Welcome to the Emotions Anonymous Chat!
This site contains many features:
1. The calendar of scheduled online meeting times and dates.
2. Click here to enter the chat room. No password is required. Also, please read the guidelines below regarding the EA meeting format before entering the chat.
3. In the online meetings, we follow the Twelve Steps of Emotions Anonymous. Other helpful literature includes the Twelve Traditions, Twelve Promises, Just For Today readings, Slogans, and Helpful Concepts.
4. The home page for Emotions Anonymous is located at www.emotionsanonymous.org. From this webpage, you can order EA literature and locate face-to-face EA meetings in your area.
5. The online meetings are open to anyone seeking recovery from emotional problems. Anyone can choose to chair a meeting.
Enjoy the chat!
EA Chat Guidelines*
Every meeting we remind ourselves of some basic group guidelines. Many of the principles and traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous are used as part of our group. We respect the confidentiality and anonymity of each person here. Remember that whatever you hear at this meeting is shared with the trust and confidence that it will remain here. Who you see here, what is said here, when you leave here, let it stay here.
Before our sharing begins, I will read our Guidelines for Group Sharing.
1) Everyone is invited to share, but no one is obligated to do so.
2) Please keep your sharing focused on recent experiences and events. Focus on your personal experience, strength and hope.
3) Limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes. Allow everyone in the group to share once before you share a second time.
4) Please...NO CROSS TALK. Cross-talk occurs when individuals speak out of turn and interrupt one another. The group is disrupted, and focus is diverted from the individual whose turn it is to speak.
5) Refrain from asking questions. Questions will be answered after the meeting so that sharing will not be interrupted.
6) If you have recently used chemical substances which have had a mood-altering effect on your behavior, we ask you NOT to share until after the meeting.
7) We are not here to advise, soothe, or solve other people's problems. We can share what we have done to change our own behavior, but not what we think someone else should do.
* The text of these guidelines has been borrowed from the website http://www.nacronline.com/dox/library/tools/open12.shtml as a general format for 12 step meetings.
