ARE YOU RECOVERED OR RECOVERING
Here are the 82 sentences in which recover appears. Decide for yourself whether the authors of the Big Book think you are recovering or recovered. Big Book sentences containing RECOVER 1) The Story of...
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When I was drinking I blamed everything on everyone else. When I got to AA and into recovery, I learned that drinking was but a symptom of my disease and the person responsible had been, was then, and...
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To Kidd, I have alittle time in the rooms, it does'nt matter how long, it does'nt matter the meaning of the word recover, recovering whatever, I am living a healthy life, being honest and not worrying...
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My experience is that I have recovered, just as the Big Book promised. Being recovered means that I have power today, I live joyous and free under the care of a living God. I am not powerless but I...
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We are always recovering...whether it be alcohol, drugs, sex....whatever We know grog is a poison, yet we still do it? Why? Because it supposedly makes us feel good. Not true. Your family, friends,...
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I know for myself if I even think "just one more" for anything.....its probably an addiction....LOL nanc
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I always love this argument/discussion! I felt very strongly about "being in recovery" for quite a while...I was terrified to even consider being RECOVERED lest I drink again! Then I went through the...
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Alcohol is but a symptom of my disease. I am recovered from being under the influence of mind altering chemicals. I hope and pray to be in recovery from the damage I caused and my character defects...
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If I run around with a gun living a life of crime and get shot they would take me to the hospital to recover from a gun shot wound. If I live and recover from that wound and go out and continue to do...
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Welcome to our group jtlojac, That's another way of looking at it. It's not recovered or recovering I think the apt word would be remission? Todays dime and three pennys ( inflation )
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Before A.A., the life I lived was hardly a lilfe at all; more of a pitiful, bleak existance. It was not just a SEEMINGLY hopeless state of mind and body, I was truly hope-less. I KNEW A.A. would not...
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Okay. I had once said I had Graduated. It felt like I had Graduated and we had an argument in my home group about when a young man said he had Recovered. I think the difference is: is that we need to...
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Once a pickle always a pickle. I'll never be a cucumber again. For my self I'm in recovery. It only takes one drink to send me back to where I was and beyond. You see I have a disease called...
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I forgot one thing i wanted to say. I think a lot of people having recovered from their past with alcohol are tempted to try it again because they've been whaqt they call "Good" for a while. With some...
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hi i have been clean for two weeks and im ready to out for good i think but when imi stressd ni fell i need a drink ....but im trying not to do that becayse im a stong woman im only 25 and i have a...
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I no longer suffer from the mental obsession. Since I never put alcohol in my body, I can no loger experience the phenomenon of craving. And today I have a God in my life and I am spiritually fit as...
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I'm the type of drunk that is black & white and if I tell myself I'm recovered then this alcoholic mind tells me that I can drink. So "for me" I tell myself every morning that I'm only one drink...
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We have recovered, and have been given the power to help others. [Big Book, page 132, line 30] a great gift-God truely did for me what I could not do for myself I am a recovered alcoholic thats how I...
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