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- After reading BS's post about the thread about holiday booze, I started to think about the power of my belief system.My personal belief was not to want tattoos on my body it has always been how I seen tattoos and what they represented. Remember...
- People who know me in my cups look at me as if I have two heads when I tell them this.But the truth is grog was not my problem. If we won at footy I drank to celebrate, if we lost I drank to drown our commiserations. So in both cases to deal...
- In my mind there is a big difference between these two things and for me this was important on how I progressed to try and find my solution.For me obsession was what was happening in my head that made me have that first drink.Once I had the first...
- When I was in my cups I was very good at justifying my next drink.I used words like 'just one' 'I only had two last time' 'if the wife did not nag me' 'look how hard I worked I deserve one or two'. No doubt we could add to this list forever. ...
- Have spoken about this topic with my sponsor on many occasions as I could not understand why people's back would get up when I spoke.No matter what my intent is, if I use aggressive or dismissive speech I run the risk of getting the heckles up with...
- I am struggling with the misinformation on the main board. There has always been the anti AA areas and that is fine, I think this helps me to examine me and try and grow and not just follow the flock.What I am struggling with is my understanding...
- When I reached that point in my life that I had to stop drinking I was willing to do anything to stop. Drinking had so beaten me that I would have done anything to stop drinking. I was so beaten that I did not have conditional sobriety.I would...
- A truck is driving through the bush and through a boggy area it left a deep wheel rut. This rut soon filled up with water. A frog came along and laid some eggs in the water and soon they hatched and the tadpoles lived in the puddle.These...
- When someone does something to me that makes me feel angry, insulted or whatever, this is giving this person power over me. When I allow you to make me how I do not to be, is giving you power over me.For example I do not want to be an angry person...
- This bit of waffle is from PO's post about asking for help.When I get asked if I want help my normal ego says no, I can do it, I am a big boy now I do not need anyone's help.Funny thing is when I ask you if I can help you and you say yes please I...
- During my cups I would make all sort of promises to the wife saying I was trying to give the grog away. The normal stuff, not drinking beer/wine/scotch/brandy the list goes on to only drink beer/wine/scotch/brandy the list goes on.I will take up...
- From my profile anyone can see I, as I type am sober using the program of AA.Early in my recovery during a share I heard opinions are like arse holes everyone's got one. Whilst this is a bit crass it set my to think about opinions and experience. ...
- When I first put the grog down, I was speaking to a long term member. I asked this member how do you get to have double digits sobriety, because for me a few days of sobriety seemed an impossibility.This member said 2 things to me that has always...
- When I first put down the drink and people offered me a drink I would say no thanks I am quitting or trying to cut down or other responses. However, in good intention these people would encourage me to just have one, more than likely they did not...
- https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/26019802/knock-out-punch-treatment-gives-cancer-hope/The Peter MacCallum Centre is the cancer treatment/research centre of excellence where I live. It is very respected in matters of cancer. I had my P.E.T. scan...