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...
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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. ...
. . . when making specific requests, it will be well ... to add to each one of them this qualification. ." . . . ... if it be Thy will." ... TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 102-03 ... ... I ask s...
Howdy, ... Never did I like needy people. So how strangely wonderful is it that I turned out to be one myself. Being something I did't like. I need you. Ineed God . I need A.A. I need food. I need sex.( Oh No Not That !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ) I need mee...
... There's always some folks who want to use a pill or a book or a way of thought other than AA to stop or cut down on their drinking. If it works for them, fine. AA has no opinion on outside issues. But I know I need AA and I'm grateful for it. .....
Howdy, ... Man am I grateful that I don't puke anymore. ... Hated how it got up in my nose and burned like fire. Could smell it forever. ... Then that crapping and puking at the same time (With my damn pants still On) ... Oh and I don't want to ...
maybe im missing something in all this (likely). AA isnt supposed to have opinions about anything other than alcohol. People that come to AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) for addiction purposes other than alcohol are barking up the w...
This evening I went into town (Barnsley) for the Christmas lights switch on to see Stavros Flatley, Lucie Jones and Miss Frank, and had a great time, but I was amazed that I was recognised by a group of school kids whose school I go to regularly to...
We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions ... of dealing with the realities of life, . . . . So it ... isn't surprising that we often tend to slight serious ... meditation and prayer as something not rea...
Hi, My name is Wayne T. and I am an alcoholic. ... I am here today beacuse I found out this is a "we" recovery program. ... Thanks for letting me share. ... I could not do this alone. ... Toad...
Man, The Program is a re-birthing that brings me to experiences I would never have had. Closures that I would never have had. The freedom to love and be loved like the kid I was before my childhood turned to a big ugly sh*tstorm. ... ... Okay, it's...
Hi There You Faithful Few: ... Been going to two meetings a week since Oct 15th and always grateful and leave feeling more assured I am doing the right thing. But I still can't get comfortable, feel shy, nervous to share. I have confessed to only on...
... This site has helped my sobriety and i would like to share something new in my life. without realizing it i have been 'twelve stepping' my best friend and former drinking partner. She asks me how i am doing being sober and i tell her... LOL, a...
Howdy, ... Kind of chilly in the shack this morning. ... I like to start the day with a glass of water so I get the morning drink, ... and go to build a fire. ... Paper, cow pea hulls, small twigs, getting the tee pee effect right, then the O...
Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by ... loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people ... began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the ... feeling that we didn't quite belong. ... A...
A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is ... leaning against the headboard smoking a cigarette, ... with a satisfied smile on its face. ... ... The egg, looking a bit pissed off, grabs the sheet, ... rolls over, and says, 'Well, I g...
Okay - I've noticed that a large percentage of people in recovery have an above-average involvement with their pets. Why? I don't know. I'd like to hear about other alkie's pets & their situations; past or present. ... ... Mw? First off, I'm ki...
Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation ...
Hi All ... Just got back from a GSO weekend Forum. Really neat. You get to meet all the Big Wigs from New York and learn how and what they do to keep the/our program/s in line. Everything from Finance, Grapevine, Trustees(Some of which are Non Alco...
... ...... was spent in a lot of reflection today.... and it was very warm and sunny... got to take my girl-dog Scouty to her favorite park in a t-shirt and sweatpants (me, not the dog), that was great. My sponsor brought me a gold 2 year coin, and ...
So I just figured I let everyone on the board know that I am two months pregnent. Me and my boyfriend are very happy but I am kind of nervous. I still live at home with my parents and have not told them I am pregnent. I am worried they will get very ...
... I knew it was getting worse, but thought I could control it. I even let my sister bring me to a meeting. But last week, I drank when I woke up, then headed to work. Next thing you know, I was surrounded by polic...
Hello !!! ... Once the booze and dope was removed my emotions started to show up. ... Hidden emotions. I started crying. ... Let me tell you I cried EVERYEHERE. At the check out line in a store. Driving my car. ... And here I thought I was some...
... i hope i get arrested. That is alcoholism essentially. Your're always "done", unless your lucky but what alcoholic deems themselves "lucky"? Those that are not drunk, but that is a dubious distinction....
. . . . we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don't struggle. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86 ... ... I invest my time in what I truly love. Step Eleven is a discipline that allows me and m...
Howdy, ... I was three years clean and sober . We gave out medallions the last Sunday of the month. Were asked to share from the podium. My Turn came up. As I was getting a good roll going on my version of recovery an Old Timer stood up (and bless...
Hello to all, just wanted to pop in and say that from the Bottom of my Heart, I am so very Grateful to this site, have been very limited to computer time. ... ... health is improving, but very slowly. ... ... Cannot...
So I had a crap end to a good day. Somebody at work did something they shouldn't have done...to me...and I was instantly enraged. First call...sponsor. No answer. Second call...Friend from home-group. He reminded me that while yes, all of us are God'...
MORNING THOUGHTS ... Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 ... ... For many years I pondered over God's will for me, believing that per...
Well god has a sense of humor and does things for me that I'm not capable of doing on my own. Good thing.... Have been doing well and maintaining my spiritual condition on a daily basis by doing the work as it's laid out in the BB and AA. ... .....
thanks to all who responded. i real all the posts and thought them through. you all helped me see i have more choices with this than i realized. ... ... the word boundries came to mind. boundries for me and like was said, with love. ... ... i ca...
Hey all, ... My training is finished and all the hard work was worthwhile. I appreciate the prayers and confidence. Ask and ye shall recieve. It was funny that this year I really did not do a "self test" (how I describe the temptation to...
Today I was reading my reflections and came across this phrase, 'arrogant self-criticism, I thought it was great as at the moment I am fond of putting myself down in relation to a task I am on, I always thought self-criticism was modesty but mine is...
Oh my word, how great I have felt these past few days. I actually got to go to two of my home group morning meetings and was thrilled to see everyone as they were thrilled to see me. I really missed them! It's funny the bond you form in the beginni...
Do you think that there is such a thing as a bad meeting or a bad group? If there is, how do you tell the difference between the good and the bad ones? What are the criteria you use? ... ... As I stated in a previous post it's been quite a few year...
Greetings , ... Read something this morning that put a smile on my face. ... "We surrender quietly and let the God of our understanding take care of us ". ... Lot's of my past surrenders were pretty noisy. Trusting quietly sure feels ni...
(Note, this was also cross-posted on the Al-Anon board but I wanted the input from AA members as well, many thanks) ... ... Hi there, ... ... What is the etiquette when an extended family member brings a sig other who abuses alcohol to a holiday me...
Thanks to The Common Cold...I have absolutely NO desire drink. Also no desire to work, talk or do anything other than eat & nap. ... ... My 11 year old, however, has the H1N1 and is sentenced to sleep, drink water, eat & repeat. ... ... Da...
Greetings, ... Hope this note finds you REASONABLY well. ... Was interesting for me to experience the paradox of dying to live, ... losing to win, giving away in order to keep. ... A sufficient bottom seemed to create a willingness to give tha...
Well, after about 5 weeks I feel I've done a very fearless and searching inventory the way the BB says it should be done. I'm amazed at how many things from my past I buried in places I forgot were there. It was a humbling experience to say the lea...
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