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.

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Helping Others

gjm
gjm
Just a thought

If you learn from your own suffering and really come to understand the lessons of are addictions. From the learning process we were taught you might be able to help someone else who is now in the phase you may have just completed.

Maybe thats what its all about after all.
People helping people. Can anyone relate??
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I sure can and those that don't drink or use really don't know how to help us because I feel you have had to of went through it yourself to really understand it.
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That's what it is all about. To paraphrase the BB of AA "recovery begins when one alcoholic sits with another alcoholic and shares his experience, strength and hope."
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Yep you have to give it away to keep it.
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Its all about Sharing!
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I'm all about sharing my experience, strengths and hope
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I was told that teaching is learning all over again,I'm all for sharing.
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I think that is so important ...to help others....to having loving kindness and compassion toward others.
When we get beyond our sickness, and our disease, beyond our self pity and being a victim, beyond the poor pitiful me, and start healing, and loving the self in a healthy way, growing to feel worthy, and important...worth loving and saving...that we save and love ourselves enough to stop abusing our selves, stop punishing ourselves...that we get to a place, that we can then in a healthy way reach out to others with all the love we have to give! It comes full circle....
Somehow we were helped to save our sanity, and now we share this message with others....we become strong enough to lend a helping hand!
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Yes, In a nutshell we are just alcoholics and we can only get better by passing it on. Suffering for years gave a lot of compassion.

I can't keep it if I don't give it away. What I give away I get back double.
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There is no better way to get out of ourselves than to try and help someone who is going through what we've gone through.The rewards of giving it away are far greater than the effort.
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unfortunately my father died earlier this week
he was a recovering alcoholic but i know that from his 2 years of attending a.a. he became so much stronger, he used to take phonecalls from people on the a.a. helpline, he used to do little jobs for all the people in his group, and help them through everything he could.

i feel that this made him stronger as a person, and he felt he had a place in the world and a role to do by helping others through the disease that ruled his life once.

not an alcoholic personally
but know i can very much relate.