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HIt with a TON OF BRICKS tonight
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This page in the Big Book, which we read tonight at a BB study, in the Chapter "To Wives" at the bottom of page 118: "Another feeling that we are very likely to entertain is one of resentment that love and loyalty could not cure our husbands...." (of alcoholism.... but in my case, o...
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license!
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Just a quick note to tell my MIP friends..... I was granted full privileges for my driving license! I have worked the system for 2 1/2 years to be granted the privilege. And it is a privilege I took for granted. But with the AA program and my higher power I now see that and I won't be taking it for granted...
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Bills/Fear
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Well last night was Tuesday and pay day. I am really proud of myself. I stuck to the budget and didn't spend any money other than food, gas(for my van) and lunch money for my son for school. I paid everything that was due before my next check and shocking as it was I still have money. LOL I did get scared...
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15 months on and hitting a rocky patch.
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I've hit some kind of a wall here and am not sure what to do about it. It's primarily work-related stress, and I'm having a real tough time "letting go and letting God". I've never gotten a bad performance review, in fact never gotten ANYTHING but but good feedback and raises from my bosses...
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relapse
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I'm a chronic relapser, need some advice please!!!!
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EVERY NOW AND THEN!
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Spiritual writings always remind me"Who has woe,who has sorrow?Who has strife? Who has complaints?Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?Those who linger over wine!,who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.DO NOT GAZE AT WINE WHEN IT IS RED,WHEN IT SPARKLES IN THE CUP,WHEN IT GOES DOWN...
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Daily Reflections ~ Opening New Doors & 24hrs a Day
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They [the Promises] are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 The Promises talked about in this passage are slowly coming to life for me. What has given me hope is putting Step Nine into action. The Step has allowed me to see and set goals for mysel...
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New Baby - so happy to be a sober mom!
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Life goes on in sobriety - and for me, quite literally! Theodore was born on Aug 26, at 8 lbs 11 oz. We waited to find out the sex, so the surprise was so much fun. I am now a mommy times two - it is blowing my mind! Our family feels perfect and complete - a daughter who is 2 yrs, 8 months and now a son. I have ve...
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Our faith is apt to be weak
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: A.A. Thought for the Day Our faith is apt to be weak, and so we have to strengthen and build up this faith. We do this by going to meetings and listening to others tell how they have found all the strength they need to overcome drinking. Is my faith being strengthened by th...
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Keep It Simple--Hazelden Meditation Series
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September 8, I have an intense desire to return to the womb--Anybody's ----Woody Allen Some days the world just doesn't seem safe. Maybe a friend died and you are hurting. Maybe you argued with a loved one. You just want someone to take care of you. You want to feel safe and warm. Turn to the spi...
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Daily Reflections ~ Our Side of the Street & 24hrs a Day
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We are there to sweep off our side of the street, realizing that nothing worth while can be accomplished until we do so, never trying to tell him what he should do. His faults are not discussed. We stick to our own. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 77-78 I made amends to my dad after I quit drinking. My words fell...
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Four months and feeling great!
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Hi everyone, As of today I have four months sober. I am feeling really good about my recovery, my meetings, my relationship with my sponsor, my realtionship with my HP, and my AA family. I feel like I have finally found a sponsor who I can really work with and will call me on my sh--! She's not harsh or me...
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2nd bad dream in 3 days
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Ugh Three nights ago I dreamed I was drinking vodka and beer. Woke up with heartburn. Just now I woke up from a dope-smoking dream where I inhaled sharply and held my breath until I woke up with my temples painfully throbbing. Cunning, Baffling & Poweful...eh? Peace & Tylenol, Rob
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Some Good News
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Well I got some good news today. MY X husband, who was fired from his job because of his temper, finally got the Cobra insurance straightened out and qualified for the Obama plan where he pays a smaller amount for the insurance for himself and our kids. Our daughter had knee surgery this past March and...
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susanbiel
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Alcohol is ruining my life.
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I just need a place to vent. I'm sorry if I sound a bit selfish, but I have no one else to really talk to. My parents don't undertand and neither do my friends. I just want to start off by saying that alcohol has ruined my life. It all started a couple of years ago, when me and my boyfriend broke up. We still did t...
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money/debt/fear
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Well, everyone we went through every single bill I have last night. The results.......not as bad as I thought it would be. I just have to learn how to budget. We will sit down every Tuesday after I get my check and I will write out the checks. The alcoholic mind of mine thought I some how had more bills t...
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susanbiel
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Labor Day
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I hope each and everyone of you of the Miracles In Progress Family have a fun and safe Labor Day! With Love, Rose and John
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Rut-Roohhh.......................................................
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So.............. I get a text message not 5 minutes after I walk in my apartment from taking my dog to the grooming salon.... it was from a strictly platonic male friend in AA whom I don't see nor talk to but twice a week maybe? It said, "Look outside in your hallway." Flowers. Roses, pink, ye...
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Let me add my restlessness....
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Must be a full moon somewhere around here, or just that a lot of us on MIP right now have a few beefs to let out, and hopefully let go, on this board, where it is healthy and safe to do so. I feel sooooooo... uhhh.... well........ lonely (there! I said it!!!) tonight!!! And this is not "romantic"...
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Sweet 16
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By the Grace of God and the fellowship of people like you... today I will be celebrating my 16th soberversary... I will top of my day of gratitude Saturday night when a gentleman with 38 years sobriety will hand me my chip... And a gift for you, for being here... always being here when I drop by... [video=...
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Daily Reflections ~ Emotional Balance & 24hrs a Day
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Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,. . . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. 83 When I survey my drinking days, I recall many people whom my life touched casually, but whose days I troubled through my anger and sarcasm. These people are untraceable, and direct amends to them are...
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i got the job. dermatology and plastic surgery. great pay, benefits, uniform allowances, etc.... i am so very grateful and humbled. just NOT picking up, one day at a time, and it comes together when it is supposed to.
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Somewhat Ticked
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Ever get aggrevated at AA "cliques"? Get this....I go to a district cookout in an area I have never been to. I know not one single person and no one has ever seen me. I could be a scared newcomer, an out-of-towner, or even someone who wandered in by mistake. NO ONE..not one single person amon...
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Hi. Is this what I am looking for?
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Hi, Im Carly and Im an Alcoholic. 26 years old. July 27 was my first birthday. I had no knowlege that I was an alcoholic, because I was raised by a meth addict and two alcoholics. I didnt know anyone was sober. two years ago my father died of complications of alcoholism.. liver failure, he was 49. To mourn h...
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~ As Bill Sees It: Middle of the Road ~
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p. 241 "In some sections of AA., anonymity is carried to the point of real absurdity. Members are on such a poor basis of communication that they don't even know each other's last names or where each lives. It's like the cell of an underground. "In other sections, we see exactly the revers...
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We receive messages throughout the day that tell us ways of doing things.
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: I have to laugh at the times Ive knocked myself out over a tough spot only to find out afterwards there was an easier way through. --Robert Franklin Leslie We receive messages throughout the day that tell us ways of doing things. The door to the store says, Pull. The red...
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Umm...I feel great!
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Yeah. I'm sober, content and grateful. I feel that I have gained enough stability in my sobriety that I can cautiously start to stretch my personal perimeter in the world around me. I have been cleared to reduce my rehab schedule. Work really needs me to kick some serious fiscal a$$ between now and the e...
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Covered in Yucky Yucky stuff...
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Ok Confession is good for the Soul so here goes, Yesterday, was my biological BD, no biggy ever. But yesterday when I was at a doc. office, this woman got bitchy with me for asking too many questions, that is how it started, then I got home and my Son that had plans with me, had to cancel, I did see him in the...
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Just Toni
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~ As Bill Sees It: Hard on Ourselves, Considerate of Others ~
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p. 240 We cannot disclose anything to our wives or our parents which will hurt them and make them unhappy. We have no right to save our own skins at their expense. Such damaging parts of our story we tell to someone else who will understand, yet be unaffected. The rule is, we must be hard on ourselves, bu...
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Spouse not understanding "How it Works"
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and doesn't care to understand. I'm in trouble.. It's like talking to a brick wall. Long story..short or at least I'll try. We met when I was sober..(2 1/2 years sober)..I was seperated and after my divorce, he left his wife of 30+ years for me. This is about the time after we were seeing each other, t...
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starting to stand on my own convictions........
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Had an interesting discussion with my oldest daughter yesterday. We were talking about a high school principal/football coach who had his second brush with the law. Dui, driving down a one way street the wrong way. I said he needs to get it together since he is a mentor for young kids. She said &quo...
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Time to chill!!
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Morning! My wife and I are finally heading South to Deerfield Beach Florida for little RR.(10 days and bring my in-laws back with us for a week)We are highly anticipating some down time as Life has been really making its point!(Joy and Pain)I have located meeting places and have a list(one spot on the...
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THE POWER OF THE ELEVENTH STEP!
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Good Morning my Friends, Woke up fully recovered from my little "Lucy's Mad at Charlie Brown" and no long laying down and kicking in revolt over not getting what she wanted.....who knows maybe on our BDs we go into primal childhood bs. that is how it feels for me today. I have this awesome CD...
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Just Toni
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New Member, Questions
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I attended my first meeting today, & quit drinking 2 days ago.How long before the body feels normal again ? I was drinking 12 to 18 beers a day.
Also is O'Doul's NA Beer permitted ?
The people at the meeting were wonderful, I wish I could take one or two home with me for the next 2 or 3 Days. I still fee...
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Who's on Facebook?
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If you are and wanna be friends, send me a message and I'll give you my info. Brian
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Reffner
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Daily Reflections ~ Building A New Life & 24hrs a Day
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We feel a man is unthinking when he says sobriety is enough. Alcoholics Anonymous, p.82 When I reflect on Step Nine, I see that physical sobriety must be enough for me. I need to remember the hopelessness I felt before I found sobriety, and how I was willing to go to any lengths for it. Physical sobriety i...
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findingit diffcult to find anew sponsor
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ive moved to a new county over a Year now. ive still been using my old sponsor from from home town the area im in is mostly male members. im 4rs around and alot of the female members in my groups are in and out not around very long and havent worked all the steps. ive never had a male sponsor and always stuck to t...
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~ As Bill Sees It: Maudlin Martyrdom ~
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p. 238 "Self-pity is one of the most unhappy and comsuming defects that we know. It is a bar to all spiritual progress and can cut off all effective communication with our fellows because of its inordinate demands for attention and sympathy. It is a maudin form of martyrdom, which we can ill aff...
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Promises
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If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serentiy and we will know peace. No matter how far do...
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4th step
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So I started working on my fourth step today. My sponsor suggested that I get it done in 2 weeks, so I procrastinated for 6 days but started it today. I know the fear many have of this step. I didn't feel this way. I felt that if I was grounded spritually in steps 2 and 3 my HP would guide me. So the resentm...
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Two years sober today!
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Celebrating two years sobriety, today. I have two home groups (being a good alcoholic I can't have "just one"), and apparently my Friday night group was expecting me to share last night for my anniversary (we celebrate home group anniversaries on the last Friday of the month). Last yea...
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I wish I could stop drinking.
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I had 5 days sober, then I had 4 beers today and really I do not feel very well. I have to keep going to the bathroom and I feel sick. I know what always happens when I drink too much beer, yet I keep doing it. Why Can't I stop? I want to quit drinking, but then after a few days I want a buzz, so then I have more beer. P...
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emotional sobriety
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I spent the first year of sobriety feeling great, I could not believe I could live without drinking every day and was thrilled to discover it was possible after drinking daily for nearly 20 years. I attended a meeting once or twice a week, read the big book through once, read from the Daily Reflections...
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So life has given us some dents. So what?
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. --Edwin Markham So life has given us some dents. So what? Dents are necessary, besides being unavoidable and painful. Each dent is a part of the process that enables us to embrace life as a creat...
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Huge step
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I wanted to share I took a huge step last night. I admitted to the man I am in love with that I suck at managing money. The reason I pushed him away the past 8-9 months was because I was scared that he wouldn't love me anymore if I told him I needed help with finances. I have a lot of medical bills from my thera...
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Daily Reflections ~ A Unique Program & 24hrs a Day
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Alcoholics Anonymous will never have a professional class. We have gained some understanding of the ancient words "Freely ye have received, freely give." We have discovered that at the point of professionalism, money and spirituality do not mix. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p...
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a new pair of glasses
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im reading a great book at the moment written by an oldtimer chuck C. very enjoyable and totally relate good i can read about my disease today and not squirm, or throw the book away. recovery is going well for me today when i am going with the flow of the tide, one of my defects is when i resist change is some a...
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Got a sponsor but...
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I got a sponsor a little over a week ago. I am questioning it. I work at a flooring store and she has already asked me for carpet..at no charge. It doesn't seem right to me. For one thing I can't get anything for free and second in my opinion shouldn't be asking me for anything execpt AA related; ie abou...
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WOW!!! Neat Stuff!!!! Glad I resigned and was online....
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Well, for those of you who wished me well and validated my decision to quit the job I just started by putting my 2 weeks' notice in on Friday, a very interesting thing has come up. Had I not put in my notice and instead hem-hawed around worrying about it instead, I would not have been on the job website I was o...
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KIS 95, A VERY HAPPY BELATED 15th SOBERVERSARY TO YOU!!!!!!!
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Hi There Christine, Hope your Soberversary was a good peaceful, Godfilled day. I have not seen you Post, or missed it when you did. So also a belated Welcome to the MIP Board.... Looking forward to getting to know you, when you find some free time to let us get to know you.... Happy you are here with us. Sup...
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