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HI you all
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Hope all is well with you. I have 22 days thus far. I messed up pretty good this time. I keep thinking I've hit bottom so many times it sounds like a spanking. I'm the slowly get it type, verrrry slowly. I do know if I work the steps and and do the first step perfectly, that I can fumble around and do my best with...
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3rd of July and all is well.
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Its Saturday the 3rd and all around me there is partying and drinking. I am happily sitting down in my basement watching "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy". I am very happy to be sober. Tomorrow, I will wake up healthy and ready for the world. It really is Independence Day verses &qu...
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Daily Reflections ~ A Natural Faith & 24hrs a Day
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. . . deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old a...
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Feelings suck.
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Well, most of them. That is all.
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Hello to All of our Guests.
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I can see that we've had 10 guest in the last 10 minutes. Please sign up and join us.
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Spiritual Experience
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As some of you know I've been having a rough week. My life's been unmanageable. I've been praying, talking to my sponsor alittle, probably not as much as I should be. I've been trying to practice our principles in all my affairs but I was being blocked by something. This morning, I picked up As Bill...
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Update on life changes
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I just thought I'd "get current" with everyone here. I have a lot of changes happening and more on the horizon, and I learned a long time ago that when life changes, upping my AA "practice" is a good thing. I only have one day of work left, I've been here for 3 years and 3 months. Th...
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Drinking Again
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5150_%28Involuntary_psychiatric_hold%29)
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Resentment
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Today is my wife's birthday. She is 40. She wanted to do something special on her B-day. I had planned to hike Mt Washington here in NH with her and her sister and husband. We were going to do this after July 9th. because of the kids/work schedules. My sister in-law is worried about hiking that far so...
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What IS it like to go a meeting of AA?
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This is what it was like for me
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My Birthday
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Okay. So what happened today? It was uneventful, but yet possibly the best birthday I have had. I had a day were just about everything was as it was supposed to be at this moment in time and it was the first birthday I have ever felt like this...not caring what I got but just grateful for where I am and wha...
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The strength of this fellowship
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Blows me away sometimes. As some of you know and others will learn now, my Mother in Law died on Monday 14th June 2010. I was really upset but my brothers and sisters in the fellowship back here have picked me up and carried me through this. I initially decided that I wouldn't go to the funeral, I thought I w...
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Psychology, Psychiatry, Meds, Sobriety
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When I got divorced at 5 years sober, I started seeing a psychologist almost immediately when I found out my wife was leaving. I think as much as anything I just wanted someone's undivided attention for 50 minutes a week. I deliberately chose a psychologist rather than a psychiatrist because I didn...
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Daily Reflections ~ Experience: The Best Teacher & 24hrs a Day
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Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS , p. 87 Some say that experience is the best teacher, but I believe that experience is the only teacher. I have been able to learn of God's love...
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Learning to identify negative thoughts
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: We have the power to direct our minds to replace the feelings of being upset, depressed, and fearful with the feeling of inner peace. --Gerald G. Jampolsky Learning to identify negative thoughts is a powerful way to begin changing our negative behavior. We always t...
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Now HERE's a med that works
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Sound familiar? -- Edited by AGO on Sunday 27th of June 2010 06:58:10 PM
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Happy Bellybutton Birthday, Pinkchip!
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Happy Sober Day, Mark. I hope you're enjoying a wonderfully serene & joyous 24hours all for you. Thank you for your sobriety & sharing your experience, strength & hope here continuously. May your day be a celebration of all that is you & all that is life. Thank you for being here. God b...
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Sad
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Last night as my daughter, grandson, and I were getting her car loaded up to go swimming at a relative's home, we heard sirens. We waited a few mins. before taking off as to allow the vehicles passage on the highway we were going to travel over. The wailing did not cease as more soon followed. A wre...
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Scared of not having a sponser
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Hello, I am frustrated and a bit scared right now with the situation Im in. I am hoping someone out there has some information or has been in this situation and knows how to handle it. Any comments, words of wisdom, suggestions, information on my situation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you fo...
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Help
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Need advice. My daughter is engaged to a guy living in London. His parents are in France and want to meet her. She is 7 months sober and clean. He has told her that his family would consider it an insult if he doesn't have a drink with them. Of course she can't drink they are in there 70's and don't seem to unde...
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September Date
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September is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month in the United States. A couple of months ago, a facility in Hot Springs, Arkansas contacted me about the possibility of speaking at their treatment center. This is another dream of mine to just travel around the States and share my ESH...
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Daily Reflections ~ The Heart of True Sobriety & 24hrs a Day
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We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program. Willingness, honesty and open-mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But these are indispensable. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 570 Am I honest enough to accept myself as I am and let this be the "me" that I let...
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From Better Living to Bitter Living through Chemistry
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They say, you are what you eat,but maybe it is closer to the truth to say you are the way you live. A look at how we live shows that our use of alcohol and other mind-altering drugs has become a way of life. Living the high life gradually takes on a chemical hue until we can't party,swim,ski, or make love with...
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My HP giving me a break
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I'm sick . Been sick for the last 2 days. Fever, aches and pains, and don't even want to think about food. Last night while I was lying in bed I had one of those moments when everything seems to make sense. For me, these are very spiritual experiences, and love the fact that I can recognize them today. I...
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AA and a no dependeancy on alchol.
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If i have access to drink, i normaly drink the lot, well if able to drink the lot, food becomes 2-3 if not 4th place. i also play comp games and at times i run out of acholl, then coffee will be ok, even non cafirnr coffee. ok i can't spell.
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Daily Reflections ~ The Best For Today & 24hrs a Day
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The principles we have set down are guides to progress. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 Just as a sculptor will use different tools to achieve desired effects in creating a work of art, in Alcoholics Anonymous the Twelve Steps are used to bring about results in my own life. I do not overwhelm myself with li...
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Self Centered? Me?
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Size Click me to see Does This make you feel small? Click me to see Time Click me to see After watching those? maybe a little -- Edited by AGO on Wednesday 23rd of June 2010 11:13:20 PM
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I had a bad dream last night
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In my dream last night i walked away from my sobriety. Just gave it away like it was nothing.... told my Sponsor, "so what" .... It Shook me up as I was waking to think I had to start all over again with day one, but I remember thinking that I can not continue in this relapse... it will kill m...
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Sponsor issue
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Hi all, I was hoping you might be able to share some advice on changing sponsors and whether in fact that might be warranted. My sponsor is a very nice woman and has a lot of life experience, but I am her first sponsee, and I'm starting to think that maybe she just doesn't have the AA experience to help a newc...
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Today is a milestone..
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90 days sober today. 89 days ago I was downing a 5th of whiskey a day. Its really been tough, but I'm thankful for this time. The first 30 days were hell,no sleep, detox...the next 60 have been no cakewalk either. Ive really had to fight for this. I need to redouble my efforts if I want to stay sober.
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There will be hard times in our program
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Forewarned, forearmed; being prepared is half the victory. --Miguel de Cervantes There will be hard times in our program. There will be hard times in our life. That's the way life is. It helps if we accept this. Then we can prepare for tough times. We can prepare by get...
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Ripples on my pond
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Well, I've had a nice stretch of sobriety and recovery. Peace and serenity. I continue to work the program but my diesase is active. My diesase has found a new obession, baseball. I help coach my sons All Star team and this has become the biggest thing in my life. Not good I know, but my sickness has f...
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new member
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Am I an alcoholic if I only drink wine (everyday), don't get drunk, but need to do this almost everyday? Acoholic - I think I am - My wife thinks I am. I don't want to stop all together, I just want to stop most of the time. For years I thought it was not having an impact on my way of being, today I know that...
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Alcoholics: Ages 18 - 30's: Post your stories here to better relate.
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I wanted to narrow this down by age category as not everyone can relate to the same decade since things change, as do characteristics of drinkers. I never 'officially' drank until about the age of 17 in high school. It was my first real party, and a friend and myself went shot for shot until I ended about 1...
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From Anonymous Soldier
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I asked God for strength that I might achieve;I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.I asked God for health that I might do greater things;I was given infirmity that I might do better things.I asked for riches that I might be happy;I was given poverty that I might be wise.I asked for power that I...
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H-A-L-T --> F-A-T!
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Hi guys, Let me start by saying that I just really need to vent -- but I full appreciate that gaining a few pounds is 100% worth the gift of sobriety! Anyway, I find the AA advice to beware of "HALT" very effective... and while I can't always control the A-L-T, the H is pretty easy to control. And...
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I'm Back from the concrete wildeness of the city.
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Glasgow is a beautiful place if you can open your eyes and look. But I've been there for 4 days and nights, for work. I arrived at 1 p.m. on Monday, worked until 7, went to the hotel, checked in showered shaved ate early night. Then my days went like this, up at 5 to the sound of traffic and reversing lorries,...
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Holding onto hurt
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The trouble with holding onto hurt instead of letting go is that you continue to make decisions based on what hasn't been for a long time and you live in that long ago affixing fault and blame.
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Symptoms Longevity
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Hi all, I used to post under a different account last year but I've forgotten the login details. Been drunk for 16 years pretty much - drink every day, mostly to drunkeness. Anyway, I'd be interested to specifically know your experience of how long specific symptoms last after quitting. I'm on day 5 an...
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What AA meetings most DEFINITELY are NOT
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DPxGNt4xzk This is by a comedy duo in UK, Hale and Pace, it is a very old one, but just had it sent via email and thought it might get a laugh.
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Hey Everyone
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Hey all, I'm living in a recovery home in Chicago. I have very little freedom which is probably not a bad thing. A few weeks sober now. Just wanted to say hi to all and let you know that things are okay with me. Guess I should consider myself lucky being able to clean up with assistance. I went through a one we...
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my story
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hi my name is tracey im a recovering alcoholic. i was 18 wen i went to my first aa meeting, boy was that daunting, id only been drinking a few short months.......what was i doing here! my dad is a recovering alcoholic 30yrs behind him up to today. he spotted the isms in me right from early childhood and ofte...
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sobriety date
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hi im tracey. alcoholic my sober date is july 25th 2006, entered recovery oct 03 and slipped after 3 yrs, have almost 4 yrs again Please god one day at a time. friary hall, ennis co clare.
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taking a computer break
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out of town for a while w/o internet
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Im still alive...
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In case anyone cares or was wondering... am on day 15.... Got some stories to tell but will do that when I get back into town on Sunday... It hasnt been a fun or pretty road but I am still alive and my HP is not done with me yet. I am determined to never ever take another drink, going to lots of meetings, got a ne...
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Human relationships change
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Honesty is the best policy. --David Tuvill Newcomer I've heard people talk about "firing" their sponsors, about sponsors "firing" their sponsees. I find that term disillusioning I thought we were here to help one another. Sponsor Human re...
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Girl Drink Drunk
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GW22sAElpE&feature=player_embedded#!
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The Alcoholic and Sporting Events-----First Hand Experiences!!
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I haven't been on MIP for all that long, so I don't know how often this syndrome gets addressed?! Sober here 5 years, 4 months.......well, my relationship to sporting events has changed since I opened myself up the MIP!! Use to be a great excuse to get loaded...if my team won, lost or tied, heck a rain-o...
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One comes, finally, to believe whatever one repeats to one's self
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: One comes, finally, to believe whatever one repeats to one's self, whether the statement is true or false. --Napoleon Hill Our inner dialogue can have awesome power. It often determines the behavior that defines who we are. We do, of course, have some choice as to th...
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Life is hard enough without adding alcohol to it
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Hello sober friends, Glad to be sober today! Anyway, I was surfing "You tube" when I ran across the funniest video. How it reminded me of how it seems I often struggle with the smallest of things and sometimes have the hardest time for no reason. How the heck did I do anything drunk? LOL Bett...
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