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60 days sober TODAY!!!
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This is the longest I have ever been sober since I have ever tried to quit! Couldn't do it with all the support from friends, family and everyone here! Thanks
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HAPPY EASTER MIP !!
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Happy Easter MIP Folks !! What a great day to be sober and have the ability to share it with some family members . Family ... one of the best gifts/rewards of working the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. Have a wonderful day !
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I really need some HELP
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Hi All, Well it has been a week with struggling really hard with something. Someone I know that had/has gone back out. I have talked to another member, now two members, and all I have been doing is Praying for the Help in Letting Go and Letting GOD. As in I Can't, He Can and I Let Him. This has always been...
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Wheres a cheap good place to buy recovery items? Such as books, rings, clothes, mugs etc?
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Wheres a cheap good place to buy recovery items? Such as books, rings, clothes, mugs etc?
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Brought down to my knees......
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I'm on day 19. So I got up this morning an blew the dust of the old Cannondale road bike, first time in over two years. Put some batteries in the odometer and set for 19 nineteen miles, my mind said I could do it no prob. Lets just say my knees thought a little different after 5 mile and good climb. No matter, i...
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Daily Reflections ~ A Lifetime Process & 24hrs a Day
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We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of real help to other people. . . . ALCOHOLICS...
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Relapsed after 60 days in rehab/clean
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I was in rehab for 60 days. Although i knew i was not ready to come home i still did so due to feeling as though the program was no longer working for me & that i needed to come home and get my stuff together b/c i felt like i no longer had my families full support. I think they just thought i was OK/rehabilit...
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I have a question about the violation of anonmynity.
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I have been going to meetings and have been sober for approx 2 and 1/2 months. I have chosen to share this with a few members of my family, but have mostly been quiet. I know this is out of my personal shame and fear of judgement from others. I found out tonight on my way back from a meeting that my husband had t...
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Daily Reflections ~ Crying For The Moon & 24hrs a Day
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"This very real feeling of inferiority is magnified by his childish sensitivity and it is this state of affairs which generates in him that insatiable, abnormal craving for self-approval and success in the eyes of the world. Still a child, he cries for the moon. And the moon, it seems, won't hav...
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A Little Advice
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I'm 37, and have finally come to grips with the fact I'm an alcoholic. I have not had a drink for 14 days. I'm trying to kick the nicotine habit too, I almost think it sucks worse so far. Anyway Im looking for some advice, or maybe just a thought. At this point, is it normal to feel like a child, like everythi...
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How did you deal with the embarrassing things you did?
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I am in my first week of sobriety. This finally came about from a very bad, and very embarrassing night on Saturday. I've had many, but this time I could have hurt a friend of mine because of my actions. I've since apologized to her and asked for her forgiveness. She has been amazing. She's forgiven me, be...
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How I got here.
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Here's a little about me and how I got here, This is all so new to me, not the drinking, the talking about it. I'm 37 and an alcoholic. I'm married with five children, ranging from 11 to 3 years old. I grew up in a very small and rural Kentucky town. As a boy there wasn't much to do to there, you either played foo...
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Thank God For My Sponsor
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Man my sponsor kicked my ass today about sobriety. Thank GOD for him. I am still fragile at 10 days and scared off my butt. I am still hanging in the there everyone. Please pray for me.
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Realizing I'm an alcoholic sucks.. (update: was wrong, it doesn't suck)
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..but I have met some really great people in the couple weeks I have been going to AA and participating on this forum. That's certainly something positive. As is being sober and feeling confident that with all this new found support I will remain that way. Have a great day. :) -- Edited by Sid on Friday 2...
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Searching and Fearless Moral Inventory
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So April Begins. I'm scared of 30 days of self-examination and digging deeper into my darkness to extract more monsters out from under the bed and drag them into the daylight to wither and die. I will get bitten in the process. Hard. I did #4 about 5 months agao and now I prepare to do it again. I like to whit...
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I want peanut M&M's - lots of 'em
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I'm having a chocolate jonez...bad. Peace, Rob
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I'm New and Need Guidance
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Hello all. I have been home on disability for the past 6 weeks and have finally faced what I believed all along. I have a problem. Going into back surgery, the surgeon warned me my chances for recovery were hard due to my low weight. What I never told him and what I've never told anyone about was my drin...
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Re: Hello....Franny
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Hi everyone, Tomorrow I leave for my trip. I will be seeing my very best friends. They are the ones who bailed me out of jail when I got my drunk driving. My husband was out of town. They are our family. Yes, they do drink, but not like me. They have the shut off button. They will love me even if I do not d...
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God helps those who help themselves.... but GUESS WHAT?
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Sometimes the way to help yourself is to ASK FOR HELP! I've been overwhelmed with the seemingly impossible task of dealing with 10 years of accumulated stuff (most of it junk) and moving from my house into an apartment. I spent most of the past month helping my mom get her house ready to sell instead of...
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Hello, it is Franny
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Hi everyone, Tomorrow I leave for my trip. I will be seeing my very best friends. They are the ones who bailed me out of jail when I got my drunk driving. My husband was out of town. They are our family. Yes, they do drink, but not like me. They have the shut off button. They will love me even if I do not d...
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4/2/2010 Today's thought from Hazelden is:
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Unless our desire for human compassion is stronger than our desire to be right, to be secure or to belong, love will elude us. --Marsha Sinetar Knowing we are loved is what most of us crave. For brief moments we feel it; then it eludes us once again. Why does it slip throu...
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Felt Great Today
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Coming up on two weeks. Today was the first day I really felt good all day today. I still have a long long way to go, but it is nice to know that I can feel this way again without alcohol.
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Tale of the tape, week 3.
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Nothing lost nothing gained! Dissappointed but at least it's stable. I discussed this with my WW sponsor (also one of us) and with help and using the programme tools I could see where I had gone wrong. Although I ate less and moved more I ate the wrong things - too much fats and oils, too much carbs and a ret...
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Taxes Done!
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Hey All, As you know, we as alcoholics are serious dilly dalliers and I am the poster child for that affliction. The AA slogan "Do it now" was very helpful to me this year as I put in all the numbers. I hope this tax year is good to you all. Tom
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Disappointed in myself
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No I didn't drink, thanfully. But yesterday someone asked me if I was really not going to drink anymore. Rather than say definitively that I was not going to drink anymore I instead gave an answer with exceptions. Such as that before doing any drinking I would make sure I had a plan thought out ahead of ti...
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Hello
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Hello, I have been reading your forum for many months now off and on. You are very encouraging and kind. I am an alcoholic. I am a female, 34 years old. I am also a teacher. I have commited to seeking treatment and quit drinking on April 11th. I am a strict schedule/structure oriented person, so this...
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Requirements for chairing a meeting
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Is there such a thing? I asked this guy whom I have become friends with to chair a meeting for next month. He agreed and now his sponsor says he doesn't have enough time? He's already done his 5th step and is grounded. I don't get it. Any clarification on this would be helpful 'cause right now I'm pissed off...
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Grateful for disappointment...?
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Hey, The bank denied us financing for the house we wanted. Boo Hoo. I would have denied us too. So anyway, while my wife was pretty disappointed...I was like "Meh. God took that piece out of play for a reason. Why? How the hell should I know...I'm just another piece in play. As soon as you're ready....
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On My Second Day
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This is literally my second day of sobriety. I've had issues for years where I'm fine, very functional, no problems, and then I binge drink. I do it because I'm not dealing with the stress in my life and lately there's been a lot of stress in my life. I've tried to quit before but it typically only lasts abo...
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Needing a Meeting Tonight
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Hey Ya'll, I don't like chats for the on-line meeting (ask Runnergirl...I type really, r e a l l y slowly and I can't make enough meetings this week. I'm on the road out of town almost every day this week for work (no Noon Group). My town's only night-meeting is tonight. Wife is at campus grinding out s...
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Another of my yets
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My nephew spotted this story in the Buffalo, NY News and sent it to me. I did a lot of crazy things during my active alcoholism but I would have to say that I have not done this yet. Larry, ------------------------------ Police: Drunk Pa. man tried to revive dead opossum The Associated Press Published:...
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up to 7 days this is so hard
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I just need someone to tell me not to give up. Do things get easier?
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Daily Reflections ~ Looking Within & 24hrs a Day
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Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 42 Step Four is the vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what the liabilities in each of us have been, and are. I want to find exactly how, when, and where my natural desires have warped me. I wish...
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SET ASIDE PRAYER
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SET ASIDE PRAYER Dear God, let me set aside everything I think I know about You, and me and this program, and these Steps, for an Open Mind, and a new experience with You, and me and this program, and these Steps. I sure thank You . (- Tom G.)
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Hi, I'm Michael, and I'm an alcoholic.
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I'm new here and very newly sober. I first tried this over 25 years ago for all the wrong reasons (because a sober boyfriend told me he thought I had a drinking problem), but that didn't last because I thought I was so much better than all the alcoholics I heard share at meetings. Cut to a week ago, when I had...
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Reaching out to a family member
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I was curious if anyone has any experience or suggestions I might use to reach out to my brother who I feel has or is developing a drinking problem? He is much like me. I only recently recognized and admitted to myself that I am an alcoholic. I denied I had a problem because I drank infrequently, normally w...
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Unique ?
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, you are dreadfully like other people. -- James Russell Lowell Sharing our many experiences with our friends in Twelve Step meetings helps us understand how very similar we all are. We are unique only in the sense that each o...
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What a rollercoaster
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I get the one day at a time thing now. Last week was a suck-fest and I teetered on drinking the whole time. Then, I made it to 30 days and felt great for two days... wasn't even obsessing. Now, just 24 hours later, I cannot stop thinking about drinking. I WANT TO DRINK! ARGH! So, I went for a run, I made c...
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Daily Reflections ~ No One Denied Me Love & 24hrs a Day
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On the A.A. calendar it was Year Two . . . . A newcomer appeared at one of these groups . . . . He soon proved that his was a desperate case, and that above all he wanted to get well. . . . [He said], "Since I am the victim of another addiction even worse stigmatized than alcoholism, you may not want me among...
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30 Days
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I made it to 30 days sans alcohol. Glad to have made it here, but thought it might get easier by now. Unfortunately, I've felt pretty trapped and terrified the last few days. Whether that's the 30 day itch, I don't know. Anyway, thanks for all the support from people on the board. A couple of you have re...
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An Observation About Step 3
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3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him. Scary for most of us, huh? The pivotal step on this gangplank to the HMS Happy, Joyous and Free is to do a "trust-fall" with God and most of us had experienced that when we fall backwards and expec...
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WILL POWER
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to use a Higher POWER. --Anonymous One of the greatest decisions any of us ever made concerned our Third Step. This decision seemed to go against everything we wanted to do. We all know so well that every time we tried to manage our own live...
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Daily Reflections ~ Our Group Conscience & 24hrs a Day
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". . . sometimes the good is the enemy of the best." ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE, p. 101 I think these words apply to every area of A.A.'s Three Legacies: Recovery, Unity and Service! I want them etched in my mind and life as I "trudge the Road of Happy Destiny" (Alcoholics An...
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Going out on a limb.......
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First of all I would like to say I'm an idiot. I went out on a limb literally! I spent the day with my brother and my nephew yesterday. Got some work done around the house and decided to fly this kite my nephew had. We went to this field where there was only one tree and guess what happened? Okay, kite stuck in t...
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Common Theme Here
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There seems to be a common theme with everyones responses to me. Work with another alcoholic. In the big book it says that nothing insures us immunity from this disease as work with another alcoholic. I had a guy on Wednesday ask me for my number at a meeting. I like to think I am on my way to becoming a spons...
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St pete get ready to dance with the devil
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LOLOLOL cuzz he's IN THE HISOUSE hehehehehehehe
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2 weeks Sober!!
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I'll hit two weeks sober tomorrow,I feel great and Im starting to think more clearly. Going to the Dr.s on Thursday to get a check up on some old injuries, and to see how much damage Ive done. The guys from my Punk Band have been calling... they want to line some shows up for the summer,Im the singer and G...
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Why is turning it over so hard?
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When I really don't want to keep the pain I have trouble turning it over. Recently I was laid off from my job & what money I had saved back is now gone. Finally last night the topic was experience, strength, & hope. The old timer who brought up the topic wanted to know where we are at today in our rec...
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Favorite AA saylings/slogans!!!!
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Please post your favorite AA related slogans and sayings here. Ill start: If you ever want a drink, put your AA coin in your mouth and when it dissolves you can have one... I also love: Dont stop before the miracle happens!
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Thanks Family,nice surprise...
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Hey family! what a nice surprise ,checkin in and seeing birthday wishes from you all.Thanks Daniella for posting my bio,my wife and I spent a wonderful day together,we both took off of work and took a bus trip to Connecticut..Going to do family time this weekend with kids and some friends.Things were...
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