Connection to Others Pages 37-38 Some days it seems really easy to identify with others, to feel welcomed and welcoming in a meeting. At other times, all we hear are things that set us apart from the group. When we start noticing the differences more than appreciating our similarities, it's usually a red flag indicating...

i personally love this translation of tradition 4. a majority of my friends today are in recovery and we hang out and do things that may not include an organized meetin, but when we are together, we live and speak of our recovery. we are free to do as we wish, whether we are out...

with humility i get to understand that i am NOT the only person on earth that matters. when i practice the spiritual principle of humility it means to me that i can live with self-esteem that is stable; that i am secure in who and what i am. that i dont feel the need to...

By submitting to God, we're released from the power of liquor. It has no more hold on us. We're also released from the things that were holding us down: pride, selfishness, and fear. And we're free to grow a new life, which is so much better than the old life that there's no comparison. This...

the program of recovery i live, i hope, speaks for itself. i hope that the work ive put into self is a show to others that there has been a change within me that has a positive effect on others. though i may speak of my intentions for my recovery, i hope that it is...

if i was to take the program of recovery and use it to only create happiness for myself, then i feel i would be neglectin what this thing we do is tryin to create. if i was to take the program of recovery i practice and use it to only find my faults, so i...

i reckon i couldnt say that this thing we do doesnt work. today, i have had the personal experience that it does work. in the later days of my drinkin, when i may have scoffed at the things i heard from others, tellin me i needed to stop drinkin, that recovery does work, that my...

i can remember the loneliness i felt durin the last days of doin my dirt. i can remember thinkin and wonderin how anybody could love me. low self-esteem leads directly to self-pity. i think of those times today and am of the understandin that when i couldnt see anything good about myself, how could anybody...

recovery has done for me what its posed to do, help me get sober. its been my personal experience that when i stopped puttin alcohol in my body, the illusion i had let it create, that all was fine and dandy, stopped happenin. now that dont mean the delusion that i was ok stopped, cause...

Stability Pg 186 Paragraph 2 Many of us have gone through life by default, as if events simply happened to us. Our sense of ourselves was so distorted that we felt like we have no impact on the world. When we understand the First Step, we realize that “I’m powerless over everything” is a cop-out....