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The San Diego AA Coordinator
“The dark moment the caterpillar calls the end, is the sun-filled moment
the butterfly calls the beginning.” Author Unknown
In meetings over the years I have heard the phrase, “Poor me, poor me, pour me another drink.” I have learned to pay attention to these little phrases and the slogans since they are both cautionary and hopeful messages as well as strategies for getting and staying sober based on many decades of the collective experiences of those who have traveled the journey of recovery before me. When my feelings are low, when I am worried or anxious and obsessively focused on the trials and tribulations of the past or lamenting my perceived lack of opportunities for the future, I can fall into feeling sorry for myself. Self-pity comes in part from my inability to accept people, places and situations as they are and in the Big Book Dr. Paul O. wrote that “
Published Monthly by the Central Office of the San Diego County Groups of Alcoholics Anonymous
“Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of Ourselves” Reprinted from AA Big Book, page 59
Eliminating Self-Pity Is Aspirational
APRIL 2019 VOL. LXVII NO.4
INSIDE . . . Meetings in Motion, p. 4
Coordinating Council Minutes, pgs. 5-6
Financial Statements, p. 7 Group Contributions,
pgs. 8
Central Office Notes, p. 10 Word Search p.11
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is the answer to all my problems today, [that] I can find no
serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as
acceptance
being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.” He
suggested that “I need to concentrate not so much on what needs
to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in
me and in my attitudes" (Big Book p. 417). How do I accomplish
this? Well, for me inconsistently at best is how. I truly believe the
promise made in the book that if
I am painstaking about working the steps, especially through step 9, that my feelings of
uselessness
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