...are sometimes hard to swallow. I think like most folks I had a fairly rosy picture of AA and it's members. But, as with most things, time opened my eyes to...
All true. I still somehow managed to learn about love, honesty, truthfulness, patience and tolerance in a way that I never knew it before I came to AA. Because...
yes, setting an example is key...BUT also reaching out a loving hand and guidance is imperative.. Tammy Cook <tomatolcook@...> wrote:All true. I still...
I am a grateful recovering alcoholic and chemical dependency counselor for the past 25 years and developed this site www.recoverywithdepth.com because I...
I am a grateful recovering alcoholic and chemical dependency counselor for the past 25 years and developed this site www.recoverywithdepth.com because I...
Amazingly I haven't had any response on this question in the history group I belong to (AAHistoryLovers). I thought I'd post it here. There's been some...
Hi Steve, I belong to the AAHistoryLovers group and my details are setup as or other groups but i don't seem to be able to post anything to the group, though I...
Dave wrote: <<I belong to the AAHistoryLovers group and my details are setup as or other groups but i don't seem to be able to post anything to the group,...
Hi Dave, AAHistoryLovers is pretty much 100% moderated, and the criterium for approved posts is fairly rigid. You might contact the moderator if you feel you...
Thank you Danny, I feel I may have been a little inappropriate. Dave ... -- For great tones, games and other mobile content visit www.partymob.com/amstrad...
Happy Birthday AA, 70 years. I heard one of the U.S. presidents said of AA that it was one of Americas greatest exports. Was it Roosevelt? Dave -- For great...
After I came to AA, it took me while, but eventually I came to the realization that not everyone in meetings were real alcoholics. And the methods they used to...
Ok, I need some help. The church where my home group meets occasionally gets a letter from a prisoner addressed to "AA". I volunteered to write a guy who asked...
I just HAD to pipe in right away Steve. This one has my sides aching. Oh boy! Not AT the poor guy, but for the "text book" way in which you conveyed it....
I don't see how to sponsor anyone behind bars unless we are both behind bars. Now that's me, and I know people swear they do it. They also swear they have a...
you can always say you'll be his friend, rather than be his sponsor and that you'll help him out with the 12 steps. Keep it simple. Dont worry about steppin on...
Steve, Why worry about the "softball approach?" The "official letter" request gives this manipulator away! As a clergyman, I've seen lots of cons try to con...
Thank for everyone's thoughts. I've been giving it a lot of thought and my biggest concern is I don't want to come across as condescending. I have two ideas,...
<<I don't want to come across as condescending>> Maybe that concern is too much of a concern. At this stage of his game, rom where he is, he probably doesnt...
The only requirement is a Desire to stop drinking, I should not sit in judgement of others and their programs, we all have our paths we must follow. But you...
Dawn, I'd be interested in learning, when you work with others, as we know ALL recovered alcoholics must do in following our Program order to stay sober 1) How...
Yes, I do work with others in fact I have two sponsees at the moment and I follow the direction of the big book....and I ask you in a vision for you....when it...
I probably wasn't clear, it being late at night and all. I already assume you work with other alcoholics and I get your point about page 22 (moderate drinkers...
Danny goes' "And actually just another question: Do you think calling someone judgmental might possibly be also judgemental?"...... Do you think that calling...
Hey Tammy, which now of course makes YOU yet another new member of the newly formed "Roundtable of Humble Judges" club. LOL Don't you agree Tammy that folks...
Heavy indeed. I must clean my own hands daily. "At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance for sobriety in A.A. was sometimes...
... Nice of you to ask Bill. :) Since AA doesn't really give much in the way of examples of "judgments" as it does say with words like "resentment",...
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