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Heard At a meeting....

"It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it."

"If you're looking to have an image in AA, look around at the meetings you go to and take a look at whom you're trying to impress."

"An alcoholic is a person who wants to be held while isolating."

"A treatment center is where you go and pay $15,000 to find out that AA meetings are free."

"This is a 'One Day At A Time' program. If you're clean and sober today, you're tied for first place in AA."

"I often obsessively pursue feeling good.. no matter how bad it makes me feel."

"When I was new, I didn't think I had any obsessions until I started thinking about it. Then it was all I could think about."

"If you want to quit [drinking], then you are going to have to quit [drinking]."

"I would rather go through life sober, believing I am an alcoholic, than go through life drunk, trying to convince myself that I am not."

"Resentments are like stray cats: if you don't feed them, they'll go away."

"It is the great obsession of every Al-Anon, that someday he or she will learn to control and enjoy their drinker."

"I drank when I was happy. I drank when I was unhappy. Actually, I am a reason to drink."

"I can't do God's will my way."

"In order to change the way we feel, we need to change the way we act."

"The good news is you get your emotions back; the bad news is you get your emotions back."

"There is only one way to coast, and that is downhill."

"The difference between the problem drinker and the alcoholic is this: a)
when the alcohol is taken away from the problem drinker, the problem goes away. b) when the alcohol is taken away from the alcoholic, the problem begins.

Newcomer: "How do I know how many meetings I should attend each week?"
Old-timer: "Gradually cut back until you drink. Then you'll know."

"How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?"

AA = Altered Attitudes
AA = Attitude Adjustment
ABC = Acceptance, Belief, Change
ANONYMOUS = Actions Not Our Names Yield Maintenance Of Unity & Service
ACTION = Any Change Toward Improving One's Nature

BATH = Behavior, Attitude, Thinking, and Habits
BEST = Been Enjoying Sobriety Today?
BS = Before Sobriety
BUT = Being Unconvinced Totally

CARE = Comforting And Reassuring Each other
CALM = Can Anger Leave Me?
CHAOS = Can't Handle Another Overwhelming Situation
CHANGE = Choosing Honesty Allows New Growth Everyday
CRAP = Carry Resentments Against People

DEAD = Drinking Ends All Dreams

EDI not DIE Easy Does It not Does It Easy
EGO Easing God Out

FEEL = Feel, Experience, Express, Let go
FEAR = Forgetting Everything's All Right
FEAR = Fools Every Alcoholic Repeatedly
FEAR = Forever Escaping And Retreating
FEAR = Failure Expected And Received
FAITH = Finding Answers In The Heart
FAITH = Found Always In Trusting Him
FAITH = For An Instant Trust Him
FINE = Feeling Insecure, Numb and Empty
F I N E = Free, Independent, New and Energetic

GIFT = God Is Forever There
GIFTS = Getting It From The Steps
GRACE = Gently Releasing All Conscious Expectations
GOD = Give Others Dignity

HALT = Honestly, Actively, Lovingly, Tolerant
HELP = Hope, Encouragement, Love and Patience
HOPE = Happy Our Program Exists
HOPE = Hearing Other Peoples' Experience
HOPE = Heart Open; Please Enter
HOPE = Help Open People's Eyes
HOPE = Hang On, Pray Everyday
HEART = Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering, Together
HOW = Honest, Open-minded and Willing
HOW NOW = Honest Open-minded, Willing. No Other Way!

ISM = I, Self, Me
ISM = I Sponsor Myself

KISS = Keep It Simple, Surrender

LET GO Leave Everything To God, Okay?

NEW = Nothing Else Worked

PEACE = Providing Experienced Attitude Changes Every day
PEACE = Praying Energetically Always Creates Ease
PUT = Patience, Understanding, Tolerance
PROGRAM = People Relying On God Relay A Message
PUSH = Pray Until Something Happens
PACE = Positive Attitudes Change Everything

RACING = Real Alcoholics Centered Inward Needing God

STEPS = Solutions To Every Problem in Sobriety
SWAT = Surrender, Willingness, Acceptance, Trust
SOBER = Simply Observe Bill's Exemplary Recovery
SIT = Stay In Today
SOBRIETY = Stay Off Booze Recovery Is Everything To You
S P O N S O R = Sober Person Offering Newcomer Support Of Recovery

THINK = The Happiness I Never Knew
TRUST = Teaching Recovery Using Steps and Traditions
TRUST = Try Relying Upon The Steps and Traditions
TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More
TIME = Things I Must Earn

WHO = Willingness, Honesty, Openmindedness
WHO ME? = Willingness,Honesty, Open-mindedness,Must Exist
WISDOM = When Into Self, Discover Our Motives
WILLING = When I Live Life, I Need God

YET = You'll End There
YANA = You Are Not Alone

Know God; Know peace. No God; No peace.

H O P E = Heart Open; Please Enter.

If we hear something in a meeting we don't like, maybe we should take a real close look at it to see why.

A smile in a meeting may be just the message a newcomer may need.

If you think staying away from the first one is difficult, try staying away from the second one.

Ain't it wonderful to be sober?

How many of us came to A.A. because we felt the heat but stayed to experience the warmth.

Anyone can stay sober at an A.A. meeting -- it's the time in between that counts.

A.A. is for those who want it, not need it.

Alcoholics are not bad people trying to be good but sick people who need to get well.

13 stepping = Step 1 + Step 12 (or my live is unmanageable and I want to share it with you.

All of A.A.'s suggestions are free, the ones we don't take are the ones we wind up paying for.

If we want to be sober tomorrow we need to stay away from the first drink today.

Contact another member before taking a drink, not after.

Having an advisor is not the same as having a sponsor.

No one in a A.A. meeting is offended by a lack of profanity.

There are no big shots in A.A., nor are there little shots.

From coffeemaker to delegate there is something for everyone in A.A. service, and service work is as essential to recovery as it is to A.A.'s longevity.

God has given us this day to use as we wish, A.A. shows us how to live it without a drink.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results

It's never too early for the Steps, because the point is to try and practice them to the best of our ability, not to master them when we think we are well enough to truly understand them all.

Listen to the similarities, not the differences.

Nobody gets to A.A. by mistake.

Recovery gives us hope for brighter days.

When we surrender we don't weaken ourselves, on the contrary, we strengthen ourselves.

The sun can't shine every day but if we can stand the rain, we'll see the sun again, if we stay sober.

We go to A.A. to live our lives, not live our lives to go to A.A.

HJF = Happy, Joyous, and FREE!

ALCOHOLIC SLANG
AFGO - A f--king growth opportunity
Beer Thirty - Slang for any 1/2 on the hour we used to drink
Big Book Thumper - A regular who knows the Big Book inside and out
BOHICA - Bend over - here it comes again
Boxed - A person thrown out of the house with their boxed up belongings
Camel Chip - A chip signifying a person with long-term sobriety
Carpet Muncher - Oral Sex
Cellar Dweller - An alcoholic who prefers to stay in self-misery
Check Up From The Neck Up - Go to a meeting
Chip - AA chip marking certain amount of continuous sobriety i.e. 30 days
Cleaning House - Getting your life in order
Clean Side Of Street - Getting your life in order
Denial Aisle - A small table of people who talk during meetings instead of listening
Double Dip - Speaking twice at the same AA meeting
Drip Dry U - Rehab
Dry Drunk - A non-drinking alcoholic who does not follow the program
Elevator - How low one goes before getting into recovery
GOD - Group of drunks
God Can Look Around Corners - Principle which suggests that God can do things we cannot
Going Out - An alcoholic who goes back out to drink again
GOYA - Get off your a$$
HALT - Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
Hand of AA - An alcoholic reaching out to AA for a helping hand
Heavy Metal - A 1-year chip
Liquid Courage - The false belief one gets after substantial drinking
Meeting - Two of more AA's getting together to discuss recovery
Meeting Before the Meeting - Informal gatherings before official meetings
Meeting After the Meeting - Informal gatherings after official meetings
Mickey - Short for Mickey Finn. An alcoholic drink mixed with a strong sedative ,typically without the knowledge of the drinker.
Newcomer - An alcoholic who has less than 30 days of continuous sobriety
Normie - A term used by alcoholics to describe "normal" people
Nudge From The Judge - Court ordered to go to AA
Old Tape - Memories in your head that make you think drinking was good
Pink Cloud - A warm fuzzy feeling that "newcomers" feel in early recovery
Pity Pot - Self indulgent attitude
Playground - Places where we socialized before recovery
Playmates - People we used to socialize with before recovery
Plug In The Jug - Putting the cap on the bottle and walking away forever
Poor me, poor me, pour me a drink - The pity which precedes the taking of the first drink
Relapse - An alcoholic who goes back out and takes another drink
Retread - An alcoholic who has relapsed and returned to the program
Running and Gunning - Active drinking
Senior Sober - A recovering alcoholic with a lot of sobriety
Serenity by Injection - Attempt to have sex with a brand new member
Slip A Mickey - To surreptitiously add a sedative to someone's alcoholic drink
Slippery Slope - Doing things that might cause you to go out and drink
Stinking Thinking - An alcoholic's false belief that he/she may be correct when in fact it may be a stupid idea
Suicide - Suicide: A permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Suit Up/Show Up - Get dressed and attend an AA meeting
Tape - Remembering previous events (e.g. replay the tape)
Three Hots and a Cot - Jail term for three mails and a bed
13th Step - Dating someone in the program
Wet Drunk - A practicing alcoholic
White Nuckle - Trying to stay sober without the help of a program
Wine O'Clock - Slang for any hour of the day we used to drink
Whiner Chip - Chip representing 18 months sobriety
Yesterday Is History Tomorrow is Mystery - Live in the Moment

If we don’t introduce newcomers to the Big Book; how will they know what they don’t know?

If we are not part of the solution we are part of the problem.

If we feel the urge for a drink, we neither yield nor resist, we merely put off taking that particular drink until tomorrow.

If we focus on the problem, the problem grows, and if we focus on the solution, the solution grows: the solution, sponsorship, continuous working of the Steps, and service work.

Turning our will over to the care of God is vital for us, it is surely something to do with all sincerity, for recovery is a life and death matter.

If we have emotional sobriety, then thank God for it and to keep it, we must give it away.

If we have 4 problems and take a drink then we have 5 problems.

If we stop doing the things that keep us in A.A., we’ll go back to doing the things that brought us into A.A.

If we lean too heavily on people, they will sooner or later fail us, for they are human, too.

If we feel restless, edgy, anxious, or unhappy, we’ve got some more work to do and should begin now, if we’re content, serene, and peaceful, we should continue the work we’re doing.

When we stop changing, we stop growing.

Alcoholics are known to be "fast forgetters" due to our obsession.

Alcoholics do not seek normal alcohol intoxication, they seek anesthetic oblivion.

Alcoholics not in recovery are very hungry and don't realize it; they are starving for spiritually.

Amends = change.

Anonymity in A.A. makes us all equal.

Any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the light of our experiences can recover, provided he does not close his mind to all spiritual concepts.

Because of God's love for us, no one is beyond recovery.

Being physically dry and mentally drunk is dangerous territory for alcoholics.

Sponsoring requires patience.