Topics 5/13/25 ❤️🩹 1)Daily Reflection THE EASIER, SOFTER WAY If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking. -Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 72 I certainly didn’t leap at the opportunity to face who I was, especially when the pains of my drinking days hung over me like a dark Read more…
*Topics 5/12/25* ❤️🩹 *1) THE PAST IS OVER* A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character defects which cause or aggravate them. If Step Four has revealed in stark relief those experiences we’d rather not remember … then the need to quit Read more…
*Topics 5/11/25* ❤️🩹 *1) A NEW SENSE OF BELONGING** Until we had talked with complete candor of our conflicts, and had listened to someone else do the same thing, we still didn’t belong. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 57 *2) Language Of Letting Go Many of us picked on Read more…
1) RESTING PLACE All of A.A.’s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires … they all deflate our egos. When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five. But scarcely any Step is more necessary to longtime sobriety and peace of Read more…
*Topics 5/7/25* ❤️🩹 1) *RESPECT FOR OTHERS -Daily Reflection* Such parts of our story we tell to someone who will understand, yet be unaffected. The rule is we must be hard on ourselves, but always considerate of others. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 74 2) *Grapevine Daily Quote* “‘How will I know Read more…
Topics 5/7/25 ❤️🩹 1) RESPECT FOR OTHERS -Daily Reflection Such parts of our story we tell to someone who will understand, yet be unaffected. The rule is we must be hard on ourselves, but always considerate of others.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 74 2) Grapevine Daily Quote “‘How will I know if Read more…
Topics 5/6/25 ❤️🩹 *1) HOLD BACK NOTHING”* The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide and your full confidence in the one with whom you share your first accurate self-survey. Provided you hold back nothing, your sense of relief will mount from minute to minute. The Read more…
Topics 5/5/25 ❤️🩹 *1 ) THE FOREST AND THE TREES* … what comes to us alone may be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking. The benefit of talking to another person is that we can get his direct comment and counsel on our situation. . . . .-TWELVE Read more…
Topics 12/27/24 ❤️🩹 1) “Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems.”-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 42 2) “Serenity is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” ~ Grapevine Daily Quote 3) To lie is to rob life of meaning. In Read more…
Topics 12/23/24 ❤️🩹 1) Our Twelfth Step – carrying the message – is the basic service that AA’s Fellowship gives; this is our principal aim and the main reason for our existence.-THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 160 2) The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one Read more…