AA and Alcoholism
A.A. is concerned solely with the personal recovery and continued sobriety of individual alcoholics who turn to the Fellowship for help.
Alcoholics Anonymous does not engage in the fields of alcoholism research, medical or psychiatric treatment, education, or propaganda in any form, although members may participate in such activities as individuals.
The Fellowship has adopted a policy of “cooperation but not affiliation” with other organizations concerned with the problem of alcoholism.
Traditionally, Alcoholics Anonymous does not accept or seek financial support from outside sources, and members preserve personal anon...
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Sex Workers Anonymous
is a group, program, society, fellowship, or collection of men and women (as well as transgenders) for whom the sex industry has/had become a problem.
We meet regularly to give each other our “experience, strength and hope” so that through the process of sharing, empathy and networking we are able to find healing, hope, and happiness.
We are a 12 Step group for men and women who have a desire to leave the sex industry behind – and find recovery.
That to say that not all members have to say that sex work has/had become an “addiction” for them to join. Our only requirement ...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - December 17, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Recovery Sex & Love Addicts Sex Addictions Sexuality sex industry Sex Workers Anonymous transgenders Source Type: blogs
Self-Help or Mutual Aid?
Assisting Others
The Twelve Step movement is sometimes called a self-help program. This falls short of describing what it really is. Mutual aid might be a better term.
Self-help implies that an individual will help himself or herself. Mutual aid is a much different sort of thing. With mutual aid, we do help ourselves, but we have found that the best way to do this is by helping each other. Self-help says, “I can do it,” whereas mutual aid says, “We can do it.”
We should not dismiss the idea of self-help or of doing one’s best in achieving self-improvement. We must know, however, that we ne...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - December 10, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Adult Children of Alcoholics Al-anon Alcoholics Anonymous Assisting Others Mutual Aid self-help Source Type: blogs
Road to a Bust
I’m Slipping
When I begin to dislike AA conversation or company …….
When I am willing to stay away from AA meetings ……….
When I am beginning to take another persons inventory instead of mine
When I am more afraid of being known as an AA member, than as a drunk ………..
When I begin to remember the good times I had drinking, and overlook the bad …..
When I condemn others that which I tolerate in myself …….
When I say forgive, but don’t forget …….
When I shrink from self-examination
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Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - December 8, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcoholism Slipping Source Type: blogs
A brief history of the 12 steps
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) started in 1935 in Akron, Ohio, USA as a result of the meeting between a New York stockbroker and an Akron surgeon who were both hopeless alcoholics.
They realized that alcoholism was a disease that could be treated by a system of applying spiritual values to daily living.
Both men began working with themselves and with other alcoholics.
In four years, there were three groups and 100 sober alcoholics.
In 1939, based on their experiences (both the failures and the successes), the fellowship published its basic textbook, Alcoholics Anonymous, describing the AA philosophy and methods, and establishin...
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Most Powerful
Who Am I?
I am more powerful than the combined armies of the world.
I have destroyed more men than all the wars of the nation.
I have caused millions of accidents, and wrecked more homes than all the floods, tornadoes and hurricanes put together.
I am world’s slickest thief, for I steal billions of dollars each year.
I find my victims among the rich and poor alike, the young and old, the strong and weak.
I loom up to proportions that I cast a shadow over every endeavour of labour.
I am relentless insidious & unpredictable.
I am everywhere in the home, on the street, in the factory, in the office, on the sea and in t...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - December 6, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcohol Alcoholism Wisdom I am more powerful I have destroyed Source Type: blogs
Quality Sponsorship
Evaluating the Quality of Sponsorship and other Peer Guidance Relationships
Twelve Step recovery fellowships have a system through which older members in successful recovery help orient new members to their particular recovery program. AA has formalized this process through the practice of sponsorship.
Having a sponsor is an important indicator of intensity of mutual aid participation, with greater intensities of involvement being linked to improved long-term recovery outcomes
Sponsoring others appears to be a particularly potent ingredient with some long-term post-treatment follow-up studies noting over 90% remission ...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - December 4, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Alcoholics Anonymous Recovery Sponsorship orient new members Peer Guidance Source Type: blogs
Sexercises
: Workouts to Work You Up
Recovering addicts, alcoholics and co-dependents may need to work at recovering their libido and sexual fitness. These hints may be just what is needed.
You know all of the good-for-you arguments for becoming more physically active, but here’s an especially attractive reward: exercise can improve your sex life.
Being physically active helps you feel more interested in sex, gives you the energy and strength you need for enjoying your partner or yourself more, reduces the stress that can block sexual interest and builds the muscles used in sexual intimacy.
Research shows that exercise...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - December 4, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Addictions Alcoholism Codependency Recovery Relationships Sexuality improve your sex life Sexercises Workouts to Work You Up Source Type: blogs
AA Works & Costs Less
Reduced Costs for Participants of Alcoholics Anonymous
The people in this study had never sought treatment for alcoholism. A comparison was made between those who wished to attend AA and those who were seeking professional outpatient help.
At entry to the study AA participants had less education, less income, more adverse effects of alcohol, a higher score on alcohol dependence scales, a higher (detrimental) depression score, but were similar in all other ways.
8.1% of AA attenders sought detoxification.
6.1% of outpatient seekers sought detoxification.
Similar percentages (18%) of both groups were admitted for inpatient...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - December 2, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcohol Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Relapse Sobriety Treatment aa detoxification outpatients Source Type: blogs
Rule 62
Every AA group had the right to be wrong.
When Alcoholics Anonymous was still young, lots of eager groups were forming. In a town we’ll call Middleton, a real crackerjack had started up. The townspeople were as hot as firecrackers about it. Stargazing, the elders dreamed of innovations. They figured the town needed a great big alcoholic center, a kind of pilot plant A.A. groups could duplicate everywhere. Beginning on the ground floor there would be a club; in the second story they would sober up drunks and hand them currency for the back debts; the third deck would house an educational project – quite controve...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 30, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Don't take yourself too damn seriously Source Type: blogs
5 Longevity Virtues
People in recovery may need to review their lifestyles to assist good recovery.
Many come into recovery in their middle age. And we know that death in old age is inevitable, but death in middle age is not. Many deaths in middle age are preventable.
If we choose to live well, then we can have remarkable reductions in the risk of developing many types of diseases.
The 5 Longevity “Virtues”
There are 5 basic types of good behaviour;
regular exercise,
not smoking,
alcohol consumption within guidelines (including abstinence when needed,
maintaining a normal body wieght, and
eating a predominantly plant-based...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 27, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Recovery live well middle age Source Type: blogs
Service
A wonton drinker
Hi there I’m Jack and I also am an alcoholic who drank wantonly and disastrously for 30 years. My rock bottom had to keep getting deeper and deeper the more I chased it.
At the very depths of my despair I came into contact with this wonderful fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.
The way in which I was accepted was tremendous. The help, love and understanding was my prescription to a new and meaningful way of life. I attended meetings at the rate of seven per week. Slowly I learned to accept the fact that this would be the highest attainment in my life. It was, for 18 months. Then complacency set in whic...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 27, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Recovery drinker rock bottom Source Type: blogs
12 Step Group Membership
Do You Belong To The 12 Step group Group?
I have often heard Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12 step group members say they belonged to this or that group and began to wonder about what is really entailed in belonging to an AA group.
Tradition 1 suggests our common welfare should come first, personal recovery depends upon AA unity. Sure, we are members of AA when we say so, no one can bar us, but really, does membership of an AA group mean as much to us as it should?
I would be very worried if I could feel nothing and did nothing for my group. Life meant nothing to me before I came to AA I wished I were dead. Life was h...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 26, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Alcoholics Anonymous 12 Step group Group AA unity Source Type: blogs
Characteristics of True Maturity
Any person with true maturity has humility and wisdom and -
Accepts criticism gratefully. Being honestly glad for an opportunity to improve
Does not indulge in self-pity. Has begun to feel the laws of compensation operating in all life.
Does not expect special consideration from anyone.
Controls temper.
Meets emergencies with poise.
feelings are not easily hurt.
Accepts the responsibility of own acts without trying to “alibi’.
Has outgrown the ‘all or nothing’ stage. Recognizes that no person or situation is wholly good or wholly bad. And begins to appreciate the golden rule.
Is not impatient at reasonable del...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 26, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Healthy Humility Meditation Wisdom Accepts criticism Controls temper indulge in self-pity Source Type: blogs
Daddy’s Disease
In an easily understood, beautifully illustrated style, “Daddy’s Disease” helps families to navigate the difficult waters of alcoholism.
Tommy doesn’t know why his father doesn’t show up for dinners, or soccer games or why he acts funny sometimes.
Tommy thinks it’s because his father doesn’t want to be with him, that he hasn’t been the best boy he can be, that he should try harder.
But, Mommy tells Tommy that Daddy has a disease called “alcoholism.” She helps Tommy, and his faithful dog Murphy, understand what this disease is and how it affects Daddy, and the...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 24, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alateen Alcoholism Codependency Disease Education Family Daddy's Disease helps families Source Type: blogs
