today, havin lived several years in recovery and havin taken the time to take several personal moral inventorys on character defects and shortcomins, i have a firm belief that a return to a drink would be somethin that would cause catastrophic life change. i know i am not immune to alcohol or my alcoholism, i...
i couldnt live any more the way i was livin before my recovery began. my reliance on alcohol was killin me. i was doin and sayin stupid shit all the time. shit that was either gonna get me killed or i would kill somebody. people had left me because of my actions and words. i...
the beginnin of feelin any kind of peace began when i checked into the halfway house i stayed at. it wasnt like an overwhelmin relief, but i certainly felt relief. i think the feelin of peace started to truly grow after i had gotten to the 6th step. i had found out a lot about...
with the fellowship of recovery i find within it the effectiveness and unity i need for my own personal program of recovery. its like my early recovery, i needed help so i leaned on my sponsor. i copied him because my sponsor was a special person who had what i wanted. he had sobriety, he...
a majority of the people i associate with today are in recovery. i have friends outside of recovery and do things with em, but most of the shit i do for enjoyment usually involves others in recovery. before i came into the rooms i didnt think i could have a life if i didnt hang...
when i get conflicted, which happens often, ive learned to use what recovery has offered. i aint gotta try to figure it all out by myself today, i have a trove of people to help me. all i gotta do is ask. ive been taught how to reach out to others and when i dont,...
Here we be. Step Two again. "We came to believe a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." "We believe we must turn elsewhere for help". "There might be away out of this fucking mess." pick your version. Right now. I'm on the "there might be a way out of this fucking mess"...
with time in recovery i like to think i have been able to build the qualities of good judgment, a careful sense of timin, courage, and prudence. i know i did not have any clue of what any of these character assets meant when i first came into recovery. i can recollect tellin my sponsor...
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 5pm UK time GSAA meeting today I feel GRATEFUL that I was able to sub today and chair the meeting Y'all truly area a FABULOUS bunch of folks Amanda in Scotland...
The letter appeared in the "Grapevine" January, 1953. EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY "I think that many oldsters who have put our AA "booze cure" to severe but successful tests still find they often lack emotional sobriety. Perhaps they will be the spearhead for the next major development in AA, the development of much more real maturity and...