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Family Day
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Yesterday was "Family Day" where I live. It's a provincial statutory holiday and something I would've scoffed at a year ago and refused to acknowledge. Actually I probably would have just used the day off as an excuse to go out and get drunk. This year I spent it at home with my family. We all...
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Would This Be Considered Cross Talking?
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Strange meeting last night. I know we are not supposed to share what we hear in meetings so I will be vague and just ask if someone says something which comes across to me as derogatory about AA's program, would it be cross talking if I share that I don't agree? There were quite a few newcomers there and I wa...
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Can Willpower Alone Keep An Alcoholic From Drinking?
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Although I have had willpower at times when I was an active drinker, it didn't last long. I could go a day, two even longer. My willpower didn't hold out. I was reaching for a drink to "calm down". I would tell myself all I needed was one drink to take the edge off and relax and then I could go on abo...
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How Much Info Is to Much Info to Tell Relatives About Our Sobriety
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Good afternoon.... I know I can be long-winded so will try to make this brief... Just got off the phone with my mom a while ago. Haven't seen her in the last few years because mainly of my drinking--you get it I know. Our relationship has been better since I have been sober and we have been emailing/phonin...
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Heard @ Meetings
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and to think , when I got here . I a PhD . But for my case it was a > Poor Helpless/Hopeless Drunk. with a Lot of I - S - M's . @ th top of th list was - Incredible Short Memory I sponsor/sabotage Myself I Self Me In Side Me but ended up with Incredible Spiritual Moments it could get worse , I could be nuts - Not Us...
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Grapevine
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February 11 "From the moment I pulled open the doors to my very first meeting, I felt something different, something good was going to happen. Those doors, which at the time I believed to be the heaviest ever made, allowed me to walk into a new way of life."
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Sunrise Quote
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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.Ayn Rand
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Today's Gift
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. --Calvin Coolidge There's really only one way to achieve self-respect and that is to act respectably. We can't go back and undo our past. But we can act and behave respectably today, so that when we close our eyes...
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On Death by Kahlil Gibran warning religious content
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Many thanks and much gratitude to Goingtotry for telling me about Kahlil Gibran. I don't think I have ever heard of him. I started reading some of his amazing quotations and searched to see if he had any about this subject. This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read and wanted to share. On...
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now, I'm not complaining. ...
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My alkie obsessive compulsive behaviour has led me to keep a log over the past few weeks.
it don't matter what time I go to bed. I get out again wide awake after exactly 5h48m.
I've tried getting up for a pee and going back.
I've tried getting up and doing something boring.
I've tried just laying there...
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Birthday Sunday
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at AA by the Bay my Sunday version home group which is a very very nice place to celebrate mine. Yesterday was my 35th anniversary and it was nice and today it was nicer because my sponsor was in the house and another very special alcoholic both of whom have anniversaries coming up. Robert has his tomo...
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Heard @ Meetings
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the steps came in 3X3 hurrah hurrah , the steps came in 3X3 hurrah. the 1st Three steps did Pick Me Up , Hurrah . the next three steps Did , Clean Me Up , Hurrah. I worked the next three steps to Make up These last three steps DO Keep Me Up , Hurrah , Hurrah . In early sobriety I became a group secretary - I did - ope...
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Grapevine
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February 10 "A vast communications net now covers the earth, even to its remotest reaches ... Nothing can matter more to the future welfare of AA than the manner in which we use this colossus of communication. Used unselfishly and well, the results can surpass our present imagination. Should...
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Sunrise Quote
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Wisdom is knowing the right path to take integrity is taking it.M.H. McKee
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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February 17, 2013 Quote of the Week "I don't believe in miracles,I depend on them!" If you had asked me before recovery if I believed in miracles, I would have laughed in your face. "Look at my life!" I would have said. "There are certainly no miracles happening h...
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Where and how do we find God?...As you understand God.
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This is one of my favorite passages from the Big Book. I love how Bill says the same thing over and over with different wording.Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems. They said God made these things possible, and we on...
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Today's Gift
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.--Margaret AndersonThe expression of real love is so easy between grandparents and children - and between good friends it passes effortlessly. But why is it so hard to share real love with a spouse or lover? Why...
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A Funny ... from an AA brother!
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Complete and Finished> > No English dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference> between these two words. In a recently held linguistic competition held in> London , England , and attended by the best in the world, Samsundar> Balgobin, a Guyanese man from Bache...
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What Alcoholics Anonymous Has Done For Me
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These are just some of the ways Alcoholics Anonymous has changed my life........ I am starting to love me again!! I love that I don't want to cry all the time  I love that I don't worry as much.  I love that I am not as lonely anymore.  I love that I am not as fearful as I was. :fea...
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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseAnd now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13Weekly QuoteAll the fruits of the Spirit...are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. Jonathan EdwardsWeekly ThoughtSome scripture is so cl...
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"One Drink Killed Philip Seymour"
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That's what is on the news.....after 23 years of sobriety, he decided to have one celebratory drink...which led to a binge.
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Been Watch'n Some Golf, ... ergo ... 50 Shades of Golf
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I'm really trying to get in a better mood than I've been in lately, maybe this'll help!!! ... ... ... Four guys have been going to the same golfing trip to St Andrews for many years. Two days before the group is to leave, Jack's wife puts her foot down and tells him he isn't going this year. Jack's mate...
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Today's Gift
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To avoid pain at all costs forces us to reject half the lessons life can teach. --Jan PishokIf we could remember that every experience we'll ever have is unique and offers us a lesson we will grow from, we'd accept them all with far greater ease. What's there to be afraid of anyway? God is never absent. In...
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Sunrise Quote
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Knowledge is like climbing a mountain. The higher you reach the more you can see and appreciate.Unknown
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Heard @ Meetings
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Insanity - an alcoholic going into a bar for a drink . Daniel , Did NOT Go back into the lion's den to get his hat . Think , Think , Think We GET sober for Our drinking . We STAY sober for our Thinking.
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An honor
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My sponsor is a 71 year old single man with his only family really being an 82 year old brother that lives in Chicago. He asked me to be his health care surrogate after a meeting last night. This is not the kind of thing I think should prop my ego up, but I couldn't even be bothered to go to someone's funeral...
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Today's Gift
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Failure is impossible.--Susan B. AnthonyFailure is an attitude. Having an attitude of failure can't help us. It can only hurt us. If we're not careful, it can grow into a way of life. So, when we feel like failures, we'd better look at our attitudes.An attitude of failure often comes from making mista...
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Sunrise Quote
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Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day, saying I will try again tomorrow.Unknown
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Heard @ Meetings
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Ask - aka - ass Saving kit. Alcoholics - aka - A Life Centered on Helping Others LIVE in Complete SOBRIETY. Anonymous - aka - Actions , Not Our Names , Yield Maintenance of Unity & Service & ASAP - ALLWAYS Say A Prayer
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that minefild called life
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Yes it's a minefield out there. There are bombs bumps and traps everywhere.
So this morning all is as it should be, isn't it.
not as I want it to be but as it should be.
all I have to do with it is to fit myself around it.
the automatic heat came on as it should.
the alarm woke me for the first time in days
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It's one of the days.....
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Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. I wana smoke I wana drink I wana do drugs today. I wana pig out to deal with my wants. I can't do any of it (if I have too I'll eat but I don't want to give to bad behaviors and self distrucktion or the auto correct spelling on my phone). I got busy stupid busy. I say stupid because I s...
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IF I COULD ASK ONE QUESTION
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If I could Ask One Question.. The disease of Alcoholism is deadly It kills.. sometimes very quickly sometimes slowly. I have learned that recovery is One day at a time.. I learned to simply to ask God each morning to help me stay sober just for today. I learned regardless of what happensgood thi...
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Grapevine
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February 7 "Be willing to be willing to follow directions and you will find your life changing in all areas."
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Today's Gift
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose. --Benjamin Disraeli In Twelve Step meetings, we don't talk about counseling, treatment centers, or non-program reading. Many of us have been helped in these ways, but we shouldn't confuse them with Twelve Step programs. We must keep our Twelve Step pr...
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Sunrise Quote
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Those who are touched by an inspirational idea and allow it to take charge and dominate their thoughts find new vistas open to them.Unknown
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Patience
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Today I might have broke two toes. It hurts so stinkin much! I found that I was pretty angry for no apparent reason for a while after. I guess pain has always triggered anger in me, and I suppose it's pent up anger that I haven't released appropriately. I'm just guessing here... but this has been on go...
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Long but excellent read
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http://debbiebayerblog.com/2014/02/04/phillip-seymour-hoffman-did-not-have-choice-or-free-will-and-neither-do-you/
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A power greater than me.
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I just drifted back to the keyboard, after emerging sort of dazed from my shower. Just prior, I read a PM regarding a positive decision someone was making for themselves. The very mind blowing thing about it was, I had been praying for this very decision to come about almost word for word as it came abo...
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Calling out Pinky
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Hey Mark - make me laugh! It's been a while! You must have some funny crazy camp story you can shed some of your wickedly awesome twisted humor onto! C'mon - I'm getting bored over here!!!!!!!!!! LOL
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Helping Canadians
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We have assisted many people who have the same difficulties as you receive up to $40,000 in tax refunds from the Canadian government. We may be able to assist you receive a refund as well. You can call us at 1-888-298-2721 for a free consultation or feel free to visit our website for more information ww...
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Today's Gift
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How the I pervades all things! --William Ellery Channing If we could extract the "I" from our thoughts, some of us would lose our focus. We have a tendency to think only of our comfort, our convenience, our point of view, our feelings, and our happiness. What if we made a conscious effort ev...
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Today's Gift - 2/6
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.-- Thomas FullerOften we're afraid to forgive others who've hurt us because we believe that, in doing so, we are permitting what they've done. This is not true. When we forgive, we are...
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Sunrise Quote
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Hope, like the gleaming tapers light, adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.Oliver Goldsmith
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Grapevine
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February 5 "What matters is what works, not my opinion of what works."
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Adapted from the 12 steps book.
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The 3 basic instincts of human beings: 1. Sex- for reproduction and continuation of the species. 2. Security- both emotional and material security- to earn money, construct shelter, and care for our family. 3. Social- to have fellowship with others and care and share and love one another. These 3 in...
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How I Drove 200 Miles To Deliver A Box Of Tissues.
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Hi gang; I'd like to share something important and personal that happened to me about 14 years ago. It was one of the many great blessings in my life of sobriety. I'll try to give you the short version. I was getting ready to leave town to go on a 3 day retreat at a Trappist monastery for a more thorough wri...
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The earth lost a dear person today and Heaven gained another angel
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My ex and I have been keeping in touch by email since I left him in 2008. We have a daughter and unlike what happens in some breakups where neither partner has anything to do with the other, we still "talk". God Bless the man, because after the way I treated him, he's amazing. None of his other f...
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Weekly Thought --- (warning religious content)
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Weekly VerseIn all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy. Philippians 1:4Weekly QuoteJoy is not the absence of trouble but the presence of Christ. William Van der HovenWeekly ThoughtPaul's letter to the Philippians is considered the book of joy in the New Testament. Written from a pris...
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Grapevine
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February 4 "While I've never been sober today before, I count on my Higher Power to keep me sober as he has done on all those other days before."
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Humility
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I came here with my first glimpse of humility because for years I could not admit that there was a thing wrong with me, let alone admit that I might have 'a disease!'. My fear kept me locked behind the door of help - and with denial, I thought I was safer. It convinced me of this. What my life represented, was...
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