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Enjoyment
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Life is not to be endured; life is to be enjoyed and embraced.
The belief that we must square our shoulders and get through a meager, deprived existence for far off rewards in Heaven is a codependent belief.
Yes, most of us still have times when life will be stressful and challenge our endurance ski...
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stuck!
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The best laid plans...I tried to set up in advance a meeting each night -- I emailed the local AA chapter rep, who at first was responsive and sounded like he would help me get to meetings. Now, he won't return my emails, and no one is answering the "24 hour line." I don't have a car here, and th...
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decided to join AA
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Like I say in my bio, I am an alcoholic and need help but it was gettting help that was always the hardest part for me. My boyfriend who also used to go to AA says that I am spiritually sick, which I definitely have to agree with. I've lost my faith in God and I know that in order to get better I have to regain my...
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How do you answer the question, "Why don't you drink?"
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I like to talk about the things I have some experience with, and after struggling with this disease for 28 years this is one of them.... Invariably someone, somewhere, sometime will offer us a drink. A polite "no thanks" is usually followed by "You don't drink? Why not?" Early i...
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Getting Needs Met
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I want to change careers . . . I need a friend . . .I'm ready to be in a relationship . . .
Regularly, we become aware of new needs. We may need to change our behavior with our children. We may need a new couch, love and nurturing, a dollar, or help.
Do not be afraid to recognize a want or need. The birth of a wa...
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((jc2008))
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How you holding up, gal? Thinking of you.......
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Everyone know about Silkworth.net?
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Sorry if this has been mentioned before, Dr. Silkworth was the doctor who wrote "the doctor's opinion" in the Big Book. The website bearing his name has some interesting material on it. If you are into the mp3 player thing, you can download several audio recordings here. Some great stuff,...
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Losing Stuff
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One of my biggest pet peeves and fears is about/surrounds losing stuff. I'm not a "a place for everything and everything in it's place" kinda person. Don't get me wrong, I'm not completely disorganized, I just tend to keep the stuff that I'm using regularly or stuff that involes things...
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594,049,808 Sober Heatbeats!
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Sobriety Calculator http://www.silkworth.net/aa/bb.html -
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 20th May 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ If we get up in a meeting and tell something about ourselves in order to help the other person, we feel a whole lot better. It's the old law of the more you give the more you get. Witnessing and confession are part of keeping sober. You never know when you may help somebody. Helping...
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waltzing
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i'm back to waltzing. you know, steps 1, 2, 3, ...1, 2, 3. at 34 years old i started back to college and actually made the dean's list! i was certain that i had killed more brain cells than that! lol i started to become self sufficient, which was my big mistake. i forgot that i am powerless--not only with alc...
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travel
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I'm going on a business trip to SC this afternoon and will stay through Friday. The schedule indicates that there are receptions in the evenings with hors d'ouevres and wine. I don't trust myself to go. I've been looking up meetings online and plan to go to one each night. I'm still nervous, though...
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My Alcoholic Beginnings ~ Teenaged to 05
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My Recovery has been slowly taking over in capability. Such knowledge seeping & simpering through waiting to take flight. Building up like an inferno of fire & brimstone in the depths of my belly & sanity. I've been becoming well. I was frustrated for a little while. The knowledge but no...
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Home Sweet(?)Home
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Had a WONDERFUL time at Bike Week. The weather was a bit cool the first couple of days, but it warmed up nicely by Wednesday. Did a LOT of riding and a TON of eating (I'm sure I gained 10lbs). We ate twice at my favorite hole n the wall "River City Cafe'" - they've got burgers the size of your head an...
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ON STRIKE TODAY
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Refuse to do ANYTHING useful today. Love that concept. Instead of obssessing about my home and laundry today, just gonna AA-up later, and vegetate. Will not remove pajamas today (until meeting time)!!!!!! I have that right on occasion!!! LOL... what are YOUR plans for this beautiful Sunday?
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 19th May 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Fellowship is a big part of staying sober. The doctors call it group therapy. We never go to an A.A. meeting without taking something out of it. Sometimes we don't feel like going to a meeting and we think of excuses for not going. But we usually end up by going anyway. And we alway...
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You think you're having a bad day?
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Ummm.....looks like there's no more Mackeral left in the milk crate.
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new to site
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hello everyone. i am new to this site and so glad i found it. i am just beginning my road to recovery...again. it'll be great talking to all of you.
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Hi,I'M EUGENE
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Been reading the board for a few weeks , posted couple of times and thought I should introduce myself. I am a 44 year old male living in Johannesburg, South Africa and a gratefull member of AA. Been sober for 15 months and am unbelievably gratefull. I am one of the fortunate ones who got it through my thic...
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Where is Tuggboat!!!!
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Well I feel like the possee looking for the lost ones and realized were missing our good buddy Tugboat!!!!!! May be annoying and the ones who are lost for a moment that I forget, I apologize!!!! Hope all is well with our dear friend....... Lani
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sick of everything
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I didn't go to my usual Saturday morning meeting. It's the anchor of my week. Instead, I decided we should have family time. And we were going to have fun like a nice normal family that doesn't have a drunk for a mom! So needless to say it was tense and messy. Everything had to be perfect and fun at all t...
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So what's different about this time?
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What's different about this time? That's what my CD counselor said to me as I graduated from my third CD treatment several weeks ago. Good question, said I. So I took a look back at my struggles with alcohol and my relapses. Had 13 years at one point, relapsed. Had 5 years, relapsed. This time I've been so...
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still here
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I was moved by everyone's responses to my last post. I don't feel deserving of any of it, but I thank you all. I feel a little less wretched than yesterday, less angry, and somewhat reflective. I went to church this morning and wound up substituting for a Sunday school teacher who didn't show up. I ha...
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Achmed the dead Terrorist
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Hillarious enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go
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what you need most is glucose
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i think i read the brain runs on glucose i was reading book "sugar blues" again and it talks about alchoholism i think eating white sugar makes us crave alcohol more i think sucrose isnt gluscose google glucose
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 18th May 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ We're in A.A. for two main reasons: to keep sober ourselves and to help others to keep sober. It's a well-known fact that helping others is a big part of keeping sober yourself. It's also been proved that it's very hard to keep sober all by yourself. A lot of people have tried it an...
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Don't stop living your life!
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So often, when a problem occurs, inside or around us, we revert to thinking that if we put our life on hold we can positively contribute to the solution. If a relationship isn't working, if we face a difficult decision, if we're feeling depressed, we may put our life on hold and torment ourselves with ob...
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Walking and Beer
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A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles per year. Another study found Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon. ...
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What might work for them is not for me.
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I decided recently to shore up my support system by adding an online element. While I feel it is no subsitute for a face to face meeting, I feel it will help me with those difficult times at 3:00 am, etc. Or like now. :) It's before 8:00 am and I would not feel right calling someone this early. Anyway, my poin...
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Howdy!
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New to the site, just finding another tool in my quest for continued sobriety. Name is Larry, glad to be here and sober today. Sobriety dates: 1-20-1980 (lasted for 13 years) 2-20-1997 (lasted for 5 years) 2-2-2008 (still working on it) Take care.
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Honesty
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Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. -- Step Five of Al-Anon
Talking openly and honestly to another person about ourselves, in an attitude that reflects self-responsibility, is critical to recovery.
It's important to admit what we have done...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 17th May 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ A lot of well meaning people treat an alcoholic like the priest and the Levite. They pass by on the other side by scorning him and telling him what a low person he is, with no willpower. Whereas, he really has fallen for alcohol, in the same way as the man in the story fell among robb...
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Saw a Ghost at the meeting tonight....
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A young-buck with one year sober was leading the meeting tonight, and I had never seen him before. (It was at a Dry Club I do not go all that much.) He was the spitting DNA- image of a young man I dated years ago when starting out in the program. One of those "two sickies don't make a wellie" t...
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If I were a single man would it be alright to sleep...
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with girls I meet at meetings?
Because there's some pretty hot ones...and I don't imagine that they're the "saving themselves for marriage" types. Being former boozers and all.
Seriously though, are there rules regarding this? Some sort of AA intercourse etiquette?
I can't fin...
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Property Lines
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A helpful tool in our recovery, especially in the behavior we call detachment, is learning to identify who owns what. Then we let each person own and possess his or her rightful property.
If another person has an addiction, a problem, a feeling, or a self-defeating behavior, that is their property...
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Self Love
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"I woke up this morning and I had a hard time for a while," said one recovering man. "Then I realized it was because I wasn't liking myself very much." Recovering people often say: I just don't like myself. When will I start liking myself?
The answer is: start now. We can learn to...
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Phil at work on a new cab for winter use!
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=usqevWXUNQg
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Where the heck has Sheilasdad got off to?
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???????? Hey man- hope all is well with you.
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Hello All!
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Hey, I am new to this site. I am 7 Months sober. Glad to be here.
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 16th May 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ In the story of the Good Samaritan, the wayfarer fell among robbers and was left lying in the gutter, half dead. And a priest and a Levite both passed by on the other side of the road. But the Good Samaritan was moved with compassion and came to him and bound up his wounds and brough...
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good beginning
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Good Beginning In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what we could not do for ourselves. We hope you are convinced that God can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Him. If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps, you have made a good...
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Gratitude
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Gratitude: I thought that Gratitude would be a wonderful subject to share on. WHY? Well, Let's see how many things has God done for me. For God has not given me a Spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. Because of that when I pray he directs my path as long as it is in line with h...
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Venting
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I am grumpy as hell today!!!!! What an awful feeling!!!! Nothing going on different in my life but just cant stand myself today!!!!! Cant stand anyone for that matter! Husband walked in the door after work and it even made me mad just to see him!!! Dont know if its fatigue, PMS (probably) or just ponderi...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 15th May 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ In A.A. we find a new strength and peace from the realization that there must be a Power greater than ourselves that is running the universe and that is on our side when we live a good life. So the A.A. program really never ends. You begin by over coming drink and you go on from there...
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It gets better....
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It Gets Better Today I'm much more comfortable with life, as AA has promised, and I know they're right when they say it keeps getting better. My circumstances have steadily improved as my spiritual life grows and matures. Words cannot begin to describe the feelings in my heart as I sometimes ponder ho...
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sometimes, I forget
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Hi all, I'm starting a new thread. I don't work a night shift, Lani- thank goodness for that, but I often work evenings. And by the way, I tried to import some California sunshine for you- they said "the check is in the mail...." I need you to hear me on a level that does not want sunshine a...
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Slips & Human Nature
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I love hunting around in the Archives getting to know our Miracle Members a little more from old. This one was posted by Doll back in 2005. I hope she's good & knows she's being thought about. Enjoy ~ SLIPS AND HUMAN NATURE. By William D."Silky" Silkworth, M.D. The mystery of slips is not...
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Sobriety around drinkers
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Dear Recovered or Recovering Alcoholic,
This is a situation that happened to me that took me off guard. So I thought that I would share it with you. I have already shared it at my Women's group and with my Sponsor.
One week ago Sunday after Church we were approached by one of the men we have met in the p...
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Hey All
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Just wanted to check in Gee it's been well what you'd call busy, slowed down to One job working 40 hours aweek, and its about time. Kids are doing well, daughters still doing well in school, and i tell the year went so damn quickly. My son well, he's not doing to bad.... That goes without saying I guess, I'...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 14th May 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Having gotten over drinking, we have only just begun to enjoy the benefits of A.A. We find new friends, so that we are no longer lonely. We find new relationships with our families, so that we are happy at home. We find release from our troubles and worries through a new way of loo...
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