Sentences with phrase «someone get sober»

«It wasn't until I got sober that I knew fully what she meant,» he continued.

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let's work on getting you sober.

Those who use the excuse not to attend AA because they do not beleive in a God do not want to get sober.

If she doesn't believe in God why is she making such a big deal about getting sober without Him?

An alcoholic in AA uses the power of the groups experience, strength, and hope in getting sober and staying sober.

If there were some kind of organization for atheists to get sober (and there may be) then I would not presume to walk in there and inform them how they were wrong and should start believing in a God ASAP.

The bottom line is I get drunk > WE get sober.

Having religion as a basis to getting sober from an addiction is like having religion as a basis to commit terrorist acts.

Bill didn't want to believe that, and went on drinking until he met with Dr. Silkworth, who convinced Bill to go to Calvary Rescue Mission, where Bill finally got sober because he underwent the same transformation as Ebby.

Our book is meant t be suggestive only LOL God luck I have feeling AA will weather the hate as it has the last 75 + years and continue to reach out to those so desperately in need of sobriety for free LOL If you read this and want to get sober please try AA if it doesn't work for you find something that does.

I realize it's only because of unmerrited favor (i.e. grace), that I got sober, but it's difficult for me to select which of the steps keep me sober, so I need to put all twelve, as explained in the big book, into my life.

Sure, people can say you violate your anonymity, or our traditions about publicity, etc. but I also know there may be some who need to hear your message where it will give them the courage to try this (hard, as you said) way of getting sober.

If all I needed was proper determination to get sober, I would not have spent all that determination on ways to get drunk.

Our primary purpose in AA is to stay sober and help other alcoholics who want to get sober.

I've been able to share my story with other people, and I've had fans that come up to me and tell me, «Because you got sober, I got sober.»

From Adam: As you were (are) getting sober, do you find your addiction moving elsewhere?

If everyone who got sober quit coming to meetings, there'd be no one there to help the newcomer.

An active alcoholic — that was me — who wants to get sober but can't, and who is coming to believe that every good thing she once thought about God is a lie, is in a scary place.

I'd like to point out that the writer is not unique, and as member of AA for over 20 years, I have known people to get sober in AA from every religion, denomination as well as other atheists, agnostics or non-believers.

Others develop new compulsions as a way to fill the empty space left behind when they got sober.

I had no use for organized religon before getting sober, and less so after being sober for 28 years.

Others said that prayer shouldn't be viewed as a panaceafor any addiction, but that religion, prayer and a church community can serve to comfort addicts as they try various additional techniques to get sober.

I personally do not believe in God, but I got sober with the help of AA.

AA makes it sound like the only way to get sober is through them.

So, what finally got me sober?

Whatever it takes to get you sober is what is important.

That's what got me sober and to a large extent that's what helps keep me sober.

We were remarried (I never dated; I wanted him to get sober and for us to reconcile).

In fact, people get sober in AA.

One of the many new gods appearing in revisionist literature is that the «higher power is simply that which gets you sober.

Pioneer Clarence H. Snyder (who got sober in February of 1938, was sponsored by Dr. Bob, and later became the AA with the most sobriety) spoke often of God as Creator and Jesus Christ as God's Son.

Certainly, people get sober without AA.

I chose to leave town, go back to school, get sober and quit being a destructive little sh1t without ever considering religion as a means to do so.

Kitchen's I Was a Pagan was a very popular book about the time Bill Wilson was getting sober.

Many people who are atheist or agnostic have gotten sober and stayed sober by replacing the bottle they worshiped with a philosophy (AA is a philosophy, by the by, a way of looking at Life and Being), with the wisdom of the group or even of humanity in general, with whatever works for them.

Thacher also told Wilson he could get sober too if he set aside his objections to religion and form a personal conception of God, «another power» or «higher power.»

2nd, the article wasn't even about drug abuse, it was about atheists trying to get sober, and struggling.

Liberals find a way to push their anti-God agenda however they can, but connecting alcoholism and getting sober is a bit of a stretch.

People like this Tony Beaver guy... I just can't wrap my mind around why he cares HOW someone gets sober.

I figured a) these people were funny, kind, and not plastered; b) they believed that some kind of higher power had helped them get sober; c) they knew something I did not.

As one seasoned worker with alcoholics observed, «If an alcoholic with whom I've been working gets sober, I try to remember that it may be that it occurred in spite of what I did.»

«I believe in God and got sober.

For all of the atheists in AA this is good place to get sober.

Not every drunk can get sober in AA; not every sober person joined the AA fellowship.

I got sober 27 years ago with the help of AA, and I too, am an atheist.

I got sober through AA, and fought and fought with people in the beginning.

Very few REAL Alcoholics can get sober and stay sober without the (Cult) of Alcoholics anonymous.

I don't think Bill and Bob were trying to get sober one day at a time when they started AA.

Your role is to help her get sober, not convert her to your religion nor put her down and make her seem inferior to you (as if she just hasn't «seen the light»....