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Just wanting to hear from you all, why should't we close the door on our past?
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for me, i don't want to forget where i came from and what alcohol had done to my life. i do not want to forget the misery, the sickness, the lies i told and believed.... BECAUSE, the comparison is a great way to see how far i have come and how blessed i am. plus, if i think about drinking the past is there...
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Coming Back From Rock Bottom and Following my Dreams
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Hey Guys, So I'm new to this board but I want to say thank you AA. I recently went through an extremely hard time in my life and hit rock bottom. I abused alcohol. I'm lucky to be alive right now after having attempted suicide while black out drunk. It was because of my fear of my life and a lot of things regard...
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Relapse, with cigs.
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HI All, Coming here because I always believe we MUST tell on ourselves. I have for 7 weeks been a non-smoker, and recently just change that "I'm quitting" to a New I AM NOW A NON SMOKER. Well I ran into a drawer that had an old pack and when I went to throw it out, I heard something, looked and alas...
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KEeping Active Check out the new video
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Check out my new video if you want! Subscribe if you want to. Keep active and follow your dreams! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaqYIoHeC7E A friend of mind sends me the AA thought of the day every day and there was a quote in it that says Don't Smother each other. You don't grow in the shade. That qu...
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Update my profile 1st May 2011.
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I was just going to leave this as a profile update, but feel the need to re post it here for feedback. Update 1st May 2011. Life is hard, very hard, but I'm still sober. It's been over 5 years since I left the family home and the relationship with my (soon to be) ex wife took an upturn, then gradually slid down...
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God Calling - Share with Me
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"Delight in My love. Try to live in the rapture of the kingdom. Claim big things. Claim great things. Claim joy and peace and freedom from care. Joy in Me. I am your Lord, your Creator. Remember too that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever.... Joy in Me, trust in Me, share all life with M...
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Step2
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"....a Power greater than ourselves..." Alcoholics Anonymous. Such enormous POWER in the nature of our universe. We miss it because of the scales in our eyes not because God is not.
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Daily Reflections ~ Hold Back Nothing & 24hrs a Day
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The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide and your full confidence in the one with whom you you share your first accurate self-survey. . . . Provided you hold back nothing, your sense of relief will mount from minute to minute. The dammed-up emotions of years break out of their...
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Rules and Authority
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Spinning off the "Conference Approved Literature" thread, I thought I'd start a new one. Re: the "Akron Pamphlet" - I've heard that before but never knew where it came from. Interesting. Today I fit that definition of an AA. But I did NOT fit that definition when I walked in th...
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Going through a tough time at present
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Hi all, going through a tough time at present, been getting plenty of meetings and doing service on sunday as secretary. I need to find a new sponsor. Will it count that I am up to step 5 or will I need to start again? I did not do the fourth step with my initial sponsor and am really glad I didn't. She has just b...
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Got honest
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I admitted to my home group and my sponser I was drinking daily. I got my 24 hour coin. I have receieved a great deal of support and encouragement. It was a very difficult process to admit since I was also going to meetings everyday. My roommate is in my homegroup. She is now trying to decide if she wan...
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Step2
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"...came to believe..." Alcoholics Anonymous. The walk back to God, starting with belief. It's only a question of being willing. Nothing more is required to make a start. We serve a compassionate God. That's all He asks for in the beginning. -- Edited by gonee on Thursday 5th of May 2011 08...
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God Calling - Let Me Choose
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"Breathe in My very spirit in fervent desire. Keep the eye of your spirit ever upon Me, the window of your soul open toward Me. You have ever to know that all things are yours - that what is lovely I delight to give you. Leave more and more the choice to Me. You will have no regrets." One-Minu...
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Emotional Sobriety and ACOA
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Just been to my first ACOA meeting. Although mt parents weren't alkies to my mind, it was a pretty dysfunctional family. I did the laundry list and scored 14 for 14. Maybe I should do it again though based on a snapshot of how I am today. I'm thinking this may be a needful thing, but initial impressions is t...
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D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
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God Bless Tammy Wynette and Billy Connoly. Every time I think or hear or read the word divorce, i get either a country american version off the song, or a drunken glaswegian version of the song. But anyway, having been prepered to file for a divorce (there it is again), circumstances change and now she...
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Howdy all
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Haven't been around much, but have been lurking here and there. Just wanted to say hi to my friends and let ya know that today, life's pretty dam good! Brian
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back to basics
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gone back to basics. Yesterday I wrote out my gratitude list instead of keeping it in my head. Wrote down the step3,7 &11 prayers and use them. Re read the first 164 pages highlighting several passages. At least one meeting a day and talk to sponsor every day and all my sponsees. We're getting there...
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"..our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making." BB pg62.
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When I first understood this statement in the BB, I realised that I had no excuse to blame anybody else for my condition. But the BB does not leave it there, it gives a practical program of action to remove these "troubles" permanently. That is the good news of the book. When I started to apply...
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Hmmm... Not much sleep last night.
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Workload increasing dramatically at work due to some new business and reorganizations. Normally not an issue, but a lot of the extra work is kind of pointless, slogan-driven demands that are essentially there to make everyone look busy. But boy, do the managers take our busy work seriously. So,...
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God Calling - Souls that Smile
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The answer to the desire of My disciples to follow Me was "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." To accomplish much, be much. In all cases the doing, to be well-doing, must be the mere unconscious expression of the being. Let the day be full of little pra...
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Daily Reflections ~ Lighting the Dark Past & 24hrs a Day
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Cling to the thought that, in Gods hands, the dark past is the greatest possesion you have- the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert misery and death for them. Alcoholics Anonymous pg. 124 No longer is my past an autobiography; it is a reference book to be taken down, opened and shar...
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my God's got a sense of humour
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....and a bloody big shovel. He don't give me more than I can handle in a day. I have to believe that. This'll be why the days are so long. 25 years ago today around this time, my daughter was born. Just over 5 years ago I left the family home. Just about 4 years ago I made written amends to her. She called me and...
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Monday,back at it!
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7;30 a.m. here and ready to head out after a wonderful weekend of rest and downtime with my family.Once again today I will work to remember I am God's work and I will be reaching to do God's work.Though I have been 'graced " with my Higher Powers mercy and grace it does not mean it displaces work.What...
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ADHD and the 12 steps
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Does ADHD have a place in AA? Is AA supposed to cure it? Are Stims okay in AA? I'm interested in peoples opinions on the matter. Thanks Much
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Huntsville Al
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Anybody from Huntsville?Can you people need some help?Please let me know,my friend and I want to come down there and help if needed.
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making amends
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I was told early on when making amends, do it once and do it right. Now the but. After nearly 5 years, now the but. It's been suggested that my amends to my adult children need a little bit of a coda. The initial amends are ok. The ongoing amends are to stay out of their lives but apparently I should explain th...
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Daily Reflections ~ Healing Heart and Mind & 24hrs a Day
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Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 55 Since it is true that God comes to me through people, I can see that by keeping people at a distance I also keep God at a distance. God is nearer to me than I think and I can exper...
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God Calling - Delay is Not Denial
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"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:9 Delay is but the all-loving restraint of your (Higher Power.) Your life is so linked up with those of others that to let your desire have instant fulfillment mi...
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Grateful for the relapser...
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Cause he is my teacher and sponsor for what will happen should I succumb to the compulsion(s). One of my sponsees who did what we talk about as necessary to drink again came back home...literally to mine and I am grateful. Thank you God. He made it away from home and had actually called me weeks ago to t...
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(((((((Rainspa!)))))))
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Happy Bellybutton Birthday, Helen! Howz Sobriety treating you today, Sister! Very well I hope :D Thank you for being here. Have an especially special day All About You.. Just for Today ;). Godbless. Recovery love & fellowship, Danielle x
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Happy Birthday Rainspa,
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Hi Rainspa, 25 Sober Years, wow, that's a quarter of a century, and centainly deserves one of the biggest cakes, hope so much you have a me me me me day....:) God Bless this day, and many many more Sober Birthdays, Praying for that for you. ...
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College Classes Done
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Hi All Well another semester done. Will be taking the Summer off and hitting it again in the Fall. Have to take Summer off what with all the medical problems I have had over this Winter. Will be taking the 2 classes over that I had to drop. Did pass the History class though with a 3.0 which is a B May have to h...
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Daily Reflections ~ Group Autonomy & 24hrs a Day
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Some may think that we have carried the principle of group autonomy to extremes. For example, in its original long form, Tradition Four declares: Any two or three gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that as a group they have no other affiliation. . . . . But this u...
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Thank God it's progress not perfection.
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Sometimes I find the saying "progress not perfection" is a life saver especially on days like today. I realised today on a soul level that all I can really ever do is my best and some days my best is just gunna be crap , it's just that simple you know. I had a part of old bad me come straight back...
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In a rut? or not reallY!
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Did you ever feel like ,man, I just don't know about these spiritual awakenings and awarenesses etc ,am I missing something(keeping it on me) or should they be "more pronounced" etc ,blah ,blah... but am I also aware that all I do while I try to practice and apply spiritual principles in m...
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Sorry all. Mistakes learned the hard way.
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I apologize to Maire Rua for the grave error I made. I don't know WTF was up but I totally had her confused with another person and just assumed it was her. Plus the thing about the sponsor was the same basic share from the person I had her confused with.... Anyhow, I wish I did not have to learn to be more s...
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Clarification
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new sign in nameReply Quote Edit Post "Dear all, I have been having trouble with my account, around a little while so while I have been reading posts, I have been unable to post. I got over my second christmas and it was stressful to say the least but am getting to a meeting tonight as the roads are g...
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Welcomed home by my dogs... (video)
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There are some days that are SO much better than others
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Hi to all my Miracles in Progress friends, Miracle Toni checking in with good news. My Radiation treatments are over with and from the pictures of what they did, long story, but looks like I will be C free. Massive amounts of Radiation, and yes weak, tired and feeling so vulnerable, well I say that is HOW...
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No Major Changes...Where's this from?
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Hey, all! I am trying to figure out where the "no major changes in the first year" suggestion comes from. Is it in apporved literature? Other lit? Or just an informal slogan? Also, have people experienced how "No major changes..." has become "No dating in the first year&q...
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I'm just a human being nothing special.
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For me I find the healthiest most balanced recovery ( once sober and clean ) when I don't "hide" behind the term alcoholism. It's so easy for me to justify behaviour by saying to myself " Oh , I did that because I'm an alcoholic and thats what alcoholics do, thats how we are it's part of t...
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God Calling - April 27
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"I am beside you. Can you not feel My presence?"
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BEEN A WHILE
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Just dropping in Its been awhile and well I just wanted to stop in and say hi, things are going well for today. Kids are well, son has moved out on his own again and looks promising for him still praying for that, daughter is graduating high school in a little over a month..... Wow things go fast. Schedule...
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living alone and not being lonely
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get your coffee and your smokes,this could be a long one. So you probably know I've been separated forover 5 years and have just started divorce proceedings. That's got nasty and spiteful and dirty. Throughout the 5 odd years there has been almost daily telephone contact with her and lot's of calling...
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How prevalent was the thought!
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Last night guy shared that yes he drank on the weekend cause he was bored.In one statement he knew where this would lead him and what he had to lose(on Parole,has a 12 year old child,decent job even with Felony record)but the illness was telling him all the lies we know about, its only a few,you work hard a...
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God Calling - Bless your enemies
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"Say often, "God bless..." of any whom you find in disharmony with you or whom you desire to help. Say it, willing that showers of blessings and joy and success may fall upon them. Leave to Me the necessary correcting or training; you must only desire joy and blessing for them. At pre...
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Resentment: Definition
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I have posted here only a couple of times, so I'll give just a bit of my story. I am Kelley, a 51 y/o alcoholic/addict, married 26yrs, mother of two. My daughter is 25, on her own and holding her own, for lack better words @ 6:15am. My son is 18, autistic, and basically forever a 4 year old, regardless of hi...
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does it work?
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i've been to a few meetings but i felt unwelcome. i've come to a realisation that i can go a week or more not drinking but i always slide back into old ways.i was not going to have a drink 2day but i did. to some of you 4 pints and a few jds may not seem alot but to me it is the start of the slippery slope. should i try...
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Unnecessary Mandatory AA Meetings
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Hello, I registered here to get some answers if anyone could help me it would be greatly appreciated. First off I am not an alcoholic , i have not drank in 3 years due to a life changing altercation when i first turned 21 when i obtained a DUI. It was mandatory i was to go to these classes for drug and drinkin...
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God Calling - I Make the Opportunities
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"Never doubt. Have no fear. Watch the faintest tremor of fear, and stop all work, everything, and rest before Me until you are joyful and strong again. My work in the world has been hindered by work, work, work. Many a tireless, nervous body has driven a spirit. The spirit should be the master...
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