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Affirmations
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Affirmations One of our choices in recovery is choosing what we want to think - using our mental energy positively. Positive mental energy, positive thinking, does not mean we think unrealistically or rever...
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Empowerment
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You can think. You can make good decisions. You can make choices that are right for you.
Yes, we all make mistakes from time to time. But we are not mistakes.
We can make a new decision that takes new information into account.
We can change our mind from time to time. That's our right too.
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Daily Reflections ~ Love With No Price Tag
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In order for me to start working the Twelfth Step, I had to work on sincerity, honesty, and to learn to act with humility. Carrying the message is a gift of myself, no matter how many years of sobriety I may have accumulated. My dreams can become reality. I solidify my sobriety by sharing what I have recei...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 9th Dec 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day The way of A.A. is the way of fellowship. We have read a good deal about fellowship and yet it is such an important part of the A.A. program that it seems we cannot think too much about it. Human beings were not meant to live alone. A hermit's life is not a normal or natural one. We all n...
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Enjoyment
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Father Leo's Daily Meditation ENJOYMENT "All animals, except man, know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it." -- Samuel Butler Today I choose to enjoy my life. Regardless of the problem and difficulties that this day will bring, I have an inner joy that comes with my recovery from addic...
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Asking for Help
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It's okay to ask for help.
One of the most absurd things we do to ourselves is not asking for the help we need from a friend, a family member, our Higher Power, or the appropriate resource.
We don't have to struggle through feelings and problems alone. We can ask for help from our Higher Power and for s...
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A Friend Back Out
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I know this is a common story, but it's sort of a first for me. I found out recently that a long time friend in the program is drinking again. It's not surprising, he quit going to meetings some time ago and I lost touch shortly after - it seemed we had nothing in common if he wasn't doing meetings. He had so...
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Happiness during a Depression
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Yes, I am suffering a depression, it shows in the way I sleep, eat, what I can actually bring myself to accomplish right now here at home and at work (not much), and my total lack of interest in my art, music, friendship, and all the things that make me so "ME" and special. Not good. But I finally...
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Happy 61st Phil!!!
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Here's to many more new beginnings.. Each Day another opportunity to be shiny & new.. God blessing you, Phil.. 1Day@aTime & Always ~ Danielle x
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Daily Reflections ~ Service
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Life will take on a new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you. to have a host of friends - this is an experience you must not miss. . . . Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives. A...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 8th Dec 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day The length of time of our sobriety is not as important as its quality. A person who has been in A.A. for a number of years may not be in as good mental condition as a person who has only been in a few months. It is a great satisfaction to have been an A.A. member for a long time and we often...
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New to AA
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Hi everyone I found this website after a night of drinking. I am sipping a cup of coffee and sobering up. I have been to several AA meetings off and on over the last three months, never entirely committed. Tonight, after an extensive conversation with a good friend, I've determined that I am an alcoholi...
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Finally! A diagnosis!
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As most of you know I've been living with chronic pain for many years now and it got so much worse after a car accident. I have finally found a doctor who takes the time to talk and more important listen to me! Thoracic Radiculopathy is what I have! I've always believed knowing what's wrong is 1/2 the batt...
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Help me with this one
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I am an Al-Anoner. I live in a small rural community. I attend the local open AA meetings. I always intro myself as Al-Anon and offer to leave the room for a separate meeting (sometimes I leave the room and do the readings myself). Haven't had any takers in a year. So I attend regularly to stay in my program...
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There's A Hole In My Sidewalk
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I: I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost I am helpless. It is not my fault. It takes forever to find my way out. II: I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in. I cant believe I am in the same place. But...
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Valuing Our Needs
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When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves. We deserve better.
Maybe others taught us it wasn't polite or appropriate to speak up for ourselves. The truth is, if we don't, our unmet wants and needs may ultimately come back to haunt our relationships. We may end up feeling angry...
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Daily Reflections ~ True Ambitions
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True ambition is not what we thought is was. True ambition is the deep desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 124-125 During my drinking years, my one and only concern was to have my fellow man think highly of me. My ambition in everything I d...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 7th Dec 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day When people come back to A.A. after having a slip, the temptation is strong to say nothing about it. No other A.A. member should force them to declare themselves. It is entirely up to them. If they are well grounded in A.A., they will realize that it's up to them to speak up at the ne...
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When the Time is Right
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There are times when we simply do not know what to do, or where to go, next. Sometimes these periods are brief, sometimes lingering.
We can get through these times. We can rely on our program and the disciplines of recovery. We can cope by using our faith, other people, and our resources.
Accept unc...
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Daily Reflections ~ When The Chips Are Down
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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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24 Hrs a Day ~ 6th Dec 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day
People who have had a slip are ashamed of themselves - sometimes so ashamed that they fear to go back to A.A. They develop the old inferiority complex and tell themselves that they are no good that they have let down their friends in A.A., that they are hopeless, and that they ca...
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I just want to say thank you all
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Well, sometime in the next couple of hours, it will be 12 months since my last drink. I want to say a big THANK YOU to everybody here for being here for me. Without this message board and especially all you people on here I wouldnt have plucked up the courage to get back to meetings after being back out...
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Daily Reflections ~ A New State of Consciousness
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He has been granted a gift which amounts to a new state of consciousness and being. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p 107 Many of us in A.A. puzzle over what is a spiritual awakening. I tended to look for a miracle, something dramatic and earth shattering. But what usually happens is that a sense of w...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 5th Dec 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day In spite of all we have learned in A.A., our old way of thinking comes back on us, sometimes with overwhelming force, and occasionally some of us have slips. We forget or refuse to call on the Higher Power for help. We seem to deliberately make our minds a blank so far as A.A. traini...
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Difficult People
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Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give. Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel crazy when we try to pretend that person is someone he or she is not. We may have spent years negotiating with rea...
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Daily Reflections ~ Into Action
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A.A. is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who havent been given the truth may die. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 13 I desperately wanted to live, but if I was to succeed, I had to become active in our God-given progra...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 4th Dec 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day If we allow an alcoholic thought to lodge in our minds for any length of time, we are in danger of having a slip. Therefore we must dispel such thoughts at once, by refusing their admittance and by immediately putting constructive thoughts in their place. Remember that alcohol...
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Re-investing
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It's been about 9 months since being reborn. So happy and fortunate to have 2 birthdays to celebrate. So incredibly grateful the compulsion to drink left with all the baggage of the former life. The 1 talent I am incredibly grateful for is my ability to forget the things that bother, or hurt me. Eventua...
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Letting Go
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"How much do we need to let go of?" a friend asked one day.
"I'm not certain," I replied, "but maybe everything."
Letting go is a spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical process, a sometimes mysterious metaphysical process of releasing to God and the Unive...
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Trying to Plug In
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I am traveling in St. Louis and trying to plug in. I called my sponsor and he told me to get to a meeting and I tried to but I couldn't get to one. I talked to a guy from Intergroup in St. Louis who put me in contact with a local member who gave me a number to a local clubhouse but no one answered. I am without a ca...
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AA ~ Altered Attitudes
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The 5 As of Adjustment ~ Awareness ~ Until we admit awareness of a problem or a character defect, we cannot possibly let it go. Steps 4 & 5 apply here. Attitude ~ This is the Willingness A. Do we justify our thoughts or actions? Do we want to keep doing what we are doing & get different results? We mu...
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Road Blocks went up today >;(
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Been trying to get in to see my old psyche to talk to him about the issues I am having with depression after some years of reprieve in that department, but he is now a clinical director of a county-run agency, and I cannot see him because I do not qualify as someone needing serious "case management&q...
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Welcome Back ~ Gammy Rose!
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I saw you there online after being away for quite some time! Happy Sober Day, Lady :) I hope you'll return & share some of your lovely Experience, Strength & Hope with us Regulers & Newcomers. Know You're Loved ~ In Fellowship, Danielle x
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Developing healthy tolerance.......In carols absense......
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Developing Healthy Tolerance Many of us are skilled at denying and discounting what hurts us. We may endure a particular situation, telling ourselves repeatedly it's not that bad; we shouldn't be so demandi...
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Just a few things I've heard in AA
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AA SLOGANS.
.... easy does it 2.... first things first 3.... live and let live 4.... but for the grace of god 5....think......think.......think 6....one day at time 7....let go and let god 8....kiss---keep it simple stupid 9....act as if......... 10....this too shall pass 11....expect miracl...
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Daily Reflections ~ In All Our Affairs
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. . . . we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 106 I find that carrying the message of recovery to other alcoholics is easy because it helps me to stay sober and it provides me with a sense of well-being abou...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 3rd Dec 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day There is some alcoholic thought, conscious or unconscious that comes before every slip. As long as we live, we must be on the lookout for such thoughts and guard against them. In fact, our A.A. training is mostly to prepare us, to make us ready to recognize such thoughts at once a...
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Checking In--Lot's Going On!!!
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Whew, a lot has been going on lately. First, my older brother got arrested a few weeks ago (first arrest ever at age 49) on a domestic violence charge. He and my sister in law were arguing over finances and he grabbed her by the arm. He's now moved out of the house where they have three children. The o...
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Spent last 3 years back out there and come back worse.
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Hi, I first became a member or AA in July 2003, my binge drinking was out of control and I spent a lot of my time in bed recovering. I went to AA and stayed dry for 10 months and then because I hadnt done the things other people in the rooms seem to have done, I felt like a fraud. Hence my drinking over the last few...
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Walk in dry places
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Walk In Dry Places Why do bad things happen? Understanding life No one has been able to explain why pain and misfortune must be part of the human condition. Bad things can and do happen to everybody, and sometimes there's no way to explain it. Even in sobriety, AA members have misfortunes---times wh...
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Close Call Yesterday!
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Went to Olive Garden in the afternoon with hubby, orderd a Cranberry Juice and Gingerale spritzer (my usual), and when I took a big fat swig, FULL of alcohol!! AXKK!!! The waiter said he thought I had ordered, Cranberry, GOOSE (as in GreyGoose Vodka), and Gingerale. Yuck!! Felt that swig go straight t...
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Hi...ly name is Chris and I'm an alcoholic
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Hi everybody....my name is Chris and I'm an alcoholic. I've been aware of my problem drinking for quite some time now, but I was always too stubborn to think that I could beat it on my own. This past weekend I realized that when it comes to alcohol I am powerless. It has ruined so many opportunities a...
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Daily Reflections ~ Serenity
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Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 106 As I continued to go to meetings and work the Steps, something began to happen to me. I felt confused because I wasnt sure what it was that I was feeling, and then I realized I was experiencing ser...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 2nd Dec 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day The thoughts that come before having a slip seem to be partly subconscious. And yet it is likely that at least part of these thoughts get into our consciousness. An idle thought connected with drinking casually pops into our mind. That is the crucial moment. Will I harbor that t...
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One step forward, 2 steps back!
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Not in a good place. Haven't been for 4 or 5 days now! Not real sure why. The time of year? The weather has been coooolllddd rainy and nasty? My chronic pain has returned? I hate my job! Haven't been to a meeting since last Wednesday? My John has called several times over the last couple of weeks? Wanting t...
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Nightmares.......
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I had another one last night : ( But, I tried remembering how bad it felt and how lucky I am to be sober. That helped a little bit, but I just can't believe how real they are and often they happen. But I believe yall....they will start to go away with time. One thing that I have found so different while bein...
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Sunday Share
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Yu know? Some days I just hafta look up..and ask.."What the hell?" And Im not going to include alcohol in this topic... Its about living. 3 and 4 years ago..I almost died because of Leukemia...got through it..but for the Grace of God...and a lot of AA freinds. For the last 2 years I have been i...
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Letting People Be There for Us
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Sometimes, we need nurturing. Sometimes, we need people to support us.
Many of us have been deprived of support and nurturing for so long we may not realize it's something we want and need. Many of us have learned to block our stop ourselves from getting what we want and need.
We may not reach out to h...
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Step Twelve
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The Twelfth Step says that having had a spiritual awakening, we try to carry this message to others. Our message is one of hope, love, comfort, health - a better way of life, one that works.
How do we carry it? Not by rescuing. Not by controlling. Not by obsessing. Not by becoming evangelists for the re...
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Sunday
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There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, 'If I could only see the world, I will marry you.' One day, someone donated a pair of eye...
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