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Today's Gift - Mar
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It's an esteemable act to stop and smell the roses. For years I diligently and faithfully read my daily meditations. I worked them into my routine activities, just as I shower, brush my teeth, and press my clothes. After each reading, I'd stop and digest the material, allowing myself to mentally inte...
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Traveling rep with urges
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My work day runs from 8am through 4pm everyday and Iām a traveling sales rep. For me, the absolute worst time of the day for urges is 1pm through 6pm. (Anytime before 1pm or after 6pm is much easier for me.) Iām constantly driving past stores that sell beer during my work day. Jobs are scarce in my area and I...
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Happy
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Some of you know me and most do not. I am Rose, John's ex-wife. I am very happy to see that Miracles In Progress is still up and running. When we parted several years ago, he would not allow me to be on the site. Since his passing, I was actually afraid to log on and see people's reactions because me on the b...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 3-26
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March 26, 2018Quote of the WeekWhats the most loving thing I can do for myself today?" My drinking career was filled with a series of self-destructive situations, actions, and events. When I was drinking, I didnt like myself very much, and I didnt care what happened or how much trouble I got into. Pa...
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Life Actually: The AA way, lessons we all need
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A blueprint for happinesshttp://www.villagelivingonline.com/columns/kari-kampakis/life-actually-the-aa-way-lessons-we-all-need322/
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Wisdom of the Rooms 3 - 19
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March 19, 2018Quote of the WeekPutting down the drink was the easy part. Change is the hard part." I used to say that stopping drinking was easy I did it hundreds of times. After a particularly bad drunk, I would wake up with that sick hangover and demoralizing memories of what I had done. Then and ther...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 3-12
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March 12, 2018Quote of the WeekIf drink solved problems, I would have solved a lot of problems." I seriously used to think that drinking helped me manage my problems and my life better. When I got too stressed to think straight, a drink or two would immediately relax me and enable me to think differen...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 3-5
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March 5, 2018Quote of the WeekGod, grant me the serenity to accept my own rate of recovery." When I got into the program at 36 years old, I looked around at all the 20 year olds and younger and got depressed. I felt like such a loser to have wasted so much time. It didnt help that I was also unemployable, ha...
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To speak out or stay silent....
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hello. I am a recovering alcoholic, in the 12 step program off and on since 2009. Recently I came across a disturbing posting from a fellow 12 stepper with years of sobriety. He is well known in the community, and has been for quite some time. Recently I read a really disturbing post of his on social...
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Saturday Morning Meeting in Austin, Texas?
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Greetings - I am visiting Austin for a couple of days, does anyone have a favorite Saturday Morning meeting to recommend? Thanks in Advance, Joan R
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Big Book Pg. 62
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Pg. 62 Selfishness--self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably f...
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Simple Reminders - Feb
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Today's Gift - Feb
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Reflection for the Day Before I came to The Program, I hadn't the faintest idea of what it was to "Live In The Now." I often became obsessed with the things that happened yesterday, last week, or even five years ago. Worse yet, many of my waking hours were spent clearing away the "wreckage of the future."...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 2 - 26
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February 26, 2018Quote of the WeekIf you want to be secure, you have to give up the need to be secure." I have spent so much of my life stressing and worrying about being secure. Ive never felt like Ive had enough money or will have enough. In relationships, my insecurity has ruined many promising star...
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Meeting in France - Courchevel 1650
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I am looking for a meeting to attend in Courcheval 1650 - skiing in France for 10 days and would like a meeting or two. Cannot seem to find anything local - anyone got a lead or ideas? Thanks. C
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Wisdom of the Rooms 2-19
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February 19, 2018Quote of the WeekIts not going to get easier, but its going to get better." When I got sober, I thought my life would get easier. I mean, I wasnt drinking to black out any longer, and now that I was sober everyone would be happy for me. I even thought I deserved some kind of an award. I was...
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Spiritual parallel
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If creative intelligence wrote the big book then there's no mistakes with the simplistic construction terminology
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2-8-79 duplicated
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Aloha AA family and welcome to the annual anniversary that for me started on 2-8-79. My early sponsor who sits with me still in spirit gave me the early key thought for staying sober which is "duplication" ....Duplicate the day before it and keep coming back. It wasn't all that easy for sure as all y...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 2-12
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February 12, 2018Quote of the WeekCALM = Care About Lifes Moments. They say that one of the gifts of recovery is the sense of peace and calm that you get. I have heard it described as feeling comfortable in your own skin. That concept was totally foreign to me before I got sober; in fact, I felt the oppos...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 2-5
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February 5, 2018Quote of the WeekSerenity is paying attention to what Im doing right now." I have a mind that races ahead of where I am, plans outcomes, anticipates obstacles, and prepares for the worst. Its a busy mind. If its not in the future, then its reviewing the past coming up with wouldas, sh...
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Simple Reminders - Jan
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Today's Gift - Jan
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Living today The beginning of the New Year will often bring back sad memories. This has been the big day for hangovers, coming down, remorse, guilt, and shame. But if we stay with our new purpose - staying clean and staying close to our Higher Power - we don't have to fear the New Year. God has forgiven our...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 1-29
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January 29, 2018Quote of the WeekI cant turn back the clock, but I can wind it up again. One of the fears I had when I got sober was that I had ruined large parts of my life, and that the damage I had done was permanent. I spent many nights wishing I could go back in time and make different, better decisions....
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Working with sponsee's
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Hi guys! Maybe I just need to vent...i dunno....I do need feedback....I dunno what Im feeling. A little frustrated I guess. I have a fairly new sponsee.......she asked me to sponsor her about 2 months ago. She has 5 months of sobriety and she came to AA through a 45 day treatment stint. Anyhow.......ma...
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4th Step Help
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Hi š. I am recently 30 days clean and sober and am trying to tackle my 4th step. Up until 30+ days ago I drank beer everyday for over 20 years. My struggle is that when I try to take my moral inventory I canāt think of any resentments that would cause me to drink. I always figure my drinking was just what I alway...
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Another Question about an amend I have tried to make
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Hello Everyone! I have another question about an amend. Actually I am not sure if it is an amend to be made or not? In previous posts I have written about how immature and irresponsible I was in my high school days (fighting with younger siblings (brother and sister), teachers, losing jobs, poor grades...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 1-22
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January 22, 2018Quote of the WeekGod bless you God change me. I was at a speaker meeting one night where the speaker began his share this way: If I say something tonight that you dont agree with, or that angers you, then say a prayer for me. God knows I could use the blessing, and you could probably use...
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Do I have a problem?
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After lurking for a few hours I finally decided to post lol. Here recently Iāve let drinking get out of hand and my family has expressed concern over it. I donāt know if I am an alcoholic because I donāt drink everyday but I do drink 3-4 times a week and there has been times that I drank everyday for up to 6 mon...
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Living one day at a time.
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So last sunday me and the beloved were planning summer holidays.
5 am monday and i'm awake and have pain and can't urinate more than a teaspoonful.
By half eight i'm in hospital, cat scan at 9, diagnosed with kidney stone by 9.15 and off my face on pain meds by 10.
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gratitude list
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Trying to keep up on my daily gratitude list. Any suggestions?
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Wisdom of the Rooms 1-14
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January 15, 2018Quote of the WeekWere responsible for the effort, not the outcome. When I got sober, I didnt know how I was ever going to fix everything in my life. All the relationships I had ruined, all the bridges to jobs and opportunities I had burned, there didnt seem anyway I could control and ma...
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TODAY IS MY 44th ANNIVERSARY
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Today is my 44th year Anniversary...I came to my first meeting of AA Jan, 12th 1974...It was a cold New England day in Marblehead Ma.. I would have died soon if I did not go to that meeting to warm up and get a cup of coffee. I was ignorant as to what AA was about.. .I was heading for trouble...Instead I was gi...
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Alcohol Withdrawal in Women
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Hello everyone, First I want to thank you all for being members here at MIP. I have been lurking on the boards for a couple of years now, while I was not sure I was an alcoholic. However, having started a new full time job in February and getting sick of hitting bottoms, I have been attending AA meetings i...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 1-8
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January 8, 2018Quote of the WeekFaith is spelled a-c-t-i-o-n.. I did a lot of thinking when I was drinking. Id think about how bad my life was and how things werent going to get any better. As I kept drinking, I thought about all the things I could do, and after a few more drinks, I thought about how good I...
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HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH TERRIBLE AA MEETINGS.
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Last night I went to a meeting I usually go to, it was an beginners meeting. The speaker shared a long war story, then open it up for discussion , people shared about drinking. This one old timer shared about someone he saw drinking and dying. Then a lady shared about nonsense not even related to alcoholi...
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My big brother's funeral
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It was yesterday. A grim, wet and miserable day, there was sadness, reflection, tears and a lot of laughs.
Over 300 people attended. Mostly his friends. Every one of those I spoke to said basically the same thing.
He was a grumpy, growly owd bugger on the outside, but get past that and he was a gentlema...
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Living in Puerto Lopez Ecuador
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cant find meetings ...know or any ....English oe Spanish? Loners?
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I'm new to this site.
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I was a former meeting attendee, but haven't in some time now. I just found out that I won't have a job April 1st, and am already getting nervous. I know that if I keep drinking everyday nobody will want me. I'm looking for a support group to help me get clean. I know the steps but need to stay strong, not...
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Happy new year
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I hope everybody has a sober and blessed 2018.
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Wisdom of the Rooms 1-1
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January 1, 2018Quote of the WeekBut by the grace of God, there go I. In early sobriety, I sometimes had trouble identifying with other peoples alcoholism, and often wondered whether I belonged. After all, I had never been to prison for manslaughter while driving drunk. I never robbed a liquor sto...
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Simple Reminders - Dec
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Today's Gift - Dec
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Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade. --Arabian proverb We need to remember what got us well. The Twelve Steps heal us. The meetings we attend heal us. Reading and listening to program tapes heal us. Talking with our sponsor heals us. The time we spend with program friends heals us. Sometimes we...
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Change and Emotional Recovery
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First time poster, been in AA and recovery for many years, had 15 plus years of sobriety/abstinence and now have almost 3 after a bad relapse. I hope this is not offensive, but I go to meetings now primarily to change and grow up in recovery, not simply to "hold on and not drink or use". I found out the hard w...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 12 - 25
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December 25, 2017Quote of the WeekSpirituality is the ability to get our minds off ourselves." When I was newly sober, all I thought about was myself. How was I going to not drink tonight, or tomorrow; how was I going to work the program if I didnt believe in God; who was going to pay my bills if I could...
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Friends across the pond. ...had some tough news
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As you know i find it cathartic and cleansing to post on here. Selfish I know but thats what I do.
Sometimes it is easier to write than to say face to face.
This one though, i talked with my spinsor and with my surrogate spinsor first. I'm ok.
My big brother, the eldest brother, my mate Ronnie died at 5am...
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Happy Sober Holidays
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to all my family here ... Love youse guys and THANKS for helping me to stay sober ... May God Bless us everyone, Pappy
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Meeting list Liverpool.
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Could I please have an up to date meeting list for Liverpool. If I am on the wrong site, could someone direct me to the correct one. Thank you, Eileen.
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What Is One Drink?
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The blunt, physiological truth for us, as of today, is that a drink pretty surely means a drunk sooner or later, and that spells trouble. Living Sober, 1975
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Liver pain...
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I feel pain in my liver. It used to be only after drinking, but these days it's always kind of there. It still flares up worse after a binge, but it never completely goes away now. That can't be good :|
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