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A Senior's Driver's License
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A SENIORS DRIVER'S LICENSE A man was sitting on a lawn sunning and reading, when he was startled by a fairly late model car crashing through a hedge and coming to rest on his lawn. He helped the elderly driver out and sat her on a lawn chair. My goodness he exclaimed, you are quite old to be driving! Y...
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To newcomers.
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My daughter turns 30 today and I am grateful to God, for granting me sobriety when she was in grade1. I would have damaged her very badly if I had continued drinking. Besides the physical damage we inflict on our families, the emotional damage is far greater. My dad's alcoholism damaged my schooling an...
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What are some good movies that deal with alcoholism?
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Ive seen clean and sober with Michael Keaton, really liked it, also seen Leaving Las Vegas with Nicolas Cage...Im sure theres a lot more, any recomendations? Thanks...
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Questions
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Hi, I found this site for my husband, also for myself. My husband stopped drinking 5days. He is a heavy closet drinker. He finally started to see a therapist about a month ago and started on antidepressants. He didn't stop drinking tho till 5days ago. He went thru the shakes nightmares and such. He seem...
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It's all there in black and white
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I began a " sobriety journal". I had stopped keeping a journal for the last couple of years of my drinking, there were, however random entries here and there. I thought it might be an interesting exercise to skim through my old journals. Good Lord, the level of denial I had been living in is qu...
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My son breaks again.
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My 5 yr old son broke his arm again yesterday. He did it just a hair under six months ago. You know how come I know exactly how long ago? Because I was only a few days sober. It was the day I was skipping out on seeing my whole family who had just been told that I was an alcoholic by my husband. I had invited e...
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Today's Gift
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I want to change things. I want to see things happen. I don't want just to talk about them. --John Kenneth Galbraith Newcomer I feel as if I should be doing so much more than just staying in recovery and going to meetings. And yet, when I have free time, I'm not accomplishing much these days. I go to a meetin...
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What's easy
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At this point, I'm teetering between sitting back, and letting myself be a newcomer, and sometimes swinging waaaaaaaay up into the reaching out to those area's where I can be of service. I really do feel like I'm just flying up and down from one thing to the next - gobbling up some knowledge on one end as...
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Hope for the future
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I'm writing this in regards to anyone who might be reading who is still suffering in a really awful situation. This is nothing but a reflection of my experience with AA, but hopefully I might be able to shine a light on someone who is where so many people are -which is what so many AA members are trying to d...
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Great Googly Moogly...1 Year
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I quit drinking and joined AA on May 9, 2011. I went to meetings, read the literature and got a a dedicated, loving sponsor who worked the steps with me. In the summer of 2011 I mentioned to her, quite casually, that I was still smoking a little pot at night to help me sleep. She told me she wouldn't be able to...
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Today's Gift
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Reflection for the Day Even with a growing understanding of The Program and its Twelve Steps, we sometimes might find it difficult to believe that our new way of life leads to personal freedom. Suppose, for example, I feel imprisoned in an uncomfortable job or troublesome personal relationship. Wh...
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To all the newcomers on the board....
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This is one time where the influx of newcomers has been exceptionally high. I'm talking people with 1 week leading up to 1 year of recovery. I just wanted to state that that 1st year was the hardest one of my life, but also the best one. You guys are the lifeblood of the program and I'm so happy to be readi...
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Gift of the Day
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So..........I'm in a hurry and just lurking (uh, I mean checking in) and I am running out of time. I start to scroll, and scroll, and scroll. I don't click into much, just scroll the subjects. And it was awesome!!!!!! Got a whole lot out of just mentally linking together all the stuff put out there. Try...
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Joy, sorrow, victory sadness.
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1. A man walks into AA recovery at the age of 67 and stays sober for 8 years, makes amends to the family he has hurt and dies at the age of 75. The timeline is not so important as the culmination of the life of one human being in peace. Sorrow for the families and members of AA but joy for the fellowship as a whol...
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Fear
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I had a peculiar experience today... Not peculiar to many of you all, I know. But to me.. I have really only experienced strong urges to drink maybe once ( to the point that I was in fear of relapsing). Tonight at work I'm going about my business, and these two coworkers of mine are being all annoyingly fli...
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The disease of more
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The meeting I went to today was a grapevine meeting. One of the central themes in the story was that the writer had never been able to practice moderation in almost any area of life. Of course when it came time to share, I discussed how binge eating, dieting, exercising, working, and sex have all been p...
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My 12th Day! :)
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Well everyone, hit my 12th Day being Sober, doing good, been a long week at work, been really busy of late, work for the Military. I have a friend thats been sober for 12yrs that I do side work for on the weekends, he's been in AA for 13yrs, he called me for work this Saturday and we talked on being sober, AA an...
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Today's Gift
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The elevator is broken; use the Steps. --Anonymous Elevators are easy. We push a button and we go right to the top. The way is fast, quick, and silent. We don't work up a sweat. We don't get out of breath. We can't trip and fall. There is not much time to communicate with anyone else along the way so we don't h...
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GREAT 'Wisdom of the Rooms' piece --- a must read
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September 10, 2012 Quote of the Week "Put the magnifying glass down andpick up the mirror" Oh how I love focusing on you. If you would only stop doing this or that, or if you'd start doing this or that, then finally, maybe I'd be happy. Relieved of the responsibility of self, it was so...
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Alcoholism before AA.
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No amount of being shown holes in the brains of alcoholics, livers the size of watermelons, or sobbing family members who's loved one was killed by a drunk driver was going to stop me from taking my next drink. That was the sad truth I was living in. In fact, hearing the threats, the cries and rational way...
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Week Devotional
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The Blessing of Trouble Can't see the images? | Add Simpletruths@newsletter.simpletruths.com to your Address BookForward to a FriendWeekly VerseCast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. -1 Peter 5:7Weekly QuoteHow often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go...
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Does it happen for everyone like this?
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Do you all of a sudden feel like it just CLICKS! The second you admit to yourself, truly and undeniably, that you have a disease, that you're allergic to alcohol, you just think of it differently? Like the poison it is to your body, instead of just something you do to get through everything big or small? T...
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Dr. Bobs Nightmare...
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newcomer.http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/en_drbobnightmare.pdf
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The perfect drunk?
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I did have good momentum going. I was calling my sponsor when I had the urge to buy liquor instead of coffee. I was doing a min. of 3 meetings per week, reading... thinking! Started to slip when I felt like a burden to my family being gone all the time, taking so much time to myself to exercise, read, do thing...
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Leaves of change, a child's delight.
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Today I wake up, take a shower, and head to the kitchen to re-heat a cup of coffee.  Then I decide I will not be too lazy to make some fresh. I stare out the kitchen window, as the coffee pot is filling with cool water, I realize the dark of night is leaving. I look at the clock, 6:36. I'm overjoyed that the d...
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Still here, still sober, still stoopid.
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Aye, been catching upi with the posts I've missed out on, but yep, I'm still here, living a quiet life in Scotland and I'm still sober (or should that be still and sober) Why still stoopid? well i keep on doing the daftest stuff and wondering well bugger me how did that happen? I have a long standing physic...
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Having Second thoughts on the meetings!
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Not really sure how to say this, but what if I dont go to the meetings and did this by myself, I have the books and I'm in my 5th day of being sober! I'm doing this for myself, to make me a better person and I'm getting old health reasons, Its good to be able to talk to people here while I'm doing this, but I dont w...
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Live and let live.
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Can we talk about how you interperate that saying and incorporate it into you life? Or any other AA saying that you like if not this one.
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Today's Gift
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Life moves forward The past is past. Over. Finished. Our job is to move with the flow of the present. We are propelled by what went before, but we do not try to swim against the current of our present lives by regretting or yearning for old times. Each day of recovery releases us from the past and gives us a f...
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Friday
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It is Friday early morning and I am still sober. Yeah for me right, except it is the weekend. This weekend is different because its the first one I have vowed to stay sober for but is that too much. People I have spoken with this week have said only think about today and I understand why so today I will stay so...
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I think you just hit the nail right on the head
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Ive heard this phrase used once or twice in meetings..'an egomaniac with an inferiority complex'. At first, I thought it was funny (it is). Then I thought 'goodness, what a horrible thing to be!'. Then I realized 'oh wow, that's exactly ME'. That's me!! Holy crap. Have any of you heard this term being u...
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Judging others sincerity in regards to AA
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I decidecd to start a new thread in response to something Tasha said in her thread entitled 'question'. Specifically: I do however, get a pang in my heart and gut "picking" certain people who seem "good enough". I feel like I want to help everyone, and I know I can't, but...
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Inner Peace
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I'm passing this on because it worked for me today. A Dr. on TV said to have inner peace we should always finish things we start & we all could use more calm in our lives. I looked around my house to find things I'd started & hadn't finished, so I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonna...
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** question **
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Yesterday while at a meeting, two people mentioned the death (suicide) of their friend. I believe I had seen her around for a couple months, I think she just got out of a sober house - that's beside the point. She had 3 young children and a husband very worried about her - kept calling into the AA hotline...
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Thank you for today
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I was feeling pretty crummy all day and didn't want to get up to go to a meeting, but my HP gave me a big ol' push and I went anyway. Got there just in time to witness a man receive a chip for his 40th year. Even better, his wife was there to celebrate her 40th Al-Anon anniversary with him. I've only been going to...
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We Become What We Think
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For an incredible insight into the power of the mind ... watch this 3 minute clip ... http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/the-strangest-secret-v/?cm_mmc=CheetahMail-_-FR-_-09.07.12-_-TSSCmovie-USCAXX-&utm_source=CheetahMail&utm_campaign=TSSCmoviePappy
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Fall is Coming
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Fall is coming - read to the end --This is great! GOOD ONE !!!!!! ... (For All Of Us Over Fifty) Love Story I will seek and find you. I shall take you to bed and have my way with you. I will make you ache, shake & sweat until you moan & groan. I will make you beg for mercy, beg for me to stop...
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Today's Gift
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.--Christian BoveeOurs is a program of hope. We sit in meetings and give each other hope. For no matter how long we have been sober - five days or thirty years - there will be times when we feel horrible. This is life. In everyone's life there are times of wond...
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Helping myself/ others/ my family.
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Im wondering if any of the old timers on the site who understand alcoholism very well can tell me what the best way to help a family affected by alcoholism. I understand this is a family disease and we are in fact ill, but it is ME WHO IS THE ALCOHOLIC AND I WANT TO HELP MYSELF AND MY FAMILY. I have been atten...
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Scooping the yuck out
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I'm doing step 8.
Before this program, I wanted to bleach my insides. I wanted to Lysol my soul. I wanted to peroxide my brain.
After going through some of the steps, I feel my mind and body have been dipped in a bubble bath.
And maybe you're right... I did need quite a bit of "brain washing&quo...
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I am over it!
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I am my old self again. Happy inside. Im not a smart man but Im a million times smarter than I was. I am not a drunk anymore, Its a good world the way it once was and Im having a good time, I got a birthday coming up with my family (Later than it was on this site) I have been sober for 9 months and I owe a lot to AA, I...
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Today's Gift
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Freedom is like taking a bath - you have to keep doing it every day! --Flo Kennedy Nothing stands still. Change is the law of life. We may sometimes feel that our personal gains have to be won over and over again. But looked at from another perspective, that's not so: our solid personal gains are the ones t...
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Surveying the damage
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Okay...so having focused on putting my life back together (mental health, finances, relationships, spirituality - not that I am done with any of those things - just that they have been focused on and healed somewhat) that last thing to get focused on was the fact that I had not been to the doctor or the d...
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God Calling - Drop Those Burdens
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"Look to Me for all. Rely on Me for all. Drop those burdens, and then, singing and free, you can go on your way rejoicing. Encumbered with them you will fall. Drop them at My feet, knowing surely that I will lift them and deal with each one as is truly best." 365 One-Minute Meditations fr...
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Progress... Not perfection
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Hey all:) haven't really been around MIP in a couple of days and it's great to see so many newcomers!! Ive realized that many of the small, everyday 'struggles' with early sobriety that I've posted about here are not only pretty common, but also perfectly appropriate to bring up at actual face to face m...
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The literature
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There are a few main books mentioned repeatedly in the meetings. And ofcourse pamphlets. So, what's your favorite? Your go to? Mine is living sober. Love that book.
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my intro thread
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I smoked pot from 14 to 23 years old everyday at least 10 times a day. I drank from 23 til 31. i did outpatient, i did psych counsling, recently i had 13 months sober and lost it. I now have a sponsor and have one week in. I feel like its a totally differnt ballgame when you have a sponsor. the whole recovery see...
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getting in the meeting
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Ok, I am not computer savy and I can't figure out how to get this working. I downloaded and installed the java thing and reopened the window but all I have is the white box with an error message, actually like 3 java lang messages. loading errors I guess. Anyone know what to do, I really need to get in and tal...
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question about aa history
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Hi, I got into a conversation the other day with a fellow group member at my home group about the history of AA about tradition three. I was wondering if anyone on here could help me out. I realize that AA consisted mainly of white men in the early days, but my question is this: DId AA ever turn away anyone be...
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I love my sober life.
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I'm so thankful for you = my AA family and home group away from home group : ) Hope everyone had a relaxing Labor Day. Thanks to my HP for another beautifully laid out sober day. I have so much to be grateful for today thanks to this program and all the love and support you have shown me. This ordinary day...
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