Hello everyone, This week we'll be reading Acceptance was the Answer p407-420 . This is a story about a doctor's drug & alcohol abuse and he's got some friggin' fantastic one liners in there. Now I don't want to ruin the story for you but just one quick example, he says he "found it hard to practice good medicine while shooting morphine" - I would have never of guessed!! lol He also says " I never in my life took a tranquilizer, sedative, or pep pill because I was a pill-head. I always took it because I had the symptom that only that pill would relieve." It's like Clancy I. said, what we have is a disease of perception. I tend to believe anything that is born of my own mind - see I thought it so it must be true! But if I can accept that my disease centers in the mind and not the body, that my perception can be skewed by things like fear, denial and my own self-esteem, then maybe the person I think I am is not the person others...
This blog is a compilation of commentaries about AA, alcoholism, sobriety and recovery. They were created as part of a weekly email series I send out to the AA Wed Night Riverside Men's Group in Escazú, San José, Costa Rica. We are a Men's Big Book and AA-related literature study group with the aim of expanding our knowledge and understanding of the principles set forth by the book Alcoholics Anonymous.