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Where's the logic?
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Does anyone know the reasoning behind a business bringing in a rule, that if their workers whilst undergo alcohol and drug testing are found positive for alcohol they'll be immediately sacked but if they're found with heroin in their system they get 3 warnings plus counselling? Why is alcohol vi...
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How 'bout a little humor ???
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Smart Ass - Love it!! Two young businessmen in Florida were sitting down for a break intheir soon-to-be new store in the shopping mall. As yet, the storewasn't ready, with only a few shelves and display racks set up. One said to the other, "I'll bet that any minute now some old personis going to wal...
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One Choice ???
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One ChoiceOne... One tree can start a forest, One smile can begin a friendship, One hand can lift a soul, One word can frame the goal, One candle can wipe out darkness, One laugh can conquer gloom, One hope can raise our spirits, And...one choice can change your life. Think about that. One choice, just o...
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Re: Relapsed, while dating a member of A.A.
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Basically met someone in the rooms of A.A. after coming off a hospitalization visit. Me this person and truly fell in love with her very fast. After almost 2 months of sobriety I relapsed. Really want to tell her, but feel that I might loose her because of it. It could happen several ways, tell her...
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My Dog, Max back at the vets
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I woke up to his mouning this morning, and looked for him as he wasn't laying by my feet where he was when I went to sleep last night. He was on the floor and unable to move, but trying hard to get up, unsucessfully. I picked him up right away, and he just callapsed in my arms. Went completely limp, head an...
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Max Update & God story...
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My lil' dog, Max is back home!! I had taken him to the vet on Friday, got supportive care, took him home, was okay saturday, sunday started showing signs of not being very well, and Monday morning was non responsive at all. The only thing on his body that he could move was his eyes. He was limp. He spent...
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Today's Gift 02-21
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Think in terms of depletion, not depression. . . . You can understand how a body can replenish itself, whereas it may be difficult to understand the way out of depression. --Claire Weekes Despair and depression may come over us suddenly, for no reason we can figure out. But if we stop and reflect, we ma...
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Temper tantrum
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Good morning MIP:) I missed you guys. I have a confession to make- I deleted my first account here last week. I had a temper tantrum- plain and simple. Like a 5 year old. Somebody gave me their honest feedback-I didn't like it. I childishly thought "well I'll show them! HA!", and deleted my ac...
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New to this...
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So how does all of this work?
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Favorite Recovery Books?
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Hi everyone, I was wondering if you would be willing to share your favorite recovery books. Currently, I am reading 24 Hours a Day - which is a FANTASTIC book of daily reflections and meditations about alcoholism. I wake up each morning, read a reflection, and keep referring to it through the remaind...
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Picking up the phone
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Calling and reaching out: I am terrified! There is one woman who I want to phone to talk about the program a little more and possibly ask if she will be my sponsor. There is another woman who I would like to go for a coffee with or something. Tips? I wish life was handled by e-mail. I hate the telephone.
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Grapevine
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February 21 "Turn toward that power and ask for help whenever you feel disturbed or afraid, the way a plant turns toward the light."
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Hate to say this, but...
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This MIP website has done more for good for my sobriety in such a short time than anything else I have ever tried in AA! Part of my problem in life is that I have horrible social anxiety and am just not comfortable in public 97% of the time. When I come here to get yelled at, I can read it over and over again unti...
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Shades of Yesteryear
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGAYXD8HdK0 Was going through some old music files and was listening to songs from this band DOUBLE SHOT, I worked with for a few years. The words of the song Swinging Doors, an old country standard, was about the story of our lives .This was late 70's I was just thru my 2nd div...
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Another day at the vets... (Good News!)
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Hi everyone, First I want to thank everyone for your warm, loving and supportive words as I trudge through this hard time regarding my dog Max. Your letting me just share it here, have a place to dump my heart out means so much to me. I saw Max this morning. And he is doing sooo much better. The vet says he...
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You think you're depressed?
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Ask yourself: Have I ever been depressed when I was Not thinking about me?
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Grapevine
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February 20 "I politely invited God to spend the day with me (like a visiting relative or friend), and instantly began a mental dialogue with God ... I realized that in the process of introducing myself to God, I was gettin...
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Hello... here's my story
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Hello everyone. My name is Max. My father is an alcoholic. Although i can't say that i suffer his sickness (i can only recall seeing him drunk maybe two or three times) it marked me deeply. So much, that i can say i don't enjoy alcohol. I drink maybe a couple of beers and that's it. When i was in college, mo...
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Today's Gift 02-20
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Leave room for God to surprise you! --Ernie K. It is human to be disappointed when we don't get what we want. But when we dwell on our disappointment, as if we should have gotten what we wanted, then we forget to trust that God may have something different in store for us. Many of us pray, "Thy will be d...
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Sober in Hell...
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Hello. After going through crisis after crisis in my shitty life, I have decided that I am in Hell. Other people in the program get blessings from their Santa Claus god, the results of my prayers were always roadblocks and dead ends. Notice how I said "were". I no longer pray. I no longer bel...
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Request for prayers please
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Hi all:) the suicide of Mindy McCready is a very tragic event that sheds light on the disturbingly high numbers of alcoholics and addicts that succumb to suicidal thoughts. I could have easily been amongst these. It wasn't all that long ago that I was in the depths of suicidal depression. I truly empat...
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Dog back at vet today...
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This morning I got up to find my dog unable to move, pretty non responsive. I took him back to the vet.. After blood work it was determined he has pantricis and kidney shutting down. They are going to keep him for 2-3 days and do all they can but told me to get myself ready to have him put down if they can't get h...
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Grapevine
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February 19 "Often in sobriety, I've prayed when I needed to meditate. I've yammered at God so much that God can't get a word in edgewise. (What I practice with people, I cannot help but practice with God.) To me, meditatio...
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Good Movie about An Alcoholic
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Flight ..a real action packed story of an alcoholic pilot..captures the seamy side of alcoholic behavior..great ending..exciting film..Denzel Washington plays the alcoholic pilot..I loved it.
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Today's Gift 02-19
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The twilight, in fact, had several stages, and several times after it had grown dusky, acquired a new transparency, and the trees on the hillsides were lit up again. --Henry David Thoreau There are small candles of light we can bring into our lives to take away some of the darkness. These are the candle...
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dear AlcoholHater,
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Please...Please...PLEASE read "Gifts of Sobriety" thread!!! These are my wishes for you...and they all can happen for YOU, if you are willing....Bless you, Love , Lady Eli
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It's that 1st drink that gets you drunk! --- from 'Wisdom of the Rooms'
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For years this saying made no sense to me. It wasn't the first drink, I argued, but rather the seventh or tenth drink that got me drunk. I'd been able to control my drinking for a long time, and with a lot of will power I'd been able to limit my drinking to a few glasses. Towards the end though, I'd inevitably...
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:nod:Gifts of Sobriety:nod:
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Dear Miracles, Please share your ESH with me, on your Gifts of Sobriety!!! I wanna start with...Sobriety = Life itself to me!!! I would not still be here, had I injested that next ounce of booze! And...I love too that I have a "birthday" AND a "RE-BIRTH day"....The former....
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I relapsed bad yesterday
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I was sober since the 14th and going to meetings and everything else I was supposed to do. Well I was surfing the daring website where I met my wife and lo and behold she put up a new profile. She is looking for a long term relationship. We have not even been separated a month and she is already putting hersel...
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This disease takes another .....
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Country music's embattled Mindy McCready ended her life today, at the tender young age of 37. She has led a tumultuous and tortured life of alcoholism and addiction. It just goes to prove yet again that this disease is an equal opportunity destroyer, and does not discriminate based on status, wealth...
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Been away.... Not out, just away...
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Hello MIP. I haven't been on the board in a while. Just wanted to say hello and hope everyone doing ok today! I still see some of the same names commenting, so that's a good thing! Have a blessed night and hope you all continue to stay sober one day at a time!
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taking a step
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This is my first time here to this site. i am an alcoholic. I tried to go to AA meetings in my area and at the time stopped drinking for a while andthen decided AA meetings were not for me, because the meetings I went to were very depressing. It was hard listening to people who I had nothing in common with e...
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Depression
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I don't even know what to type in this box or why I am posting about it. Everything hurts and I am in the depths of depression. I am not drinking! But I wish I was feeling better.
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Welcome thump623
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Welcome to MIP Cathy, ... I missed your joining late last year somehow ... glad your're here ...
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Life on lifes terms
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Ok been awhile, I am glad u all are here,Today its a struggle for me, I have had this many times in recovery however this time it hard to shake it. I watch my son go down the wrong road, (acceptance? right?). Alcohol and drugs are not the probem for him, its ohter things. Any way he hit a bottom (I hope). I fee...
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Daily Reflections ~ Problem Solving & 24hrs a Day
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"Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems." ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 42 Through the recovery process described in the Big Book, I have come to realize that the same instructions that work on my alcoholism, work on much more. Whenever...
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A newbie does it right....
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He is from one of the recovery programs in town and a recovery house and a group of younger guys encapsulated by the elders of the program and he's a regular at AA by the Bay...Saturday and Sunday versions. This morning he was the teacher. A couple of weeks ago he stepped forward and received his 1 yea...
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Hearing
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With heavy heart I said, "I come to you in need of help. Let me explain." (I proceeded.) (Silence) ...
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Listen also with your eyes...
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It is very comforting and supportive coming here and reading the ESH which my recovery often stands on. John's share of needing a break and (on the Al-Anon board) Paris's share with her husbands response to her reaction and ILD's growth. Actually all of it is supportive to my program. I get to read...
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Today's Gift 02-18
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Acceptance frees us. Conflict can result from trying to change a person or situation that we don't like. And conflict causes stress and agitation, both of which limit our lives. They steal our ability to be open to opportunities for growth and change. Why is it so hard to accept situations we don't lik...
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Today's Gift 02-17
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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body. . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid. --Elbert Hubbard Growing up, we learned there were many places to make wishes: the first s...
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For with the measure you use!
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Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. - Luke 6:38 Weekly ThoughtThere's a principle in life that seems oxymoronic at first glance: we get what we give. But a...
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Others
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A New Pattern of THINKING ... (There's your sign ...) February 17 "Whether it was pouring coffee in my home group, or going on a Twelfth-Step call, I entered a new pattern of thinking: I thought not only about myself, b...
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Fatigue- First week detox
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so, I finally decided to turn myself over to the program and get a sponsor. This is my first almost second week of no drinking, and gosh I am so tired at work. It seems like no matter how much coffee I drink, I'm sort of dull mentally too this week. Similar experiences?
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Getting Old doesn't have to be Depressing!
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I hope this will post okay ... some way-some how you need to view this lady's invocation at a retirement dinner, or what-ever function it was ... she's absolutely great, a real pearl ... you'll love her and I pray it brings a bright spot to your day .... for all those out there that are depressed, feeli...
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Guilt
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Going through another round of the guilts today. Hopefully it will pass soon. Tracey
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Heaven for a Cat
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In my feeble attempt to brighten the spirit of this board or rather the spirit of those who have come here today with all sort of reasons they are unhappy, I'm reprinting another of my 'old jokes' here ... Can ya'll at least 'pretend' to be getting a little chuckle here and there ??? Heaven One day a ca...
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Not Sure, but I think Tasha sent this to me last Fall !!!
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My sweet husband invited me to go hunting with him this year. I Couldn't believe it...the first time ever! I never thought he'd be willing to share his 'guy time' with me. And being the thoughtful man that he is, he even gave me an opening day present. He calls it 'The First Timers Lucky Hat'. I'm so fort...
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It's Snowing!! WTF!
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okay, I whined about the pump on the pressure washer, about the fuel pump on the truck, about my dog needing to go to the vet... not being able to get ahead, that I "Can't get a break".... Well, we have had such good weather here the past two or three weeks that I have busted ass trying to get work lined up, don...
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How does a chairperson ask for temporary sponsors at the end of the meeting?
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I am chairing my home group meeting in Barbados and wanted to ask for temporary sponsors as I heard them say it in the states but do not knohorse say it correctly?
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