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The miracle of LIFE
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Morning and blessings of this day! Please join me today in celebration of my 65th birthday. It is truly thru the God of my understandings grace and mercy that allowed me the choice between LIFE and death to reach this day... My belly button birthday of 12/2/84 and total acceptance of utter defeat aft...
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Welcome, Toni S!
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Thanks for sharing some of your story in your biography. I look forward to hearing more from you!
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Sponsorship
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I really am working on this. I have come to realize that my two main problems in asking someone to be my sponsor are: 1): I don't want to bother them. I really have a hard time believing that someone wants to actually spend their time guiding me through the steps 2): It will mean I am accountable and also tha...
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I think I could use a couple of prayers, please
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Oh boy... Today's been a rough one. This is gonna sound really stupid and ridiculous- but most of you have heard both from me at certain points by now:) It all started when I bought a new pair of jeans. I'm all thinking I'm looking good- caught a glimpse of myself in a window reflection and was horrified. I...
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Tuesday meeting
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There are five of us in the chat room. Who is chairing?
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Man!!
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Im glad that I have 5 meetings in 5 days..under my belt... Had a very angry email waiting for me when I got home last night.. I responded in a non clingy...and if you want to carry on without me in your life....its ok...I understand attitude...and meant what I said.. This morning? I get another one....sa...
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I need a few prayers for motivation...
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I have a mountain ahead of me. I have been out of work for six months and I have to re-qualify at work. I will be studying for a month to overcome that mountain. In the six months, the technology has changed considerably, and I have to conquer the technology with out the benefit of even touching it. Sigh. A...
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Trying to become "normal" drinkers
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This morning I read that alcoholics will often go to every length possible to convince themselves that they are normal drinkers - that somehow our destructive and obsessive behavior is something we can control if we really want to. I was pretty amused when I read this, because the author noted that al...
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More wreakage of the Past
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Well, it's official. My wife and I are divorcing and I'm losing my house. God grant me the serenity...
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Self-discipline
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This was a topic in a recent meeting I went to. I thought about it and realized that I have bought into being a much more regimented and structured person. This was so far from the case when I was actively drinking. I did not adhere to schedules, had a chronic lateness problem, was always passively-ag...
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He loves me when I am unlovely.
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You curl around my back like my parentheses. Surrounding my body, my whirling thoughts, my discontent with a bracket as if this period of my life is just a passing thing, something added to the sentence for emphasis only. You have looked into my wounded eyes and seen clear down to my soul and as you reach...
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Survey
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Hello every one! My name is Natasha and i was looking for you guys to take this survey for me. I am studying Alcoholics anonymous for a class at my school Oakland University. It would be great help if you would take a few minutes to take it. I really need it done for my class, thank you! http://www.surveymo...
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Good Online Meeting Here Last Night
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I was glad to attend the online meeting last night. Several.folks showed up. Several shared their ESH about the topics: emotional sobriety and let go, let God.I usually don't go to meetings on Saturdays. But, hey, it was right here.
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rocking it! finally CHANGED GEARS !
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So I had been struggling for years with my drinking, I think it really hit me when I broke up with my ex of 8 years and moved on my own. I was finding the alone being difficult, so I descided to become a chef .. the only problem with being a chef is, when you would leave people want you to drink, and wednesday q...
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Sat morning
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Are we not doing a meeting this morning?
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Can I sponsor a non-alcoholic?
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My longest time friend from college days has had a long road. She is not an alcoholic or drug addict, but she wants to know what happened to me. Why I am so different. She is the only friend I've told that I'm an alcoholic. I actually told her right away when I started AA this past year. She has had healt...
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Blaming Everybody Else for Everything
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Hi All, I was reading the Big Book this morning when something very familiar sunk in for me. During one of the narratives, the author writes about how at the height of his drinking he was blaming anything and everything in the world for his problems - except alcohol. As it turns out, alcohol was the true s...
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alcoholic blog
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(omitted by John) -- Edited by John on Friday 22nd of March 2013 06:57:04 PM
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question
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Most of you prob know that I do not attend regular meeting, I don't have a sponsor, and i did not do the steps. I do however, attend meetings when i need a reality check, have a network of support aa'ers and non, and read and try to practice many of the principles outlined in the steps, and the bb. I have achie...
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Five Stages Of Grief
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Anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one and who has dealt with the pain of that experience by seeing a counselor or working through self-help workbooks will tell you that there are five stages of grief that you go through as you deal with this loss. What you may not know is that we go through som...
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A Great outlook on a tough issue for some of us!
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Morning and blessings of this day! Today's Grapevine Quote(MikeB usually puts in up on site)is a wonderful way to look at the sometimes "struggling with the God concept" WE many incur on our journey into recovery!! Check it out, the true idea of a Higher Power being whatever that Power ...
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Another great song
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This song has really been resonating with me lately. Thought you may like to hear it. http://aa.activeboard.com Hope this works Tracey -- Edited by Tracey C on Friday 22nd of March 2013 04:01:28 AM
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The fight from within
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Emotions trying to overrule my head....seems to be my main battle today... I want to climb on the email...and try to fix it... My head knows better... Ive allready tried to fix it...and made it worse.. The more you push someone? The farther away..they go.. Got to leave it upstairs...hard thing to do....
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Struggling after relapse
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Hi guys i am really struggling to stay sober. I had 13 months and then went back out. Now I am at 13 days and it is so hard this time. The days go by so slow and I feel like I am crazy again. I am back in a sober house and going to meetings and have a new sponsor but I am struggling with the God concept.... I went throu...
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90 of em!
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Hey everyone I just wanted to share I celebrated 90 days yesterday. Thank you for being here.
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On Not Fearing the Future
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I read recently that one of the best things about being sober is that we can reach a point where we no longer fear the future. I have thought a lot about this statement, whether I think it is true, and why or why not. After almost six weeks of newfound sobriety, I am already finding myself loosening my grip...
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Day 4...
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Remembering when.... I was 37....and had lost everything...that there was to loose... I remember a few weeks...or a few months sober...even one year....and STILL wouldnt give up...MY WAY I remember when I finally had to give up... In a jail cell....facing 151 charges of fraud... Insanity... Toda...
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This Boards Stats... Amazing!
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Here is a screen shot photo of the stats that are showing on the Admin side of this board. I thought I would share them with you. We are being viewed by people over 2000 times a day, with a total of almost 8 million views since it was started! We have over 5000 registered users on the board, both active and...
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Last nights online meeting...
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Was great!! A very good turn out of people for it, and the topics were right on! "Fit Spiritual Condition, Spiritual Malady, and Step Three". The shares were really good, and provided a lot of insight to the old timers and solid hope to the newcomers. Thank all of you who showed up and made it such a grea...
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Today's Gift 3-21
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Our Spiritual Journey We begin our spiritual journey at different times in our lives but most of us reach the same place eventually where we accept the guidance of a Power greater than ourselves. A Power that cares for us and accepts us just as we are. A Power that guide...
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Coming Back
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Hi All Sorry, I have been away, but found another site that was pretty good and fit some of my needs at the moment. Unfortunately they had to close their chat room area because of spamers, idiots, and other types of abuse. So, looks like I am back here. Ben doing good, but have had some medical problems and...
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Positive / Negative
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POSITIVELY NEGATIVEWe drank for happiness and became unhappy.We drank for joy and became miserable.We drank for socialability and became argumentative and obnoxious.We drank for sophistication and became crude.We drank for friendship and made enemies.We drank to be outgoing and became self...
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Oh... Men ( sigh)
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This situation has 'potential disaster' written all over it. So I'm working step 9, making amends. I contacted an ex- boyfriend- THE ex- boyfriend, really the only relationship I've ever had. Sure, there were a few musicians, a tattoo artist thrown in- but they were distractions. Or drunken, drama...
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Today's Gift 03-20
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Love cures. It cures those who give it and it cures those who receive it. --Dr. Karl Menninger Love is no mystery, but its results are magical in many ways. It's generally accepted that many illnesses are psychosomatic. Because we often feel anxiously alone, lonely, fearful, and unloved, we express...
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3rd day
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I thought that yesterday might be the worst....but no such luck...Today takes the cake... Sometimes..it just hasta get worse before its better...I guess Cereal this morning...more soup later...another meeting tonight.. ------------------------------------------- Its all I can...do......
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I am off to take my sponsee to rehab now.
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She's broke down, and broken spiritually. She has called me drunk for the past few days, and finally last night she said she wants to check into treatment. I told her I would give her a ride since she has no money, no car, and no friends or family in 700 miles. I was suppose to get my home tested to see if the...
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For Tasha!!!!!!
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I don't know about you guys, but I think someone passed their 1 year anniversary!!!! Tasha, I am so proud of you. You are an inspiration to me and lots of others here. Your journey has been wonderful thus far and it can only get better. Happy Anniversary!!! I wish I could give this to you in person but...
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Today's Gift 03-19
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Being open Sometimes we think we're supposed to have more recovery under our belts. Perhaps we feel the need to impress our peers with our success in staying off mind-altering chemicals. But perhaps we are really just trying to convince ourselves. We know how difficult recovery is, and surely our Hi...
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Grapevine
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March 20 "When it seems like love just isn't enough, I remind myself that it is all I have to give beyond my experience, strength and hope."
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Time to get back here...before I die
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Hi everyone...My name is Phil..and Im an alcoholic When this site started up...many moons ago...? It was responsible for keeping this guy sane...for many day... To top it off...I met a lot of freinds here...and we shared and cared for each other daily.. If youve been in AA for a while? I can share with y...
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Online meetings
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I had no idea there was such a thing! I'm looking forward to check one out.
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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March 18, 2013 Quote of the Week "If I don't go to meetings, I don't hear whatGod wants me to hear." Before recovery, I kept a lot of lower companion company. I worked with a bunch of self-serving thieves who wanted the easy way out at the expense of others. My friends were alcoho...
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Going to Miami
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My sponser and I were talking the other day about her vacation home on the beach in Miami. She's one of these people who has money haha. One of those people I used to loathe. Well, shes earned it as a doctor who works insane hours. She out of the blue suggested that we go to celebrate my 1 year in May. It's righ...
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The unnatural me
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Myself as a sober person is unnatural. To be this person I have to change my nature and deny myself what the real me wants. My natural default setting is to be a drunk and to be drunk. That's who I am if I don't do anything to stop it. But that'll drive me insane, hurt others that love me, and kill me if I let it. S...
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Going to See My Son!
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Am Leaving shortly to go do some work for my youngest son ... so I will be traveling and will have limited access to our site here for the next few days ... I will have to use his computer when available ... ... ... Just wanted you guys to know I love ya and God Bless you, Pappy
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Today's Gift 03-18
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. --Samuel Johnson A truly powerful force in the universe is that of optimism. Optimism lies at the root of our mental and physical health. Feelings of hope can stimulate the body's immune system and inspire r...
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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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