Tag Archives: Alcoholics Anonymous
Shaping My Life
Hi old friends, it’s been awhile. The Emotional Sobriety meetings have been going strong this past month. The Men’s meeting is approaching the end of Step 2 and our Thursday night Co-Ed group is nearing the end of Step 4. … Continue reading
A Savage State of Mind
Both Emotional Sobriety meetings have been amazing over the past month, the men’s group continuing to look at Step 2 and the coed group working its way through Step 4. I would like to say that I will write posts … Continue reading
The Art of Making Excuses Part 1: The Depressive
The Thursday night Emotional Sobriety Step Study group has been looking at some paragraphs in Step 4 these past few weeks which make up the “excuses for avoiding an inventory” package. The paragraphs begin on page 45 of the “12&12″ … Continue reading
Recognizing My Alcoholism
One of my favorite definitions of the word recognize is: to see something and realize what it is. The Monday Emotional Sobriety group has been on a new journey through Step 1 over the past 7 weeks and that journey … Continue reading
The Less Desperate Alcoholic
Last Monday, the Emotional Sobriety Men’s Meeting talked about bringing fervor into our recovery with the last paragraph on page 22 of Step 1 of the “12&12″: “In A.A.’s pioneering time, none but the most desperate cases could swallow and … Continue reading
An Alcoholic Character Sketch
So what am I really up against here with this disease they call alcoholism? Last Monday night, the Emotional Sobriety Men’s group took a look at the 1st paragraph on page 22 in Step 1 of the “12&12″: “When first … Continue reading
Continuous Action
Previously on the Emotional Sobriety Blog…. Please read the post entitled “More Problems Than Alcohol” below. This current post and that previous one address the 2 paragraphs on page 39 into page 40 of the “12 and 12″ which present … Continue reading
Sound Relationships
I am traveling for business so I was unable to attend last night’s Emotional Sobriety Men’s Step Study Meeting, but I want to write about the paragraph we discussed in the meeting the previous Monday. Last week we looked at … Continue reading
Principles Before Personalities
A.A. does not engage in controversy but that doesn’t mean its members aren’t controversy-free. We’re alcoholics after all and many of us have had lives full of drama and controversy. Take the drink and the drugs away and you are … Continue reading
Applied Faith
It’s been a busy month and I haven’t written anything since we started Step 3, so I’m going to pick up where the Thursday night meeting is currently in the print and back track to the beginning of the … Continue reading