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06-24-2006, 09:33 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Plymouth, MN
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| Today I am grateful...
I just want to say how grateful I am for my recovery and how AA has helped me. I have read in some other forums that some people are very anti-AA and I don't quite get it. I have been to several AA meetings and have found that I don't like them all, but have finally found 2 that I feel are a "fit" for me. I feel bad that some people have found negative experiences in AA or perhaps, haven't given it a fair chance and feel the need to be "anti-AA" in stead of just "it's not for me". I know it is a program of attraction and not promotion and I hope that I can live a life that some day someone will want what I have -- first and foremost, sobriety AND happiness!! I don't believe that AA is the only way to stay sober, I just know that I like the fellowship that I've found in it and in SR too. It's not my only support in my recovery, but it sure it an important part. Just my 2 cents worth. 
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06-27-2006, 08:07 AM
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| NOT EVEN 1 CLUB!!  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: When I find myself, I'll let you know!
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I too am very grateful for the program that has saved my life!! But, to each his/her own!! It's the freedom of choice!!
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06-28-2006, 10:40 AM
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| Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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I am grateful too. To be sober today through the help of AA. I think much of the anti-AA sentiment comes from people who 1) don't want to go to meetings, be around other people; 2) think they can handle there problems with some other way. I tried AA when I had exhausted all other means of getting/staying sober. It may be that many people on this forum are still testing out those others means, looking for something easier and softer.
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06-28-2006, 11:12 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Ohio
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i'm grateful to have given another chance. Another chance at sobriety, and AA is what works for me. I'm thankful to God that He didnt let me die while i was out 'there' doing what I do. I'm thankful that even in the midst of all the sickness I am facing, I AM SOBER.. I'm thankful I can share this great gift of recovery with others, by sometimes, just being an example. I'm thankful for the new sponsor I have today. I'm thankful I'm alive. And I'm thankful I have found this site.
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06-29-2006, 06:58 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: UK
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I'm grateful for all the benefits of AA - handing it over? Wow, who knew that that could be so liberating? Not taking other's inventory? I mean, sometimes that's really hard to do, sometimes it's getting closer to second nature - but for so long I didn't know that I was doing it, so was always a victim to it. Same with taking resentments, or practising gratitude and acceptance. Although tolerance still seems to be on a higher plane - in time, I hope. Have a good day all. |
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