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We've had it!
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To make a really long story short my husband and I have a couple that we are very close friends with. The husband in the couple is an alcoholic. He has had numerous close calls ie. serious fall of his bike resulting in a brain injury leaving him with damage and now no drivers license to keep a job. He has b...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 22nd April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ People believe in A.A. when they see it work. An actual demonstration is what convinces them. What they read in books, what they hear people say doesn't always convince them. But when they see a real honest-to-goodness change take place in a person, a change from a drunkard to...
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From MIP...For those that haven't seen this
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http://www.12stepforums.net/interviewwithgod.html
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Daily Reflections Apr 22
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NEW SOIL . . . NEW ROOTS Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know. Roots of reality, supplanting the neurotic underbrush, will hold fast despite the high winds of the forces which would destroy us, or which we would use to destroy ourselv...
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An Uphill Climb
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When life seems like an up hill climbTake comfort in the factThat you are mooning everyone behind you
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Coping With Stress
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Inevitably, there are times of stress in our lives, no matter how long we've been in recovery. Sometimes, the stress is outside or around us. We're feeling balanced, but our circumstances are stressful. Sometimes, the stress is within; we feel out of balance. When the stress is external and interna...
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baby!
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Well, I'm an... ex-aunt? lol um, my ex-husband's sister had her baby on the 18th... they just sent pics, they didn't get a whole lot of good ones, but here's a couple... My ex-father-in-law and Shannon Kimi and Shannon His name is Shannon Michael Thomas Knight, weighed 6lb 13oz, not sure of his len...
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Online Meeting 2nite :D
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I'd love to take part in an online meeting with everybody but being a 5hour behind Scouser means it'd be way past my bedtime! Have a good meeting for those of you who can make it ;) Maybe I'll catch up with you soon or read the minutes! lol Happy Sober Day dears & if you're struggling it's because you're...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 21st April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ After we've been in A.A. for a while, we find out that if we're going to stay sober, we have to be humble people. The men and women in A.A. who have achieved sobriety are all humble people. When I stop to think that but for the grace of God I might be drunk right now, I can't help feelin...
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Just checking in
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Morning all Just Thought I would check in to say hi, and things are progressing well. It's been a few days or so since my last post, my daughter and are doing fine, son is doing well. He's started home schooling not along ago, and done 2 exams already and is doing well in that area, he's seeing a counciler o...
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Daily Reflections Apr 21
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CULTIVATING FAITH "I don't think we can do anything very well in this world unless we practice it. And I don't believe we do A.A. too well unless we practice it. . . . We should practice . . . acquiring the spirit of service. We should attempt to acquire some faith, which isn't easily done, especiall...
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Going To Meetings
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I am still amazed, after years of recovering, at how easily I can begin to talk myself out of attending meetings. I am also still amazed at how good I feel when I go. -- Anonymous We don't have to stay stuck in our misery and discomfort. An immediate option is available that will help us feel better: go to a m...
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you ok ryan?
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miss seeing u on here........hope u are ok......?
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Just call me "Grandma"
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This cat showed up on my porch last October. She was sooo tiny & dirty. I ran ads in the local paper and even put up flyers w/pictures around the neighborhood. When no one claimed her, she became our Itty Bitty Kitty. Well, low and behold just a few days ago my b/f said "when are the kittens due&qu...
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Hey Peanut Brain
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You still freezin' it off up there?! When you gonna make down for some warm SC weather!
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Daily Reflections April 20
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SELF-EXAMINATION . . . we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86 When said sincerely, this prayer teaches me to be truly unselfish and humble, for even in doing good deeds I often used to se...
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RISK
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RISKTo laugh, is to risk playing the fool. To weep, is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another, is to risk involvement. To expose feelings, is to risk exposing our true selves. To put your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk loss. To love, is to risk not being loved in return. To...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 20th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The satisfaction you get out of living a sober life is made up of a lot of little things, but they add up to a satisfactory and happy life. You take out of life what you put into it. So I'd say to people coming into A.A.: "Don't worry about what life will be like without liquor. J...
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First dream
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I took a nap today and had my first dream about drinking--I think, or possibly my second. I remember something sad happened (in my dream) on top of my reflection of the Virginia Tech shooting and I decided I wanted a beer. It was odd because I didn't dream about getting it--I just had this tremendous sadn...
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Deadlines
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I don't know whether I want in or out of this relationship. I've been struggling with it for months now. It's not appropriate to let it hang indefinitely. I will give myself two months to make a decision. -- Anonymous I've had this unsolved problem hanging over my head for six months now. I'm confused. I...
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AA Archives
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http://www.mensworkshop.org/AA_Gallery/source/aa_co-founders_dr._bob___b.htm You might hafta paste and copy into an address line...its worth seeing...lot of different pics -- Edited by Phil at 12:01, 2007-04-19
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Sober Blogging
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I have a blog I started almost two years ago, I just got back to updating and adding to it the other day. Ive been around the board here a little while, but I didnt want to spam ... lol :) Id be glad to post the address if it's OK, and anyone is interested in taking a look... Id also love to get some folks pos...
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Prayers Needed for Wandajf
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Hi guys. Please take a bit of time today and pray for Wanda. She got home from taking an elderly neighbor in for a blood test, and her home was burnt to the ground. Thank God her little dogs were with her. She has lost everything material and is still in shock right now. I know this community will help her get...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 19th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Since I've been putting sobriety into my life, I've been taking out a lot of good things. I can describe it best as a kind of quiet satisfaction. I feel good. I feel right with the world, on the right side of the fence. As long as I put sobriety into my life, almost everything I take o...
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Daily Reflections Apr 19
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BROTHERS IN OUR DEFECTS We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue as we are brothers in our defects, and in our common strivings to overcome them. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 167 The identification that one alcoholic has with another is mysterious, spiritual--almost incomprehensible. But...
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Seeds Of Joy
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Inch by inch, row by row Someone bless these seeds I sow . . . 'Til the rain comes tumblin' down. --David Mallett We plant a garden with faith, never knowing exactly what the harvest will bring. We attend to those aspects of gardening, which we have some control over, planting good seeds in rich soil, in s...
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What's wrong with me?
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*sigh* I don't know what's wrong with me today... I haven't been this depressed in I don't know how long. I just want to cry and I can't, and I don't even know why I want to. No thoughts of drinking... but thoughts of something else I shouldn't do (another bad coping mechanism) and I haven't done it in m...
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Opportunity
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"We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. -- Margaret Mead A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -- Francis Bacon "What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifeti...
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Sponsor
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Hello, I'm going to be looking for a sponsor. Can anyone tell me what to look for. I've heard people asking for one at meetings...I have a hard time asking my own family for anything, and havent had the nerve to speak up and ask for one. Thanks Nancy Jo
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24 Hours a Day ~ 18th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ As I look back over my drinking career, have I learned that you take out of life what you put into it? When I put drinking into my life, did I take out a lot of bad things? Hospitals with the D.T.'s? Jails for drunken driving? Loss of job? Loss of home and family? When I put drinking in...
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intimacy with my A
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hi folks, just need to vent. my active A is the best guy with a horrible disease. he was involved with AA for 3 years and was dry.i am involved with alanon. my problem is with intimacy. he has been on a daily drinking binge for about 2 months.works all day at his business and comes home to a bottle. i don't...
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Daily Reflections Apr 18
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SELF-HONESTY The deception of others is nearly always rooted in the deception of ourselves. . . . When we are honest with another person, it confirms that we have been honest with ourselves and with God. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 17 When I was drinking, I deceived myself about reality, rewriting it to what I wa...
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Freedom
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Many of us were oppressed and victimized as children. As adults, we may continue to keep ourselves oppressed. Some of us don't recognize that caretaking and not setting boundaries will leave us feeling victimized. Some of us don't understand that thinking of ourselves as victims will leave us feel...
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frustrated, still having back pain...
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Still in a lot of pain from my back... First dr I saw said it was nerve pain, but didn't run tests or anything. Second dr I saw said it's not nerve pain. Thinks it's muscle spasms. Sent me in for xrays and set up physical therapy. Xrays come back, don't show anything. I start physical therapy, physical ther...
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Codependency And Letting Go
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This dance of Codependence is a dance of dysfunctional relationships - of relationships that do not work to meet our needs. That does not mean just romantic relationships, or family relationships, or even human relationships in general. The fact that dysfunction exists in our romantic, family, a...
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What should I do?
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My dad has been drinking for 8 days, he doesn't eat, he just drinks. I don't live with him, so I can't really control him. Today I visit his hous and he told me, that he is going 2 stop drinking. When I visit his house, he had 16 empty buttols on his table. I'll visit him tmorrow again, but I don't think he will...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 17th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Every time we go to an A.A. meeting, every time we say the Lord's prayer, every time we have quiet time before breakfast, we're paying a premium on our insurance against taking that first drink. And every time we help another alcoholic, we're making a large payment on our drink...
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Self-Care
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We often refer to recovery from codependency and adult child issues as self-care. Self-care is not, as some may think, a spin off of the me generation. It isn't self-indulgence. It isn't selfishness - in the negative interpretation of that word. We're learning to take care of ourselves, instead of o...
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Useful to the Newcomer
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If you clicked on this thinking you might find something useful to the newcomer... well, my topic is actually the opposite. I have some sobriety... I don't know if I qualify as an oldtimer, but it seems as time goes by, I seem to have less of value to share with the newcomer. Often in the past, it seemed tha...
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Daily Reflections Apr 17
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LOVE AND FEAR AS OPPOSITES All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49 "Fear knocked at the door; faith answered; no one was there." I don't know to whom this quote should be attributed, but it certainly indicates clearly t...
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this song reminds me what addiction was like
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glad i dont live like this now!!!!!things are good in iowa take care, wagon
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What To Do With Your Feelings
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by Kali Munro, M.Ed., Psychotherapist, 2000 Simple as it may seem To listen to what's deep inside It is the hardest thing To let go from the heart what hidesYou deserve to listen... -Susan Herrick, You Deserve Intense emotion can be overwhelming for all of us. And if you're just opening up to an emotio...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 16th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ In A.A. we have insurance. Our faith in God is a kind of insurance against the terrible things that might happen to us if we ever drink again. By putting our drink problem in the hands of God, we've taken out a sort of insurance policy, which insures us against the ravages of drink...
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Daily Reflections Apr 176
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ANGER: A "DUBIOUS LUXURY" If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of the normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 66 "Dubious luxury." How often have I reme...
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Letting Things Happen
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We do not have to work so hard at gaining our insights. Yes, we're learning that painful and disappointing things happen, often for a reason and a higher purpose. Yes, these things often work out for good. But we don't have to spend so much time and energy figuring out the purpose and plan for each detail...
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Seems like keeping my mind entirely occupied isn't required anymore...
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When I first showed up, yeah, I wrote long-ass posts partially because of the desire to see if anyone could find anything to say to help me out with finding a reason to stay sober because, well, other than your health I didn't see much reason to. That said, I still really don't - I was a functional alcohol...
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Rejections Can Set Us Free
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If I have freedom in my life, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. -- Richard Lovelace When a cow decides to stop nursing her calf, she isn't rejecting it. She knows it's time for the calf to be on its own. Although the calf might feel rejected and puzzled at first, it soon...
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Progress
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Just thought I'd give an update on my son, spoke to him yesterday and things are going well one day at a time for him. I'm really happy that things are going well and the he's doing well, He called me on his cell from Canadian Idiol. He started home schooling and did his first exam, no doubt that he'll do w...
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Daily Reflections Apr 15
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THE BONDAGE OF RESENTMENTS . . . harboring resentment is infinitely grave. For then we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the spirit. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 5 It has been said, "Anger is a luxury I cannot afford." Does this suggest I ignore this human emotion? I believe not. Before I learned...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 15th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Terrible things could have happened to any one of us. We will never know what might have happened to us when we were drunk. We usually thought: "That couldn't happen to me." But any one of us could have killed somebody or have been killed ourselves, if we were drunk en...
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