Anonymous

On Tuesday night, September twenty-seventh, my classmate Mariah and I observed an Overeaters Anonymous (OA) meeting at Woodford’s Congregational Church in Portland. The contact person for this meeting is Susie, though the person leading that night’s meeting was Edie, a recovering compulsive overeater herself. This was an open meeting, held biweekly, and had an attendance of thirteen people, Mariah and myself included. The feelings I had leading up to this meeting were very mixed and fluctuated a…

Observation of Narcotics Anonymous Meeting Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a community of members who have experienced the power of addiction of drugs. NA members attend NA in order to stay clean, offer support, and receive support from others. NA offers individuals a twelve-step program to follow that will guide them on the road to recovery with a drug free lifestyle (Information About NA, 2007). I recently observed an NA meeting in a church, with a group of approximately fifty members. I was…

Recently I took a step out of my comfort zone and visited a local Alcoholics Anonymous meeting ( to be referred to as AA going forward). Before walking through the door I decided I at least wanted to have some actual knowledge of what I was getting myself into. “Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem. It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, multiracial, apolitical, and available almost everywhere. There are no age or education…

The AA meeting I attended was on September 11, 2015 at the 13th street clubhouse in Bowling Green Ky. There was a good amount of people that attended the meeting. About 25 people were there and it was a good mixture of women and men from all walks of life. The room that the meeting was in was a big room with plenty of options on where to sit. It was not a fancy room but it serve its purpose for the meeting. They had tables that were in a circle where most of the attendies sat at but then they…

Since I have previous experience with AA meetings, for myself when I was a teenager, and with a friend, when he was dealing with issues, I was not apprehensive of the meting itself. I am not familiar with the area, and have an amount of social anxiety, so I asked a friend to go with me. I expected the meeting to be somewhat similar to the previous meetings I had been to, at least in format. Some of the success comes in expectation, and normalcy. My friend and I got to the meeting a little early…

Welcome to my humble little blog about a topic that may be made of confusion or controversy. I am here to write about my life and experiences as a follower of Wiccan tradition and the occult. Firstly, I would like to establish that Wiccans are not associated with evil or "black magic". demons, curses, or anything truly evil. Secondly, the title of "Witch" is not gender specific as most would assume. Warlock, by the way, is derogatory to us and as such is not what we use to refer to male witches.…

On September 11, Kayla, Taylor and I attended the Parklane Group AA meeting. This meeting was covering chapter eight in the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions by Bill W. Before reading chapter eight, the leader of the AA meeting read aloud the rules and upcoming events, he then had us introduce ourselves. I was surprised to see that every time someone wanted to speak they first stated their name and referred to themselves as an alcohol addict. I thought this was only done in movies. However…

chapters are more clear, because provide many reasons of the origins of the addictions. As you said, denial is one of the stages that people in addictions needs to overcome. Marvin is in this stage, in charter fourteen; Marvin is attending to Alcohol Anonymous. Marvin would like to avoid the steps eight and nine of the twelve steps of the recovery, because he does not consider it is necessary. He believes, his addiction behavior does not harm others, only his wife. Denizet-Lewis (2009).…

“We talk about important shit and we do sober shit.” Sitting in a hospital’s auditorium on a Thursday night this phrase summarized the reason behind the meetings of Narcotics Anonymous. Important shit was indeed going on. The people in the room varying from all ages and backgrounds were there to mend their lives back together to the standards that society saw fit and they all had the unequivocal support of each other. The standards are being sober and not depending on any drugs or alcohol. The…

The Anonymous Letters 1. Should the board have given the principal free rein to control the school? Principal Sitzer should not have been given free rein to control her school. While she stepped into her position and helped the short-term goal of making improvements at Our Lady of the Mission School and keeping the doors open, the long-term effects of her dictatorship and bureaucratic approach to her position might actually cost more to the school and faith community in the long run. As a…