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AA experiences

Freedom from the mental obsession

April 23, 2007

At my meeting today the discussion was about having the obsession to drink lifted from us and how, once lifted, it can remain so provided we stay on a spiritual path. It filled me with gratitude to recognize that my life has been free of the desire to want to drink for so many years. [...]

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Virtue

January 15, 2007

I needed to learn a lot about discipline and courage when I was first getting sober. It was not that I did not know anything about these two things, I just had no notion of being virtuous. The same could be said about what I knew and acted on in regards to many other things [...]

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My First AA meeting Part 2

December 12, 2006

Following up from an earlier post My first AA meeting My new AA sponsor had me commit to saying I would go to a meeting every night for a year. This was way beyond what I often heard said in meetings – “90 meeting in 90 days” – for someone who is new to sobriety. [...]

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Truth and Dare

November 15, 2006

It is difficult for a newly sober alcoholic to be honest. Doing so is a real act of courage. For me dishonesty was a way of life and an ingrained habitat. I often lied whether I needed to or not. I thought it was best to hide who I was, from others and from myself. [...]

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My first AA meeting

November 11, 2006

Alcohol and drugs had been a great way to avoid dealing with my emotions for a long time. After being dry for a few days I was not that good at figuring out how I felt. With what I know today, and having had similar feelings for a long time both in and out of [...]

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Over and over

October 22, 2006

My sobriety seems to be dependant on me doing simple things over, and over, and over again. Sometimes this might mean every day, or it might mean on a regular basis, or it could even be that over the years I have had to consistently fall back on the same set of crutches when the [...]

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10th step

October 11, 2006

It was read out of the Big Book and discussed in the meeting I went to this evening. It is always nice for me to hear: Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear. When these crop up we ask God to at once to remove them. When I read things like this I [...]

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Should you throw the book away?

September 13, 2006

The first part of Chapter 5, “How it Works” is read aloud at the beginning of many meetings I attend. This usually ends with: Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventure before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage [...]

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