http://www.aa.org/subpage.cfm?page=199 ... ... Who's going? I think that I am. Planning on going thursday thru saturday night ... ... 2010 INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS The 2010 International Convention of Alcoholics Anonymous ...
Hello family, ... ... What I present here is a request for your help. This request and your response to it does not and will not effect Miracles In Progress 12 Step Recovery Forums. It is a personal request for financial help. Please allow me a m...
This thread is for posting websites with free audio files of AA speakers and particularly ... your favorite Speakers,favorite talks by speakers. Here's a site with quite a lot of speaker tapes to listen to, including many of Bill W. ... ... http://...
This thread is an archive for members to post their "Story" in a collection in a convenient location for others to read. Please be sure to include the post sobriety portion. Please create an original thread for your story, so that others ...
Please use this thread to post (and find) links to sites containing AA literature, step work, or other spiritual material that has helped you. No spam, self promotion, or sites that could be deemed as controversial with regards to the program or sp...
Use this thread to post your sobriety date and any other related stuff like where you got sober, and what group if you like. ... I got this idea from the NA board, which has 3 pages of replies, most of which are less than a year. ... ... Mine is J...
... Please accept this as your personal invitation to join us at the Miracles In Progress 12 Step Recovery Forums Step Work Board and share with us, your own experience, strength and hope. If you are new to recovery, you can ask question...
Source: Good Housekeeping, March 1954 ... A Letter To A Woman Alcoholic ... ... Wherever you are, at whatever stage in the long descent, this is for you. ... It says nothing of shame or scorn or ridicule; it brings only love and ... understanding. ...
I'll buy it and give it to a friend ... I'll buy it and have it around the house in case someone drops by. ... I'll buy it so I can stop thinking about buying it. ... I'll buy it and not drink it. ... ... Buying it me...
How often do we sit in AA meetings and hear the speaker declare, ... "But I haven't yet got the spiritual angle." Prior to this statement, he ... had described a miracle of transformation which had occurred...
... This is a disease of the body and mind. It's a mental obsession + a physical addition that causes an allergic reaction. It's classified as a mental disorder and it's the only disease that tells you that you don't have one. I used to attend a...
I went to my fist AA meeting last Thursday. I found a group that really stresses that "god" is whatever we understand him to be, which is important to me because I am not a religious person. I have always viewed AA to be really religious-ce...
Hey everyone my names Joe and i fear that i am an alcoholic. I first noticed this in high school when we would do the normal high school party thing . It started out just being friday and Saturday . Then grew quickly to Fri,Sat,Sun Then Fri,Sat,Sun,M...
Hey all. Gonna give you an update over the past few days. This is great! ... ... As you all know I was struggling. In a huge depression. Thursday night I had prayed to God to take me off this planet. I didn't c...
I am someone with a high need for control and do not know how (or am afraid to trust) turning my life over. Does it really work? Thank you to everyone. ... ...
Just thought Id share! Last time I went almost 60 days but didn't follow the suggestions etc. I just got back from my 10th meeting in 7 days and have never felt better. I still have not had any urges to drink these 7 days and just wanted to share ...
... ... and that means that 31 years ago both the Jekyll and the Hyde in me screamed ... "Enough, I'm done...sick and tired of being sick and tired" and the journey began. ... Every step and every minute has been a miracle for me...every...
Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy will still elude us. That's ... the place so many of us A.A. oldsters have come to. And it's a hell of a ... spot, literally. How shall our unconscious--from which so many of ...
At one of the groups I belong to we study the 12 Traditions. It used to be just a step study group until one day I realized that the essays in my 12 and 12 on the steps were all highlighted and pages were torn and splattered with coffee rings, but t...
Hello everybody. ... ... Well its been a long time since ive been here, too long in fact but im back to say hi and update you all on my life. ... ... Im still sober and have been for 3 years in December. ... ... I have been really really poorly,...
... ... Aloha Family...anyone here done service in their district with Public Information? I ... need support, ESH, mentoring, sponsorship in this area. Yes I have asked locally ... and have hitched up with Literature and more and a live voice to...
If a person has no career aspirations, but yet still put's their foot in it, is it still career suicide? And more to the point, in the grand scheme of things, does it matter? ... ... I was at a whole team meeting at work on Thursday, in Birmingham. ...
I got a funny story for you. Well, it's got a message buried in it too. I been sober quite some time now. I used to know how many days but I stopped counting them. I...
If anyone from AA or Al-Anon happens to find themselves in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with nothing to do on the weekend of Feb. 19-21, feel free to drop in to the Holid...
True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an ... assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him. ... TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 ... ... My last drunk had...
A few weeks back I asked the members of Miracles In Progress for financial help so the needs of the newcomer into the MIP Recovery Homes could be better met by Rose and I during such a trying economic time. I believe in accountability and transparen...
In our group we have three developementally delayed individuals. Two of the three cause few interruptions and are receptive to constructive criticism and are welcomed by our members and visitors alike. ... A third person has been in and out o...
From the 1944 Witter Bynner translation, from Perigree Books, of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Chapter 10. ... ... Can you hold the door of your tent wide to the firmament? ... Can you, with the simple stature of a child, breathing nature, become...
Most people, and the medical community agree that alcoholism is a disease...but people don't react to it like they do other diseases. ... You can call in to work after your vacation and say, ... "I got bit by a mosquito in Brazil and I got mala...
Therefore, Step Two is the rallying point for all of us. "Whether agnostic, atheist, or former believer, we can stand together on this Step. ... TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 ... ... I feel that A.A. is a God-inspired progra...
... This is a parable I heard once in a meeting. I have modified it slightly but I'm sure you've heard it before. ... One day I was walking along the beach. I saw an old man walking toward me. Every so often, he would kneel down, pick something up a...
I know I haven't posted in a while...Just want to stop by and say, I'm still here, still in the fight. I check the site often and learn alot. I just don't think my input will help much, I just feel so "negative." ... ... Anyway, my pra...
... Back towards the end of November I sat down one night putting my thoughts on paper & have found this to be an ideal way to help keep me focused on my recovery. A friend told me this was a sort of freestyle poetry,. Anyway here's one that I t...
Hi, my name is Tessa & I'm an alcoholic. I've been sober for almost 2 years now (Feb 27th) & yesterday I was fine. No thoughts of drinking or anything. Today I've been to 3 meetings. Two of them being AA & one being an NA meeting. I'm als...
I had one yesterday. Long story short, it's a friend at work's leaving drinks at a pub. I really wanted to go to this one to see this guy off: he really has been a good friend and colleague. ... ... I think that it ticked all the boxes in what the B...
Hi there, I am a newly signed up member and would really like to succeed in becoming sober. So far today I have not had a drink......a good start for me. Here's to another day of sobriety tomorrow. Here's to all of you who have succeeded....
I've never been to a meeting. I never wanted to stop drinking I guess. Ot I did and just couldn't. Im sad and drpressed and very afraid. What can I do to get there?...
Sometimes A.A. comes harder to those who have lost or ... rejected faith than to those who never had any faith ... at all, for they think they have faith and found it ... wanting. They have tried the way of faith an...
Well after having a pretty calm life recently, there are many changes on the horizon. My husband has been interviewing for a new job in our hometown, which is 100 miles from where we are now. He has a very specific job so it's amazing that there is...
Hey all. Some serious stuff going on today with our friends on the board. ... I have to look back and remember all the pain and where everyone is at today. It wasn't that long ago that I could not stop drinking....
I'm five days sober right now and I'm dreaming (awake and asleep) about drinking and I'm not taking my antidepressants. I realize the absurdity of this... the only time antidepressants can really work is without the alcohol, but it's now that I am ...
... Hello my friends. It's been a while since I've really posted much, but I'm still around, lurking in the shadows. Things are going well for the most part, and I'm still enjoying my new sober life today. ... The past few days have been a little ...
At the moment, I am going through a lot of changes. Today I became very angry over a situation which involved a work project and a gossip. I have decided to disengage from working with this person until I am sure of what can be achieved. I am ok now ...
Hey guys, ... I'm new to this all. Just signed up, but am at the beginning of a second recovery. Needless to say, my first one went for a little under two months until I thought since my mind felt more clear (wonder why, eh?), then my drinking would...
Hello. My name is Shane and I'm an alcoholic. I remember a few years ago when I made that statement for the first time. God, it is probably the hardest sentence I've ever said. Hard to admit what I am. Even harder to admit to myself the damage I'd do...
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