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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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Our GoDaddy bill of $187.87 is due in May. This supports our Miracles In Progress web hosting and domain registration. If you are able, please contribute in gratitude for what MIP provides to us. Click here to donate via PayPal or Credit/Debit card or use the button below.
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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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The MIP Business board has been set up at https://mipbusiness.activeboard.com MIP Business is a place where members of all the fellowships in Miracles in Progress can be informed and have a say in changes that affect the MIP website pages. This is a place to communicate, discuss, and, when necess...
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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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MIP Funding Drive
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Reply DeleteKennyFenderjazz Hi everyone the bills to cover the operations of the MIP Boards are again due I have established a pay pal account to receive funds for the Go Daddy bill of: $187.05 and urge all to contribute . Remember a contribution of as little as $5.-- helps. Please note...
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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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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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Alcoholic to Sugarholic..
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Coming up on my 1st year 3/16 chip after 15 years of rot gut vodka. I do not missed or crave alcohol, but have become an ice cream junkie. I checked my sugars with Doc, and i am good. My question is does the sugar cravings finally go away or I am going have to kick another habit?
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Alcoholic to Sugarholic..
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Coming up on my 1st year 3/16 chip after 15 years of rot gut vodka. I do not missed or crave alcohol, but have become an ice cream junkie. I checked my sugars with Doc, and i am good. My question is does the sugar cravings finally go away or I am going have to kick another habit?
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TODAY: My 46th ANNIVERSARY OF SOBRIETY
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I have a smile on my face TODAY emanating from my heart and soul; my gratitude of a wonderful life God has given me through SOBRIETY...but that long day 46 years ago on the brink of death seems only like yesterday...a life of 30 years of failure....The guy who hired me on, several years before for my job on...
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I am new
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Greetings. I am on day 7 of my sobriety journey. Today I really felt like drinking for some reason. I didnt do it...but it was close. WM
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AA Speaker tape that deals with unemployment
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Hello Everyone, I have been chronically un/underemployed for years. Can anyone suggest an AA speaker from a speaker tape website that addresses the issue of unemployment, and for me, the side-effects of anger, resentment, giving up hope... BigZen
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Scared but determined
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I have been sober for 2 years and 10 months, before I got sober I lost a 23 year marriage and a 30 year career. For the entire time I've been sober I have not worked ( Thank God I had savings I could live off of ) and have pretty much isolated myself. I have now accepted a job in my old field of work. However this is...
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ANNIVERSARY THROUGH GODS GRACE AND MERCY
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Each year , for last couple decades,I share the message of HOPE and the promise of FREEDOM from active addiction/Alcoholism and pray for all those who are doing the daily work in OUR solution, the program, the STEPS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN ALL AREAS OF OUR LIVES.I pray for those beginning the journey...
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After the relapse
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Recently had a relapse after 8 years,sobered up on 7-19-19. Shortly before I relapsed, I finally hit upon a Higher Power that I can call God. This didnt abandon me. Now I can go to meetings, say the prayers with the others, and not cringe when I hear something I disagree with. I will call that a miracle. N...
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"Take the Cotton Out of Your Ears and Stick it In Your Mouth"
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This is one of the first expressions I heard when I started AA. It was said to a newcomer who didn't understand and had alot of doubts about AA. They far exceeded the three minutes that the Chair had stated everyone adhere to with their shares. I was getting frustrated myself and wanted to hear from the ol...
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What happened to this place?
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It was really hopping when I first came here 10 years ago. That was a good thing, I needed people to talk to. Anyway, Im still sober... dont expect anyone to remember me (or vice versa). Sorry to see things are no longer hopping here.
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Goodnight Dead Forum
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Hello and blessings of another day
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Just stopped in to say high and wishing all working in the solution(application of STEPS in all areas of life)to all those who may still be caught in the grip and looking for a helping hand and those who have not made that 100% 1st STEP quite yet..We just dont use and WE dont get high.....be blessed ODAT.....
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Where does it say anything in the big book that you "absolutely must have a sponsor"?
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Or anything about sponsors at all for that matter? In fact there seems to be many things that have been added to the program that the original founders didn't feel necessary for them to recovery from alcoholism. And it seems these new additions have just become accepted as AA fact, as in that's the way i...
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Obsessive Thinking
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Thank God for AA. My last drink was nearly 9 months ago and it has been a rollercoaster for sure! I know I've done the right thing and things are changing for the better slowly, but I suffer with obsessive over thinking about problems - which magnify them in my mind to huge proportions and cause me great d...
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My sponsor said it is being self centered to think about forgiving yourself. I agreed to disagree with her. Anyone want to comment on this?
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Hi everyone, I'm not even sure if this is the proper forum for me but here I go. I am the very definition of a functioning alcoholic and for the last several months I've been wanted to stop drinking altogether. I purchased the AA The Big Book and Daily Reflections... I've been reading the book and...
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Message to Newcomers About the 13th Step
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Since I have been in AA I have had my share of people who have been trying to work the 13th Step with me. When I started AA this last time, I was extremely insecure, self-conscious and as so many alcoholics are by the time they get into AA, beaten down. I felt like crap, looked like crap and kept my head down fo...
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This is the last time.
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Today I went back out. Guess what? Didn't have that bad of a time. I will turn in my wet eight year sobriety chip in for a dry one. In all the years I've been sober, there have been NO MIRACLES or promises, just a miserable life without alcohol. I'm through with the 'don't quit 5 minutes before the miracle ha...
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It has been a long while since I have been here. Aloha. :)
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Hey, all. I have not been here regularly in a very long time. I have been out of the rooms for around 10 years, and of course you can predict that nothing great resulted from that. Nothing terrible happened, except that I wasted ten more years of my life, doing the same old shit. Anyhow, I am back working...
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Coming up on 45 years...Excited this year. HAPPY NEW YEAR
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I guess every 5 years is signified as a jubilee year...this year will mark my 45th Anniversary.. My last drink Jan 12th 1974.. from my first meeting...No cake, no chip, no addaboys (LOL) no bells and whistles ONLY the realization that if I didn't get sober or remain as such there would not be 45 years of s...
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Hi friends, I am staying at the Hyatt Ziva Rose Hall formerly the Ritz-Carlton Aug 23 -28, 2015. Are there any friends of Bill W. that are in the area/ another nearby resort to meet up? Thank you.
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WE are the abnormal ones?!
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"We can't drink like NORMAL people" The above statement has been uttered at many a meeting. But are we alkies so abnormal ? Think about it for a sec. We're talking about a substance derived from rotted food, is used as a germicide, and, for the most part, flammable. Maybe our reaction to such a poisonou...
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Wedding vows
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So I have multiple years of sobriety. My fiancé and I met after I was almost a year sober and we are getting married in 95 days. Hes never seen me drink.
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Alcohol neuropathy. Anyone suffering?
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i am new here. I am 8 months and 9 days sober all for the grace of God. I look forward to making some friends and getting support. Heres my Question. I am suffering from nueropathy and we believe its from alcohol I have diabetes but just diagnosed and drs are pretty sure not from that since I have not had tha...
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My Early Recovery (DoS 01.10.2006)
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I spent my singular years in wonder of the world, wondering what was going on, what did it all mean, knowing only what was going on around me, moving around, family disruption, different schools, new faces, not knowing who I was yet feeling incredibly loving and special though confused and innoce...
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Transgender Alcoholics
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I would like to know if there are other transgender alcoholics on here who I can talk with about ways to deal with staying sober? Please help! Thanks, Dawn Mist
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What type of meeting should I go to for my first one?
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Hey everyone. I'm new to alcoholics anonymous and am wondering where to find a good aa meeting in florida? I mean, I know they're all over the place down here, but I don't know the difference between open, closed, big book, step, etc. Thanks in advance! -- Edited by Ted Bundo on Wednesday 3rd of July 2019...
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DAY ONE COMMUNITY DETOX
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So its here day one of community detox started my meds today. Feeling a bit detached and just trying to take it one day at a time. This is the second detox I have undertaken wish me luck. Looking forward to going in to aa next week back in to the rooms to get the support and start the 12 twelve step program
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Could someone PLEASE tell me the reason why I was made to drink whiskey at the age of 14? It is most perplexing to me
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and there must be a reason. Anybody know? Thank you.
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Does anyone know if groups are allowed to ask people to remove hats and wear dress clothes to a meeting? Suit and tie - and dresses for woman? If I decide I want to go to a meeting where this is taking place... can they kick me out if I show up in my usual bucket hat and regular casual clothes??? Just curiou...
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Second Attempt
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Hi all, It has taken me over two years to come back to this site I'm about to start my journey of recovery for the second time. Two years ago I abstained from alcohol for 7 months only to foolishly think I could manage myself on a very small amount be a social drinker. How wrong was I in these two years I got mar...
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Suggest a meeting in Los Angeles on a Friday night
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I am heading to Los Angeles this Friday
Does anyone have any particular meetings to suggest?
I know how to access the meeting schedule. I was just wondering if anyone has any "recommendations"
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Hi date of sobriety May 4th 1997: I got sober in Metropolitan Crypt and various other places in Liverpool.
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I am a professional, a wife, a mother, and an extremely high functioning alcoholic. My story is probably no different than most others. My alcoholism is well hidden - to a certain extent. Most (not all) people have no idea and honestly, there is a part of me that gets a strange feeling of "accomplishmen...
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Service Dog in training
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I got a call from the veterans administration they suggested I get a service dog (for PTSD) but they don't have any funding right now so I bought a puppie and I'm going to train it myself but I seem to be getting a lot flack about bring him to meetings with me. I'm trying to better my life the dog has very well b...
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Where I live, there seems to be a big division between those AAs who say they have recovered and those who say they are recovering. The 'recovered' ones insist that no time can be lost, to get a sponsor, take the steps and, above all, to find a higher power. Personally, I went through a 4th and 5th step befo...
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Touching base
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Hi all. I'm a recovering double winner female, looking for a group to call home on my travels. I'm in an isolated little place where the bars are plenty and the meetings few; I won't be attending what passes for AA here. I can say I've reached a place of not wanting to drink, which for me is also needing to dr...
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Welcome To The Forum!
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Welcome to the newly-registered forum members: Tim Nelson and ColoradoRyan Let us know if we can help...
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RE: Daily Reflections / As Bill Sees It
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Faith led me out of the Forest of Fear
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Iâve been sober for almost 2 months now. I very seldom have cravings anymore. Iâm going to 5 or 6 meetings per week. Well intentioned friends keep asking me everyday if Iâm still sober and itâs starting to really tick me off. Makes me think that they only see me as a âbroken drunkâ who needs looked after. I...
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Jubilee Anniversary TODAY 45 Years
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An anniversary is special...a Jubilee anniversary (every five years) is a little extra special: Like Bill Wilson I was a Wall Streeter in my first Career out of Graduate School....Yes I was acquainted with Bill Wilson in N.Y. but it was not an AA connection..in the late '60s At the end of my drinking I w...
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