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With each new year, we reflect on what happened in the past 12 months and wonder, “what’s next?”
Well, what if I told you that life will have more meaning and satisfaction for you this year.
Today’s show is about painting a vision for you in 2020 and beyond. Let’s go!
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- Get the feedback and accountability you have been lacking
- Grow with others and experience teamwork in recovery
Don’t do this alone. Reserve your spot today.
Quote from the Big Book
For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking. The old pleasures were gone. They were but memories. Never could we recapture the great moments of the past. There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obsession that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it. There was always one more attempt—and one more failure.
You say, “Yes, I’m willing. But am I to be consigned to a life where I shall be stupid, boring and glum, like some righteous people I see? I know I must get along without liquor, but how can I? Have you a sufficient substitute?”
Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that. It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will find release from care, boredom and worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Thus we find the fellowship, and so will you.
— Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book) Chapter 11. p. 151-152
