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Relapsed after 18 months for without understand anything. I am at rehab now. But i am in emotional pain.
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Im Walder, i am an alcoholic. After trying two hospital i started to attend AA meetings. I get sober for 18 months and was happy. I made a mistake and didn't attend meetings as before with blind excuses. Work etc. We was planning to marry with my girl friend who knows all the story and thinking suitable a...
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not sure
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So I admit to being a workaholic, but i'm not sure if my habits for the past two years is alcoholism or if a preceptor to a future problem. I typically work a 10-12 hr day and when I come home I like to enjoy a bottle of wine or up to six beers. It's hard to get excited about cooking dinner at 8:00 at night. I have...
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"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones
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Today's Gift 08-25
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When a person drowns himself in negative thinking he is committing an unspeakable crime against himself. -- Maxwell Maltz Negative thoughts can rule our lives as compulsively as an addiction. The feelings of power we get from holding a dismal and gloomy outlook deprive us of the positive and pleas...
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New to the group
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Hi there everyone I am a female alcoholic, a functional one at that. I am trying to get sober alone, which has been more or less a difficult thing to do. I have decided to join this website in hopes that it will help push me in the right direction. I have the desire to become sober, and have had about thre...
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Today's Gift 08-24
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The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other. --Meridel Le Sueur The beautiful correspondences that structure the world - from the five pointed star in the core of the apple to the snail shell spiral of our inner ear - can be a source of great comfort to us. When w...
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Would anyone like to be my partner this week?
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Hello folks! Every three months I choose a day and do an eleventh step ritual of mine. This quarter it looks like it'll be Friday, Saturday or Sunday. I was thinking that I'd share my ritual here and see if anyone wanted to join me in it. Anyway, it's an all day event: I wake up and meditate for some per...
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My story
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Had to delete, sorry guys :) -- Edited by ben78 on Wednesday 28th of August 2013 06:00:51 PM
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Today's Gift 08-23
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I alone can do it. But I can't do it alone. --AnonymousWe're the luckiest people alive because we don't have to do anything alone! Whether we have a new assignment to tackle, a new relationship to cultivate, a new boss to please, we'll never fail as long as we rely on the program, our sponsors, and our Hig...
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The Four Keys to Happiness!!
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I was listening to the radio the other day!! Two happiness experts were discussing happiness. They listed the four keys to happiness!! Faith Family Friends Work To these one of the experts said that gratitude happened to be involved with each key. Well, being a Miracle in Progress , I know that all o...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." - Theodore Isaac
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He Went Back to Say Goodnight to Mom!
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Goodnight to Mom We were dressed and ready to go out for the New Years Eve Party. We turned on a night light, turned the answering machine on, covered our pet parakeet, and put the cat in the backyard. We phoned the local cab company and requested a taxi. The taxi arrived and we opened the front doo...
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A Little Humor
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Goodnight to Mom We were dressed and ready to go out for the New Years Eve Party. We turned on a night light, turned the answering machine on, covered our pet parakeet, and put the cat in the backyard. We phoned the local cab company and requested a taxi. The taxi arrived and we opened the front doo...
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Taking Care of Ourselves
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You are reading from the book The Language of Letting GoSelf Care When will we become lovable? When will we feel safe? When will we get all the protection, nurturing, and love we so richly deserve? We will get it when we begin giving it to ourselves. Beyond Codependency The idea of giving ourselves what...
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Grapevine
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August 23 "We are again citizens of the world. It is a distraught world, very tired, very uncertain. It has worshiped its own self-sufficiency - and that has failed. We AAs are a people who once did that very thing. That philosophy failed us, too. So perhaps, here and there, our example of recov...
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Grapevine
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August 22 "Nothing ever falls out of the universe."
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Facing the sister in law -
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Some of you have followed my drama with this. I did it. It's not over. It was as weird as I thought it would be. There is nothing for me there. I plan to do as little interacting with them as possible. It was never healthy to start with - hasn't changed. Glad to be partially over the hump (one more sist...
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Today's Gift 08-22
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Words are the voice of the heart. --ConfuciusWhat does my heart have to say today? Am I happy? Or am I troubled? We will find this out if we slow down and listen to our words. We can also hear our spirit in the tone of our words. We are to meditate. Meditation is about slowing down so we can hear what our spirit...
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$20
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On their wedding night, the young brideApproached her new husband and askedFor $20.00 for their first lovemakingEncounter.In his highly aroused state, Her husband readily agreed. This scenario was repeated each time they made Love, for more than 40 years, with him thinking that it was a Cute way...
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Question for those of you who quit butts in sobriety
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Hey all! Today I've been sober for 15 months (yeah!) and cigarette free for 4 days. I was a bit hesitant to tackle the quitting smoking thing because I've been warned that if one attempts this in sobriety too early, it can be disasterous. Well, I figured I could ride out that excuse for years- so I quit. I'...
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Today's Gift 08-21
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Seeking growthWe are where we are for a reason. As long as that reason remains, we remain where we are. If we aren't where we think we should be, working the program will help us get to where our deepest self longs to be. This is growth. And growth is work. We must be willing to do the simple things that our ne...
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I love this quote
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I saw this today and just want to pass it on.
âIf you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway.
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please help
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i have not drunk fro 5 months, then hs week my whole self destruct ppart of me has arisen with force. i am on the verge of loosing the man i love and my possible road to wellness. i am fightig the urge to return to the pub as we speak. ive lapsed/relapsed. now all my strenght has gone.
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SAW TOOTH SOBRIETY - YUK!
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At a meeting last night I was reminded of the bumpy ride I had in early sobriety before I took the steps. If you were plotting my spritual condition during this time it would have looked much like a saw blade. The tip would be the end of a meeting, the high point, feeling good, then my condition would declin...
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I am who I am
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Grapevine
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August 21 "The more I change, the more I hope the Traditions and principles of AA don't change." -- Edited by Mike B. on Wednesday 21st of August 2013 07:41:07 AM
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I'm here aren't I?
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My Name is Craig. I'm beginning a new path of recovery and stepping off my latest plateau to begin climbing again. I've pretty much decided I don't like my mindset around alcohol. Its time to seek the change I want to be instead of the person I've become. Reasons why: 1. Seeing alcohol as my only way t...
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Sunrise Quote
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"One today is worth two tomorrows." - Benjamin Franklin
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Today's Gift 08-20
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We believe in Human Ecology, the understanding and care of human beings as whole persons in light of their relationship to God, themselves, their families, and the society in which they live. --The Philosophy of Human Ecology The philosophy of Human Ecology covers all three aspects of our recover...
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Caro... let's talk
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Hi Caro, Just let me know the best way for us to talk one on one and I'll chat with you. Yahoo messenger, MSN messenger, in the chat room on this site, linked to above? Just let me when how and when and I'll be there okay? I am on yahoo messenger, signed in and ready to chat when you are. My yahoo user name is S...
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New Bar for Seniors ???
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The new brew pub opening up for seniors
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Grapevine
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August 20 "Although I have a lot of 'yets' out there, I have true friends who love me. All I need to do is call them and go to meetings and work my program, and for today the 'yets' won't come."
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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August 19, 2013 Quote of the Week "Am I interfering in the experience Godwants them to have?" Before recovery in Al-Anon, I always thought I knew what was best for everyone. I spent a lot of time working behind the scenes trying to control and manipulate situations and people, sure that...
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Thinking I may be...
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Hi, My name is Craig. I'm thinking I may be an alcoholic. I haven't been happy with the way I've been behaving lately around MY alcohol. I haven't got so far as to stop it, quite yet. But I am so dang close. (substitute appropriate expletive) My wife is scared for me. My son is almost ready to confront...
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We Agnostics - Study Questions
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This is a long chapter, but like the rest of the Big Book, the ideas are simple and straightforward. I think this chapter gets ignored quite often, especially by members that feel they've got a good grasp of the faith business, but it helped me a great deal when I was trying to wrap my brain around Step 2. T...
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Step One - 12&12 Study Questions
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1. What must an alcoholic do that goes against natural instinct? (Pg. 21) 2. What seemingly contradictory result comes when an alcoholic admits defeat? (Pg. 21) 3.What does the book describe as a "double-edged sword"? (Pg. 22) 4. How did AA raise the bottom? (Pg. 23) 5. What does one alcoh...
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Today's Gift 08-19
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Anything forced into manifestation through personal will is always "ill got" and has "ever bad success." --Florence Scovel Shinn The main thrust of our recovery is to attune ourselves to God's will, struggling no longer to impose our own. The pain we've endured in past years...
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Sunrise Quote
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"You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals." - Booker T. Washington
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More About Alcoholism - Study Questions
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1. What is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker? (Pg. 30) 2. What is the first step in recovery? (Pg. 30) 3. Do we ever regain control of our drinking? (Pg. 30) 4. What is something you have tried to control your drinking? (Pg.31 lists examples) 5. If you are not sure you are an alcoholic, what doe...
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Grapevine
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August 19 "The first thing that captured me at my very first meeting was the way AA members talked with one another. There was a genuineness, something real there, that I wanted ... I saw they were sober and that they were honest with each other."
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August 18 "An old-timer spoke about the danger of becoming complacent and explained the need for the Steps in her life. 'The way I see it,' she said, 'I might have gotten the monkey off my back, but the circus is still in town.'" New York, N.Y., September 2005 "Ham on Wry&q...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you havent planted." - David Bly
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Weekly Thought
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Weekly ThoughtOne of the benefits of God's Word is a cleansing and renewing of our minds. How does that happen? Our minds and hearts are pulled away from problems, disappointments, challenges, temptations, failures, resentments, and other negative thoughts and emotions and are redirected to Go...
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Fantastic news!
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I just got some fantastic news yesterday and wanted to share... I got a letter in the mail yesterday that my unemployment benefits are being cut off AND we were denied for the loan we applied for to tide us over till my SSDI approval. This is my HP's ride that I am on and so, it has a happy ending - it's just tha...
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Today's Gift 08-18
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All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. --Walt Whitman A small group of friends sat in a room around a record player. It was a heavy old thing, with parts that had to be operated by hand and only one speaker - nothing like a modern stereo at all, but more like an antique pho...
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Good thoughts
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Hey all. It's been awhile but I'm about to start a short weekend with my heavy drinking in-laws. Will you all please send good vibes? I really appreciate it, and will check in periodically. Thanks! -Adam
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Today's Gift 08-17
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I feel at this age I can go overboard and be as ridiculous as I want. --Miriam HofmeierA real blessing of growing old is the freedom it gives us to be who we really are. Of course, we could have been our real selves our whole lives. No doubt some of us were. However, far too many of us struggled to impress othe...
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A potem sie dziwią
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Today another God in the form of employee socjalu decided that I am not entitled to dopata.My wszyszczy in aa bear the consequences of this? WE TRZEWI.Tu system is designed so that if someone is sober and well-kept neatly shaved and dressed, it is immediately suspected of dealing drugs or perhaps lee...
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I don't believe in God , how do i recover
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I am in very bad situation, i am seriously addicted with host of other problems that come with addiction, depression, self esteem etc I don't believe in god, concept of loving caring god etc is all fake which i am sure about, but anyways I cannot change myself (no will power) and god doest not exist , so i...
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Today's Gift 08-11
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Saying No For many of us, the most difficult word to say is one of the shortest and easiest in the vocabulary: No. Go ahead, say it aloud: No. No - simple to pronounce, hard to say. Were afraid people wont like us, or we feel guilty. We may believe that a good employee, child, parent, spouse, or Christian n...
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