[G Rec]

I attended my first GA meeting last night on zoom. It was a meeting hosted by Recovery Road Online.
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nI wasn’t sure what to expect going in but I did find the meeting very helpful. There were 24 participants in total and hearing the stories, struggles, success, and tips/advice from the various people who shared was very useful. I shared myself as well although kept it on the short side given that it was my first meeting. Even with that, the responses from the others provided both helpful tips and encouragement.
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nA few of the many tips/thoughts
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• Keep up with the multiple support avenues/items available to help recovery, GA are great but don’t let attending those mean that you stop Journaling, going on forums, keeping the restrictions in place to limit the opportunity to gamble etc. etc.

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• Clarification that GA does not need to be religiously based and can be just as helpful to those that are not religious. While a higher power is frequently referenced, this higher power does not need to be religious-based, it can for example simply mean the higher power of the support received from others. This is something Charles had previously in one of the new meeting groups and in fact he created a 12-steps Agnostic version which can be seen in the Recovery Tools group

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• Make a promise to yourself that the next time you are considering gambling, you will call or speak to someone else first whether that is a sponsor, friend, family etc,

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