Daily Reflections: A Book of Reflections by A.A. Members for A.A. Members

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It allows you to not necessarily feel like you must focus on a specific step, but instead an important concept from the overall steps.

Life is a process of letting go, letting go of conditions we can’t control, letting go of people–watching them move out of our lives, letting go of times, places, experiences. If you have decided to follow the treatment plan laid out by AA, then the Daily Reflections book is a perfect tool to ensure that each day you are reflecting on the experiences and concepts of your treatment plan. While focusing broadly on the Three Legacies of Recovery, Unity and Service, this volume offers experience, strength and hope on specific topics such as willingness, faith, making amends — themes that recovering alcoholics must address each day — and reminds us that we are never really alone in Alcoholics Anonymous. Funny how it’s still the same world, but friends, recovery and Higher Power make it a much better world view.Also, the text doesn't contrast with the background color and is a little hard for my old eyes to read. What better way to begin a New Year than by cleaning the slate of the past, and entering this one free of resentments. I went back to the dean who had guided me into counseling and, for the first time, admitted to myself and to someone else that I had a problem with alcohol. If anything were possible, anything at all, what are the possibilities you’d like to experience and see? Though we may be intent on the magnificent journey ahead, all things are contained in this first moment : our optimism, our faith, our resolution, our innocence.

We thought “conditions” drove us to drink, and when we tried to correct these conditions and found that we couldn’t do so to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we became alcoholics. com is a referrer service that provides information about addiction treatment practitioners and facilities.The reflections are intended to speak to the parts of recovery that are universal, allowing them to apply to virtually everyone in recovery from alcohol addiction. Daily Reflections offers an opportunity for you to begin reframing your experience of addiction while immersing yourself in the necessary positive framework for sobriety and achievement of post-traumatic growth. Instead of dreading the ending of a time, the departure of a loved one, we must try to appreciate what we have gained already and know that life is fuller for it.

Some things I seem to know intuitively: and I know that spirituality is involved in and affects everything. What aspects of their reflection can you implement into your day, the 3 rd of September, to keep you motivated and focused? Many shortcomings tempt me daily; therefore, I also have daily opportunities to become aware of them. This approved literature includes the Big Book, as well as Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, and a blend of other literature that coincides with the beliefs of the overall AA membership.We can put this back into perspective with the realization that the nicest part about going to bed at night is knowing the daylight will come in the morning. Harnessing science, love and the wisdom of lived experience, we are a force of healing and hope ​​​​​​​for individuals, families and communities affected by substance use and mental health conditions. The more I practiced, and the more I built, the more comfortable, and happy, was the home I now have to live in. One day at a time, I was able to get through the early days of recovery and into a successful life of sobriety. Today, because of Alcoholics Anonymous, I now trust and rely on God, as I understand Him; I am sober today because of that!

wrote that he hoped that his writings may become an aid to individual meditation and a stimulant to group discussion, and . Your journey to sobriety can be difficult enough without feeling as though you are being told contradictory things or feeling lost and uncertain of where to put your faith and trust.No matter where you are on your journey, Daily Reflections can help motivate and inspire you to continue moving forward.