How do Recovering Alcoholics Handle Stress?
The slogans of the AA program have great value when recovering alcoholics are pressing through difficult times. As people in recovery continue to learn the program, they become equipped to handle the difficulties in life without drinking. In relieving stress, the following phrases carry great power for the ex-problem drinker. At any moment one of these slogans can cause a flood of serenity to pour over a negative emotion. • Let go and let God • Meeting makers make it • One day at a time • Except for the grace of God there go I • God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can’t change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. • Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today • Live life on life’s terms The Importance of Making Meetings Grateful recovering alcoholics will spend hours in meetings to ensure that they will not pick up a drink. In the beginning some people will attend three, four, and even five meetings a day, just to make sure th
