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- What's it like?
- I don't know where to begin but here goes...***Please note I am foremost looking to purge this from my head and secondly looking for *helpful* and *constructive* advice. Please do not be mean or harsh. I care about this person and to whatever...
- 'Exercising' the Alcoholic BrainNew Studies Say It Could be Key to RecoveryDiscovering exactly how alcohol damages the brain may give scientists the keys for providing alcoholics with a better chance of recovery through improved therapies and...
- Anyone care to give their thoughts on what a resentment is to them? How do you know you have one?How do you know you've let it go?
- Recently, during my "slip", I had one beer over a friends house. I was offered another and declined. I wasn't thrilled to have the beer and knew I had work the next morning so left a short time after I was finished with it. Not in a hurry, mind you,...
- I'm looking for the answers to the following questions:How do you deal with a person who continually spreads lies about you in the rooms? Even as you ignore it, continue to smile when you see the person (masking all homicidal fantasies), and keep...
- I don't think I quit drinking for myself. At the time I thought I did but seeing as I'm sitting where I am now, I have a chance to reflect and see the things I have been telling myself. Rather, lying to myself.At the time, I was just out of a...
- I just relapsed yesterday after conflict in my homegroup where my sponsor personally felt responsible to meddle in my drama and cause me to be left without support. I have a sick feeling in my stomach at the thought of going there but it's the only...
- I know now more than ever that I display signs of PTSD because it seems like even otherwise insignificant rejections, embarrassments, disappointments, and failures elicit a jarring physical response in me. I rehash a perceived embarrassing moment...
- My sponsor dumped me today. I have almost 2 months of sobriety and am barely starting on the 2nd step. I didn't relapse, there was no argument. I simply forgot my BB and 12/12 to our last meeting and since she didn't bring hers either, we wrapped...
- I was at a candlelight meeting the other night where a girl who has about a year or something under her belt, and is known there as an abrasive outspoken type, proclaimed that anyone who attends 3 meetings in a day is a pathetic loser and is using...
- I've posted about this recent relationship breakup but am tracing the feelings I'm going through to my SA. I feel shameful for having slept with someone who only wanted me for sex and yet I thought there was a possibility for more. I'm getting...
- Okay, if I don't start getting real about it I know that I'm going to just go back out. The first few times I started going to meetings (3 weeks ago), I felt so welcomed and felt people were genuinely concerned and interested. But slowly I notice...
- I'm having a hard time moving on from a relationship with a man that had been the only male I thought to be good, stand-up, honest, with integrity. We had a solid friendship prior to dating this time and I'm having a hard time viewing him as an...
- I am looking for good material, books, programs, workshops or whatever that deal only with the issue of shame. Does anyone know anything?