Alcoholics Anonymous

soberdrunk · soberdrunk

After being around A.A. for a while I have an understanding of how the program works. When I read the big book I find most of it very inspirational. There is no written code by which the meetings should operate. Each group is autonomous. In my mind that means there is no right or wrong way to run a meeting. I...

diddly · diddly

Anyone here that can lend their experience(s) on when, upon deciding to sober up, how long it took you to find atleast somewhat normal sleep patterns? In short, I was the pint a night guy for roughly four years. I sobered up--not to mention three days of very uncomfortable physical symptoms-...

trudi · trudi

Got out of rehab and fell again on the 18th June. Sick of this disease I want my life back. I know it is easy just DO NOT DRINK but my illness is playing games with me!! so f***ing scared I will die of this disease. Doing the right thing right now NOT having a drink talking to my sponsor and going to meeti...

Wren · Wren

Here's a take from a slightly diff. point of view~wren Pay attention to your emotions "Emotions are the next frontier to be understood and conquered. To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and...

Dori · Dori

Hi, I have this routine I watch a couple of certain shows before I got ot be it helps me sleep.Last night I heard my self laughing I mean the real laughing not the kind you do so no one knows your heart is breaking and you are loseing your mind but real laughter at the old rerun . I want...

Wren · Wren

Challenging Perspective Good Stress Vs. Bad Stress In recent years, stress has gotten a very bad name, but studies show that some stress is good for us, increasing our immune systems' capabilities and sharpening our intelligence. Bad stress, on the other hand, has the opposite effect, weakenin...

Dolphin123 · Dolphin123

Hello All, Just wanted to share some humor with ya! Due to a power outage, only one paramedic responded to the call. The house was very dark so the paramedic asked Kathleen, a 3-yr old girl to hold a flashlight high over her mommy so he could see w...

Dori · Dori

Hey, where are you ? How are you ?

Quetzal · Quetzal

Isn't it great to wake in the morning feeling fresh, bright and being able to remember everything that you said or did the evening before? No more claiming being hit by a sudden bug to cover the need for taking aspirin or paracetamol for the blinding hangover; no more having to wonder how to dispose of th...

HDoggie · HDoggie

I'm sure some of you have read the anger I expressed in my previous thread. But it was honestly how I felt in the moment. Honesty is a scary thing for me. I'm so used to glossing everything over with a smile and "I'm fine. How are you?" I'm not quite comfortable with sayin...

Dolphin123 · Dolphin123

Hi all, I have two questions, well for now anyway

. 1) Are the AA meetings here online open or closed? 2) The meetings are Tuesday night and Saturday night, right? Yours in Recovery,

jeannie · jeannie

What happens to us is not as important as how we respond. The external events of our lives are largely beyond our control. We do not choose our parents, our emotional environment, the historical period in which we live, our body type, or the flow of circumstances that shape our experience. These a...

alice · alice

I replied to your post in my mailbox. I'm not sure I did it right. Did you get a reply from me today?

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Sought my God, I could not see, Sought my Soul, it eluded me.. Sought my Brother, found all Three. Just one of my Sponsor's Favorites, wanted to share it. Happy Holiday to all of us. Toni

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Just checking in and I saw your name, and said Yahoo, Dan is BACK!!! Hope your vacation was a blast. R& R is so great, want to hear all about it, noisy little Toni Baloney. A Big Hug, you know who

Phil · Phil

When things go wrong as they sometimes will When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill When funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh When care is pressing you down a bit Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit Life is queer with its twists and turns As everyon...

jeannie · jeannie

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. --Alice Meynell It's all too easy to blame a friend, spouse, or co-worker for the uneven quality of our lives. If only others would behave according to our plans and dictates, then all would go well, we think. What seldom is rem...

jonibaloni · jonibaloni

Wowee. It is great to be sober. And painful to see when someone else is not. Reminds me to keep trudging. Last night I was on my way back from dropping girls off at a treatment center after a meeting. I pulled into a drive-in restaurant to get burgers for my husband for dinner. I saw a man who...

HappyMe · HappyMe

Hi all - A few months ago I started checking out this board and the al anon board desperately seeking answers because of my bf's drinking problem. Not my own mind you, I didn't have a problem! Well, I started to see myself in some of the posts I read and it hit me. Appart...

soberdrunk · soberdrunk

How often have we heard someone rationalize their actions and behavior through the tenth step at a meeting? Is it okay to call someone on their bs in a meeting? I hear people with years of sobriety doing this. Oh I acted this way and said this but it's okay because I said I'm sorry. I don't care whether or no...

Wren · Wren

Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow----Nietzche It has been said truth will set us free. Truth is not simply being honest with ourselves and others. It is also the ideals by which we would like to live. Some peo...

Rob · Rob

Ya know i said about the prey thing to get to a meeting.. well i still ent been.. i keep bottling out.. last week, last monday i had a really bad day cso i had drank so much on the sunday, as i already posted about.. Anyway i didnt drink mondya night, just stayed up watching tv for most the ni...

Dori · Dori

Hi, Happy 4 th to all and I hope it is a safe and sober day for all of us.

Quetzal · Quetzal

Well everyone, I can't quite believe that I'm saying this but, this evening, I have completed my Step 5!!! I feel so fantastic about it. I had been dreading doing my Steps 4 & 5, but I finally faced them and the pay-off is terrific. I've just hit 'Wowsville' at one hundred miles per hour!!! ...

Dublin · Dublin

First time here reading the postings. I can relate to I'm done. I also have 2 small children and I drink alot. I have been wanting for years to stop drinking but because "I'm bored or stressed or need to relax or because that's what we do when we rent movies or its Sunday and I'm cooking or... or.... or...."...

CAM · CAM

I'm off to a noon meeting this morning - haven't been in a while - it's amazing to me that I'm still sober, usually, a slip is what brings me back to meetings, but not this time!! Wishing you all well & a happy sober Sunday

My horoscope says : "You're not the only one who has this opi...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Chapter 11 A Vision For You For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinkin...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Just a little trivia this 4th of July week-end. And was thinking of how, when I am having a Problem, with another person, the solution to that Problem, always ends up, with me going into a room and looking in a mirror. (Not my favorite thing to do). I personally really like the new slogan in Alano...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Just wanted to drop in and say that I hope everyone had a great, great Holiday. Just came back from a Barbecue, Neighborhood thing, and my Co-sponsor came and brought her husband, that I had never met. What a treat that was, they have been married for 25 years, and both have a great sense of humor. So w...

Phil · Phil

Canada Day - HistoryCanada Day used to be known as Dominion Day, the First of July, Confederation Day and July the First. Canada wasn't born on July 1st, but the holiday celebrates the events that took place on this day. On July 1, 1867, the British North America Act created the Canadian federal govern...

Wren · Wren

Open to trust “When I grip the wheel too tight, I find I lose control.” -- Steve Rapson WE SEEK TO CONTROL OUR LIVES WHEN WE DO NOT TRUST, WHEN WE DO NOT LOVE. Our ego, perceiving itself to be vulnerable and insecure, uses control in an effort to protect itself. At the root of our...

virgo · virgo

Just returned from an aa meeting and felt totally alone. No one spoke to me and I shared honestly. Anyone else had this exerience

Robert · Robert

If they are desperate enough. when you see a movie and the plane is going down, the man does not say "If come out alive I will go to the supermarket to buy some milk" NO he says "please GOD dont let me die"

jonibaloni · jonibaloni

Aint' it grand??? Waking up wioth no headache, no diarrhea, fully hydrated.. Nat afraid to pull the blinds and gaze out at the sun... Still have a few bucks in the old pocket... Don't have to ask anybody, "what in the H*LL did I do last night?" ...or worse.... "who's this in the sack!!!????" ...

soberdrunk · soberdrunk

Yeah, I do think too much. Sometimes I become unaware of that fact. The only time I feel completely sane is when I'm at an A.A. meeting. I become totally focused and pay complete attention to almost everything that is said. I notice I really hone in on what the people with quality sobriety have to say. O...

jonibaloni · jonibaloni

I am Joni, Recovering Alcoholic. Wife of a workaholic. I need the help of the program right now to deal with it. I am concerned for his health and mental state. He has worked nearly 30 days straight now. Josh is working himself to death and he thinks it's funny; that he is a 'hero'. I got a we...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

For us Alcoholic's my take on this Title, is just the OPPOSITE of how we are, and it's not going to be changing in my life time. "It will aways be Broken, and it will always need fixin"...............always going to need a Spiritual Repair Kit, Meetings, Meetings, Meetings, and the 12 Steps, a...

recovering jb · recovering jb

Well, I don't even remember there being a world cup in 2002, and 1998 is pretty fuzzy- But I have been quite into it this year, watching a lot of the games. France v Spain was an amazing match, as was argentina v mexico, and england v sweden. I love this sport, especially the fact that they don't stop fo...

jonibaloni · jonibaloni

Good morning to all!!! Waht are all your plans for this beee-autiful Saturday? Jonikins

jeannie · jeannie

To everyone HAPPY CANADA DAY HAPPY CANADA DAY FROM THIS PROUD CANADIAN JEANNIE

WRbeachbum · WRbeachbum

Good morning everyone and happy Canada Day to us northerners! We are experiencing a heat wave in BC right now and it sure is great! Lots and lots of water, not booze. I was at the beach yesterday and saw a lady smoking a cigarette. Suddenly I thought to myself that a cigarette and a d...

Robert · Robert

Having a bit of a troubling time at the mo, everyone I love seems to be dying, a close member died last night, i have not drank on it, and the program has met its "acid test" as it says in the big book, its just nice for me to be strong when other people are breaking down, I can be there for them, in the past it woul...

Rob · Rob

This is probably gona come off all wrong... I know alot of people pray to have the courage to not drink for "today".. Does anyone pray to have the courage to go to a meeting? Does anyone pray that tomorrow they will get to a meeting? Does anyone pray that nomatter what happens that they w...

soberdrunk · soberdrunk

A monthaversary, yay! That's probably a new word, but it fits. I had to ask my sponsor today if I should announce that I have four months. The only reason I asked is because AA annaversarys are at one, three, six, nine months, one year, two years, etc. He told me I should be proud of myself and to definitely...

HDoggie · HDoggie

Hey everyone! I'm on day 5 here. I was just wondering how you all deal/have dealt with your cravings in the first few weeks of sobriety? Any good tidbits, besides the telephone, of course.

Thanks!

Dolphin123 · Dolphin123

Hello All, I wanted to introduce myself as I have been doing some reading on the board, and have so far been able to get alot from the posts that I have read. I have been a member of alanon for almost 6 years and have been with my alcoholic for 9 years. I have attend many AA and NA meetings (he is also an addi...

Wren · Wren

Support others with your presence "The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but TO MOVE THROUGH IT to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites." -- James Hollis How do we support others who are suffering? When we understand how soul works throug...

jonibaloni · jonibaloni

Just cut and pasted a step one worksheet I got from Quetzal here on this board. Have used it along with a young lady I am sponsoring and we really both got a lot out of it. Of course, read the book. But this worksheet was an eye-opener for me. Jonibaloni Step One worksheet: Hav...

flumpy · flumpy

hi all, hope you are keeping well and out of trouble! i need you at answer me a question.....if you can. i have had a lot going on in my life of late and it's taken it's toll, i haven't been eating my wieght is down to 8st from 11st, and i have been drinking due to the constant pain i am in caused m...

vangellic · vangellic

I need to talk with someone and decided to log in to this message board for some comfort......... maybe someone out there might know or has also been diagnosed with liver damage and is going through the final stages. I live with an alcoholic (I am not) that has just been diagnosed with no li...

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	Thoughts and ideas (Preview) After being around A.A. for a while I have an understanding of how the program works. When I read the big book I find most of it very inspirational. There is no written code by which the meetings should operate. Each group is autonomous. In my mind that means there is no right or wrong way to run a meeting. I...	soberdrunk	3	412	Jul 6, 2006 by John
	Sleeplessness (Preview) Anyone here that can lend their experience(s) on when, upon deciding to sober up, how long it took you to find atleast somewhat normal sleep patterns? In short, I was the pint a night guy for roughly four years. I sobered up--not to mention three days of very uncomfortable physical symptoms-...	diddly	4	390	Jul 6, 2006 by Phil
	I think I need advice..... (Preview) Got out of rehab and fell again on the 18th June. Sick of this disease I want my life back. I know it is easy just DO NOT DRINK but my illness is playing games with me!! so f***ing scared I will die of this disease. Doing the right thing right now NOT having a drink talking to my sponsor and going to meeti...	trudi	3	363	Jul 6, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Emotions--Higher Awareness (Preview) Here's a take from a slightly diff. point of view~wren Pay attention to your emotions "Emotions are the next frontier to be understood and conquered. To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and...	Wren	4	364	Jul 6, 2006 by jonibaloni
	laughter. (Preview) Hi, I have this routine I watch a couple of certain shows before I got ot be it helps me sleep.Last night I heard my self laughing I mean the real laughing not the kind you do so no one knows your heart is breaking and you are loseing your mind but real laughter at the old rerun . I want...	Dori	3	367	Jul 6, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Good vs Bad Stress (Preview) Challenging Perspective Good Stress Vs. Bad Stress In recent years, stress has gotten a very bad name, but studies show that some stress is good for us, increasing our immune systems' capabilities and sharpening our intelligence. Bad stress, on the other hand, has the opposite effect, weakenin...	Wren	7	406	Jul 6, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Some humor to brighten your day (Preview) Hello All, Just wanted to share some humor with ya! Due to a power outage, only one paramedic responded to the call. The house was very dark so the paramedic asked Kathleen, a 3-yr old girl to hold a flashlight high over her mommy so he could see w...	Dolphin123	3	327	Jul 6, 2006 by Quetzal
	Rob (Preview) Hey, where are you ? How are you ?	Dori	2	352	Jul 5, 2006 by Dori
	Isn't it great .....? (Preview) Isn't it great to wake in the morning feeling fresh, bright and being able to remember everything that you said or did the evening before? No more claiming being hit by a sudden bug to cover the need for taking aspirin or paracetamol for the blinding hangover; no more having to wonder how to dispose of th...	Quetzal	7	385	Jul 5, 2006 by Dori
	Does Honesty Scare You? (Preview) I'm sure some of you have read the anger I expressed in my previous thread. But it was honestly how I felt in the moment. Honesty is a scary thing for me. I'm so used to glossing everything over with a smile and "I'm fine. How are you?" I'm not quite comfortable with sayin...	HDoggie	5	452	Jul 5, 2006 by Dori
	Online Meetings (Preview) Hi all, I have two questions, well for now anyway. 1) Are the AA meetings here online open or closed? 2) The meetings are Tuesday night and Saturday night, right? Yours in Recovery,	Dolphin123	2	365	Jul 5, 2006 by Dolphin123
	LIFE and How we respond to it! (Preview) *What happens to us is not as important as how we respond.* The external events of our lives are largely beyond our control. We do not choose our parents, our emotional environment, the historical period in which we live, our body type, or the flow of circumstances that shape our experience. These a...	jeannie	1	388	Jul 5, 2006 by trudi
	Toni Baloni (Preview) I replied to your post in my mailbox. I'm not sure I did it right. Did you get a reply from me today?	alice	1	366	Jul 5, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Sought my God (Preview) Sought my God, I could not see, Sought my Soul, it eluded me.. Sought my Brother, found all Three. Just one of my Sponsor's Favorites, wanted to share it. Happy Holiday to all of us. Toni	Toni Baloney	1	351	Jul 5, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Welcome Home Dan- We Missed You (Preview) Just checking in and I saw your name, and said Yahoo, Dan is BACK!!! Hope your vacation was a blast. R& R is so great, want to hear all about it, noisy little Toni Baloney. A Big Hug, you know who	Toni Baloney	4	372	Jul 5, 2006 by jonibaloni
	For those of us...that feel like giving up..some days.. (Preview) When things go wrong as they sometimes will When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill When funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh When care is pressing you down a bit Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit Life is queer with its twists and turns As everyon...	Phil	1	353	Jul 5, 2006 by jeannie
	HAPPINESS (Preview) *Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. --Alice Meynell* It's all too easy to blame a friend, spouse, or co-worker for the uneven quality of our lives. If only others would behave according to our plans and dictates, then all would go well, we think. What seldom is rem...	jeannie	2	358	Jul 4, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Alcoholism.... HEARTBREAKING (Preview) Wowee. It is great to be sober. And painful to see when someone else is not. Reminds me to keep trudging. Last night I was on my way back from dropping girls off at a treatment center after a meeting. I pulled into a drive-in restaurant to get burgers for my husband for dinner. I saw a man who...	jonibaloni	8	417	Jul 4, 2006 by Dori
	Sober now thanks to this board (Preview) Hi all - A few months ago I started checking out this board and the al anon board desperately seeking answers because of my bf's drinking problem. Not my own mind you, I didn't have a problem! Well, I started to see myself in some of the posts I read and it hit me. Appart...	HappyMe	7	382	Jul 4, 2006 by Dori
	Rationalizing behavior through the steps (Preview) How often have we heard someone rationalize their actions and behavior through the tenth step at a meeting? Is it okay to call someone on their bs in a meeting? I hear people with years of sobriety doing this. Oh I acted this way and said this but it's okay because I said I'm sorry. I don't care whether or no...	soberdrunk	4	432	Jul 4, 2006 by Phil
	From: Night Light (Preview) Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow----Nietzche It has been said truth will set us free. Truth is not simply being honest with ourselves and others. It is also the ideals by which we would like to live. Some peo...	Wren	4	397	Jul 4, 2006 by jeannie
	Hi all.. (Preview) Ya know i said about the prey thing to get to a meeting.. well i still ent been.. i keep bottling out.. last week, last monday i had a really bad day cso i had drank so much on the sunday, as i already posted about.. Anyway i didnt drink mondya night, just stayed up watching tv for most the ni...	Rob	7	441	Jul 4, 2006 by jeannie
	Happy sober 4 of july (Preview) Hi, Happy 4 th to all and I hope it is a safe and sober day for all of us.	Dori	4	354	Jul 3, 2006 by Dori
	Life Feels Great! (Preview) Well everyone, I can't quite believe that I'm saying this but, this evening, I have completed my Step 5!!! I feel so fantastic about it. I had been dreading doing my Steps 4 & 5, but I finally faced them and the pay-off is terrific. I've just hit 'Wowsville' at one hundred miles per hour!!! ...	Quetzal	2	364	Jul 3, 2006 by Phil
	Also new here (Preview) First time here reading the postings. I can relate to I'm done. I also have 2 small children and I drink alot. I have been wanting for years to stop drinking but because "I'm bored or stressed or need to relax or because that's what we do when we rent movies or its Sunday and I'm cooking or... or.... or...."...	Dublin	6	354	Jul 3, 2006 by bry
	111 Days - 16 Weeks (Preview) I'm off to a noon meeting this morning - haven't been in a while - it's amazing to me that I'm still sober, usually, a slip is what brings me back to meetings, but not this time!! Wishing you all well & a happy sober Sunday My horoscope says : "You're not the only one who has this opi...	CAM	8	422	Jul 3, 2006 by CAM
	A Portion of-A Vision for You, Chapter ll, AA Big Book (Preview) Chapter 11 A Vision For You For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinkin...	Toni Baloney	2	1368	Jul 3, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	If I am having a Problem with someone else (Preview) Just a little trivia this 4th of July week-end. And was thinking of how, when I am having a Problem, with another person, the solution to that Problem, always ends up, with me going into a room and looking in a mirror. (Not my favorite thing to do). I personally really like the new slogan in Alano...	Toni Baloney	12	559	Jul 3, 2006 by Toni Baloney
	Happy, Happy 4th of July!!! (Preview) Just wanted to drop in and say that I hope everyone had a great, great Holiday. Just came back from a Barbecue, Neighborhood thing, and my Co-sponsor came and brought her husband, that I had never met. What a treat that was, they have been married for 25 years, and both have a great sense of humor. So w...	Toni Baloney	2	351	Jul 3, 2006 by Phil
	Canada Day...and Joni Baloney..:) (Preview) Canada Day - HistoryCanada Day used to be known as Dominion Day, the First of July, Confederation Day and July the First. Canada wasn't born on July 1st, but the holiday celebrates the events that took place on this day. On July 1, 1867, the British North America Act created the Canadian federal govern...	Phil	9	528	Jul 3, 2006 by Phil
	Open to Trust (Preview) Open to trust “When I grip the wheel too tight, I find I lose control.” -- Steve Rapson WE SEEK TO CONTROL OUR LIVES WHEN WE DO NOT TRUST, WHEN WE DO NOT LOVE. Our ego, perceiving itself to be vulnerable and insecure, uses control in an effort to protect itself. At the root of our...	Wren	3	371	Jul 3, 2006 by Phil
	AA meetings (Preview) Just returned from an aa meeting and felt totally alone. No one spoke to me and I shared honestly. Anyone else had this exerience	virgo	8	474	Jul 2, 2006 by CAM
	everyone preys.......... (Preview) If they are desperate enough. when you see a movie and the plane is going down, the man does not say "If come out alive I will go to the supermarket to buy some milk" NO he says "please GOD dont let me die"	Robert	4	418	Jul 2, 2006 by Robert
	on WAKING UP SOBER...... (Preview) Aint' it grand??? Waking up wioth no headache, no diarrhea, fully hydrated.. Nat afraid to pull the blinds and gaze out at the sun... Still have a few bucks in the old pocket... Don't have to ask anybody, "what in the H*LL did I do last night?" ...or worse.... "who's this in the sack!!!????" ...	jonibaloni	4	424	Jul 2, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Thinking too much....... (Preview) Yeah, I do think too much. Sometimes I become unaware of that fact. The only time I feel completely sane is when I'm at an A.A. meeting. I become totally focused and pay complete attention to almost everything that is said. I notice I really hone in on what the people with quality sobriety have to say. O...	soberdrunk	6	414	Jul 2, 2006 by jonibaloni
	i have ISSUES... help... (Preview) I am Joni, Recovering Alcoholic. Wife of a workaholic. I need the help of the program right now to deal with it. I am concerned for his health and mental state. He has worked nearly 30 days straight now. Josh is working himself to death and he thinks it's funny; that he is a 'hero'. I got a we...	jonibaloni	6	535	Jul 2, 2006 by jonibaloni
	If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix it-JUSTIN (Preview) For us Alcoholic's my take on this Title, is just the OPPOSITE of how we are, and it's not going to be changing in my life time. "It will aways be Broken, and it will always need fixin"...............always going to need a Spiritual Repair Kit, Meetings, Meetings, Meetings, and the 12 Steps, a...	Toni Baloney	4	421	Jul 2, 2006 by Phil
	Anyone else watching the word cup? (Preview) Well, I don't even remember there being a world cup in 2002, and 1998 is pretty fuzzy- But I have been quite into it this year, watching a lot of the games. France v Spain was an amazing match, as was argentina v mexico, and england v sweden. I love this sport, especially the fact that they don't stop fo...	recovering jb	9	436	Jul 2, 2006 by soberdrunk
	Sat. MORN' Lots of us up I see... (Preview) Good morning to all!!! Waht are all your plans for this beee-autiful Saturday? Jonikins	jonibaloni	7	376	Jul 2, 2006 by Quetzal
	Happy Day (Preview) To everyone HAPPY CANADA DAY HAPPY CANADA DAY *FROM THIS PROUD CANADIAN* *JEANNIE*	jeannie	10	398	Jul 1, 2006 by jeannie
	Happy Canada Day! (Preview) Good morning everyone and happy Canada Day to us northerners! We are experiencing a heat wave in BC right now and it sure is great! Lots and lots of water, not booze. I was at the beach yesterday and saw a lady smoking a cigarette. Suddenly I thought to myself that a cigarette and a d...	WRbeachbum	3	503	Jul 1, 2006 by jonibaloni
	Its working (Preview) Having a bit of a troubling time at the mo, everyone I love seems to be dying, a close member died last night, i have not drank on it, and the program has met its "acid test" as it says in the big book, its just nice for me to be strong when other people are breaking down, I can be there for them, in the past it woul...	Robert	5	405	Jul 1, 2006 by virgo
	Id really appreciate an answer to this... (Preview) This is probably gona come off all wrong... I know alot of people pray to have the courage to not drink for "today".. Does anyone pray to have the courage to go to a meeting? Does anyone pray that tomorrow they will get to a meeting? Does anyone pray that nomatter what happens that they w...	Rob	11	492	Jul 1, 2006 by virgo
	Four Months Today (Preview) A monthaversary, yay! That's probably a new word, but it fits. I had to ask my sponsor today if I should announce that I have four months. The only reason I asked is because AA annaversarys are at one, three, six, nine months, one year, two years, etc. He told me I should be proud of myself and to definitely...	soberdrunk	11	456	Jul 1, 2006 by virgo
	Just Wondering... (Preview) Hey everyone! I'm on day 5 here. I was just wondering how you all deal/have dealt with your cravings in the first few weeks of sobriety? Any good tidbits, besides the telephone, of course. Thanks!	HDoggie	5	394	Jul 1, 2006 by Dolphin123
	Appropriate to be here? (Preview) Hello All, I wanted to introduce myself as I have been doing some reading on the board, and have so far been able to get alot from the posts that I have read. I have been a member of alanon for almost 6 years and have been with my alcoholic for 9 years. I have attend many AA and NA meetings (he is also an addi...	Dolphin123	8	464	Jul 1, 2006 by Dolphin123
	"The first duty of Love is to Listen" (Preview) Support others with your presence "The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but TO MOVE THROUGH IT to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites." -- James Hollis How do we support others who are suffering? When we understand how soul works throug...	Wren	4	638	Jul 1, 2006 by CAM
	Welcome to 'im done'... (Preview) Just cut and pasted a step one worksheet I got from Quetzal here on this board. Have used it along with a young lady I am sponsoring and we really both got a lot out of it. Of course, read the book. But this worksheet was an eye-opener for me. Jonibaloni Step One worksheet: Hav...	jonibaloni	2	390	Jul 1, 2006 by im done
	can any one tell me ? (Preview) hi all, hope you are keeping well and out of trouble! i need you at answer me a question.....if you can. i have had a lot going on in my life of late and it's taken it's toll, i haven't been eating my wieght is down to 8st from 11st, and i have been drinking due to the constant pain i am in caused m...	flumpy	9	465	Jul 1, 2006 by flumpy
	HELP (Preview) I need to talk with someone and decided to log in to this message board for some comfort......... maybe someone out there might know or has also been diagnosed with liver damage and is going through the final stages. I live with an alcoholic (I am not) that has just been diagnosed with no li...	vangellic	6	439	Jul 1, 2006 by jonibaloni
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