Alcoholism Support Group
Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.
I'm not sure we stress fellowship enough today. I can remember times in my sobriety when the car pools to and from meetings , playing golf with program friends and coming early and staying late or after meeting coffee was as important to my recovery as the meetings themselves.
I definitely feel fellowship here, yet as Coogee said about the meeting, face to face fellowship is somehow more real.. I'd just like to recommend fellowship to newcomers and ask for people's opinions on tha matter.
I definitely feel fellowship here, yet as Coogee said about the meeting, face to face fellowship is somehow more real.. I'd just like to recommend fellowship to newcomers and ask for people's opinions on tha matter.
I got sober being the last person out the door and today still am. What I've found the Fellowship, the service structure and having a Program of recovery is A new life to live, as it really is a never-ending story lol!! Self- Discovery Hmmmm!!! too boring :)
Billy
Those that get around stay around. We also had Shopping day Wednesdays were again we would travel as a group into Penrith a large town to buy a few necessities then do our own thing if you wanted again you can go shopping without going to the hotel or bottle shop must admit we lost one or two occasionally.
Also Thursday we would have a BBQ ether at the hospital or one of the Dams we would play cricket eat and drink soft drink this was also to let us see you can go out in a group to a BBQ have fun without alcohol something us Aussies don't do have a BBQ without alcohol .Lots of stories there for me .
But at the time believe me staying at the rehab wasn't easy it's only in hindsight I look back and see how lucky i was.
And this all worked for me because when I got out of rehab I was prepared to travel to meetings I would walk ride my push bike catch a train because i had to wait another 4 years before i could apply for a car license. and most times if I made it to a meeting i would get a lift home and normally kidnap the driver sometimes till one in the morning asking questions.
Then in my home group we would organize weekends away Fishing Camping with meetings in the mornings and nights and some time hook up with other groups amazing Other times on the weekends after the meeting we would go to a local park for a Barbie Families were invited.
And as you said staying late some times after the meeting talking drinking coffee the car pools or meeting up before a meeting and having a meal sometimes there would be up to 20 people in recovery newcomers and OSM'S in the restaurant. Laughing telling jokes eating all sorts of strange things drinking water or coffee if only the other patrons heard some of these peoples stories. But if you can't smell you can't tell them.
One bit more on fellowship we have a social golf group we are called the Recovery group and one day after the 9th hole we were having a cold soft drink and has the bartender brought the drinks out and seen the name on a hat he said with a name like that you must be heavy drinkers if he only knew .lol
Well as you can see Fellowship is a big part of my recovery. i could keep going all day. but if you get this far your going okay.
God Bless...
Lionel
My first sponsors told me that when chairing a meeting...I was to arrive 1 hr early. Being in a small town the most we ever had was 5, including my 2 sponsors.
Many a night I sat by myself reading and hoping someone would come. It was my meeting....sponsors thought it would be good for me. It was...those 2 men knew a little quiet time for me was good.
It carried over to now......Many times I was so early, I just waited in my car....like I was safe and held in some big hands.
wackadoo, my experience is similar. I got sober in the inner city meetings of Melbourne where there was a "coffee culture". We hang around in packs and it was a fantastic way to re-integrate back into society. I could talk the leg off a chair when I was in my work situation, but when it came to communicating with people outside work and without booze in me, I had lost the skills and of course I was profoundly lonely as I had lost all family and friends. The Fellowship surely loved me back to life.
Two years ago I moved to a town of 30,000 and if you weren't in the "dominant coalition" in the groups, you didn't get invited to coffee - I never did. I won't take their inventory beyond that but suffice to say that I have recently moved to a town of 100,000 and I have already been given telephone numbers in the meetings and made arrangements for coffee/meals. It's a completely different paradigm and I LOVE IT!!!!
My fellowship today is a group of people who show me the sobriety I want and the sobriety I dont. People who live life through ups and downs and can share ESH with me. People who know how I feel when I am honest about my disease. People that I identify with. People that I have grown to love. Where age, race and gender do not count.
Wow, I love fellowship :))))