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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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runnergirl
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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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Just 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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louisa
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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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Danielle
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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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michaelca
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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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Jerry F
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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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Beatles Fan
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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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Help me please
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Let me first say that through the help of the NA program I was able to stay clean off narcotics for 6 years, so I know the program works. My problem is that I started to drink 4 years ago, thinking I could handle it. Well I can't. I'm in college now and just finished my first semester with a 4.0gpa. My Uncle cam...
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Handed a drink.
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At another holiday party tonight. The host is a friend of ours and was trying to be kind... Gave my husband a really good beer and handed me a glass of a good red wine. I held on to it for while, then set it down on a table. Watched it the rest of the night, passed through the room and made sure it was still there...
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12 years, relapse, step 2, need help
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hey all hung up on step 2. The back story. Born to a family with frequent drunken bar fights in the living room (kids included) strung out by 14 rehab at 17 A drunken, broke, emotionally bankrupt, disaster at 23 Surrendered worked the steps to the best of my ability, again and again, always had trouble wi...
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I killed Lincoln
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Yep...it was ME! Pearl harbour, ME! 9-11, you guessed it, Mark! Did you burn your supper? me...Lover leave you? Who else??? Mark Caldwell. When did everyone's problems become my FAULT? Don't get me wrong, I AM more than willing to help people with their issues, but am I the "root cause&...
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MDC
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The Missing Piece ~ The Spiritual Malady
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The Missing Piece: The Spiritual Malady by Mike L., West Orange, NJ "Carry THIS Message" Group, West Orange, NJ From "The Doctor's Opinion" to the end of "More About Alcoholism" the Big Book discusses the first part of Step 1, which states, "We admitted we wer...
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Christmas Night Meeting - Wow!
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A much smaller meeting than normally, we had it in the kitchen around a big table. Maybe a dozen of us, and this meeting is usually 30-40+........ anyway, it was a really awesome meeting. I hadn't planned on going and 15 minutes before it started I just decided to go. So glad I did. My Christmas Miracle i...
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The Sword
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The night before Christmas, Big Book style.
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Night Before Christmas - Big Book Style 'T'was the night before Christmas, we were all in the club,Enjoying a meeting, instead of a pub,The ashtrays were clean, and the coffee was made,The Big Books were out and we all had prayed.When out in the lot, there arose such a clatter,We all jumped up...
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When one gets stuck
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What do you do when you have some (2-3 yrs.) sobriety and then later... feel you are stuck? Things are going good, yet life is not all that. People are crazy, and YET you aren't all that either. Too often a relapse...once it has happened... you can never seem to get sobriety back? Question is: What do...
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Going to Colorado tomorrow for a week of skiing.
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Got to cut out for a bit to play in the snow. There's no internets where I'm staying but I should get a chance to check in using the free wifi at the spa down the street. Happy new years in advance. Dean
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Holiday Survival Guide
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sorry...this is a little late for a Christmas share, but it may come in handy for new years...or next monday or feb. 10....hehe, useful stuff for whenever. So, its copied and pasted from a blog called Mr. Sponsorpants. Check him out some time, remarkable stuff. Mr. SponsorPants Annual Holiday Su...
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AA Second Reader
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Second Reader for Alcoholics Anonymous(From Akron, Ohio - 1940)YOU HAVE BEEN a member of Alcoholics Anonymous for several weeks, Or is it several months? The bright, shining newness has started to dull just a little. The first glamorous flush of sobriety has started to wear off. There is, you know,...
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Daily Reflections ~ The Joy of Living
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. . . . therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 125 A.A. is a joyful program! Even so, I occasionally balk at taking the necessary steps to move ahead, and find myself resisting the very actions that could bring about the joy I want. I wou...
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Hello
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Hi all, reading the forum as general. i'am an alcoholic, and i am lost
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Kieran
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New to all this.
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Hello everyone. I am new to this program. Today is day 17. It hasn't been easy but with the help of about 24 meetings in the last 17 days, the message is starting to sink in. I have found a great "home" group where all the people seem to enjoy themselves and each other. The first meeting I expecte...
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New...It's so obvious...but
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I can't imagine living without being able to "go out for drinks"...I know many have been there... I clicked on an intro post of another and gasped at the first words that I read as they mimicked my life... I'm a 30-something, divorced only child who's mother died in a single car accident...s...
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New...
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yes im new to this and Im only 3 months sober. It has been a long journey to get here though...I still havent made it to any AA meetings...but I am doing an outpatient program for treatment, i am almost done with that part and now its time to go out on my own like a bird just hatched from the egg of a drunk pool in...
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Suicide concept?
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What is the difference between intentionally trying to kill yourself vs. the indifference to your own life? My opinion is that suicidal people are intent on killing themselves; indifferent people do things that are life threatening, value their own lives but do not seem to take the consequences o...
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Oldie But Goodie
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Sitting here watching Mr. Magoo...........
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Hey All, Anyone remember "Mr Magoo's a Christmas Carol" with Jim Baccus as the voice of Mr Magoo? Alas..............The last time I watched this, I probably had on a pair of pajamas with feet in them!!! Its all good when you are sober!!! Tom
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Daily Reflections ~ Problem Solving & 24hrs a Day
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"Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems." ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 42 Through the recovery process described in the Big Book, I have come to realize that the same instructions that work on my alcoholism, work on much more. Whenever I a...
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Hi folks, hope it's ok if I unburden myself here a bit.
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I am a mess. Somehow, in the past 2 years, I went from being a devoted father of two beautiful little girls with a great job and a big house and plenty of money to an divorced, unemployed, slobbering drunken piece of shit. Where once I used to look forward to an occasional night out with the boys and knocki...
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