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Hiya
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Hi All,
I'm newly sober (today is day 9 after a week-long relapse from 6 weeks of sobriety) and am looking for some kind of online community to fill in the cracks between meetings. Hope to get to know some of you better while I'm here.
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Gratitude for Today (look out, I'm in a mood)
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How often do we get caught up in life's events, the days just roll on by, and we forget how rich and beautiful our lives are today? And I find it is in the small events, the little moments, that my memory is jolted. Today was like most days for me. Yknow, get up, get your coffee or tea, visit the loo, and check y...
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Greetings - just got here
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Hi all!
I am finally able to log in here, after a long time trying. Thought I would take a sec to introduce myself to y'all... I am Leszlie, alcoholic. I have managed to put together 15 months sobriety, with the grace of God and AA. Most recently, I am being challenged by the loss of my beloved&n...
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Addiction confession
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 MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!......Turrrkeeeeeeeeeeyyyy!!!........
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The Gift Of Ourselves
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The greatest gift we can give another person is the gift of ourselves. When we can share our deepest convictions and failures, our ideals and disillusionments, our hopes and frustrations, our dreams and despairs, our answers and our questions then we are loving our neighbors as ourselves as well as...
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Work with causes instead of effects
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How do you work with anger?
"Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains."
-- Helen Douglas
How do you feel about anger, in yourse...
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Toni
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Toni, I want to apologize if my temper tantrum over a post being edited triggered whatever went on here. I think editing ought be for spam or pure filth, but I dont run this deal and could have discussed it with the moderator like an adult. My reaction was far more childish than the incident I allowed to tr...
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unity
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is the name of the roundup I am fortunate and grateful to be able to attend this week end. Thanks to the group i'm considering joining, they gave me a ticket to go to.
i love roundups!
what does unity mean to you?
for me....
WE
cannot
do
alone
what
WE
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do
together.
:)
the fi...
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Fending off loneliness
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Fending off loneliness (Extract from Living Sober)
Alcoholism has been described as "the lonely disease," and very few recovered alcoholics argue the point. Looking back at the last years or months of our drinking, literally hundreds of thousands of us remember feeling isolated eve...
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Numb Ba Five
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"Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they all deflate our egos. When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five. But scarcely any Step is more necessary...
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Comparisons
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Do not compare yourself with others, for you are a unique and wonderful creation. Make your own beautiful footprints in the snow. -- Barbara Kimball
Comparisons we make of ourselves to other women do destruction far greater than our conscious minds are aware of. Positioning ourselves or her...
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Be Open to Change
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“Balance is a dynamic process; it changes with the days, the seasons, the years.”
-- Sherrill Sellman
How rigid are your routines? Do you exercise for 30 minutes, three times each week no matter how you feel?
Routines and structure can provide a valuable framework to bring disciplin...
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As Bill Sees It
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"Not Allied With Any Sect . . ."
"While A.A. has restored thousands of poor Christians to their
churches, and has made believers out of atheists and agnostics, it has
also made good A.A.'s out of those belonging to the Buddhist, Islamic,
and Jewish faiths. For example, we question very muc...
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Making Life Yours~OM
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Perception
There is no secret recipe for happiness and contentment. The individuals who move through life joyously have not necessarily been blessed with lives of abundance, love, success, and prosperity. Such people have, however, been blessed with the ability to take the circumstances the...
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Daily Reflections Nov 17
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OVERCOMING LONELINESS Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn't quite belong. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 90 The agonies and the void that I often felt inside occur less...
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communication...
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Talked to my sponsor today... we agreed more or less the whole thing about the pills and how I'm doing was a communication problem... I should've asked her for clarification before asking anyone else about it. But she had flat out said I wasn't sober, how do you take that wrong? I assumed ok I need to pick...
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This'll make me laugh/hopefully you too
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PEEK A BOO!
OH NO ITS A BIRD!!
thats better
-- Edited by Robert at 14:33, 2006-11-17
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Happiness
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I think happiness is like the effect on an audience (when acting), if you think of it all the time you will not get it, you must get lost in the part, lost in your purposes and let the effect be the criterion of your success. -- Joanna Field
Happiness is a gift that accompanies every instance of our li...
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Update
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Just to give a little update on where I am, for those of you who I've spoken with before...
Since October 29, I have stumbled twice. A week ago today, I went out and had 3 beers at the bar. Then on Monday of this week, I had a particularly bad day, and I ended up binging that night and missing wo...
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Grief And Action
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The Language of Letting Go.
Trust in God and do something. --Mary Lyon
It's important to let ourselves grieve as a passage between yesterday and tomorrow. But we do not have to be controlled unduly by our grief, or our pain.
There are times when we have grieved, surrendered to the h...
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6 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm celebrating my 6 month sobriety anniversary today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow, 6 whole months and it's really wild, because yesterday and the day before were the first days that I actually felt like my life was really shaping up. The eating disorder has a lot to do with w...
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sugar/cola/cookies
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I am emotional eating, and I have put on a load of weight, and cant seem to cut it..
anyone else been there?
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Yahoo Amanda
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Hi There Amanda,
Well it has been a while, and just wanted to say, it was so good to see you again, here on MIP.
I have not been very active on this Board, have been so busy with a new puppy, and my meetings and some other personal stuff, but I do read about once a week to see how everyone is doing.
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As Bill Sees It
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Foundation For Life
We discover that we receive guidance for our lives to just about the
extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on
order and on our terms.
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In praying, we ask simply that throughout the day God place in u...
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Personality Problems
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The answer to personality problems is found in a quiet return to God-like thinking. -- Science of Mind magazine
When we're edgy and critical or perhaps feeling inadequate or depressed, we've lost our attunement with God. And when acting the way God would have us act is no longer our priority, our...
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Numb Ba Three
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"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him" Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all appearances is still closed and locked. All we need is a key, and the decision to swing the door open. There is only one key, and it is called willingnes...
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Secrets
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Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere. -- Susan Griffin
Newcomer
When I had a wisdom tooth pulled a few days ago, the dentist gave me a medication that contains codeine. I've heard people at meetings say they take their doctors' prescriptions, s...
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blah.
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I met a woman, and we hit it off very well. We talk for hours over the phone, say goodbye 15 times before we hang up, and have found mutual understanding on a deep level, almost scarry. To top it off, we're both single parents and share a lot of the same ideals about our futures and what we want. Uncanny. We bo...
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Growing Up
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Growing Up "How many of us would presume to declare, 'Well, I'm sober and I'm happy. What more can I want, or do? I'm fine the way I am.' We know that the price of such self-satisfaction is an inevitable backslide, punctuated at some point by a very rude awakening. We have to grow or else deterior...
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confused but doing what I think is right...
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I talked to mine and my sponsor's friend before the meeting, because I was supposed to pick up my 3 month chip today... and my sponsor had told me I'm not sober because of the sleeping pills, so I told my friend about that and asked what she thought... she asked how I'm using the pills, and I said I take them e...
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As Bill Sees It
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Moral Responsibility
"Some strongly object to the A.A. position that alcoholism is an illness. This
concept, they feel, removes moral responsibility from alcoholics. As any A.A.
knows, this is far from true. We do not use the concept of sickness to absolve
our members from responsib...
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For a freind, that hasnt joined us yet...
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"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable." Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our m...
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Daily Reflections Nov 16
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DAILY REPRIEVE What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 Maintaining my spiritual condition is like working out every day, planning for the marathon, swimming laps, jogging. It's staying in good shape spi...
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Number Two
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Step Two
"Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." The moment they read Step Two, most A.A. newcomers are confronted with a dilemma, sometimes a serious one. How often have we heard them cry out, "Look what you people have done to us! You have convinced us that w...
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thank you, Phil
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Just a post to say that I appreciate very much the efforts that Phil has been making, and to say 'hello'.
God bless you all,
love in recovery,
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Humility
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Reflection for the Day
What is the definition of humility? "Absolute humility," said AA co- founder Bill W., "would consist of a state of complete freedom from myself, freedom from all the claims that my defects of character now lay so heavily upon me. Perfect humility would be a full wil...
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As Bill Sees It
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Moral Rresponsibility
"Some strongly object to the A.A. position that alcoholism is an illness. This concept, they feel, removes moral responsibility from alcoholics. As any A.A. knows, this is far from true. We do not use the concept of sickness to absolve our members of responsibility. On t...
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Vulnerable Honesty
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Vulnerable Honesty
There's a fine line between being vulnerably honest and just being honest. Has a friend ever called early in the morning, right when you were waking up? Can you remember how you talked then, before your defenses were up?
When we're vulnerably honest, our defenses are dow...
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Daily Reflections Nov 15
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VITAL SUSTENANCE Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our e...
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A realization
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A number of days ago..I was asked to share on the Alanon board....and try to share some positive stuff..
Im not only an alcoholic....but a member of Alanon as well....
I've come to the point where....I can't do it, anymore...I'm Powerless
All I see is anger, resentment, reacting, and hurt.......
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apparently I'm not sober
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I opened up to my sponsor today... told her how I've been feeling... one of my alters apparently called her before I talked to her today and told her all this, what's going on with me. I also told her about being addicted to sleeping pills, and she said because of that I'm not sober...
She's suggestin...
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The Silent Treatment
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Withholding
The most common form of withholding is what we commonly call "the silent treatment," but withholding encompasses any unwillingness to express your true feelings. It also includes an unwillingness to give support, praise, or positive attention to the people you love. We have all kn...
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Another lesson with expectations!
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Expectations, expectations, expectations! Followed by a long list of expletives!
I just saw my doc. and he said I'll most likely be outta work for another two weeks.
I've been worrying about how this will affect my job, being out of work for three weeks. I've worked so hard to se...
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not doing as good as I act...
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I've been putting on an act with everyone lately... I'm really not doing too great... no one knows how I'm really doing... I'm trying to open up a little online today, where I can get some kind of support... not even my sponsor knows how I'm really doing... well, Nikki, one of my alters, said she was going...
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As Bill Sees It
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In God's Economy
"In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility wich is probably needed, painful though it is."
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We did not always come closer to wisdom by reason of our virtues; our better understanding is oft...
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Daily Reflections Nov 14
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INTUITION AND INSPIRATION . . . . we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don't struggle. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86 I invest my time in what I truly love. Step Eleven is a discipline that allows me and my Higher Power to be together, reminding me that...
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Times are changing...
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I'm on day 46. Doing well. I'm moving again for the second time in two months. I think it's a good move. One that will submerged me in the AA program.
I pray everyday to get strength to follow my HP's will.
Getting into a rental agreement is causing me to see some of...
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Daily Reflections Nov 13
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LOOKING OUTWARD We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no requests for ourselves only. We may ask for ourselves, however, if others will be helped. We are careful never to pray for our own selfish ends. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 87 As an active alcoholic, I allowed selfi...
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Ten Thoughts to Live By
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Author Unknown
Thou shalt not worry, for worry is the most unproductive of all human activities.
Thou shalt not be fearful, for most of the things we fear never come to pass.
Thou shalt not cross bridges before you get to them, for no one yet has succeeded in accomplishing this.
Thou shalt...
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Moving in Real Time~Daily Om
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November 13, 2006
We all go through times when we wish we could press a fast-forward button and propel ourselves into the future and out of our current circumstances. Whether the situation we are facing is minor, or major such as the loss of a loved one, it is human natur...
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