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Daily Reflections ~ Anonymity & 24hrs a Day
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Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 564 Tradition Twelve became important early in my sobriety and, along with the Twelve Steps, it continues to be a must in my recovery. I became aware afte...
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78 days!!
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I know its not a common milestone like 60 or 90 etc but its a big one for me, every since I came to AA two years ago this is the longest I have been without a drink. The longest before was over a year ago and I had 76.. So that means since I started drinking at 15, in the 15 years that followed this is the longest I h...
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God Calling ~ Do Not Plan
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"All is well. Wonderful things are happening. Do not limit God at all. He cares and provides. Uproot self - the channel blocker. Do not plan ahead; the way will unfold step by step. Leave tomorrow's burden. (Higher power) is the great burden bearer. You cannot bear His load, and He only ex...
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God Calling ~ The Way will Open
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"You must be renewed, remade... Everything must rest on Me. Only love is a conquering force. Be not afraid; I will help you. Take heart. God loves, God helps, God fights, God wins. You shall see. You shall know. The way will open. All My love has ever planned, all My love has ever thought, y...
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Resolutions Anyone?
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So I swear like a drunken sailor. I am very good at combining some of the most offensive curse words, usually starting or ending (sometimes starting AND ending) with the F word or some derivatives. I have kids, and many times I can not stop myself, even in front of them. My wife has asked me to at least dr...
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Daily Reflections ~ Powerless & 24hrs a Day
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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 21 It is no coincidence that the very first Step mentions powerlessness: An admission of personal powerlessness over alcohol is a cornerstone of the foundation of recovery....
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traditions
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I recently went to a meeting where someone was thrown out because he sat in the back working on a laptop. I saw people texting with no consequences but one overbearing member told the person to leave. While there may be a group conscience is the texting ok then? Does this cross the boundry of the only requ...
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Happy New Year (video from John to you!)
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Looking for a Sponsor in Grand Junction/Denver Metro Area..
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Hello, I am looking for a sponsor for my boyfriend who is currently incarcerated, colorado state penitentiary. He is trying to make parole in April and wants to do everything he can to stay on the right track. Someone in Grand Junction would be ideal but the Denver metro area is alright. If anyone has an...
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God Calling ~ Arm of Love
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"You are to help to save others. Never let one day pass when you have not reached out an arm of love to someone outside your home - a note, a letter, a visit, help in some way. Be full of joy. Joy saves. Joy cures. Joy in Me. In every ray of sunlight, every smile, every act of kindness, or love, every...
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Oh boy
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Here I sit at work, feeling very bad that I know when I get off work, I will drink about 10 beers. That is my daily consumption. I hate myself every morning and ask myself and god why do I do this everyday. Been through the program before with 8 and 2 years sober. I'm so sick of this, but scared to face reality....
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almost died
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coming back, in every sense of these words. with just under a year of being sober, i surrendered to my disease and picked up that first drink. i had walked out of the sunlight of the spirit one day at a time. had a very difficult personal situatation. my sponsor and i agreed to no longer continue a sponsor/...
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OMG, HNY!!!
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Happy New Year! I am so glad I am sober. I am so content to go to bed at 10:00pm and sleep well! Peace my friends!
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turninggrey
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Step 4 stuff I need to really do (i think)
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The way that I lie to myself is astounding . I have been saying that I have not been drinking to myself for years , but that is not true. I have been drinking not everyday , never did , but once a week or every two weeks drunk, I think
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God Calling ~ Between the Years
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"I stand between the years. The light of My presence is flung across the year to come - the radiance of the sun of righteousness. Backward, over the past year, is My shadow thrown, hiding trouble and sorrow and disappointment. Dwell not on the past - only on the present. Only use the past as the t...
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profoundly moving speaker tape
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At a meeting tnight, instead of a typical meeting, we listened to a tape made of Bill W. speaking at the one year anniversary of a new group. However, just before leaving for the meeting he recieved a telegram from Bob. Jr. "Uncle Bill. Dad passed peacefully in his sleep last night." Referri...
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Daily Reflection ~ I am a Miracle & 24hrs a Day
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The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25 This truly is a fact in my life tod...
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Just got offered a shot of vodka here now at work...
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weird, sitting here at work, a new girl came over and said "hey bud do you want some vodka" I said no im an alcoholic and she said so do you want some, i said no thanks Im in the program. The weird thing was my natural instinct was to grab the glass before it even occured... maybe it was a test..eit...
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Daily Reflections ~ Principles, Not Personalities & 24hrs a Day
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The way our worthy alcoholics have sometimes tried to judge the less worthy is, as we look back on it, rather comical. Imagine, if you can, one alcoholic judging another! THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 37 Who am I to judge anyone? When I first entered the Fellowship I found that I liked everyone. After all...
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Step 4
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Im on step 4 and my sponsor said to write down any resentments I ever had regarding to drinking or not. Can anyone share some examples or tips? Thanks
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New to Online Forums.
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Hi, My names Brian and Im an Alcoholic. I thought Id join the forums online as well as go to meetings.
I first came to AA in 2009 but I didnt start working the program properly until about May 1st of 2011. Im hoping I can post messages with other members to help keep me away from drinking. Ive gotten myself...
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I'm New. Support???
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This is new for me. I am making a promise to not drink. My husband of 15 months and I do not see eye-to-eye on drinking. I have a few drinks and he doesn't like it. I am thin and on medication so drinking is not wise for me. Actually, it's not wise at all. I am very good at functioning and drinking. I work every da...
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Everything keeps getting better and better!!
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I started attending AA this year and it has been a great help! I had to stop drinking because I found out I have liver disease. Once I stopped drinking it helped my liver but not as much as I expected. I was still having problems with my liver, and my Doctor told me there isn't much that can be done other than a...
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I use to drink to trash myself...
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Aloha MIPers...It was appropriate that this past awareness from past inventories came back to mind this morning and that somewhat of an urge to try it again also passed my frontal lobe. I got frustrated and angry and resentful and fearful...harrassed again by the police...and so for the moment I w...
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Worth a repost on the holidays
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The First few times I went surfing were some of the most miserable times of my life, the board wobbled underneath me and would hit me in the face and moved around with every little bump in the water as I struggled to control it, paddling out used muscles I was unfamiliar with and the workout I got was unlike...
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I assume that I have a drinking problem because...
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At times I don't like the way it makes me feel but I do it anyway. Then there are other times when I can drink like a regular person with few consequences or I can not drink at all. I seem to be able to say no to it when I should and I can go for weeks without touching a drop. So am I really an alcoholic? I've read som...
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Gratitude List (PLEASE ADD ITEMS)
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Dear Family. I just wanted to remind myself how grateful I am for the blessings. I thought I could start the list and anyone who wants can add as we approach the holidays and the New Year. For starters I am grateful for:
My children.
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Daily Reflections ~ Suit Up and Show Up & 24hrs a Day
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In A.A. we aim not only for sobriety we try again to become citizens of the world that we rejected, and of the world that once rejected us. This is the ultimate demonstration toward which Twelfth Step work is the first but not the final step. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 21 The old line says, Suit up and show up. That a...
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Daily Reflections ~ Accepting Success or Failure & 24hrs a Day
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Furthermore, how shall we come to terms with seeming failure or success? Can we now accept and adjust to either without despair or pride? Can we accept poverty, sickness, loneliness, and bereavement with courage and serenity? Can we steadfastly content ourselves with the humbler, yet sometimes m...
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First Time Here
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Hello all- My name is Dan. I'm a twenty nine year old alcoholic and addict with twenty seven days sober today. I did a two week inpatient program and have been going to meetings and outpatient daily. I have a sponsor and a solid network of guys for support and totally believe in this program, but I'm runni...
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Merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas- Happy Holidays to my Family of Choice here at MIP Dean
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hi, I am new...
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my name is lex. My last drink was early Dec 8th. I have been having trouble drinking for at least a decade and want my life back. I signed up for a group called daytox locally but get anxiety and panic attacks and am not ready to be in large groups for extended periods yet. Am on disability, and I tend to binge...
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hmmm maybe I pray for the wrong thing
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So I headed off bright and early Sunday on my trip. After many many years of driving mini vans I have switched to a sporty little Z24 Cavilier. Better on gas was the mind set. I pass the last gas station for the next 80 K (50 Miles) and glance at the gauge, just under 1/4, no problem. My vans would get at leas...
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Lonely and Grateful
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Contradictory states of being? Not for this alcoholic. What to do, what to do? Gonna make some great soup.Yep, that'll help. Always grateful for my own homemade soup. Would like it better, though, if my beloved were here to enjoy it with me. But no, he left & ain't coming back, as near as I can tell....
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Mele Kalikimaka...
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From Hawaii/Hawaii...The country/The Island. I went to "The" meeting...my Sunday, AA at the Bay, home group as I do almost every Sunday for the past 16 years. I left home with gratitude for the gifts I have...1. I'm home in the land and culture I was created in and that is huge especiall...
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Jerry F
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Another opportunity!
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As God(of our own understanding) opened our eyes today ,we have another opportunity to be of maximum service to that Higher Power in our lives and others. Just For Today we will seek to work toward that fit spiritual condition,the daily reprieve accompanied by application of our solution"THE...
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Oh we of little faith...
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I am just astounded by the lack of faith out there! It almost appears it is "cool" to denigrate faith. I work in a technical field and we have a forum. It just amazes me that not only are the younger guys attacking religion, they are embracing darkness. The subjects included how stupid peo...
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am i allowed
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a few people where i go to meetings seem to think either your not an alcoholic or its not right to recover from this illness without doing the steps. ive used my own ways to recover and it seems to annoy certain people who either storm out or say something to me at the end of meetings. ive managed to keep my se...
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'They' Have a sense of humour bypass
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every year I have to submit my emergency evacuation plan. I have two -a real one and a jokey one. By mistake i sent the jokey one to my boss last year (tme to re submit it) and believe it or not I was told to re write it, take it seriously and re submit it by close of business or face disciplinary action. it was Pa...
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God Calling ~ The World's Song
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"Walk with Me in the way of peace. But it must be My peace. Never a peace that is a truce with the power of evil. Never harmony if that means your life-music being adapted to the mood and music of the world. My disciples so often make the mistake of thinking all must be harmonious. No! Not when it me...
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God Calling ~ Practice Protection
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"Fear no evil because I have conquered evil. All you have to do is to say with assurance that whatever it is cannot harm you. In not only the big but the little things of life, be sure of My conquering power. Know that all is well. Practice this. Learn it until it is unfailing and instinctive with...
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Sobriety Anniversary - 22 years today!
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The journey has been long, and it has been hard...But the adventure of living life, each day has been worth it.I've learned and I'm still teachable, I have grown, but still growing,I do not seek an applause, for to do so would be the same as applauding a cowboy with hemroids for not riding his horse any m...
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Old ideas
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"Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil." AA book. My alcoholic mind in a sober state says that this is not true, hence the old ideas are continued and disaster again. This is what the AA book calls insanity. Without spiritual help from God I will die from alcohol...
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Small steps feel so big
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Hello everyone im new and was suggested that i should post here!
*Deep breathe*
So here we go,
I am a 25 year old adult child of 2 alcoholic parents. My husband also happens to be a ACoA as well as an alcoholic him self. We have been married for 4 months. I find myself on the verge of divorce, wanting to...
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Xmas present from the boss
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Two dozen bottles of Crown Lagar. That's a premium beer in these parts and the sort of drink I would have crawled over my own mother to get at back when. It turned out to be the perfect present for me because when I gave a dozen to my dad and a dozen to my granddad I got the enjoyment of making them happy, and I fe...
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PRAYER THREAD! PLEASE POST PEOPLE YOU WOULD LIKE PRAYED FOR HERE!
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Can we add a sticky at top to have a "Prayer List" then we can add people we want prayed for? Just a suggestion thanks -- Edited by SoberSteve on Wednesday 21st of December 2011 06:49:08 PM
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My Buddy Rico.
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Visited my buddy Rico in hospital last night (met his sponsot there too.) well from being in a very serious condition, he's now responding well to treatment. There is some problem or other with his lymphatic drain system such that his legs, ankles and feet have swollen to twice their size while the res...
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What are your drinking triggers and drinking... non-triggers?
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I know some of mine. 1. Anything that reminds me of my childhood. It can be really subtle too, like a tv show that symbolically hits a chord. I have noticed that I feel like drinking if I watch the TV show "Supernatural" for instance. Just because there are some symbolic similarities. Sheesh...
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hmmm.. .CNN article.. Text Messaging Helps Reduce Alcohol Consumption?
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Well, well, well.... In CNN's health section is a article that says those who recieve and send text messages regularly during drinking sprees, are inclined to drink less. I remember a time when if I had read this article, instead of stop drinking i would have asked everyone on facebook, and every oth...
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John
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Didn't want a tattoo- sponsored a world vision kid.
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I feel more positive about staying sober (and off smokes, too) then I have in a long time. I had my last drink Dec 8 and last smoke Dec 9, 12:45 a.m. feel spacy and weird, guess my body is detoxing still. Anyway... i sponsored a little 6 year old boy from Ethiopia for 40 dollars a month through world vision Ca...
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