GHOD Winter Quarterly Extended Group -Nov. 2022

On December 17, 2022, we will have or 10 for $10 speaker jam on our Zoom line and all are invited to participate in this kick-off fundraiser for the 2023 National meeting in Chicago next July 6-9, 2023. All who make the $10 donation will be put into the drawing for several prizes from the group. We will start at 12pm and end at 10pm. There will be a Women’s Only meeting, the Men will take lunch then, and after that, a Men’s Only meeting and the women will take lunch. All of this will take place on our Zoom line on the afore mentioned date.

During the event all that register and pay their 2023 dues will get a 2nd ticket for the prizes, which will be drawn at the National meeting on Saturday, July 8, 2023.

Now let’s focus on our recovery, 2022 our focus principle was ‘Commitment’ now as we move into 2023, we will focus on ‘Emotional Intelligence’. The BT states that ‘higher mental and emotional functions’ were sharply affected by our use, so at some point we need to address our true emotional condition if we are to truly improve beyond where we were when we first get clean. Each of our members should make a great effort to acquire the book, Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by years end, both the men’s and women’s meeting will be using these for the entire year as their group study focus books. We can’t improve on what we won’t admit, so from the admission we break free of the denial, and once we achieve a glimpse of freedom, we desire to be freely whole and wholly free. Today is your beginning.

Scared Yet? Well let’s get into it. When Reason and Feelings Collide. What happens? Each of you must now ask yourself a few tough questions. How mature am I emotionally? Does my emotional maturity match my clean time? Am I still clinging to the defect that stunts my emotional growth? (Explain) It needs to have a name. You can begin your quest for freedom by taking the EI test. From that point forward, you will learn to let them help you before they hurt you. Learning to understand emotions and how they function are the new ‘keys to freedom’ to higher mental and emotional functions that have eluded each of us for so long. Emotions can help you and they can hurt you, but you have no say in the matter until you understand them.

The five basic feelings we must learn to understand are (happiness. sadness, anger, fear, shame). It will not be easy, but you will learn or stay an emotional dwarf forever.

The work is yours to do.

Tyrone