AA Acronyms

A.A.

• Absolute Abstinence
• Acceptance and Action
• Adventurers Anonymous
• Attitude Adjustment
• Altered Attitudes
• Altruistic Action

ABC

• Acceptance, Belief, Change

ACTION

• Any Change To Improve Our Nature
• Any Change Toward Improving One's Nature

ADDICT

• Anybody Doing Drugs In Compulsive Trouble

ALCOHOLICS

• A Life Centered On Helping Others Live In Complete Sobriety

ANGER

• Any No-Good Energy Rising

ANONYMOUS

• Actions Not Our Names Yield Maintenance Of Unity & Service

ASAP

• Always Say A Prayer

ASK

• Ass Saving Kit

BATH

• Behavior, Attitude, Thinking, and Habits

BEST

• Been Enjoying Sobriety Today

BIG BOOK

• Believing In God Beats Our Old Knowledge

BOGGLE

• Bad or Good, God Loves Everyone

BS

• Before Sobriety

BUT

• Being Unconvinced Totally

CALM

• Can Anger Leave Me

CARDS

• Call your sponsor
• Ask for help from your Higher Power
• Read the Big Book
• Do the Twelve Steps
• Stay active in your group

CARE

• Comforting And Reassuring Each other

CHANGE

• Choosing Honesty Allows New Growth Everyday
• Can Helping Attract New Gifts and Energy

CHAOS

• Can't Handle Another Overwhelming Situation
• Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome

CIA

• Catholic Irish Alcoholic

CLEAN

• Completely Leaving Every Addiction Now

CRAP

• Caring Resentments Against People

DEAD

• Drinking Ends All Dreams

DENIAL

• Don't Even Notice I Am Lying
• Don't Even Notice It's A Lie

DETACH

• Don't Even Think About Changing Him / Her

DIE (or) EDI

• Does It Easy (or) Easy Does It

DRY

• Doing Recovery Yourself

DT's

• Don't Think

DUES

• Desperately Using Everything but Sobriety

EGO

• Edging God Out

FAILURE

• Fearful, Arrogant, Insecure, Lonely, Uncertain, Resentful, Empty

FAITH

• Facing All In Trusting Him
• Fear Ain't In This House
• Finally Admitted I Trust Him
• Finding Answers In The Heart
• For An Instant Trust Him

FAMILY

• Father And Mother I Love You

FEAR

• False Evidence / Expectations Appearing Real
• Forgetting Everything's All Right
• Forever Escaping And Retreating
• Failure Expected And Received
• Face Everything And Recover
• Fuck Everything And Run
• Few Ever Arrive Rejoicing
• Frustration, Ego, Anxiety, Resentment
• Fools Every Alcoholic Repeatedly
• Frantic Efforts to Appear Recovered

FEEL

• Feel, Experience, Express, Let go!

FINE

• Free Independent, New and Energetic
• Frustrated, Insecure, Neurotic, Emotional
• Feeling Insecure Numb and Empty
• Fucked up, Insane, Neurotic, Emotional

FIT

• Faith, Intuition, and Trust

FOG

• Fear of God

FROG

• Fully Rely on God
• Found Regurgitating On the Ground

FUCKED

• Feeling Useless Cos I'm Kicking Every Drug

GIFT

• God Is Forever There
• God Is Finally Tangible

Gifts

• Getting It From The Steps

GOD

• Give Others Dignity
• Gift of Desperation
• Good Orderly Direction
• Get Out Devil
• Group Of Drunks
• Group of Drug addicts

GRACE

• Gently Releasing All Conscience Expectations

GUT

• God’s Undeniable Truth

HALT

• Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
• Hope, Acceptance, Love, Tolerance

HEART

• Hope, Encouragement, Love, Patience
• Healing Enjoying And Recovering Together

HELP

• His Every Loving Presence
• Hope, Encouragement, Love and Patience

HJF

• Happy, Joyous, Free

HOPE

• Helping Other People Everyday
• Happy Our Program Exists
• Hearing Other People's Experiences
• Help Open People's Eyes
• Hang on Pray Everyday
• Hang On! Peace Exists
• Heart Open; Please Enter

HOW

• Honesty, Open-mindedness, and Willingness
• Honesty, Open, Willing

ISM

• Incredible Short Memory
• I Sponsor Myself
• I Sabotage Myself
• I Self Me

KISS

• Keep it Simple (Sweetheart) (Stupid) (Surrender) (Spiritually)

LETGO

• Leave Everything To God, Okay?

LOVE

• Living Our Victories Everyday
• Living Our Valuable Experiences
• Loving Our Valuable Experiences

NEW

• Nothing Else Worked

NOW

• No Other Way

NUTS

• Not Using The Steps

ODAAT

• One Day At A Time

OUR

• Openly Using Recovery

PACE

• Positive Attitude Changes Everything

PAID

• Painful And Incomprehensible Demoralization

PEACE

• Praying Energetically Always Creates Ease
• Principles Experienced Activate Change Every-day

PHD

• Pretty Heavy Drinker

PMS

• Poor Me Syndrome

PRIDE

• Personal Recovery Involves Deflating Ego
• Pretty Ridiculous Individual Directing Everything

PROGRAM

• Program Relaying On God Relaying A Message
• (the best GRAM is a PROGRAM)

PUSH

• Pray Until Something Happens

PUT

• Patience, Understanding, Tolerance

QTIP

• Quit Taking It Personally

RAGE

• Real Angry Gut-level Ego

RELAPSE

• Recovery Exists Life And Program Seem Empty

RID

• Restless, Irritable, and Discontented

SIT

• Stay In Today

SLIP

• Sobriety Loosing Its Priority

STAR

• Start Talking About Recovery

STEPS

• Solutions to Every Problem Sober
• Solutions To Every Problem in Sobriety

STOP

• Sicker Than Other People

SOB

• Sober Old Bag
• Sober Old Boy

SOBER

• Staying Off Booze Enjoying Recovery
• Son Of a Bitch Everything's Real
• Spiritually On Beam; Everything's Right

SOBRIETY

• Staying Off Booze Recovery Is Everything To You

SPONSOR

• Sober, Person, Offering, Newcomers, Suggestions on Recovery

SWAT

• Surrender, Willingness, Acceptance, and Trust

TEAM

• Together Everyone Achieves More

THINK

• The Happiness I Never Knew

TIME

• This I Must Earn
• Things I Must Earn

TRUST

• Transferring Recovery Using Steps and Traditions
• Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions

WAIT

• Why Am I Talking

WHO

• Willingness, Honesty, Open-mindedness

WHO ME?

• Willingness, Honesty, Open-Mindedness, Must Exist

WILLING

• When I Live Life, I Need God
• When I Let go Let Live, I Normally Grow
• When I Let God Live I Normally Grow

WISDOM

• When Into Self, Discover Our Motives

WORK

• What Our Recovery Knows

WORRY

• Wrong Or Right Remain Yourself

YANA

• You Are Not Alone

YET

• You're Eligible Too
• You're Eligible There
• You'll End-up There