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Handle Today's Problems Today
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Handle Today's Problems Today Many of us face seemingly insurmountable difficulties, perhaps because of our compulsion or simply through misfortune. Whatever the scale of our problems, "One day at a time" and "First things first" are key...
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Favorite Speakers?
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Hi everyone. I just joined today. I am 9 months sober and have suddenly taken an interest in AA Speakers. What are your favorites? I know about Joe and Charlie, and Sandy B. I look forward to reading your responses. :) Thanks If there is already a thread about this could you please point me in the...
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good morning family
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hi MIP family, still sober, still looking to do the next right thing... and going to school full time. the past year i have been getting all the prerequisites together so i could get on the list to take a certificate couse to be a nurses aid. i am leaning towards elder care up here in my rural part of nor...
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Just Toni
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I haven't heard from Toni for over 2 months now. Is anyone in touch with her, is she OK?
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God Calling ~ No Tired Work
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"Rest. It is wrong to force work. Rest until eternal life, flowing through your veins and hearts and minds, bids you bestir yourselves, and work, glad work, will follow. Tired work never tells. Rest. Remember I am your physician, healer of mind and body. Look to Me for cure, for rest, for peac...
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New AA Blog
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Hey everyone- Hope this evening finds you all blessed in sobriety- I am calling your attention to a brand new blog - we're just getting started but there will be lots of shares, stories, wisdom, articles, etc from fellow AA's The first blog features the blog owners personal story of his experience, st...
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dont use hotmail
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i changed to fastmail.fm so maybe i can get here easily took me an hour to get the password from stupid hotmail not impressed with yahoo either -- Edited by lateforthesky on Monday 15th of August 2011 12:22:04 PM
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Need some insight please
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Hey everyone, how are you all? I hope I'm not being inappropriate in joining these boards, as I'm not an alcoholic myself but my partner is. I knew he was before I began to date him, so it does not affect my opinion on him, but having been with him for a while I've noticed things I didn't notice before, thing...
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sharing the benefits of online support
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Hi all, please spare a few moments to fill out our survey on the benefits of online support groups / recovery support forums for alcohol addiction. We're trying to establish more data to prove that these groups are beneficial to its users, to hopefully result in more people being introduced to thes...
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One Day At A Time (Anniversary)
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By Gods Grace and Mercy, 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, Fellowship, Big Book of Alcoholic Anonymous, Sponsorship and Working with Others I am giving thanks to the God of my understanding and all of the people in and outside of the Fellowship who has helped me on this wonderful journey. One of the gr...
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AA trivia...
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When someone says something that seems to be full of shit, you can simply say... "98,45" On those two pages of the big book are one word sentences. Together they read..."Nonsense, Obviously" When someone says something that you agree with, you can simply say... "76" On this page of the big book is a on...
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Alcohol and candida disease
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i guess i need less alcohol throat feels bad tounge looks awful
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God Calling ~ Not punishment
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"I will guide your efforts. You are not being punished for past sins. Take My words, revealed to you each day from the beginning, and do in all things as I say. I have been showing you the way. I have told you that I am longing to use you." 365 One-Minute Meditations from God Calling
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Daily Reflections ~ Didn't We Hurt Anybody? & 24hrs a Day
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Some of us, though, tripped over a very different snag. We clung to the claim that when drinking we never hurt anybody but ourselves. Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, p.79 This Step seemed so simple. I identified several people whom I had harmed, but they were no longer available. Still, I was un...
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Each of my days are miracles. I won't waste my day; I won't throw away a miracle
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Each of my days are miracles. I won't waste my day; I won't throw away a miracle. -- Kelley Vickstrom It's so easy to forget to be grateful for our many blessings. We may take our freedom from the compulsion to drink for granted. Having learned to monitor our behavior an...
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just that one beer makes you feel like what?
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fill in the blank im thinking of giving up all beer and wine because if i dont drink i feel better when i wake up -why is that? im male 53 usa ocd and maybe schizoaffective i suppsoe my life seems to be just slipping by with no events postitive
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Active Board Issues
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Hi all, It seems that our host, Active Board, has changed the site so that it's very mobile-unfriendly. I mostly read this site on my iPhone, so I won't be reading/posting much longer until I can find a solution -- just wondering if anyone has found a workaround to force it back to the "regular&quo...
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Late Night Stay Sober Trick... LOL
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Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. --Arthur Somers Roche A trickle of water that drains down the side of a hill poses no problem to the hill, its vegetation, or the peopl...
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Some days we grasp at self-pity like a blanket on a cold night
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. --Maya Angelou Some days we grasp at self-pity like a blanket on a cold night, and we are momentarily comforted. However, extended periods of self-pit...
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Cool AA coins
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My Mother has been passing down her AA coins to me recently. I've asked her to look for the older coins that had "AA" on them. World services requested that the words AA not be used on anything other than "approved literature" around '90. So these are getting rare. -- Edited b...
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So two nights ago I prayed and demanded that god completely and permanantly remove my desire to drink
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With all the earnestness and sincerity I could summon I laid in bed and shook my fist at the ceiling and said "Alright buddy, if you're for real I demand that you help me! I don't want some halfassed motivation or some weak guidence! I want to be cured right here, right now. If it doesnt happen than I g...
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I don't want to hear about how much you miss drinking, pregnant friend!!
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This isn't a request for advice or anything, I just wanted to share (VENT!!) on something that's been happening lately. I'm grateful to have gotten pretty comfortable in bars. I live in a major urban area and all my friends have tiny apartments, so group get-togethers usually take place at a neighbo...
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this to shall pass
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im 7yrs sober but just had a major hysterectomy&have been very deppressed.ive been with filled with self pity&every other character defect.ive been feeling like my first 2yrs.after 2 weeks of feeling sorry for myself&being miserable i finally slowly to give my will back to god.even...
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One Day At A Time...
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Daily Reflections ~ Removing "The Ground Glass" & 24hrs a Day
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The moral inventory is a cool examination of the damages that occurred to us during life & a sincere effort to look at them in true perspective. This has the effect of taking the ground glass out of us, the emotional substance that still cuts & inhibits. As Bill Sees It, p. 140 My Eighth Step lis...
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Does "the other shoe ever really drop"?
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I keep getting small and fleeting glimpses of peace and something more... Like God really loves me and has me. I say to Him at these sweet times, "this is nice, but when is the other shoe gonna drop?" I know I always turned my back on AA and God and love in the past and maybe that is where my fear is c...
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EGO
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If not obvious to others, my cutting back on meetings is causing the ego to grow too big. Too easily offended and feeling irritable, angry, and judgmental often. More meetings and more stepwork for me. Sponsor wants me to do 90 and 90 again. Hope to share some more ESH here and less BS. Went to big boo...
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Continued; sought; tried
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These 3 words contained in the last 3 steps of AA, have been the most important things I have done in the last 24 hours. Whenever I neglect these I have always landed in trouble. Have I continued or have I stopped? step 10. Have I sought or am I self sufficent? step 11. Have I tried to reach others or was I stil...
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Daily Reflections ~ Redoubling Our Efforts & 24hrs a Day
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To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, & in what ways. Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, p77. As I continue to grow in sobriety, I become more aware of myself as a person of...
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(Please respond to this) Reposted for Kanajune
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**********************************************************What little I saw here moved me to tears. (My old 'puter and slow inte...
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hi kmedina
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While I posted these videos to show a friend how to use the message board, I think many of you will enjoy them as well. This girl is 11 years old and sings like a woman with 20 years experience. Check her out. [video=]
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Here I go again
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It takes courage for me to put my very first post here. What do I have more of, fear or anger? Fear, I think. Well, hubris kicks me, too. Give me one good reason to stay sober another day. I am 3 years 8 months out with only 3 slip ups. Who am I fooling. Just myself I guess. Advice?
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sobriety birthday
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my first meeting was when i was 15.i went to my 2nd rehab at 22.after getting out and drinking within a week i decided i woulnt step foot into AA again until i hit my bottom and was absolutly desparate it took me 10yrs.old timers told me when i was 15 to go hit my bottom&they would save a seat for me. ...
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uncharted territory
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Just under 60 days and I keep hearing" if I put half the energy into recovery as I did into drinking...". I have been in and out since 1996. The mix up in my head is that people tell me to slow down. So I take it that to put half the energy that I did drinking may mean learning to let go because I am powe...
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God Calling ~ Empty yourself
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"Rely on Me alone. Pay all out in the spirit of trust that more will come to meet your supply. Empty your vessel quickly to ensure a divine supply. So much retained by you, so much the less will be gained from Me. It is a law of divine supply. To hold back, to retain, implies a fear of the future, a wan...
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Very Similar, Marathoning and Recovery
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We train hard daily(stay in the solution.We stay fit and trim...(our spiritual connection) We've done all we can(its all in our Higher Power's hands now). We ensure we don't go out to fast early(plan for tomorrow but not at the wasted expense of today).We feel the elation of hard work and training at...
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God Calling ~ All is well
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"My keeping power is never at fault, but only your realization of it. Not whether I can provide a shelter from the storm, but your failure to be sure of the security of that shelter. Every fear, every doubt, is a crime against My love. Oh! Trust. Practice daily, many times a day, saying, "A...
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Happy Bellybutton Birthday, SUSIE!!! X
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I won't say a lady's age ;) Wishing you a Beautiful Day of Sobriety, Joyful Love & many gifts a blessed! Sending you fellowship love all the way from Liverpool. God love you, Danielle x -- Edited by Sobrietyspell on Thursday 4th of August 2011 06:58:38 AM
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Where do I belong???
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This is the question I have been asking myself since my home group meeting last night. It is chaired by one of the strongest and most passionate members of our local AA community. He shared that one of the things he was taught is that not everyone who attends AA meetings belongs there, that there are so...
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faintly fermented fruit salads
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So we're having an unseasonably hot spell over here. I bought three boxes of fruit salad on Monday. today is wednesday. I kept them in the fridge. Monday was fine, tuesday was fine but today, the sealed plastic carton with the plastic film lid had swollen up. Thought nowt about it. So I ate the fruit sal...
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Precautious or dealing with self doubt???
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Hi!! I am an alcoholic and newly sober... 72 days and feel great. I have drank hard core for 10 years and just came to the point where I wanted more from life. My question is I find myself preparing myself before something stressful ie long shift, argument with my husband ect by for wanting to escape to the...
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here's a first for me.
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I've been attending another fellowship for the past 3 months or so. Generally 4 to 6 attendees. Tonight I have the keys for the venue, someone else committed to conducting the meeting, another committed to refreshments, another committed to trreasurer. One guy was on Holiday. Arrive at 18:30 hours...
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Sober looking in
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Hi All, Today marks 16 days of sobriety! I'm still hanging on! I'd like to share something I went through this weekend. My family came into town, along with my "crazy ass" cousins - these are the cousins I party with, and I mean drink-until-you-can't-get-up party. I knew it was going to be t...
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God Calling ~ Hour of Need
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"I am your healer, your joy, your Lord. You bid Me, your Lord, come. Did you not know that I am here? With noiseless footfall I draw near to you. Your hour of need is the moment of My coming. Could you know My love, could you measure My longing to help, you would know that I need no agonized pleading....
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The Anger
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Thanks to everyone for all the support. My prayer for today. Take a deep breath, move forward, although not forget. Turn my will and my life over to my higher power to guide me in my thinking, my words and my actions. For in his hands my life is far greater place to be.
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Daily Reflections ~ Seeds of Faith & 24hrs a Day
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Faith, to be sure, is necessary, but faith alone can avail nothing. We can have faith, yet keep God out of our lives. Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, p. 34 As a child I constantly questioned the existence of God. To a "scientific thinker" like me, no answer could withstand a thorough d...
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Being convinced!
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I am about 50 days new....AGAIN! I have been staying in halfway houses for three years and put together a year then out for two weeks. Then 9 months and out again for a week. Anyway, I have been at one this last 50 days and was asked if I wanted to move to a nice house as a roommate. The guy is 23 years sober and I t...
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First Post
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Hello Everybody... This is my first time ever reaching out for support in any sort of way. I have realized after multiple nights in the recent past that I need to stop drinking. I suppose I will give a bit of a background... I am 26 years old and just got married last year to a woman I absolutely love. I have b...
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A simpler life....
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Morning and blessings of this day! Last evening I was asked last minute by the chair of our homegroup if I could open the meeting and chair for her until she got there(never really did). Always an honor to make sure doors get opened and our primary purpose can be served and the point being,though it was v...
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