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"ANYONE ELSE HAVING TROUBLE WITH THIS STEP?"
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Hi everybody....I've been thinking about this lately and I hope you won't mind if I share about it. I remember back some 15 years ago when I was attending my regular Home Group meeting on a Saturday night. The chairperson had chosen "Acceptance" as the topic of discussion. We had about 75...
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7 years today
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Who'd a thought it? 7 years and one day ago I was in a plice cell, believeing my world had collapsed and my life was worthless. Now - it's rather different. I'm enjoying sobriety and promises are coming true - like we will intuitively know..... This morning, me and the lady I've been in a relationship wit...
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Strange But Comforting Dreams I Had Last Night
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I have heard in AA about "drinking dreams" that some have had after quitting alcohol. Last night, I had a dream about I was holding a shot glass. I hit it against something and I looked to see if it was damaged. A crack started at the top edge and ran down all the way in a straight line to the bot...
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Sunrise Quote
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"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration." - James Allen
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Today's Gift -- Have Anxiety? ... Worry A Lot? ... This One is for You!
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Today I Will TrustToday, I will stop straining to know what I don't know. To see what I can't see. To understand what I don't yet understand. I will trust that being is sufficient, And I will let go of my need to figure things out.
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Today's Gift
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Accepting our limitations Helen Keller said, "Life is a banquet and most of us are starving to death." Drinking and using sure kept us from seeing the beauty, the bounty in our lives. Since we recognized that we can't use or drink and got clean and sober - most of us today can get higher than ev...
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How He sees me!
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Hi everybody! It's a beautiful day here in Iowa, and a great day to share something with you that means a lot to me. I'll start by saying that long ago, I came into A.A. with a whole lot of guilt about a whole lot of things I'd done wrong and plenty of shame about what I was....and with good reason. I'd done...
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Mike D
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More credentials (hopefully)
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Ok...so now I'm attempting to add 2 more letters to my credentials. Hopefully within a month it will be Pinkchip, LMHC, CAP. The CAP part is what I'm going for now. It is Certified Addictions Counselor. Something I thought would be hard to attain, but as it turns out, if you have the first license th...
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ism not was'm...
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I can still be surprised by our disease. Cunning Powerful and Baffling and still with our program of recovery we can come out on top with more awareness and strength to keep it beat. I was working a client's home this afternoon and found myself very thirsty and of course the thirst triggered the need t...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things" - Robert Brault
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The pond is pretty calm.....
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life is pretty calm. Not much self generated stress or drama. It has been that way for a bit. I like real life. and i remember what i do :) Looking back after reading some great posts here today, I remember feeling a generalized anxious feeling in early sobriety.... when would the other shoe drop? W...
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Sober Strummer
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Grapevine
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October 18 "One day leads to the next, no matter how unhappy I choose to be."
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Mike B.
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Blue Lights
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Last night I was the designated driver for my partner, who was celebrating a big work victory with colleagues at a local bar. I was happy eating peanuts and drinking Diet Pepsi for the night and we wrapped up at around 1am. For the record, bars never temp me, because my serious drinking was always done co...
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Is there anyone on here right now? I need someone.
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There are no meetings near me right now and I have no one to talk to.
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Hey Dean
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You are reading from the book Each Day a New Beginning When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing. Catherine Ponder We are in constant communication with one another and with God in the spiritual realm. No matter how singular ou...
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The Road to Happiness
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This is a short 3 minute video clip that I found very meaningful ... turn your sound up ... you'll love it!!! Pappy
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A man leaves his AA meeting and is hit by a drunk driver - Has a near death experience and visited by 3 angels.
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A very heart touching story. John want's nothing more than to share his story all over the world. He even prints out brochures and gives to people about his experience. Hope you enjoy, if you've had any experiences like this please share!...
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Even Sober, Southern boys are Tops !
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No extra words are needed. Subject: How Southern boys start a stubborn boat motor with mosquito spray Redneck Starting fluid with a kick!Just click below on the Date and TimeDec 19, 2012 11:22pm (CLICK here on the date)Now I know why you can't use Mosquito sprayin place of Ethyl ether (sta...
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Sunrise Quote
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"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere." - Charles F. Kettering
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Today's Gift
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.--Dale CarnegieWe wanted friends, but our addiction wanted all our attention. We had no time to be close to others.Well, stand aside addiction! The p...
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So tired
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As I sit here with 22+ years of sobriety and then an awful divorce convinced me that I am not an alcohlic, just a social drinker as I only drank from 19-23. Fast forward to age 50...been divorced twice and managed to stay sober for most of the second one and all of the first one... And now in a relationship (...
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AA's 3 legacies; Recovery, Unity, Service. Let's share on it.
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I try to practice these legacies daily. Recovery is 1st for me. The number one offender is resentment. I ask God to remove all resentment from me every single day. Once that is accomplished and I am resentment free. I move on to Unity. Unity is 2nd for me. Those things in AA that cause disunity I gently try...
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I had a few sips
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I am currently six and a half months sober. I have a sponsor as well. Last night I decided to have a few sips of a wine cooler. I had maybe a quarter of a mikes hard lemonade. I didn't get drunk or even tipsy. Does that mean I should reset my sobriety date. I'm too nervous to tell my sponsor.
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Today's Gift
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Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. --Kathleen Casey Theisen Recovery offers us courage to make choices about the events of our lives. Passive compliance with whatever is occurring need no longer dominate o...
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Grapevine
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October 17 "A new spiritual awakening can come at every meeting."
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Mike B.
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Sunrise Quote
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"There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond that failure."- Kyle Rote, Jr.
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Th mirror
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I pointed to the two old drunks across the bar and said to my mate, "That'l be us in ten years. He said, "That's a mirror, you idiot"!!!
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Why am I struggling so??
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Had a really rough week last week. Was out of the office with the flu. Did not get to attend any meetings, go to any sponsored events........was just rough. And I won't lie, I wanted a drink in the worst way. Was on my knees a LOT last week..........prayer and meditation........and other . If you can't ma...
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I Am Addicted to The MIP Board
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First I started with just a few minutes at a time on this board, and it kept increasing and now I am at two hours at a time...just reading posts, responding to some. Lots of learning here! I have a noon AA meeting and guys and gals, I love this board so much I just cannot get enough! After my meeting, I'll hav...
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This is it!
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Hello all. Binge drinking has nearly taken everything from me. I'm an Alcoholic, I have known that for years. I am a successful businessman have a fabulous life, plenty of cash and lovely kids. I have now got to the stage where it is affecting everything. I have to stop. The remorse is killing me from th...
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Dinner Party
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My wife hosted a dinner party for all our friends, some we hadn't seen for quite a while, and everyone was encouraged to bring their children as well. Dinner Party All during dinner my wife's best friend's four-year-old stared at me sitting across from her. The girl could hardly eat her food for starin...
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The Alcoholic and His Children
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Okay, this has been on my mind today.......I am sure that a lot of you have or are dealing with this topic. I have not seen my children in almost 4 weeks (basically since getting out of rehab). I talk to them every single day and they are happy to hear my voice. My two oldest know what has gone on and they supp...
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Sunrise Quote
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." - Marcus Aurelius
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....But I Didn't Have to Drink
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I posted awhile back that my SO was going to a wedding which is out of town. Been worried a lot about being alone--I haven't been by myself much at all over the last couple of decades. I had an invite but since there was going to be drinking, and I haven't been sober but just a few months, I didn't think I could...
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Let's talk about the first step.
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Step One....We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.Would love to hear your feedback on this step...When I first saw this step it made no sense to me at all....None of them did really...I had a drinking problem that cost me everything and damn near killed me...
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congrats on one week gtt... i think its time for a new thread!!!
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Today's Gift
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Becoming forgiving The lack of a forgiving spirit hurts our spiritual progress. Being unforgiving causes resentment, which is always a danger to our new way of life. We have learned that if we forgive, we will be forgiven; but if we do not forgive, we will not be forgiven. So it seems we are just hurtin...
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Meeting of the mods!
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Stpetedean and pinkchip aka Dean and Mark
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All my friends relapsed this week.
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I have 3 close friends in AA - we all came in around the same time. One has a young girl the same age as my daughter, and we did many play dates this summer. One has been off and on sober. One I found out has pretty much never stopped drinking, but was hiding it. Anyway - they all crashed and burned last wee...
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Today's Gift
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It is the act of forgiveness that opens up the only possible way to think creatively about the future at all. -- Father Desmond WilsonToday is full of endless possibilities and dreams. In many cases, we are limited only by our fear and lack of hope, in others and ourselves. Each new day we are given a clea...
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Grapevine
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October 15 "I found I had to exert every ounce of will and action to cut off these faulty emotional dependencies upon people, upon AA, indeed, upon any set of circumstances whatever. Then only could I be free to love."
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I am in St. Pete
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I think someone that posts here lives near here...not sure who...
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Welcome Curly
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Welcome to MIP Curly, ... glad you found us ... looking forward to you sharing your ESH here ... God Bless, Pappy
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Alcohol and the Soul
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I just spent the past half hour Google searching various iterations of "alcohol and the soul" and "addiction and the soul". I was looking for articles or blog posts by people who have written about what alcohol does to the "soul" while we are drinking, both in the sho...
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I did not relapse
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This time the grapevine let me know they are going to publish another one of my posts from here at MIP. It was from about 2 yrs ago - when I first came to MIP and drank again after about a month. It's going to say "my recent relapse" in one of the paragraphs, now mind you - this will be 2 years old....
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justadrunk
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Sunrise Quote
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"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has." - Billy Graham
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Today's Gift
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Simplicity and greatness go together. -- Monty Cralley We have probably heard the phrase Keep It Simple thousands of times. It's possible we are mystified by it, even yet. So many things in life have seemed complicated: getting an education, starting a new job, advising children and friends. Not...
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Grapevine
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October 14 "How does one tune in to the Higher Power? The answer I have learned from AA is to recharge my spiritual battery every day -- 'you can't pull today's load with yesterday's horse.'"
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Mike B.
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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October 14, 2013 Quote of the Week "The answer is not in the problem;the answer is in the solution." Before recovery, I lived in the problem. If things weren't going right, or if something went wrong, that's all I thought about. I'd dwell on it, talk to my friends about it, and think about...
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A simple meeting?????
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Ok I went to a meeting this morning. I decided to share on the topic of fear. I am a musician who has some high profile concerts coming up. I have performed in the past based on fear. Fear of not being well thought of as a musician, a person etc.... I know what I need to do and I spoke to my sponsor about it,...
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