One week today and first AA meeting
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One week today and first AA meeting
Hello everyone today marks one week sober 
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I attended my first AA meeting today which was a strange but warm experience. I found it strange that everyone who talks says there an alcoholic then everyone says hello to them and then everyone thanks them for speaking.
I also, being a nosey person , and always having worked with vulnerable people found it difficult when people spoke that I wasn't able to ask questions about their circumstances and their life.
On a plus side everyone was kind , nice and supportive and in early recovery think I will find it useful.
. I attended my first AA meeting today which was a strange but warm experience. I found it strange that everyone who talks says there an alcoholic then everyone says hello to them and then everyone thanks them for speaking.
I also, being a nosey person , and always having worked with vulnerable people found it difficult when people spoke that I wasn't able to ask questions about their circumstances and their life.
On a plus side everyone was kind , nice and supportive and in early recovery think I will find it useful.
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good on ya!
yeah, being in a structered, disciplined, environment where people were allowed to speak without being interrupted was pretty new to me,too, which was just another place i had to learn how to conduct myself- showing respect wasnt a strong point of mine.
the great thing is theres time before and after meetings to ask questions.
yeah, being in a structered, disciplined, environment where people were allowed to speak without being interrupted was pretty new to me,too, which was just another place i had to learn how to conduct myself- showing respect wasnt a strong point of mine.
the great thing is theres time before and after meetings to ask questions.
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One week is awesome, Jtmlk!
About AA meetings, I just think it improves the flow of things if there is no cross-talk or asking questions. This seems to be a tradition at most meetings. But what is really amazing about AA is the established "12 Traditions" which ensure the perpetuation of AA:
About AA meetings, I just think it improves the flow of things if there is no cross-talk or asking questions. This seems to be a tradition at most meetings. But what is really amazing about AA is the established "12 Traditions" which ensure the perpetuation of AA:
- Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
- The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
- Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
- Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
- An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
- Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
- Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
- A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
- Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
- Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
- Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
..a one week candle, can't afford a cake cos Im on the dole haha
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