5 basics:

1) Pray for God to help you stay sober another day
2) Read your Big Book. 2 pages. Not 1. Not 3. 2!
3) Call your sponsor
4) Get your butt to a meeting
5) Thank God for another day sober

Thank you for your post Leslie. I hope you will come to our chatroom too. It is world wide and open 24 hours a day. We have meetings at 7 a.m., noon, 7:30 p.m., and 10 p.m., in the chatroom. We welcome you!

Dear Driver,
I agree with Lola about the mocktails. I used this strategy when I was at a Christmas brunch, and got my daughter to make one she had made for me for my birthday. It was a kind of a grapefruit juice slushy with chopped up persimmons, pears, red fresh grapefruit and blueberries, finished with a seltzer, and it was the hit of the…[Read more]

We have had so many different kinds of storms among our people here on this site. Deaths, both of family and of our own members. Hurricanes, floods and mudslides. A record-breaking cold spell. And mixed with this have been all our personalities and conflicts, our prickly natures and hurt feelings. And yet we are still here. May God be…[Read more]

Dear Anonymous,
Please start coming to our chats in the chatroom and I think it will be really helpful, especially when you are alone. You will not feel so alone when you are in the chatroom, and we have meetings four times a day. Keep the faith. Keep the plug in the jug, and keep coming back to AA. It really does work. You are not alone here.
Beth