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Hello everyone, Yes, it is time to pay our bills again for the site, so any donation you are willing to make to help offset its cost is appreciated. Just click the Donate button at the top of the page and it will take you directly to the paypal account so your donation can be gotten through your debit or cred...
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Share Your AA Story Here
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This thread is an archive for members to post their "Story" in a collection in a convenient location for others to read. Please be sure to include the post sobriety portion. Please create an original thread for your story, so that others can reply. After your thread is a few days old, cut...
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Website Links To Recovery Based Sites, AA Speaker tapes, etc Non-Commercial (multi-purpose stickey thread)
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Please use this thread to post (and find) links to sites containing AA literature, step work, or other spiritual material that has helped you. No spam, self promotion, or sites that could be deemed as controversial with regards to the program or specific religious content, thanks. I found this wh...
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Use this thread to post your sobriety date and any other related stuff like where you got sober, and what group if you like. I got this idea from the NA board, which has 3 pages of replies, most of which are less than a year. Mine is July 25th, 1989. I got sober at the Unity Club in Falls Church, Va. -- Edited...
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Step Work Board Info (Merged)
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Please accept this as your personal invitation to join us at the Miracles In Progress 12 Step Recovery Forums Step Work Board and share with us, your own experience, strength and hope. If you are new to recovery, you can ask questions related to the 12 Steps here, see how others work and apply the step...
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Letter To A Woman Alcoholic
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Source: Good Housekeeping, March 1954 A Letter To A Woman Alcoholic Wherever you are, at whatever stage in the long descent, this is for you. It says nothing of shame or scorn or ridicule; it brings only love and understanding. And help If I lived across the street from you and saw you gallantly but hop...
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Ugh. I dropped the ball.
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Missed an appointment with someone, work-related. It just flew out of my head, and I stood them up. It's not a huge deal because I apologized and rescheduled, but I'm overly-sensitive to my mistakes. They remind me that this was a pattern when I was drunk, and I have a difficult time letting go of the gui...
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Soda water Chef
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Hey everyone its been awhile since i've been active on this board. Still sober haven't had a drink since I can remember. I've been busy , I ended up taking on another job as Head chef for a new resturant, and its been alot of fun. I'm known for Soda water, after my shift i'll sit down and have a quick soda wate...
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Thought for the day
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Making Life Easier Life doesn't have to be hard. Yes, there are times we need to endure, struggle through, and rely on our survival skills. But we don't have to make life, growth, recovery, change, or our day-to-day affa...
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Today's Gift 06-19
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The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge. --Moses Luzzatto This program promises many rewards for those who follow it, but it does not promise to be easy. We search our conscience for resentments and face them. None of us can progress in our recovery while holding o...
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As Bill Sees It 1
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Personality Change It has often been said of A.A. that we are interested only in alcoholism. That is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive. But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permanently without u...
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On my return.......
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....to Alcoholics Anonymous, the 4 months on the outside had broken me adequately to become teachable. Any further experimentation would have resulted in my demise. I was very sick but not stupid, and so I came back a little worse off but not totally insane. I tried my own resources and they did not wor...
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Need Advice From You Seasoned AAer's
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I'll try to make this short....I've been an alcoholic for 30+ years. This is my third attempt in last five years at trying to get straight. I have been living with a man during this time. Thought it was "true love". We are both alcoholics...met in a bar...need I say more? The alcohol has reall...
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Today's Gift 06-18
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We Are Who We Think We Are How we think about ourselves has an impact on what we do. If we decide that we are less of a person because we have an illness, then we may not fulfill our potential. If we decide our illness will consume our every thought and action for the rest of our lives, then it probably will. I...
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The Gifts of The Program
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I thought I would share a special message that was forwarded to me that my daugther(16) posted on Facebook. I'm not a member of Facebook. I'm grateful for the gifts my HP(God) has given me and The 12 Step Program. This is what can happen to folks who suit up and show up and work The Program. Everyone is...
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Grapevine
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June 18 "As I peel away the layers of day-to-day expediency, I realize that my zigzag, erratic, and inconsistent course was in the general direction of progress all the time."
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Just some thoughts on prayer.
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Last night I was unable to sleep no matter how hard I tried. My mind would not switch off. I tried breathing exercises, physical exercise to no avail. Eventually I just got into bed and asked God to clear all memory. When I got up this morning, I felt like I had a blackout sleep. I cannot recall what time I sl...
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Programme in action in every day life
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Well, I suppose that a big part of my recovery was and still is the 12 step programme and applying this in my life, as step 12 says. So I manage a small team of technical draughtsmen, who also climb structures and work in hazardous locations on the structures. Every other climber (apart from managers) ge...
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Welcome Q
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Glad you found us, ... looking forward to your ESH ... God Bless, Pappy
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Balance
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Normally I'm on one side of life or the other - trying to figure out what 'balance' really is. I know that life with children has a wider range of emotions to offer. I know it widens the spectrum for my husband and I too. I was meditating this morning and some things that drifted by were thoughts of life w...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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June 17, 2013 Quote of the Week "When I entered recovery, I was dropped into the landscape of Grace." Before recovery, my life was a living hell. Driven by an obsessive mind and a disease that wanted me dead (and settled for drunk), I was driven by a hundred forms of self-centered fear...
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Don't let perfection get in the way of the good
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A friend of mine in the program said this to me recenty as I was carrying on about how imperfect I am, and my plans to change this. Im not always aware of my habit of doing this- I need it to be pointed out. I understand the theory of 'progress not perfection', and it sounds great.. In theory. I tend to hold mys...
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Thought for the day
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Monday, June 17, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Surrender Master the lessons of your present circumstances. We do not move forward by resisting what is undesirable in our life today. We move forward, we grow, we change by acceptance. Avoidance is not the key; surrender o...
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Today's Gift 06-17
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To stop behaving in a certain way is to risk the unfamiliar. --Jan Lloyd Old patterns grip us so tightly! Even when the behavior pinches us painfully, we are loathe to give it up. Its familiarity makes it tolerable, knowable, somewhat manageable, and far less scary than trying something new. Howeve...
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AA' fathers day message.
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"Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director. He is the Principal; we are His agents. He is the Father, and we are His children. Most Good ideas are simple, and this concept was the keystone of the new and triumphant arch through which we passed to freedom....
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June 17 "We have to keep looking for something better than dullness, better than average living, better than mediocre spirituality."
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60 days
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I haven't been on here for a while...I think I joined when I started treatment. I cannot believe how much has changed since then. I'm doing pretty good but have been dealing with some painful things in treatment. Learning to deal with my emotions....oh how that can be tough but willing to go to any l...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Feeling Good Having boundaries doesn't complicate life; boundaries simplify life. Beyond Codependency There is a positive aspect to boundary setting. We learn to listen to ourselves and identify what hurt us and what...
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Happy Fathers Day
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To the amazing Fathers out there who have inspired me to become a better parent through the help of God, AA and each other - Happy Fathers Day and thank you for being here!
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Welcome Juanita
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Welcome to MIP Juanita, ... ... ... Thank you for posting your story ... sounds very familiar in many ways ... I'm the same age, so I can relate very well, as far as the alcohol entering and taking control of my life too ... especially in the latter stages of the disease ... Glad you're here, Pappy
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Weekly Thought
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Weekly Quote Let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness in others. Love more persons more. Love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return, never fear, will take care of itself. -Henry DrummondWeekly Thought Have you ever noticed that we tend to b...
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Today's Gift 06-16
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He who is swift to believe is swift to forget. -- Abraham Joshua Herschel Life is full of questions. Many people tell us they have the answers. We have to be careful of who and what we believe. Other people's ideas may not fit us. The program doesn't tell us much about what to believe. It teaches us how to b...
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What I've Learned about Sobriety...So Far!
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Coming up on 27 years of continuous sobriety...thank you AA for helping me find a God who has blessed me by removing the obsession of the mind ONLY by working the steps of this beautiful program of living. The first thing I learned was that, just because I'm powerless does NOT make me helpless! Addition...
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Will there be a meeting tonight???
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Today's Gift 06-15
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The readiness is all. --William Shakespeare Newcomer I went to two different Step meetings this week, in different parts of town, and both of them were on the Fourth Step. I keep hearing that "there are no coincidences." Does this mean I'm supposed to start the Fourth Step now? How do I kno...
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The miracle.
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A friend of mine kept relapsing in AA. Eventually he struggled to gain a few months of sobriety. Then the most horrible thing happened. He had a car accident and became a quadriplegic. I used to visit him in hospital for almost a year and he fully expected that God will give him a miracle and make him walk a...
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Belongs on the NA Board but I'm Sure y'all Will Love It Anyway
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Hi-just lurking in (looking in ha ha). Check out this tune! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XtEppsR7Yc4 Called ";I Fell in Love in Rehab".
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God will make a way
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I always find that God will make a way where there is no human way possible.
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Broken Hearts Still Beat
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On May 31st, after twenty-two years of marriage, my husband passed away in my arms at the hospital. He'd had various health issues over the past fourteen years including strokes and a weak heart. Weak according to medical standards. According to me, his heart was one of the finest ones I have had the ho...
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Grapevine
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June 14 "The power in these rooms is greater than the sum total of those of us present."
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Today's Gift 06-14
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Letting go to save our lives I crouched in the doorway of the airplane next to my skydiving coach. I held on to the doorway with my right hand for balance. With my left hand, I firmly grasped my coach's gripper, a padded piece of cloth on his jumpsuit. It was up to me to give the count. "Ready, set. . .&q...
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th 'pity potty'
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like this one Pappy We have a couple here in Aussie as well - Get over it Get a Life.
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I need help...
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I'm going through difficult times and have turned my back on just about everything except alcohol...I finally realize that I cant get through this by myself. I need help so bad...kjjeep27@gmail.com.
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June 13 "We are alcoholics. Even though now recovered, we are never too far removed from the possibility of fresh personal disaster. Each knows he must observe a high degree of honesty, humility, and tolerance, or else drink again."
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Today's Gift 06-13
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. --Isaac B. Singer We all know men and women who are too often critical and negative. Sometimes we, too, are these people. And when we fall into this trap of negativity, our life becomes unnecessarily complicated. An...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Spontaneity and Fun Practice being spontaneous. Practice having fun. The joy of recovery is that we finally get to experiment. We get to learn new behaviors, and we don't have to do them perfectly. We only need to find a wa...
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In awe of the 'normies'
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Due to my current industry of employment, I have front- row seating to watching many people drink. It's odd.. How bizarre to be an alcoholic in recovery and be surrounded by booze. I have learned many valuable things through this experience. First and foremost- I AM an alcoholic. Truly, deeply, alwa...
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June 12 "Where before there was a gaping hole of emptiness, I seek within me that faint ember of self-love, self-worth, and desire for goodness."
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Today's Gift 06-12
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A good garden may have some weeds. --Thomas Fuller Newcomer I've done a few things I'm not proud of, but isn't that part of being human? Other people aren't perfect either.Sponsor Looking honestly and unflinchingly at our behavior, while at the same time having compassion for ourselves, is a powerf...
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