Posts Tagged ‘Alcoholics Anonymous’

Anonymous Alcoholic in the News

Around Town for Sunday, June 23
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Adult Children of Alcoholic or Dysfunctional Families and Codependents Anonymous meeting, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. every Sunday, Assembly Chambers, across from Marine Park. Details: 789-0965. Duplicate bridge, 1-4 p.m., Juneau Senior Center. Details: …
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Addicted to the Internet ? Here are ways you can quit
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If these 'survival strategies' do not help, seeking professional help or joining a support group would be good options. Since this is a relatively new form of addiction, finding support groups like Alcoholics Anonymous could be difficult. As ironic as …
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AA Meeting

Man thinks he is speaking at an AA meeting.

 

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Beginning Signs Of Alcoholism in the News

James Gandolfini's sister identifies body in Rome as autopsy confirms heart …
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An autopsy found a massive heart attack felled actor James Gandolfini, whose body showed no signs of lethal drug or alcohol abuse, a family friend said Friday. The results were made public as loved ones angrily denounced published reports that the …
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Today in History: Alcoholics Anonymous is founded; JFK signs Equal Pay Act …
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In 1692, the first official execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts took place as Bridget Bishop was hanged. In 1861, during the Civil War, Confederate troops routed Union soldiers in the Battle of Big Bethel in Virginia. In …
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Governor signs bills on education, elections, taxes
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Question by kittykuddlz1: What does it mean to “:trudge the road of happy destiny”?
In the Alcoholics Anonymous big book, in the promises, it says these words and trudge and happy don’t seem to go together for me. I am trying to understand the significance of this phrase and what it means.

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Answer by raysny
No, they do not go together. It’s like “fake it ’til you make it” and “honest program”.

In AA you’re supposed to act like you’re happy and if you pretend long and hard enough, you’ll convince others you’re happy and if enough people think you’re happy, maybe even you will believe it.

Ask an AA member what it means and you’ll most likely get a vacant stare, a goofy smile, and be told it is one of the program’s many paradoxes.

It’s not a paradox, it’s a contradiction. Period.

Wes H. speaking at a Young People’s Convention of AA – “Help for Alcoholism”

Stop by and listen to AA speakers online! Wes H. young person in AA gives a great talk at an AA speaker meeting! :) From the book Alcoholics Anonymous: “In s…

 

BigBrain Will Pay BigDividends for Health
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Addictive behaviors surrounding food or drugs could also be better understood — leading to more successful treatments. We could even better understand the brain architecture of serial criminals, perhaps one day leading to a treatment that makes repeat …
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The Cure That Crushes
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In Belarus, alcoholics are treated under a Soviet-era regime that looks a lot like prison. by Volha Khvoin 7 June 2013. MINSK | In 2008, Oksana Ivanova was locked away by the courts. She spent her days and nights with other inmates, sleeping under a …
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The Pursuit of Happiness an autobiography By Chris Gardner This astounding true rags-to-riches story of a man who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street will surely put electric charge in your nerves. This is the book on …
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Spiritual transformation
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June 23 “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” “Practice, practice, practice!” Some people experience spiritual transformation in an instant. Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was one. In the hospital, in desperation, in a deep state of suffering, he prayed to God for relief from his alcoh …
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The ‘ise’ have it, but where are the wise?
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YOU SHOULD BE IN BED RIGHT NOW!
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We could go to the end of Telegraph Hill where it overlooks the wharf, carrying a bottle of Amontillado and small cigars. Or we could go back to my place, to sink in each others’ arms, sniffing deeply of exotic perfume: your refined fragrance — wildflowers and vetiver; my spicy wickedness — pipe t …
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The Message still works…
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I was reading in the Foreword to the Second Edition the other day… Don’t ask me why, I just hadn’t read it in awhile and some stuff leaped off the page at me. “Sixteen years have elapsed between our first printing of this book and the presentation of our second edition. In that brief space, Alcoho …
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Advantage to the DSM-5?s inclusion of Binge Eating Disorder as an actual diagnosis
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