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We’re going to talk about a couple of things today. We’re definitely going to talk about some of the B.S. myths about Alcoholics Anonymous. There’s a lot of crap out in the world about AA and about meetings and what we do, what it’s about-  and what I really want you to understand is when you read a lot of this stuff, this is all personal opinion.

Even everything that I’m going to talk about today is personal opinion. You can be sitting in a meeting right next to me and we can hear all the same people say the same things, right, because we’re sitting in the meeting together. But when we leave, your perspective of that meeting may be very different than mine.

The message that you get resonates differently for everybody. And it depends on a million different things. It’s where you are in your sobriety, what’s happening in your life in that moment, your personal level of confidence and emotional maturity, and about a thousand other things- this is really wha...

There is a lot of information out there to help someone identify if they are an alcoholic or addict. And many of the criteria fit me perfectly, but some do not. I wanted to take a minute to go through some of the things I thought about in my own journey that brought me to understand that my drinking was a problem.  I just didn’t do it the way other people did.

Many of the symptoms you read about on checklists across the internet are very accurate and I want to cover some of those also. But in my head, noticing that my drinking was different from other people was a long process and it was just a small detail here and there that got my attention.

I’ll tell you the things that really make sense to me:

1. Do you sometimes feel guilty after drinking?

This is a big one for me. It is so simple when you think about it; when you feel badly about something you did, the implication is whatever you did was not ‘right’. And I can apply this to many different areas of my  life. If I am thinking ...