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- I'm not a perfect listener but I try to be a very conscious, active listener. I often end up feeling drained after speaking to people that I have extensive or in-depth conversations with because I truly am 100% present in the conversation. But...
- I'm not a perfect listener but I try to be a very conscious, active listener. I often end up feeling drained after speaking to people that I have extensive or in-depth conversations with because I truly am 100% present in the conversation. But...
- I'm not a perfect listener but I try to be a very conscious, active listener. I often end up feeling drained after speaking to people that I have extensive or in-depth conversations with because I truly am 100% present in the conversation. But...
- Recently I have started cutting when things feel out of control. Like when things seem to go sour in a relationship in my life I have urges to make myself bleed out the cry. I never did this when I was younger so I feel stupid to be doing this as an...
- After 5 years in sobriety, I had built a real life and it was actually moving in the right direction --- forward. I felt comfortable in my own skin, as they say, had people supporting me, and was making real advancements in my life and emotional...
- I have an issue in my relationship that is starting to bubble over. In fact last night it kind of did.I am newly "out" and in my first lesbian relationship. My girlfriend is a terrific person. She can make friends with people in an instant and is...
- Okay, so...my bf and I broke up a few weeks ago. I started calling him again even though I said I didn't want us to talk for a couple of months. We broke up because I found a profile he created on a dating website. He met someone on it and they...
- I heard something interesting the other day.God only ever has *four* answers:"Yes""No""Not yet" and"I have a better idea"It's tough to live life consistently on life's terms. Everytime I think I've got it, I slip and try to dictate the outcomes...
- I wish all of you the wonderful experience of trudging the road to happy destiny. In it, there is joy in the journey and (I'm sure) a bittersweet melancholy at the finish. I believe our pain marks us but it's what we produce from that pain that...
- EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY by Bill Wilson I think that many oldsters who have put our AA to severe but successful tests still find they often lack emotional sobriety. Perhaps they will be the spearhead for the next major development in AA the development...
- Recently, a person in my homegroup we call "Preacher" was talking about the seven deadly sins. Out of the three of us in the conversation, we couldn't name the 7th one (it was actually greed, which I'm shocked we'd all miss). But it got me...
- How do you practice self-restraint when you know that no action is the right action? Or, if you can have self-restraint, how do you deter yourself from obsessing on it?
- Hey guys, I have been feeling really hopeless and questioning "what's the use?" I feel really alone and hitting tons of meetings isn't helping. I don't have the most solid support system. My sponsor is not my therapist and I will not use her as...
- Gossip can be insidious. Especially in the rooms where we share our innermost selves with each other. There are things people in AA know about me that my own family and friends, some for decades, don't know. Sometimes the rumormill that cause...
- How do you let or prevent people from robbing you of your joy?