Old 12-26-2012, 12:15 PM
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YVRguy
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Vancouver BC Canada
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Congrats on 60 days! AA is working for me as well since I reached surrender and faced the fact I was powerless over alcohol and my life was unmanageable. FOr me this is the only way I have been able to stop drinking and have the obsession of drinking removed.

I guess I differ in that I don't face a moral question of my alcohol misuse by re-reading step 1 and applying step 2. Morality to me means going against something which I have power and decision making over. For me , my only hope against alcohol is a power greater than myself. I believe the reason I kept failing in the past with self will was I truly had no chance on my own. Surrender was the only path for me. I don't sweep the past under the carpet but I also see the occasions where I simply had no mental defense against the first drink and from that point , no human power could stop me.

Glad you are finding what others have found.
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