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08-24-2013, 10:27 AM | #1 |
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12 helpful tips for this holiday season
1) Line up extra AA activities or other voluntary projects. 2) Help a Newcomer. 3) Make sure you have a list handy with telephone numbers at all times. 4) Find out about any extra holiday meetings and increase the number you attend. Many areas have round-the-clock meetings. Call your local AA hotline for holiday events in your area. 5) Don't feel obliged to go to any functions at all. If there is a likelihood of the presence of alcohol or that you will become stressed and uncomfortable - don't feel you have to go. 6) If you really can't avoid a function take an AA member with you 7) Don't project about things you fear. One Day At A Time. One Hour At A Time. One Minute At A Time 8) Call Your Sponsor! 9) Don't project about things you fear. One Day At A Time. One Hour At A Time. One Minute At A Time! 10) Feel no shame. Don't even consider embarrassment if you can't 'stay the distance' at a function, or see certain people, or afford gifts like the others. The one gift you can give yourself and others this Christmas is to stay sober, happy and healthy. This is the most precious one of all and once you have made it through - it will last to remind you all year to be grateful! 11) If you can't afford gifts - accept that as a fact and give the gift of time and your love. 12) Try to maintain an "Attitude of Gratitude". Writing a list of things Don't Drink, Go To Meetings, Ask for Help!!!!! Received in email
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08-24-2013, 10:28 AM | #2 |
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12 TIPS FOR SOBER HOLIDAYS
1. Line up extra activities (help on the phones, speak, empty the ashtrays). 2. Be host to friends, especially newcomers, at home or at a coffee shop. 3. Keep your AA telephone list with you at all times. 4. Find out about holiday meetings or celebrations in your local groups. 5. Skip any drinking occasions you're nervous about 6. If there's one you can't skip, take an AA friend - or keep candy handy. 7. Don't think you have to stay late (plan an "important date" in advance). 8. Go to church. Any church. And don't forget about extra meetings. 9. Don't sit around brooding; catch up on reading, museums, walks, letters. 10. Don't project about holiday temptations: remember "One day at a time." 11. Even if you cannot give material gifts, enjoy the beauty of holiday love. 12. Carry the message: Give the joy away, and it will be yours to keep. Received in email
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AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving. |
12-14-2015, 12:51 AM | #3 |
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