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What if?
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I was talking to a friend one day about something I planned to do. Actually, I was worrying about how one particular person might react to what I intended to do.
"What if he doesn't handle it very well?" I asked.
"Then," my friend replied, "you're going to have to handle it well."
What ifs...
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23rd Psalm 4 Recovering Alcoholics
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http://www.beliefnet.com/prayeroftheday/more_prayers.asp?paid=39&faid=76
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Heeyyy Gammy ?
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Are you feeling better? The "crud" is going around these parts, my son came home from school today with I think the flu. So you take care of you and stay healthy......
Love you
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Daily Reflection Jan 13
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IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 The most common alcoholic fantasy seems to be: "If I just don't drink, everything will be all right." Once the fog...
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Helpful Books
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These are for the people on this board that have children. I'm 18 and both of my parents are As. Here are books that I recommend to read that I have found helpful(I haven't read all of them but I have read 3 of them front to back; I have read only a little bit of 9 of them which includes the 3 ...
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I am finally back into meeting!!!!
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Hi Everyone,
just a little update on my little stuggles I was having getting back into the feeling of belonging when I would go to an AA Meeting: The list was something like this: didn't know anyone, people were not very friendly, did not feel like I fit in, meeting was too clickey...
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Newbie here... 25 months sober?
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A question to you all, i am new here and this is my first post.
I have not had a single drink for 25 months (to the day in three), although i do not step or do meets, i have much knowledge of alcoholism as it runs in my family in a big way...
My question is this; during my 25 months alcohol free, i take 2 x 1...
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grrrrr - arrggghhhh - OMG!
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Early in Dec. I had gone to a f2f, my mom called and my son, not knowing she didn't know, told her that I was at AA. I was not yet ready to tell her, if ever, she has a way of taking anything good and turning it into something horrible. So, after much thought, and talking with my sponsor, I f...
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Balance
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Finding Balance
The goal of recovery is balance - that precious middle ground.
Many of us have gone from one extreme to another: years of taking care of everyone but ourselves, followed by a time of refusing to focus on anyone's needs but our own.
We may have spent years refusing to identify, f...
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Relationship Deterioration
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SOME REASONS WHY RELATIONSHIPS DETERIORATE 1. Lack of education in effective communication. We have not been educated in how to communicate openly and honestly. 2. Poor examples - Role models. We learn through imitation. We contain within us much more of our parents? programming than we are aware...
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Daily Reflection Jan 12
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ACCEPTING OUR PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can even begin. Again and again, we shall need to return to tha...
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Pictures
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Hi all, thought I'd share a couple pics of my quick trip to Dillard GA. Went to Tallulah Falls. It was great, but way too short.
Ate in the Dillard House Restaurant. They bring out EVERYTHING they have on the menu, they call it Family Style dining, I call it WAY too much food!
Hope...
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Touchy subject in Alcoholics Anonymous?
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I would really like to hear how it's done in other regions. Some of the members (Old & new) feel it is time to define Sobriety in the opening of the meeting. YES, it is not for me to tell others how to work thier program. YES, what someone claims as thier Sobriety date is between them & their H...
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From The Heart
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THE ART OF GIVING
We give of ourselves when
we give gifts of the heart:
love, kindness, joy, understanding,
sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness.
We give of ourselves when
we give gifts of the mind:
ideas, dreams, purposes, ideals,
principles, plans, inve...
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An update on "Dehydrated Alcohol"
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Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to give you the info. that I do have.
I went to the Doctor on Monday, was given an alternative med. that does not need to be inhaled. My Doctor said she had contacted the Rep about the Med. and discussed the "possible allergic reaction a "Recovering Alco...
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TODAY'S GIFT
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Guidance
Days that are rushed and hurried, with very little accomplished, are the most tiring and unhappy. My energy falters and my self-esteem drops. What happened to me? My appointment book is filled, I have too many phone calls to make, and I seem to have lost my ability to say no to famil...
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THE COMING OF FAITH
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IN MY OWN CASE, THE FOUNDATION STONE OF FREEDOM FROM FEAR IS THAT OF FAITH: A FAITH THAT, DESPITE ALL WORDLY APPEARANCES TO THE CONTRARY, CAUSES ME TO BELIEVE THAT I LIVE IN A UNIVERSE THAT MAKES SENSE.
TO ME, THIS MEANS A BELIEF IN A CREATOR WHO IS ALL POWER, JUSTICE, AND LOVE; A GOD WHO INTENDS FOR ME A PU...
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Just a quick update
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Hi folks. I just wanted to get back on board and start posting again. It has been a bit of a rollercoaster since my last posts. Happy, sad, mean, nice, angry, happy, sad, etc... For a few days I wasn't sure AA was in fact for me. Part of it was just that I was thinking...
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This sounded really familiar...
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But I kinda thought I should take it out of the Miracles in Progress Recovery house thread. :)
awilliam wrote:
Hi. I need some help. I was sober for about 5 years. Took a hiatus and then came back for another 4 1/2 years. On both occasions, it was easy to quit drinking. It was life that was tou...
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On The Upside
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Negative self-scripts are the:
Negative beliefs you have about yourself and of which you remind yourself daily.Negative statements about yourself which sprinkle your everyday conversation. Self-deprecating remarks that influence your behavior or beliefs. Negative descriptions give...
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hungry like a wolf for recovery
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TUESDAY , JANUARY 10, 2006
You are reading from the book Twenty-Four Hours a Day - Hardcover (24 Hours) </OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=1096>.
A.A. Thought for the Day
When we were drinking, most of us were full of pride and selfishness. We believed we could handle our own aff...
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could use some help down here
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Preaching, gossip, finger pointing, pontificating, rumors, backstabbing, accusations, denials, lying, yelling, crying, grand standing, insanity, name calling, theatrics, lack of restraint, discrimination, disease disease disease
In short: a "special steering commitee/business/m...
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Today's gift
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The distance doesn't matter; only the first step is difficult. --Mme. du Deffand
Life continually presents us with opportunities for achieving what we desire. Only the first step is difficult. Each time we sense the possibility of a new direction in our lives, we are being given a chan...
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Tuesday
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You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment. --David D. Burns
Good thoughts are like bright colors in a painting. Negative thoughts are dark and dreary and drab. Each day we paint pictures of our own lives with our thoughts. If we step back and look at th...
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Daily Reflection Jan 10
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UNITED WE STAND We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed. Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 30 I came to Alcoholics Anonymous becau...
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Headed for the Mtns.
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Didn't want anyone to worry or wonder. I'll be heading out early in the AM for a couple days of R&R.
Ya'll take care of each other.
I expect some awesome ES&H posts when I return.
Love and hugs,
Doll
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Puzzled......
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Not sure I am in the right place to ask this. I am from the alanon board. My spouse at 6 minutes after midnight said, Happy New Year, and "Oh, One Year Anniversary". [OK, I do not remember if I responded or not.]
All I could do was put my hand to my closed lips, speechless. ...
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hi everyone
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well its been a bit since i posted so just checking in im doing real good, in spite of my mother cancer is taking it course and she is very weak. dont know how long she has left. but not to much we do know that. she told me the other day how proud she was of me for what im trying to do and staying sober. it was...
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NEED HELP
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Do not know where to begin - the last two days started off great then as the day progressed it just started going bad (for lack of better words right at the moment). I just could not shake awful feelings about the past - I know your likely sitting the...
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Hi Rick...
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It's great to see you back.I've really missed you posting. There are several missing in action right now. Hope to see them back soon.
How did the hunting trips go?Have a great sober 24 !
(((Hugs)))
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I'm not listening!
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Life gives us so much time to collect bizarre thoughts and feelings. - -Claire Weekes
As we go through life, we run into all kinds of negative messages: teasing on the school bus, insulting nicknames, and other put-downs. Pretty soon we may discover that some of these messages stick in our minds,...
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AS IT SHOULD BE
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Whatever happens at all, happens as it should. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Newcomer I came to this meeting, but I don't know if I belong here. I just don't know.
Sponsor We have a saying: Nobody gets here by mistake.
For many of us, this means that something inside us knows we need hel...
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Good Morning
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Hope all of you had a good night and got plenty of rest.I'm up getting the wife and kid off to work and school. Am looking forward to an eventful day.
Ya'll take care and see ya's after while.
Your Brother in AA, Chris B.
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Daily Reflection Jan 9
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AN ACT OF PROVIDENCE It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking that only an act of Providence can remove it from us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 21 My act of Providence, (a manifestation of divine care and directio...
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To Let Go....
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To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off, it's the realization I can't control another. To let go is not to enable, but allow learning from natural consequen...
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Maturity
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Maturity in Relationships
by Larry James
LoveNote. . . To be capable of real love means becoming mature, with realistic expectations of the other person. It means accepting responsibility for our own happiness or unhappiness, and neither expecting the other person to make us ha...
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Inspirational Song
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I was sent the link to this song and had to pass it on,
Song is called "Shot Of Grace"
http://www.michaelgresham.com/ShotOfGrace.mp3
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Welcome Newcomers and Guests
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Hope you folks decide to stay and add your experiance, strength and hope to this forum.
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Sunday
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Vulnerability
Some of us may have made a decision that no one was ever going to hurt us again. We may automatically go on "feelings freeze mode" when faced with emotional pain. Or, we may terminate a relationship the first time we feel hurt. Hurt feelings are a part of life, relationships, and reco...
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Daily Reflection Jan 8
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DO I HAVE A CHOICE? The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called willpower becomes practically nonexistent. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.24 My powerlessness over alcohol does not cease when I quit drinking. In sobriety I still have no c...
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Hey all- weekend update
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Thought I'd drop a line here to say hello, wherever you may be!
I hope you are having relaxing and fulfilling weekends.
As for me, I am well. I just finished a fifth step with my sponsor- I have done one before, but I think he gave me some new perspectives- Like I often muse that if it were not for my pic...
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from "The Language Of Letting Go"
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Dealing with Painful Feelings
Feelings of hurt or anger can be some of the most difficult to face. We can feel so vulnerable, frightened, and powerless when these feelings appear. And these feelings may trigger memories of other, similar times when we felt powerless.
Sometimes, to gain a sen...
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Quotes
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"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey." - Thomas Edison "Sit all day in a moping posture, sigh, and reply to everything with a dismal voice, and your melancholy lingers." - William James "The optimist goes to the window every morning and says, 'Good morning, God.' The pessimist goes to t...
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Daily Reflection Jan 7
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Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59 Every day I stand at turning points. My thoughts and actions can propel me toward growth or turn me down the road to old habi...
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A Big Post About Shame And Guilt
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GUILT Results from   Results in: a feeling of wrong-doing, a sense of wic...
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Personal Update.....
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Well, I've decided this guy is worth taking a chance on. He's Sweet, caring, kind, tenderhearted, funny, a gentleman and OH sooooo good looking (that never hurts) !
My sobriety comes first, the rest will follow.
Thanks for the support.
Love...
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Introductions
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Hi to you all!
I have been hanging around and perusing this site for several weeks. Grateful to have found ya’ll before the holidays! I have left a response to a couple of posts, but I figure it is time for me to step up to the plate and introduce myself. I have only now found...
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acceptance
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yes. i accept this program, i accept my sponsor, i accept bad days and good days, i am in acceptance because it is a better way of life. it brings joy to me when i let go and let God. Acceptance for me is going to be the success of this program, and that is a lifetime.
ty my aa family and my intermediate family...
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New Med. has dehydrated Alcohol HELP
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Hi everyone,
I have taken an aerosol Inhaler for 7 years for Pulmanary Problems. The Drug is Called Atrovent. Iwas told that formula was changing, taking out the Flouro carbides as a propellant. When I first used the new drug it has a taste of Alcohol to it. - Scared the S--...
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I guess I'm starting here.
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Stats:
1. I can drink anyone on this board under the table. (I'm not proud of that)
2. I'ts killing me.
3. Can anyone help me dig myself out of this hole that I jumped into about 10 years ago?
Or at lest tell me where to start? This has gone on too long, and it needs to stop. I can hide it so well, tha...
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