My name is Deidre and I am a sober, happy and very grateful alcoholic! I picked up my first drink at the age of 14 and I drank heavily right up until I was 40...
I am excited and very pleased for you and your recovery and hope that it is a lasting and powerful one. Thank you for sharing. I am curious if you have worked...
I find CENAPS to be a great tool, but it is only part of my recovery. Gorski's clinical approach is valuable in recovery, but even with it's story examples...
Not only do I agree with that I find most of the clinical stuff to be excellent or industry professionals but near to useless for the people in recovery. Too...
"Just resign from the debating society and quit bothering yourself with such deep questions as whether it was the hen or the egg that came first. I have one...
My sponsor always stressed one concept to me. He always said to focus on doing the greatest good. The point is that we do not focus on what we are as...
Good stuff real food for thought, I hope you don't mind if I share your words, I'm on my way to a meeting as soon as I finish the volunteer stuff I'm doing...
You are a good man Wade, this media is great I would hope that many more folk see the value of this type of fellowship and join us in sharing this way. It was...
Just recently I had been under a lot of strain and stress, I had faced a lot of really heavy project and was near completion of most of the projects. There had...
My Yahoo e-mail address book Allen B. Guthrie (Brad) @ City Team Ministries 722 Washington st. Oakland Ca. 94607 Cell (510) 395-5008 ... Do you Yahoo!? ...
"But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly and exception will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge. This is a point...
"We asked His protection and care with complete abandon." Why are so many willing to go to any lengths but not the lengths of the very words from the book, "We...
We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need...
I often wonder can God be unfair but just? You have brought me to tears my friend. My ministry is doing good, but as you know sometimes good is the enemy of...
There are 2 new links here on the site that go to a couple of interviews I had done with AA historian Dick B. and with James H. who was in the oxford group...
I had a feeling that Bill W. was kind of vague on steps 6 and 7 but after hearing your interview with Dick B. I gained a better understanding why. It seems to...
I am hoping to get a few more pertinent interviews from different folks in the near future also. I am soooooo glad that the message is getting out to others......
I have some ideas in the works, it is just the time.. I'll be in Mississippi helping the displaced from last years hurricanes for a couple of weeks now. We'll...
Trust God Clean House Work With Others (live in steps 10,11 &12 on a daily basis and check motives on the Four Absolutes - Honesty, Unselfishness, Love and...
There is no one thing I can think of, if there is please let me know, I curious as to what you think. But from my limited know how I would say live a program...
I have to think that what Mitchell Stated is as right on as it gets. Burn the idea into the consciousness of every man that he can get well regardless of...
Wow, I love that passage. It is amazing how few people seem to be dilligent about this idea though. The folks who understand this and the thoughts we have...
Service is key for me but it was a hard concept to grasp. I've always been poor and for me in my growing up environment, the less you had only meant the less...
It's amazing how the key points we need to be sober have become the best kept secrets for so many instead of the common drives of the program????? ... always...
What do you as an individual (assuming you know about this period) think about the differences between the Early "New York" program, Early "Akron" program, and...