I started a Web Site in 1999 when I came back into the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous. Tripod decided to block me a few years ago , so I stopped writing, posting. SO I decided to take the posts I had there and put them here. Plus new ones I found on the net and shares of my own. Take what you need and pass on the rest! Blessings ds♥

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Discussion Meeting Topics

  1. Acceptance
  2. Accepting My Alcoholism
  3. Act As If
  4. Action
  5. Addictive Personality
  6. Adversity
  7. Agnostics (We Agnostics)
  8. Amends Beyond “I’m Sorry”
  9. Amends, Making Hard Amends
  10. Anger
  11. Anniversaries
  12. Anonymity
  13. Asking for Help
  14. Attitude
  15. Attraction not Promotion
  16. Balance
  17. Being Considerate of Others (in and out of AA)
  18. Being Useful
  19. Big Book (Using the Big Book)
  20. Boredom with the Program
  21. (The) Bottom is Where You Stop Digging (you hit bottom when you stop digging)
  22. Breaking My Anonymity
  23. Bring the Body and the Mind Will Follow
  24. But For the Grace of God
  25. Carry This Message
  26. Change
  27. Changing Routines, Changing People, Places and Things (to avoid drinking)
  28. Character Defects
  29. Choice
  30. Clarity of Thought
  31. Codependence
  32. Compassion
  33. Complacency
  34. Completely Giving Myself to This Simple Program
  35. Contempt Prior to Investigation
  36. Courage
  37. Courage to Change the Things I Can (Serenity Prayer)
  38. Cravings
  39. Cunning, Baffling, Powerful
  40. Decision Making
  41. Dealing with Difficult People
  42. Denial
  43. Dependence
  44. Detaching, Detaching with Love
  45. Disappointment
  46. Discipline
  47. Disease Concept
  48. Do the Next Right Thing
  49. Don’t Drink and Go To Meetings
  50. Don’t Quit Before the Miracle
  51. Drinking Occasions
  52. (A) Drug is a Drug
  53. Drugs (Problems Other Than Alcohol)
  54. Drunk Who Brought You In Will Take You Out
  55. Dry Drunks
  56. Easy Does It
  57. Economic Insecurity
  58. Ego (ego-smashing, Easing God Out)
  59. Eleventh Step Prayer (Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi)
  60. Emotional Balance (from Step 10)
  61. Emotional Hangover (from Step 10)
  62. Emotional Sobriety (Emotions)
  63. Enjoying Life (Having Fun Sober)
  64. Expect a Miracle
  65. Expectations (Unreasonable Expectation, Pre-Planned Resentments)
  66. Experience (Sharing Our Experience)
  67. Experience, Strength and Hope
  68. Faith
  69. Fake It Till You Make It
  70. (The) Family Afterwards
  71. Fear
  72. Fear of Failure/Fear of Success
  73. Feelings and Emotions
  74. Feeling Different
  75. Fellowship
  76. First Drink Gets You Drunk
  77. First Things First
  78. First Thought Wrong
  79. Fixing Me, Not You
  80. Forgiveness
  81. Forgiving Others
  82. Forgiving Ourselves
  83. Foundation
  84. Fourth Dimension (from page 25 in The Big Book)
  85. Freedom
  86. Freedom from Bondage
  87. Friendship
  88. Fun
  89. Gift of Desperation
  90. Gifts of the Program
  91. God as I Understand Him
  92. Gossip
  93. Gratitude
  94. Greed, Gluttony, Having Enough
  95. Group Membership (belonging to a group, having a “home” group)
  96. Growth
  97. Growth through Pain
  98. Guilt
  99. Handling Failure
  100. Handling Success
  101. Happiness
  102. Happy, Joyous and Free
  103. Higher Power
  104. Hitting Bottom
  105. Holidays
  106. Honesty (Rigorous Honesty)
  107. Hope
  108. How do you maintain your spiritual condition?
  109. How do you work the steps?
  110. How easy does it (working the program, staying sober) get?
  111. Has has your concept of a higher power changed in sobriety?
  112. How Have You Changed?
  113. How Important Is It?
  114. How it Works (Twelve Step Recovery)
  115. Humility
  116. Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired (HALT)
  117. I Am Responsible
  118. Identify, Don’t Compare
  119. If God is in charge, why do we sweat the small stuff?
  120. If it’s not practical, it’s not spiritual
  121. If nothing changes, nothing changes
  122. Improving the Quality of My Sobriety
  123. Insanity
  124. Insidious (Patiently Waiting for a Chance to Ensnare)
  125. Instincts
  126. Integrity
  127. Inventory (Taking My Own)
  128. Inventory (Taking That of Others)
  129. Isolating
  130. It Is What It Is
  131. Jealousy
  132. Joy, The Joy of Living
  133. Keep Coming Back
  134. Keep it Simple
  135. Keeping it Green
  136. Let Go and Let God
  137. Letting Go (of Outcomes)
  138. Letting Go (of the Past)
  139. Letting Go (of People, Places and Things)
  140. Life on Life’s Terms
  141. Literature as a Tool (Using the Big Book, Twelve and Twelve, meditations, etc)
  142. Live and Let Live
  143. Living in the Real World
  144. Living in the Moment, Living in the Present, Living in the Now
  145. Living with Myself in Sobriety
  146. Loss
  147. Love
  148. Meditation
  149. Meeting Makers Make It
  150. Meetings
  151. Mental, Spiritual and Physical Disease
  152. Mental Illness (Problems Other Than Alcohol)
  153. Moderation
  154. Money
  155. More will be Revealed
  156. No Pain, No Gain
  157. Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes
  158. One Day at a Time
  159. Online meetings
  160. Organized Religion
  161. Other Addictions
  162. Pain
  163. Pass it On
  164. Patience
  165. People Pleasing
  166. Perceptions vs. Reality
  167. Perseverance
  168. Physical Illness (Problems Other Than Alcohol)
  169. Powerlessness
  170. Practicing These Principles in All Our Affairs
  171. Prayer
  172. Pride
  173. Pride in Reverse
  174. Primary Purpose/Singleness of Purpose
  175. Principles Before Personalities
  176. Priorities
  177. Projection (Thinking About Outcomes that are in the Future, Good and Bad)
  178. Progress, Not Perfection
  179. Progression
  180. Promises
  181. Rationalization, minimizing and justifying, self-justification
  182. Recovery (Getting Better)
  183. Regret (We Will Not Regret the Past, Promises)
  184. Relapse
  185. Relationships
  186. Relaxing, Relaxation
  187. Remember What You Would Have Settled For
  188. Remembering Your Last Drunk
  189. Remorse
  190. Resentment
  191. Resolutions
  192. Responsibility
  193. Restless, Irritable and Discontent (RID)
  194. Restraint of Tongue and Pen
  195. Rituals of Sobriety
  196. Road Rage
  197. Rule #62 (from Tradition Four)
  198. Sanity
  199. Secrets (You’re Only as Sick as Your Secrets or Your Secrets will get You Drunk)
  200. Self Acceptance
  201. Self-Centeredness
  202. Self Esteem
  203. Self Pity
  204. Self Seeking
  205. Self-Will
  206. Selfishness
  207. Serenity
  208. Serenity Prayer
  209. Service
  210. Sex
  211. Sharing (talking or telling my story) at Meetings
  212. Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
  213. Slips
  214. Slogans
  215. Sobriety Dates
  216. Spiritual Awakening
  217. Spiritual Axiom (from Step Ten, page 90, 12 and 12)
  218. Spiritual Part of the Program
  219. Spirituality
  220. Sponsorship
  221. Staying Away from the First Drink
  222. Staying in the Now
  223. Step One
  224. Step Two
  225. Step Three
  226. Step Four
  227. Step Five
  228. Step Six
  229. Step Seven
  230. Step Eight
  231. Step Nine
  232. Step Ten
  233. Step Eleven
  234. Step Twelve
  235. Stick with the Winners
  236. Strength (Sharing Our Strength, What is Your Strength?)
  237. Stress (Coping with Stress)
  238. Suggestions (Taking the Suggestions)
  239. Surrender
  240. Taking Risks
  241. Taking Things for Granted (before and after sobriety)
  242. Telling on Yourself
  243. “Terminal” Uniqueness – feeling unique can kill me
  244. Think, Think, Think
  245. This Too Shall Pass
  246. Time (Time Takes Time)
  247. To Thine Own Self Be True
  248. Tolerance
  249. Tools of the Program
  250. Tradition One
  251. Tradition Two
  252. Tradition Three
  253. Tradition Four
  254. Tradition Five
  255. Tradition Six
  256. Tradition Seven
  257. Tradition Eight
  258. Tradition Nine
  259. Tradition Ten
  260. Tradition Eleven
  261. Tradition Twelve
  262. Triggers
  263. Trust
  264. Trust God, Clean House, Help Others
  265. Turning it Over
  266. Twenty-four Hours a Day (one hour, one minute at a time)
  267. Unfinished Amends
  268. Unmanageability
  269. Using the Program Instead of Using Alcohol
  270. Using the Telephone
  271. Utilize Don’t Analyze
  272. Wait to Worry
  273. We are not a glum lot (from page 132 of the Big Book)
  274. We of the Program
  275. What Convinced You That You Had a Problem?
  276. What is AA?
  277. What do You do to Stay Sober?
  278. What have you gained from the program?
  279. What outside forces keep you from drinking?
  280. When others are drinking (and potentially dangerous, what do you do?)
  281. Who supported you to get sober?  To stay sober?
  282. Why Are You Here?
  283. Why did you get sober?
  284. Will power
  285. Willing to go to Any Lengths
  286. Willingness
  287. Wisdom to Know the Difference (Serenity Prayer)
  288. Wreckage of the Past
  289. Yets

No comments:

Post a Comment