This week’s HTYH is a continuation of a medical doctor’s story: When I first met Casey, my second wife, we went on one date and moved in together—for 33 years now, we’ve never been apart. We took care of our aging parents together, . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of a medical doctors story: As I go through my story you’re going to hear a lot about the Book Alcoholics Anonymous (AA’s Big Book) because I am a Big Book Thumper—I study the Big Book frequently . . .
This week’s HTYH is a medical doctor’s story: I just returned from Dallas, Texas where I spoke to a group of people involved with treatment centers for alcoholism and addiction and also a group of doctors who practice in that same field. . . .
This week’s HTYH is the beginning of a Medical Doctor’s story. Burns B. from Louisville, KY, spoke at the Grand Wayne Center, May 1st Sunday morning at 10:30AM and it was free to the general public, courtesy of the Fort Wayne Inner Group . . .
This week’s “Here’s To Your Health,” is a continuation of Scott’s story: As a result of working the Tenth Step: “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it,” sponsoring . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Scott’s story: When I reached Step 7: “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.”
I encountered the word humility. What is humility? What can it mean to us? Is it really the avenue to . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Scott’s story: The greatest of the seven deadly sins, (false-pride, greed, lust, envy, sloth, anger, gluttony), is “False Pride” because it leads to self-justification, always spurred by . . .
This week’s “Here’s To Your Health” is a continuation of Scott’s story: My sponsor told me to get a job, or another sponsor. My first job in sobriety was driving a catering truck on movie sets. I should have been grateful . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Scott’s story: After my sponsor led, or dragged, me through the first five steps he instructed me how to proceed with Steps 6 & 7—he sent me home to read the instructions for those steps. AA’s book, . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Scott’s story: The last time I crawled back into AA, I was out of brilliant ideas—completely defeated by King Alcohol. The book Alcoholics Anonymous clearly states that the first three steps will have little, . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Scott’s story: My life was running between my fingers like sand and I knew it—I would soon be dead. I welcomed prison—sober in prison is better than dying homeless on the street. At least, in prison . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Scott’s story: Once I rearrange my life to include plenty of alcohol my flight from reality began. As unlikely as this scenario must seem to people who are not alcoholic, plenty of alcohol for the alcoholic . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Scott’s story: Insanely paranoid falls short of describing my feelings the first time I crawled thru the doors of Alcoholics Anonymous. I was running when nobody was chasing me and believed that everybody was . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Scott’s story: I grew up Jewish in the Bronx and my Hebrew name was Schlomo. I wanted to escape being Schlomo, I wanted a Schlomo operation and have Schlomo surgically removed from me as soon as possible. I . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Scott’s story: I was originally diagnosed as a drug addict because of my heroine abuse. I entered a treatment center and my intensive therapy began. Psychiatry treated my quirks and foibles, but I was dieing . . .
This week’s HTYH is the beginning of Scott’s story: My sponsor, meetings, the Big Book, the steps and people I sponsor provide me with gratitude and serenity and every thing else I need for today. When my sponsor arrived at the doors of . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Shannon’s story: My Dad sent me to a Girl Scout Camp but they kicked me out and what neither I, nor they, understood was that I was detoxing and on the verge of the DT’s. I knew something was wrong, but I . . .
This week’s HTYH is the beginning of Shannon’s story: Most people have a childhood but I didn’t think I had one. I always felt different than other kids and I never seemed to have enough—I always wanted more. I was angry because my mother was . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of an Alanon lady’s story: My home group in Alanon, in the beginning, met on the other side of a petition from the A.A. people and we laughed a lot. After the meeting the door would fly open and the alcoholics . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of an Alanon lady’s story: What brought me to the Alanon program was the first part of the first step. I was powerless over my husband and his alcoholism. What has kept me in Alanon is the second part of step . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of an Alanon lady’s story: After having read the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous 42 times I finally stopped highlighting things for my mother and turning down page corners for my husband. I had a revelation . . .
This week’s HTYH is the beginning of an Alanon lady’s story whose name is Ellen: When I was growing up it never was my intention to become a member of Alanon–I’d never heard of Alanon. What I wanted to be was somebody’s wife and a mother. . . .
This weeks HTYH is a continuation of Judy’s story: I’m OK with who and what I am today. Today it bothers me that so many outside influences have crept into our A.A. meetings-most of those influences are from treatment centers. I am not against . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Judy P.’s story: After my husband and I moved from Atlanta to a farm in Ohio, I suddenly became aware of God’s magnificent creation. It was a whole new experience for me and one morning in our backyard I . . .
This weeks HTYH is a continuation of Judy P.’s story: I looked up at the mountain and said, “God if you don’t help me I’ll drink again. I don’t know where it came from, but for the first time in my life I felt an absolute peace and . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Judy P.’s story: I asked the women in that little A.A. group for their phone numbers and every day at about 3:00 PM I’d start calling the numbers to find a ride to their meeting. Some of the women came to . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Judy P.’s story: I’d wake up, start drinking again and pass out four hours later. My body, clothes, bed and apartment reeked of vodka and that’s how it was; there was nothing fun about it. I was sent . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Judy P.’s, story: We no longer have to hang our heads in shame because God, our sponsors and A.A. have changed our personalities. We are not the same characters we once were because we’ve changed. My first . . .
“When Love Is Not Enough,” to deal with an alcoholic spouse or family member there’s Alanon; a program of recovery designed for the family of chronic alcoholics. The Alanon meeting formerly held at Redeemer Lutheran Church has relocated to the . . .
This week’s HTYH is a continuation of Judy P’s story: Booze is what worked for me and it worked instantaneously. One time when I had a hangover a friend gave me two pills and said, “Take these,” I did but 15 minutes later nothing had happened. . . .