40 hour sick leave time is an occurance that goes on my record and it affects raises, bonuses, promotions etc. Well, the danger zone for these is 4 in a 12 month peri...	Doll	3	1568	Jan 23, 2006 by GammyRose
	Daily Reflection Jan 24 (Preview) GETTING INVOLVED There is action and more action. "Faith without works is dead." . . . To be helpful is our only aim. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , pp. 88-89 I understand that service is a vital part of recovery but I often wonder, "What can I do?" Simply start with what I have today! I look around to see where the...	Doll	0	736	Jan 23, 2006 by Doll
	alcoholic mothers (Preview) It would be nice to talk to other mothers who have had young children while they were drinking and the guilt that is associated with this.	trudi	5	1151	Jan 23, 2006 by Michelle
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