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    Open-Mindedness

    By Phillip | September 5, 2023 | | 0 Comments

    The last of the three essential ingredients for success and sobriety is open-mindedness.  The first thing we have to be open-minded about is to stop drinking and to stay stopped.  For some people this may mean going through a detox program.  For others who do not have access to a detox program they can stop

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    Open-Mindedness

    By Phillip | August 30, 2023 | | 0 Comments

      The last of the three essential ingredients for success and sobriety is open-mindedness.  The first thing we have to be open-minded about is to stop drinking and to stay stopped.  For some people this may mean going through a detox program.  For others who do not have access to a detox program they can

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    Honesty

    By Phillip | August 28, 2023 | | 0 Comments

      Honesty is the most essential element of the program of recovery.  It starts with personal honesty and a realization that you are alcoholic.  For those wishing to work the program it starts with identifying in the first 30 days of sobriety that you are a newcomer and an alcoholic.  This is done in meetings. 

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    Twelve Steps Away

    By Phillip | August 25, 2023 | | 0 Comments

      One may hear someone share at a meeting that they are one drink away from a drunk.  For myself nothing could be further from the truth. I believe that someone who has taken all twelve steps and is applying the principles of the Steps in their lives are 12 steps away from a drunk.

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    Science

    By Phillip | August 22, 2023 | | 0 Comments

      In the chapter “More About Alcoholism” in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous we read that “science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn’t done so yet.”  This is in reference to solving the problem of alcoholism.  There have been all types of scientific studies and trials attempting to alleviate the use of

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    Defiance

    By Phillip | August 18, 2023 | | 0 Comments

      It has been often observed that defiance is the chief characteristic of an alcoholic.  They put up roadblocks of indifference, fancied self-sufficiency, prejudice and obstinacy.   It literally takes an act of God for some of these types of people to see things differently.  There will also be those who have drifted into indifference,

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    Acceptance

    By Phillip | August 13, 2023 | | 0 Comments

      Back in the day the passage in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous that was on page 449 having to do with acceptance was often quoted in meetings.  Today in the Fourth Edition of the big Book it can be found on page 417.  It goes like this, “And acceptance is the answer to

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    Live and Let Live

    By Phillip | August 8, 2023 | | 0 Comments

      This is another one of the Alcoholics Anonymous slogans.  To me it means to live my life as it unfolds and to not meddle in other people’s business.  Basically, we are told to mind our own business. Alcoholics, sober and not sober have an uncanny knack for telling other people what they should do

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    But For the Grace of God

    By Phillip | August 3, 2023 | | 0 Comments

      This slogan of Alcoholics Anonymous admonishes us to not judge others or our fellow sufferers.  Alcoholics are notorious of trying to play the “I’m better than you card.”  We particularly judge our homeless sufferers as unworthy of our attention or concern.   This occurs even after many years of sobriety for some people.  Most

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    Selfishness & Self-Centeredness

    By Phillip | July 28, 2023 | | 0 Comments

    The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous on page 62 states that it is believed that “selfishness and self-centeredness” are the root of our problems and behavior with alcohol.  We live our lives on the basis that we can do as we please.  When we step on someone’s toes, and they retaliate we just cannot understand

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