If minding one’s own business can work for the group, then it might work for her as well TRADITION TEN: Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy. When I sat down at my very first meeting, I was four days sober and miserableContinue reading “Sassy Pearls Of Wisdom – Grapevine Article October 2015 By Wendy L.”
Category Archives: Boundaries
From Denial To Acceptance – Language Of Letting Go February 22nd
Many of us lived in situations where it wasn’t okay to identify, have, or talk about problems. Denial became a way of life and our way of dealing with problems. In recovery, many of us still fear problems. We may spend more time reacting to a problem than we do solving it. We miss theContinue reading “From Denial To Acceptance – Language Of Letting Go February 22nd”
Confusing Wants With Needs – Each Day A New Beginning – January 14th
In a culture where approval/disapproval has become the predominant regulator of effort and position, and often the substitute for love, our personal freedoms are dissipated. –Viola Spolin Wanting others to approve our efforts, our appearance, our aspirations and behavior is perfectly normal, certainly not unhealthy. However, needing the approval in order to proceed with ourContinue reading “Confusing Wants With Needs – Each Day A New Beginning – January 14th”
The New Year – The Language Of Letting Go – January 1st
Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come. Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on aContinue reading “The New Year – The Language Of Letting Go – January 1st”
Has Singleness of Purpose Become Narrowness of Purpose? Grapevine Article May 2004 By David F.
I know the argument. Alcoholics Anonymous is for alcoholics. It’s about alcohol, it’s not about drugs. Check the pamphlets. Check the Big Book. They talk about alcohol, not drugs. People with drug problems should go to other twelve-step programs. AA is for alcoholics. I know the argument because I argued it once myself. This wasContinue reading “Has Singleness of Purpose Become Narrowness of Purpose? Grapevine Article May 2004 By David F.”
Lois Looks Back On Early Days With Bill W – Grapevine Article December 1944 By Lois W. (Bill’s Wife)
AS the wife of an early AA, some of our experiences and my reactions to my husband’s changed life may be interesting to other wives. Bill was an alcoholic, I believe, from the first drink he ever took, just a few months before our marriage. From then on, for seventeen years, I did everything IContinue reading “Lois Looks Back On Early Days With Bill W – Grapevine Article December 1944 By Lois W. (Bill’s Wife)”
Detach With Love – Grapevine Article June 1981 By D.J.
These AAs joined Al-Anon and learned to detach with love My wife –I’ll call her Elayne–and I are both alcoholics recovering in the lifesaving program of AA. We’ve been off the sauce and off all pills, too, for over six years now. Each of us has been serious about the Steps and at times hasContinue reading “Detach With Love – Grapevine Article June 1981 By D.J.”
Response Ability – Grapevine Article June 2011 by Joe V.
The burdens of obligation transform to gifts of sobriety Before and during my drinking days, people were always talking to me about responsibility. I “had a responsibility” to be an excellent student, obedient son and religious child. I was also somehow responsible that children on the other side of the world didn’t go to bedContinue reading “Response Ability – Grapevine Article June 2011 by Joe V.”