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Finding myself in sobriety
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I am now 30 days sober. Tonight I asked someone that I have a gained a good relationship through the aa community to be my sponsor. I am now working on my first step with him and it has been a big eye opener to me. This past month has been a roller coaster of emotions and trying to find myself in sobriety. I have...
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10 years!
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Well - I made it to a decade. WTF. LOL. Wanted to drop in and say hi! This was a huge part of my earlier recovery! Thanks all for being here for me.
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Unseen effects
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A reminder of how stigmatizing alcoholism is. I have an aunt who lost a son to this thing years ago. Cousin and I were close in our youth. To this day, aunt doesn't like or can't be around me because I completely turned my life around and am sober and (somewhat) normal again. She probably secretly has tha...
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AA meetings in Ecuador
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Hi all, Well it's that time of year again and I'll be heading off on my annual trip to some new country. This time it's Ecuador. I'll be spending about three weeks traveling through the Andes mountains from Quito to Cuenca, via some small mountain towns and villages along the way. I have located an Engl...
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Sober forever now
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Hello everyone.
Just stopped by to say hello .. been sober forever now at least 4 years stopped counting a long time ago. For everyone new to this board just keep at it. With time it gets easier. I also found drastically changing my environment and associations was the key to my success .
Now 4 years l...
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Soberversary
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The calendar today reminds me of an indisputable miracle: I was relieved of the compulsion to drink alcohol. This happened through the program of Alcoholics Anonymous and the help of all of the AA members I have met in person and online. Thanks to AA and all of you. I could never have done it without help...
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It continues...
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and I continue to be blessed by it all. Aloha MIP AA Family recovery and thank you all who have participated in my 40 year journey. My home group just on the outskirts of Hilo is the AA at the Bay Saturday and Sunday versions. The groups was founded over 24 years ago by several double winners including...
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too much!
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i feel like im not coping at all well with the move, barely scraped through christmas and my dad whos been an addict for all my life and before i was born is dying. anyone who was raised in addict homes knows how difficult and complicated your relationships are with the "parents" lots of feelings about th...
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Hello
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Sober Shadow
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Afraid
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I'm so afraid of failing yet again. It hurts my daughter that I've tried and failed. She takes it personally. I don't want to fail, I don't want to let anybody down. I want to stop feeling ashamed.
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An hour of Bob D
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https://youtu.be/H6C1_pU5t9A
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Super Bowl Miracle
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Kickoff is in an hour. I am sober today. I am grateful. A miracle. Super Bowl used to be a two-drunk day...
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Keep An Open Mind About AA
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...some of us found that, in our initial nondrinking days, the suggestions and comradeship offered by an A.A. sponsor helped us greatly to stay sober. Others of us waited until we had visited many groups and met many A.A.'s before we finally called on a sponsor's help.Some of us found formal prayer a s...
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Bob Earl audio subject "SHOWING UP" HEARD 20 25 YEARS AGO
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dOES ANYONE HAVE THIS AUDIO?
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How to navigate the 'Bermuda Triangle' of holiday drinking
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In Alcoholics Anonymous, we call Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years the Bermuda triangle of alcoholism.Thats because so many problem drinkers start off the holiday season with good intentions, but all too often drown in a sea of family and office parties.Somehow, alcoholics and non-proble...
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Any Problem With Holiday Religious Displays In AA Meeting Places?
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This issue came up at a group conscience meeting recently. The question raised was whether there was any guidance from AA or AA experience about certain holiday season displays that might evoke religious concepts or sentiments in AA meetings where the AA group had total control of the meeting spac...
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Took me years of recovery to uncover what was done to me
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I cry everyday when I think of the horrible loss to our family. I have been divorced for years. I left my husband many years ago. I never knew until recently the exact reason I left him. He came home from a trip overseas with a bottle of wine for "us" to drink. It wasn't wine, but was liquor. I can't drink liqu...
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Alcohol Use Disorder On Rise In U.S.
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https://fox17online.com/2019/01/03/more-than-15-million-americans-have-alcohol-use-disorder-study-says/
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Wisdom of the Rooms 12-31
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December 31, 2018Quote of the Week"If I keep doing what I was doing, Ill keep getting what I was getting." I remember when I was new to recovery I was very willing to follow direction. I went to ninety meetings in ninety days, got a home group, got a minimum of four commitments at various meetings, got a...
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Today's Gift - Dec
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Accepting Love Many of us have worked too hard to make relationships work; sometimes those relationships didn't have a chance because the other person was unavailable or refused to participate. To compensate for the other person's unavailability, we worked too hard. We may have done all or most of...
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Simple Reminders - Dec
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Wisdom of the Rooms 12-24
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December 24, 2018Quote of the Week"Sometimes you dont realize that all you need is God, until all you have is God." Even after years in recovery and with all my sober experience, Im still amazed by my tendency to put so many things before God. Many times, Im convinced that if only I were retired or had e...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 12-17
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December 17, 2018Quote of the Week"The most spiritual thing you can do is to help someone." One of the most important things Ive learned in the program is that whenever two alcoholics get together, God is present. I feel the energy of God flow through me as I talk with, listen to, and help another per...
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Bill Wilson's White Light Experience - December 14, 1934
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hindsfoot.org/lightbillw.pdf Important date...84 years ago...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 12-10
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December 10, 2018Quote of the Week"I know I have another drunk in me, but I dont know if I have another recovery." A shiver shot down my spine when I first heard this quote. I know how easy it would be for me to pick up a cold Heineken or glass of Cabernet Sauvignon at a nice restaurant. And my disease even tr...
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12/6 Daily Reflection
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Aloha Brothers and Sisters in recovery. I woke up to the page of the day in our Daily Reflection reader and was spiritually stunned at the reading. It was and still is astounding to me that our recovery can produce the depth of spirituality that it does. I read it slow over and then over and then read i...
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One more year in daily Recovery
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Each year and in humble gratitude and God's grace and mercy I post my story.Thank you Lord for each day that has led to decades of uninterrupted daily recovery. It was a very cold December 2nd morning in 1984 as I "came to" from another drug induced evening.I was 6 months into my 3rd marriage and the more...
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Simple Reminders - Nov
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Today's Gift - Nov
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... [To] take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again. --Thomas More We take different kinds of pleasure in giving. Perhaps the purest is the gift to a child so young it doesn't really know who the gift came from; the pu...
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Request for group conscience on site technical improvements
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Please visit the MIP AA business forum to participate in a group conscience about technical improvements to the MIP AA site. -- Your WebHelper team
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Wisdom of the Rooms 11-26
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November 26, 2018Quote of the Week"After five years of sobriety you get your brains back, after ten you learn how to use them, and after fifteen years you realize you never needed them anyway." What a cord of recognition this struck when I first heard it at ten years sober. I remember the first five ye...
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New Daily Readings App
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Please check out the new Android app named Recovery Today, free in the Google Play store. It has seven different readings in there, you can select the reading and select any day from the calendar. It is free and there are no ads - I'm just a recovering AA member and wanted to share it. For now it's only a...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 11-19
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November 19, 2018Quote of the Week"Happiness is not having what I want, but wanting what I have." I spent many years trying to get things to make me happy. If only I could get my college degree, then Id be happy. As soon as I move to the right city, then Ill feel fulfilled. When I meet the one, then I will b...
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Serenity prayer
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The longer I try to live out this prayer in my life the more impossible it seems. The idea of having serenity even though some people will NEVER forgive me, no matter how many times I make amends is appalling, infuriating, nauseating, overwhelming, etc... And then trying to muster up the courage to cha...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 11-12
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November 12, 2018Quote of the Week"Give all your problems to God. Hell be up all night anyway!" When I first heard this saying, I instantly thought of all the nights I used to lie in bed worrying, rehashing, or trying to solve all my problems. In fact, before early recovery it was actually easier to sl...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 11-5
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November 5, 2018Quote of the Week"When did [. . .] become your Higher Power?" I used to believe that people, places, or things would fix me. I was sure that if only I could get the perfect relationship or career, or finally have enough money to be set for life, or whatever, then I would be happy or secure...
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Preserving the integrity of AA
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Our AA literature tells us this is a spiritual program, not a religious program. That we are expected to develop faith in our Higher Power. But our imperfect founders persisted in using the monotheistic term "god" as if it's a synonym for Higher Power; and further referred to their god as male, as Chr...
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Today's Gift - Oct
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Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really very frightening. --Gertrude Stein Life is full of dangers and risks and challenges. We can choose to meet them fearfully or in a spirit of welcome. To choose fear, to say, "I won't take that risk because I might lose," is to prevent ourselves from ever...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 10-29
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October 29, 2018Quote of the Week"Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?" Now that was a hard one to answer when I was new. In fact, my answer back then was, But I was right! He/she/they were wrong! It has nothing to do with being happy! How wrong I was. By clinging to my self-righteou...
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Simple Reminders - Oct
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In need of help
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I just currently completed rehab and came back to where I thought was "home" to all of my belongings in a storage unit that I can't even get to no car & now homeless due to my controlling fiancee ( I was a stay at home mother while he worked) he is also in recovery and could careless about my situation. I'...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 10 - 22
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October 22, 2018Quote of the Week"Youre only as sick as your secrets." When I first entered the program, I was filled with guilt and shame over some of the things I had done. When I sat in meetings and heard others share openly about some of their past behaviors, I was shocked by how honest they were. Eve...
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If God Spoke to AA
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The use of quotation marks. Is that just a literary technique or is there an actual source/author?
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Wisdom of the Rooms 10-15
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October 15, 2018Quote of the Week"Take the mess to your sponsor, take the message to the meeting." A friend in recovery shared something once that Ive never forgotten. He was newly married and struggling with the transition from living alone for many years as a bachelor. His therapist suggested t...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 10-8
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October 8, 2018Quote of the Week"Be all right with being all right." I was generally irritable, restless, and discontent before recovery. As a kid I was anxious and afraid of things. When I found alcohol, I finally found a way to be comfortablehopeful even. Drinking gave me that sense of ease and co...
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Wisdom of the Rooms 10 - 1
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October 1, 2018Quote of the Week"Surrender is not a onetime thing." After a weekend of hard drinking, I would commit to sobriety on Monday. By Tuesday, I began to feel better, and by Thursday night Id allow myself a couple of beers. By the weekend, Id be hard at it again, and Monday morning Id swear off...
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Today's Gift - Sept
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A.A. Thought for the Day Anyone can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the burden of those two awful eternities, yesterday and tomorrow, that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drives us mad. It is the remorse or bitterness from something that happened yeste...
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Simple Reminders - Sept
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Wisdom of the Rooms 9-24
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September 24, 2018Quote of the Week"The degree of my anxiety is a measure of my distance from God." Anxiety used to be the master of my life. Without a relationship with God, I faced life alone and was in constant fear of not getting my needs met or of losing something I had so desperately fought to get....
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Does Drinking can give you Dental problems
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Hi All, I don't know if this is the right place to ask you people about this. Still looking forward to getting an answer.I am a social drinker, I do drink occasionally mostly red wines, As I got to the office a regular coffee is almost to get a kick-start to my day. As days go by I started to notice my teeth col...
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