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24 Hrs a Day ~ 12th Feb 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day As we look back on all those troubles we used to have when we were drinking, the hospitals, the jails, we wonder how we could have wanted that kind of a life. As we look back on it now, we see our drinking life as it really was and we're glad we're out of it. So after a few months in A.A., w...
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addiction/dependance
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I left AA over a number of issues. I attended AA faithfully for 10 years and I still practice the steps. When I relapsed after that period of time I had to employ medicine in an attempt to save my life.I had an anxiety disorder and was nearly dead from alcohol and opiates together. To keep from another rela...
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AA Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 12, 2009 Selfishness Selfishness -- self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Some...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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Wisdom of the Rooms February 9, 2009 Quote of the Week "Resentment - Taking poison and hoping the other person dies." Boy was this a shocker the first time I heard it. I was new in recovery and I had so many resentments that I didn't even know about them all yet. What I also didn't realize was tha...
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As Bill Sees It
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As Bill Sees ItPg. 43 How Much Anonymity?, p. 43 As a rule, the average newcomer wanted his family to know immediately what he was trying to do. He also wanted to tell others who had tried to help him--his doctor, his minister, and close friends. As he gained confidence, he felt it right to explain his ne...
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Letting Go of Those Not in Recovery
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We can go forward with our life and recoveries, even though someone we love is not yet recovering.
Picture a bridge. On one side of the bridge it is cold and dark. We stood there with others in the cold and darkness, doubled over in pain. Some of us developed an eating disorder to cope with the pain. Some...
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Daily Reflections ~ The Limits of Self-Reliance
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We asked ourselves why we had them [fears]. Wasnt it because self-reliance failed us? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.68 All of my character defects separate me from Gods will. When I ignore my association with Him I face the world and my alcoholism alone and must depend on self-reliance. I have never found...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 11th Feb 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day If we're going to stay sober, we've got to learn to want something else more than we want to drink. When we first came into A.A., we couldn't imagine wanting any thing else so much or more than drinking. So we had to stop drinking on faith, on faith that some day we really would want s...
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Divinely Led
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Send me the right thought, word, or action. Show me what my next step should be. In times of doubt and indecision please send your inspiration and guidance. -- Alcoholics Anonymous
The good news of surrendering ourselves and our life to a Power greater than ourselves is that we come into harmony wit...
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As Bill Sees It
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As Bill Sees ItPg. 42 Self-Confidence and Will Power When we first challenged to admit defeat, most of us revolted. We had approached A.A. expecting to be taught self-confidence. Then we had been told so far as alcohol was concerned, self-confidence was no good whatever; in fact, it was a total liab...
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I'm a mommy!
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Hey everyone... it seems like forever since I've been on here! Well now I really don't have much time at all to get on the computer, David O'donel was born last Wednesday, February 4th at 9:04am! He weighs 5 pounds 7 ounces, and is 19 inches long... sooooo tiny, but he is healthy and will hopefully put...
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AA Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 11, 2009 Immunity We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinkin...
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New to all this
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Hi there, My name is David and I'm an alcoholic. I'm sober now and really glad for that. Life has been tough recently and I've just joined AA and stumbled across this page whilst looking for some online support. I've hurt and embarrassed people who mean so much to me, and with a sober head on I can't believ...
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Daily Reflections ~ I Don't Run The Show
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When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isnt. What was our choice to be? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.53 Today my choice is God. He is everyt...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 10th Feb 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day Since I realized that I had become an alcoholic and could never have any more fun with liquor and since I knew that from then on liquor would always get me into trouble, common sense told me that the only thing left for me was a life of sobriety. But I learned another thing in A.A., th...
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Sober dog
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This is Estela, she has been going to meetings for over 2 years. She was rescued from Spain by my wife. When she started going to meetings she was still easily scared. Her confidence has grown and our fellow members have commented that meetings have done her the world of good as well. She refuses to dr...
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Thanks for 20 Years
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Right about now, exactly 20 years ago I set down a half glass of beer. I had no idea at the time that I wouldn't have a drink of alcohol for 20 years. I had no plans to go to AA the next day - but that's where I wound up. That was just a day, and today is just another day, and tomorrow will be just another day. Th...
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Membership Rules?
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As Bill Sees ItPg. 41 Membership Rules? Around 1943 or 1944, the Central Office asked the groups to list their membership rules and send them in. After they arrived we set them all down. A little reflection upon these many rules brought us to an astonishing conclusion. If all of these edicts had been i...
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Letting Go of Guilt
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Feeling good about ourselves is a choice. So is feeling guilty. When guilt is legitimate, it acts as a warning light, signaling that we're off course. Then its purpose is finished.
Wallowing in guilt allows others to control us. It makes us feel not good enough. It prevents us from setting boundari...
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Letting Go of Sadness
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A block to joy and love can be unresolved sadness from the past.
In the past, we told ourselves many things to deny the pain: It doesn't hurt that much.... Maybe if I just wait, things will change.... It's no big deal. I can get through this.... Maybe if I try to change the other person, I won't have to cha...
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A.A. Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 10, 2009 Discovery I've learned since being in AA that the more I worry about me loving you, and the less I worry about you loving me, the happier I'll be. I discovered a fellowship of human beings that I'd never seen before. I learned how to have se...
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Daily Reflections ~ Getting The "Spiritual Angle"
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How often do we sit in AA meetings and hear the speaker declare, But I havent yet got the spiritual angle. Prior to this statement, he had described a miracle of transformation which had occurred in him not only his release from alcohol, but a complete change in his whole attitude toward life and the liv...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 9th Feb 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day In the past, we kept right on drinking in spite of all the trouble we got into. We were foolish enough to believe that drinking could still be fun in spite of everything that happened to us. When we came into A.A., we found a lot of people who, like ourselves, had had fun with drinkin...
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Long Time Away
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Hi, my name is Maggie and I'm an alcoholic! It's been a long time since I've said that. I've been sober since July 2000. I haven't been to a meeting in about four years. I've been doing really well...just moved to a new state, got an awesome job, got a little money in my savings account...but I'm defin...
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Humility First
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As Bill Sees ItPg. 36 Humility First We found many in A.A. who once thought, as we did, that humility was another name for weakness. They helped us to get down to right size. By their example they showed us that humility and intellect could be compatible, provided we placed humility first. When we beg...
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Material Achievement
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As Bill Sees ItPg. 40 Material Achievement No member of A.A. wants to deprecate material achievement. Nor do we enter into debate with the many who cling to the belief that to satisfy our basic natural desires is the main object of life. Be we are sure that no class of people in the world ever made a wors...
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A.A. Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 9, 2009 Patience Just try it. Drive with an easy rein; don't worry; seek and be with the Group as much as you possibly can. Coast along with us, work with us, and you will gradually find fear being replaced by confidence, doubts taking wing; depre...
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Letting Go in Love
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When people with a compulsive disorder do whatever it is they are compelled to do, they are not saying they don't love you - they are saying they don't love themselves. -- Codependent No More
Gentle people, gentle souls, go in love.
Yes, at times we need to be firm, assertive: those times when we cha...
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Is This Extreme??
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I have battled a drinking problem for the past few years and just recently started attending AA meetings. The meetings have helped me immensely however I have only been attending meetings for a little over two weeks but the people i have met are already hounding me to get a sponsor.The sponsor as we un...
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Daily Reflections ~ Convincing "Mr. Hyde"
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Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy will still elude us. Thats the place so many of us A.A. oldsters have come to. And its a hell of a spot, literally. How shall our unconsciousfrom which so many of our fears, compulsions and phony aspirations still streambe brought into line with what we actually be...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 8th Feb 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day When the morning sun comes up on a nice bright day and we jump out of bed, we're thankful to God that we feel well and happy instead of sick and disgusted. Serenity and happiness have become much more important to us than the excitement of drinking, which lifts us up for a short whil...
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Favorite saying, quote, reading...
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Hi Everyone, Just got home from a meeting and we kind of bounced around the idea of what one reading, phrase or subject can you not hear enough of. I said - The Promises. I love them. To me they are pure words from Above. They are music to my ears. Other folks said different phrases and different parag...
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Asking for prayers
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Last night my grandmother passed away at 92 years old. She lived a full life and died peacefully in her sleep. She was the only grandparent I have ever known and I love her very much. I'm grateful to have had her in my life and I am going to miss her always. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers thi...
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Do we make it more difficult than it needs to be?
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After trying to stop smoking countless times for over two decades I was finally able to kick it a while back. My success wasn't due to some wonder drug, nicotine gum/lip balm/inhaler, or any of the other dozens of things I had tried in the past. What finally helped me say goodbye to tobacco permanently w...
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Owning Our Power
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We need to make a distinction between powerlessness and owning our power.
The first step in recovery is accepting powerlessness. There are some things we can't do, no matter how long or hard we try. These things include changing other people, solving their problems, and controlling their behavi...
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liveing the 12 steps
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being in the program is not always easy.they say if you dont,drink you had a good day .well for me there's more first i have to take the steps like it's in the big book,then i have to let god in my heart and life.and become willing to be like he wants me too.thats the hard part,when i have to face the pain.t...
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A.A. Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) ~ Scroll down for share ~ February 8, 2009 Decision It is by circumstance rather than by any virtue that we have been driven to AA, have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over...
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Pocket Sponsor
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Day Eight/8:00 PM: "You can't laugh and think at the same time! So every time you laugh you're getting a break from you." ~Ken D. (P 153, Alkiespeak) I take my program seriously, not myself. Excerpt from the Pocket Sponsor, By The Hazelden author of ' Day By Day' & other Meditation Book...
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Dealing with Resentments
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As Bill Sees ItPg. 39 Dealing with Resentments Resentment is the Number One offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physical ill, we have also been spiritually ill. When our spiritual malady is o...
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Just me!!!!
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Hi to all Just thought I'd drop and say hi, and to let you know things are somewhat better, I'm getting a few more shifts at work and well I'm been busy with my daughter and volunteering some of my time to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. My son's in there too, and we get together at least try to anyways once...
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3 Years Sober Today!
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Hi everyone,
Today marks three years of continuous sobriety for me! I can hardly believe it.
It's only through regular meetings, my support network of AA friends, my sponsor, working the steps and my Higher Power that I have managed this. For anyone who is just starting out in sobriety that's how...
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Back once again.....
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Hi everyone, Bad modem has kept me offline for about a month. Not priority to fix as there were other things higher on the list of priorities. Update: Middle son officially left states on Feb. 3rd to head to Iraq. Should be settling in Kuwait about now for 2 wks before he arrives at his ass...
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Online Meetings....How Are They?
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Just wondering. I just happened to notice that they are offered. How many of you attend?
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Daily Reflections ~ A Glorious Release
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The minute I stopped arguing, I could begin to see and feel. Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I cant say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now. To acquire it, I had to stop fightin...
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Hello My Name Is Lauren and I'm An Alcoholic
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I currently have 34 days without alcohol. My story is a bit different than the ones that you hear in the meetings. I am a mother of three, two of which are under 24 months of age. I am a full time Realtor here in Atlanta with a team of three assistants under me. I'm married to an amazing man who is not an alcohol...
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As Bill Sees It
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As Bill Sees ItPg. 38 Pipeline to God "I am a firm believer in both guidance and prayer. But I am fully aware, and humble enough I hope, to see there may be nothing infallible about my guidance. "The minute I figure I have got a perfectly clear pipeline to god, I have become egotistical enoug...
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AA Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 7, 2009 Simplicity The simple words "Thy Will Be Done" and the simple ideas of honesty and of helping others are taking on a new meaning for me. I should not be surprised to find myself coming to the astounding conclusion that God, who...
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Hello
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Hi everyone! This is my first post on this forum. Just thought I would introduce myself. I am 26 and have been abusing alcohol for about 7 or 8 years. I decided to get help two weeks ago today and haven't drank since. After a course of Valium and plenty of recouperation, I feel a lot better and have started...
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new to all of this
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Hello group, I am new to all this and could use a few words of both encouragement and advice. I have been sober for 1 day. I recently had an incident that made me realize that I want to get sober, I need to get sober. I have made an appointment with an AODA counselor, and I have found the location of a meeting t...
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Edging on 5 months now. Woo hoo! A couple of weeks ago I had the flu....bad. I laid on the couch and was thinking, why me? I mean, I felt like total junk. Then, I closed my eyes for a minute and started to think of the feeling I had every morning before I got enough alcohol in my body to rid the shakes. ...
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