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Learning to trust
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Hi, im absolutely shattered tonight, ive been at my sponsors for 10 hours today working on my steps 4 and 5 and since I have been home I have sat here and thought of all the miracles that have happened in my life since coming back into the fellowship and working hard at my programme. I remember sitting at a m...
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Daily Reflections ~ A Riddle That Works
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It may be possible to find explanations of spiritual experiences such as ours, but I have often tried to explain my own and have succeeded only in giving the story of it. I know the feeling it gave me and the results it has brought, but I realize I may never fully understand its deeper why and how. AS BILL SE...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 24th Aug 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ "When we saw our faults, we listed them. We placed them before us in black and white. We admitted our wrongs honestly and we were willing to set these matters straight. We reviewed our fears thoroughly. We asked God to remove our fears and we commenced to outgrow fear. Man...
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Keeping a Journal
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Today I will begin keeping a journal of all my thoughts and feelings.
I may resist doing this at first, but I will make a commitment to writing at least one thought at the end of each day. By putting my thoughts down on paper, I see things more clearly. I can also go back and read them at a later date to see ho...
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Thanks God.......Uh I mean Higher Power
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Thanks Higher Power. Thanks for helping me see my own arrogance and pride. Thanks for constantly bringing me back to Earth and giving me all I need to be truely happy.
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Day 13 Rosie
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Hi all, I am on my 13th day today and I am so grateful. The sober days can add up and be so wonderful but the drunk days can add up and be so horrible. I opt for these sober days Today the weather here in Vermont is beautiful and I have gotten up and put photos in frames for my Mom of my parents wedding day and one of...
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Day 12 Rosie
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Hi all, I am on day 12 and feel so good. Today is a beautiful day and I am going walking and treating myself to ice cream. I am tired today due to a listless night. Not due to wanting a drink but due to a pain in my back that I could not lay right to get comfortable. I am going to go treat myself next week to going to t...
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Managing guilt
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Hi all, I was talking to one of my sisters today and she was talking about how she was asked by her oldest daughter of 23 yr old for help in a place to live and she has no job and would be on probation for heroine possession. My sister just got herself settled after a very rough year herself. And is trying to sta...
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HELP please answer Huffing and AA
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I have a question? I have a problem with huffing is that because im an alcoholic or is it because of something comepletly seperate. Should I tell my aa sponcer about it?is that something she can even help me with?can aa meetings help with that? And the question im most afraid of since I huff does that mean...
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Daily Reflections ~ Bringing The Message Home
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Can we bring the same spirit of love and tolerance into our sometimes deranged family lives that we bring to our A.A. group? TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , pp. 111 -112 My family members suffer from the effects of my disease. Loving and accepting them as they are - just as I love and accept A.A. memb...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 23rd Aug 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ "We who have accepted the A.A. principles have been faced with the necessity for a thorough personal housecleaning. We must face and be rid of the things in ourselves, which have been blocking us. We therefore take a personal inventory. We take stock honestly. We searc...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 22nd Aug 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ "Those who do not recover are people who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault. They seem to be born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which...
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Daily Reflections ~ Seeking Emotional Stability
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When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself. We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would. If we really depended upon God, we couldnt very well p...
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Self Care
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When will we become lovable? When will we feel safe? When will we get all the protection, nurturing, and love we so richly deserve? We will get it when we begin giving it to ourselves. -- Beyond Codependency
The idea of giving ourselves what we want and need can be confusing, especially if we have spen...
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Day 11 Rosie
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Hi All, I am on day 11 and I am feeling so good. It is so freeing and my body is still adjusting but I know how good I will feel as time goes by. I took my son to his kidney doctor and his blood pressure is so much better but his counts are not so good for his kidney. But as his blood pressure gets better and he keeps t...
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Detaching in Relationships
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When we first become exposed to the concept of detachment, many of us find it objectionable and questionable. We may think that detaching means we don't care. We may believe that by controlling, worrying, and trying to force things to happen, we're showing how much we care.
We may believe that cont...
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Shakey ground, today.....and grateful for it
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Reading Rosie's marked time in sobriety posts this morning, it occured to me I have 11 months TODAY! I remember getting the shakes in the past over my time without a drink. Amazing how things can change when I work for that change. I feel very grateful at this moment. The memory of my last drunk hit me ups...
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Quotes from Our Co-Founder: Bill W.-Part 1
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Quotes from Our Co-Founder: Bill W.-Part 1 "Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia. We have it with us right here and now. Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men." Bill Wilson Source: C. 1939...
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Screaming Works
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I got pretty tied up today, I had a phone call from one of my older brothers dealing with an issue involving our family inheritance and the combination of family and money has long been a trigger point of trouble for me. At least, today when I started to get argumentative and agitated I didn't go on, I...
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Father Leo
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Father Leo's Daily Meditation INDIFFERENCE "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures in not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity." -- George Bernard Shaw For years I was indifferent to family and friends. And the tragedy was that because of my al...
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Rosie's AA meeting
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Hi All, I went to my first AA meeting since March of this year. It was held in the same place as in March. I loved it!! The topic was mainly of not following through with committments to ourselves and others. And of people who drink the night before but who are still drunk in the morning and who drink to feel b...
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Day 10
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Hi All, Today is day 10!! I feel real good and have had a wonderful week. I went to my oldest granddaughters Ty Kwon Do testing and she went from white belt to yellow belt. She skipped over one. The instructor said that was very unusual. Her pattern was wonderful and she kicked a board in half making it look...
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First AA Meeting Ever and having severe anxieties over it
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Hey all, I'm relatively new to this forum and 7 days sober. I've found an AA meeting that meets today at noon, here in my small town of 40,000 where I've resided for only 3 years but already know many of the characters. I woke up with the greatest intentions of going to this meeting but am having severe an...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 21st Aug 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ "Who are you to say there is no God? This challenge comes to all of us. Are we capable of denying that there is a design and purpose in all of life as we know it? Or are we willing to admit that faith in some kind of Divine Principle is a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeli...
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I did it!!!
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Hi all you good people, day 5 for me, I went to my first meeting last night and I feel so good today, I now see why everyone told me not to be scared, the people were so friendly, they welcomed me with open arms, I am going to another one tonight, so there!! The AA bug has bitten lol.
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Responsibility for Family Members
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I can still remember my mother clutching her heart, threatening to have a heart attack and die, and blaming it on me. -- Anonymous
For some of us, the idea that we were responsible for other people's feelings had its roots in childhood and was established by members of our nuclear family. We may have b...
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Attracted To People Like My Mother Was
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I have been dating a girl for about a year. The night I met was at a bar and she was as drunk as can be knowing that I was coming to meet her. But for whatever reason I have grown fond of her in the past year. Well I have no longer been able to put up with the antics that come along with the drinking. She h...
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A Few Useful Links
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Hi everyone,
I thought that I'd post a couple of links that might help some of our newcomers. They are all good websites that have helped me in the past and could help you, too.
The first is our Big Book online. If you haven't been able to buy a copy of it at your local meetings, you can use this until you d...
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Daily Reflections ~ We Just Try
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My stability came out of my trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive. THE BEST OF BILL , p.46-47 As long as I try, with all my heart and soul, to pass along to others what has been passed along to me, and do not demand anything in return, life is good to me. Before entering this program of Alcoholics...
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AA sponcer sponcee friendship
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so I have a question and not sure if this website can be used for questions but its aa related.. So how far into sobriety is it ok to become friends with your sponcer or not even friends We are all friends but like hang out go shopping together ect . cause when I first got sober and I call all the time with ques...
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20 Days
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Feelin good, work is good so far, but I feel like I might break down today. I'm sleeping on the floor for the past 2 days on a phone book because sleeping is the hardest part of the day. I guess I should call one of the meeting guys.
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early days of sobriety
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when i had had enough of the suffering caused by MY actions of excessive drinking it was the ongoing mood swings that took me to the 4th stage of alcoholism and after that their was no turning back, if i could even think for one moment that i could save myself. so after 8 months of heavy depression, as alcoh...
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Just For Fun!
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1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?
2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?
4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
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Self Detoxing
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I'm bound and determined to get and stay clean and sober. I stayed that way for many years, and gradually fell back in to thinking I could "control drink". It's now messed up quite a bit of some beautiful things (like my job) which I regained in a small community at the ripe old age off 55. I th...
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Well, here it is
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Hi all Just thought I'd drop by before Sunday comes and let ya know I'm ok, nervous as hell but alright. Been going through other things I guess I let get to me, felt like i was gonna explode.. But with the grace of GOD, I still have my sense of humour. I had a good cry last nite and look like I didn't sleep, g...
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Starting another meeting
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We are small communities in a rural area. We have a good AA meeting going where I live. I have offered to hold a separate Alanon meeting. We Alanoners are slow to break away from our A's. So another small community wanted to start AA/Alanon. We had 18 tonight. Awesome. I will continue to offer Alanon and h...
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Introducing myself
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Hello, my name is Brad, and I'm an alcoholic! I'm from Arlington, Texas and I came across this board so I thought I'd join up and get in on the online recovery! I love forum boards, so I'm sure I'll be trolling around them and offering my experience, strength, and hope where I feel like I have something to a...
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i think i need help....
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my names eric... i've been drinking everyday for the past 6 months....and most people drink to forget their problesm...but i drink to feel. just to feel these emotions thats havve been in me but wont come out..i used to do druggs but i cant do that so i switched to drinking...and now i drink to feel sadne...
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Day 19
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I posted under day 18 that i found a meeting a few blocks from work. I'm on my 3rd large cup of coffee and i feel like sleeping. Maybe I'll take off from work early and check it out.
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Daily Reflections ~ Toward Emotional Freedom
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Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation could yield more satisfying and valuable rewards than this one. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. 80 Willingness is a peculiar thin...
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The Awakening
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"The Awakening". A time comes in your life when you finally get it... When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out - ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on. And, like a child quiet...
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Day 9 Rosie
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Hi All, This is day 9 and I am feeling very very hopeful today. It has been a hard week on one hand but the best week I have had in a long time. My senses to life are heightened more so than when I have ever stopped drinking before. I had been in a horrible relationship for this past eight yrs. He is a very sick ma...
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New Here
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I just found this site and glad there is a site like this, I had 5 years sobreity and went back out in 2002 and have been out since and it does not get better, it is like I never stopped, picked up where I left off, I am so sick of this addiction and everything that comes with it, I have chased the idea that I...
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I'm Baaaaaack!!!!!
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Hello my dear family!!! I am overwhelmed by the love and support you all gave me while I was away!!! A lot has happened since I have been gone. My computer died and I didnt have the money for a new one yet. I did some serious drinking and in a black out got in a bad car accident. By some miricle instead of g...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 20th Aug 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ "When many hundreds of people are able to say that the consciousness of the presence of God is today the most important fact of their lives, they present a powerful reason why one should have faith. When we see others solve their problems by simple reliance upon some Spir...
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Daily Reflections - A Frame Of Reference
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Referring to our list [inventory] again. Putting out of our minds the
wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes.
Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened?
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 67
There is a wonderful freedom in not needing constant appro...
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Good Evening
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Good Evening all. Day 5 for me. I find at about 3:00 to7:00PM is when I want to go get the alcohol and drink. I am hanging in there. How long (I know this varies) will I be in thi...
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Day 18
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Whew rough day at work..without going into too much detail, I work in finance and the mkt. was bad today but I took some profits on up positions. So I mad e some change, but with the irregular sleep, I was in the office at 7 am(45 min commute) and left at 6 30 pm. A nice icy cold beer would've hit the spot and ho...
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Honesty in Relationships
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We can be honest and direct about our boundaries in relationships and about the parameters of a particular relationship.
Perhaps no area of our life reflects our uniqueness and individuality in recovery more than our relationships. Some of us are in a committed relationship. Some of us are datin...
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Online meetings
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Hi All I tried to go onto the online meeting at nine but it would not connect for me. Can anyone help with this? Please let me know how to go on there. Thank you Rosie
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