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What I thank my sponsor most for is how she guided my alcoholic mind towards the steps. Whenever I am stuck in a situation she would encourage me…

Circumstances at the time benefited us both and in a very short period we were sharing a small house together (as friends, please note). When I came into…

Please allow me to IMAGINE you like that Let’s cut straight to the chase Please and I do mean please, sincerely allow me to constantly, and I do…

“A personality flaw can be a trait or behavior that is conscious and the person usually has control over it, whereas a personality disorder is a long enduring…

way. That I know better. Then through sobriety, I began to feel joy, pain, hurt, balance, longing, regret and HOPE. Seeing MY want from my need. Understanding, that…

Stop Doing What Marge Wants to Do When I finally realized I had no control of people, places and things – my biggest and strongest defect of character,…

Going around in Circles Before I found the rooms I was always impatient, unless I was drinking. It occurs to me that I spent all my energy planning…

asking God to remove those false airs and let people see the real me. As we read How It Works at the beginning of each meeting, I heard…

In spirit of the 6th and 7th month and thinking about which removed character defect had the biggest impact; it is definitely having less fear in my life!…

Since I arrived at the door of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A,) in 1969, I have led a highly active life physically, and mentally. I faced most of the challenges…

I love when I realize I’m handling a situation better than my old self would have. SOBRIETY Making being in the moment a possibility

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…