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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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Question
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I've been sober almost 60 days and people talk about Dry drunks... What are the warning signs.... I am confused on this... Thanks
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Need encouragement
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It has been 25 hours since my last drink. I really want to give it up this time for good. I am worried about what I have done to my health and I have a young child and a sick husband (he is suffering from anxiety and depression), that I need to be strong and sober for. I have been drinking anywhere from 3 glas...
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Normal Birthday
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Hi All Today was my regular birthday, turned 49, and yes next year the Big 50. Spent it with my boyfriend--went out to a big breakfast and then came back to my house talked and worked on plastic models--then ordered food and watch the Nascar Race and then he went home. There are friends and family already...
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We each have our own path
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I am a writer, and in many ways an introvert. Writing is the most cathartic thing there is for me. I have one week sober today. That is the most I have had in a decade, and it is because of my blog. Yes AA is about anonymity, but my blog and my picture and my name create accountability for me. Not only that...
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Rough Night
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I read Dean's comment in another thread about the importance of making it to a year. I'm a little over 8 months. That hit home. I've been in a bit of a "funk" lately -- I think because I haven't been working the program to its fullest. I'm going to meetings nearly every night, which is typi...
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Meetings in Nepal or Uzbekistan?
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Does anyone know if there are meetings in Kathmandu or Tashkent? They're not on the international directory.
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To tickle your funnybone: An article about quitting drinking both funny & heartfelt
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http://www.cracked.com/article_18824_5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-quitting-drinking_p1.html
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a very rough dream last night
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i dreamed i had had enough alcohol to enter 'wet brain' territory. it was at a former neighbor's house, a party house, and i had 'one drink' and was falling down drunk. i realized i had crossed over the ultimate barrier and entered where no one wants to go. i had so much THIQ in my brain that there w...
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Hello all my dear friends....
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Have not spent any time at all on Computer, this last month I have had sooooo many test, MRIs, Bone Scans, Cat Scans, you name it, I probably had one of those......but next week all tests will be complete...and docs can come together and make some sort of aim or decision on what is next, surgically.... I p...
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Starting My Sixth Day Sober. Would Appreciate any Words, Insight, or Guidance.
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http://angelonthewagon.blogspot.com/
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Daily Reflections ~ Let God and Let God & 24hrs a Day
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. . . praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96 When I "Let Go and Let God," I think more clearly and wisely. Without having to think about it, I quickly let go of things that cause me immediate pain and discomfort. Bec...
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Study: Alcohol more lethal than heroin, cocaine
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101101/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_dangerous_alcoholcrack cocaine, according to a new study. British experts evaluated substances including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and m...
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need help and advice
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I`ve been sober for a month now and for the first time I`m feeling bad and I need to talk to someone from aa. Unfortunately its late here in the uk and my sponsor`s not answeing his phone. I feel sulky kie a little boy and resentful of my %^$£"*() wife. She likes me being sober but thinks that aa is full o...
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Hi Guys, I'm Back in a very long time.
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Dear friends how are you doing , hopefully great by the grace of God. I have started to keep my self busy by doing website etc. I have my own site I made for my mother. I would like to share few things in a few days , I will let you know ASAP. Thanks & RegardsGary
Welcome back, Gary. Share in your experien...
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fear to take action
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I am going through a tough decision that i must make and as usual this is completely taking over the now in my life.let me be honest here as the program suggests.i must settle some drbt and the only way to do so is in refinancing the family home.thats the simple part .My beautiful wife and i have agreed but h...
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Daily Reflections ~ The Quality of Faith & 24hrs a Day
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This. . . has to do with the quality of faith. . . . In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves. . . . We had not even prayed rightly. We had always said, "Grant me my wishes" instead of "Thy will be done." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p.32 God does not gra...
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Well, it finally happened...
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...the dreaded DRINKING DREAM! I've seen folks post about it but in my whole 13 days sober I didn't have one till last night. I was at some sort of banquet & just picked up a glass near my plate & sipped it and it was champagne! I freaked!!! I was thinking, "I don't wanna drink this! Tha...
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Daily Reflections ~ Keeping Optimism Afloat & 24hrs a Day
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The other Steps can keep most of us sober and somehow functioning. But Step Eleven can keep us growing. . . . THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 240 A sober alcoholic finds it much easier to be optimistic about life. Optimism is the natural result of my finding myself gradually able to make the best, rather tha...
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I continue to be amazed at meetings
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AA is a most powerful thing. So thankful I decided to come in. I go to 3-6 meetings a week and am still floored by the power they hold. The spirit is strong in these rooms. Never a bad idea to go to a meeting. I just needed to express this I guess, man is it good. Higher Power Blessings to you all- TS
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HP sense of humor
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So.....I was woke up at 5:30 a.m. by my english bulldog Lilly to go out. Which was a trick because she peed in her cage already. OK things happen. Was going to go back to bed but she decided she really did have to go out. Ok I would want someone to let me out if I had to go. Decided I was awake so started the c...
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Need input from live group secretaries AA-USA
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Hi-I haven't done any AA business mtgs in many years, and just volunteered to be secretary of my new home group--all my service work was in another state, years ago. This small group has had no secretary, no GSR, and has been kinda limping along via the efforts of one person who opens up, serves as tre...
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Depression .... ok a whinge
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Looked into this last night and the UK health site suggested their is a strong possibility of that I'm depressed. However, this is what is confusing me, it's suggesting I do exercise, eat better, take some time off and attend group talk therapy. It also suggested I may need some medication but I don't a...
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Happy Sober Halloween
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Nearly 630 over here in the UK and trick or treaters out in full force. Love Halloween - was my favorite when I was a kid. Best part, thanks to AA, I'm sober on Halloween! Best to all Steve
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SHARING IS A BEST MEDICINE FOR RECOVERING
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Feelings- "Feel the feeling and Deal the Feeling" Life is full of ups n' downs. we have to "think think think" in a every steps of life. "just 4 today - united we stand" share ur feelings threw the sharing.
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Daily Reflections ~ I Cannot Change the Wind & 24hrs a Day
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It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 My first sponsor told me there were two things to say about prayer and meditation: first, I had to start and second, I had to continue. W...
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need help
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Hello - First of all I'm scared to death. I reached a point in my life where I know I want alcohol out of it. I can't handle drinking, I'm not a social drinker and I will never be able to be a "normal" drinker. About 2 and a half months ago I quit drinking on my own. I abstained for 2 months and then h...
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sunday morning thought
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we are just a breath away from November, amazing..... just as i am often an arm's reach from drinking, or even a breath away from doing something that could hurt others in my life... the steps remind me of my choice for this moment and points out that life "run on self will" can hardly be...
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Recovery doesnot promise heaven but its takes out from hell
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"Recovery doesnot promise heaven but its takes out from hell" since a period of first AA meeting- i feel i am in a way of beautiful garden, where diffrent types of flower is there but there is not only a flowers in side there is many hard ups and downs n' pain to reach that palce one promise make m...
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Daily Reflections ~ Avoiding Controversy & 24hrs a Day
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All history affords us the spectacle of striving nations and groups finally torn asunder because they were designed for, or tempted into, controversy. Others fell apart because of sheer self-righteousness while trying to enforce upon the rest of mankind some millennium of their own specificati...
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Living the Twelve Steps of Recovery
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Happy Sober Sunday, all. I just received my copy of a new book, written by "one of us" under the name A. Messenger. It is in the process for consideration as Conference Approved literature from AA. It is a daily guide to the steps and traditions, written in a style like the early writers, but f...
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scribblings of a newly recovered manic depressive alcoholic
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Just a few notes that might help someone new to AA who`ve also got a diagnossis of bi polar mood disorder 1 always take your meds and see your doc/shrink and listen very carefully to what they say and trust their opinion even if you don`t agree withi "fake it to make it " 2 all alcoholics in my lim...
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obsessing about drink
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Its 12.30am in the uk and I`m asking for help. John Barleycorn is such a devious little bastard there`s so many different ways he can hook you. Like walking down the street past people drinking and having a good time ; like going into pubs on the pretext of using their toilets ; like remembering the songs...
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Went back out...
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Aloha All...I've been conversing with a sponsee who has recently relapsed and of course is paying the price in spades. He's attempting to maintain "self" control so I know that HP and I are kinda stumbling blocks for him at the moment. We back tracked over the trail on what caused the rela...
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Food for thought
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Just a reminder for all of us that I wanted to share... I ran into a family friend today (who does not know that I am in AA) and it came up that his brother-in-law is dying. Apparently he had been a heavy drinker all his life, and severely damaged his liver. When he was diagnosed, he quit drinking, but the dam...
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First Meeting
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Hello, I'm going to go to my first aa meeting tonight. What goes on or what am I supposed to expect? Do I just show up and walk in? Thanks, Eric
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Eeeeeeek.
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Two weeks sober yesterday. Not having any trouble not drinking, in fact I've been enjoying being sober and other than having an attack of the "boreds" one night early on...I've been having a great time. I feel freedom. That said, I've been having a LOT of strange dreams. I've always dre...
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FEELING DOWN
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Just Thought I Drop in, and let I'm ok. The last 2 days felt like apart of me left the building. Yes it had to do with my son and I lost it on him and quite frankly I still don't think he gets it. I explained to him I really felt about this drinkin, and the affect it has on the household. Told him he's gonna have to...
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The Traditions in our own lives
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As Time goes on I find myself untilizing the AA Traditions in my own life more and more, they are good sound "rules" for Life, No Politics or Religion, being open minded, but realizing our group welfare comes first, paying our own bills, attraction not promotion, this list goes on and on and...
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tom waits
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just a query about Tom. I heard he was an alcoholic and wondered wether or not he`s a recovering alcoholic. This weeks been a roller coaster with lots of feelings emerging that I`d forgotten I had but I`ve got through it with the help of my sponsor and my higher power. My poor wife`s suffered though and I`...
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New here, and trying to figure out if I belong
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Hi... I've been wondering for some months now if I am an alcoholic. My mother is an active alcoholic, and I am married to an alcoholic that has been in recovery almost 2 years now. I have been in Alanon for about 2 years. For about 6 months now, I have been drinking 3 or 4 times a week at home (while my husba...
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When i'm feeling grateful...
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...I don't feel like getting loaded! Just thought i'd throw that out there. I'm just listening to some relaxing music, reflecting a little on just how low I was 10 and a half months ago compared to where i'm at today and what i've got going on in my life right now, the path i'm on right now...I feel so lucky t...
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Day One
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I am new to this, so bear with me. Really, I could use some help on using this forum. I want to get better, but I am afraid that I can't do it on my own. I know that it's not all about accepting, so I am also looking forward to giving. Please, help me begin on this journey. It's not going to be easy for me, but I...
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Daily Reflections ~ Live and Let Live & 24hrs a Day
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Never since it began has Alcoholics Anonymous been divided by a major controversial issue. Nor has our Fellowship ever publicly taken sides on any question in an embattled world. This, however, has been no earned virtue. It could almost be said that we were born with it. . . . "So long as we don't a...
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Morning!
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Just dropped in to see what condition your condition was in!!!! Been really running lately ,wanted to stop in and wish all a blessed and productive day! Another day to thank the God of our understanding for the gift of life,free from active addiction..I'll stop back in tonight and see how all are doing...
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Just spoken by video call to my buddy in Australia
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My sober buddy, Gaz, got married last year and went to Cairns for his honeymoon. They were there 6 weeks. While there his bride was offered a job and Gaz and she went back over there in April so that she could take up the job and he could seek a work permit. Just had a video call by skype with him - was great to s...
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HELP NEEDED! I'm new here and need urgent advice on my wifes drinking problem
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Hi There, Sorry to bother you all but i really need some advice on my wife's drinking problem, ill keep it as short as possible: My wife is a heavy drinker (5-6 beers/wines) per night She has been diagnosed with anxiety and sometimes self halms herself Has done so for about 2 years She has been through the...
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just shared
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Hi there i just shared in a aa meeting was not shure but i asked my hp to guide me .what you guys told me is what i did that is where i came from what happened and how is it now ,went fine .thanks again for all of your supportand incredible counsel.I really enjoy the interactions here and it is now a source that i...
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Daily reflections ~ Our Survival & 24hrs a Day
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Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full strength our means of survival. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 177 The honesty expressed by the members of A.A. in meetings has the power to open my mind. Nothing can block the flow of energy that hone...
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Hi just dropping in
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Just thought I'd drop in Its been a while since I shared anything, things are going ok. College applications with my daughter have been challenging, also working on getting a Van on the road. AGH!!! lol but that's ok, the out come is worth the work. Just got into a bit of a discussion with my son who has Byp...
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