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TipsyMcstagger · Senior Member

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StPeteDean · MIP Old Timer

Hey TM, that's sounds good. What I did, after a couple years of doing it my way and not "getting it" was to make a list of all the suggestions that I never did or never consistently did. Then implemented them into my program. For me those were: going to meetings daily (in my case for the first 3 years), replacing my drinking buddies with successfully recovering friends and doing extra curricular activities with them, taking a service job in a meeting, making a step meeting, men's meeting, a morning meeting, and a couple noon meetings part of my routine, using a sponsor and working the steps (of course) and sharing a house with other sober people for the first 5 years. The people that make it turn the obsessive/compulsiveness toward getting sober. I went to meetings with my sponsor, in the beginning, and he had me getting to the meetings early, introducing myself to the chair person and a few others each time, picking a seat at the table or front row, being the first person (or one of the first) to raise my hand and share, staying after the meeting and meeting a few more people. I also found that attending several meetings a week at an AA club helped me to get to know people and visa versa.

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turninggrey · MIP Old Timer

Hey Tipsy,
Stay optimistic. Screw the devil on your shoulder because you are powerless over him anyway, but the program gives you the tools to keep the devil boxed away.

Mike B. · MIP Old Timer

Tipsy,
Ditto to the above suggestions. Let that demon talk all he wants, just don't listen or react to him. He has no leverage or strength against a solid program of action: AA.

Jerry F · MIP Old Timer

Aloha James...almost sounds like you ended that with a resentment which we all can ill
afford, I think I read and heard that a time or two on this journey.

Good work and commitment young man keep holding on to it and I have recently been
to meetings where we have discussed that little bastard that takes residence upon some
of our shoulders. The real topic was on the presence and the reality of our subconscious
minds and alcoholism...It's real and we can give it power...or it has no power at all just
a figment that seems to be real. I have just gotten aquainted with more literature from
inside the program that has helped me to continue understanding that and what it takes
to strengthen myself against my subconscious alcohol trained mind.

I am glad that there was no requirement that I had to "get" the program and my own
recovery over a short period of time and certain number of meetings. The keep coming
back suggestion even to this old timer is priceless. Sooooo Keep coming back.

In support smile

newcomer · Senior Member

Yes, I know that feeling with the 'itty bitty sh**** committee' as we call it here, perched just behind you, letting you know, a thing I came across a few months ago when I was hit with a task that I have since completed but it felt insurmountable was, that when we engage with this 'arrogant self-criticism' its like we know best and we are refusing to hand anything over, which is so true, wishing you well and delighted you are back.

jasperkent · Senior Member

TM, I am very familiar with that demon who says "You don't deserve happiness."
I used to let the little $#!%-head talk me into drinking again. No more. I only take to heart the opinions of people I respect.

I'm a true believer in the saying Meeting Makers Make It. Not only did the folks at AA tell me to keep coming back, they assured me that they would love me until I could learn to love myself. And they continue loving me, too.

Love ya.
Glad yer here.
Keep coming back.