Processing the Results of My First Pressure Relief Meeting

Thought for today: After our Pressure Relief Meeting is over, and we have a new Spending Plan and an Action Plan for dealing with our debts and our life,  we will be on course to grow in solvency.  Our Pressure Relief Group has given us honest feedback about our current situation and we are now becoming […]

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Getting Through My First Pressure Relief Meeting

Thought for today: Continuing on the theme of sharing and pressure relief, let’s talk about what happens in a Pressure Relief Meeting. A member shares: “I like to start my Pressure Meetings with a short prayer like the Serenity Prayer.  Then I hand out my numbers and give the group a chance to review them. “My Pressure […]

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Preparing for My First Pressure Relief Meeting

Thought for today: Having set up our spending categories, and tracked our numbers for a few weeks, the next step to simple pressure relief in DA is to put together a realistic spending plan that puts our needs first.  To do this we schedule a Pressure Relief Meeting (PRM) during which we will share with our Pressure Relief Group (PRG) our categories for income, spending, […]

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Crunching the Numbers

Thought for today: For debtors, pressure builds up over time.  It comes from not understanding where money is going, feeling out of control. Pressure Relief starts to come when we understand what is causing pressure.  Writing down a list of all of our expenses serves as a beginning, but what do we do with the list we have […]

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What Spending Categories Should I Use For My Pressure Relief Numbers?

Thought for today: Feeling financial pressure?  Having a Pressure Relief Meeting, as outlined in DA Tool Four, can help.  It starts with tracking our spending for a few weeks, and ends with sharing what we find with others more experienced in the program. Tracking what is going on with our money, summarizing it, sharing it with a Pressure […]

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How to Relieve Money Pressures

Thought for today: The disease of underearning and debting can involve co-dependency.  Trapped and helpless, weeks can turn into months and then years with no improvement. A member shares: “My boyfriend takes all my money.  He’s an addict.  I can’t afford to leave, so I feel stuck.  I keep wishing for someone to wake me up […]

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How Not To Debt

Thought for today: Let’s continue our study of how the Steps and Tools of Debtors Anonymous can work together to improve a debtor’s life. It is said that if a truly compulsive debtor doesn’t take a personal inventory of their character defects, they will eventually debt again.  And for debtors, this is a disastrous proposition. […]

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February 18, How “Pressure Relief Groups and Pressure Relief Meetings” (DA Tool Four) Work to Help Keep Us from Losing It!

A member shares what life was like before he got a PRG (Pressure Relief Group) and began looking at how he dealt with his creditors: “When I first came into DA I had a lot of rage. Not anger. Rage.  I battled creditors daily. I was combative, even at meetings, at the slightest hint that […]

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