Emotional Sobriety
I’m thrilled that the book study arm of Nashville’s fantastic Mid-Day Break Group has elected to study the new Grapevine compilation called Emotional Sobriety. I’m sure this is a very rare thing, to be a part of an AA book study that’s going over something besides the big book or the 12 and 12. Wonderful!

And I will be there for most of the study, since I am no longer employed at the Nashville landscaping company I’d worked at for about a year and a half – thank God! But that is another story.

I was surprised about a couple of things when I first heard studying this book was a possibility. First, I was sure I already owned every single book about Alcoholics Anonymous, especially books that are conference approved and actually printed by AA! Soon I was to learn that Emotional Sobriety is NOT conference approved literature, rather, it’s another compilation of stories from the Grapevine.

We started reading the book on Thursday and got through a page and a half or so. I read the very first part of the very first story after Tom read the preface. T shared, and I love it when she shares. I almost always not only agree with what she’s saying, I’m usually thinking the same thing. I mustered up the courage to share a couple of times, and it is just beginning to get easier for me to do that. It seems that the wall I’ve built around myself is coming down, and I am very grateful for that.

I asked whether the book Emotional Sobriety was available across the street at A.A.’s Middle Tennessee Central Office, and of course the answer was yes. I HAD to get my own copy of Emotional Sobriety. For one thing, there weren’t quite enough copies available for everybody in the book study room at Alano (although that situation may have already been rectified upon our purchase of additional copies). But the main reason I need a copy is that I am a note taking, underlining fool! I must be able to mark it up.

A couple of days later, I walked across the street to the Middle Tennessee Central Office of Alcoholics Anonymous and purchased three copies of Emotional Sobriety. I was hoping to sell two of my copies for $10 each, and thus procuring a couple of small $2 donations for LetItHappen.org. I don’t know if anyone will be willing to pay $10 for the $8 book or not, but if you are reading this and you want your own copy of Emotional Sobriety, please ask me - I may still have one for sale.