“We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that…

“We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery.” Page 30 — This did not come easy for me. Years of denial kept me in self-serving rationalization, beneath which was fear of the surrender of my ineffective self-will to run my life and world. My life was a mess but it was the only life I knew. To make a decision to try something different seemed a risky proposition. In time the misery was too much to bear. I planned my suicide. I found myself instead in A.A. I admitted I was alcoholic. In time, that admission grew deeper. I’m grateful to be “an alcoholic of the hopeless variety.”

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