Alcohol Anonymous

Strangely enough if you do a search online for Alcohol Anonymous, you will end up with many links to Alcoholics Anonymous, you know the ones who promulgated the 12-step program in order to help alcoholics get sober and stay sober? For instance my own search turned up thousands and thousands of sites having to do with Alcohol Anonymous but when clicked I ended up with sites that said Alcoholics Anonymous.

One of the outstanding exceptions to this was when I landed on a site that is called ASOBERREALITY. Now under their listed “topics frequently discussed” can be found Alcohol Anonymous, thus I have come to the realization that many intending to reach Alcoholics Anonymous instead may have typed Alcohol Anonymous. Due to the way that search engines work, I too will type it Alcohol Anonymous in this one instance and will repeat what I said about Alcoholics Anonymous.

Alcohol Anonymous is a companionship society comprised of women, as well as men, who desire to allocate to others their hope, strength and experience. Sharing with those who may be able to get to the bottom of their general recurring problems and therefore be an aid to those who wish to recover from alcoholism is considered one of the most important beliefs of the alcohol anonymous members.

The common requirement for membership is a yearning to stop drinking. Being self-supporting through their individual contributions means that they will never charge neither fees nor dues in relation to AA membership. Alcohol Anonymous does not ever ally itself with any institution nor organization, nor any political, denomination, or sect. Neither do they ever wish to engage in controversies, for they neither endorse nor oppose any causes. They have one primary objective and that is to remain sober and be of assistance to other alcoholics in order for them to achieve sobriety.

One of the basic systems of belief of alcohol anonymous is that because they are all alcoholics themselves they understand what their shared illness feels like and thus have a very special understanding of the problems associated with alcoholism. Its members acknowledge that they are alcoholics regardless of the many years of being sober, as one can solely recover from being an alcoholic, never cured.

Important is the fact that members of alcohol anonymous do not say that they will forever swear off drinking, but instead they feel that alcoholism can be handled one day of the week at a time. It’s always just for today, never even going as far as tomorrow, it’s just for today.

Thus, once the physical part of keeping alcohol out of the physical being, the emotional being has to be assisted just as well. In order to facilitate this, the members believe that there are “twelve steps” to reach the state of recovery from alcoholism. Whenever alcohol anonymous members meet, they provide actions and suggestions in the form of ideas in how to adhere or go through the twelve steps.

Alcohol anonymous meetings happen in over 180 different countries. In their open meetings, which are open to alcoholics and non-alcoholics alike, they relate to each other the manner in which they drank, how they made their discovery of alcohol anonymous, and thus how helpful that program was for them. Their closed meetings are attended by alcoholics only, so that intense personal problems may be discussed freely among them.

Alcohol anonymous members feel that the greatest reason for them to remain sober day after day is due to their generosity in helping others to achieve sobriety. Sobriety is a healthy way of life for them thus giving support to fellow alcoholics is merely a way of sharing a healthier way of life. This in turn gives them the will to continue being sober as well as making them feel a genuine necessary purpose to their lives, for they feel needed by their fellow alcoholics.

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Alcohol Anonymous

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