Embarrassed

nique · Senior Member

Embarrassed

Quetzal · MIP Old Timer

Hey Allison,

It's great to see you posting again! I really mean that.

It's good news about your tongue and you must be relieved.

Try not to beat yourself up about your last drink, but try to learn from it instead. Get to as many meetings as you can and share about what happened and how you feel. You won't be alone. Get as many 'phone numbers from women as possible and keep in contact with them. Work the steps.

And, please keep posting here and letting us all know how things are going for you, won't you?

Prayers going up for you.

(((Hugs)))

Carol

lani · MIP Old Timer

Hey Allison
No need to be embarrassed! We all go through crazy stuff! Now is a great time to really surrender, pour your heart and soul into sobriety, if thats what you want, and get busy!! The suggestions Carol made make sense! Take care of you! Use the tools available to overcome any other obstacle that may come your way. If we were to drink over every drama, hell we'd be drunk daily!

I have found that life is much easier sober. I call my sponsor, hit meetings daily if not working and pray like mad to get me over the humps. Once I have incorporated all that I have learned in the program into my daily life I find it much easier to deal with things.

For me today, drinking is not an option! Yes I have been awfully close but I "play back the tape" and so dont want to go there! Do I want to numb crap in my life somedays? Absolutely!!! But to drink is to die and kill all the progress I have made within my self and within my circle of family and friends. I so dont want to be the person I used to be!

You are a special person and have alot to share and to give to others! Dont waste the precious gift that is YOU!!!!!

Doll · MIP Old Timer

The ONLY thing that stands between us and another drink is a power greater than ourselves.

((hug)) girlie!

Glad to see you....... Jen

thomasg · Newbie

It's the mind games that get me if I do this that I can cope don't buy the big packs as I will drink them all and wonder in the morning who been at my beer. I find it quite difficlult to go to meeting being a bit deaf much of it misses the point A small meeting would be better also I find that the meeting start a bit late and I get very boord with the TV and will walk up to the Village just for one or maybe two

-- Edited by thomasg at 11:16, 2008-10-02

Doll · MIP Old Timer

thomasg wrote:
I find it quite difficlult to go to meeting being a bit deaf much of it misses the point ..... also I find that the meeting start a bit late.....

"If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it........" AA Big Book, pp58 4th Edition

Welcome to MIP

Phil · MIP Old Timer

Cunning...Baffling....Powerful.

Deafhawk · Member

I searched this board for "deaf" and it is interesting that all but this posting was prayers not to be deaf. "everything in this world is exactly the way it should be" (Big Book "Doctor, Addict, Alcoholic" - or whatever they changed it to in the 4th edition) I miss much of what people say with their voice, but I "hear" everything they say with their face - more than they want me to know much of the time. We hear differently, not better or worse than anybody else. That difference needs to be accommodated. In AA unfortunately we have to accommodate ourselves. The number of interpreted meetings attest to how much AA wants to carry the message to Deaf. Move around the room to be close to each person speaking at discussion meetings. Write notes to the people next to you to ask them what is going on. Most of all, know that it is a spiritual program. Take your body to a meeting every day and your spirit goes along with it. The connection you make with other souls in the room does not require hearing. Yes, we have to go to greater lengths because AA goes to no lengths. But then we are going to hear many things that those people with listening disabilities don't even know they are missing. Read more about this in How It Works

StPeteDean · MIP Old Timer

Hey Greg,
welcome! Everyone's hearing ability is accommodated here

. Please make an introductory thread so that we can welcome your properly. Glad that you found your way here.

Dean

Dakota · Senior Member

Deafhawk wrote:

I searched this board for "deaf" and it is interesting that all but this posting was prayers not to be deaf. "everything in this world is exactly the way it should be" (Big Book "Doctor, Addict, Alcoholic" - or whatever they changed it to in the 4th edition) I miss much of what people say with their voice, but I "hear" everything they say with their face - more than they want me to know much of the time. We hear differently, not better or worse than anybody else. That difference needs to be accommodated. In AA unfortunately we have to accommodate ourselves. The number of interpreted meetings attest to how much AA wants to carry the message to Deaf. Move around the room to be close to each person speaking at discussion meetings. Write notes to the people next to you to ask them what is going on. Most of all, know that it is a spiritual program. Take your body to a meeting every day and your spirit goes along with it. The connection you make with other souls in the room does not require hearing. Yes, we have to go to greater lengths because AA goes to no lengths. But then we are going to hear many things that those people with listening disabilities don't even know they are missing. Read more about this in How It Works

Oh cool, you are the author too! I didn't realize that in being deaf the way you prefer to read/ write would be different too.. I am hearing...and naive to stuff that if I were more thoughtful, wouldn't be! I would like to read an excerpt from your book.

Anybody that I have met and friends I have that are deaf are probably the most in touch people i know. If you speak sign, then you have that language. And of course reading another person/ lips or body language is good.

I know what it is like to be at a party and be the only "hearing" person in the room. It can feel mighty lonely! But I love how quiet it is in a way, but would much rather be capable to communicate with everyone. Writing on paper takes so long but it is at least a way.

Like Pete said, hearing isn't an issue here though, and of course typing is waay simpler than handwriting.

; )

Welcome to mip!!