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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*LAUGHTER Is HEALING*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The weekly meeting topic is:
I can't stop using and someone said to me
"Recovery is not going to start working,
until everything else has stopped working"
What did it mean to you when you heard
"KEEP COMING BACK FOR THE FIRST TIME?"
What has become of you as a result of taking that suggestion ?

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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Please Be There For The Newcomers*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

September 16
Light is shining on my path today as I face
in the direction of love and goodness.
One step at a time is leading me exactly where I need to be.
written by ~ Ruth Fishel
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Just for Today*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Please Listen

When I ask you to listen to me
and you start giving me advice,
you have not done what I asked.

When I ask you to listen to me
and you begin to tell me why
I shouldn't feel that way,
you are trampling on my feelings.

When I ask you to listen to me
and you feel you have to do something
to solve my problem, you have failed me,
strange as that may seem.

Listen! All I ask is that you listen.
Don't talk or do-just hear me.

And I can do for myself; I am not helpless.
Maybe discouraged and faltering,
but not helpless.

When you do something for me that I can and
need to do for myself, you contribute to my
fear and inadequacy.

But when you accept as a simple fact
that I feel what I feel,
no matter how irrational,
then I can stop tying to convince you
and get a bout this business of
understanding what's behind
this irrational feeling.

And when that's clear,
the answers are obvious
and I don't need advice.

Irrational feelings make sense
when we understand what's behind them.

Perhaps that's why prayer works,
sometimes, for some people -
because God is mute, and
he doesn't give advice or try to fix things.

God just listens and
lets you work it out for yourself.

So please listen,
and just hear me.

And if you want to talk,
wait a minute for your turn-
and I will listen to you.

Author Unknown

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Don't Use*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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Just for Today
September 16 Emotional balance

"Emotional balance is one of the first results of meditation, and
our experience bears this out." Basic Text p.45

Though each of us defines "emotional balance" a little differently,
all of us must find it. Emotional balance can mean finding and
maintaining a positive outlook on life, regardless of what may be
happening around us. To some, it might mean an understanding
of our emotions that allows us to respond, not react, to our feelings.
It can mean that we experience our feelings as intensely as we
can while also moderating their excessive expression. Emotional
balance comes with practice in prayer and meditation. We get
quiet and share our thoughts and hopes and concerns with the
God of our understanding. Then we listen for guidance, awaiting
the power to act on that direction. Eventually, our skills in
maintaining near-balance get better, and the wild up-and-down
emotional swings we used to experience begin to settle. We
develop an ability to let others feel their feelings; we have no
need to judge them. And we fully embrace our own personal
range of emotions.

Just for today: Through regular prayer and meditation, I will
discover what emotional balance means to me.

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1991 by World Service Office Inc.

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Toward Emotional Freedom

Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly
always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our
alcoholism, no field of investigation could yield more satisfying
and valuable rewards than this one.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p.80

Willingness is a peculiar thing for me in that, over a period of
time, it seems to come, first with awareness, but then with a
feeling of discomfort, making me want to want to take some
action. As I reflected on taking the Eighth Step, my willingness
to make amends to others came as a desire for forgiveness, of
others and myself. I felt forgiveness toward others after I became
aware of my part in the difficulties of relationships. I wanted to feel
the peace and serenity described in the Promises. From working
the first seven Steps, I became aware of whom I had harmed and
that I had been my own worst enemy. In order to restore my
relationships with my fellow human beings, I knew I would have
to change. I wanted to learn to live in harmony with myself and
others so that I could also live in emotional freedom. The
beginning of the end to my isolation - from my fellows and from
God - came when I wrote my Eighth Step list.

Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
Daily Reflection In Loving Memory Of Scott Reeves

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Twenty-Four Hours A Day by Hazelden/ September 16th

A.A. Thought for the Day

Today, let us begin a short study of the Twelve Suggested
Steps of A.A. These Twelve Suggested Steps seem to
embody five principles. The first step is the membership
requirement step. The second, third, and eleventh steps
are the spiritual steps of the program. The fourth, fifth,
sixth, seventh and tenth steps are the personal inventory
steps. The eighth and ninth steps are the restitution steps.
The twelfth step is the passing on of the program, or helping
others, step. So the five principles are membership requirement,
spiritual basis, personal inventory, restitution, and helping
others. Have I made all these steps a part of me?

Meditation for the Day

We seem to live not only in time but also in eternity. If we
abide with God and He abides with us, we may bring forth
spiritual fruit which will last for eternity. If we live with God,
our lives can flow as some calm river through the dry land of
earth. This can cause the trees and flowers of the spiritual
life-love and service-to spring forth and yield abundantly.
Spiritual work may be done for eternity, not just for now. Even
here on earth we can live as though our real lives were eternal.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may try to make my life like a cool river in a
thirsty land. I pray that I may give freely to all who ask my
help.

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Hazelden Foundation. No portion of this publication may
be reproduced in any manner without the written
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Work The Steps*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Today's Thought
SEPTEMBER 16, 2005

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go.
Melody Beattie ©

Revenge

No matter how long we've been recovering, no matter how solid
our spiritual ground, we may still feel an overwhelming desire at
times to punish, or get even, with another person.

We want revenge.

We want to see the other person hurt the way he or she has hurt
us. We want to see life deal that person just rewards. In fact, we
would like to help life out.

Those are normal feelings, but we do not have to act on them.
These feelings are part of our anger but it's not our job to deal
justice.

We can allow ourselves to feel the anger. It is helpful to go one
step deeper and let ourselves feel the other feelings - the hurt,
the pain, the anguish. But our goal is to release the feelings, and
be finished with them.

We can hold the other person accountable. We can hold the other
person responsible. But it is not our responsibility to be judge and
jury. Actively seeking revenge will not help us. It will block us and
hold us back.

Walk away. Stop playing the game. Unhook. Learn your lesson.
Thank the other person for having taught you something valuable.
And be finished with it. Put it behind, with the lesson intact.

Acceptance helps. So does forgiveness - not the kind that invites
that person to use us again, but a forgiveness that releases the
other person and sets him or her free to walk a separate path, while
releasing our anger and resentments. That sets us free to walk our
own path.

Today, I will be as angry as I need to be, with a goal of finishing
my business with others. Once I have released my hurt and anger,
I will strive for healthy forgiveness - forgiveness with boundaries.
I understand that boundaries, coupled with forgiveness and
compassion, will move me forward.

©1990, Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. No portion of this
publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written
permission of the publisher.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*You Are A Miracle*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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Connecting with Love
by Michael Sky

Why must we have a passion for reality? Why must we love and
desire and be filled with metaphysical ardor? Because these
passions set up in us the momentum for bringing new forms into
being.
-- JEAN HOUSTON, THE POSSIBLE HUMAN


Michael SkyWe live in the age of connection. Through the
wizardry of personal computers and the Internet we can come
into instant, even intimate contact with others throughout the
world, as well as with a huge and growing body of information.
Satellites send pictures of distant planets back to Earth through
light years of empty space, while cellular communication devices
now allow us to link up at all times, in most places. From an early
age we take for granted the invisible connections used by such
wireless gadgets as portable radios, telephones, and remote
controls.

This technology-based experience of connectedness finds
confirmation in many of the life sciences. Holistic medicine
asserts that all parts of the body interconnect and function as
a single system; a change in any one part affects all other parts.
Quantum physicists have demonstrated that invisible links exist
between any two particles of matter, however great their
seeming separation. Similar insights echo in the disciplines of
environmental science, systems theory, computer programming,
and global economics.

Everything connects. We live in a worldwide web, truly, as
every living thing connects to every living thing.

Yet when it comes to a typical relationship between two or more
people, or two or more groups of people, disconnection seems
the prevailing truth. We live as if the body forms an impermeable
boundary, dividing each of us from the rest of the world. We
experience the self as inside the body and everything and
everybody else as outside. At times, we open up and reach
through the body-boundary to genuinely connect with some
other. Mostly we remain separate and apart from others and,
through various forms of intolerant thought, we justify, enforce,
and even celebrate our disconnection.

Part of the problem stems from an inability to explain or even
imagine a medium of connection between people. Our
technological connectors all depend on one form or another of
energy. Pull the plug, take out the battery, sever the wiring, or
shut down the power plant and our computers, phones, satellites,
televisions, radios, and remote control devices immediately stop
working, their connections broken. Energy functions as the one
essential force of technological connection.

Any such medium of connection between people, however, has
proven difficult to scientifically verify. For many the very notion
of invisible forces constitutes an insurmountable problem.
Despite the model that our technologies provide -- vast
quantities of data flashing instantly and invisibly around the
globe -- the suggestion that similar connections exist between
humans -- enabling similar transfers of information -- smacks
of quackery and long-discredited vitalism.

For others, God presents just such an invisible, omniscient, and
omnipresent (if ultimately unfathomable and scientifically
unverifiable) force that connects all people. Yet God obviously
means different things to different people and, for too many, God
remains abstract, distant and apart from humanity. Defined and
experienced as such, God not only fails to serve as a medium of
connection, He, She, or It actually becomes a justification for
decidedly disconnected behavior, as our long history of religion-
based wars and intolerance demonstrates.

Still, many cultures have long had experience with an invisible
force that connects humans. They have given it many names --
including num, chi, prana, mana, animal magnetism, life-energy,
and the soul's substance -- and they all describe a similar
vibratory force that moves through the body in regular currents
and emanates beyond the body in radiant fields. Allowing this
energy to flow more freely through the body brings great
benefits to our physical health and general wellbeing.

Just as energy moves within us as the motive force and raw
material for effective response to life's constant changing, so
energy extends beyond the body in radiant fields (called auras)
that connect us to the world, or to specific others, and that vary in
size, intensity, and feeling according to our ever-changing
perceptions and intentions. For a strong and healthy individual
and for most babies, the energy fields extend vigorously from the
body, filling entire rooms and beyond, while providing vital links
to the living world. The energy "boils over" and flows out into
meaningful connection with our world. The larger and more vital
our energy fields, the more energy-connected we feel, and the
more empowered we become to meet life's challenges.

These fields all grow out of and expand from in-flowing
energy-in-motion. Thus, the more vigorously we flow within, the
larger and more vital our radiant fields. Yet while we may
experience our internal energy-in-motion as positive one moment
and negative the next, we mostly feel our out flowing energy as a
positive (though not always easy) force. As a rule, the expansion
of our vital energy occurs as a positive, life-affirming, and uplifting
event.

Exceptions to this rule do exist. Powerful and out of control desires,
such as lust and greed, will send waves of clutching energy toward
the object of desire. Extreme hatred and anger can explode
outward in malevolent waves. Disciplined practitioners of the
"black arts" can learn to extend their energy fields with purely evil
intent. Certain political and religious leaders, such as Adolf Hitler
or Jim Jones, have used their charisma -- their "personal
magnetism" -- to manipulate large numbers of followers with
energy-based mass influence.

Yet such negative expansions of life force tend toward self-
depletion and self-destruction. Like plants growing from
poisoned soil, vital energy radiating from a toxic, chronically
suppressed being will poison all that it touches, beginning with
the mind and body of the offending individual. Clearly, such
people can inflict great suffering in the world with their
psychoenergetic powers. But they practice a form of
self-immolation as they must ever dwell within and eventually
choke on their own toxic radiation.

While any negative expansions of vital energy invariably
bring us to self-deplete and self-destruct, positive
expansions of energy bring the very opposite results:
they make us stronger, healthier, more energized and alive.
Curiosity, for instance, sends energy tendrils out to ask and
inquire of things, to touch and taste the world; the more
curious we feel, the more we learn, and the greater our
curiosity becomes. The protective concern that parents feel
for their children extends like strong energy arms that --
despite the countless worries children inspire -- never
grow tired of reaching to surround and protect. Deeply
heartfelt dreams start waves of energy pulsing through
manifest reality; the more committed our dream, the more
our dream-energy expands, and the more likely our
chances of successful creation.

Any positive expansion of vital energy has the potential to
sustain itself indefinitely, while sustaining the self at the most
basic levels. When we expand our energy with positive intent
we step into an infinite river of living spirit. The more we give
outward, the more energy arises within and the more
empowered we become to go on giving. No experience
demonstrates this better than love.

Love emanates from within as moving and outward expanding
energy. When we love any other -- person, animal, plant, place,
or thing -- we extend our self, as fields of living energy, to touch,
to envelop, to enter into, to couple with the other. We feel the
outward-connecting movement of our energy as love.

Love enhances flow, so when we love we reap precious
blessings for ourselves. Our bodies function better on all
levels. Our natural healing processes can accelerate, causing
the spontaneous remission of the most difficult of diseases.
Love-inspired minds become clearer, lighter, and positively
directed. Because love enhances flow, when we love all of
our emotions come easier and we use our energy-in-motion well.

Love begins in the center of the chest -- the psycho-emotional
"heart" -- and radiates outward, sending beams of love-energy
in all directions, as from an inner star. When we love we glow
with a sparkling light, sometimes visible to others, and we move
and act within this halo or aura of love-energy. For this reason
we can accurately speak of being in love. Love permeates and
surrounds us like a luminous womb or cocoon, protecting and
nurturing and encouraging life.

For all of its benefits to the lover, love always seeks a beloved. Love
must extend outward into meaningful connection with others, must
reach to bring others "in love." Love must touch, must caress, must
feed and nurture, must uplift and inspire. True love flows without
discrimination or conditions. Love-energy radiates through all of
the self-made boundaries -- the body's armor, the mind's prejudices
-- and causes, however temporarily, the blessed experience of true
oneness. For those who sustain such love the boundaries forever
dissolve, allowing the continuing experience of love to grow ever
stronger, to spread to others, to become the common currency of all
relationships.

Love makes things whole. Love flows as masculine energy:
extending vigorously, entering into others, filling and inspiring.
Love flows as feminine energy: reaching to caress, surrounding
and enfolding others, protecting and nurturing. Love takes our
divided and disparate selves, victims of incessant human
conflict, and makes us whole people, wholly alive.

Two or more people flowing in love experience the very best
aspects of being human. Connected via love-energy they may
move as one, may breathe as one, may dream and create as
one. When lovers touch, their hands and fingers fill with the most
healing energy in the universe. Lovers' thoughts and feelings
flow easily from one to the other through love-energy threads,
enabling compassion, empathy, and telepathy. And when true
lovers make love, their union evokes the most exquisite of
pleasures, effects the most profound of healings, and may
even create a brand-new, love-inspired human being.

Love ever subsists as the primary matrix out of which all living
relationship happens. Any relationship succeeds or fails to the
degree that love flows or fails to flow. Without love energy --
extending and connecting -- we live as solitary individuals,
profoundly alone in the universe and essentially unrelated to
all people, including family and friends.

Yet such lack of love describes the daily lives of most men and
women. "Why?" we must ask. Why fail to love when its absence
hurts so much? Why not love when loving gives so much?
How do we take something so fundamental to human existence
and make it so difficult, so scary, so utterly impossible? Love is
the most sublime of human experiences: think of young lovers
dancing on air; think of any parent gazing upon a sleeping child;
think of one's feelings upon the death of an old family pet. How
does something so great get twisted into the all-too-common
feelings of betrayal, intolerance, avoidance, hatred, and fear?

For all its power, love cannot flow through an individual riddled
with and crippled by chronic suppression. Every act of emotional
suppression contracts our inflowing emotional energy and thus
diminishes our experience of energy-expanding love. The more
we condition our children to emotional suppression, the less
love-able they become. The more we, as adults, sustain our
personal patterns of suppression, the less we can feel love,
the less we can teach love to our children, and the less likely
they will be to teach love to their children. And so it happens
that most people come to experience love as rare and difficult,
rather than omnipresent and easy.

It helps to think of your emotional energy as a flowing river,
circulating through all parts of your body and then gushing
out beyond the body -- as love -- and drenching others. Your
whole emotional experience arises from the one flowing river
of energy. Suppress any part of the river and all of your emotions --
inward flowing and outward expanding -- must suffer. Suppress
any feelings of sadness and your capacity for love diminishes.
Suppress any feelings of anger and your capacity for love
diminishes. Suppress any emotion -- positive or negative,
easy or difficult -- and your whole emotional experience, including
and especially your capacity for love, diminishes.

Yet while damming up any part of your emotional river has a
suppressing effect on the whole river, freeing up any part of
the river has the opposite effect. Any time you move from
suppression to flow it increases the circulation of emotional
energy throughout all parts of yourself. Moreover, as philosophers
and poets have been telling us for ages, outward expansion of
your emotional energy -- as through the feelings of compassion,
empathy, curiosity, and love -- causes the most direct and
efficacious movement to system wide emotional flow.

Further good news: We can learn to purposefully and intentionally
practice love. Love must become more than something that just
happens to us, if we get lucky, or that we fall into and out of
according
to some unfathomable whimsy. We can and must learn to actively
make love: to cause love-energy to stir and swell and flow out into
meaningful connection with others; to gratefully open to and receive
love whenever it comes our way; and to create with others a world
in which such conscious loving is the sole abiding reality.
This article was excerpted from:

The Power of Emotion
by Michael Sky.

Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Bear & Co. (Inner
Tradiotions).
http://www.innertraditions.com

MICHAEL SKY, breath work teacher, certified polarity therapist, and
fire walking instructor, is also the author of Dancing with Fire, Sexual
Peace, and Breathing: Expanding Your Power and Energy. Michael
has been leading human potential seminars for twenty-five years,
including more than 200 fire walks. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Visit his website at http://www.thinkingpeace.com

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*One Day At A Time*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Power of the Healing Mind

What was broken can be mended
What was loose can be tightened
What was lost can be regained
If you wish to dream
If you find yourself yearning to become more:
Aware Contained Creative
Loved Happy Autonomous
Conscious Decisive Fun & Playful
Free Useful Relaxed
Peaceful Purposeful Attentive

It won't be easy ~ but these adjectives can be your reality
The first step is to know these states are lacking in you
The next step, be it little or big, is to DO something about it...
Don't curl up and settle for less

Align your thoughts with your dreams and goals
Get informed ~ what is your passion?
Get committed with positive purpose to your journey
Find people who will help
Do the action that you fear
Trust yourself to know what you need for your journey
Do all of the above every day

And know this:
you may expect powerful and wondrous results
And the time and effort will definitely be worth it!

Love
Stella
© 2001 Stella Raymonde Savoie
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*First Things First*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The Wind

The wind is his whisper telling us how to be,
The rain is his cry that our hearts will be free,
His sun shining down on the dark road in sight,
His moon beaming hope that we’ll do what is right,
He gives us the sea to reflect who we are,
And then just for fun he’ll twinkle a star.
He is all around us if we just take the time,
to open our heart, our soul and our mind.

Written By
Wayne Rock

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Easy Does It*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Keep It Simple

Keep it simple don't complicate
If you made it here it is not to late
I was once beat just like you
Here are the things I had to do
King alcohol was my higher power
I rarely had a good hour
At the end I was hopeless and lost
Tired of low living with a high cost
Keep it simple and start right here
Get a sponsor share your fear
First you surrender to win
You have lots of work before you begin
You'll soon learn humility
As you begin to break free
You'll have to search and do an inventory
Soon it will seem like your life story
Admit to yourself, God
And then your fellow man
We start to break free
We learn to understand
We turn to God for a helping hand
Get rid of your garbage
Then change your way
Keep it simple
Keep it in today
Make a list of those you have harmed
Make amends and change your way
You will find peace in that day
In serenity and peace
That God gives to us all
We make our way so we do not fall

Daniel M Corkery
7/10/2001
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Live And Let Live*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Life is like a tapestry.
The bottom faces the earth and the top faces heavenward.
God can see the beauty of the work He is doing
and the picture as it is completed.
All that we on earth can see are the knots and loops on the back side.
When we get to heaven, we can then look down on the tapestry
and see it all complete and it will be very beautiful.
It takes faith in God to be able to live with the knots down here."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Keep The Focus On You*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and
that
is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and
everything
tries to be round... The sky is round, and I have heard the earth is
round
like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power,
whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same
religion
as ours...

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come
back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from
childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves."

Black Elk 1863-1950
Oglala Sioux Shaman

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Let God and Let Go*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Make me sweet again,
Fragrant and fresh and wild,
And thankful for any small event.
Rumi

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom.
It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard Bach

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come To*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go,
we take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come To Believe*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown
wrappings of everyday life."
Judith Viorst

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Look For The Beauty*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

God's will : You can't do his will, your way.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Today Is A Gift*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

God's will, not mine, be done.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Keep Stepping*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

I can't, God can, I think I will let Him?
(Steps 1-3, short form)

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Stay In The Light*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

If you want to make God laugh,
tell him YOUR plans for the day.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*One Promise, Many Gifts*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Adult Children of Alcoholics
www.AdultChildren.org

Al-Anon/Alateen
www.al-anon.org

Alcoholics Anonymous
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org

Alcoholics Anonymous Deaf and Hard of Hearing
www.dhh12s.com/access.htm

Artists Recovering through the Twelve Steps
www.artsanonymous.org

Clutterer’s Anonymous
www.clutterersanonymous.net

Cocaine Anonymous World Services
www.ca.org

Co-Dependents Anonymous Home Page
www.codependents.org

Crystal Meth Anonymous
www.crystalmeth.org

Criminal and Gangs Anonymous
www.angelfire.com/id/CGAnonymous

Debtors Anonymous: A Twelve Step Fellowship for…
www.debtorsanonymous.org

Depressed Anonymous
www.depressedanon.com

Dual Recovery Anonymous - a 12 Step program
www.draonline.org

Eating Disorders Anonymous
www.eatingdisordersanonymous.org

Emotions Anonymous
www.emotionsanonymous.org

Families Anonymous
www.familiesanonymous.org

Gamblers Anonymous Official Home Page
www.gamblersanonymous.org

Hepatitis C Anonymous
www.hcvanonymous.com

HIV Anonymous
www.hivanonymous.com

The Marijuana Anonymous
www.marijuana-anonymous.org

Methadone Anonymous
www.afirmfwc.org/methanon.htm

Narcotics Anonymous Official Homepage
www.na.org

Earth Group N.A. online meetings
www.earthgroupna.org

Nar-Anon is a family support group
www.naranon.com

Nicotine Anonymous (WWW Home Page) NA Home Page
www.nicotine-anonymous.org

Overeaters Anonymous
www.oa.org

Parents Anonymous
www.parentsanonymous.org/paIndex1.htm

Rape Survivors Anonymous
www.rsaws.org

Recovering Couples Anonymous
www.recovering-couples.org

Sexaholics Anonymous
www.sa.org

Sex Addicts Anonymous
www.saa-recovery.org

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
www.slaafws.org/

Shoplifters Anonymous
www.shopliftersanonymous.org

Spenders Anonymous
www.spenders.org/home.html

Suicide Anonymous
www.geocities.com/samemphis

Survivors Of Incest Anonymous
www.siawso.org

Workaholics Anonymous
www.workaholics-anonymous.org

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