Posted by 64Bowtie on July 8, 2008, at 10:11:23
Around 12 step meetings, sharing has 1 dynamic, that the person sharing gets to "drain the swamp", a little.
I can't speak for AA other than reverently address its origins. However, since I have many meetings in 3 programs and a sprinkling in others over the last 20+ years, I am well suited to discuss the "ins and outs" of "recovery" as anticipated by 12 step fellowship.
That all said, posting herein has a similar anticipation, we would all hope. Things learned along the way have useful information for both venues by my observation.
By accepting myself, I have freed myself up to accept that I function better if I "drain the swamp" from time to time. The intense pressures of my distant past may not be causing me to "yak yak yak yak" people's ears off these days, personally. Luckily, I do remember and can sympethize/empathize with anyone else doing it here.
Always conjers up my focused search for recovery answers in me. More basic, "is this 'poster' in any way, ready for recovery road mapping"? Luckily I am not in any way responsible for anyone's progress here, so most everything I see here is taken as aligorical information.
My own internal caution I impose on myself when posting is to clearly listen to any and all responses, to the point of understanding. Then I do profit from the experience. Otherwise, its all just "yak yak yak" from and toward me.
So posting is the easy part. Listening and understanding is the part where I roll up my sleeves and really go to work. The difference is, now I can calculate the payoff for the hard work I do.
Rod
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