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Daily Reflections - Do I Have a Choice? + 24hrs a Day
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The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called willpower becomes practically nonexistent. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.24 My powerlessness over alcohol does not cease when I quit drinking. In sobriety I still have no choice - I can't dri...
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Is it Good, or is it Bad???
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Bad thing. I have been ill with a gastrointestinal condition that so far has evaded my doctor's understanding. This has been going on for months now. I have had tests, and due to have more tests. I am treating symptoms right now, not the root cause, as it is unknown at this time. This is very frustrating a...
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annoyed
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my name is shannon and im 18 years old. im a senior in high school and my moms been an alcoholic for about 20 years. My mom and i are very close and i love her but i hate her just as much. The abuse she does to herself doesnt only effect her but me and my family. She has gone to rehab for pills such as vikidin, perka...
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Daily Reflections ~ At The Turning Point & 24hrs a Day
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Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59 Every day I stand at turning points. My thoughts and actions can propel me toward growth or turn me down the road to old habits and to booze. Someti...
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Sponsorship
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Just not working out for me this time around. I've had 2 sponsors in the 2years I've been sober. I stop calling both of them. One just never had the time to work on the steps with me and i liked talking to her but we just never could finish my steps. The other one always wanted me to come over for family ev...
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A little share
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I'm not into religion, but thought this was kinda nice. Thought I'd share it with you. http://gloriousgrace.net/saucer/saucer.html
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sugar
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Has anyone else experienced sugar cravings after stopping drinking?
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Know someone celebrating an Anniversary?
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Share the joy by sharing in their special day. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=270505725547&Category=47127&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D1
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Quitting Cigarettes...One Day At A Time
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Cigarette withdrawal effing sucks. Sucks. Sucks. Sucks. It's my nature to compare/contrast alcoholism and cigarette addiction. Right now...I don't care. It just sucks. One Day At A Time is much easier to swallow than "I quit forever." I can Pray through a Jonez. I thank my HP that I have...
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Gratitude to GOD and for the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Hi All, Well this was sort of weird, but really great, turned out in a good way, I just made a Post about having Fear attacks, a lot of them, and Praying each and every time, and being relieved, but when I read the Post, it did not seem to be something I was really connected to, only super imposed over my own se...
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just starting my step 3
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i met with my sponsor today...she is my rock...i am so blessed to have found her...she keeps me so grounded. we decided i was complete with step two and i am now working through step three. i will admit thep three scared the living poo out of me when i first started aa...but whist reading it i am reli...
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Having A Rough Time
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Hi all. Jasper here, definitely an alcoholic. As many of you know I'm in early recovery and have had a hard time the last couple of months. Financial and legal problems, plus my dear wife's medical problems. Bless her heart-- she spent both her birthday and Christmas in the hospital this past month. Th...
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I've made 38 days!
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Hi all! I'm very happy to have found this site. It's good support between meetings. I put down the bottle(s) of wine on Nov. 25th because I'd reached a painful place for me. My grown kids didn't want to spend any more holidays with me, or want much to do with me at all. I'd been trying to quit for 3 year...
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A Share when I was New x
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My Recovery has been slowly taking over in capability. Such knowledge seeping & simpering through waiting to take flight. Building up like an inferno of fire & brimstone in the depths of my belly & sanity. I've been becoming well. I was frustrated for a little while. The knowledge but no...
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Daily Reflections ~ The Victory of Surrender
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We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 21 When alcohol infl...
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Having Had a Spiritual Awakening ...
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The following article was published in this month's Share magazine & I loved it so much I thought I'd post it for y'all to perhaps enjoy too. Ps. For our newcomers.. It is recomended that we work each step in succession & with a sponsor before running around making amends before we're spiritua...
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checking in.....
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Hope everyone had a safe and sober holiday. It was lovely here. My youngest stepson, whom I had worried about "acting out" while he was here, as he has some damage which creates horrible outbursts of rage... well, he has never been as WELL as I have seen him this past week. Usually traveling 1...
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12 step workshops
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Hello everyone, I am Michael and am curious about something. I am involive in doing 12 step workshops in Akron Ohio. We do them in a 2 hour session on night a week and take the steps as a group. It involves a lot of writing and each wrokshop runs about 20 weeks or longer depending on everybody fourth ste...
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new and questioning
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OK, so I know I'm an alcoholic. I've finally accepted that, and I recognize the negative consequences alcohol is having on my life, but my consequences are nothing compared to those I've read about and heard about in the few meetings I've attended. Nonetheless I know I'm an alcoholic. Yet part of m...
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Hey Everyone
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Still no internet at my place, but I venture to the library once in awhile : ) I hope that the holidays went well for everyone. The stress really got to me this year and my nerves are frazzled! But, I'm alive.....I think. I'm starting my sobriety date over. Though I haven't drank since my mishap in S...
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spontaneous 10th step
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Practicing the "If you keep an open mind...you will find help"; from the ending statement in an Al-Anon meeting I ended up having a spontaneous 10th step moment where I was able to learn some of why I have been dealing with denial and my subconscious mind has been shouting from where ever it h...
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Long Time Without Posting!
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Hi everyone,
Happy New Year!!! May we all have a happy and sober 2010!
It's been quite a while since I last posted, and life has been completely hectic. But, I am still sober and will have four years sobriety in February.
The last few weeks have been a complete nightmare for me trying to deal with wa...
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Hello from Singapore!
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Just wanted to drop a quick hello now that I'm settled in Singapore for the next three weeks. It's many degrees below zero back home right now... 90 degrees and humid where I am... Lovely, but I miss my children and husband already. Haven't had a drink. I'm a little nervous about how the next few weeks...
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Gateful, but COLD
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Greetings, and happy new year to all my fellow A.A.'s. I,m so grateful for all your support and help in keeping me sober for 9 months now. Yup, I'm picking up my 9 month chip tonight. Not only is it a first for me, it's the greatest miracle ever to happen in my life. We (my wife and kids) woke up yesterday...
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Review
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Hello !! I do hope all had a year of growth. My year was very bumpy to say the least. I received lessons in many different forms. Some fell into the "broken to tenderness" category. Painful. Others gave joy and deep peace that is difficult to describe. I would seem I needed both kinds to grow....
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In The Last Six Months...
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I have grown more and become happier than ever before. Thanks to AA. Consistently cleaning house via steps #4-#10 are such a beatiful way to live; no remorse, no regrets, no dishonesty and I have recovered a sense of honor and chivalry that when I was a young teenager I admired. I can now live a life of...
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Daily Reflections ~ Total Acceptance & 24hrs a Day
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He cannot picture life without alcohol. Some day he will be unable to imagine life either with alcohol or without it. Then he will know loneliness such as few do. He will be at the jumping-off place. He will wish for the end. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.152 Only an alcoholic can understand the exact meanin...
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Wow, so many new people- so wonderful to see each and every one!!!
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Hi All, Have been so busy in the last few days, have not been on MIP, and when I opened it up, was surprised to see all the newly signed up new friends in this little family of ours, WELCOME to this little community or family. Hope so much you all will stay and help us stay sober. Hugs and Prayers, Toni
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FEEDBACK - 18 yrs sober going to 2-3 meetings a month
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I am looking for input from long term sobriety. I rarely bring this up at meetings... 1. I don't want to send the wrong message about meeting attendance. 2. Cross talk has been negative. Over the years of my sobriety, I have attended meetings in different patterns. When I started I made 9...
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Hello everyone!
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My name's Louisa and I'm an alcoholic. Been in recovery 7 years - one day at a time - thanks to the miracle of AA. Just wanted to say hello and say how great it is to have found you all! Phew! ! Thanks HP for guiding me here! xx
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iNTRODUCTION
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WELL....HELLO EVERYONE I AM MEGAN IAM 26 YRS OLD...PRETTY NEW TO AA , 50 DAYS SOBER IN 45 MINS.....LET ME JUST SAY THAT THIS FIRST MONTH HAS BEEN A ROLLERCOASTER BUT SOBRIETY HAS BEEN SUCH A BLESSING....I ALWAYS KNEW I HAD A PROBLEM DRINKING...BUT ABOUT 3 DAYS INTO MY DUAL DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT PROGRAM,...
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Financial Amends to Husband
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Before my husband became official I took $2,000 from him and never paid him back. I am now to step 9 and I feel I owe him a financial amends but I don't know what I can do. He completely supports me now financially. I thought about getting a job but he doesn't want me to. I help him run his small business and if I...
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Introduction and what's with the Godzilla avatar?
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Hello all, Christine alcoholic. In a sense, I've been sober on and off (more on, thank goodness) for about 12 years. I came in through the "back door"; ACA was my first intro to any concept of alcoholism as a disease. If being a child of an alcoholic wasn't shocking enough, imagine my surpris...
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The "Obsession:" how to handle it if you have SAD?
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How do you SA'ers handle your obsession to drink? You can't call your Sponsor because you don't have one. Even if you did have a Sponsor, crippling shyness and embarassment would stop you from ever making the call (remember, you have SAD, or Social Anxiety Disorder). You can't pray on it, because yo...
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hello, brand new to this site
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Good Morning, I am brand new to this site today. Been sober before thru AA for sixteen years, then relapsed. Yes, it is very true about everything that you have heard, It is cunning, baffling and powerful! I stopped going to meetings cause I thought I could run my own show, lost contact with sponso...
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Past Actor...now a spectator.
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I've shouted from the audience what I have learned in recovery and then sat back to watch how predictable the show would go on using my journey and the journey of others as a filter. Willingness and Honesty are our first keys and if not their first keys they won't find the rooms we were blessed to find and...
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"That AA crap"
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So I'm getting the clue that while others in my life enjoy the benefits of my recovery, they would rather it not come with a new philosophy, particuliarly where parenting is involved. My son is eleven and when he comes upon difficult situations I want to help him the best I can. Prior to The Program, t...
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Addiction
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Last night at a meeting we were searching for a topic. We came up with addiction and how it is important to be watchful so we don't substitute an addiction with a different one that can slip into that hole in our soul when drinking alcohol is surrendered to our higher power. So last night i was...
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Being outed to others
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5 months ago I was in a downward spiral, drinking all hours of the day, having blackouts, and hurting (emotionally) myself and others closest to me. My girlfriend had broken up with me as a result. I have been sober now for 4 months and for the last month or so have reconnected with my ex-girlfriend. I am p...
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Taking responsibility
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Dear All, Sometime ago, I submitted a chapter for my thesis, I got the feedback today, not good, grammar terrible, English bad, etc. I emailed back and told my supervisor that I had been over anxious to submit it and yes,it needed a hell of lot more work which I am prepared to do. He contacted me, said he u...
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first sober new yrs
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there was an aa...all sober new yrs eve party...i figured...well ill go. not like i have a ton of plans any how.....let me back up to ten am this morning. i woke up and immedietly remembered what day it was and broke into tears....every one says "oh its just another day"....but to a pathetic a...
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Have a Happy Friggin' New Year's Eve!
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For the first time in 28 years I will not do one or more of the following this evening... Drive with one eye closed. Forget where I left my car. Get in a fight. Embarass anyone with my WhiskeyWit. Spend $$$ and have no idea where it went. Get frostbite on my fingers smoking dope in an alley behind a bar. Wake...
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Sober New Years
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Another Sober New Year is about to begin for Many of us. Help all you can in everything you do. Play it safe and watch out for others. Wishing Everyone a Sober New Year--may it be as sober as the last and keep on being Sober for many years to come.
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Happy New Year
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Just rang in the New year an hour ago with my son, sober, felt great, and so positive, wishing you all the best.
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Daily Reflections ~ First, The Foundation & 24hrs a Day
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Is sobriety all that we can expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning. As Bill Sees It, p. 8 Practicing the A.A. program is like building a house. First I had to pour a big, thick concrete slab on which to erect the house; that, to me, was the equivalent of stopping drinking....
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New here
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I'm sober now 6 days. I have read these sites many times and finally decided to post. This is my third attempt at sobriety. I have quit for 3 years and then almost 2 years. However this last time has been the worse. I started getting depressed when drinking. I did not think I was a big drinker, always red win...
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Still stuck with weather conditions
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Guys, almost lost it this afternoon, as I am still housebound due to weather conditions, getting paranoid, not working the steps, but rang my sponsor and another member and feel like I am getting back on track, need prayers, and am looking forward to a convention the weekend after next, but keeping i...
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Just Whining, really
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Hey Friends, I'm sick...and I don't do sick well. I think Biker Bill once called The Common Cold "Man Flu". I'm there. Worst part about it for me is that usually before I even know that I'm sick I get hit with a huge wave of depression or some other irrational emotion. Bad stuff. Well, I just got...
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New to the Forum and AA
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Okay. I am a 55 professional who has lived and worked as an expat in various countries for the past 15 years. Life is good, but alas a lot of the social life centers on dinner parties, cocktail parties, banquets, etc. The wine flows at just about any business or social event. Right now, I have become a p...
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Daily Reflections ~ Daily Resolutions & 24hrs a Day
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The idea of "twenty-four-hour" living applies primarily to the emotional life of the individual. Emotionally speaking, we must not live in yesterday, nor in tomorrow. As Bill Sees It, p. 284 A New year: 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes--a time to consider dire...
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