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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 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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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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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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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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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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Are cheap essays accurate?
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I extremely suggest it as a result of their service is great. It's safe to shop for assignments from them as a result of area unit|they're} legit and their writers are real professionals. Thus, if area unit looking} for high-quality papers that are moderately reasonable at constant time strive most...
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Hello Everyone, I am currently working on Step 9. My sponsor suggested I begin with living family members, so I contacted my two brothers and sister-in-law. They all agreed to chat with me on Zoom, and the amends went very well. Now I am trying to begin the process of contacting friends to ask if it is OK...
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Happy Easter to all those who celebrate this day and to those that don't, Happy Sunday. I'm usually at work, but as fate would have it, I'll be available to cook the turkey. I'm only cooking for 2 today because the powers that be have asked us not to have large family gatherings this year and if I've learne...
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It was a very cold December 2nd morning in 1984 as I "came to" from another drug induced evening. I was 6 months into my 3rd marriage and the more than two and a half decades of active drug addiction/alcoholism was devastating my life and everything and everyone in its path. I lifted my head from the floor...
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Greetings and Salutations! St.PeteDean looking for regulars to check in.
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Hello Fellow Sobrarians, sorry for my absence, been a little busy navigating C-19. Celebrated XXXII in July, everything is good. 6 years cancer free. I spent 30 minutes kicking out the spammers and deleting their posts. getting a little burned out on zuckerburgs place. hopefully I'll be in h...
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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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The small hours
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Went to my first meeting today and scheduled for rehab on Monday. How do you guys deal with the small hours when you are up, used to drinking by yourself, and everyone is asleep? I am 48 hours without a drink, some withdrawal stuff (no DTs) but need someone to help with ideas that wont have me relapse.
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Big Book repair
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Hi Everyone,
As a part of my service work, I repair Big Books for free. Pages fall out, tear and covers loosen as they accompany us on our journey in recovery. I mend them a longer life. For more info, visit www.bigbookrepair.com. Please announce my service work at the meetings you attend.
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Hello my name is David and I am here from NV and I am an alcoholic. I know that I am in the right place when I can speak about my experience with alcohol. I am forty four years old. I grew up pretty normal from the outside although inside alot of turmoil. I got to drinking pretty early around sixteen. I a...
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420 Friendly AA Meetings
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I went to AA for 24 years and had some success but very little. I became the club relapse king and my self esteem went way south to the point that I went from being a problem drinker to a full blown alky with street bum mentality, I drank cologne and rubbing alcohol to take off the shakes on many occasions. I w...
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Sparklit Board & GoDaddy Funding Request
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The Sparklit Board Funding has been expended. We are asking in the spirit of Tradition 7 for funding to continue the forums. Sparklit ActiveBoard Donations GoDaddy will be ready for renewal in May as well. We are looking for a solution for accepting donations. Last year we used my business PayPal a...
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The Program Works Group Needs Support
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Hey, Everyone! Come join and support The Program Works Group's online Zoom meeting. Every night at 8 pm EST. www.theprogramworks.com - tap Use App button to join from Facebook page Meeting ID 860-801-229 Note- There is no password, however, meeting greeters will remove any hijackers. Service co...
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Hello, new to this Hopefully I can give as well as learn.
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In 13 days I will have a major announcement to make.
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I just know all three of you are on the edge of your seats, wondering what could be so important. Well, you just better be here to see it. This will be world-shattering.
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Anyone who has been to more then a few meeting has seen the AA slogans on the wall.
Easy Does It (my favorite) Just for today and Think, Think, Think. Most of us have heard the story of the sponser who told his sponsee that the "Think, think, think" didn't apply to him as his thinker was broken, LOL. That a...
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Hello Everyone, I am not so well-versed in all AA terminology, so I would like to get your opinion about the term "a geographical." I read that it means to move in order to get a fresh start, or begin with a clean slate. Would changing university majors, transferring to several different universities,...
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How do you read the ABC's?
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A guy in a meeting yesterday was saying the ABC's are steps one, two and three. Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:(a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives. (b) That probably...
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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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Anybody got one of these in their area? Im lucky I guess, there are more than a dozen within walking distance of my house. https://littlefreelibrary.org/ https://i.postimg.cc/7YwycNZL/9-EA8-C7-B3-E19-C-4617-847-F-3-EFD1-BAB539-C.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/jjwVNgZM/276-B74-B4-8-...
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Giving it away to keep it.
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Lack of replies to newcomer posts. You know, I want to say that doesnt surprise me about self centered alcoholics. But even I know I have to be willing to help those struggling if I am to stay sober. Else what's the purpose of me being here. Reminds me of the church who doesnt know you if you dont give an offe...
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Hello everyone, My name is Agnes. I still have a bottle of gin which I indulged in today (after telling myself I wouldn't) after a night of throwing up from drinking since noon. I have gone to an outbound group setting at CAMH (here in Toronto) for a while (about a year) which did not help. I probably shou...
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Two AA clubs in my area have discontinued meetings due to the virus crisis. Over a week now of missed meetings... Another place, with 4 meetings a day, has suspended the custom of holding hands during the meeting-ending Lord's Prayer. How much has AA been affected in your area and what alternatives ar...
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Today where I am it is the morning of January 12...12 hours ahead of N. Y time....47 years ago there were no personal computers relating to such a thing as online AA. In 1996 AA as an organization, the internet quite new was just starting up...I learned HTML and designed for myself a website, It still ex...
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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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Hi all, First month is behind me. On to month 2 one day at a time. I was thinking about the morass of a nightmare drinking becomes and it reminds me of swimming. Profuse drinking really is like swimming under water..you can barely see when you open your eyes, you cant breath, you cant listen or hear and yo...
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It was a very cold December 2nd morning in 1984 as I "came to" from another drug induced evening. I was 6 months into my 3rd marriage and the more than two and a half decades of active drug addiction/alcoholism was devastating my life and everything and everyone in its path. I lifted my head from the floor...
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It was a very cold December 2nd morning in 1984 as I "came to" from another drug induced evening. I was 6 months into my 3rd marriage and the more than two and a half decades of active drug addiction/alcoholism was devastating my life and everything and everyone in its path. I lifted my head from the floor...
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I Am Leading A Meeting And Need Outline, Please Help!
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I was asked to lead a meeting and thought it was tomorrow, it's in a couple hours and I need an outline to follow. If you can help thank you very much!
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Hello all,Does anyone remember someone burring up the message board and chat room looking for a Red P from Tulsa OK? Or am I going crazy? This was a few years ago. Well I think I found him. I talked to him about it. And he was clueless. (He is not a newbie he is an old mossback.) Can someone please help me?
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Hello all just wondering is there any videos on you tube of how to take someone through the 12 steps of AA using the big book. TIA stay safe all ODAAT
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It's time for voluntary contributions to support our MIP forums. We are currently paid up through May, and need $215.76 to extend that through the next 12 months. The donation link is below. Please note that the form says Al-Anon Family Groups, but donations will support all the forums on MIP ht...
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Is there a 12 step group for me?
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Hi guys, I'm not in the right place but I hope you can point me in the right direction. I'm not an alcoholic - Im addicted to porn, nicotine, junk food, and watching excessive television. Nobody would see my life and think I am out of control with these things - actually the amount I indulge in any of them is...
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The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
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You know the rest....I was reading my post of JANUARY 12th.. My 46th Anniversary of continuous sobriety... I shared a window of future plan...I did indeed fly several days later to Bangkok with a completed 4 page typed out application for a "China visa"...I was told my itinerary was not SPECIFIC enou...
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Has anyone completed a 12 step program?
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Hi, I was wondering if I can interview someone who has completed a 12 step program. Thanks, Student
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I been sober a few twenty-four hours now. In the beginning, I had a sponsor, one of those old school guys who wouldn't take any of my BS. After he helped me find a Power greater than Bernie, and I was able to get sober and stay sober, I began to sponsor new people because that's why my sponsor sponsored me. He...
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Dropping the word blame
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I don't like change. But with everything that's going on, change is inevitable. I didn't like the zoom online meetings because of the controversy around the app. But, I needed a meeting. So, I re-installed zoom and went to a 7 am meeting. Apparently, they have them at 7 am 7 days a week. They read the Dail...
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