Wed Night AA Riverside Men's Group

Good evening fellas, Just your reminder this week we'll be reviewing  Student of Life p319-327.  I like this section of the book "They Stopped in Time" (part II of the personal stories) because they really illustrate just how varied & different our bottoms can be .  For many, the lack of  consequences  was equal to proof of not having a problem. However, in my case, I was only got clear headed enough after getting sober to really see the consequences of my actions -- it's probably one of the reasons we kept drinking past the point of sanity; to keep us oblivious to the reality of our drinking .     Sometimes, we may  feel  we still have some legs under us as far as the drink goes. This weekend I accompanied my girlfriend to a bar in San Pedro for her department's after-hours work party and  Ohhhhhhh Mmmaaaaaaaaaan !! They had some drinks I'd never heard of and now they've got these portable beer fountains they bring straight t...

Hello guys, This week we begin on part 2 of the personal stories in the back of the Big Book -  They Stopped in Time.  These are the stories of men & women who  "have never reached the advanced stages of alcoholism, though given time all might have."  There is peculiar old idea I used to have relating to this. Back in 2006 -ish,  I knew absolutely zero about alcoholism or AA but I knew I didn't drink like everyone else and I was sick & tired of being sick & tired. All of my efforts to curb my drinking habit on my own had failed. So after a  very polite suggestion  from my ex-wife, I called in to a Rehab center at a local hospital and they told me to come in the next day first thing in the morning. Suddenly I felt a rather irrational fear, I wasn't afraid that they'd put me in rehab, actually I was afraid that they would somehow think I wasn't  bad enough  to give me treatment. After all, no way was I  as bad  as those...