Hello All, Notes on the following: RCA: Recovering Couples Anonymous This group was started approximately 18 years ago. Uses the 12 steps as a guide, their...
Hello All, I finished reading Rebecca Fransways book last night. I avoided it for a few days, very painful to read of the in-humane treatment within AA. It...
Hello to All, Spent the evening reading Rebecca Fransway's book and there is not a biography of anyone within this book that I cannot relate to. Devastating to...
Hello to All, I am posting this morning on an aa meeting and group that meets in a north coastal community of san diego. I will not mention names, or name the...
Hello to any readers and hello to me, (lol). My hope is with my daily postings to self-discover, participate in my own healing, and my life, because I am about...
Today will be day four of my new b & B method of recovery I will be posting occasionally to show progress, I wish would have remembered this journal thing i...
I just got my Ipod and it's sick. Putting all my music on it now than im going to go for a short jogg. Cant believe it didn't cost me a thing thanks...
Basically unlike regular banks these guys are totally independent and you enter in your details and they find out the absolute best deal for you. You...
March 18, 2006 What has it meant for me, this recovery journey? Seven and a half years ago, when I was consuming four liters of wine a night, still working,...
Hi All. This is actually something my therapist recomended to me. I am a recovering alcoholic, sober for 11 months so far. I have had the support of my...
Hello everyone my name is Lloyd, I am an addict. For Real. I started doing ontravenous drugs at age thirteen. Im fourty-five. I have spent years in prison and...
Hello, My name is Xavier but my friends call me either X or X man. This is actually my first time posting a message on any board so it is interesting. This...
Thought i would share something with ya'll. Great fun and it does actually work. Met my girl on here, http://www.meetthemonlinenow.info/itdm and so far...
Well I just got engaged! I can't believe it, just last year I was beginning to think i would never meet anyone. I'm 25 already and I thought it was all over....
Just cashed my single biggest cheque for a week of work ever. 3 grand to be exact, just for answering phone calls at home! But honestly, guys I am not here to...
Days go by before I can talk to my group. I am afraid to call anyone on my support group. I feel I am taking away from their time. I have come to write...
THE REASON I'VE SUCCEEDED IN REMAINING SOBER USING AA AS MY FOUNDATION IS THAT I'VE NEVER TAKEN THE AA "GOD" ORIENTED PHILOSOPHY FROM THE OXFORD MOVEMENT...
When I joined AA in 1970 & thru the years in NY I was able to find secular minded members to stay sober with. Living in South Florida 2005 it seems I'm a very...
Monday, April 11, 2004 Today, I decided to stay home and get some things in order. So much has happened in the past few months. Life-altering things,...
Hello to all members, I haven't journaled in awhile, which is not a good thing for me. I've had a great deal going on, and I should be writing about it in...
I've been thinking lately about how I so feel like I did when I was a teenager. Kinda lost, clueless about the future. But there's a big difference, a...
Ah, my year-end interactions with my family inevitably result in my getting my yearly illness. Think it was the flu, still suffering the swollen glands. I...
Funny, how things can come full circle. Yesterday, after spending another day with my parents and my wonderful partner, I went to the women's residence where I...
Christmas Eve, and the snow was falling thick and fast. I made my way to my parents' house, just like every year that I can remember since leaving home. I got...
Ahh, what to drink? What to drink? I'll admit, those damned little Bailey's bottles have been lurking in my shadows, but it was more to do with my stress...
I haven't felt much like writing lately. I don't hardly write at all, in fact. Not in my journals, not my typical essays, not even much e- mail. Working has...
Some folks get exercised at the configurations of a Higher Power that others come up with. In my mind, the sophistication of the configuration represents...
I've been too busy as of late. Learning to merge living with work and the few family obligations I allow into my life. I'm barely keeping my mouth above the...
...to finally communicate with sober folks who's program omits the reliance on God and acknowledges that we are ourselves responsible for our sobriety! I just...
I cannot accept the concept of being powerless. In most things I recognize a lack of total control, but in few instances is one truly powerless. To espouse...