If you truly are tired of drinking, AA is a good place to start! Go to meetings, get a sponsor, and work the Steps…just a suggestion…

Marcy,

Sorry for the delay…busy busy day today! Let me know if you would like to proceed and we can go through the details through private messaging. Thanx, Osmar

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Date: 1/12/17 9:05 AM…[Read more]

It would be my honor! I will send you a private message so we can setup what woks for us both.

No advice, but I will share some experience, strength, and hope…I’m a counselor/therapist as well and studied this subject in depth. While self-disclosure is a broad and gray area, in addition to being a personal choice, I have found over the years that honesty is the best policy! The first few paragraphs of Chapter three in the Big Book also go…[Read more]

Rick,

Congratulations! I used to minimize my sobriety thinking that I had to have lots of time to feel “a part of”, rather than “apart from”…truth is that if you’re as alcoholic as I am, one day…make that one hour, is an absolute miracle! I remember attending a sobriety countdown meeting and our guest speaker was an elderly couple with 30/31…[Read more]

Osmar, alcoholic…Rick, been there done that! You’re in the right place as I’m sure you’ve heard many a time…ahhhhh the hideous Four Horsemen that our Big Book talks about on pg 151; “Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, Despair. Unhappy drinkers who read this page will understand!” All I can say is that this disease is the only one that is…[Read more]

A Panda,

Congratulations on your first AA meeting…keep coming back!!! This is my first try at an online meeting forum! One suggestion that I did in early recovery is to call into an AA office; local or otherwise. I volunteered at an office and most have a 24/7 hotline with a fellow alcoholic on the other line eager to listen…wherever two are…[Read more]