Alyssa
Alyssa
2025-04-18-AA Morning Snippet
2025-04-18-AA Morning Snippet
2025-04-18-AA Morning Snippet
Friday 18th April 2025
Start your day with AA Morning Snippets - reflections on self-honesty, pride, and the importance of a higher power in recovery.
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Episode Overview
- Start the day with a moment of silence for suffering and recovering alcoholics.
- Reflect on the importance of self-honesty and its impact on relationships.
- Understand how deceiving others often stems from self-deception.
- Learn about the destructive nature of prideful righteousness.
- End with the Lord's Prayer for spiritual grounding.
Deceiving myself about myself is setting myself up for failure or disappointment in life and in Alcoholics Anonymous
Start your day with a touch of serenity and reflection in this episode of AA Morning Snippets. Alyssa, an alcoholic, opens the episode with a moment of silence for those struggling with alcohol addiction and their loved ones. The Serenity Prayer sets the tone, asking for peace, courage, and wisdom. Alyssa shares her thoughts on self-honesty, emphasizing how deceiving others often stems from deceiving oneself.
She reflects on her past, acknowledging how she rewrote reality to suit her desires while drinking. The episode dives into the importance of a close, honest relationship with a higher power as a foundation for true honesty. Alyssa discusses the concept of pride, comparing the destructive nature of prideful righteousness to the glaring sins of those considered not so good.
She recounts how negative thinking was substituted for positive thinking before joining AA and how self-righteousness became a significant obstacle in her faith journey. The episode concludes with the Lord's Prayer, offering a spiritual grounding to listeners. Alyssa encourages everyone to keep coming back to AA, reminding them that it works if you work it. This episode is a gentle yet profound reminder of the importance of honesty and humility in the recovery process.
Tune in for a daily dose of reflection and spiritual support.