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About to go to a party . . .
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There are quite a few new posts her I want to take time to read and respond to later this evening. Welcome if you are new and reading this. I only have time for a quick note. I just feel like I need to reach out for moment before going to a party after I shut this computer down. It's a family/friend party. Ther...
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Daily Reflections May 6
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"HOLD BACK NOTHING" The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide and your full confidence in the one with whom you you share your first accurate self-survey. . . . Provided you hold back nothing, your sense of relief will mount from minute to minute. The dammed-up emo...
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Apology is more than saying "Sorry"
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Addiction creates moral wreckage. People who become addicted to alcohol or other drugs might lie, cheat, or steal in order to get and use their chemical of choice. Often what's left behind is a trail of shattered relationships. In this situation, apologies won't do. Alcoholics Anonymous calls for...
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Please Help
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Dear Friends, I am so sick today. I had over 8 years good sobriety in AA and I picked up a drink in February of this year. This is the first time I have been back to AA in any capacity. I thought I had it all under control and last night I went to a work function and I got so drunk and stayed out till 5am in the morn...
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I need some guidance
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I've recently admitted to myself that I may have a problem with drinking. I'm not sure if I do or not, but I've been doing some research and I took the questions quiz on the AA website and I answered "yes" more than 4 times, so I'm starting to get concerned. I want to know more about what the signs...
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Feeling Good
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Make yourself feel good. It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good. Recovery is not only about stopping painful feelings; it is about creating a good life for ourselves. We don't have to deny ourselves activities that help us feel good. Going to meetings, bask...
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Do I have a problem?
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My parents just came over to see me and I supposed staged some sort of an intervention. They think I am an alcoholic and want me to go to a meeting with them. I agree with them that I have been drinking too much lately. They saw my fiance whom I live with today and I think he may have said something about it wh...
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Back To Basics
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Whenever a civilization or society declines or perishes there is always one condition present - they forgot where they came from. -- Carl Sandburg Back To BasicsAlcoholics Anonymous, now today = new Date(); var todayy=today.getYear(); var difference=(Math.round(todayy-1935)); document.w...
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I'm actually feeling good tonight...
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Well, I know this's prolly gonna' be fleeting and I'll prolly feel like shit again tomorrow night but I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts. I also made the decision that I'm going to try the sample of antidepressants (a months worth) that my doctor reccomended. This has to be the biggest step towards h...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 5th May 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ I had to show off and boast so that people would think I amounted to something, when, of course, both they and I knew that I really didn't amount to anything. I didn't fool anybody. Although I've been sober for quiet a while, the old habit of building myslef up is still with me. I st...
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Drinking masked my fears and insecurities...
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or so I thought, but I've been doing a lot of thinking these past few days and I realize that it didn't hide anything from anyone except me. People around me would have to have had the eyesight of pro-wrestling referees not to see that my self confidence was diminishing, I was awkward and uncomfortable i...
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Daily Reflections May 5
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THE FOREST AND THE TREES . . . . what comes to us alone may be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking. The benefit of talking to another person is that we can get his direct comment and counsel on our situation. . . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 60 I cannot count the times when I h...
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Here yu goooo...Timbo..:)
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THE GINGHAM DRESS A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President's outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, count...
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Can this count as meeting?
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I like coming here and reading what you people post...the good, bad and the ugly. It feels like a meeting to me, I get to share your experience, strength and home and if I feel like sharing I can...seems pretty meetingish to me. So does this count? Can I consider this a meeting? -- Edited by Tipsy McStagge...
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Attitudes
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The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be. -- Raymond Charles Barker The attitude that we carry with us into a particular setting will greatly influence our perceptions of any event. Our attitude also influences, positive...
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I'm really cranky...
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and irritable right now. I feel like punching things. Inanimate things. For now. So maybe one of you Einsteins can tell me when this phase will pass
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24 Hours a Day ~ 4th May 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ When I was drinking, I always tried to build myself up. I used to tell tall stories about myself. I told them so often that I half believe some of them now, even though I know they aren't true. I used to hang around the lowbrow barrooms so I could feel superior to the other customers...
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A face only a mother could love
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Awwww..........they are almost 3 weeks old. They've grown on me. ARGGHH! It's gonna be tough giving them away......Just wanted to share my smiles
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I dont want to freak myslef out again...
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The other times I've tried AA I did exactly what is suggested, I went to lots of meetings, I talked to lots of people, I got a sponsor, etc...I even joined a men's group meeting with about 10 other guys with some serious long term sobriety. I did this all within a few weeks and everything was going fine and t...
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Freedom from Compulsive Disorders
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Thank you for keeping me straight yesterday. Please help me stay straight today. -- paraphrased from Alcoholics Anonymous When I first began my recovery from codependency, I was furious about having to begin another recovery program. Seven years earlier, I had begun recovery from chemical depen...
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I told my wife to leave me...
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if I didn't quit drinking. I asked her to give me a year and if I haven't stopped I want her to throw me out. It's not that I get drunk and fight with her or that she even sees much of my using because I sneak away with friends to do it...it's just that I think she deserves better than a drunk and all that entails...
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Daily Reflectons May 4
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"ENTIRELY HONEST" We must be entirely honest with somebody if we expect to live long or happily in this world. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 73-74 Honesty, like all virtues, is to be shared. It began after I shared ". . . [my] whole life's story with someone . . . " in order to find my pla...
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Morality leaves you all alone in many dire situations - I drank because of this...
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Okayyy... Well... That kinda' pisses me off... Spent about three hours writing this and due to all the times I have [ENTER]s in the text it shows up as one giant incoherent wall of text rather than a well-written commentary with paragraphs... Looks like I'll be posting that commentary somewhere e...
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The Twelve Traditions
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The Twelve Traditions (The Long Form)Our A.A. experience has taught us that: 1.Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward. 2.F...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 3rd May 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ A.A. teaches us to take it easy. We learn how to relax and to stop worrying about the past or the furure, to give up our resentments and hates and tempers, to stop being critical of people, and to try to help them instead. That's what "Easy Does It" means. So in the time t...
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Has anyone had trouble finding their "old" hobbies fun after quitting drinking?
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As you may have guessed from my other recent posts I'm having a hard time keeping my mind occupied during this time of transition but what's weird is I'd expect my main hobby would help pass the time but that's not how it's goin' - I've found it semi-difficult to concentrate on anything but my main hobby I...
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Daily Reflections May 3
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CLEANING HOUSE Somehow, being alone with God doesn't seem as embarrassing as facing up to another person. Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so long hidden, our willingness to clean house is still largely theoretical. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p 60 It wasn't unusu...
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Freedom from Self Seeking
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Please free my thinking of self-will, self-seeking, dishonesty, and wrong motives. -- paraphrased from Alcoholics Anonymous There is a difference between owning our power to take care of ourselves, as part of God's will for our life, and self-will. There is a difference between self-care and sel...
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1 week
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Today makes 1 week sober... I'm getting to more meetings now, my sponsor said to at least go every other day. I was going every day, but couldn't make it to one Saturday because we were picking up my friend's chicks, and couldn't make it to one yesterday because I had to pick up another turkey before the...
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I've decided to try AA again...
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wish me luck! -- Edited by tommyg at 21:28, 2007-04-30
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24 Hours a Day ~ 2nd May 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ In A.A. we often hear the slogan "Easy Does It." Alcoholics always do everything to excess. They drink too much. They worry too much. They have too many resentments. They hurt themselves physically and mentally by too much of everything. So when they come into A.A...
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Our Higher Power
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For the next twenty-four hours ... In recovery, we live life one day at a time, an idea requiring an enormous amount of faith. We refuse to look back - unless healing from the past is part of today's work. We look ahead only to make plans. We focus on this day's activity, living it to the best of our ability....
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Congrats:
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To Our Friend "Destiny Dreamer"....... Congrats on your 80 days sobriety! Keep it up girl. You're doing GREAT! Wanda
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Recovery Prayer
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This prayer is based on a section of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous: Thank you for keeping me straight yesterday. Please help me stay straight today. For the next twenty-four hours, I pray for knowledge of Your will for me only, and the power to carry that through. Please free my thinking of se...
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Feeling Depleted~OM
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There are times in our lives when it seems our bodies are running on empty. We are not sick, nor are we necessarily pushing ourselves to the limit-rather, the energy we typical enjoy has mysteriously dissipated, leaving only fatigue. Many people grow accustomed to feeling this way because they do no...
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Peeling Off Layers
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As we work our program, we peel off layers of old, worn out thoughts and habits. The Program gives us a place to share old hurts and fears so that we are able to get rid of them. Our Recovery friends accept us and give us the benefit of their experience. With their help, we are able to leave the old layers behi...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 1st May 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The A.A. program is one of charity because the real meaning of the word charity is to care enough about other people to really want to help them. To get the full benefit of the program, we must try to help other alcoholics. We may try to help somebody and think we have failed, but th...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 30th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The A.A. program is one of faith because we find that we must have faith in a Power greater than ourselves if we are going to get sober. We're helpless before alcohol, but when we turn our drink problem over to God and have faith that He can give us all the strength we need, then we ha...
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A Medical Opinion re: Alcoholism Denial
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Dealing with Denial in Alcoholismby Mark S. Gold, MD October 4, 2006 Denial is a characteristic distortion in thinking experienced by people with alcoholism. For decades, people who treat alcoholics, and recovering alcoholics themselves, have puzzled over why alcoholics continue to drink whe...
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Daily Reflections May 1
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HEALING HEART AND MIND Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 55 Since it is true that God comes to me through people, I can see that by keeping people at a distance I also keep God at a distance. God is nearer to me tha...
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Oh man, this's gonna' be a lot harder than before...
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I got to roughly 3 weeks alcohol-free last time and while I'm not feeling withdrawals quite as bad I think the main issue here is that I don't have the tranqualizers to dumb me down. I'm not going to drink - I've already determined that but man it's gonna' be a longer road than before... ;_; It's especial...
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Well, I'm back...
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I wouldn't say I failed at drinking in moderation but my stomach problems came back. It seems like they're finally settling down once more and once again I'm a few days into "it"... I drank roughly two times a week in my abscence and the amount I drank was probably 1/5th to 1/6th of what I dran...
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Dry drunk
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Irritable, impatience, not tolerant, capable of raging, uncontrolable feelings, grouchy. Is this considered dry drunk? Uh oh, I think I might fit this category...sometimes, not all the time. While you respond know this, remember I am still in denial (some days) that I'm an alcoholic...I don'...
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Daily Reflections Apr 30
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A GREAT PARADOX These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that today animates A.A.'s all around the globe. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151 The great paradox o...
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Balance
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The goal is balance. We need balance between work and play. We need balance between giving and receiving. We need balance in thought and feelings. We need balance in caring for our physical self and our spiritual self. A balanced life has harmony between a professional life and a personal life. There...
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I'm a mommy! lol
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We've had 3 hens sitting... and I've seen one with 5 chicks, we've got 2 more around here somewhere with their chicks too! And... Our friend went crazy today... bought 60 baby ducks, 6 baby turkeys, 2 baby guineas, and 300 baby chicks... lol and... she surprised me with 4 baby turkeys and 3 baby gui...
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just checkin in...
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Hey y'all... just checkin in... I'm doing good... 3 days sober... getting to meetings, got a sponsor, doing my first step... It's funny, my roommate and I went to our Thursday night meeting last night, and when I shared I said something about how I'd been on a dry drunk... and after the meeting, m...
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Anxiety - Man is it ever a big part of this - Justifiably so...
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I've been feeling so much anxiety throughout this but I really don't think it's a symptom of anything - It's just a practical reaction to what's happening... The worst part about this whole ordeal is not having any life insurance - The answers are out there they're just not within practical financia...
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MIRACLE OF THE 12 STEPS
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Bonjour Hey, just a quick update, remember the girl who wanted to end her life, who was depressed, bla bla bla. Because her recovering alcoholic friend could not give her love in return.....lol Well guess what.. That girl who was scared of everything, heights, flying, people, life... Has just had...
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Powerlessness
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This week I've encountered how really helpless/powerless one can be over life events. My beloved sister underwent colon surgery this past Mon. They took a malignant mass along with 1/2 the colon plus a part of her small intestine. The tumor perforated the wall of her colon, grew and had a...
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