The A.A. emphasis on personal inventory is heavy because a great many of us have never really acquired the habit of accurate self-appraisal. Once this heavy practice has become a habit, it will prove so interesting and profitable that the time it takes won’t be missed. For these minutes and often hours spent in self-examinationContinue reading “Everyday Living – As Bill Sees It #233”
Category Archives: Disturbance
Happy – When We’re Free – As Bill Sees It #218
For most normal folks, drinking means release from care, boredom, and worry. It means joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking. The old pleasures were gone. There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did andContinue reading “Happy – When We’re Free – As Bill Sees It #218”
Breaking The Trance Of Unworthiness – Tara Brach
In our discussion of our divided self and it’s relationship to our alcoholism and addiction, let’s remember the provocative question of Dr. Gabor Matte that suggests what ‘cause and condition’ may need further exploration: “Addiction originates in a human being’s desperate attempt to solve a problem: the problem of emotional pain, of overwhelming stress, ofContinue reading “Breaking The Trance Of Unworthiness – Tara Brach”
Gracefully Broken – Daily Ponderable Thought August 1st by Heather S.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~~ Carl Jung “Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.” ~Steve Maraboli “I was at a store last night and there was a mother and her two children behindContinue reading “Gracefully Broken – Daily Ponderable Thought August 1st by Heather S.”
Unsuspected Inner Resource – How Modern Therapy Is Discovering What Is Innate And Healing Within Us by Bruce M.
How can we access the unsuspected inner resource within us as we experience conflicts with those about us and within us As we explore the perhaps many parts within us that comprise the Dr. Jekyll of us attempting to manage better (i.e. parts like our Inner Critic, Striver, People Pleaser, Know-It-All) and the Mr. HydeContinue reading “Unsuspected Inner Resource – How Modern Therapy Is Discovering What Is Innate And Healing Within Us by Bruce M.”
Mr. Hyde Doesn’t Die – Grapevine Article April 1968 by A.J.W.
To explore this reality of parts within us and the war and healing of these parts , check out this section of our website The boozer in us is still there, but put to sleep by AA. This member woke up his Mr. Hyde with a single beer WE ALCOHOLICS are, I think, double-personality people–oneContinue reading “Mr. Hyde Doesn’t Die – Grapevine Article April 1968 by A.J.W.”
Jekyll and Hyde Tenth Step Lessons Grapevine Article by Dr. Charles Aring October 1962
Would AA’s Fourth Step have changed the ending of the famous old horror story? A famous doctor thinks it might THREE-QUARTERS of a century ago, Fanny Stevenson, frightened in the night by her husband’s cries and moans, prodded him into wakefulness. In a dawning state of consciousness he was annoyed, and not for the usuallyContinue reading “Jekyll and Hyde Tenth Step Lessons Grapevine Article by Dr. Charles Aring October 1962”
Boredom/Depression & Relapse – Problem & Solution Mashup Of Two Grapevine Articles
Boredom, depression, restlessness, feeling stuck are all realities that we will face if we are to live sober. These two short Grapevine articles below help us define more clearly the problem and then to begin to explore effective ways to respond to these uncomfortable feelings. These articles are good reminders of what the Big BookContinue reading “Boredom/Depression & Relapse – Problem & Solution Mashup Of Two Grapevine Articles”
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.”
Self Acceptance – 12 Essential Insights For Emotional Sobriety by Dr. Allen Berger
Dr. Berger is a leader in Emotional Sobriety. His book 12 Essential Insights For Emotional Sobriety is featured prominently in the Emotional Sobriety section of the gugogs.org website. He is a Gestalt therapist with over 50 years of sobriety. Before we do a deep dive into self acceptance with Dr. Berger’s article, it might be useful to identify signsContinue reading “Self Acceptance – 12 Essential Insights For Emotional Sobriety by Dr. Allen Berger”