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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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Post your AA birthday here.
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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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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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Looking for Speakers
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Hi Folks, Next month I'll be chairing my home group's weekly, open AA meeting on Zoom, and I'm looking for folks that want to tell their stories. Our format, like many others, starts with some readings, reminding folks of ground rules, then introductions before the meat of the meeting (see what I di...
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MIP Business Board
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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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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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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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Donations needed for web hosting renewal
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Our GoDaddy annual subscription of $187.87 for web hosting is due May 15, 2021. A MIP member has graciously volunteered to collect donations via PayPal and use the funds to pay our bill. Please use PayPal to send donations of any amount to lightning711@yahoo.com For our Sparklit account, which m...
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Website Links To Recovery Based Sites, AA Speaker tapes, etc
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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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Irma Livoni - The woman who was kicked out of AA - Tradition Three
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I found this very informative writing while cruising the internet this morning and wanted to share it with the Miracles In Progress family. I believe it will move your heart to understand Tradition 3 in a new light. ************************************** The first woman kicked out of AA This wa...
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The Degrading Social Network Of The Alcoholic
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Disclaimer: This is not my writing but it is interesting and as an Alcoholic I can identify with it. Larry, ------------------- The Degrading Social Network Of The Alcoholic If the alcoholic is not a solitary drinker their social network will gradually degrade because their behavior, moods, an...
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Just looking for some help and guidance
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Hi there,I'm just reaching out online for the first time. I'm not particulairly new to the program but I am young (21). This time I've got just about 6 months sober in the program. I live in a remote northern community so at most there's 3 meetings a week. That being said I love the meetings (just wish we co...
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Wet Brain
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Hello New to this board, wanted to see what anyone knows about wet brain? Is it very common, how long does it last, does it go away, what are the symptoms etc?
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PAWS
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When I initially got sober I suffered from mood swings, I couldn't sleep, I would get obsessive, I would cry, I fell in love at least 18 times...the first week...in short I was a mess. Now I was going to meetings and talking to others but they would say things like "this is normal" and "no...
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Can someone please explain false pride to me?
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I can't seem to wrap my head around the whole concept for some reason. I need some wisdom. I spoke with a person today after the meeting that said they were afraid to ask for a sponsor because they didn't want to burden that person. That they would be such a mess, such a handful, that it just would be too m...
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~ As Bill Sees It: Willing To Believe ~
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p. 219 Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they might mean to you. At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him. Afterward, we found ourse...
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Changing sponsors
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How does one go about changing sponsors? I suppose technically I don't have a sponsor at the moment because I've been drinking and not working the program. But, I want to stop drinking and that means getting sponsorship again. My "old" sponsor and I have a lot of history (4-5 relapses) and h...
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Co-ed f2f meetings are not safe for young women
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I tell my sponsees this and I go to treatment centers and tell the ladies there as well. AA meetings contain the worst people from the bar, and only some have gotten healthy. In early sobriety, I once stayed for the NA meeting. I kicked off my heals and curled up with my coffee. Somebody in the meeting stol...
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My Gratitude List
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How lucky we are in recovery that we can have such a fantastic tool as a gratitude list. I truly believe that a grateful heart can't get drunk. I read that somewhere and it really struck a chord with me.
I've been in pain for just over a week now with a neck condition that has limited what I can and can't do q...
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What to do when someone else takes your inventory...Thoughts?
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Had the weirdest experience today of meeting up with an old friend and having them spend some of the time taking MY inventory. I feel like I am centered enough to not become out right angry with the person. I figure this was their first experience in taking inventory and it is easier to explore why someon...
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The original 13th Step
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The founders of this great group originally talked about an unwritten 13th Step. And it was a thing of beauty. After living a life of sobriety by using the 12 Steps, the alcoholic took the 13th Step to his/her grave. When they were placed in their grave they began their 13th Step. There by living in...
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Cliques in large meetings
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I'm a happy sober for 25 years woman who moved 3 years ago to a new hometown where I had heard that the women's fellowship was strong. Until this move, I'd attended meetings in my hometown and surrounding area for 22 years and was in a routine with familiar faces and meeting friends. I've heard it said t...
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~ As Bill Sees It: p. 214 ~
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Hmmmm looks like it's been over a year since anyone posted a daily "As Bill Sees It" here... I would like to take that on for awhile, starting with p. 214 since it's the 214th day of the year. ----- Only Try In my teens, I had to be an athlete because I was not an athlete. I had to be a musician becau...
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~As Bill Sees It~
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A New Life Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life-- the one that did not wo...
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WHERES THE RULE BOOK....
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I have to share this.. On two occassions now I have made comments at meetings and was told that "perhaps thats something you need to ask before the meeting, questions arent asked here, you should talk to your sponser, you dont put the money in the basket before its passed....Talk to so and so, mayb...
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My Burning Bush Experience, Part 1
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Throughout my recovery from alcoholism, I have had three distinct "burning bush" experiences. To me the burning bush is a close encounter of the spiritual kind. I have never kept these experiences quiet, for fear that someone would think I'm crazy. They were quite real and for me came at t...
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Gratitude list
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what is this ? Do u have one?
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~ As Bill Sees It: Middle of the Road ~
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p. 241 "In some sections of AA., anonymity is carried to the point of real absurdity. Members are on such a poor basis of communication that they don't even know each other's last names or where each lives. It's like the cell of an underground. "In other sections, we see exactly the revers...
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Anyone have dreams of attending AA meetings?
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In early sobriety I used to have frequent dreams about drinking and getting drunk. I would wake up in a cold sweat, very nervous until I relized it was only a dream and I had not gone back out. Fast forward 33 years and I am having occasional dreams where I am attending AA meetings. I wake up with a tremend...
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slips
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i been sober for a year and slipped i dont want to share it with my aa group
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Daily Reflections Feb 6
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A RALLYING POINT Therefore, Step Two is the rallying point for all of us. "Whether agnostic, atheist, or former believer, we can stand together on this Step. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 I feel that A.A. is a God-inspired program and that God is at every A.A. meeting. I see, believe,...
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In Early Recovery...How soon can you have a new Relationship???
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Hi everyone, Well since my Remote Control has become my Best friend in the last few days. Had to share this with you. I watched a cute Recovery movie "28 Days" with Sandra Bullock, and heard a great answer to the above question. Probably the first question we all ask, How soon can I have a...
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I've shut the door on yesterday, And thrown the key away
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: I've shut the door on yesterday, And thrown the key away. Tomorrow holds no fears for me, Since I have found today. -- Vivian Yeiser Laramore Feeling guilty or ashamed about the past - about what we did or did not do, about what happened to us, about who we were - can be ou...
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MIPBB Study: Bill's Story
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http://anonpress.org/bb/Page_1.htmThe first time I read this story...I didn't really get a lot out of it. I was in rehab still defogging...And as someone mentioned before...It seemed like a novel about a guy in the 1930's who had nothing in common with me. I've heard this from other AA members as we...
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What Makes Games Addictive
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Greetings! I was thinking about why certain games are so much more engaging than others. Is it the graphics, the rewards, or just the thrill of the gameplay itself? I am curious to hear your thoughts on what makes a digital game truly hard to put down.
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Schlafprobleme adé: Mit Lunavelle zu entspannten Nächten und mehr Energie
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Lunavelle In einer Welt voller Stress, Bildschirmzeit und ständiger Erreichbarkeit leiden immer mehr Menschen unter Schlafproblemen. Einschlafstörungen, nächtliches Aufwachen oder das Gefühl, morgens trotz langer Nacht erschöpft zu sein, gehören für viele zum Alltag. Genau hier setzt Lu...
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Personality Change
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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 wit...
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Fitness Keto: Unlocking the Potential of Keto for Weight Management
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