Mental & Emotional

Humility, Defense Mechanisms and the Creation of the False-Self In relation to Twelve-Step philosophy, humility in recovery is considered a prized virtue and essential to the […]

During these past several months many, if not most, of us have been trying to figure out how to maintain our “normal” during a pandemic. Cancellation, […]

Laughing at the Absurdity of Our Old Way of Thinking One of the things I have always enjoyed about A.A. meetings is our ability to poke […]

Reliving the Conflicts of the Past After years of, out of control, drinking in a life of undisciplined behavior, I was circling the drain and I […]

Sharing Our Experience, Strength and Hope For the newcomer, the first 164 pages of the Big Book contain the framework of how to overcome the disaster […]

Ask yourself three questions every day The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius famously said that our lives are what our thoughts make them. In other words, by […]

The Essence of Our Common Bond “My name is Rosemary P., and I am an alcoholic.” That’s a simple introduction. And powerful! It tells you who […]

Freedom and Peace of Mind I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed an alcoholic that came to Alcoholics Anonymous that loved themselves or that wasn’t riddled with […]

A famous monk admitted that although he had been a priest for many years, he suffered from a serious spiritual contradiction; he just couldn’t believe in […]

Bill S, member of the Shaker Group, got sober in 1946. He knew Dr. Bob and wife Anne. Bill was fond of saying, “If we wanted […]

For many years in sobriety, I have heard people voice the same lament: that after a good period of sobriety, they drank again, and now are […]

The topic of freedom often comes up at A.A. meetings and for this alcoholic; peace of mind has been my goal from the very beginning. Our […]