The e-AA Group

Step 1 approached me, really.
My life became unmanageable. I couldn’t stop drinking.

You cannot attend meetings with a spouse? Is this a rule?

If the steps were simple, there would not be any need for guidance as they would be so simple to understand. I, on the other hand, do not view AA as a simple program. Since the program requires an almost complete change in my thinking it will neither be quick or simple. I am however now becoming OK...

This whole idea of homework is strange to me. I took 1,2 and 3 very quickly, within hours. They’re pretty simple and straightforward. The book has all that I needed.

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Fri Mar 27, 2020 4:06 pm

I actually proposed a big book workshop with the group I facilitate but it wasn’t readily accepted (they’re worried about what their “sponsors” will think and that it’ll be a conflict of interest).

Oh dear! This is so wrong. A “conflict of interest”!!!???

Page 417 Acceptance Alcoholics Anonymous - Fourth Edition Acceptance is the answer to ALL of my problems today. Theres a tendency to look for something in the stories section that de-emphasizes the need to pay attention to the program pages. Acceptance is not the answer to any of my needs, rather ,...

It’s my favourite story too. Dr Paul O has written a couple of books, one of which I’ve read and has helped me, entitled “You Can’t Make Me Angry”

Working the twelve steps of AA brings many rewards. One such reward for me is that alcohol and it's consumption have become an non-issue. When I see people on TV drinking prop alcohol, that is all it is, it produces no reaction in me one way or the other. It stirs no reaction in me, not because it ...

You didn’t drink? You didn’t relapse. Xanax is another issue. Did you take it to get high? No? Forget about it. Be careful of/aware of motives. I’m interested, though, in what your sponsors idea of resetting your “sobriety date” meant to him/her. Did he or she want you to start the steps again or so...

It’s worth bearing in mind the fact that there were no 12 steps when the first guys got sober. They summarised what they did in 12 steps, subsequently. Having a deeper knowledge of what is achieved by the steps and how the steps achieve this allows us to gauge each person we help individually. With ...

Being less than honest with oneself in regard to Step 4 happens inside ones head, before committing any list to paper or computer screen.
Well...with f2f meetings being closed left, right and centre, folk are being driven into the online rooms. Welcome everybody.

Hi Paul It happened to me too. I couldn’t stop drinking and obsessing about drinking. When I had one, I couldn’t stop at that, at least not comfortably. 12 years ago, I read the book Alcoholics Anonymous and I did exactly what was suggested in it - known as the 12 steps. I haven’t had a drink, or wa...

If you see somebody you know at a meeting, then so will they.

For me, the mental obsession involved everything I did being centred around the next drink, whether that was going to be in 5 mins time, 5 hours time or 5 days time.

I came to A.A. because I realised I was powerless to stop drinking. It didn’t take me long to look at the way my life was and realise that it was unmanageable.
Step 1 complete.