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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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Still Breathing in...and out...in...
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Hey All, Been away but I'm fine, sober and good. Couple thoughts. When asked the other morning "How are you?" my head was in a space that answered "mid-transformation, and like-wise I see." With summer here, I'm going to two fewer noon-meetings a week and instead taking my 5-ye...
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Feeling restless, irritable, and discontent...
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Okay, here's the deal. So I get to my meeting tonight an everyone who's already there is looking at me all funny. It seems as though they are even trying to avoid eye contact with me. I was a little puzzled, but put it off as nothing. Before the meeting starts, one of the ladies in the group pulls me asid...
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Finding Out About AA
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I notice a frequent topic here is just people asking about AA, wanting to find out what is AA, how it works, etc. I think I was the same way when I made my first phone call to the area office and asked some similar questions. The people I talked to made me laugh, and that made me want to come to a meeting. Anyw...
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That God could
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"That God could and would if He were sought." AA book pg 60. Whenever I struggle with something that I find I cannot resolve despite using the best resources available, this short bit from the AA book resolves it for me. I have got to be honest though. Firstly I ask myself, Gonee do you really a...
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Is Alcoholism a Pychiatric illness.....??
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Hi all, I had a conversation with someone that made a statement to me that in their opinion alcoholism is a pychiatric illness..... I did not offer any opinion....changed the subject...but for some reason the question is sort of haunting me.... When we drink, and in our disease, at many stages, clear...
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Stumbling.
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"Suppose we fall short of the chosen ideal and stumble? Does that mean we are going to get drunk? Some people tell us so. But this only a half-truth. It depends on us and our motives. If we are sorry for what we have done, and have the honest desire to let God take us to better things, we believe we will b...
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Not in my wildest dreams
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Reflection for the Day Not in my wildest dreams could I have imagined the rewards that would be mine when I first contemplated turning my life and will over to the care of God, as I understand God. Now I can rejoice in the blessing of my own recovery, as well as the recover...
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Don't quit five minutes before the miracle happens
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Don't quit five minutes before the miracle happens. --Anonymous When we came into the Program, most of us had very little to show for our lives. We believed in nothing. We had experienced great disappointments. The greedy creditor that was our addiction had stripp...
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Goals
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When I found the gift of sobriety... I tried to acquire two, what I thought were simple goals. The first one was that I wanted to live a "boring" life. And what I mean by boring is a simple life. I didn't want the drama that I had in my past. I didn't want to be known by the police or stick out in a c...
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Glastonbury Festival!
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Hello my sweet Sobervibers! I need to tell you I'm away until Tuesday & will miss you all though I'll be having a fabulous time in Glastonbury Music Festival with Carl :) I'll be thinking of you & holding you with me in spirit xx I'll be on the look out for friends of Bill W & report back with my f...
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sponsorship
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hi everyone, 12.35midday irish time just thought id mention that as there as so many different time zones :) hope everyone is having a good day. i just wanted to share, im over 3 and a half yrs now after 7 yrs going to meetings, and no one has ever approached me about sponsorship, im not saying that in an ego...
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My 14 yr.old son passed out last night
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Hello all, I went to a meeting last night, but was accused by my husband of doing drugs afterwards, or being on something. It kind of bothered me, because I am sober as a judge. After a large coffee and a few pieces of candy, I can get pretty wired,though. I walked the floor from room to room as I couldn't sl...
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Making amends is more than an apology
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From Hazelden -------------------------- Making amends is more than an apology Addiction creates moral wreckage. People who become addicted to alcohol or other drugs might lie, cheat, or steal in order to get and use their drug of choice. Often what's left behind is a trail of shattered relations...
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What happens to us is not as important as how we respond.
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: What happens to us is not as important as how we respond. The external events of our lives are largely beyond our control. We do not choose our parents, our emotional environment, the historical period in which we live, our body type, or the flow of circumstances that...
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Wondering what to expect from AA!
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Hi I am moving to Liverppol soon and i have decided to finally pluck up the courage to join aa. I have been sober for nearly a year now and have been thinking about joining aa for a long time now. As i a am moving away from home i think i will need support even more to keep me on the straight and narrow. Prev...
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My prayer for you.
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I want to pray for you. I don't care whether you are atheist, agnostic or whatever. I pray that you will be blessed. I pray that our Father will protect you from any harm. I pray that He will look after your families and give you serenity and peace in your homes. I pray that you will know joy in your life and no...
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MALTA CONVENTION ANYONE??
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http://www.aa-europe.net/eventdocs/Malta5thconv.pdf
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Hi My Friends
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Hi All Just thought I'd and say hi, it's been a while. Been workings and well needless to say I've slept during the day. Things are as well as can be expected, kids are fine and my daughter is starting her first job this sunday, she'll be gone for 9 weeks. Gonna miss her, the realization is she is growing...
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Had to put our 15 year old cat "Tigger" to sleep this afternoon **Updated with baby pics**
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One of the hardest things I've ever had to do. Every cell in my body was trying to get me to turn the car around, on the way to the Vet. Earlier this week she stopped eating and drinking and her breathing was very labored. Took her to the vet wednesday and he found a tumor in her abdomin, and told us she wou...
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Daily Reflections ~ Today, I'm Free & 24hrs a Day
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This brought me to the good healthy realization that there were plenty of situations left in the world over which I had no personal power--that if I was so ready to admit that to be the case with alcohol, so I must make the same admission with respect to much else. I would have to be still and know that He, no...
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Lack of humility
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Found this on the internet. Thought that it might great spiritual tool for me, in terms of my Step 10s. Just for the record, I've got a ways to go yet in humility: today I'm probably still ticking all of these boxes. Some of the "evidences" might be a bit harsh, especially for those us who lack s...
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How We Perceive "Normal" Drinking
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I went to a birthday party this past weekend for a friend, one of those milestone "surprise" affairs. Probably 75 people in attendance from age 10 to 85, but the median age was high enough that at 52, I was one of the "young-uns" there. There was a bar and drinks were being meted ou...
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Sometimes we feel cheated
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: If you go around thinking you are being cheated, life becomes very unpleasant. --Felix Salten Sometimes we feel cheated that we have been given this darn disease to cope with. Why us? Why can't we just be like normal people? Why did we have to get into so much trouble an...
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No human power could
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" That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism." AA Book Pg 60. Despite our best efforts, recovered AA's, doctors, helpers etc. we are not able to relieve alcoholism. This is one of the most difficult illness known to man. That's because of the unique emotional nature o...
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Introduction
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Hi all, I just wanted to introduce myself. I've just come over from a different sobriety message board (got frustrated with what I felt was heavy-handed editing of posts by the moderator) and reading the posts here, it seems like a positive and supportive community. I've been going to AA meetings for...
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Atheism and Alcoholism
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First off, I mean absolutely no ill will towards theists. I was raised as a devout Shi'ite Muslim. I started loving astronomy, and as I matured I realized god was a delusion. I realized we we weren't as special as we thought. It led me to a nihilistic philosophy. My alcoholism didn't seem like a big...
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Letting go to save our lives
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Letting go to save our lives I crouched in the doorway of the airplane next to my skydiving coach. I held on to the doorway with my right hand for balance. With my left hand, I firmly grasped my coach's gripper, a padded piece of cloth on his jumpsuit. It was up to me to give...
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We Are Who We Think We Are
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: We Are Who We Think We Are How we think about ourselves has an impact on what we do. If we decide that we are less of a person because we have an illness, then we may not fulfill our potential. If we decide our illness will consume our every thought and action for the rest of...
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Sues Share ... The bad old days ....
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Hi All , I havent been on this site for a long time now infact just read a post I left on here 08 ..... funny the way things work never fails to amaze me .... Im able to see in black and white how my sober life is progressing and today I find myself in a far more healthy place and time ... Anyway as I haven done a meet...
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Alcoholic brother's comment
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Hello everyone, My practicing alcoholic brother dropped by yesterday. It was good to see him in spite of what he does. He did have a water bottle and I noticed it was rather yellow water,lol. He finally admited he was drinking wine and hiding from his wife who thought he was working. I was on the computer...
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Daily Reflections ~ Release From Fear & 24hrs a Day
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The problem of resolving fear has two aspects. We shall have to try for all the freedom from fear that is possible for us to attain. Then we shall need to find both the courage and grace to deal constructively with whatever fears remain. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 61 Most of my decisions were based on fear. Alcoho...
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What was up this last Sunday night.
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Dearest friends at MIP, On Sunday night after a wonderful year of continuous sobriety, I put my Higher Power on hold and drank alcohol. I am tentative about making any comments about this that edge towards revelation, opinion or judgement. Number one at the moment is that I am willing to get real and h...
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Vacation
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So, I am now recovering from what turned out to be a 2 week vacation of camping at a lake. I worked pretty hard clearing land, working on boat motors, running kids including my 2 kids, 2 nieces and all the neighborhood kids up and down the lake skiing, keeping the in laws happy, and making sure my wife go...
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I hate being let down!
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Yeah, I really do. Honestly, I know it's because I still place unreasonable expectations on others.My own fault, but I'm just sayin'. Brian
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All the Good I Can
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Today's thoughts from Hazelden are: All the Good I Can Dear God, guide me to Do all the good I can By all means I can In all ways I can In all places I can To all people I can As long as I can.
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