alcoholic

Who pushes my buttons?

April 25, 2012

Personal Relations AA old-timers would be mystified today to hear program members talk about people “pushing their buttons.” (They can’t get your goat if they don’t know where it is tied) This expression wasn’t around when the early AA members pulled themselves out of the swamp and began their long journey to sobriety. Of course, [...]

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Understanding Compulsion

April 10, 2012

Protecting Sobriety Often called a “compulsive illness,” alcoholism is still a baffling mystery to most people. All we really know is that a single drink, a pleasant beverage for many, becomes a deadly trigger for alcoholics. We may even think it’s unfair that we’re unable to enjoy the pleasant customs of social drinking. If we [...]

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I prayed for a puppy

March 20, 2012

A Child’s Prayer: “Dear God, thank You for the baby brother but what I prayed for was a puppy.” News Flash: I don’t always get what I want from God! I get God’s will for me. I so want to be like the willow tree, bending in the wind, accepting, accepting, and not fighting anyone [...]

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He speaks through people

March 15, 2012

“You can tell an alcoholic, but you can’t tell him much.” – Craig D., Noon Big Book Group, Tampa, FL, c. 2000 We’re more alike than we are different, and certain characteristics seem common to most of the people I meet in the rooms. You can tell an alcoholic by our selfishness, our arrogance, our [...]

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Judgmental machine

March 11, 2012

My practicing alcoholic is a controlling judgmental machine, ready to cut you off at the knees if you cross me, if you disagree with me, and especially if you prove me wrong in public! Oh my, oh my, how my resentment-maker can churn. And I don’t need a drop of alcohol in me either; I [...]

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Well I never

February 28, 2012

I think I’m a weird type of alcoholic. I never drank to fit in. I never drank to “numb my feelings”. I never even made up excuses to drink. I drank because I liked being drunk. What else is weird, I wasn’t “born an alcoholic” and I wasn’t ‘an alcoholic from the first drink.” I [...]

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