Clinical thought for the day: what are some things to assess for when someone has experienced, a sudden, traumatic loss?

Tweet Just For Today April 11, 2012 A Closed Mind “A new idea cannot be grafted onto a closed mind… Open-mindedness leads us to the very insights that have eluded us during our lives.” Basic Text p. 93 We arrived in NA at the lowest point in our lives.

Tweet Just For Today May 1, 20129 Too Busy “We must use what we learn or we will lose it, no matter how long we have been clean.” Basic Text, p. 82 After putting some clean time together, some of us have a tendency to forget what our most important priority is.

Tweet Twenty-Four Hours A Day October 18, 2011 A.A. Thought For The Day Have I got over most of my sensitiveness, my feelings which are too easily hurt, and my just plain laziness and self-satisfaction? Am I willing to go all out for A.A. at no matter what cost to my precious self? Tweet Twenty-Four Hours A Day October 17, 2011 A.A. Thought For The Day What am I going to do today for A.A.? Is there someone I should call up on the telephone or someone I should go to see?

Is there a letter I should write? Tweet Twenty-Four Hours A Day April 30, 20129 A.A. Thought For The Day How seriously do I take my obligations to A.A.? Have I taken all the good I can get out of it and then let my obligations slide? Tweet Twenty-Four Hours A Day October 15, 2011 A.A. Thought For The Day Am I deeply grateful to A.A. for what it has done for me in regaining my sobriety and opening up an entirely new life for me?

Tweet Twenty-Four Hours A Day October 14, 2011 A.A. Thought For The Day How big a part of my life is A.A.? Is it just one of my activities and a small one at that? Do I only go to A.A. meetings now and then and sometimes never go at all? Tweet Twenty-Four Hours A Day October 13, 2011 A.A. Thought For The Day A.A. work is one hundred percent voluntary.

It depends on each and every one of our members to volunteer to do his or her share. Newcomers can sit on the sidelines until they have got over their nervousness and confusion. Tweet Twenty-Four Hours A Day October 12, 2011 A.A. Thought For The Day Am I still on a “free ride” in A.A.? Am I all get and no give?

Do I go to meetings and always sit in the back row and let others do all the work? Tweet Twenty-Four Hours A Day October 11, 2011 A.A. Thought For The Day How good a sponsor am I? When I bring new members to a meeting, do I feel that my responsibility has ended?

Tweet Twenty-Four Hours A Day October 11, 2011 A.A. Thought For The Day When new members come into my A.A. group, do I make a special effort to make them feel at home? Do I put myself out to listen to them, even if their ideas of A.A. are vague? Tweet Twenty-Four Hours A Day October 11, 2011 A.A. Thought For The Day Am I willing to be bored sometimes at meetings?

Am I willing to listen to much repetition of A.A. principles? Am I willing to hear the same thing over and over again? Tweet Twenty-Four Hours A Day October 11, 2011 A.A. Thought For The Day There is such a thing as being too loyal to any one group.

Do I feel put out when another group starts and some members of my group leave it and branch out into new territory? Tweet Twenty-Four Hours A Day October 11, 2011 A.A. Thought For The Day Do I put too much reliance on any one member of the group? That is, do I make a tin god out of some one person?

Do I set that person on a pedestal? Tweet Twenty-Four Hours A Day October 11, 2011 A.A. Thought For The Day Is it my desire to be a big shot in A.A.? Do I always want to be up front in the limelight? Do I feel that nobody else can do as good a job as I can?