What Does Complete Defeat Look Like?
What does complete defeat look the horror that life had become. It forced me to see that being happy had become almost impossible in any real sense. Here…
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Daily Reprieve · March 2022
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Daily Reprieve · March 2022
The Moment of Complete Defeat
Lying sprawled on the living room floor. My wife, her face deep with worry and incomprehension, staring down at me. “You need to get help”. Next morning being…
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WHO Cares to Admit…
WHO cares to admit… my code, and out pops a $20 bill. Next door was a liquor store. I buy a 5th of cheap vodka, whose brand name…
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Step One — Alcoholics Anonymous
Step One – (pp. 21-24) – Alcoholics Anonymous Me and many ‘others’ who arrived at the doors of AA Rooms found recovery as drunks, when we admitted we…
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Complete Defeat Looks Like Me Last Thursday
After that day 1 of admitting Step 1, powerlessness over alcohol and that my life had become unmanageable, I now feel like I belong. I belong in AA…
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Finally Beaten After 46 Years
Seeing that night, both of my children and my husband were scared of me, and scared for me. I was sick, a very sick person. Finally beaten, after…
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Complete Defeat — Professional Success
defeat look like for me? An amazing question and as I write this, I can’t believe I’m going to say this, I was completely defeated about 6 months…
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Step One for Bill W.
Bill rode the subways that night, panhandling funds for a bottle of booze. (Just imagine!) He came back home on Tuesday morning, December 11th and when he noticed…
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A Frog in a Saucepan — A Poem
They say that a frog in a saucepan Does not feel the water get hot I guess that is what I was doing I was drinking and I…
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I Want the Hand of AA
When it did happen it was dramatic. I was seriously ill. But even through my illness, my pride and shame kept me from coming back. I remember lying…
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What’s Saving Me These Days Is Primary Purpose
What’s Saving Me These Days is Primary Purpose! Lately what’s been saving me is the last line of the Preamble, (published in the June 1947 Grapevine) that states,…
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What Saved You? — Bill and Bob
In no particular order: Love Fate God Luck Bill W Cheap brandy Lessons learned from childhood Damian Hall Sharing Listening The steps My family Meetings Bus rides in…
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The Gift of Desperation
I woke up in Desperation, Half a century ago I had squandered all my options and, I had no place to go. Guilt and Shame and Loathing thoughts…
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The Importance of Step Twelve
Freedom from all Unresolved Mental Issues my life. I never got enough of what I thought I needed. I was insecure. I had no self-esteem. No one had…
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Grapes Upon the Vine — A Poem
They say four billion years ago life showed its face on earth. And as it happened, man became, the product of that birth Then grapes appeared upon the…
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Welcome to the Latest Edition
“Who cares to admit complete defeat, practically no one of course.” 12 Steps and 12 Traditions pg 21. As alcoholics who keep sober one day at a time,…
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