Ebby T. – Bill W.’s sponsor – speaking in a hotel room in Memphis, TN – 1958
Expressions commonly heard in A.A. are “If you don’t take that first drink, you can’t get drunk” and “One drink is too many, but twenty are not enough.”
If we do not take the first drink, we never get drunk. Therefore, instead of planning never to get drunk, or trying to limit the number of drinks or the amount of alcohol, we have learned to concentrate on avoiding only one drink: the first one.
Tonight, we talk about Staying Away From The First Drink
Bill W Traditions
When breaking free from a life of addiction, your sobriety takes center stage in your life. Recovery takes all your time, energy and focus. While this is natural and necessary, it’s important to remember that there is more to life than your Recovery process. The keyword to remember is “balance.” Balance means allowing all the good and healthy elements of your life to have equal focus.
You may be wondering how to find balance in Recovery, especially when this process takes so much out of you. Tonight, we’ll give you some tips on how to partake more fully in your life.
Tonight, we talk about Living a Balanced Life in Recovery
Bill W at Forth Worth
Popsicle Sticks is not really a topic but rather a style of meeting here in Southeast Michigan. Tonight, this show will be presented in the form of a popsicle stick meeting.
A popsicle stick meeting is a meeting where we let our higher power determine what we need to share. Here in our virtual studio, we have a can full of popsicle sticks. Each stick has a recovery topic written on it. We will take turns, randomly picking a stick and then sharing on that topic that was chosen.
Tonight, we do popsicle sticks
Mary Pearl J. at AlAnon Womens Retreat
One of the famous sayings used by Twelve Step groups is that you have to give it away in order to keep it. What this is referring to is the idea that service in recovery can help the giver as much as the receiver. This giving should not be done in the hope of a reward or praise. Instead the individual does it because they know that it is helping to keep them clean and sober too. Numerous studies have provided evidence that helping others in recovery provides great benefit to the helper.
Tonight, we talk about Service Work.
Mary Pearl J. at AlAnon Womens Retreat
Self-awareness is the degree to which you are aware of your own tendencies, your strengths and weaknesses, your values, your interests, and how you respond to various situations. Self-awareness is the foundation of addiction recovery and good mental health. It is a key skill of emotional sobriety and is the basis for the other skills of self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.
Tonight, we talk about Self Awareness
