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Illumination
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November 19 A large segment of humanity, stumbling in alcoholic darkness, resigned to a belief that nothing can possibly be done about the situation, has at long last caught a gleam of light and presses on to that beacon of Hope. Alcoholics Anonymous is that light shining forth in the night of...
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Not everything is a case of being a bit "off-program"
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Hello all ! It's Louisa - real name Karen actually (Louisa is my cat) I have come back as Northern Lights (aren't they beautiful?) and wish to use my real name. I guess this post is intended to hopefully warn against the dangers of putting everything down to the program. Within the space of 10 days I wen...
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A New Pair of Glasses
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"A New Pair of Glasses" was a term initially coined by a guy (Dr Paul) in his story "Doctor, Addict, Alcoholic" or I think it's called "Acceptance is The Answer" in the fourth edition (I still have 4 copies of the third edtion, so I don't know) and in it he describes the c...
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Other People's Views
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I see another topic about this but didn't want to hijack that thread. I'm dealing with this in all of my life right now. I'm feeling like everyone thinks I'm a couple zanaks away from schizophrenia to be honest. Everything I say I'm met with how it's all my fault and I need to focus on myself and my disea...
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30 Days Today
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So far, so good. I found a great sponsor right away (she actually offered to sponsor me at my 1st meeting) and have been to meetings every day. I'm a re-retread but it seems my resistance has left the building (thank God). Grateful not only for AA but for this board---haven't written much but I have bee...
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Daily Reflections ~ A Safety Net & 24hrs a Day
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Occasionally. . . We are seized with a rebellion so sickening that we simply won't pray. When these things happen we should not think too ill of ourselves. We should simply resume prayer as soon as we can, doing what we know to be good for us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 Sometimes I scream,...
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...and Mr. Hyde
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It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the alcoholic that he almost invariably shows the worst side of his disposition to those people for whom he has the highest love and respect. Many of us were Jolly Good Fellows in the bootleg joint but Hell on wheels at home and in our relationship wi...
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Money
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November 18 Money is a medium of exchange and is as good as the things you can get with it. If you have enough money in your pocket when you fall overboard it can drown you. Love of money can make you the most despised of men, but love of mankind can make your money a blessing to you and them.
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Some days, it seems like our struggles will never end
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: All things pass... Patience attains all that it strives for. -- St. Teresa of Avila Some days, it seems like our struggles will never end. The pain, the loss, the heartaches, the failures we can recount them all. Where is the strength to go on? What if we began our day by...
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I'm getting used to the idea that God does a better job of running my life than I do
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are. --Unknown If it is hard to adjust to our age, how much harder it must be to realize we can't even run our own life with any degree of competence. Until we get used to that idea we will keep having living troubles. Accept...
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Our Part...and His
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We become too easily discouraged when a new man fails to make the grade. What we fail to keep before us is the fact that we are not accountable for the results of our efforts. we are only charged with the responsibility of carrying the message to other alcoholics. Just go about your end of the j...
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Room with a View
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November 15 We alcoholics were accustomed to look at the world through the whiskey glasses and consequently what we saw of the world made it appear as one big case of D.T.'s. Sobriety corrected our vision and the world took on a more ordered appearance. The world hadn't changed--our viewpo...
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Thanks for the prayers!
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So its been a bit, but heres an update. Connie went through the double mastectomy like an experienced combat solider. Outside of me dropping the ball briefly, that phase went smoothly. Today, in her 7th day after chemo, is again, showing her mettle. Your prayers paid off extremely well and we are...
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AA
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something that is becoming more important, from meeting to meeting, is not taking my sobriety for granted. an AA friend has been in and out quite a few times in the past 5 years. i can see that it could be me at any time if i do not stick with what works for me. Romancing the drink was something hard for m...
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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 didn't quite belong. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 90 The agonies and the void that I often felt inside occur less and less frequently in m...
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What Kind of Day do you want to have?
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Because it's up to you Being Kind is just a matter of taking the time, most people just don't have the time, allowing someone to merge, calling someone to tell them you love them, holding the door for someone, smiling at someone, these actions take time out of our busy days, hence it's a rarity, which is a...
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YOUR Prayers Can Help
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I went to a meeting yesterday. It was a good one. Really hit home. I'm seeing the utter devistation of this disease and that I've had it for so long. I'm deeply hurt...destroyed by the way I've been tricked into being someone I'm not most of my life. I'm a shattered man. My wife and children are gone...
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New Day
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The Eye Opener November 11 You are born at every sunrise and die at every sunset. Sleep is temporary death, which fortifies you for your rebirth in a new tomorrow. Every day is an entire life in itself and all human experiences can take place within its span. You, yourself, are not the same man you were ye...
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Daily Reflections ~ Vital Sustenance & 24hrs a Day
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Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our i...
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Power in ESH.
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My sponsors honest sharing with me was what got me into recovery. I always thought that I was different, whereas in actual fact I very much alike to other alcoholics. Nothing that I could share with my sponsor was ever unique. I could not believe how similar we were when I did my 5th step with my sponsor. R...
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Real changes
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One of the crisis in my own life was when my relationship with my wife and kids had broken down. This was the one singular event where my recovery was tested to the extreme. I was 10 years sober and I was going to start what I call was real recovery. My wife had started a quarrel with me and I had exploded and my...
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Taking the boat (and wife lol) to Key Largo for a week
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Gratitude is at an all time high and yet more evidence that "It's keeps getting better". You'all behave and if you need me I'll be here. [url]http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=f...
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Today
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You not only pass through this world but once but you live this day but once. The opportunities this day presented to do good are lost opportunities tomorrow unless you grasped them in passing. Your greatest personal loss in your drinking days was not material but rather it was the loss of m...
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Powerful share last night
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Last night I went to a different meeting, just fancied a change of scene. Met so many people there that I knew from roaund and about and the woman giving the main share is a regular at a meeting I regularly go to. She started her share and I admit, I switched off within minutes. Then I heard her talking about...
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Step 9
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I have seen a lot of confusion and questions about step 9 on this forum as of late, people wondering when to make amends, people actually unclear on the concept of what making amends actually is An Apology is 1. An acknowledgment expressing regret or asking pardon for a fault or offense.2.a. A formal ju...
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Service
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November 12 No one ever became noble simply by being moral. The great characters who have had their ennobling influence pass down through the ages are those who lived, labored and died for others. Nothing endures that fails to serve a useful purpose and man, individually or collectively, is no excep...
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Eye Opener BOOK
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While I'm glad you found some wisdom in the words I posted, they are not my work. In 1966 an anonymous author wrote "The Eye Opener"; it was very popular in AA for a long time. I got a copy and thought I'd pass it along. I am astonished that anyone would mistake it's wisdom for my lack thereof. PRE...
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Tomorrow is Remembrance Sunday
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My fifth sober one. First one that I'll miss due to Intergroup commitments. I'll take a few moments and remember all those who fought when they didn't really want to, those that died and those that survived and the damage they endured. From both sides, victors and vanquished. Both my Dad and my Father i...
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Daily Reflections ~ Intuition and Inspiration & 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 don't 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 God's help, intuitio...
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Just wondering
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Sitting here at home, in the dark wondering, what am I suppose to be doing ?am I already doing it ? Some days it is so clear what I think my purpose is but then there are these days. I think of an old song " What's it all about Alfie". I dont think of drinking or have the urge to drink but I know I used...
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Newcomer
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Hi all, I just wanted to say hello. This is my second post (just shared my story). I've read some stories and plan to read many more. I've only come to realize my drinking problem today. So, this is day 1 for me. Thanks for listening my dear friends.
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Daily Reflections ~ Morning Thoughts & 24hrs a day
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MORNING THOUGHTS Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 For many years I pondered over God's will for me, believing that perhaps a great destiny had been ordained for my life. After all, having been born into a specific fait...
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Serenity prayer
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I'm leaning heavily on it right now. BB says you have to accept how people are and worry about yourself. How exactly are you supposed to do that when there are kids involved? My ex has his own demons. Booze, pills, mental health, even some illegal things...purportedly. I left him because of these p...
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How much is too much
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Good day everyone. Im a married male in need of some advice. It started around two years ago when we started to make home made wine. Now there is usually not a day go by when my wife does not have a drink of wine (alone). When we go out even to another couples home she will have several wine and beer. Never j...
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Needful Things
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The Eye Opener November 10 We are all subjects to the habit of imagining a lot of needs and desires that we would not actually want if we stopped and gave the matter some thought. List those needs sometime and then think them over carefully. A yacht would be mighty nice in the summer, but it's a pest in the...
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I guess this could be an example of "hitting bottom"
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http://www.live5news.com/Global/story.asp?S=13465624
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OK, I'm convinced. I'm alcoholic.
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Hello, my name is Sayla (not really)  I am a true blue alcoholic. Back to Step 1-3. The good news is...I'm back! This is a terrible disease. -- Edited by Sayla on Sunday 20th of April 2014 11:05:34 AM
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PUTTING GOD IN CHARGE
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Seek Sobriety Find Serenity by Abraham Twerski November 10 PUTTING GOD IN CHARGE Why - is a belief in a Higher Power "necessary" for recovery? All the challenges we face in life can be divided into three simple categories: 1. Those that are "impossible". 2. Those that are &...
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Relationships
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I am 60 days sober today.... I go to meetings almost everyday during the week. I have a sponsor and I am in a Big Book Study. I am working hard to stay sober. I have stayed sober despite my husbands drinking and drug use. At first, his drinking and drug use wasn't bothering me. It's starting to bother m...
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Defective personality.
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Over the years circumstances and situations in my life had warped my personality. Drinking was a perfect escape from the guilt and remorse that I had felt. When I came into AA I also realised that I was an adult child of an alcoholic. I blamed all my failures on my childhood but I came across this one state...
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I need some POV, please.
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An AA that I know from IOP called me today to take him to some meetings tomorrow. I am happy to. He is coming off a significant relapse and going into a more intense IOP in another community. I have considered him to be a friend. I knew he had a history that included gang activity, but I didn't know the exten...
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New Member - Different Reasons
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Hi I have been reading this forum with interest for the past few weeks now. My husband likes to have a drink, I realise this is a battle that he has to fight. I go to weekly al-anon meetings, which I started a year ago and our children go to al-ateen. What I would like to know is why does he become resentful o...
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Spouse does NOT understand!!!
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I am almost 60 days sober. I've tried to get sober in the past, and it never felt like this. This time, I know I can't have another drink and I am really looking forward to a life where I will never pick up another drink. The trouble is: my husband has always been clueless about my drinking. He doesn't un...
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What the hell was THAT!? Seriously.
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Some of Us fell on AngelT like she was a proclaimed Jew during the Spanish Inquisition!!! Even if Angel hadn't yet to Come To, she came here for help. To quote Capt. Kragin on "Law & Order: SVU" - "We don't get to pick the vic." I hope for her sake that she seeks out help somewhere...
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new user norfolk, virginia
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Hi all, the name is Jim fisherman, new to the website. it looks real nice. Been sober for several 24 hours, hope to meet you on the road to happy destiny. Hope to correspond with AA members. I love you all! -- Edited by Jim fisherman on Saturday 6th of November 2010 10:28:42 PM -- Edited by Jim fisherman o...
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Friends in AA
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November 9 It is a most comfortable feeling for us alcoholics to know there is a vast host of friends in AA standing by. We pray to God we will never need them for an emergency and, with our new-found faith, we don't think we ever will, but it helps a lot to know that they are available if needed. It gives y...
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Fighting and Peace
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The Eye Opener Nov. 8 "It takes two people to make a fight. Everybody will not be against you unless you are against everybody - including yourself. If you are at war with the whole universe, it is because a civil war rages within your breast. If you so live as to be able to like yourself, then peace wi...
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Starting my 7th sober day since I was sixteen!!
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This is what I'm doing and it is helping me tremendously : http://angelonthewagon.blogspot.com/ It may help you to start one of your own or feel free to stop by mine. I am starting to believe I can really do this!!! Love to you all! Angel
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Unwilling to be sponsored!!
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I 'am not willing to form any relationships with any women in the A.A. program today! When I have reached out and tried I'am always been blown off for the family and job! I can't seem to find one woman out of the many to successfully go through my 12 steps with me! I'am a "dry drunk" as I read in...
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Crap was that a banana peel or....
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my pride and ego. It was my decision and my choice and my responsibility so in order to get uninterrupted sleep I took a sleep aid last night. When I take this sleep aid I get to stay down/under (not Australia) longer and then slog thru the waking up swamp process as I fight to become full conscious. Wit...
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