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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gjm 01/09/2010

The Twelve Steps work. We know they work, we've seen them work. We've heard and felt them work. But some of us still try to change or alter the Steps. We try to negotiate with the requirements for sobriety. We may feel we have to have the last word. We'll say "I'll do this, but only if. . ." and we put a condition on it.

Here is the program that works. It's a gift let's just grab it. Let's not question, bargain, or negotiate. Let's just take it and run with it.

Today let me remember that the program works period.

gjm 01/09/2010

Just my exp. If you work the steps, you will start living the steps.

Again my exp.

deleted_user 01/09/2010

Thanks, needed that!

deleted_user 01/09/2010

I learned that you also start living life. I love this life because I do the steps.

CoogeeMum 01/10/2010

It's a gift I'm glad I didn't ignore. My exp too gjm. I have hope that others will receive that gift with an open mind and heart.

gjm 01/10/2010

bump

Taradactyl 01/10/2010

Step 4 is a bit of a speed bump.

I am a bit of a road block.

gjm 01/10/2010

I would suggest going back to step 3 if your having trouble with 4.

deleted_user 01/11/2010

oh yeah it works, willingness, open mindedness, and powerlessness! frearless, and throrough allowed me to move foward. Check this out: I was not fearless when I walked the streets of my area to find drugs in the middle of the freaking night, now I want to come to the rooms of recovery, and be afraid to do a fourth step............get real put that shit down on paper, and begin to heal from self induced pain......

just some experience!

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m8bear 01/11/2010

The Twelve Steps more than work......they gave me life. I was not living, just merely existing. The Steps were what started me on the road to recovery and by working them to the best of my ability, daily, I get to live life today :)

Howtolive......I too had a mental block when I got to step 4. I was willing yet the task seemed just too big. I kept staring at a sheet of paper and just couldn't begin to write, my brain was fried.

What I did was got out old photographs, I looked at the people in them and started thinking about the relationships with them...soon my hand good could not write quick enough.

A suggestion you might want to try.

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