Alcoholics Anonymous

Sobrietyspell · Sobrietyspell

I spent my singular years in wonder of the world, wondering what was going on, what did it all mean, knowing only what was going on around me, moving around, family disruption, different schools, new faces, not knowing who I was yet feeling incredibly loving and special though confused and innoce...

Ted Bundo · Ted Bundo

Hey everyone. I'm new to alcoholics anonymous and am wondering where to find a good aa meeting in florida? I mean, I know they're all over the place down here, but I don't know the difference between open, closed, big book, step, etc. Thanks in advance! -- Edited by Ted Bundo on Wednesday 3rd of July 2019...

blueboy71 · blueboy71

So its here day one of community detox started my meds today. Feeling a bit detached and just trying to take it one day at a time. This is the second detox I have undertaken wish me luck. Looking forward to going in to aa next week back in to the rooms to get the support and start the 12 twelve step program

annt · annt

and there must be a reason. Anybody know? Thank you.

blueboy71 · blueboy71

Hi all, It has taken me over two years to come back to this site I'm about to start my journey of recovery for the second time. Two years ago I abstained from alcohol for 7 months only to foolishly think I could manage myself on a very small amount be a social drinker. How wrong was I in these two years I got mar...

ndgeller · ndgeller

I am heading to Los Angeles this Friday Does anyone have any particular meetings to suggest? I know how to access the meeting schedule. I was just wondering if anyone has any "recommendations" Thanks!

Loo53 · Loo53

Hi date of sobriety May 4th 1997: I got sober in Metropolitan Crypt and various other places in Liverpool.

LoneStar · LoneStar

8 years sober as of 4-11-19

tlb5230 · tlb5230

I am a professional, a wife, a mother, and an extremely high functioning alcoholic. My story is probably no different than most others. My alcoholism is well hidden - to a certain extent. Most (not all) people have no idea and honestly, there is a part of me that gets a strange feeling of "accomplishmen...

Eds · Eds

Hi all. I'm a recovering double winner female, looking for a group to call home on my travels. I'm in an isolated little place where the bars are plenty and the meetings few; I won't be attending what passes for AA here. I can say I've reached a place of not wanting to drink, which for me is also needing to dr...

dorothy2019 · dorothy2019

Faith led me out of the Forest of Fear

Still plugging · Still plugging

Iâve been sober for almost 2 months now. I very seldom have cravings anymore. Iâm going to 5 or 6 meetings per week. Well intentioned friends keep asking me everyday if Iâm still sober and itâs starting to really tick me off. Makes me think that they only see me as a âbroken drunkâ who needs looked after. I...

Percival · Percival

An anniversary is special...a Jubilee anniversary (every five years) is a little extra special: Like Bill Wilson I was a Wall Streeter in my first Career out of Graduate School....Yes I was acquainted with Bill Wilson in N.Y. but it was not an AA connection..in the late '60s At the end of my drinking I w...

Varnz706 · Varnz706

I am now 30 days sober. Tonight I asked someone that I have a gained a good relationship through the aa community to be my sponsor. I am now working on my first step with him and it has been a big eye opener to me. This past month has been a roller coaster of emotions and trying to find myself in sobriety. I have...

peecee · peecee

Well - I made it to a decade. WTF. LOL. Wanted to drop in and say hi! This was a huge part of my earlier recovery! Thanks all for being here for me.

Visionz · Visionz

A reminder of how stigmatizing alcoholism is. I have an aunt who lost a son to this thing years ago. Cousin and I were close in our youth. To this day, aunt doesn't like or can't be around me because I completely turned my life around and am sober and (somewhat) normal again. She probably secretly has tha...

davep12and12 · davep12and12

Hi all, Well it's that time of year again and I'll be heading off on my annual trip to some new country. This time it's Ecuador. I'll be spending about three weeks traveling through the Andes mountains from Quito to Cuenca, via some small mountain towns and villages along the way. I have located an Engl...

mandm · mandm

Hello everyone. Just stopped by to say hello .. been sober forever now at least 4 years stopped counting a long time ago. For everyone new to this board just keep at it. With time it gets easier. I also found drastically changing my environment and associations was the key to my success . Now 4 years l...

Tanin · Tanin

The calendar today reminds me of an indisputable miracle: I was relieved of the compulsion to drink alcohol. This happened through the program of Alcoholics Anonymous and the help of all of the AA members I have met in person and online. Thanks to AA and all of you. I could never have done it without help...

JerryF · JerryF

and I continue to be blessed by it all. Aloha MIP AA Family recovery and thank you all who have participated in my 40 year journey. My home group just on the outskirts of Hilo is the AA at the Bay Saturday and Sunday versions. The groups was founded over 24 years ago by several double winners including...

cindy · cindy

i feel like im not coping at all well with the move, barely scraped through christmas and my dad whos been an addict for all my life and before i was born is dying. anyone who was raised in addict homes knows how difficult and complicated your relationships are with the "parents" lots of feelings about th...

Sober Shadow · Sober Shadow

New to the forum. Hello

Phoenixjen · Phoenixjen

I'm so afraid of failing yet again. It hurts my daughter that I've tried and failed. She takes it personally. I don't want to fail, I don't want to let anybody down. I want to stop feeling ashamed.

Visionz · Visionz

https://youtu.be/H6C1_pU5t9A

Tanin · Tanin

Kickoff is in an hour. I am sober today. I am grateful. A miracle. Super Bowl used to be a two-drunk day...

Tanin · Tanin

...some of us found that, in our initial nondrinking days, the suggestions and comradeship offered by an A.A. sponsor helped us greatly to stay sober. Others of us waited until we had visited many groups and met many A.A.'s before we finally called on a sponsor's help.Some of us found formal prayer a s...

flertch19 · flertch19

dOES ANYONE HAVE THIS AUDIO?

Tanin · Tanin

In Alcoholics Anonymous, we call Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years the Bermuda triangle of alcoholism.Thats because so many problem drinkers start off the holiday season with good intentions, but all too often drown in a sea of family and office parties.Somehow, alcoholics and non-proble...

Tanin · Tanin

This issue came up at a group conscience meeting recently. The question raised was whether there was any guidance from AA or AA experience about certain holiday season displays that might evoke religious concepts or sentiments in AA meetings where the AA group had total control of the meeting spac...

annt · annt

I cry everyday when I think of the horrible loss to our family. I have been divorced for years. I left my husband many years ago. I never knew until recently the exact reason I left him. He came home from a trip overseas with a bottle of wine for "us" to drink. It wasn't wine, but was liquor. I can't drink liqu...

Tanin · Tanin

https://fox17online.com/2019/01/03/more-than-15-million-americans-have-alcohol-use-disorder-study-says/

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

December 31, 2018Quote of the Week"If I keep doing what I was doing, Ill keep getting what I was getting." I remember when I was new to recovery I was very willing to follow direction. I went to ninety meetings in ninety days, got a home group, got a minimum of four commitments at various meetings, got a...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Accepting Love Many of us have worked too hard to make relationships work; sometimes those relationships didn't have a chance because the other person was unavailable or refused to participate. To compensate for the other person's unavailability, we worked too hard. We may have done all or most of...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

December 24, 2018Quote of the Week"Sometimes you dont realize that all you need is God, until all you have is God." Even after years in recovery and with all my sober experience, Im still amazed by my tendency to put so many things before God. Many times, Im convinced that if only I were retired or had e...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

December 17, 2018Quote of the Week"The most spiritual thing you can do is to help someone." One of the most important things Ive learned in the program is that whenever two alcoholics get together, God is present. I feel the energy of God flow through me as I talk with, listen to, and help another per...

Tanin · Tanin

hindsfoot.org/lightbillw.pdf Important date...84 years ago...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

December 10, 2018Quote of the Week"I know I have another drunk in me, but I dont know if I have another recovery." A shiver shot down my spine when I first heard this quote. I know how easy it would be for me to pick up a cold Heineken or glass of Cabernet Sauvignon at a nice restaurant. And my disease even tr...

JerryF · JerryF

Aloha Brothers and Sisters in recovery. I woke up to the page of the day in our Daily Reflection reader and was spiritually stunned at the reading. It was and still is astounding to me that our recovery can produce the depth of spirituality that it does. I read it slow over and then over and then read i...

mikef · mikef

Each year and in humble gratitude and God's grace and mercy I post my story.Thank you Lord for each day that has led to decades of uninterrupted daily recovery. It was a very cold December 2nd morning in 1984 as I "came to" from another drug induced evening.I was 6 months into my 3rd marriage and the more...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

... [To] take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again. --Thomas More We take different kinds of pleasure in giving. Perhaps the purest is the gift to a child so young it doesn't really know who the gift came from; the pu...

WebHelper · WebHelper

Please visit the MIP AA business forum to participate in a group conscience about technical improvements to the MIP AA site. -- Your WebHelper team

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

November 26, 2018Quote of the Week"After five years of sobriety you get your brains back, after ten you learn how to use them, and after fifteen years you realize you never needed them anyway." What a cord of recognition this struck when I first heard it at ten years sober. I remember the first five ye...

recoverytodayapp · recoverytodayapp

Please check out the new Android app named Recovery Today, free in the Google Play store. It has seven different readings in there, you can select the reading and select any day from the calendar. It is free and there are no ads - I'm just a recovering AA member and wanted to share it. For now it's only a...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

November 19, 2018Quote of the Week"Happiness is not having what I want, but wanting what I have." I spent many years trying to get things to make me happy. If only I could get my college degree, then Id be happy. As soon as I move to the right city, then Ill feel fulfilled. When I meet the one, then I will b...

Still plugging · Still plugging

The longer I try to live out this prayer in my life the more impossible it seems. The idea of having serenity even though some people will NEVER forgive me, no matter how many times I make amends is appalling, infuriating, nauseating, overwhelming, etc... And then trying to muster up the courage to cha...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

November 12, 2018Quote of the Week"Give all your problems to God. Hell be up all night anyway!" When I first heard this saying, I instantly thought of all the nights I used to lie in bed worrying, rehashing, or trying to solve all my problems. In fact, before early recovery it was actually easier to sl...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

November 5, 2018Quote of the Week"When did [. . .] become your Higher Power?" I used to believe that people, places, or things would fix me. I was sure that if only I could get the perfect relationship or career, or finally have enough money to be set for life, or whatever, then I would be happy or secure...

edouglaspratt · edouglaspratt

Our AA literature tells us this is a spiritual program, not a religious program. That we are expected to develop faith in our Higher Power. But our imperfect founders persisted in using the monotheistic term "god" as if it's a synonym for Higher Power; and further referred to their god as male, as Chr...

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	My Early Recovery (DoS 01.10.2006) (Preview) I spent my singular years in wonder of the world, wondering what was going on, what did it all mean, knowing only what was going on around me, moving around, family disruption, different schools, new faces, not knowing who I was yet feeling incredibly loving and special though confused and innoce...	Sobrietyspell	1	4341	Jul 18, 2019 by Tanin
	What type of meeting should I go to for my first one? (Preview) Hey everyone. I'm new to alcoholics anonymous and am wondering where to find a good aa meeting in florida? I mean, I know they're all over the place down here, but I don't know the difference between open, closed, big book, step, etc. Thanks in advance! -- Edited by Ted Bundo on Wednesday 3rd of July 2019...	Ted Bundo	2	5058	Jul 6, 2019 by Tanin
	DAY ONE COMMUNITY DETOX (Preview) So its here day one of community detox started my meds today. Feeling a bit detached and just trying to take it one day at a time. This is the second detox I have undertaken wish me luck. Looking forward to going in to aa next week back in to the rooms to get the support and start the 12 twelve step program	blueboy71	2	3866	Jun 28, 2019 by Tanin
	Could someone PLEASE tell me the reason why I was made to drink whiskey at the age of 14? It is most perplexing to me (Preview) and there must be a reason. Anybody know? Thank you.	annt	3	4240	Jun 14, 2019 by Tanin
	Second Attempt (Preview) Hi all, It has taken me over two years to come back to this site I'm about to start my journey of recovery for the second time. Two years ago I abstained from alcohol for 7 months only to foolishly think I could manage myself on a very small amount be a social drinker. How wrong was I in these two years I got mar...	blueboy71	4	4774	May 5, 2019 by Visionz
	Suggest a meeting in Los Angeles on a Friday night (Preview) I am heading to Los Angeles this Friday Does anyone have any particular meetings to suggest? I know how to access the meeting schedule. I was just wondering if anyone has any "recommendations" Thanks!	ndgeller	1	5319	Apr 26, 2019 by Tanin
	DOS. (Preview) Hi date of sobriety May 4th 1997: I got sober in Metropolitan Crypt and various other places in Liverpool.	Loo53	2	3044	Apr 23, 2019 by Pythonpappy
	4-11-19 (Preview) 8 years sober as of 4-11-19	LoneStar	2	4205	Apr 16, 2019 by Pythonpappy
	Where do I start (Preview) I am a professional, a wife, a mother, and an extremely high functioning alcoholic. My story is probably no different than most others. My alcoholism is well hidden - to a certain extent. Most (not all) people have no idea and honestly, there is a part of me that gets a strange feeling of "accomplishmen...	tlb5230	8	5514	Apr 16, 2019 by Pythonpappy
	Touching base (Preview) Hi all. I'm a recovering double winner female, looking for a group to call home on my travels. I'm in an isolated little place where the bars are plenty and the meetings few; I won't be attending what passes for AA here. I can say I've reached a place of not wanting to drink, which for me is also needing to dr...	Eds	3	3515	Mar 26, 2019 by ThereIsOne
	RE: Daily Reflections / As Bill Sees It (Preview) Faith led me out of the Forest of Fear	dorothy2019	0	5633	Mar 24, 2019 by dorothy2019
	Irritating friends who mean well (Preview) Iâve been sober for almost 2 months now. I very seldom have cravings anymore. Iâm going to 5 or 6 meetings per week. Well intentioned friends keep asking me everyday if Iâm still sober and itâs starting to really tick me off. Makes me think that they only see me as a âbroken drunkâ who needs looked after. I...	Still plugging	11	3381	Mar 19, 2019 by ThereIsOne
	Jubilee Anniversary TODAY 45 Years (Preview) An anniversary is special...a Jubilee anniversary (every five years) is a little extra special: Like Bill Wilson I was a Wall Streeter in my first Career out of Graduate School....Yes I was acquainted with Bill Wilson in N.Y. but it was not an AA connection..in the late '60s At the end of my drinking I w...	Percival	4	3683	Mar 19, 2019 by ThereIsOne
	Finding myself in sobriety (Preview) I am now 30 days sober. Tonight I asked someone that I have a gained a good relationship through the aa community to be my sponsor. I am now working on my first step with him and it has been a big eye opener to me. This past month has been a roller coaster of emotions and trying to find myself in sobriety. I have...	Varnz706	4	3638	Mar 18, 2019 by Visionz
	10 years! (Preview) Well - I made it to a decade. WTF. LOL. Wanted to drop in and say hi! This was a huge part of my earlier recovery! Thanks all for being here for me.	peecee	5	3018	Mar 18, 2019 by StPeteDean
	Unseen effects (Preview) A reminder of how stigmatizing alcoholism is. I have an aunt who lost a son to this thing years ago. Cousin and I were close in our youth. To this day, aunt doesn't like or can't be around me because I completely turned my life around and am sober and (somewhat) normal again. She probably secretly has tha...	Visionz	3	3490	Mar 14, 2019 by JeremyB
	AA meetings in Ecuador (Preview) Hi all, Well it's that time of year again and I'll be heading off on my annual trip to some new country. This time it's Ecuador. I'll be spending about three weeks traveling through the Andes mountains from Quito to Cuenca, via some small mountain towns and villages along the way. I have located an Engl...	davep12and12	5	5166	Mar 11, 2019 by Rayo
	Sober forever now (Preview) Hello everyone. Just stopped by to say hello .. been sober forever now at least 4 years stopped counting a long time ago. For everyone new to this board just keep at it. With time it gets easier. I also found drastically changing my environment and associations was the key to my success . Now 4 years l...	mandm	4	3399	Mar 8, 2019 by mikef
	Soberversary (Preview) The calendar today reminds me of an indisputable miracle: I was relieved of the compulsion to drink alcohol. This happened through the program of Alcoholics Anonymous and the help of all of the AA members I have met in person and online. Thanks to AA and all of you. I could never have done it without help...	Tanin	4	2635	Mar 8, 2019 by mikef
	It continues... (Preview) and I continue to be blessed by it all. Aloha MIP AA Family recovery and thank you all who have participated in my 40 year journey. My home group just on the outskirts of Hilo is the AA at the Bay Saturday and Sunday versions. The groups was founded over 24 years ago by several double winners including...	JerryF	1	2796	Mar 8, 2019 by mikef
	too much! (Preview) i feel like im not coping at all well with the move, barely scraped through christmas and my dad whos been an addict for all my life and before i was born is dying. anyone who was raised in addict homes knows how difficult and complicated your relationships are with the "parents" lots of feelings about th...	cindy	8	2690	Feb 28, 2019 by CraigAH
	Hello (Preview) New to the forum. Hello	Sober Shadow	2	4068	Feb 12, 2019 by Sober Shadow
	Afraid (Preview) I'm so afraid of failing yet again. It hurts my daughter that I've tried and failed. She takes it personally. I don't want to fail, I don't want to let anybody down. I want to stop feeling ashamed.	Phoenixjen	8	3231	Feb 9, 2019 by Tanin
	An hour of Bob D (Preview) https://youtu.be/H6C1_pU5t9A	Visionz	1	3988	Feb 3, 2019 by Tanin
	Super Bowl Miracle (Preview) Kickoff is in an hour. I am sober today. I am grateful. A miracle. Super Bowl used to be a two-drunk day...	Tanin	0	3235	Feb 3, 2019 by Tanin
	Keep An Open Mind About AA (Preview) ...some of us found that, in our initial nondrinking days, the suggestions and comradeship offered by an A.A. sponsor helped us greatly to stay sober. Others of us waited until we had visited many groups and met many A.A.'s before we finally called on a sponsor's help.Some of us found formal prayer a s...	Tanin	4	2865	Jan 28, 2019 by JerryF
	Bob Earl audio subject "SHOWING UP" HEARD 20 25 YEARS AGO (Preview) dOES ANYONE HAVE THIS AUDIO?	flertch19	1	5971	Jan 24, 2019 by Tanin
	How to navigate the 'Bermuda Triangle' of holiday drinking (Preview) In Alcoholics Anonymous, we call Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years the Bermuda triangle of alcoholism.Thats because so many problem drinkers start off the holiday season with good intentions, but all too often drown in a sea of family and office parties.Somehow, alcoholics and non-proble...	Tanin	11	4202	Jan 18, 2019 by LoneStar
	Any Problem With Holiday Religious Displays In AA Meeting Places? (Preview) This issue came up at a group conscience meeting recently. The question raised was whether there was any guidance from AA or AA experience about certain holiday season displays that might evoke religious concepts or sentiments in AA meetings where the AA group had total control of the meeting spac...	Tanin	2	2214	Jan 18, 2019 by LoneStar
	Took me years of recovery to uncover what was done to me (Preview) I cry everyday when I think of the horrible loss to our family. I have been divorced for years. I left my husband many years ago. I never knew until recently the exact reason I left him. He came home from a trip overseas with a bottle of wine for "us" to drink. It wasn't wine, but was liquor. I can't drink liqu...	annt	10	3486	Jan 18, 2019 by LoneStar
	Alcohol Use Disorder On Rise In U.S. (Preview) https://fox17online.com/2019/01/03/more-than-15-million-americans-have-alcohol-use-disorder-study-says/	Tanin	4	1736	Jan 16, 2019 by Pythonpappy
	Wisdom of the Rooms 12-31 (Preview) December 31, 2018Quote of the Week"If I keep doing what I was doing, Ill keep getting what I was getting." I remember when I was new to recovery I was very willing to follow direction. I went to ninety meetings in ninety days, got a home group, got a minimum of four commitments at various meetings, got a...	Pythonpappy	0	2868	Dec 31, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - Dec (Preview) Accepting Love Many of us have worked too hard to make relationships work; sometimes those relationships didn't have a chance because the other person was unavailable or refused to participate. To compensate for the other person's unavailability, we worked too hard. We may have done all or most of...	Pythonpappy	30	2622	Dec 31, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	Simple Reminders - Dec (Preview)	Pythonpappy	13	3330	Dec 30, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	Wisdom of the Rooms 12-24 (Preview) December 24, 2018Quote of the Week"Sometimes you dont realize that all you need is God, until all you have is God." Even after years in recovery and with all my sober experience, Im still amazed by my tendency to put so many things before God. Many times, Im convinced that if only I were retired or had e...	Pythonpappy	0	2870	Dec 24, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	Wisdom of the Rooms 12-17 (Preview) December 17, 2018Quote of the Week"The most spiritual thing you can do is to help someone." One of the most important things Ive learned in the program is that whenever two alcoholics get together, God is present. I feel the energy of God flow through me as I talk with, listen to, and help another per...	Pythonpappy	0	3093	Dec 17, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	Bill Wilson's White Light Experience - December 14, 1934 (Preview) hindsfoot.org/lightbillw.pdf Important date...84 years ago...	Tanin	1	3279	Dec 16, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	Wisdom of the Rooms 12-10 (Preview) December 10, 2018Quote of the Week"I know I have another drunk in me, but I dont know if I have another recovery." A shiver shot down my spine when I first heard this quote. I know how easy it would be for me to pick up a cold Heineken or glass of Cabernet Sauvignon at a nice restaurant. And my disease even tr...	Pythonpappy	0	1699	Dec 10, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	12/6 Daily Reflection (Preview) Aloha Brothers and Sisters in recovery. I woke up to the page of the day in our Daily Reflection reader and was spiritually stunned at the reading. It was and still is astounding to me that our recovery can produce the depth of spirituality that it does. I read it slow over and then over and then read i...	JerryF	1	2513	Dec 7, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	One more year in daily Recovery (Preview) Each year and in humble gratitude and God's grace and mercy I post my story.Thank you Lord for each day that has led to decades of uninterrupted daily recovery. It was a very cold December 2nd morning in 1984 as I "came to" from another drug induced evening.I was 6 months into my 3rd marriage and the more...	mikef	4	3007	Dec 4, 2018 by JerryF
	Simple Reminders - Nov (Preview)	Pythonpappy	14	3888	Nov 30, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift - Nov (Preview) ... [To] take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again. --Thomas More We take different kinds of pleasure in giving. Perhaps the purest is the gift to a child so young it doesn't really know who the gift came from; the pu...	Pythonpappy	27	3000	Nov 30, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	Request for group conscience on site technical improvements (Preview) Please visit the MIP AA business forum to participate in a group conscience about technical improvements to the MIP AA site. -- Your WebHelper team	WebHelper	0	3412	Nov 27, 2018 by WebHelper
	Wisdom of the Rooms 11-26 (Preview) November 26, 2018Quote of the Week"After five years of sobriety you get your brains back, after ten you learn how to use them, and after fifteen years you realize you never needed them anyway." What a cord of recognition this struck when I first heard it at ten years sober. I remember the first five ye...	Pythonpappy	0	3376	Nov 26, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	New Daily Readings App Readings App (Preview) Please check out the new Android app named Recovery Today, free in the Google Play store. It has seven different readings in there, you can select the reading and select any day from the calendar. It is free and there are no ads - I'm just a recovering AA member and wanted to share it. For now it's only a...	recoverytodayapp	1	2814	Nov 19, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	Wisdom of the Rooms 11-19 (Preview) November 19, 2018Quote of the Week"Happiness is not having what I want, but wanting what I have." I spent many years trying to get things to make me happy. If only I could get my college degree, then Id be happy. As soon as I move to the right city, then Ill feel fulfilled. When I meet the one, then I will b...	Pythonpappy	0	1403	Nov 19, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	Serenity prayer (Preview) The longer I try to live out this prayer in my life the more impossible it seems. The idea of having serenity even though some people will NEVER forgive me, no matter how many times I make amends is appalling, infuriating, nauseating, overwhelming, etc... And then trying to muster up the courage to cha...	Still plugging	4	2848	Nov 15, 2018 by Pablomoses
	Wisdom of the Rooms 11-12 (Preview) November 12, 2018Quote of the Week"Give all your problems to God. Hell be up all night anyway!" When I first heard this saying, I instantly thought of all the nights I used to lie in bed worrying, rehashing, or trying to solve all my problems. In fact, before early recovery it was actually easier to sl...	Pythonpappy	0	2674	Nov 12, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	Wisdom of the Rooms 11-5 (Preview) November 5, 2018Quote of the Week"When did [. . .] become your Higher Power?" I used to believe that people, places, or things would fix me. I was sure that if only I could get the perfect relationship or career, or finally have enough money to be set for life, or whatever, then I would be happy or secure...	Pythonpappy	0	4067	Nov 5, 2018 by Pythonpappy
	Preserving the integrity of AA (Preview) Our AA literature tells us this is a spiritual program, not a religious program. That we are expected to develop faith in our Higher Power. But our imperfect founders persisted in using the monotheistic term "god" as if it's a synonym for Higher Power; and further referred to their god as male, as Chr...	edouglaspratt	11	1296	Nov 2, 2018 by Visionz
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