2026-10-15-AA Morning Snippet2026-10-15-AA Morning Snippet
AA Morning Snippets
Alyssa offers a brief AA-style morning ritual with prayer and reflections on gossip, personal inventory, and emotional sobriety. The focus stays firmly on daily reliance on God and practical steps to stay sober just for today.
2:50•15 Oct 2026
Morning AA Snippet: Gossip, Emotional Sobriety, and Staying Sober Today
Episode Overview
- Begin the day with silence and prayer, focusing on both suffering and recovering alcoholics and their loved ones.
- Recognise gossip as a harmful character defect that often appears when tired or seeking to boost the ego.
- Keep the focus on taking your own inventory instead of judging others, leaving judgement to divine providence.
- Identify emotional disturbances as rooted in unhealthy dependencies and demands, and surrender them with God's help.
- Use short daily reflections and AA slogans to reinforce the intention: "Dear God, please help me stay sober today."
“Today, the only inventory I need to take is my own. I'll leave judgment of others to the final judge, divine providence.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This short AA Morning Snippet with Alyssa offers a gentle, structured start to the day, centred on prayer, self-honesty, and emotional sobriety. Aimed at those living with alcoholism and those in recovery, it’s a quick grounding ritual rather than a lengthy chat.
Alyssa opens by naming herself plainly: "My name is Alyssa, and I'm an alcoholic," then invites a moment of silence for "the suffering and recovering Alcoholics and their loved ones inside and out of the rooms." From there, you’ll hear the Serenity Prayer, asking God for "the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference," setting a calm, reflective tone.
The main reading, "My checklist, not yours," zeroes in on gossip as a character defect.
A second reading on emotional sobriety suggests that "if we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand." With "God's help" and consistent surrender of those dependencies, the reading points towards being "set free to live and love" and to "twelve step ourselves, as well as others, into emotional sobriety." The snippet closes with the Lord’s Prayer, AA slogans, and a simple request: "Dear God, please help me stay sober today.
One striking line describes gossip as "barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination." The reflection admits how easy it is to slip into talking about others, especially when tired or wanting to boost the ego, and stresses that "today, the only inventory I need to take is my own." There’s a clear reminder that each person’s uniqueness is "the blessing of my being," and that this applies equally to everyone met along the way.
Amen." It’s a compact, faith-tinged check-in that’s ideal if you want a quick reminder to keep your focus on your own inventory. How might a few minutes like this reshape your morning in recovery?
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