Tag Archives: Sober
Give it to God
In my last post on Pride, I mentioned that some members of our group felt pride could be a good thing and were struggling with the idea that it was so destructive. After reading all of your great comments on … Continue reading
The Secret Ingredient: Pride
It’s so good to be back in the flow. After traveling for work the first 2 weeks of the year, I was able to attend the Thursday night Emotional Sobriety meeting this week along with all the others who were … Continue reading
The Art of Making Excuses Part 2: My Natural Disposition
Okay, so Bill W. got my attention in Step 1 with all those not-so-great alcoholic character traits, but does he ever let up? In Step 2 I find out I am belligerent, close-minded, arguing, drifting, intellectually self-sufficient, prejudiced, defiant, self-deceived … Continue reading
More Problems Than Alcohol
Yup, this is what recovery is really all about. Recognizing that I have more problems than alcohol leads me down the pathway to willingness and Emotional Sobriety. Our Thursday night Emotional Sobriety Step Study meeting has been looking at 2 … Continue reading
The Hole in the Doughnut
The Thursday Night Emotional Sobriety Step Study group is moving through Step 3 these days and as I settle in here in Vancouver on my “summer job”, I am experiencing the principles the group is reading about firsthand, whether I … 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
Dissecting the 12 Steps
Our Thursday night Emotional Sobriety Step Study group has come to the end of Step 2 and we have spent the last meeting and a half overviewing this incredible Step. This blog has posts for all the paragraphs so … Continue reading
The Next Frontier: Emotional Sobriety
emotional sobriety: feelings that are reasonable in relation to that which stimulates them; feelings that are without extreme qualities of fantasy, instability, or prejudice. Although my web address remains the same, I have decided to change the name of … Continue reading
Smoke Screens
This past Thursday night, our Emotional Sobriety Step Study group dove into the first paragraph on page 30 in Step 2 of the 12 & 12: “Another crowd of A.A.’s says: ‘We were plumb disgusted with religion and all its … Continue reading