I have multiple years of sobriety, but still have trouble with my thinking and emotions at times. I listen to an AA talk nearly every day and this the most helpful one I've ever heard.
As someone who had multiple years of sobriety and then relapsed. The one thing I will suggest is becoming honest with yourself. Becoming honest with yourself about where these emotions and where this thinking may be stemmed from. Ask God to show you as you understand God through other alcoholics, what might be hurting your spirit. I hope everything works out. Mitakuye Oyasin.
Wow. I just joined OA. And as an atheist I have been having a hard time relating to a higher power. But you make it amazingly simple. I will listen to your other talks. If I can say , think, and believe " God is Love" , then all you have said can follow. Praying for someone becomes an offering of love and relinquishing control to God at the same time. You have helped me immensely with this step. Thank you.
Absolutely one of the best talks ive heard in a while. Tom drives it home in his discussing how once effected by the people around us in a negative manner, we tend to allow that emotion (and the following encounters with others) to dominate our spiritual health and threatens our emotional sobriety. No bueno. I recently was struggling with this and after about a week of out thinking myself and basically torturing myself mentally and emotionally trying to "figure out" what was wrong with me, I came to the realization that something as simple as change in spiritual diet (meditation, prayer, etc) may have been the cause in my sudden change in security and lack of awareness. "the spiritual life is not a theory, we have to live it" Thank God for the program of Alcoholics Anonymous and the awareness and perspective it has blessed me with.
I was just reading in the book about “failing to enlarge our spiritual life”. That may be some of what is going on with me. As much as I know not to try to figure “it” out, I still do so 😂 I still think I am the exception to what Tom said about us being sensitive. But wow, I really am. I get the dumbest judgements about people. 🤯🙏
Thankyou. Wow. Yes. Such a help in getting well and truly focusing on the positive. Living in the solution. It works 100 percent if we follow it. Thankyou
