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Therapy and aa??
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Hey all:) I am wondering if any of you have thoughts or opinions on seeing a therapist. Specifically, can it be in opposition to working the steps. Weird question.. But I've heard varying opinions on the matter. My sponser, though not entirely opposed to me seeing a therapist, is not 100% supportive e...
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Deep breath
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That fender bender I mentioned a thread or two ago? My break line is shot. But--- I've driven it without knowing that. And my hp has protected me (and some one else) from a car accident. ((many thanks big guy)) but, I'm still concerned. What if I can't pay for the repairs? What if I find more things they cou...
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The ULTIMATE gratitude list.
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#916 The sound of scissors cutting construction paper
#915 When theres leftover cake in the office kitchen
#914 Surprise two-ply
#913 Having a whole row by yourself on the plane
#912 Hanging your hand out the window of a car
#911 Getting served breakfast in bed
#910 When you arrive at your dest...
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The Anxiety of Facing Sober Reality
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Hi All, For the past ten years of my life, every time I have experienced high levels of anxiety, I have reached for alcohol. Doing so has allowed me to avoid many of the real issues in my life by focusing my attention first on being drunk and then on the regret of doing so. It is really a powerful distraction...
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Bless me lager for I have sinned
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Our lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hallowed be Thy drink,
Thy will be drunk,
(I will be drunk),
At home as I am in the tavern.
Give us this day our foamy head,
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those who spill against us,
And lead us not to incarceration,
But deliver us from ha...
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pitter patter
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The wavy hours in the heat of summer slip by as I trudge to the back pen. The animals constantly kick over their buckets of water, and each time I pass the barn, and make my way down the long curvy path to their abode, the grass seems a little crunchier under my feet. The heat beats me down and I lay here achi...
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Hymn #365
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A southern Baptist minister was completing a temperance sermon.With great emphasis he said, "If I had all the beer in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river." With even greater emphasis he said, "And if I had all the wine in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river.&q...
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Today's Gift
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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order. --Eudora Welty We will experience no coincidence today. All situations that transpire in the next 24 hours have their purpose. No single event, not the tired, hurried smile from a bo...
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Ridiculousness
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ALABAMA
It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle.
Dominoes may not be played on Sunday.
You may not drive barefooted.
It is illegal to maim oneself to escape duty.
It is illegal to impersonate a person of the clergy.
Women are able to retain all property the...
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God Calling - Eternal Life
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"You are to do mighty things for Me. Glories and wonders unfold. Life is one glorious whole. Draw into your beings more and more this wonderful Eternal Life. It is the flow of the Life Eternal through spirit, mind and body, that cleanses, heals, restores, renews youth, and passes on from you t...
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Just wondering.....
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Hi, For the last 21 days I have been working a program called the Love Dare. I came across it after someone recommended watching the movie Fireproof. It is a christian based program, looking at our own behaviours and developing better relationships with our HP and others. For myself it has/is brin...
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-- Edited by Harobed 2 on Saturday 11th of August 2012 03:54:06 PM -- Edited by Harobed 2 on Saturday 11th of August 2012 04:15:32 PM
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Finding Joy
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Here's a 3 and 1/2 minute video clip very much worth watching ... I've seen it a dozen times and still love watching every second of it ... Enjoy!http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/finding-joy-v/?cm_mmc=CheetahMail-_-FR-_-08.03.12-_-FJOYmovie-USCAXX-&utm_source=CheetahMail...
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Daily Reflections ~ Vital Sustenance
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Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and ou...
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I Just Don't Get It
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At my morning meeting today, I heard a guy say he was sober with the help of AA for 15 years and then thought he could drink sociably. He's back because he got a DWI and his life is shit. I also heard from another person that someone I liked and had a lot in common with, and who I thought had a great grasp on the...
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new but kinda hesitant
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realizing lately that when it comes to drinking I go to extremes...years ago went to AA but ran from it due to all the people wanted to talk about was God...problems weren't figured out and walked away. Now I am with a great guy and we've been together 2 1/2 yrs..when I met him we were both drunk but he start...
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Have you had the privilege to see any "famous" speakers in person? If so who? :)
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Theres this weekly speaker meeting held in Portland OR that I try to go to every Saturday. They have "famous" speakers there about once a month. I seen some lady named Polly? She was real good and is my wifes great grandsponsor. They have a list and some of the upcoming speakers were Ralp...
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Psychic Change
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. ~~William Sloan Coffin, Jr . For many of us, the past is sprinkled with endeavors that were never pursued to completion. Perhaps some pursuits were more complicated than we were equipped to handle. But it's likely that, at times, w...
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Free Will
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He always lets people do what they want. ~~Frank N.D. Buchman We are born into the world with free will, and we can do whatever we please. But there are civil laws and, if we disobey them, we are at risk of losing our freedom. The spiritual world also has laws; if we disregard them, we suffer consequences....
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Today's Gift
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Reflection for the Day Someone once defined the ego as "the sum total of false ideas about myself." Persistent reworking of the Twelve Steps enables me to gradually strip away my false ideas about myself. This permits nearly imperceptible but steady growth in my understanding of the tru...
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Old habits die hard
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I have a urine test tommorrow. Now, I'm not sure how many alkies can relate to this but, I have about two weeks sober.
So, my boss anounces, yesterday, that random people will be selected for a drug screen tomorrow. And given my circumstances, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be one of them. So the first chanc...
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Stuck
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So I think I've figured out why I've been feeling "stuck" lately. I simply feel as though I've stopped progressing in the program. Spirituality is more of an issue than I had thought for me. It's not that I don't believe in a higher power, I do believe I've had some strange, distant relations...
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Hi, I'm Kevbo, I'm an Alcoholic. Anyone in Albany,NY area?
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A first post, so I should tell a little about me to say hello: I was sober for 3 years, then had a 17 year second drinking career. I had my second 30day birthday a week or so back. I'm pretty intent on doing it right this time. I am averaging well over one meeting per day, and have only missed a couple of day...
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Dreams... leave me alone!
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I didn't want to continue adding negativity to the positive "Vibrant Dreams" thread... so this one is for the other side of that spectrum. Last night I dreamed that me and my ex were back together and going on a trip. She told me to grab a beer from the fridge for her and for me for the trip. Sid...
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God Calling - Blessed Bond
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"I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. There is no bond of union on earth to compare with the union between Me and a soul who loves Me. Priceless beyond all earth's imaginings is that friendship. In the merging of heart and mind and will, a oneness results that only those who experience it can...
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Today's Gift
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"Stomp, Scram, Spit, Cry," a friend said. "Just don't go numb again. Maybe what you're really angry about is that you've been dead longer than Abe Lincoln, and now you're finally coming back to life." There's a price to pay for passion. We need to feel our emotions. Action: Pay a...
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Quick Hello and Thanks
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Hey and hello! Been dealing with a family matter & then out of state & offline. Turned a sober 65--ain't that a miracle!!! All has been restored, despite the darkest hopelessness of the way it used to be. The Promises may not always be rapid or come true all at one time but ...well, just read the...
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Reeeeee-lapse blah
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Well I went... I think that's FIVE days wasn't it? From Thursday morning to now would be five days I think... damn time was flying!!! Then I find out I totally wasn't getting the steps AT ALL... and I NEED a stricter sponser... preferably one in the same city or at least STATE that I'm in!!!! Told ya... e...
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"smile on your brother, everbody get together"
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Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity."
Editorial by Bill W.
A.A. Grapevine, December, 1947
"Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common we...
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If you need a hearty laugh....
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Folks, to get the laugh I am describing, you must see King of the Hill, Season Ten, Episode Three "Bills House." Do yourself a tabor and check it out. If we can't laugh at ourselves, it just ain't funny.
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In a meeting recently...
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Someone said something that was the simplest thing but it could really be a life saver for some people. Sometimes the simplest things can bring someone from a very bad place into the light very quickly: Sometimes we dont know it, but there really is a good world out there. sometimes there are people...
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Feeling the 5th step
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When I spoke with my Mother, and there wasn't a canon ball shooting around inside me - I felt it. When I looked at my son, and he looked at me, and we knew just what it meant - I felt it. When Zach and I disagreed on something all the way home, and then went our seperate ways, with a quick glance and an "I lov...
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I did it!
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I made my 90 days sober, and you know what I feel pretty damn good about it. Three months ago I would never have said I would make it, at the same point I'm also 8 months smoke free. These have been some of the best days of my life. I'm happy, my family is happy, kids wife and I are all healthy happy and on our way t...
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Disney
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After doing a few readings... The morals/plot line of the Disney movies is so glaring, I'm hardly enjoying the movies any more. (watching Mulan after I watched lion king).
Has this happened to you with any movies?
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My way up the steps...
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Step 1: Easy... done. Step 2: Well... yeah. I'm religious... but have felt guilty that I couldn't give my problems over to God... Maybe I didn't want to give those problems to anybody else... even God... But I think I'm coming around to this. Step 3: Did this long ago. I was the Sunday School teacher at th...
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Confucius Say
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Confucius say ... *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Man who run in Front of car get tired. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Man who run behind Car get exhausted. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Man with one Chopstick go hungry. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Man who eat many Prunes get good run for money. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Baseball...
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Today's Gift
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. --Carl Jung In our worst time, we have been irritable and difficult to live with. And when we feel most irritable, we are least likely to look at ourselves. Now in recovery, when someone irritates us, it is very us...
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Tennessee's Wooden Leg Ins.
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TENNESSEE WOODEN LEG INSURANCE A man and his wife moved back home to Tennessee from Ohio. The husband had a wooden leg, and to insure it in Ohio cost them $2000 per year! When they arrived in Tennessee, they went to an insurance agency to see how much it would cost to insure his wooden le...
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Careful Who You Lie To
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A minister was passing a group of young teens sitting on the church lawn and stopped to ask what they were doing."Nothing much, Pastor," replied one boy. "We were just seeing who can tell the biggest lie about their sex life." "Boys, boys, boys!" he scolded. "I...
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Positive/Safe Coping Mechanisms/Unwinding Methods Etc
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This thread is for positive coping mechanisms, ways to unwind, pampering ideas... SAFE ways to calm your mood... PLEASE feel free to add to it! Burn incense - I specifically love burning nag champa incense... lots of people find it calms the mood and I agree. Be of service to others - AA and the other 12-...
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Past 72 hours (3 days) alcohol free! - & My Next Addiction?
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The last time I drank was the morning of my court case... Thursday morning at about 7am. It is now Sunday evening, 9pm... so that makes more than 72 hours!!! Last night I was tempted to drink... mostly out of boredom I think... but then I was like "meh... why drink?" and today I woke up with with...
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"remain teachable forever"
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I was taking a walk, with his neice last night. Kid Is in a really rough spot. And so were talking and she said something about her best friends mom dying, probably has 2 months to live. And then she made a joke about smokn weed or drinking with friends, and I asked if she did smoke (I was really unsure about i...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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July 30, 2012Quote of the Week "A God defined - is a God confined." Long before recovery, and even many years into it, I had a need to understand who and what God was. I was sure that if I was "good" and acted the way I thought God wanted me to act, then I could control Him, and ultima...
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I am looking for others such as I, holding myself accountable starting now!
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I am an alcoholic. Beginning my Sobriety again today, its a constant battle. I am 32 years old and have struggled since the age of 21, but mostly in the last 3 years has my addiction become what it is. I grew up in a wonderfully loving home with my Mother who tried so hard to raise my Sister & I by hers...
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Carl Jung and Alcoholics Anonymous
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Here's a nice history of the Jung connection to AA I came across in my readings today. There may be a couple of small errors in it. How Jung gave me the power to save my life ROSS FITZGERALD From: The Australian July 28, 2012 12:00AMWHEN I visited the famous psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung's son, Franz,...
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The Vibrant Dreams
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I am always amazed at how much more reading I am able to do when I am not drinking. And I dream so much more, and with so much more clarity. Last night I went to bed reading 'salem's Lot by Stephen King and had a series of wonderfully colorful and detailed dreams that I remembered clearly this morning. Wakin...
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I put my pants on backwards.
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And I'm keeping them that way until I get to a meeting. It's pretty uncomfortable, and definately a constant reminder of what I need to do... bringing the urgency and desperation back!
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I did my 5th step.
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Most of it was just talking. Talking, as it turns out, can not physically hurt you ; ) I thought in order for it to feel as though I did it thouroughly, there would need to be convulsions, storms, the booming sound of God in the backround, possibly an exploded head in the corner of a prior sponsee who didn'...
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Scared I'm headed down the wrong road..need help
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Hey all:) today's day 73 for me..which is great but something has shifted in me. Ive been to 2 meetings this week, I haven't been reading the literature..I'm just off track. I really couldn't tell you why. And I feel pretty miserable. Crying, tired all the time, don't want to be around people. I just fee...
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SUPRISE!!
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This weekend, I thought I was gonna be in a sea of uncomfortability. 13 year old girl posessive of her uncle (my fiancée), a whole day spent with a guy who used to give me the creeps, and this guys piece of tail-- if the pity pot had a face, it would be hers.
But you know what? That 13 year old was incredibly m...
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