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Alano Club Issues
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When I first started putting on a sober karaoke show at a new Alano Club in town, there were so many singers that sometimes people would only get to sing once or twice during the night. Then it started going downhill. Since I didn't live in the area and was only there once a week, I had no idea what was happe...
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Expectations are hard!
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I am only 4 months sober, but my sponser and i agree that my job is holding me back in every way possible. Iv interviewed at two different companys, and one of them said i would here back on the 19th which is tomorrow. God i want this job so much. It would definately help me in my day to day happiness, as well a...
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....and still better each day
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Thank you again, for all the love and the encouragement. yes, Vonnegut is my solace at night now. LOL Sooooooo much better then relying on that old marriage that didn't work!! hand Specialist said I need nerve conduction studies and electromyogram, which consists of thin needles being pushed into m...
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Prayer of an Unknown Confederate Soldier
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I know some have already heard this, but I love to read it from to-to time. I asked God for strength, that I might achieve; I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health, that I might do greater things; I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for riches, that...
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Day 9
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Hiya folks. Just checking in. It's so odd. Normally I think I comment a lot and offer support when people are having a rough time, but here I feel a bit intimidated not only because I'm new but because I feel like "Who's going to take the advice of someone who has only been sober nine days?" ...
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New Member
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Hi Everyone, I have been reading these messages for about 3 weeks now and just decided to join up and post myself. I have known that I am an alcoholic for years and years now, gave it up once before. So it's been about 3 weeks for me this time. The straw that broke the camels back for me was... I decided to get a...
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Daily Reflections ~ New Soul.... New Roots & 24hrs a Day
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Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know. Roots of reality, supplanting the neurotic underbrush, will hold fast despite the high winds of the forces which would destroy us, or which we would use to destroy ourselves. AS BILL SEES IT, p....
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One week! Cheers! ...er, with lemonade or something!
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Well today I have been sober one week. That is just incredible to me. I am thrilled! I have been to at least one meeting every day and know I never could have done it without that. I went to an amazing meeting on Friday called "fearless" where we have a speaker on, yup, you guessed it: fear! ...
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How to Go Back Out
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1. stop praying for God's help in the morning 2. stop going to meetings regularly and often 3. stop inventorying your feelings and fears 4. get lonely, bored, resentful and don't do anything about it 5. start to think you are in control of your life and that you don't need to worry about AA's tools to help...
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Steaming Mad.........But Still Sober
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So it's now 12:05 A.M. EST. My wife and I attended a black-tie dinner tonight. Not just any dinner, but the biggest event of the year in our town of 25,000. Every doctor, lawyer, and politician in town was there. My hands are shaking as I write this. My wife asked me if I would be O.K, I said yeah. She asked m...
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Back
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Hi folks, I'm back. Wish it was under better circumstances.
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Ms London
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Confessional information
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Precisely because it bothered me to "waste" it down the drain, I hearby put it in writing that I just got out of bed to dump out a half a bottle of Jagermeister which I found burrowed in the back of the freezer a few months ago. I don't know if it was mine from last year(it was one of my fave liquor...
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Daily Reflections ~ Cultivating Faith & 24hrs a Day
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"I don't think we can do anything very well in this world unless we practice it. And I don't believe we do A.A. too well unless we practice it. . . . We should practice . . . acquiring the spirit of service. We should attempt to acquire some faith, which isn't easily done, especially for the person who...
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Unmanageable
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The 1st step tells me that my life had become unmanageable. The 1st pertinent idea also tells me that I could not manage my life. I do not find any thing in the AA text which says that I will regain manageability. Therefore I submit to a life long reliance on God to manage my life. It has become so easy for me t...
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Today's thought from Hazelden 4/20/2010
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Perhaps it was only yesterday or the day before that we doubted our value to society, or to our family or friends. We often lose our direction. That's normal an...
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Honesty discussion...
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Aloha All...I've got both of the boards I participate with in on this one. Honesty seems to be the asset of focus at the moment and I am (and have for a while) listening for feedback from others in recovery for their perceptions; ESH. I will be grateful. Take your time and keep and open mind with good rec...
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Happy Bellybutton Bday, CAMitch!!! xx
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Welcome to MIP, Craig.. Do we have 90 days sober as yet too?? Godbless you today & for all your sobriety 1Day@aTime. Keep coming back & letting all of us in this program love you like we do. Godbless you in all your efforts. Have a wonderful 24hrs all about you Just for Today ;) Recovery love &...
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Why we NEED eachother- and ELEPHANTS....
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Because we can't on our own, process the world around us and the things that happen, and react sanely like we ought to, due to our disease of maladjusted perception. The text book for one of my classes right now had an exerpt of the story about the 3 blind men from India who came upon an elephant, an animal t...
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Daily Reflections ~ Self-Examination & 24hrs a Day
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. . . we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86 When said sincerely, this prayer teaches me to be truly unselfish and humble, for even in doing good deeds I often used to seek approval and glo...
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Happy 40th Birthday, Token Girl!!! xx
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HAPPY FORTY BIG ONES, TG!!!!! How's your TWO YEARS SOBRIETY coming along 1Day@aTime? May your Day be Super Special like you.. full of love, gifts & surprises. We, your fellowship, are always here for you on your unbirthdays too! I hope you may have a gorgeous 24hrs taking good care of you. God bles...
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Full blown man flu kicked in again.
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My head feels like it's stuffed with cotton wool, I ache all over, I'm drinking fluids like crazy, slept 4 hours last night, throat is dry and raw, nose is running off my face and I have what a doctor might call a productive cough. My teeth all ache, I'm peeing like a fountain and have the most incredible fl...
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Two Wolves
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Someone read this in a meeting yesterday and it really stayed with me: An old Cherokee Indian was speaking to his grandson: "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil--he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, a...
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Help PLEASE- what would you want?
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-- Edited by Poz on Monday 19th of April 2010 11:14:48 AM
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People with chronic pain
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Hello All, I am note sureif this is the place to tell info to but here goes. Canadian Federal government has passed a ruling that Pain sufferers getting freezing shots can not get more than 25% of the regular treatment anymore. What do I do now????? So many people that don't take narcotics will now be f...
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Carrying the Message -- from Hazelden
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Carrying the Message What we are always carries a stronger message than what we say. This is why we're sometimes turned off by people who seek to overwhelm us with charm. It's also why we can sometimes be drawn to people who are quiet and unassuming. However it works, t...
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Daily Reflections ~ Self-Honesty & 24hrs a Day
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The deception of others is nearly always rooted in the deception of ourselves. . . . When we are honest with another person, it confirms that we have been honest with ourselves and with God. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 17 When I was drinking, I deceived myself about reality, rewriting it to what I wanted it to be. D...
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It's finally sunk in.
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The last couple of weeks have been pretty hellish for me. Unable to completely "get" step one has been a real problem for me, leaving open the doors to and questions about drinking. I had a few days of drinking, hiding it, and doing stupid stuff which resulted in what boils down to an ultimatu...
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I Am Who I Am ---- from Hazelden
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: I Am Who I Am Sometimes we want to be someone else anyone but who we are. We want to be someone who feels more free and at peace. We want to be someone who doesn't have to take medications day after day. We want to be free of the pain and loneliness our illness has brought us. B...
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Meds Working
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Hi New Meds seem to be to working. I am not under as much stress and am sleeping a lot better. No more waking up 2 or 3 times during the night and no more nightmares like I used to, this while being on the Celexa. Just have to watch out the time of night I take the Xanax though, took one Monday night and then sle...
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"Easy Does It."
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Today's thought for Hazelden is: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY In our group we often hear the slogan "Easy Does It." We who suffer our affliction always do everything to excess. We indulge our emotions. We worry too much. We have too much resentment. We tend to be addictive. We tend to hurt ourselves p...
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Why "Aquaman"?
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So today I picked up the 5 year old from school and I have two fishing rods in the car and she says" where are we going, Daddy?" and I anser "I want to show you something really, really cool." I took her to a place called "The Cut".It's a concrete canal that was put in the bot...
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Aquaman
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UK Panic?
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It seems that a volcano has erupted in Finland or somewhere like that, so for the second day running UK airspace is shut, because of the danger of volcanic ash getting in the jet engines and putting the fires out. Hmmm. wonder when the tree huggers will start ravign about climate change causing this? Do...
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bikerbill
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Can non-alcoholics help alcoholics?
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You know it's funny, but I want to say "No" They don't "understand" My entire being screams Noooo!!!! They don't "get it"!!!! But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confi...
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Happy Birthday, Avril! XXX
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Welcome back, Avril.. Just in time for your Bellybutton Birthday too hey!!! What a Celebration :) Have a Wonderfully Happy Sober 24hrs.. Liverpool Love, Danielle & Carl XXXX
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Fearful of tomorrow
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Tomorrow morning I go in work to talk to my manager about the incident last night. The incident is that I was drinking at work (I work the graveyard shift at a shell station so no manager present) and I passed out. A customer called an ambulance because I was unresponsive. When I came to the place was surro...
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Day 19 and My First Social Outing
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Tomorrow is day 19 of my sobriety and I have plans to go to a comedy club with my friend. Ironically it's the friend I was with the last time I drank (and blacked out...really bad). This will be the first real test for me because it's the first time I'll be out, in a place serving alcohol, and I won't be drin...
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Having realistic expectations.
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Having realistic expectations. Sometimes we expect much too much of people and things. We will never be happy if we expect our doctor to work instant cures or if we blame our teacher for what we failed to learn. We need to examine what's realistic to expect of others a...
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Day 4 supercrankypants!
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First and foremost I am grateful that I made it through last night without a drink. It was beyond difficult. For those who didn't see my post yesterday, after a stressful day at work, I had to go first to a wake and then to a bar for a date. (Yes, yes, I know, bad on two counts with the date.) Oddly enough I...
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Get Away From Me With Your Crosstalk!!!
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All right, so yesterday I was a little conflicted as to whether I should switch meetings, got some great feedback which I really appreciated- went back to this awesome beginner's meeting last night and spilled my guts. Owned up to my relapse, the reason that I thought I had relapsed, the fact that I fee...
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Prayer Ideas
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I just thought I'd start a post for people to share their favorite prayers/meditations, or ones that they are focusing on currently. I'm in a bit of a rut and would like a little inspiration, something new to spark that god-thing. So tell all - set prayers, things that you do to quiet your brain, whate...
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Waiting For A Baby...
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39 weeks...3.5 cm...feelin' kinda stressed out...can't go more than 30 minutes from town...can't go out of cell-phone range...praying that they both come out of it healthy...this whole thing isn't about ME but WOW am I feelin' it...ANG-ZYE-IT-TEE! The last three kids I "took the edge off...
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Aquaman
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Just when you thought it was safe...................
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I'M BAAAACK!!! Hi everyone, I do hope y'all have missed me a quarter as much as I have missed this place!! Just got reconnected today with a brand new computer and modem, so hopefully I will stay put for a while now. I'm trying to remember what I used to do before computers (and it WASN'T drinking, I only...
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And now for something completely different
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tu0PAbW75A&feature=related
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Avril G
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Day 6 Sober
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Today is day 6. This will be the first Friday I have not drank in a long time. Oh boy......feels like I am climbing a mountain. I will not drink tonight. It seems silly I bet, but I feel like I have come a long way already and it hasn't even been a full week yet. I will check out that song recommendation th...
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21 Days Sober
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...this is GOOD. I'm feeling great, and my sleep disturbances seem to have subsided over the last couple of nights. Feeling rested this morning, and grateful. Off to work today, then my home group this evening, one of my favorite meetings, which I so look forward to. I'm going to hand off to my sponsor...
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Obsession and allergy
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If I have an obsession with alcohol only, it would mean that I have this idea to drink when I don't have to. So I take a drink against my better judgement. In other words against my will. So I drink without the, physical allergy that Dr Silkworth talks about. On pg 20/21 of the book I am defined as a moderate o...
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Daily Reflections ~ Love & Fear As Opposites & 24hrs a Day
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All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49 "Fear knocked at the door; faith answered; no one was there." I don't know to whom this quote should be attributed, but it certainly indicates clearly that fear is an illusion. I c...
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Day five and still alive
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Wow. Yesterday was a close one. Even though I made it through the night before, I was still feeling a bit stressed. Not feeling like I had connected at either meeting the past two days had been hurting more than anything. I think if that happens again, I will need to try call someone. Anyhow, yester...
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Noticing Change
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I'm just completing my fourth week attending AA meetings and it's been great and I'm starting to see change. The first thing I noticed was that I am no longer feeling quite as much a newcomer. I was at a newcomers meeting on Tuesday and there was one person there for the first time and one person who was co...
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Day 5 Sober
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Just privately messaged with my now sober alcoholic friend on Facebook. He has been sober for 2.5 years now. Sober today and want to be. It is such a change of behavior. It is like you have to learn how to do things over again. I have been keeping busy. There is an annual event at my husband's work...
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