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Recovery Topic is

Living Life on Life’s Terms

We are told that if we live life on life’s terms, we have a chance at being happy.

So let’s talk about being happy

Happy before program and

happy in early recovery

When you were a child, how did you find happiness and comfort in life?

When you were in your addiction, how did you find satisfaction in life?

When life was unfair, how did you react before program?

Early in your program:

where did you find comfort?

how did you cope with life of early sobriety?

One promise is to know a new freedom and new happiness..

What does this mean to you?

The trick to taking Life on it’s own terms is to practice being satisfied.

That is to accept the reality of what is before you. And do it often.

I would like to hear your thoughts how to practice being satisfied?

Tell us your experience regarding accepting reality.

Is working the steps a way of practicing being satisfied?, How? Which one?

How does your spiritual life help you to live life on life’s terms?

What slogan helps you live life on life’s terms?

How does your sponsor help you to live life on life’s terms?

We have Calls, want to take some calls?

Martin

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Rebecca from UK

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Kurt

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The skill in seeing reality clearly requires us to be free from ego

Your thoughts about ego and seeing reality?

What has been your experience with ego and how has this affected your happiness?

What about when life isn’t fair, how do you handle this now that you are in program?

How do you handle unjust situations?

How do you differentiate between acceptance and being a doormat?

How does the serenity prayer work with living life on life’s terms?

How does the Acceptance statement (Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today…) relate to living life on life’s terms?

What would you say to the new guy about Living Life on Life’s terms?

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By: Mark S

February 8, 2015

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February 5, 2015

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Tolerance – 572

By: Mark S

February 4, 2015

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Recovery Topic is

Tolerance

Before program, what did tolerance mean to you?

What does tolerance mean to you now?

(to permit)

Why is tolerance important in recovery? (respect for the other)

Page 84: open

…fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help. Love and tolerance of others is our code. And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone – even alcohol.

important for me to be tolerant enough to reach out to the new guy with lots of problems to get out of head.

When have you been intolerant?

(love of opinion,self righteous especially around religion, with AA as only way to recovery)

What gets in the way of being tolerant?

(control, selfishness, ego)

What is needed for tolerance?

Page 122: open

All members of the family should meet upon the common ground of tolerance, understanding and love. This involves a process of deflation.

(love/charity, ego deflation)

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Sam from colorado

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How is tolerance important to the individual?

Page 19: open

Nothing would please us so much as to write a book which would contain no basis for contention or argument. We shall do our utmost to achieve that ideal. Most of us sense that real tolerance of other people’s shortcomings and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions are attitudes which make us more useful to others. Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs.

How is it important to the group?

the group needs it to grow and be there for the newcomer

How is tolerance a spiritual principle?

Page 83: open

Their defects may be glaring, but the chances are that our own actions are partly responsible. So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love. The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. Unless one’s family expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principles we think we ought not to urge them.

Pray for tolerance, neighbor

Page 67: open

…Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend.

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We have commenced to see their terrible destructiveness. We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people. We have listed the people we have hurt by our conduct, and are willing to straighten out the past if we can. In this book you read…

How has your tolerance grown?

Page 125: open

We do talk about each other a great deal, but we almost invariably temper such talk by a spirit of love and tolerance. Another principle we observe carefully is that we do not relate intimate experiences of another person unless we are sure he would approve. We find it better, when possible, to stick to our own stories.

What has been the benefits?

When does tolerance become a bad thing?

How does tolerance differ from codependence?

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February 1, 2015

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Excuses – Recovered 570

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January 28, 2015

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Tonight, our

Recovery Topic is

Excuses

Like I said at the top of the program

As alcoholics,

we spent a lifetime trying to escape, minimizing fault, and then feeling bad about ourselves.

Before the program, did you make excuses for your drinking?

Did it work?

What were the consequences?

Why did you feel the need to make excuses for drinking alcohol?

Was it to justify behavior?

Did you do it to minimize guilt?

To try to convince people that you were not so bad?

Did it work?

What were the consequences?

Why do we make excuses?

Did you make excuses why AA wouldn’t work?

How does/making excuses endanger you progrm?

Did you make excuses not to take a step? Which one?

Did it work?

What were the consequences?

What tools do you use when confronted with the temptation to make an excuse?

What slogan?

What prayer?

What step?

How is Procrastination an excuse?

What are the consequences?

How is Lying an excuse?

What are the consequences?

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How does character defects contribute to making excuses?

selfish

self centered

egotistical

Is excuse making habitual?

How do we break this pattern of behavior?

What is the payoff of being honest?

What would you say to the newcomer about excuse making?

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January 22, 2015

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The Serenity Prayer – Recovered 568

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January 21, 2015

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Serenity Prayer,

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

The courage to change the things I can,

And the wisdom to know the difference.

What were your thoughts, experience of the Serenity Prayer?

Was it off putting, or was it comforting?

Did the word God bother you?

Early days, What did it mean to you ( and hosts), in the early days.

How did you begin to apply it to your sobriety/ recovery.

Did it help?

What the Prayer did for me in the early days ( and can still do today), is remind me of the

importance of acceptance, can bring comfort to me and it also began to develop a Faith in a power greater than myself, the idea that something outside of myself ( or within myself), could help me….restore me to Sanity.

When I pray, I consider the idea that I am not alone, and sometimes this is a very new concept for the new person.

It can also begin to grow an inner humility, an understanding that I am not and can not control everything or everyone in my life…..something that we all tried to do in our addiction!!!

God grant me the Serenity….What does this mean to you?

To accept the things I can not change, how do we do this, why do we need to do this?

Courage to change the things I can.. where can you put the action in ?

Wisdom to know the difference….How does the Program help you to do this?

When I pray, I feel that I am not alone, is this important?, Why is it important for the new guy, or the long timer.

Just think the next time you’re in a meeting and you’re all saying the Serenity Prayer, just take a moment to consider how many of us all over the world are doing the same thing!! Isn’t that wild? Something that brings me such joy and a sense of togetherness and Peace?