Topic: Why should I go to meetings?

[caressa]

Why do they say 90 meetings in 90 days? Why do I need to continue going to meetings?

The people in the rooms loved me back to good health. When i could not love, even like myself, they were there for me. I found myself reflected in the people around me.

Meeting taught me to be responsible. I got caught up in service. They helped me to get out of myself and realize I am not the only only one. There is always someone worse off than I am. There is someone who has walked my journey and can identify.

When I learned to identify instead of compare, I healed and got better. When I compared, I stayed sick.

A burden shared is a burden lessened. If I share it with ten people, I only have to take 1/10 of it home. My sponsor said, "Don't call them problems, call them challenges. You can stay stuck in a problem but challenges you can over come."

Isolation is part of my disease not a healthy part of recovery.

I don't get out to f2f meeting very often these days because of health issues. When I do managed to get out, my body is like a sponge and wants to just soak up all the energy. It is just not the same as internet meetings, although if it wasn't for the internet, I am not sure I would be clean and sober in today.

When I am alone with me, I have no one to give me honest feedback. There is no one to agree or disagree with me and tell me when I am off track and heading in the wrong direction. Me alone with me can be me in bad company. I can talk myself into anything and everything. I am just F.I.N.E. and there is nothing wrong with me.

[BW]

I still go becaseu my thunker is still broken and I still need reminders. I used to have black outs but now in recovery I have white outs and now that i'm not as young as I used to be I do tend to forget things a little more often...All we have is a daily reprieve based on our spiritual condition so I need fed spiritually often...I never know when someone is going to drop a moresel of spiritual food I'm going to need.

Nor do I know when God is going to put a newbie in my path that is going to need me...so i best be ready and well prepared..afterall..I can't give away something I haven't got...and I have to give it away in order to keep it...

[caressa]

They say that when you don't feel like going to a meeting, that is the time to go. When you feel like using ANYTHING, go to a meeting. When you are not feeling well, go to a meeting. Many times I have walked into a meeting with a headache, even a migraine, and have walked out and somehow I had left it behind, hoping no one else picked it up.

Meetings are a reflection of me. I was told to take note of who I was pointing a finger at because I had three coming back at me and it was now my issue not theirs.

When in doubt, go to a meeting! I was told if you can't find your Higher Power, go to a meeting.

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[majestyjo]

Like the last quote.

As they say, Meeting makers make it in recovery.

I was one of the really sick ones. I wasn't able to work. I did 2 meetins, some days 3, for my first 2 years. Because of service, I was still doing 10 a week, up until my 10th year of sobriety.