{"id":2235,"date":"2020-02-05T23:47:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T23:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/convention.ofai.org\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:16:04","slug":"spotlight-on-sobriety-12-28-2025-gal-aa-s-guide-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/convention.ofai.org\/index.php\/2020\/02\/05\/spotlight-on-sobriety-12-28-2025-gal-aa-s-guide-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight On Sobriety 12 28 2025: GaL-AA&#8217;s Guide to Post-Holiday Sobriety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She ended up staying for several late-night meetings and  went home <a href=\"https:\/\/cavallotravel.si\/oxford-houses-of-virginia-oxford-houses-of-3\/\">https:\/\/cavallotravel.si\/oxford-houses-of-virginia-oxford-houses-of-3\/<\/a> sober. \u201cI have so much gratitude for the person who did that for me,\u201d she writes. Activities for the holiday season.<\/p>\n<h2>For help with alcohol call: \u260e<\/h2>\n<div style='text-align:center'><iframe width='564' height='318' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PbQq7sQ6358' frameborder='0' alt='aa grapevine getting thru holidays sober' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Surrounded by people who understood me, I realized that this was the most honest Christmas I had ever known. The memory of my first sober Christmas Eve stays with me today, and I still <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drug_rehabilitation\">Drug rehabilitation<\/a> visit that recovery home nearly every holiday season. Thirty-six sober Christmas Eves later, I share this memory for someone I will likely never meet. Blessed with the gift of desperation, I continued to take the simple actions I had learned in AA. I kept trudging through my daily recovery routine as if my life  depended on it. I maintained daily meeting attendance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='aligncenter' style='display: block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;' src=\"https:\/\/ecosoberhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5df446bc-cd97-42be-a226-e1e9f072a8bb-768x461.jpg\" width=\"300px\" alt=\"aa grapevine getting thru holidays sober\"\/><\/p>\n<h2>The Visitor<\/h2>\n<p>The room was dark, empty and cold. I opened the doors and turned on the lights and organized chairs for <a href=\"https:\/\/ecosoberhouse.com\/article\/8-tips-on-ow-to-spend-holidays-sober\/\">sober holidays<\/a> a small group. It was a new meeting and had not yet developed a group of regulars. I made a small pot of coffee and sat alone in the room, waiting for the heater to kick in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='aligncenter' style='display: block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;' src=\"https:\/\/ecosoberhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1c1dc0b2-2f8a-40b2-bc6c-44ddc75d8b11-768x511.jpg\" width=\"308px\" alt=\"aa grapevine getting thru holidays sober\"\/><\/p>\n<h2>The December Issue of Grapevine is Here!<\/h2>\n<div style='text-align:center'><iframe width='561' height='313' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3XXbr1X7dRc' frameborder='0' alt='aa grapevine getting thru holidays sober' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The man just looked at me and smiled. \u201cYou\u2019re going to make it,\u201d he said matter-of-factly. \u201cI can tell.\u201d Then he went back to eating his dinner.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='aligncenter' style='display: block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;' src=\"https:\/\/ecosoberhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/70e94d3e-ddc8-468d-ba82-9a3e1a4aea43.jpg\" width=\"309px\" alt=\"aa grapevine getting thru holidays sober\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She ended up staying for several late-night meetings and went home https:\/\/cavallotravel.si\/oxford-houses-of-virginia-oxford-houses-of-3\/ sober. \u201cI have so much gratitude for the person who did that for me,\u201d she writes. 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