DAB

I am the speaker at my AA meeting tonight and I would like some ideas for a good topic. What would you guys think is an interesting topic?

least

Gratitude.

Opivotal

Forgiving Ourselves
Honesty
Secrets (You’re Only as Sick as Your Secrets or Your Secrets will get You Drunk)
Living with Myself in Sobriety

Kaneda8888

Recovery planning
Regaining self esteem or recognizing self worth
Being of service

ALinNS

Recovery Planning
Relapse (thinking we can moderate)
Forgiveness

Centered3

Living in the Solution

tomsteve

our stories disclose what it used to be like,what happened, and what were like now.

oldsoul1122

The promises

hellrzr

What Tomsteve said. Most speakers tell thier story and how AA helped then turn thier life around.

Centered3

My experience has been I get more out of these sort of shares when the speaker focuses mostly on what happened (step work) and what he/she is like now (post step work) and not as much about the stories of what it used to be like.

Someone recently pointed out to me that it says "in a general way". I used to share too many details of what it used to be like. Fun to hear maybe, but not as helpful or hopeful.

Centered3

I phrased that wrong. I didn't mean "fun", since obviously our stories had some terrible things happen. What I meant more was how some of us get into that habit of sharing stories and making them "funny" when they're really not funny.... More like what I think sugarbear said, "putting the 'fun' in dysFUNctional"! I was thinking of one guy in particular who likes to share mostly about his fights and crazy antics from his drinking days and I feel like he shares that stuff for attention from those who enjoy hearing those kinds of stories.