A Shot Glass of Recovery

Slim from Florida

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I met Slim at a 6am morning meeting in a rather chaotic online  meeting. He was one of those guys I was glad was there. What I've found in a lot of online meetings...is a lack of solution and a whole lot of people treating the zoom platform as group therapy. That is not what AA is. Slim is one of those fella's who even though he didn't have a lot of years in AA, had obviously been taught well by an Old Timer.
 
 

Utah Jenny from AA Solution Seekers and Tikvah group

I first started seeing this outline of a figure around a fire on zoom AA meetings. When she spoke it was in a soft whisper because the rest of her household wouldn't be awake at 3 am. Why was she? She is a cancer survivor and was going through the battleground of chemo. She sat with us in the dark as we tried to carry the light that it speaks of in the St. Francis or 11th step prayer.
 
She always gave me hope.
 
 

Roy P

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Roy P. May 3rd, 1982  - This next guy is a real gentleman and I'm sad I don't see him around anymore. When I met him he had  40 years of sobriety and I loved his calming presence when he shared in a group.
 
 

Yvonne from Uganda and AA Solution Seekers

Yvonne recently told me that she thought I didn't like her at first but has realized it was all in her head. I said "Aren't us alcoholics just like that", because haven't I done just the same thing a hundred times if I've done it once.
My mind makes shit up. It tells me I'm less than all the time. It says I need to compete with you instead of be compassionate towards you. It tells me there is only one spot at the top and it better be mine, which leaves me feeling sad and sorry for myself if you get top spot. That leaves me with envy, jealousy and self pity when I could have been filled with support, love, celebration of others and sisterhood.
 
The alcoholic mind is funny...thank God I am not the only one!
 
 

Keith AA Solution Seekers

Keith and I met in another online meeting. We both left for similar reasons - choosing peace and not wanting to be part of chaos today.
 
He is an example of how far you can come and a short amount of time when you focus on the solution of AA.
 
#aa #howitworks #recovery #addiction #soberlife

Texas Tea from Primetime in Berlin

Texas Tea is a larger than life character from PrimeTime meetings that started in L.A. She now resides in Berlin and carries the message from over there.
#primetime #texastea #soberlife

"Above all, we reject fantasizing and accept reality."

A shot glass with your Host, Lisa M
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I was asked to speak in the U.K. at a meeting online and in it they ask for 1 line or paragraph from the big book. I have many favorites but they needed a line immediately so i dropped the book open and read where my gaze landed. 
It was page 559 and the line "Above all, we reject fantasizing and accept reality."  Just another fantastic summary of what A.A. has taught me. Be here now, where your feet are is where your mind should be. Stop living in the past, or planning out elaborate revenge fantasies for those imagined or actual wrong doings of others. Stop daydreaming and fantasizing about your future and start taking steps to build it. Find what is good in this moment, this marriage, this friendship, this job...right now. Be grateful and live this life to the fullest.
 
We always cry when we are new, "Turn my will and my life over to God? What then will become of me?" Action is your opportunity to practice autonomy in your life, the difference today is I seek counsel from a Higher Power first, then I take action. I no longer re-act to the perceived wrong doings of others, I ask God to direct my thinking so that it be devoid of self-pity, anger, resentment, selfish, self-seeking behaviours and motives.
If you haven't tried it, what are you waiting for? The consequences of our thoughtless actions of the past have probably piled up around you. If you want that to change you have to change yourself. I couldn't do it alone, I needed help.
 
May you find that help now. Here's a secret, just ask.
 
Love and Freedom,
 
 
Lisa M.
 

Chirs O from New Jersey

Chris talks about not believing at first that he was an alcoholic and how his sponsor was putting in more work than he was. Then he surrendered.
 
Thanks for listening to our speaker series on A Shot Glass of Recovery
 
Lisa 

Miss Melvina

Miss Melvina is a regular participant at a New York meeting called Jamaica Presentation. She has 27 years of sobriety at the time of this recording in 2024.
She focuses on the grace of God instilling in her the desire and want to still be here in the center of Alcoholics Anonymous, because she did NOT come here to stop drinking! She wanted to try and control it.
Aren't us alcoholics just like that.
 

Jeff G - florida

Smiling Jeff. Always sits in a meeting smiling. Not once have I ever seen this man without a smile on his face during a meeting that talks about the program of action and recovery.
From an environment deprived of emotional balance, this alcoholic sought a release at a young age and most specifically a geographical cure.
From that to a peaceful and forgiving person, sits Smiling Jeff.