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AA experiences

Follow Up

April 29, 2010

Yes this is a follow up on yesterday’s post but it is also a way to frame the results of my meeting my sponsee today. We both agree he is good at pushing away things that might be helpful. In this case he has a real reluctance to meet with me regularly. Since this is [...]

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Rigorous Action

April 28, 2010

I am meeting with a sponsee tomorrow that I have not seen in months. He does some things real well, like going to meetings and calling me most days. Yet he is really balking at working the steps. He has had a lot of challenges. Things like operations are in fact fairly big deals for [...]

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Sept 16 2009 Just for Today

September 16, 2009

Just checking in as I haven’t written in awhile.
My wife is pregnant and I am now on track to become a father for the first time. My biggest surprise so far has been my almost complete lack of fear or worry regarding what is one of the biggest life changing events you can have (or [...]

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Being Responsible

June 14, 2009

I have a new sponsee as of yesterday. I find this to be a momentous occasion, as it marks me as being back to where I need to be. I have been going to a few meetings a week again. It was a struggle to get back to that point! Now I am familiar with [...]

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Opportunity, Alice and the Queen

May 15, 2009

A quote from Alice in Wonderland
“There is no use trying,” Alice said. “One can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice, ” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Getting sober opens up [...]

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Self Esteem

May 13, 2009

I really need to start a post page where I can add those great little one liners folks in the program share with me. Here is one I heard today:
If you want to raise your self-esteem, do esteemable acts.
Pretty simple really. Yet I found that to be a pretty profound statement. I also went to [...]

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Anger, Buddha, and gems along the road

August 20, 2008

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – Buddha
How many gifts are we be blessed with in our sobriety? One of the many I enjoy is finding little gems of insight as I trudge the road [...]

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Death and No Glory

August 9, 2008

A tale of the past………
When I was first getting sober I was full of fear. So much so that I was afraid of people and hardly ever spoke at meetings. One day someone came up to me after a meeting and asked me if I wanted to go to coffee. This question brought up two [...]

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