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- Is alcohol good or bad? This is a question I cannot afford to get caught up in if I am to remain recovered, free from a desire to drink alcohol at any moment in life. Personally I loved alcohol, and still believe it to be very good, for...
- I sort of detailed how I stay sober or the life I learned in how to stay sober, recently here, and it used a 12 step program. Why do I stay sober and why do I not drink? Well if I am using the 12 step program to answer that question, I do not...
- Have to ask myself exacty what I am doing, and what I am thinking, and if there is a difference?I am doing better than I did when I without a care or concern drank, and smoked, and did drugs. I shower, I drive a car (sober), I stimulate the...
- If you choose to treat your alcoholism with AA, they have a "suggestion" called the 12th step, which is "Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles...
- AA suggests an 11th step of prayer and meditation, so one can improve conscious contact with God. I think the word "improve" means we all, have some sort of conscious contact with God, the higher power, already. The society within society also...
- After determining if I need to heal, by forgiving others, or if they need to heal, by forgiving me, or if I just find a comfortable and peaceful place in my psychology that just simply wants to be left alone and not bothered by others, so they don't...
- AA's idea of making amends to those who have been harmed by the disease of alcoholism, is just a suggestion. The roots of patience, kindness, tolerance, and love, are how they want to live their lives going forward. I don't think this is the...
- In Alcoholics Anonymous, a way to treat alcoholism, or a drinking problem, whichever definition you prefer, after a person does a step 5, which is confesses his or her shortcomings, the society within society the asks if they are entirely ready to...
- I could drink today. If I did drink, I'd probably go the the liquor store first and get a bottle of whiskey, vodka, rum, maybe tequila, definitely red wine, 2 or three bottles of champagne or something sparkling, two cases of beer, probably all...
- When I was proofreading what I wrote yesterday I was saying, "man I thought I was a much better writer." LOL, I posted it anyway kind of like I was disciplining myself knowing if anyone intelligent read it, them telling me I should be embarrassed,...
- I use AA to treat alcoholism. I understand if anyone else doesn't, but I have some time today to write a bit, so I want to use that time to write about how the Chapter Into Action in the book Alcoholics Anonymous works in my life. I have said...
- Selfishness is the root of the trouble, when it comes to unmanageability and real alcoholism. That very same selfishness is driven by fear, delusion, pity, and misguided anger. All those qualities, combined to make for a selfish outlook and...
- In How it Works, the text Alcoholics Anonymous provides for others if they want to use their way of life to stop drinking, it says a life run on self-will can hardly be a success. They also say that getting to the point of admitting that is a...
- I have alcoholism and that fact, made my life, prior to becoming opened to, and utilizing the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, very difficult if no impossible to manage daily. Being an AA member I think it is important to say to others first,...
- I treat my alcoholism with Alcoholics Anonymous. In their literature they have a chapter called We Agnostics. This chapter comes after other chapters that describe their alcoholic problem and how they define alcoholism. I think it is important...