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Today's Gift - 5/12
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Every human being is a problem in search of a solution.--Ashley MontaguEach of us is a strong and fragile creature. We're always subject to forces outside our control, and we're learning steps for living that help us cope and rise above these problems. Our particular situation might seem special to...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/12
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If you're not riding the wave of change. You'll find yourself beneath it.Unknown -- Edited by Pythonpappy on Monday 12th of May 2014 04:32:55 PM
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Can Someone Please Come and Kick My Butt?
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Had a great Mother's Day. Went to see my mom and got along with her superbly. No second guessing, paranoid feelings about what she meant when she said something. It was wonderful. My daughter sent me an email last night wishing me a Happy Mom's Day and telling me she is proud of my sober time. Oh, and she en...
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Step Two
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Step 2 Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. The chapter "We Agnostics", which begins on page 44, starts with a good review of Step 1: "In the preceding chapters you have learned something of alcoholism. We hope we have made clear the distinc...
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Is recovery for abstinence or moderation?
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What is the goal of recovering or recovered alkies? Is it complete abstinence from alcohol or is it moderation?
I've read and heard various experiences with this.
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substitute for booze
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Do recovering or reformed alcoholics substitute something else for the booze?
I have known and heard about some people who begin using drugs, overeating or sugar drinks/ foods.
Is this true.
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Grapevine
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May 12 "I'm still mystified by how I got sober, and the only answer that makes sense is that I stopped drinking through the grace of God. I was thinking about the difference between those of us who get sober and those who are still drinking, and I believe the difference is that we have accepted the...
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Partner's father died
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He was 72 and an alcoholic. He latched on to a little bit of AA towards the end (in the last 3 years or so). His quality of sobriety was questionable because of being so doped up on meds that it still seemed like he was drunk much of the time and he half-assed it with no step work so he still flipped out period...
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New to AA
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My name is Katie and I'm an alcoholic. I am a functional alcoholic looking to stop drinking. Coming on here for support.
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Sweet Alert
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I have gone sugar crazy since being sober. Went through almost a pound of M&M's last night while watching a Lifetime movie. Had had a couple of pieces of fudge and brownies earlier and a bowl of Nutty Buddy Ice Cream. It is amazing I am not as big as the place I live in. I only eat one meal a day, so that may...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/11
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A Mother is not to be compared to any other person she is incomparable.African Proverb
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Today's Gift - 5/11
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Presence"C'mon. Hurry. Let's go," my friend said, shifting nervously from one foot to the other. I looked around. Another friend, Michael, had just walked into the room. I hadn't seen him for a while. I felt compelled to go over and talk to him, even though I didn't have anything important...
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Sock Monkeys And Reading Minds
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This may qualify as being the silliest posting I have on this site. Just had a burning desire to share a dream I had for some reason, so here goes.... First of all I love sock monkeys. They are the stuffed animals people make out of socks (thus, the name--sock monkeys). Well, in my dream this woman was sel...
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Working on Relationships After the Booze is Gone
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I am planning on going to see my mom. It has been at least four years since I have seen her. When I was drinking I always thought about seeing her, however, I couldn't take the lectures I would get about my drinking. I called her sometimes (she never called me because either she was protecting herself or th...
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Today's Gift - 5/10
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Maturity doesn't come with age or intellectual wisdom, only with love.--Ruth CaseyWe may have thought being mature meant being "grown-up." This meant acting rationally, showing good judgment, no longer exhibiting childish behavior. It's doubtful that we ever considered the expre...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/10
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Rain and sun are to the flower as praise and encouragement are to the human spirit.Unknown
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Today's Gift - 5/8
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No matter what faces us an unhappy relationship, a serious operation or illness, a feeling of uselessness or helplessness it is vital to realize that there is a solution.We must not expect that the solution to our problem will bring us immediate peace of mind. Focusing our energies and emotions o...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/8
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Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass its about learning how to dance in the rain.Unknown
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Grapevine
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May 9 "How will I know if I've really hit my bottom?' I asked at my home group. 'When you stop digging,' they told me."
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Today's Gift - 5/9
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.--Will DurantSometimes we say bad things about others. When we do this, it makes us look bad too. Our friends worry what we might say about them behind their backs. They're afraid to trust us. We become known as gossips.The things we say ab...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/9
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Pearl S. Buck
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it does not take much to lift me up.
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Wednesday, after mum's funeral, after the post funeral bun fight, after the hour solitude driving to a meeting.
best suit on and big james says 'eyup mate, was it court no 1 or no 2' and I reply no james, my mum's funeral.
brutally, carelessly. The pain in his eyes showed how embarrased and hurt he wa...
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Newbie
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Long story...I am still with my second wife I dearly love...the feeling is just not mutual now. I went to detox, which was more boring than anything, but I got clean. My wife and I hit another rough patch and though I am doing better, I started to hit the bottle again. I know my trigger. It is her and stress a...
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Seeing it from their perspective
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Can someone share any ESH on how someone who was affected by my alcoholism. That doesn't drink. How do they recover. I mean how is it for them in recovery. What do they go through, what difficulties to they face in recovery. I know my part and the past. The BB focuses on the damage we did and what to expect. H...
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Mickey D Magic
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I was toast Wednesday afternoon coming in from my business which is labor...sometimes fast and efficient and other times "HARD". Wednesday was a "Hard" one and I just couldn't make it the next mile to get home. Didn't have the moxie to make my own lunch and sit alone in my hous...
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Step One
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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. 1. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness (defects of the thinking mind.)2. We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first ste...
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Found an old note
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I was cleaning up my house as I am preparing to move, and I found an old journal, it was actually one of the many journals I started as an attempt to help myself recover. It goes " Its Jan 01 2013, I need to stop my drinking now, I need help, I cannot continue like this, I either have to stop drinking or ki...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/7
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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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5 Interesting Rules for Life
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Funny, ... when I got this, I thought of Phil ... the 'nut dude' here, ... LOL This is just for some 'comic relief' and in no way represents my view on 'life' ... just soo's you know ... LOL ...
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anti alcohol posters
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http://www.juxtapoz.com/design/soviet-anti-alcohol-posters-from-the-1920s60s
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Today's Gift - 5/7
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God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.-- Catherine MarshallAn omniscient God must know what we desire before we ask. God knows that what we really need most is reliance on God. And how do we develop reliance? Like mos...
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Grapevine
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May 8 "Should our present success continue, people will commence to assert that AA is a brand new way of life, maybe a new religion, capable of saving the world. We shall be told it is our bounden duty to show modern society how it ought to live ... "Fortunately most of us are convinced that th...
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sleepless, mum's funeral in twelve hours
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So it's quarter to two and I'm wide awake. I've tossed and turned in bed since eleven and slept maybe an hour or two tops. I need to set off for Yorkshire in five hours, 180 miles. Mum knows her kids better than we thought, she's planned her own funeral to the last dot and comma, no room for egos there. Lea...
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Dealing with someone in denial
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Good morning. I have never really spoke with anyone regarding this, and the reason being is that I was in denial that my husband had a problem- he was very manipulating and convincing. We got married young and the binge drinking was portrayed as something "all college kids do". As time prog...
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Grapevine
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May 7 "Everyone's recipe for serenity is different. It's like vegetable soup -- nobody makes it quite the same."
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Right Brain ???
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The Right Side of The Brain This is one of those great emails that show when you are using your Right or Left side of your brain. If you see the picture exactly as it is, you are using the left side. When you stare you will see the figure shift; and you will be using your right brain. You can switch back and fo...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/6
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.Oprah Winfrey
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who would have thought.....
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that i would be celebrating 2 years sober on cinco de mayo, my old favorite holiday! it still blows my mind that i was able to quit drinking ans smoking. i guess i was just ready. that and the fact that there is a great resouceful mobile support network sitting rite here. i dont post, hardly ever but i vis...
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Problems Other Then Alcohol
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Problems Other Than Alcohol: What Can Be Done About Them? by Bill W. -- A.A. Grapevine, February, 1958 [Any time is a good time to review our relations with each other and with the world outside. In the following article Bill has done this with the accent on special groups which seek to handle drug addi...
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God as my parent
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In a Family Intensive Retreat in my home, a girl called her sister stupid. I am stupid too! I declared happily, I poured my juice in the sink and washed the cup...instead of drinking it. And grandpa is stupid, and Beethoven is stupid and... Soon we were singing I am stupid, you are stupid, they are stupid...
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Today's Gift - 5/6
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Reflection for the DayI can attain real dignity, importance and individuality only by a dependence on a Power, which is great and good, beyond anything I can imagine or understand. I will try my utmost to use this Power in making all my decisions. Even though my human mind cannot forecast what the outc...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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May 5, 2014Quote of the Week"Those who piss us off the most are our greatest teachers." In the old days (before recovery), a lot of people, places and things really pissed me off. To start with, I resented my family for always trying to tell me what to do (thinly veiled as, "We're jus...
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The Power of Prayer
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Well, I went to the prison tonight for the AA meeting. I have prayed everyday since I was first asked to be the speaker for the meeting there. I asked my Higher Power, who is God to me, to take away any nervousness I may feel, to get it through my (sometimes thick) head that it is not about me. I told myself not...
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HALT
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I'm 56 and working harder than ever in my life (full time job and side business). I suppose this is because early sobriety required so much time and attention. And because the Recession pretty much wiped me out. I'll remember not to make emotional investments in the future. Over the past few days I'...
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Grapevine
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May 6 "It doesn't matter who or what God is if I can just remember it's not me!"
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It's the Little Things in Life Which Make Quirky
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Ok....a member with long term sobriety gives me her number a few nights ago. That night I get a text with no message, no name--just a number. (Since I am receiving numbers from quite a few people now, I haven't been the best at entering them into my phone.) I know that there are all kinds of virus's, telem...
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Does Steroid Affect Clean Time
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Basically I have been sober for a year and half and i want to get back into the gym and work out. I was told that Steroids for women help burn fat quick and help with bringing my appetite back. I also suffer from ED and i would like my appetite to get healthy and it is hard for me to work out because of my body hurt...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/5
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.Henry Ward Beecher
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Grapevine
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May 5 "My sponsor taught me how to be of service with grace and gratitude. She taught me how to listen, how to be respectful, and most importantly, to mind my own business."
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