Finding fulfillment “We weren’t oriented toward fulfillment; we focused on the emptiness and worthlessness of it all.” – Basic Text, p. 89 There were probably hundreds of times in our…
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AA Thought for the Day: In AA we do not speak much of sex. And yet putting sex in its proper place in our lives is one of the rewards…
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Courage to Change: For years I lamented the absence of a label that would identify the soul sickness that brought me to the fellowship. I wanted to say, “I’m a…
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One Day at a Time in Al-Anon: Told by a member at an Al-Anon meeting: “During my first year in Al-Anon, I concentrated on changing my attitude toward the alcoholic. I…
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The language of empathy “… the addict would find from the start as much identification as each needed to convince himself that he could stay clean, by the example of…
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