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Dat Would Be Me!
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Several days ago as I left a meeting at a hotel; I desperately gave myself a personal TSA pat down. I was looking for my keys. They were not in my pockets. A quick search in the meeting room revealed nothing. Suddenly I realized I must have left them in the car. Frantically, I headed for the parking lot. My w...
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Yes, I Relapsed Again!
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Helping slippers Why do they have to suffer? Why is it that we have found and accepted this fellowship while some people seem unable to or else must experience untold hardships before they can accept it? Many times our hearts have ached at the seeming failure of Twelfth Step work. We watch others suffe...
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The Man RULES!!!
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The Man Rules At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down Finally, the guys' side of the story. ( I must admit, it's pretty good.) We always hear 'the rules' From the female side Now here are the rules from the male side These are our rules! Please note.. these are all numbered #1 ON PUR...
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Sleepy
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I've been mostly sober for about 6 months. I did relapse for a few weeks. I'm sober now for 2 and a half months, and I'm REAALLY sleepy all the time! Is that normal? Is it normal to start to feel sleepy after finally getting some good sleep for a while? I was thinking that maybe it's because I'm not in a c...
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The 'Gripe' Sheet!
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Just in case you needed a laugh: Remember it takes a college degree to fly a plane, but only a high school diploma to fix one; that's reassurance to those of us who fly routinely. After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form, called a 'gripe sheet,' which tells mechanics about problems with the airc...
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God Calling - True Beauty
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"Not only live, but grow in grace and power and the beauty of holiness. Reach ever forward after the things of My kingdom. In the animal world the very form of an animal alters to enable it to reach that upon which it delights to feed. So reaching after the treasures of My kingdom your whole nature be...
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Can you see me now?
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it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This sounds all wrong to me.
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I should really learn to take advice from you guys. I called my sponsor yesterday morning. Mind you, I hadn't called her or spoken to her in about ten days. This is how the fifteen minute conversation went;
sponsor; [my sponsee "sister] bought some alcohol but didn't drink it and so I told her she...
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open mind - open heart
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Listen to your elders advice, not because they are always right but because they have more experiences of being wrong.......
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Identifying emotions?
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What is this? When I'd kill for a conversation, but I don't want any contact with the outside world? I just need a name for it.
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Stages of Success!
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At age 4 success is...not peeing in your pants.At age 12 success is...having friends.At age 16 success is...having a drivers license.At age 20 success is...having sex.At age 35 success is...having money.At age 50 success is...having money.At age 60 success is...having sex.At age 70 success is....
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New to AA.."if you want what we have" what do you have? Are you happy?
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I'm looking for a little guidance.
Kinda new to AA. Been going to meetings and here is a little about me and where I'm at. Sorry if this is TMI
I'm Eric 32 and I'm most certainly an alcoholic. I would definitely classify myself as the introverted drunkard. Successful outwardly kinda but but definit...
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A Woman's Random Thoughts!
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Amazing! You hang something in your closet for a while and it shrinks two sizes! Reason to smile: Every 7 minutes of every day, someone in an aerobics class pulls a hamstring.Women over 50 don't have babies because they would put them down and forget where they left them.One of life's mysteries is how...
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Can you? I didn't think so.
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I had my persian cat shaved. His hair was soooooooooooo long, and he's getting old, and I thought it would be a nice break for him to not have to take care of all that hair. They gave him what's called a lion cut. His head, tail and legs are still long. His middle is actually very tiny, and he looks just r...
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"Alcoholism", "Addiction" what a stupid preoccupation...
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I say that from my own experience, my constant flagellation and "relapses". I stop by here and see others posting with threads like "I did it again", etc...Just sick and tired of this disease, it's just so stupid. Don't know how many threads I've posted with the same guilty driv...
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Dodsworth
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Anyone else feel this way?
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So, have 20 days sober, started off "high on life"...now, well, I'm just plain bitchy lol! I feel this tension and anger that's like insane, I'm constantly trying to keep it in check( haha working w the public doesn't help). Is this normal? Did anyone else feel these mood swings early in sob...
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ndns in aa
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TRYING TO HOOK UP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS WHO HAVE RECOVERED FROM AA AND HAVE INDULGED IN THE DON COYLIS PROGRAM WHITE BISON.IF YOUR FAMILIAR WITH WHAT I'M INTO POW-WOW,MAINTAIN SOBRIETY.I KNOW ALOT OF SKINS CAN RELATE BECAUSE OF THE RACISM THAT EXIST IN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS.I'VE TOLERATED MANY YE...
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New Comer
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Hi all, am a new comer here, I have been battling with addiction for most my adult life. I have made the desicion finally to seek help as I simply cant cope battling on my own anymore. I am determined to get sober and turn my life around. I hope I will find support amongst the good people here.
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Sooo I guess I really am one of "those people" haha
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So today I have 19 days sober. Attended my first meeting last night. I did this kinda backwards..ordering my big book online cuz the thought of attending a
Meeting was overwhelming. I joined this group online cuz it was safer at a distance. I had to scope you all out, cuz I wasn't sure if I was one of "...
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God Calling - That Tender Voice
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"Listen to My voice. Never heed the voices of the world - only the tender divine voice. Listen, and anxious thoughts and tired nerves will become rested. The tenderness and the restfulness will heal your scars and make you strong, and then it must be your task to let all your power be My power.&qu...
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new site, I keep failing
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Struggling with wanting to drink. Had over 2 weeks of sobriety and fell flat on my face Friday nite again. Starting over. My husband has left me due to my drinking and we were doing so well that he said he wasnt going to file for divorce and that he expected us to get back together soon...and now I've don...
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Spiritual Fitness
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I just came back from Gay Days at Disney. Was pretty cool although it was a big circuit party with tons of alcohol and drugs. I knew this was going to be the case. Thankfully, they were also running AA meetings around the clock at the host hotel also and I attended several. Naturally, the discussion a...
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God Calling - Divine Patience
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"Shortcomings you had hardly recognized or at least for which you had had no sense of sorrow now cause you trouble and dismay. This is in itself a sign of progress. As you see your slow progress upward, in spite of your longing and struggle, you will gain a divine patience with others whose imperfe...
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For Mikef and His Recent Anniversary
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A couple were celebrating 50 years together.. Their three kids, all very successful, agreed to a Sunday dinner in their honour. "Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad," gushed son number one. 'Sorry I'm running late. I had an emergency at the hospital with a patient, you know how it is, and I did...
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So much more than now.
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"there are dimentions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you concieve it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives yo...
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Chat room
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There's a link to 'Online Meetings' on the main forum page. There seems to be a fair number of us here and I'm heading over. Anyone like to join me I'll see you there. :)
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Suggested Reading
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http://www.amazon.com/The-Molecules-That-Surround-eboo...
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Something New To Say?
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Well? Anything new to say? I frequently joke about my home group because we know each other so well, no matter what the topic or what anyone says about it, we've heard it before. Sometimes a bunch of times before. But as one guy put it, we've got a full time forgetter in our brains, and we need to hear the...
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NEWCOMER NEEDING HELP
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HIYA MY NAME IS ANDREA AND I AM REALLY STRUGGLING AND NEED SOME SUPPORT. I AM 3 1/2 MONTHS CLEAN AND SOBER. I HAD SOME DEVASTING NEWS RECENTLY MY TWO DAUGHTERS GOT MURDERED AND MY WORLD HAS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN. DUE TO ME LIVING IN A WOMENS SHELTER I AM NOT ABLE TO GO TO MEETINGS LOCALLY BECAUSE IT IS NOT SAFE U...
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90x90 advise please
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Still doing my 90x90 = I've missed some days though with the busy spring schedules. I have not been keeping track. When I miss days, I do two the next if I can. Sometimes I just do two if I can, so I bank up for when I can't. Mostly... I feel as though I've made this a part of my life, and going to a meeting is i...
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Friday night
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Hey all:) so I just received my copy of the Big Book...and I will be spending my precious Friday night off exploring it. Now if you had told me 3 weeks ago (have 16 days sober today) that I would have in my possession any aa literature I would've most likely told ya to go f yourself haha. Today, I'm actually l...
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Col
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First meeting
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Sooo I'm getting ready to go to my first meeting ever..very nervous but I know it's the right thing. Wish me luck!
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Col
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Daily Reflections ~ On a Wing and a Prayer & 24hrs a Day
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. . . . we then look at Step Six. We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 76 Steps Four and Five were difficult, but worthwhile. Now I was stuck on Step Six and, in despair, I picked up the Big Book and read this passage. I was outside, praying for willingness, whe...
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God Calling
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"Love is the power that transforms the world. Love not only of Me, love not only of the few dear to you, but love of all - of the publicans, the sinners, the harlots. It is the only weapon with which sin can be driven out. Drive sin out with love. Drive fear and depression and despair and a sense of fai...
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Your Perspective?!
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"The mystery of life is beyond all human conception. Everything we know is within the terminology of the concepts of being and not being, many and single, true and untrue. We always think in terms of opposites. But god, the ultimate, is beyond the pairs of opposites, that is all there is To it.&qu...
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God Calling - Companionship
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"The way of the soul's transformation is the way of divine companionship. Not so much the asking Me to make you this or that. But the living with Me, thinking of Me, talking to Me - thus you grow like Me. Love Me. Rest in Me. Joy in Me." 365 One Minute Meditations from God Calling
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Alcoholic Power Games
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I have described this dilemma before: I go to certain AA meetings where people really know the literature and many become great speakers, etc. There's almost a sort of "pecking order" and there are a lot of egos. My sponsor could no longer be available to work with me so I asked about 10 women...
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OK,Iam the Blonde who has 3 accounts open,I cant remember.....
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Its me The Blonde,Kendra/Kendra Ladonna/Kendra LV=blonde.........I JUST FORGET THINGS......THATS ALL .......SEE I WROTE LIKE THIS ALL CAPITAL LETTERS UNTIL I WAS TOLD IT WAS YELLING,I had a blonde moment...lol...I keep forgetting my password so I just open a account in a Kendra way,another bl...
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Truly A blessing!!
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Today, we celebrate our 28th year anniversary and 30 years of living life together.27 AND 1/2 of those years in sobriety,thru God's grace and mercy,some daily work and a willingness to keep away from the "first one" enhanced by application of the spiritual principles of our program,sh...
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bye
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?????????????????? -- Edited by kendra v on Sunday 3rd of June 2012 03:31:34 PM
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kendra v
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This website saved my life..........
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Being sober at home was very hard for me at home bored no meetings no contact with the outside world..Thank you for this website and thank yall for this fellowship,advise,input, strength and helping me stay sober.....God Bless you all....
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KENDRA LV
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IMPULSE TOOK OVER AGAIN ,
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This is my appoligy to those whom think Im wrong......I know this website is to help recovering alcoholics,in my mind I thought emergency aa contack list we give to strangers everyday were for people in need.YES I should had went about it differntly,for that I apoligize to whom ever took a offence to...
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kendra v
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Gratitude list
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It's a fact of life - as gratitude goes up, so do patience and tolerance and we could all use more of the latter. So, what are you grateful for today? Yesterday my wife and I celebrated her six month anniversary home after twenty-four years in prison. What's on your list?
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Angell
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DAMN I DID IT AGAIN,KENDRA
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Sorry, I lost my 4th password.....BLONDE MOMENT....LOL....Is it normal to have fried soooooooo many brain cells???? Is it safe????lol...Im in a goofy mood ,Mr .PAPPY and the rest of yall made my day....I was rolling laughing so hard.....I think I blew there high you know the wonderful roomates......
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kendra v
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Living With Active Addicts
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I cant seem to cope its getting harder and harder......I am staying with a man,his daughter as well as her boy friend,they are all three active addicts.I feel as though they dont understand where I stand in life. I am going for my dreams as well as my number one goal in life and it seems as if they are up set b...
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4th & 5th Step retreat
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I am looking for a 4th & 5th step retreat, I have been sober since November 26, 2007 and I'm having difficulty with step 4. Does anyone know of a retreat I can go to and work on step 4?
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Husband's behaviour - vent
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I need to get this out. My husband proceeded to show me pictures of his work mates at a Hooters bar this morning. He knew it would upset me as I do have issues with his work anyway. In this job he works away for 2 weeks and then comes home for a week. Prior to this he was a truck driver so he was away also. Not f...
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HOW DO I KNOW RITE FROM WRONG,WHEN I HAVE BEE DOING WRONG FOR SO LONG?
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I am so easily confused,I may be over whelming my self? Lately I dont know rite from wrong........I am physically under the weather and it just is putting me in a funk...I feel so guilty cause Ive been trying to make atleast 2 meetings I didnt make one today ,Ive been reading my Big Book,but I feel as thou...
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KENDRA LV
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God Calling - Prayer without Words
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"Spend much time in prayer. Prayer is the linking up of the soul and mind and heart to God. So that if it is only a glance of faith, a look or word of love, or confidence, and no supplication is expressed, it yet follows that supply and all necessary are secured." 365 One-Minute Meditation...
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ITS GREAT TO BE BACK
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HI,IM KENDRA BOY I LOVE YOU PEOPLE,BUT BOY DO YALL WORK ME ....THANK YOU...I WAS WITH A BUNCH OF WOMEN ALL DAY,YEAH ME;GET THIS THEY WERE ALL SOBER.....WOW.......NOT ONLY THAT THEY TREATED ME AS IF I NEVER WENT BACK OUT....TRIPPLE WOW....I LOVE BEING WITH OLDTIMERS....I LEARN SO MUCH AND THEY SHOW ME...
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