With Deep Pain Came Total Surrender
WitƎ DeƋp PaƏn CamƋ TotƇƒ SurƘƋƮdƥƘ It all starts with the first step! We are powerless over alcohol and our lives have become unmanageable. I am a real…
With Deep Pain Came Total Surrender Read story →
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WitƎ DeƋp PaƏn CamƋ TotƇƒ SurƘƋƮdƥƘ It all starts with the first step! We are powerless over alcohol and our lives have become unmanageable. I am a real…
With Deep Pain Came Total Surrender Read story →
“My A¨ FoƛnƊơƴiƕn” My AA Foundation, believe it or not, was when I stepped foot into my first home group Sunrise Sunday 9:30am morning meeting. I walked in…
NewƉƕƭƥr firƙƴ imƖƲƋsƙƩoƮs of A¨ What should I do—or not do? Using the same sort of foul language that I used as a thirteen-year-old to impress my parents…
Newcomer First Impressions of AA Read story →
GivƏƔƧ BacƑ is tƎe FoƛnƊơƴiƕn My Forgiving, crying, voicing Is the way to peace of mind Honouring the pain and anger Relief emerges over time The man who…
Giving Back Is the Foundation Read story →
ReflƋcƚƩoƮs On SobƘƏƥƴy SepƚƋƭbƥƘ 2020 I shouldn’t be alive today. I shouldn’t have a usable brain today. Only through the grace of a benevolent God am I sober…
Reflections on Sobriety — September 2020 Read story →
How OxƌoƲd GroƛƖ CriƚƏƣƩsƓ SpaƝƮƋd The TweƒƶƋ SteƖƳ Bill and Lois Wilson attended the NY Oxford Group shortly after Bill was released from Towns hospital late December 1934.…
How Oxford Group Crisis Spurred the Twelve Steps Read story →
The MatƏƔƧ Calƒ of tƎe Arƙeƨ*le I don’t do false humility. Before recovery, I’d enjoyed a certain amount of career success. My job was an Executive Creative Director…
The Mating Call of the Arsehole Read story →
LetƚƋƲ fƘoƭ tƎe EdiƚƕƲ Welcome to the latest edition of the Daily Reprieve, It’s quite alarming with what is happening in the world; everyone’s health is at risk,…
Letter from the Editor Read story →
Welcome back to our latest edition of A Daily Reprieve. Page 59 of the book ‘12 Steps and 12 Traditions’ reads: “Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing,…
Letter from the Editor Read story →
It bugs me when people If you’re going to be humble, myself so. It is like say, “I feel humbled by the it has to come from you,…
What Is Being Humbled? Read story →
It was the thought of going to prison that finally humbled me. And it was my alcoholism that finally got me into trouble with the law, and led…
A Humbling Rock Bottom Read story →
automatically; like someone at a cloakroom who is taking my coat of false identity and hanging it up so that I can just be myself. When I pronounce…
Humility Was Such a Foreign Concept Read story →
When I drank my arrogance was a shield to protect me from others criticizing my drinking. I had a good job, wife and life, on the outside anyway.…
Why Is Humility So Important to Sobriety? Read story →
The perception of humility is a wide ranging subject and one that I am sure could fill many a thesis of many a final year university student. I…
Perceptions of Humility Read story →
AA’s Secret Language When I first joined the fellowship some years back, one of the things I immediately noticed was the rich body of coded language that we…
AA’s Secret Language Read story →
Humility to me is . . . … trusting others … asking for help … sitting quietly … appreciating others … remembering my bottoms … listening … putting…
Humility to Me Is… Read story →
… I’m so humble it’s not even funny… talk about humble, actually I am very happy to and will tell you how super humble I am, whether you…
I’m So Humble It’s Not Even Funny Read story →
“Perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore; to wonder at nothing that is done…
Ramblings on Humility Read story →
My worst fears met; my endless strife; of stable wealth there is but none Was it my fear, my lack of faith; A wrongful praying to the One?…
Job’s Trial — A Poem Read story →
Daily Reprieve · July 2020 Perspectives on Humility
Perspectives on Humility Read story →
Step Seven begins: “My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.” Why should I ask God to take over my…
Step Seven, Set Me Free! Read story →
“I don’t know!” I happily sing. The wonderful thing ‘bout being humble For humble’sa wonderful thing Is actions become about others As Winter melts warmly to Spring I…
Songs and Poems on Humility Read story →
There is so much for me to learn from her. And through our communication and love for each other, I’ve learned how to express myself to her, and…
My Sponsor Is Tough on Me Read story →
We welcome you to read this, the second edition of The Daily Reprieve. Unprecedented times! Pandemic! The economy is crashing down! Isolation and social distancing, etc. etc. The…
From the Editor’s Desk Read story →
What I was like I thought that my intervention could save any situation. I collected histories of the world so I could learn from the past and be…
Without Help, It Is Too Much for Us Read story →
I view the first nine steps as primarily a short-lived event that teaches how to begin the lifelong process of the living last three steps. The event: Steps…
12-STEPS: First an Event—Then a Process Read story →
On April 3rd, I found myself sent home to start the working from home protocol that my company decided to self-implement. Not long after that came the government…
Getting Back to Planet Earth Read story →
I remember when I got into the rooms, just over five years ago. Defeated, is the only word I can think of. Misled by my own belief system,…
Helping Me Is Helping You Read story →
The current situation and the global life changing circumstances, present a lot of challenges to everyone – but also some opportunities. I can relate to this myself, as…
Sometimes I fantasise How would I do it? What excuse might I give In this strangest of times? I just need some air I have to just go…