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I'm new to this and I'm having difficulty understanding some of the abbreviations, can anyone help me with this please. I would really appreciate it, Thanx
Welcome to Miracles in Progress (MIP). I am pasting some of the acronyms below and hope they help. At the top of this message board, they are from our Frequently Asked Questions.
Keep coming, Maria
Some abbreviations and terms that are more specific to recovery chat rooms/boards:
A or The A : the alcoholic in my life
AA : Alcoholics Anonymous
ABF or AGF : alcoholic boy friend or girlfriend
AFG : Al-Anon Family Groups
AH or AW : alcoholic husband or wife
Active A : an alcoholic who is still drinking alcohol
Big Book : refers to the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
CAL : Conference Approved Literature, writings that have been approved by the WSO
C2C or CTC : courage to change
CLOSED MEETING : a meeting of AA or Al-Anon that is only to be attended by members who qualify for either AA or Al-anon
CROSSTALK : During an Al-anon meeting cross talking is speaking when someone else has the floor and is sharing. It is also cross talking when, after another member shares, someone shares and comments directly about what the other person's share was about and directs it to that person. Both of these things are generally discouraged at Al-anon meetings because it disrupts the meeting, takes away the anonymity of the person's share and can also become "advice giving" which is also discouraged in Al-anon.
DRY DRUNK : refers to an alcoholic who is no longer drinking alcohol but who is still exhibiting a lot of the negative behaviors associated with the drinking
ESH : experience, strength and hope
FTF or F2F : a Face-to-Face meeting; real world meetings
HALT : Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
JADE : Justify, Argue, Defend, Explain
MIP : Miracles in Progress
ODAAT : one day at a time
OPEN MEETING : a meeting of AA or Al-Anon that may be attended by anyone who is interested.
Q-tip : Quit taking it personally
TYFS OR TFS : Thank you for sharing
WSO : World Service Organization Al-Anons headquarters
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If I am not for me, who will be? If I am only for myself, then who am I? If not now, when?
a good resource for finding out about cyberspace acronmins is
http://docs.dal.net/docs/acronyms.html
IRC and the Internet seems to have developed a language of its own with them. It is often helpful when first starting on a message board or chat room to print this page out and refer to it, until you get familar with some of the more commonly used ones.
John
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" And what did we gain? A new life, with purpose, meaning and constant progress, and all the contentment and fulfillment that comes from such growth."
