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Congratulating Our Newest Old Timer!!!
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Aha, Larry!!!! I know you're on 499 at the time of this posting but one more & you're there!!! LOL Thank you for all you share here. There's been much response to your sagely postings & you stimulate alot. Thank you for sharing in your recovery with us. You are a gift. Thank you for being here. God...
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i'm new here
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Hi all. I am nine days sober. Just saying hello. I am 29 years old. I drink to the point of blacking out regularly. It is these blackouts that have terrified me, as I become violent or other things happen to me that are very bad. I am terrified. I have come to accept Step 1. But I am having a really hard time &qu...
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contemporary AA
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I heard this a the between meeting smoke break. Waht's that I ask. Well it seems to be the way many AA meetings are going - keep coming back, God loves you and so do we, don't worry about going back out just keep coming back and finally, Don't Drink and Go To Meetings - said this guy. I dunno - does keep coming b...
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Need a bit of advice
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Well, really not sure if this is the best place... or not, but I'm needing a bit of advice. My boyfriend is a recovering alcoholic and has been through an AA program within the last 2 years (before I met him). When I first met him he was also smoking (cigerates) as well as drinking it was like the two went tog...
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Hey all
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Just wanted to let you all know I'm still alive. Probably going into a 90 day program. Right now that sounds like a vacation. I've lived most of my adult life in institutions. Jails, institutions, and ????? Well, I'm alive and sober. Not so much by choice right now because things suck. I am still having t...
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I just want my bro back!!
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I also submitted this on the Al-Anon board...My bro and I are doubles... I once thought that when a recovering Alcoholic was taken at gun point from a meeting while on his way from the bathroom that HP could not raise the "test" bar any further. It's true he was taken at gun point (after the fac...
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i'm in Akron, OH
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Came here for wifes family reunion. Went to AA intergroup and got a great archive tour. Got to hold the very first Big Book that was published and given to Bill W by the publisher for review. I am tickled by how well the history oF AA is being recorded here. Just wanted to post this from my blackberry, will s...
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Character defects
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I did my step 5 a while ago as well as Step 9, etc. I work my Step 10 daily and to my Step 11 work too. I still notice my character defects like impatience, selfishness, fearfulness, pride, dishonesty, carelessness, procrastination, self-pity, sloth, and about 10 zillion others really ruling the roos...
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Happy 25th Anniversary, Ellen!!!
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Congratulations and thanks for sharing your sobriety with us. Keep Coming Back!
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After staying sober just for today, what is you next desire, Happiness or Peace of Mind?
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Hi All, Was reading the Post below about how to achieve Happiness, and whenever I see the word Happiness, I almost always think inside, I choose Peace of Mind over Happiness. Have spent many years in this Program, and doing all the Stepwork involved to give me a better chance at staying sober, and of cou...
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Daily Reflections ~ A Resting Place & 24hrs a Day
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All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they all deflate our egos. When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five. But scarcely any Step is more necessary to longtime sobriety and peace of mind than this one. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p...
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Fun without alcohol
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Our local AA clubhouse organised a dinner and dance today. It is a platform for newcomers to experience fun without alcohol. My wife and I had a lot of fun and humour at the dinner tables and on the dance floor. Everyone enjoyed themselves. But just underneath is an earnestness to recover and get well th...
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If you've just had a relapse.... congratulations!
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Was talking to a guy at a meeting during the break, and he said something that seemed instantly true to me. He said, "Well, you can't have a relapse if you haven't had a recovery." Good point! So I would suggest to anyone who's had a relapse, (and to my future self, should I relapse), to try a...
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Stock Market, Volcanoes, Times Square, Job Market, Oil Spills, Disobedient Kids.........
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Sigh................ God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,...
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Sometimes you go a bit more than half way to a newcomer.
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But you got to know when to stop. I met a newcomer on Wednesday, gave him my phone number and he started ringing me from 6 a.m. on Thursday. Called me every hour on the hour to midday. We were all set to go to a meeting when he cried off, started drinking again, because his doctor had told him not to stop dead wi...
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Late Diagnosis - Late To Get Help
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Disclaimer: This is Not my Writing, but I tend to agree with it --------------------------------------------------------------------------And most will also agree that all alcoholics are typically diagnosed and seek help for their problem much l...
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Wisdom to know the difference
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Okay - since coming into AA and trying to live a sober life I've yielded on many, many points of contention and responded passively to many situations, filing them under "the things i cannot change" and not putting many things into the "change the things I can." Now I have to make...
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Love and Service
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Dr Bob's Last message was: "But there are two or three things that flashed into my mind on which it would be fitting to lay a little emphasis; one is the simplicity of our Program. Let's not louse it all up with Freudian complexes and things that are interesting to the scientific mind, but have very...
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Out and About
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In the words of Canned Heat - I'm on the road again. Well not quite but starting next week. Tuesday Grimsby, Wednesday Warrington, Thursday London, following week, 3 days and 2 nights in Glasgow., In a perverse way I'm looking forward to it and I'll be able to get to different meetings in Glasgow (this l...
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Great spiritual day
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This morning, I woke to a text message from soon to be ex (ok, will call him "ex" from now on), apologizing for treating me like a pile of SH%! last night, because I ordered a pizza a few minutes later than I had been "instructed to do" by phone. (Ex was up for over 48 hours working on a...
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Daily Reflections ~ Respect For Others & 24hrs a Day
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Such parts of our story we tell to someone who will understand, yet be unaffected. The rule is we must be hard on our self, but always considerate of others. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 74 Respect for others is the lesson that I take out of this passage. I must go to any lengths to free myself if I wish to find t...
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Happy 40th Runner Girl!!!
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Happy Happy Joyful BIG1 Birthday, Laurie!!! I hope you spent it peaceful & sober. Please let us know how it was for you, dear sister. Godbless you. Love in recovery, Danielle x
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Yay!!! I'm going to bed before 1am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Life is good. Tomorrow's another day at the playground! (looks just like my elkhound baby girl Scouty!!) -- Edited by jonijoni1 on Tuesday 4th of May 2010 11:29:10 PM
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Larry Miller's Five Stages of Drinking
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Sorry if this is a re-post. But this kind of is my "what is was like" part of the story. Absolutely classic: Larry Miller's Five Stages of DrinkingLEVEL 1:It's 11.00 on a weeknight, you've had a few beers. You get up to leave because you have work the next day and one of your friends buys anothe...
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Humorus Signs You Might Be an Alcoholic
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Here are some Humorus Signs You Might Be an Alcoholic. PLease add your own to these and see how many we get. Larry, ------------ We are not a glum lot ----------------------------------- 1. Your bar bill last month was twice your mortgage payment. 2. You don't understand why people have problems q...
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Humility - by Dr. Bob
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Humility "Perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore; to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. "It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised, it is to have a b...
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Thanks and Prayer
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Thank you all for just being there and just being your selves. You are a special bunch who care. Here is my prayer for you. Each and every one. May God the Father heal you. May He come to your home and dwell with you, so that no evil may touch you. May He guard your life. He got tired of seeing us alcoholics suf...
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HALT
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Good Stuff, that HALT - Hungry...covered, ate a bunch of taquitos. Angry...stating to get too one-way with my oldest kids about their caonstant fighting and treatng each other lousy. Lonely...Yeah, I guess a little. Wife belongs to Baby, kids belong to homework, most of my old friends are still on...
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A new MIP record set today
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Hey, a new MIP record set today "The most users ever online was 10 member(s) and 9 guest(s) at 5:35pm May 04, 2010"
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Had to make some CHANGES today
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After much discussion with my sponsor, I have made it my last Group Treatment Session. Why? Let me explain. I have been to treatment on several occasions. I have lived ina treatmetn center for a grand total of 7 months, that was years ago. I have worked in a treatment center as a residential superviso...
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Daily Reflections ~ The Forest And The Trees & 24hrs a Day
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. . . . what comes to us alone may be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking. The benefit of talking to another person is that we can get his direct comment and counsel on our situation. . . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 60 I cannot count the times when I have been angry and frust...
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Got Through Graduation Celebrations
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Just to let those of you who so kindly responded to my desperation cry know, I successfully got through Grad Celebrations. It was a huge success and although there was some drama, it was sort of a close call as I found my self looking to drink because, I was happy, I was disappointed, I was jealous, I was o...
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Trip to the E.R. Today!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LOL..... yep, it's true. Was in Big Lots shopping for a few odds and ends for the apartment and I went ot go throught the checkout, and WHAM!!!! An old shelf, those grocery store ones that are metal and painted cream, the ones that they can raise and lower the shelves with those little diamond shaped hole...
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Heard at a AA Meeting
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I was at a meeting just recently and a man who was sober for 42 years made the following statement."I have been sober for 42 years and unless you have been sober for 43 years or longer you have absolutely nothing to offer me. You can't help me be sober for 43 years unless you have done it. I am here to...
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Growing -- from Hazelden
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Growing We all perform on two stages: one public, one private. The Public stage is what we do and say. The Private stage is what we think and what we rehearse in our minds to do on the Public stage. Even though we may never perform it, what we rehearse in our minds helps mol...
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What is your experience with Sponsorship?
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As a sponsor I mean For me it has been by far the most rewarding part of the program, I get 10% by learning, 90% by teaching, in every case whatever I was passing on to my sponsee was exactly what I needed to hear at that time. I have had maybe 100 Sponsees over the years, maybe 30 of whom I made it to step 12 with,...
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Offensive on every level
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OK, sound track is safe, watching with kiddies over your shoulder isn't, NSFW if someone is looking I am sorry but this as "what it was like" made me spray coffee out my nose all over the monitor What it was Like Of course that was what it was like, and what happened, this is what it's like now muc...
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One giant hug!
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If I could suggest, we all get up out of our seats,walk over to someone,give them a hug and tell them you love them and then we'll move forward,doing God's will ,loving Him and loving others!
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Dumping
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I'm feeling really alone and helpless right now. Plotting. Not good. But it feels like the only way I can rely on feeling good. Even though I know I will utlimately feel worse.
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Well this Post is gong to be difficult....
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To all my brothers and sisters here, sure hope more that anything, I will not offend in any way as to the nature of this Post. My first thoughts were "Well certainly cannot a Post about it, I do not share this in meetings, only with one other person, that has a very ill child. So here goes, as most of yo...
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Celebrate with me!!
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You know that bawling I was doing about not having anyone to eat Chinese with in my new bare apartment on the floor at 11pm?? Well, YOU all can do that with me. :o) Thanks for coming over!!
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Step 3 - Step Work Board
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http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=42763
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90 Days Sober
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I have been sober since January 31, 2010. I have been making better decisions, living better, developing relationships that just wasn't possible before. I started AA on April 10th. I have bought the big book and am starting chapter 6 Into Action. I will be attending an AA meeting in the next half ho...
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Daily Reflections ~ "Entirely Honest" & 24hrs a Day
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We must be entirely honest with somebody if we expect to live long or happily in this world. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 73-74 Honesty, like all virtues, is to be shared. It began after I shared ". . . [my] whole life's story with someone . . . " in order to find my place in the Fellowship. Later I sh...
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Did you just come to MIP and then leave.....
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This is a Posting of Oblongs that was down the Page, so I thought I would bring it up to the surface---for it's content: Oblong wrote: One of the first things I thought of when I woke up this morning was about this website and "well, I guess I can't go back on there anymore". But I am back here beca...
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The True Treasure
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Today's thought for Hazelden is: Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and dust doth corrupt, where thieves break through and steal; but lay up treasures in heaven ... for where your treasure is, there will be your heart also. --Matthew 6:19 21 The True Treasure Consider the followi...
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pain after first sip
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Hi everyone! This might sound odd to some people but after I take that very first sip of alcohol (no matter in what form) I get a bit of a pain. It's not really so much of a pain as it is a feeling of pressure or something in my urethra (I know, I know, I'm sorry but I had to say where... it might be relevant!) And i...
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Do not be discouraged.
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The AA book says "Do not be discouraged............." Why would I be discouraged? The only time I became discouraged was when my own selfish needs were not met. I am hardly ever discouraged these days because I consistently work with newcomers. The context of the book is referring to the w...
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One year sober
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Hello all! Just thought I would let everyone know that it is my one year anniversary of sobriety. Thank you all for you help!
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An informal poll on how did you get to AA?
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A short time ago Dean started an informal poll on Quitting drinking. I would like to start another one about how did you get to AA. This is just for fun to see what the demographics of the MIP members is. Select which number fits you best. 1. Came straight to AA was sick and tired of being sick and tired and a...
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