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sponsor question...
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I'm not really getting it. I asked this woman to be my sponsor, but she hasn't called me or anything..she seemed really supportive and interested in me at first,so i asked her to help me, but I haven't even heard from her. I gave her my phone number..it was last week...How does it work? Am i suppose...
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Is it my computer or is this site slower than death
Not able to do much on here today. The topics won't come up etc.
Just sloooow
Needed to keep going off line and back on.
Had time today to read and post. just not working out.
Have a great day all
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How do I stop drinking?
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Hi Everyone,
I need to stop drinking. I attended an AA meeting last week then just drank all week anyway. I don't understand the 12 steps, I don't understand how some people have mentors or whatever, because none of that has been discussed with me by anyone from AA.
I need PRACTICAL ad...
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Thank You
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To all those that responded for my cry for help I thank you. Things are better today and I do not crave to drink the person that I was speaking of in my previous post has come back into my life and she says that she loves me and wants me to get better. She says that she is going to be here for better or for worse and...
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literature
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Morning guys and gals,
Well it is day 8 and I am feeling pretty strong.It is amazing what sobriety can give me in the way of slef confidence, peace and just feeling OK with myself. Some of the hating and self doubt has dissappeared.
I feel so much better about the fact that I am concsious of my ch...
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Reply to Gammy and everyone here
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Thanks everyone for your replys. The time my wife and I spend together is great quality time, and I look forward to being with her each month. And yes--God works, if we let Him.
The train Gammy? You know the hand car that one has to push the handles up and down, before it moves.? Yup. Thats my speed...
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alive and well
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hey gang,
I know you thought I might of fell off the planet .I just been busy working .I am going to face to face meetings , got a new sponsor worked the steps for the first time.It was tuff hard work but my sponsor said I grew leaps and bounds.
I love my home church and have got a strong relationship with G...
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Welcome to new members...
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Welcome to Nolongerblind and Crampo,
I am so glad you have joined us. You are in the right place, and as you can tell we love to share our experience, strength and hope. Please post often, if you need to vent or just share, someone is always here to listen.
Sobriety is a one...
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Hello!~ New member
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HI everyone. I live in Vancouver, and I just found this site. I am in the early days of my sobriety,but I am really loving what AA has to offer, it is helping me through some tough times. I am glad to have found a 24 hour place like this to chat and vent, for times when meetings are not available. Thanks for hav...
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Thanku All
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This board has been a big part of my life as it is to all of us here. I thanku all for being here for me, as I am for you.
I had another great week with my wife. Its nice to know where the future is going. There were times, that I never did, and almost gave up hope, in a lot of areas. It feels good to have goals. It fe...
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Have a good Sunday
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Releasing the Past
Today I have the willingness to release myself from the past and give myself the gift of comprehending all that exists in my present.
I am tired of being mired in the past, running my every experience through the old damaged notions that seemed to have gotten stamped on every cel...
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I need help!!
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Please help me someone. I am a 22 year old male that has never thought that I had a problem with alcohol until last night. I am looking for a meeting in the the san bernardino california area. If anyone has information on a meeting place and time or a contact number of someone that could possibly help me ple...
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Letting Go
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Letting Go To let go doesn’t mean to stop caring; it means I can’t do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off; it is the realization that I can’t control another. To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences. To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the ou...
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Spirituality
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Spirituality
When I am at peace with myself and my Higher Power, there's no greater force. No person, place, or situation has power over me. I will ask my Higher Power to grant me the strength I will need to be the best I can be today. I will take in my Higher Power until my whole being is filled with the s...
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Give Thanks
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"Though I still find it difficult to accept today's pain and anxiety with any great degree of serenity -- as those more advanced in the spiritual life seem able to do -- I can give thanks for present pain nevertheless.
"I find the willingness to do this by contemplating the lessons learned from pas...
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Humilty
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Dr. Bob defining humility:
On his desk, Dr. Bob had a plaque defining humility:
"Perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble.
It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore;
to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing
done against me. It is to be at rest when nobo...
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Choice
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"Yet we finally did make choices that brought about our recovery. We came to believe that alone we were powerless over alcohol. This was surely a choice, and a most difficult one. We came to believe that a Higher Power could restore us to sanity when we became willing to practice AAs twelve steps. In sho...
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god chose us
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Why We Were Chosen
God in HIS wisdom has selected this group of men and women to be the purveyors of His Goodness. In selecting them through whom to bring about this phenomenon, He went not to the proud, the mighty, the famous or the brilliant. He went to the humble, to t...
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let go let god
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Rick
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Hey, thanks for your shares while Phil is away--appreciate the effort. you posted some real good stuff. Wish I could have added to them but this isn't my week, one of thoes times that I needed to step back and get direction.
just wanted to say thanks and God bless...
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Misery
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I have been sober 3 days now. I am upset about the fact that I am not happy all the time. I mean I am miserable a lot of the time, in spite of the fact that I feel physically better than when I was drinking and I am very glad that I have stopped . I want to be acstatic but I feel so low sometimes l...
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BB QUOTE
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"Many of us felt that we had plenty of character. There was a tremendous urge to cease forever. Yet we found it impossible. This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as we know it—this utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4...
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Goodmorning all...
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I wanted to check in this morning and see how all is going. I have been busy caring for my Mom and getting ready for a garage sale with a friend. I miss you all when I can't get on 4 or 5 times a day.
Good for you Miller, 32 days, one day at a time. That's how we all do it. It sound like you are living life on lifes te...
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Unconditional love
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I lost my new puppy 11 days ago and tried to figure out why.
One girl said she may have gave her life up to save my grandson.
Maybe she was sent to help me with my depression ( bad at the time) and her job was over.
I thought God only knows ( after calling him names and cursing him)
I thought about...
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Dear Alcohol,
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Dear Alcohol, First & foremost, let me tell you that I'm a huge fan of yours. As my friend, you always seem to be there when needed. The perfect post-work cocktail, a beer at the game, and you're even around in the holidays,
Hidden inside chocolates as you warm us when we're stuck in the midst of end...
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pushing forward
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Picked up a yellow chip yesterday... long thirty days.
I wont say all is great, or that my life is all fixed up, or even that Im happier now. Lots of things still really suck right now. I take some comfort in the fact that I now realize that even folks that arent alchoholics have problems. Im beginning, i...
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BB QUOTE
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"The less people tolerated us, the more we withdrew from society, from life itself. As we became subjects of King Alcohol, shivering denizens of his mad realm, the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down. It thickened, ever becoming blacker. Some of us sought out sordid places, hoping to fin...
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instinct to live
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When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unatrual act. Defying their instinctive desire for self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. They work against their own deepest instinct.
As they are progressively humbl...
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the value of time
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To realize The value of a sister Ask someone Who doesn't have one.
To realize The value of ten years: Ask a newly Divorced couple.
To realize The value of four years: Ask a graduate.
To realize The value of one year:
Ask a student who Has failed a final exam.
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Prayer
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Praise God for who he is...just wanted to share this with my friends and family. Dear Lord, I thank you for this day. I thank You for my being able to see and to hear this morning. I'm blessed because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God. You have done so much for me and You keep on bl...
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Tuesday
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Stopping, calming, and resting are preconditions for healing. When animals in the forest are wounded they find a place to lie down and rest completely for many days . . . They just rest and get the healing they need. --Thich Nhat Hanh
We hurt. We suffer. We wrong our loved ones and they do wr...
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Facing Your Fears
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Wishing each of you a great week!!
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Flying out in the morning to spend a few more days with my wife, on the East coast.
My thoughts are with each and every one of you each day, as we trudge this sobriety journey.
Some days arent easy, and others are great--Whatever the case may be--we do it TOGETHER. We do it with compassion, and underst...
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Suzy...
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I just read your post below. It sounds to me this may be your bottom, and you said you will not drink today. That is where we all started, just don't pick up that drink today.
I really want to encourage you again to find a face to face meeting and go. If you call the AA number in the phone directory or the the 8...
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Faith, Trust, Patience, and Hope
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When our life is not working the way we feel it should be, faith, trust and patience will lead us towards new insights if we allow it. If you can remember not to panic but to be still and "breathe" yes you heard right, I did say breath. Deep slow breaths to calm you down so that you can h...
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Today
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. --Helen Keller
There is wonder in the moment, if we but look for it, let it touch us, believe in it. And with the recognition and celebration of the wonder comes the joy we desire and...
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Patience
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Patience is taking an hour to put a post up on the board, and then having it dissapear completely.
Patience comes into play when one does not kick the computer, and calls it names, but takes a deep breath, and says" Well I got to read it all anyway' hahaha
You guys have a good Monday.!! -- Edited by Phil...
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Sunday
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It's been a week from Hell. But I didn't have to drink.
Thank God for meetings and this site. May you all have a wonderful Blessed Sunday. I pray mine will be better than last Sunday. As i say this week has been a real test, but it's over. ONE DAY AT A TIME
Lead Me and Guide Me
Almighty God, I h...
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negative thoughts
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln
Our negative thoughts can be like pebbles rolling down the mountainside. One pebble bumps into another one. The second begins rolling and slams into a third. On and on it goes until thousands of pebbles, rocks, an...
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Whew
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Sure is quiet in here.:) everybody in sleep mode??
This is a description of depression.
People with a low self image ... who feel negatively about themselves ... are likely to feel depressed. Low self-esteem is not the only cause of depression. Other possible causes include an actual los...
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Saturday
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. --Mark Twain
It is not unusual to feel afraid. It is unusual, however, to hear anyone admit to feeling afraid. Sometimes we think there are some people who are so cool and calm that they never feel afraid. This may make us think we'r...
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Wendy?
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Hi Wendy,
Just wanted to know how things are going for you? How's your Mom?
Love, cheri
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Hey Cabbage!! Ole Chap!!
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Read your response to anxiety. Been there. Drove myself nuts between depression, anxiety, and bottled up anger . Went to councelling-did 4rth and fifth steps--the whole ball of wax. Finally went to a good phycologist where I was told my body chemistry was way outa whack likely partly due to al...
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I need help. I am so screwed up.
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I got sober the first time back in 83 and stayed sober about 8 years due to lots and lots of meetings, a good sponsor, the steps, all that stuff. But the "God" thing never clicked for me and eventually drove me out of AA. More honestly, I drove myself out because I just felt so different because I could not "G...
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Phil and Rick...and all
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Phil , I want to say thank you for all the encouragement you give me in this situation with my husband , and if I thought it would help I'd sent for each and everyone of you to help , but I think, your prayers will help just as much. So thanks to all who will pray for my husband and me.
And I am smiling to...
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We need your support !
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Hi there we do need your support!
Please visit our new A.A. discussion forum and post a message.
www.AAcanada.com discussion forum.
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Anxiety
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What is anxiety?
Have you ever felt the butterflies in your stomach before a big performance or speech or test? That's anxiety. Put simply, anxiety is fear. Anxiety is normal. It's normal to feel scared before a big event. Anxiety can show up as a variety of body signals: elevated heart rate, excess...
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Doin' the happy dance...
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..Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that. It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will find release from care, boredom, and worry. You're imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Thus we fin...
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smile
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There's one thing you can't give away. You can't give away a smile. It always comes back to you. --Violet Hensley
We have had years of experience with the results of smiling. How many times have we felt better simply because we smiled, even at a stranger? Smiling is somewhat like yawning. When we see s...
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