New Approach

June 16, 2008 at 8:58 am (AA, abstinence, alcoholics anonymous, moderation, psychology)

I’ve noticed a bit of the old toxic behaviour creeping in so I’m going to try an AA technique. I’m simply going to count the days of moderation.

So today I can say……I am prone to excess & it has been three days since I last binged.

Funnily enough it was Friday the 13th when I last lost it.

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  1. Michael Pearlman, M.D. said,

    July 17, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Congratulation on your journey!
    May the ‘force’ be with you.

    AA uses this practice to bring focus to ‘today’

    It is important to count this one day. It’s important to see each day as ‘a’ day – the moment we are in.

    It’s also common AA, from my experience, to ask for guidance first thing each morning.

    I said the prayer, ‘Dear God, I want to get through today without drinking, I can’t, You can enable me. Please do!’

    That was a great help to me on my path, may it be of use to you.

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