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Cleaning House
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Today I wrote out six ammends as part of my 9th step work. Got very emotional with one of them. My feelings of hurt must go deep it's been 16 yrs since I spoke with them. Peeling another layer of the onion I guess and trimming the dead wood for new growth. I don't want to be the drink or the tornado anymore I act...
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Mind Games
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Hi all, I 34 days in and I reach an all time low day. My partner went to a kids Christmas party and I don't no why I was at work from 8 this morning until 6 got kept back as part of a group bollicking not fun. The incredible overwhelming feeling of anxiety has been terrible all day long. Been home an hour and sti...
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Anonymity at the level of Press, radio and Film.........
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...... I suppose we all know or know of some 'famous' people who are in recovery. I could list several autobiographies which break the anonymity of the author - I suppose it's a case of how and why it's done. One I read, the author made it clear that 'at meetings I'm just an alcoholic called Eric - another...
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Will Power
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I used to think I was an Atheist because I did not believe in the same manner or degree as other people. It took me a long time to figure out exactly why I felt like that and it was not until I got away from AA for many years that I put it all together. I had been mentally conditioned to think I had to look outside m...
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Do you believe the Big Book was divinely inspired by a higher power???
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Heard this said before, wondering your thoughts, I believe it was, I mean we know man created it but I believe a HP inspired them on things to write etc...
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Charles Bukowski
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When I was a college student and started drinking, I was obsessed with Charles Bukowski - along with many other literary drunks. There was something in his words that made me feel like getting drunk was a viable way to resist the dull and boring status quo of the middle class. Why go to work every day and l...
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Liverpool Meetings
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looking for meetings in and around Liverpool...at present i visit all the anfield meetings, old swan, and town centre...wanting meetings in kirkby, rainhill and any others close to these, can anyone help please?
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MIP Family intergroup...
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Hi Y'all from NZ. When I was in the USA I attend various groups- in AA clubrooms- which are dotted everywhere. I am a member of Alanon and ACA. I qualify for being an AA member, but have never really joined. I am the group rep for my local Alanon group, at the moment- and If I joined Aa, I would be disquali...
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Do you feel connected to nature?
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Greetings, everyone. I am an Adult Child of an Alcoholic, and I am also a masters student studying biology at Miami University. For a research project this semester, I am interested in learning about how individuals with experiences with addiction connect to nature. Please take 5 minutes to fill...
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Meeting attendance verified electronically
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I recently got a DUI and the court made me pay $8 for a phone application that verifies meeting attendance. All our local meetings are supposed to have a code that we scan, but one of the meetings I went to didn't have the code. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can get credit for that meeting? -- Edite...
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Married tomorrow..
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I know its not SUGGESTED to be in a relationship in the first year however I really believe my higher power directed me to be with her. We click like we have known each other forever and both of us support each other. Our parents get along like best friends and our kids are like brothers. Please dont com...
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Tradition Three, online meetings, and trolls
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Tradition Three: The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. Tough traditions question here. Online AA meetings often have something I had never experienced in face-to-face meetings. Trolls. People who show up to disrupt the meeting, and who may return day after day to haras...
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Chance
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Don't know if you can play free online casino games? I know a lot of royalty-free myself, it depends on which site, but better than this site I don't know who will tell you about free casino games. The site drbet uk will tell you popular free casino games, free casino games technology, how to play free g...
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What are you doing to stay sober this New Year's Eve?
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I know, for me, the holidays were painful, unsettling, and generally depressing for several years after I got sober. Our tiny AA group here has been struggling the past couple of years. It's always been a tradition for them to host a New Year's Eve party, complete with finger foods, board games, cards...
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Alcohol in restaurant meals
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Hi Last night we were out for dinner, it was a set meal with no choices. At the end of the meal there was some home made chocolate ice-cream and chocolate cake. Half way through eating this I got to thinking what's this made of? Is there alcohol in it? This time I don't think there was, but do you ask in resta...
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Greetings and Salutations! St.PeteDean looking for regulars to check in.
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Hello Fellow Sobrarians, sorry for my absence, been a little busy navigating C-19. Celebrated XXXII in July, everything is good. 6 years cancer free. I spent 30 minutes kicking out the spammers and deleting their posts. getting a little burned out on zuckerburgs place. hopefully I'll be in h...
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Station 12 Recovery Books & Gift Shop in Wilmington, NC
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With John's permission we would like to introduce ourselves to the board. John stopped in recently to visit our shop, "Station 12". Over a cup of coffee we looked through my collection of early editions of the Big Book. The collection is available for viewing at the store anytime during re...
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Service Dog in training
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I got a call from the veterans administration they suggested I get a service dog (for PTSD) but they don't have any funding right now so I bought a puppie and I'm going to train it myself but I seem to be getting a lot flack about bring him to meetings with me. I'm trying to better my life the dog has very well b...
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A "Design For Living"
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August 7 We in our turn, sought the same escape with all the desperation of drowning men. What seemed at first a flimsy reed, has proved to be the loving and powerful hand of God. A new life has been given us or, if you prefer, "a design for living" that real...
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Wet Brain
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Hello New to this board, wanted to see what anyone knows about wet brain? Is it very common, how long does it last, does it go away, what are the symptoms etc?
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My sober kitchen re-decorating project
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Done!!!! It has taken me 4 weekends. AARGH!! I love the results though, and my kitchen is much happier now too. I had 3 different kinds of mis-matched wood in there, and it was dark and tiny. hope I have brightened it up a bit. I made the knobs myself out of cermaic that you bake in the oven. Have not put them a...
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winner, losers, and property taxes
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Eastern High was a new team and most of the players were freshman. They were playing Central that day, a team that had already won many prizes, and they had 3 players that were accomplished seniors. It was the first quarter.
One of Eastern's best players was out with an injury. It was the first time tha...
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Recovery Poetry
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Cross addiction
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I wanted to find out what thoughts you all have on people coming into AA cross addicted (concurrent drug or poly substance dependence). Obviously the BB is not outdated and there's been some discussion of not wanting AA to blend with other programs. I do see how it inevitably is going to blend with or be...
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Is my sponsor correct in saying I'm "not working a program"
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I'm coming back from a relapse in December and I have about 4 1/2 months sober. Yesterday, my sponsor told me the anger that's been coming up for me is understandable, because I "haven't been working a program". I'm in school and have mostly been procrastinating on my 4th step, but I do go to 8-10 meeting...
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Bob Earl
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Anyone know if Bob Earl (writer, speaker 70's 80's) is still alive? lost touch after his auto accident a few years ago. Thanks!
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The Three Ps
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Today, someone mentioned the three Ps of recovery. Two of them are paranoia and paralysis. Anyone know the third? Anyone know where there might be readings on the topic?
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ANNIVERSARY THROUGH GODS GRACE AND MERCY
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It was a very cold December 2nd morning in 1984 as I "came to" from another drug induced evening. I was 6 months into my 3rd marriage and the more than two and a half decades of active drug addiction/alcoholism was devastating my life and everything and everyone in its path. I lifted my head from the floor...
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Welcome To The Forum!
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Welcome to the newly-registered forum members: Tim Nelson and ColoradoRyan Let us know if we can help...
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Therapist and "Functioning" Alcoholic Recently Sober
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Hi everyone, Im Tim. Ive been an alcoholic since I was 14. I drank on and off for the first few years but around age 20 is when I drank every day up until about a few months ago. Like most of you know, Ive been ambivalent about stopping since I realized I was an alcoholic, but never really tried. Recently, I ha...
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I NEED SOME HELP WITH STEP 4
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SO IM JUST GETTIN STARTED ON STEP 4...MY SPONSOR BASICALLY TOLD ME TO START OFF MAKING A GRUDGE LIST. AS IM READING ABOUT IT THE 12 IN 12, I AM SOOOOO CON FUSED...STEPS 1-3 WERE PRETTY OK FOR ME...BUT READING STEP 4 IN THE 12 IN 12 IS LIKE READING GERMAN TO ME. SHOULD I BE MAKING A LIST OF PEOPLE I HAVE RESENTM...
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First AA meeting tonight; nervous
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Hi all. I don't use message boards and am jittery with nerves so hopefully I do this right. I'm two days (well, it'll be two days in about an hour) sober and attending my first meeting tonight. I'm extremely nervous, a million thoughts going through my head. Will people be nice? Accepting? Intim...
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Emotional Sobriety online by Tom B tape and another online article if you are interested
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http://alcoholrehab.com/addiction-articles/emotional-sobriety/-- Edited by hopefulone on Thursday 13th of August 2015 11:52:43 PM
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Why We Were Chosen
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Why We Were Chosen
God in HIS wisdom has selected this group of men and women to be the purveyors of His Goodness. In selecting them through whom to bring about this phenomenon, He went not to the proud, the mighty, the famous or the brilliant. He went to the humble, to the sick, to the un...
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How can I stop taking things so personally?
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Or in other words, not take words so literally. If you say to me "call lots of people to take some of the burden off your sponsor", I don't hear that I should call lots of people for my own sake and the sake of another, all I hear is that I'm a burden. Then I spiral down the slippery sloap of discou...
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It's a Tradition going back over25 years that I post my AA anniversy
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January 12th celebrated 48 years of continuous sobriety since my First AA Meeting....Going back now many years....I can see where the Program meets one at the level of your needs... God at times always worked Miracles for me...for that I am profoundly grateful......He gave me almost consecuativ...
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Easy does it
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/1306/MUaqFV.gif-- Edited by FlyingSquirrel on Saturday 18th of December 2021 02:17:59 AM -- Edited by FlyingSquirrel on Saturday 18th of December 2021 02:19:06 AM
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Home Group Questions...
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I swear I read somewhere in AA literature that if you arent in alignment with your home group to find another group. Does anyone know where I can find this in the literature? My group has 20+ meetings a week. Should there be one group conscience meeting for the entire group? Some members think its the gr...
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Think, Think, Think??
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Anyone who has been to more then a few meeting has seen the AA slogans on the wall.
Easy Does It (my favorite) Just for today and Think, Think, Think. Most of us have heard the story of the sponser who told his sponsee that the "Think, think, think" didn't apply to him as his thinker was broken, LOL. That a...
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online sponsor
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Hello I have 8 years of sobriety which is a lot for my area. I cant find a sponsor here and would like to find one online. My original sponsor relapsed 5 years ago. I spent about 2 years upset about this and the past 3 going through people like theres no tomorrow kind of... I would ask someone and they would sa...
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Fishing Invitation - Mississippi River, L&D #9, Harpers Ferry
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Hiya, Jasper's Sober Fishing thread gave me an idea.... The weather for Sunday, 11/1/09 in Zip Code 52101 looks pretty hard to pass up! At about 11am my (3) kids and I are going on a fishing outing for the day. Any one on this board who wants to stop by is welcome!! We're hoping to get there by 11am and leav...
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Big Book Help
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I'm working with a fellow and am searching for a passage in the Big Book (I believe it is in the personal stories) where it describes a suggestion for praying for someone toward whom we hold a resentment. Can anyone help? Thanks
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Checking in..
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I am responsible
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When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that, I am responsible. This is the AA responsibility statement. I have recited this statement before. I have not been very good at putting it into practice, however. Judging by what I have seen on this me...
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I am new
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Greetings. I am on day 7 of my sobriety journey. Today I really felt like drinking for some reason. I didnt do it...but it was close. WM
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Am I recovered or recovering?
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Where I live, there seems to be a big division between those AAs who say they have recovered and those who say they are recovering. The 'recovered' ones insist that no time can be lost, to get a sponsor, take the steps and, above all, to find a higher power. Personally, I went through a 4th and 5th step befo...
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The Program Works Group Needs Support
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Hey, Everyone! Come join and support The Program Works Group's online Zoom meeting. Every night at 8 pm EST. www.theprogramworks.com - tap Use App button to join from Facebook page Meeting ID 860-801-229 Note- There is no password, however, meeting greeters will remove any hijackers. Service co...
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When Food Is Cooked With Alcohol
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Since first coming into AA I adopted a zero tolerance for any food that uses alcohol of any type in the recipe. My well meaning "Normal" friends have tried to persuade me for years that "Its OK the alcohol cooks off". I never believed that and would not take any chances eating...
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Pettiness Prayer
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I just read this today. I'd heard it long ago, but forgotten it until now. And look who wrote it! Keep Us From Pettiness ~ Mary Stewart, Queen of ScotsKeep us, O God, from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word, in deed. Let us be done with faultfinding and leave off self-seeking. May we put away al...
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This is currently the only online message board I haven’t been banned from.
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