AA experiences

Alcoholism, knowledge, and awareness

August 24, 2006

Knowledge resides in my brain. I can mentally know something, I can comprehend the facts, etc. Awareness is different. Some ways I can put my finger on this – but still this isn’t quite right – is I know something in my heart or to the depths of my soul. For most of the years [...]

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Fear, inventory, and insight

July 26, 2006

One of my most persistent problems is a seeming reluctance to bring the spiritual principles I have learned to some areas of my work life. It has been frustrating because while I am well aware that this is a problem, my progress in this area has been slow and plodding. I know the twelfth step [...]

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The noise in my head

June 24, 2006

Being outside in a natural environment can be a powerful way for me to connect with my higher power. I choose to become a biologist partially because it was a way for me to be in places like the desert I have been working in for the past month. I get out early in the [...]

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“he will know loneliness such as few do”

June 16, 2006

….a little blurb from the Big Book chapter “A Vision for You.” This loneliness can settle in when we are successful enough at withdrawing from life that almost no one can get in the way of our drinking. The latter was something I wanted for years. Ignorance and alcoholism led me down a path where [...]

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The great I meets the more powerful we

June 8, 2006

The first AA meeting I attended had the steps posted on the wall. I read them, as this was about the most comfortable thing I could do. I did not want to talk with or look at anyone. It may have been that very day but if not, it was within my first few meetings, [...]

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Unreliable Drunkeness

May 23, 2006

Last year I worked in a western city for the summer. My employer rented me an apartment and provided some furniture. There were a lot of household things I was not told I was going to have to provide myself: pots, pans, silverware, etc. I proceeded to buy apartment “stuff” as needed but was as [...]

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