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Today's Gift
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I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well: devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. --Florida Scott Maxwell In our quiet moments we dream of the gifts that accompany being loved and imagine ourselves as alway...
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Swimming in seaweed.
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As a child - it didn't bother me much to swim in mucky waters... filled with seaweed or blood suckers or whatever else I didn't want to really know about. I'd get a bucket of tadpoles and drag them back up to the house several corn fields away, only to be told by my mother to TAKE THEM BACK!!! I loved all 125...
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As we speak...
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At the moment my beloved wife is upstairs shooting up. She relapsed two days ago though I just found out an hour ago. She is on parole and the consequences of a dirty UA is life without parole. She says that she wants to quit tomorrow and is willing to go to a meeting tonight. Of course, addiction has he...
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Been B U S Y. Exercising the "Giving it to my HP" power.
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My wife and I have been agonizing over moving the family closer to my work. The kids are 11 and 13, and it is tough moving. My wife and I made a lot of military moves over the years, and had settled into my current house for 10 years. We have made a lot of friends here in South Carolina, but if I move to Fla, I can...
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For Mike B & MrPeel --- Let's go Blonde!!!
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Okay boys, ... Here we go ... A blonde wanted to go ice fishing. She'd seen many books on the subject and finally getting all of the necessary tools together, she made for the ice. After positioning her comfy footstool, she started to make a circular cut in the ice. Suddenly, from the sky, a voice boo...
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a place ofchange
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at 1st . You put your whole self in........... me thunk you get th drift........
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Impulses
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Yesterday was my Friday. It had a rough start that I conquered and perservered over until by the end of the day I was all smiles. But I had that thinking in the back of my head. That stuff that allows me to make a choice before I can't make a choice. The Little Voice (vice) was saying, "Just a lil'bi...
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Up early for once and feels as though it helps my state of mind
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Although i feel depressed after a binge, I've somehow got my sleeping pattern into waking up in the early hours of the morning instead of going to bed in the early hours. It's a bit strange but I've woke up, done some AA reading, 3 cups of tea, textd my friends, sent a couple of e mails, and i've just noticed...
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Sunrise Quote
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"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude." - G.K. Chesterton
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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August 26, 2013 Quote of the Week "The ONLY thing that can ever make me drink again is untreated alcoholism." There is a lot in this quote. First, it reminds me that no matter how much time I have, I also still have the disease of alcoholism. Like someone once said, after each day I stay so...
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Today's Gift
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Expectations of Others It is our job to identify our needs, and then determine a balanced way of getting those needs met. We ultimately expect our Higher Power and the Universe - not one particular person - to be our source. It is unreasonable to expect anyone to be able or willing to meet our every requ...
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Grapevine
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August 27 "AA membership cannot depend upon any particular belief whatever ... our Twelve Steps contain no article of religious faith except faith in God - as each of us understands him."
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Sunrise Quote
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"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
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POWERLESS?
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When my wife was diagnosed with terminal cancer, I was reminded what it was like to be powerless. But, the doctor said, there are certain things we can do to improve the situation. There are various medications and treatments we can use to slow the disease down that will give you a bit more time, and impr...
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Grapevine
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August 26 "Ego was being replaced with self-respect ... resentment and hatred were being replaced with tolerance and understanding ... fear was being replaced with trust ... loneliness and self-pity were being replaced with gratitude and love -- all because I was working the program to the...
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Your Past
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I've been finding myself feeling alot of resentment lately, not able to get over the people that I have hurt including myself. I've been writing a bit in a journal to help me get into the right head space , I found this nice image/quote and I thought I would share if anyone is experiencing the same thought...
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Today's Gift 08-26
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. -- E. W. Howe Do you let yourself be afraid of your illness? You'd better. Many of us were scared into sobriety. Often, a spiritual awakening directly follows a good scare. Fear seems to improve our vision. Are you smart enough to run from your addictio...
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Bash you over the head drinking dream
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Wow! I have drinking dreams pretty frequently. Early this morning I had a really intense relapse dream, and the dream was mostly about the aftermath. The intense pain and shame and horror and confusion and wanting to just disappear. It also involved some pretty intense revisiting of my steps 4 and 5 t...
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Willing to make amends
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The Eighth Step is talking about a change of heart, a healing change. This attitude can begin a great chain of repair and healing in our relationships with others and ourselves. It means we become willing to let go of our hard heartedness - one of the greatest blocks to our ability to give and receive lov...
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That question again, am i an alcoholic?
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Keep asking myself. But then i think well i'm not and have never been dependent on alcohol where i top up each day. But i don't want to drink yet i keep finding myself binging every so often, but to a point where i can't stop, i will fixate on a drink, i will never and can't stop after 1 drink this would be tortu...
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Th 1/4 Back
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The QuarterbackI do not wish to offend anyone who has hair which may be of a less than dark hue but I just had to share this one with you.At least I don't have to worry in this dep't , I ain't got hair A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game. They had great seats right behind their team's be...
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Breaking News
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A new coat of paint
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The crickets enticed me into some late night peace. As I lay and stare out the window of change, the dark unknown is not so scary anymore... just interesting. There are moonlit images resting on hopes and dreams; starry clusters pointing out wonders not forgotten; reflective eyes that see me... so...
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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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Sunrise Quote
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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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