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Grapevine
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March 16 "It seems to me that I achieve growth by leaving things out - when I don't say the cross word, when I don't answer sarcastically. If I can delay only one second, maybe two, I have time to ask myself, 'Do I really want to say that?'"
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think i am slipping into a manic episode
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can not sleep even with sleep meds
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A quick story
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I recently got in contact with one of my former foster mothers. This was my final foster home placement, and it just happened to be wonderful. I instantly clicked and bonded with this woman. After close to 20 placements in under a years time, I was pretty damaged by the time I met this woman. I had no hope f...
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Week Five and Loving Chocolate
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Hey All, I just wanted to note that I am finishing up my fifth week of sobriety and I feel great. Once I got past the first three of weeks and remained determined that I was never going to drink again - EVER - the past two have actually been relatively easy. I think that in the past, I have been foiled by the ide...
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Online Meeting Schedule
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Hi Everyone, I am going to start holding meetings in our chatroom on Tuesday and Saturday nights at 9PM est. I will be asking that those with 6 months or more of continuous sobriety, that attend f2f meetings become willing to donate some time to chair one meeting per week here as well. It does require...
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New, Improved Meeting/Chat Room Entrance!
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check it out, click on the link below, it will take you to the meeting/chat room page, a box will be there where the chat room will appear. Just put a nickname for yourself in the box, and then click Connect. Check it out... its really smooth, easy to enter, some good features, and ready for us to start us...
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Changed Behaviors
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Yesterday my wife and I started to fight. Instead of letting it escalate I simply stopped and left. I went to my local bike shop to look around for a bit. Nothing realy changed for me. I was still upset and starting to obsess. I came home and changed my clothes and went for a run. During this run I prayed to Go...
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Tried an online meeting last night
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With skype I think? It was really weird!!!!!!!!! People were smoking - eating etc LOL I clammed up and couldn't say a word when it was my turn.... to weird! Has anyone else done this??? What did you think? I suppose a live meeting was just as 'weird' the first time...
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Simple Truths
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A Weekly Thought! But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. -Isaiah 40:31Weekly QuoteWhen God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness...
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For Sober Mc - Patience! (since it's quiet)
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A woman in a supermarket is following a grandfather and his badly behaved 3 year-old grandson. It's obvious to her that he has his hands full with the child screaming for sweets in the sweet aisle, biscuits in the biscuit aisle; and for fruit, cereal and pop in the other aisle. Meanwhile, Granddad is...
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Jekyll and Hyde
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I was trying to explain to my wife recently the difference between her method of drinking and mine. My wife is someone who is perfectly capable of coming home from work, having a glass of wine to de-stress, and spending the rest of the evening in a mellow mood. I, on the other hand, would come home from wor...
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Today's Gift 03-17
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You have three choices: keep on fighting, ignore each other, or make up and be friends. --John Knoblauch Once there were four sixth-graders - two boys and two girls - who started to fight even though they'd been friends for years. One morning at the bus stop, the boys started playing keep-away with the...
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Licensed
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Well guys, I was in a Ph.D. program when I had my first bout with clinical depression...I was a binge drinker before that- I was at the dissertation stage and never could get back on track.. Add to that, I started self-medicating through alcohol and that got worse and worse to the point of being a full bl...
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Cross talking at meetings...
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Try this for a definition of Crosstalking at a meeting. My Sunday version of AA by the bay is right off the Pacific Ocean and the water gets as close as about 30 feet. Today it was calm and glassy, warm and breezy and a great day to just jump up and enjoy it and so...the whales did. Yeppers it's the season...
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Just for today. if you have anything else just for today add it on.
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I pray for all of you today, that you may have peace in your hearts. Just for today, I pray God that you will not let our troubles overtake us.
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What I did today...
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First and foremost, I stayed sober... and second, I did some marketing stuff on my truck and online. Here are some pictures of what I created today. Just getting ready for a spring and summer full of good work, but it doesn't happen without my participating in bringing it about. John
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When we are weak.
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For every successful person there is a 1st step. The 1st step always begins with powerlessness and unmanageability. One may say, but that is weak. Yes it is from the human perspective, but not from God's. He made us weak so that we may be strong in Him. Imagine having a strong 2 year old son, who knows ever...
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Today's Gift 03-16
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I've started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things. Waiting can be very, very powerful. Time is a valuable thing. If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you threw up in the ai...
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Just playing God again.
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They are putting huge power lines up in our front yard. I over reacted immediately. They put the pole up, and I called the realtor and told her I wanted her to put my house up for sale. I spent 2 hours reading about kids and leukemia and all kinds of other stuff that can happen when you live under power lin...
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Indian 10 commandments
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Today's Gift 03-15
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On any journey, we must find out where we are before we can plan the first step. --Kathy Boevink Our lives in all aspects are a journey toward a destination, one fitting to our purpose, our special gifts, and our particular needs. Each day contributes to our journey, carrying us closer to our destinati...
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Patience and impulsiveness
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Today I don't have to act on emotion. I can slow down and not have to impulsively fix it right now. Since that is the old way to self centered gratification. I can take a moment or day to ask God for advice and pray on it. I don't have to figure it out right away. This is unnatural for a Alcoholic to do. Today I ha...
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Helpless To Help
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As I sit here thinking about the bullet I dodge on a daily basis due to this program, I think of family members and alcoholism. My father died of alcoholism. My uncle destroyed himself due to alcohol (he's not long for this world) If my brother's not careful, his alcoholism will get him, too. I wish I co...
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Grapevine
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March 14"In the years ahead we shall, of course, make mistakes. Experience has taught us that we need have no fear of doing this, providing that we always remain willing to confess our faults and to correct them promptly."
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Health
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Hi everyone, I have been making a list lately of everything that I have appreciated most about spending the past month sober. At the top of my list is starting to feel my physical body making a recovery. Clearly, a month is not going to heal the damage of ten years of heavy drinking, but I have very much enj...
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Question regarding step 9 amends
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Im working on step 9 amends. I'm writing the letters- at this point I am willing and eager to make amends to all but 1 person on my list (this 1 person has displayed predator type behavior towards me, and I'm unwilling to attempt to reach out to him again, because he refuses to treat me with respect). Ok- my...
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Today's Gift 03-14
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You can observe a lot just by watching. --Yogi Berra When we watch others, we learn how to "act as if." We watch a patient person and then we "act as if" we're a patient person. The result? Over time, we'll become a patient person. We watch how good listeners listen, and we "ac...
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2.6 Meetings Per Week
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"Members attend an average of 2.6 A.A. meetings per week."So reports the latest AA membership survey (2011). The new average is up .2 from the 2007 survey.This is a useful statistic, since we can get an idea of what is going on across A.A. as a whole. (We'd know a lot more, IMO, if they had publ...
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Powerless
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Ok its tantrum time.
Powerless, powerless, powerless I'm so sick of powerless!!!! Will there ever be a time where things will work out how Ild like it to? Just for this once.....
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Tracey C
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A day well spent!
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Well, it's actually two days well spent. Yesterday i completed a good job, spent time with a sponsee, put a new wood floor in my work/utility trailer, made a meeting and then i actually cooked a dinner for myself. I'm really amazed about how my dinner turned out because i am not a cook at all. I just ask...
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Today's Gift 03-13
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Disappointment and Frustration How can disappointments be opportunities to grow? When we feel thwarted, frustrated or empty it is difficult - but not impossible - to see the positive side of our pain. Most disappointments come from a sense of failure when our expectations of ourselves or others ar...
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Grapevine
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March 13 "When the shadows of my past were placed in the light, I was thankful for the 'design for living' that the Twelve Steps provide. It helps me to handle the shock of who I was, who I am today, and who I want to be."
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Southern Home Security
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HOW TO INSTALL A SOUTHERN HOME SECURITY SYSTEM1. Go to Goodwill and buy a pair of size 14 -16 men's work boots.2. Place them on your front porch, along with a copy of Guns & Ammo Magazine.3. Put four giant dog dishes next to the boots and magazines.4. Leave a note on your door that reads ......Bubba, ...
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The people who tried to rescue us from alcohol abuse
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I recently read in an article that one of the most difficult parts of getting sober is realizing how the people who tried the hardest to save us were often the ones that we pushed away with the most force. These are those people who called us out on our drinking and who we in turn became enraged at and cut out...
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Just show up
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Just show up. Don't worry about setting records. Don't worry about doing it right. Don't even worry about whether you are completely in the mood. Don't worry about your overall goal. Just show up. Just show up and trust your HP to take care of the rest. Repeat regularly. Results will follow.
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Courage ... Dedicated to all the women here on this Board!
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I have had the pleasure of witnessing some extraordinary courage here on the MIP message board among our ladies ... some of the stories I've read here this past year convince me that some of the most courageous women on this planet are right here ... I would like everyone to take the 2/3 minutes it takes t...
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New guy here
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Hi I'm mIke and I'm an alcoholic. I'm coming up on 90 days and really struggling. I'm having a lot of urges to drink and am on an emotional roller coaster. I'm hitting as meetings as I can, I have a sponsor w/ 27 years sobriety and just tonight i joined a homegroup. I'm also reading my big book and Daily Refle...
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updates
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Thank you all for your replies regarding my grandmother. She pasted last week. Toughest days of my sobriety yet, and i managed very well. Deep breathing, relaxation, and inventory got me through.
So on a lighter note!
So, working towards a year sober, I know, one day at a time, but I now am 100 perce...
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Who'da thunk it?
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Hi, all. what's shakin'? Here's a nutty one for ya. A couple of years back, I did a step 9 with a woman I left for (all together now...) ALKY-HOL! She was a little too complicated for me at the time, and my thirst helped matters none. Well, a couple of weeks ago, I get an e-mail from her and...SHE WANTS ME BAC...
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People
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The people in AA keep caring about me. They keep on asking me how I'm doing, and they keep on giving me hugs when they see I'm a tad quiet. They just keep doing it and doing it. I keep expecting them to stop caring. But it's been over a year now, and they keep on loving me. I've never had this before. Neve...
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Today's Gift 03-12
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When we lose God, it is not God who is lost. --Anonymous At times any of us can fall into the trap of trying to make deals with God. The thought seems to be, if I can make a deal with God, then I can control the outcome that God alone seems to determine. We cannot make deals with God - not because God is so hard-no...
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a success story.
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i posted this on another board and for some reason( i think it was God), i wanted to post it here. i am gonna start with my good friend, joe's, obituary: Joseph was born Sept. 1, 1939 in Detroit, to Joseph B. and Gertrude (Ruth) Breaugh. He attended St Ritas School in Detroit until 10th grade, then graduat...
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Step 5
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I FINALLY finished step 4. This overwhelming sense of needing to swept over me and I stayed up most of the night to do so. One thing that struck me- how much time and money I spent in therapists offices throughout my life to get to this- the root of the issues. I'd sit in the office trying to articulate just w...
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Re: The steps.
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Ultimately my prayer turned from petition to thanksgiving. To know and understand the nature of God is the objective of the 12 steps. They looked like big steps to me, but if taken in baby steps, they yield the results, which God intended for them to yield. As an alcoholic the spiritual language of the s...
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well i wanta get clean but i dont have time, anyone know this
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middle of my last smester of college. huge jobs lined up but my booze is fucking shit up. my parents dont care,, they dont drink, just a trust fund kis kid, cant run outta money,, not bragging thats a problem but god damn im fucked.
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Ice road truckers
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We've had a lot of snow this year. A lot. This is more snow than I remember in my adulthood. Snow days were scary days for me before. If I was snowed in and stuck at home, like I have been many many times this year... I would have to begin to detox. Scary. I would have ventured out for alcohol if at all pos...
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AA club or hospital?
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Heard recently: AA is a hospital for the weak and powerless, not a social club for saints!
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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March 11, 2013 Quote of the Week "I may not always know what God's will is, but I ALWAYS know what His will is NOT." In the beginning of my recovery, I had a hard time figuring out what God's will for me might be. It helped a little when my sponsor explained that turning my "will and my li...
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Isolation
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Hello everyone. I hope everyone had a good weekend. I am going on 5 months sober and things are really going well. I am working a good program and have a great sponsor. I attend meetings every day and on weekends I attend 2 or 3 a day. This weekend I even went with my sponsor to speak at a detox center. T...
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Today's Gift 03-11
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The love, the acceptance of other persons makes me into the unique person I am meant to be. --Peter G. van Breemen, S.J. Our destinies are fulfilled through our loving involvement with the men, women, and children sharing our experiences. It is not by accident but by design that we've been drawn toget...
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