The e-AA Group

Drinking or dry, I was a failure at life when I came here.

Welcome Sorne. Besides, online group, I strongly suggest finding zoom meetings near you. The AA Intergroup for your area can hook you up. I have been present in a zoom meeting when a new person introduced themselves, and the response was fantastic. And, in case you aren't very social, you can get to...

Don't focus on promises. Your'e setting yourself up for disappointment. They will come. I love the last paragraph of the big book on page 164: "Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you f...

19 weeks is good. Be grateful. Read Dr Bob's story in the big book. Bob was less flamboyant than Bill and didn't make big promises about mountain top experiences or dramatic changes. Bob just kept putting one foot in front of the other and helping others. The desire to drink left after two and a hal...

Were they easily able to be forgiving to everyone and make amends, was this a long drawn out process, or something in between.

Some amends are done quickly. Some take a long time before we are ready to make it.

Did you feel like giving amends at this point, did it come later for you?

Pretty much no one feels like making amends when they are doing step 4.

Read step 8 in the 12x12. It has a fuller explanation.

You don't understand "willing to make amends to them all" yet.

You will better be able to figure out amends after you finish steps 5-8.

I agree with theo. The problem with the resentment is that I have it. So, why do I have it? Why do I feel the way I feel? What is on my side of the street? An example: someone is abused as a child. Now, 20 years later, they have a resentment about it. Of course they were not at fault, but they do ha...

Hand writing and typing use different neuro patterns. I recommend writing because of the older more body centered focus. If your write it and then go thru the ritual of burning it, the ritual will touch neuro circuits which you don't know you have, but will effect the outcome. When I did my first fo...

“…much of people’s resistance to a higher power concept is really the ego’s resistance to conscience and to spiritual awareness, to the part of us that recognizes truth and wants to honor it…” ("Hungry Ghosts", Dr Gabor Mate, page 416). Why does the ego have resistance to conscience and spiritual a...

HP to me means Higher Purpose, to find a way to live a better life. More at peace with myself and the world around me

Awesome!

“…much of people’s resistance to a higher power concept is really the ego’s resistance to conscience and to spiritual awareness, to the part of us that recognizes truth and wants to honor it…” ("Hungry Ghosts", Dr Gabor Mate, page 416).

My first sponsor, when I did step 1, had me write notes in a note book for two weeks about what did I think unmanageability was for me. How did I think my life was unmanageable.

For step 6 and 7, "Drop the Rocks"

For more on all the steps, from lectures by Dr Bob, "The Little Red Book."