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How many times have you worked the steps?
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I am just finishing step 2, I have tried to work them before but got stuck on the 4th, my new sponsor is very good and has me reading the 12&12 and writing down each paragraph as it pertains to me. This is the most thorough step work I have ever done. I was just wondering how many times you have worked th...
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AA recovery for my family as well.
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Over the last 23 years of my recovery, my children have been observing and applying the steps of recovery in their individual lives. My daughter and her fiance came to me about wedding plans. I was quiet amazed to see how simple they had kept their plans and how mature in their approach to their future. T...
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Blessings of this day!
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From our family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving....If you are new or just coming around WELCOME! Today can be the first day of the rest of your life free from active addiction and guided by your Higher Power. Stick around and join us in the miracle.Just For Today,if you don't pick up you can't get high,it t...
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Whats your favorite type of meeting?
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Just curious to what your favorite type of meeting is, newcomers? Book study? Mine is the one Im heading to now, its a open topic candlelight meeting. I really like the atmosphere and theres always something I needed to hear in it..
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Other methods
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A freind of mine has recently asked me if I can help them in regard to their problem with drinking. Because I'm still newish I put them in touch with an older member and they'll be seeing them in a couple of days. My friend also wants to detox/rehab but wants to do an out patient course which knowing the cir...
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New Here
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Hi everyone, I'm Jenn and I'm an alcoholic. I'm new to this board and grateful that my HP led me here. Im 46 days sober today, and it hasn't been an easy ride, but I'm glad to be on it. Thank you to everyone who is on this board...when I had thoughts of drinking yesterday, I was able to read so much here and get o...
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Stuck!
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Hi I am writing asking for help. I feel as though I am stuck in a place where AA can't reach me. I have been clean and sober for two years and know how powerless I am over drugs and drink. I am currently in the process of moving countries where my partner can get paid work to support me and my little girl. I have n...
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Reaching out to LongTimers in AA
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Good morning Family, I've just posted on another 'members' post and felt compelled to start my own. On getting others E,S and H. That's how we do it, right? That is how I've done it, stayed sober for the past 15 yrs. At the beginning of my recovery, at the tender age of 27, I was so enthused. So loved go...
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Spiritus Contra Spiritum
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Spirit against the ravages of spirits.His craving for alcohol was the equivalent, on a low level, of the spiritual thirst of our being for wholeness, expressed in medieval language: the union with God.* Carl JungI started off on the broad bright lit highway of ease and comfort looking for the God of...
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Daily Reflections ~ Only Two Sins & 24hrs a Day
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there are only two sins; the first is to interfere with the growth of another human being, and the second is to interfere with ones own growth. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 542 Happiness is such an elusive state. How often do my prayers for others involve hidden prayers for my own agenda? How often is my sea...
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frustrating 2 days!!
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So I was taking a break from work yesterday when I looked over and seen I had a flat tire. Made it to les schwab and they said Id need two new front ones total $210.00 All was fine then on way back from picking up my son from school today I missed a turn and hit a curb and popped 3 tires, they had to replace all 3...
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What Would You Do? - There's More...
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I had only been back from a fantastic family weekend in Wellington for half an hour when the phone went. Our office had received a call from a motel owner, calling AA at the request of one of her guests and about whom she was concerned. So off I go, middle of the day so no one to take with me, and meet the moteli...
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Sponsorship
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I am 11 years in recovery. I have had my current sponsor for the past 5 years. I don't know what to think about our relationship. We both had children in the last 3 years. When we meet, it is usually with them and it is hard to talk. The past few times we have met, which isn't often as we can speak on the phone,...
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I didn't drink today...and I didn't drink yesterday either.
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I wonder if I can not drink tomorrow?
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Daily Reflections ~ "I Was Slipping Fast" & 24hrs a Day
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We A.A.s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, . . . . So it isnt surprising that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96 I had been slipping away from the program for...
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Buspar???
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So the zoloft the doc prescribed a while back didnt seem to work, I had HORRIBLE side effects. Found out I wasnt really depressed but more full of anxiety, she told me to try buspar which she had used before and is supposed to be non habit forming with few side effects. I am only on day 3 of taking 10 mg twic...
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MIP AA Information Graphic...
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Feeling hopeless
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No alcohol for 7 days now. I've been going to 2 meetings a day. It's the only part of my day that makes sense besides going to bed at night. I have been self-employed since 1997 and finally drank the small business away. I started filling out applications online and just realize more and more how I have tor...
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New here
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I wasn't able to find an introduction thread, so I apologize if this is in the wrong area. I've been sober for about 3 days. Everything was a blur so I'm not certain of the date. Anyway, I am happy to be sober today and want to continue being sober. I need to not drink. It's never done anything positive for me...
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What a ride
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It's now 1:40 am on the 19th of the 11th, 2011 where I am. 12 months ago - almost to the minute - I was stumbling into bed with a bellyful of beer and wine. I had to get up at 6am because I had an appointment to go into a rehab. That was the last drink I had. What a wonderful, life-changing, exciting, exhilaratin...
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I need help
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I'm struggling.... My name is Nick. Ive got about 16 months of sobriety. I have been through the steps, but somewhere along the line I lost my spirituality. Somewhere along the line I lost my "Willingness to believe God could restore me to sanity." As a result, i am scared, empty, and dont wa...
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I never have to drink again...
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I never have to feel so hungover I wished I was dead. I never have to feel the gutwrenching remorse and sadness after a night out. I never have to come home drunk and say rude things to the person I love. I never have to feel like an emotinal wreck due to alcohol. But I have zero confidence in myself that...
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It's been three days..I decided to change my life
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Hey all..I'm obviously new here..I decided mondaybthat I need to get off this hamster wheel I've been on since I'm 14.. I'm now 36 ..I don't know how to do it or who I am anymore..I'm the life of the party girl ..notvsure how not o be..I'm the one every one admires..yet I'm home breaking at the seams,.I too...
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Clue-less
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Don't have a clue how this works...the format that is, My AA B-day is Dec 5 1998, AMAZING !!! H P for Sure! Thinking about traveling to Nepal soon I hope... maybe 6months, maybe sooner and it occured to me today??? It would be REALY GOOD to have AA conection! My reason for comming is Dharma Sanga. Not d...
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Thoughtful reflection on P80
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of the Daily Reflection. After sharing that page with Thereishope yesterday I did a reflection on that page and what it mean't to me on 11/8/11 or the Tuesday before last. I was done with work and on my way to get a rain hat at the Army surplus store cause we've been getting tons of it and I work outside mo...
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Daily Reflections ~ Overcoming Loneliness & 24hrs a Day
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Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didnt quite belong. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 90 The agonies and the void that I often felt inside occur less and less frequently in my...
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A Step at a time!
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Morning and blessings of this day! Looks as if we may be accelerating our move to Florida in May now and not July. Took another step last night telling guys in band (been working with about 6 months)that I will be leaving and discussed what we want to do for the next amount of months.It is just one more step...
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Happy Belated 50th, kld47 & billyjack!
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Dear Karen & Bill, I notice the two of you shared your 50th birthday anniversaries on Monday 7th of November.. Born in 1961 making you both 60s children & 70s teemagers, 80s young adults, 90s in your prime, the noughties old enough to know better and life beginning at 40! I hope you had beautifu...
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Daily Reflections - Page 80
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I'm wondering if anyone can post the reading from daily reflections from page 80...a days plan. My sponsor always reads it when I call her every morning, and I havent been able to talk to her for 3 days b/c of death in her family and Im not sure where else to turn. thanks everyone.
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Been a couple of months...
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.. since I've been here. I've been trying to catch up a little the last couple of days, but feel I've been away forever. Things have been steady for me. A little over for months sober now, with no real desire to drink (except for one difficult 30 minute period) a few weeks ago. The AA meetings have bee...
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Taking a break
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Hi all--I'm taking a break from internet recovery sites for a while. I use several and will "lurk" a bit--but I need to re-balance my priorities for daily sober sailing. Nothing to excess, as they say. I'm cutting way back on Farmville too LOL. I have pvt msg e-mail on my profile, so feel free...
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60 days abstinent/Little Gods
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Hi, I have finally reached the 60 days mark with my overeaters program. It was a struggle at times especially to do with the feelings that were surfacing. Lately I have been reading daily from a little book called "What Bill Says". For such a little book it has helped me through some funny...
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30 days sober today!!
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Couldnt do it without all of you. What have I been doing different? Got a local sponsor, call him every day, tons of meetings, service work and working the steps. It really is simple. Going to pick up my son after work and hit a meeting and get my coin! Thanks again!
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Daily Reflections ~ Inspiration and Intuition & 24hrs a Day
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. . . . we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We dont struggle. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86 I invest my time in what I truly love. Step Eleven is a discipline that allows me and my Higher Power to be together, reminding me that, with Gods help, intuition a...
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The Promises
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THE PROMISES The Promises, that are read in many A.A. Meetings can be found on page 83-84, of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous.THE A.A. PROMISES If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happ...
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Fear & Temptation.
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The AA book talks about victory over 2 major fears of the alcoholic. The first one is people & the other is economic insecurity. These fears are eliminated by working on the steps from 4 to 9. 5 years into my sobriety & I became "economically insecure." I had lost my job & my debts...
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God Calling ~ Every Problem Solved
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"Man has such strange ideas of the meaning of My invitation "Come unto Me." Too often has it been interpreted as an urge to pay a duty owed to a Creator, or a debt owed to a Savior. "Come unto Me" for the solution to every problem, for the calming of every fear, for all you need - p...
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Inspite of the way I feel
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Since 1996 I have been coming in and out of the doors of AA. I've stayed dry 18 months, 9 months, 13 months... nothing permanent. As relapse and drinking goes, of course I have wrecked my life. Of course that doesn't feel good. Running from everything and now abrubtly quit running, the feelings are runn...
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Simple Question
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A few weeks ago I was the opening speaker for the Tri City Area Conference in Petersburg, VA. They recorded and made a CD of my share which they kindly gave me a copy of. Should or shouldn't I share it on this site, and if so, should or shouldn't I let it be known here that it is a share by the founder and webmas...
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Rememberance Day
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Today is the day where we in Britain remember the sacrifices of our armed forces since the first world War. there will be a 2 minute silence at 11 am today. There will be short memorial events and services at war memorials around the country. On sunday there will be larger, more formal services. What has...
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God Calling ~ Heaven's colors
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"Looking back you will see that every step was planned. Leave all to Me. Each stone in the mosaic fits into the perfect pattern, designed by the master artist. It is all so wonderful! But the colors are of heaven's hues, so that your eyes could not bear to gaze on the whole until you are beyond the...
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It's been a long time
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Just thought I'd check in and see how you kids are doing.
I'm doing okay I guess, still fighting the good fight. Work is going well, im writing for new TV series. My lovely and patient partner hasn't thrown me our or smothered me in my sleep. We had a beautiful baby girl who makes everything else seem uni...
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Blessings of this day
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Been real caught up in band,baby,hunting and other life on life happenings. All good,welcome newcomers and those just coming around.Just For Today,you NEVER HAVE TO USE AGAIN, start today being all God(of your understanding)intended you to be and reach out and help someone,It will definitely he...
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Hardest Day of the Year to Stay Sober
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Why Is Tomorrow (Sunday) the hardest day of the year to stay sober?
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Early sobriety transitions
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Today, I am sober 5 days. Although this isn't a huge accomplishment for me because I tend to follow the binge drinking cycle of alcoholism, I am really struggling today. Today being Friday, I feel very triggered to go out and grab "a few" (read: as many as it takes to black out, and then many mo...
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Only half of Day 4 and Was Not going to go to another meeting today with my sponsor
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This is only my 4th day not drinking after I visited "HELL" on Sun. Last Sun morning the Police came into my bedroom about 11am while I was still in the bed, after I just got to sleep at 9am. I they took me outside the house to question me because my Girlfriend/6 year old Daugthers Mom called th...
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this prayer is so healing
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Eleventh Step Prayer Of St.Francis "Lord make me a channel of thy peace -- that where there is hatred, I may bring love -- that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness -- that where there is discord, I may bring harmony -- that where there is error, I may bring truth -- that where t...
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Where I'm at
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Hello everyone. Just want to be strait. Despite feeling strong about recovery I got into negative thinking that spiraled pretty bad the last two days. Had an emergency powwow with my sponsor and that helped. It's possible that I need to make even bigger changes in my life and I just don't know what...
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Daily Reflections ~ An Individual Adventure & 24hrs a Day
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Meditation is something which can always be further developed. It has no boundaries, either of width or height. Aided by such instruction and example as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure, something which each one of us works out in his own way. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS...
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God Calling ~ Self kills power
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"When you dwell with Me, desiring only My will and to do My work, My spirit cannot fail to pass through the channel of your life into the lives of others. Many think it is humility to say they do little, and are of little value to My world. To think that is pride. What if the pipe were to say, "I do...
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