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Daily Reflections Dec 12
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COMMON SOLUTION The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism. ALC...
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I finally did it!!!
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Finally did it! Yippeeeeeeeeee!
Fired my sponsor! LOL!
I'm just joking. No real joy here.
Got me a new sponsor. Finally. It had been suggested to me by many people to do this. I'm not acting on impulsive thoughts here.
I do feel good about this though. I believe I need to have an sponsor that can l...
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Where is God?
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Where is God?
AA members have always had a difficult time explaining the "God business." We didn't want to be considered religious, but at the same time we've always believed some contact with a Higher Power is necessary for real personal growth.
There's nothing wrong for our purposes in si...
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What Message Did You Most Need to Hear?
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"One word frees us from the weight and pain of life; that word is love." --Sophocles
In exploring the enneagram, Riso and Hudson have identified ‘lost messages’ that we needed to hear as children but didn’t. The absence of these words may be at the heart of our most basic fear. And unconsciously we ma...
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WOOF!!!
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LIVE LIKE A DOG - AND BE HAPPY!!
If a dog were the teacher, you would learn stuff like :
When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.
Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride.
Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your f...
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my name is...
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Shelley, and i'm an alcohlic.
Damn that hurt to type. I had been sober a year, till a month ago. Now i'd rather stick a gun to my head. I'm tired of the hurt and the trying. I can't believe I'm even here and typing this. I don't have a car right now to go to meetings. I just can't believe i feel so weak. I...
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Daily Reflections Dec 11
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A GENUINE HUMILITY . . . . we are actually to practice a genuine humility. This is to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of Him who presides over us all. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 192 Experience has taught me that my alcoh...
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AA Thought for the Day
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December 10, 2006
Pride
Often, I suspect that pride kills as many alcoholics as liquor does. . . My reaction to fast-progressing alcoholism was chiefly a frantic effort to hide it. Ask for help? What an idea! The day came when my pride was squashed flat, and I did call for help. I called on p...
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New Member
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Hi everyone. I'm so glad to have found this site. I've been trying to stop drinking for going on a year now. The frequency is less, about once a week, but it's still a routine, I even schedule the day I'll drink, just like I schedule a trip to the store.
I know some of you will th...
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I'm new here
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Gosh, I don't even know where to start. My battle with alcohol is a long and horrific one. I've been close to death more times than I probably know. I was assaulted, I've gotten a DUI, I woken up in places and not known where I was or how I got there. I've flirted with sobriety in t...
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My Drinking Story
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Hi all,
Jarrod and Robert have both shared so much this evening and it made me want to share, too. And, it has done me good. I have been feeling pretty down all day, but looking back at where my drinking was taking me, I feel I have so much to be grateful for and to feel good about.
Anyway, here's my st...
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'supposed to'
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There was a post last year, somewhere, that really made a difference in my enjoyment of the holidays,,, and I'd like to share the concept with you all now:
We often have ideas about what the holidays are 'supposed to' be. Family is supposed to get together. We are supposed to have a nice b...
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feelings good and bad
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suffering sucks, i hate that part of recovery. it seems necessary to process the emotions however, cause if you dont they come out sideways and it can get self destructive. sometimes i dont get why it has to hurt so much then something happens to show me the reasons. there is always reasons and its alway...
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how many sober heart beats?
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72489322 for me,. oh 72489323 oh 72489324 I think i better lie down!! you check!!
http://silkworth.net/aa/calc.html
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Let go and let God
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Everything's got a moral if only you can find it. -- Lewis Carroll
We must make many choices in our recovery. Some of these will strengthen our character, for they will be hard to make and sometimes even harder to accept. One of the most meaningful sayings in our program is Let go and let God. We und...
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Joke for today, lol
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Got this sent to me, hope you enjoy it. lol, takes one away from thinkin
Finally! -- a Blonde GUY Joke! Blonde guy gets home early from work and hears strange noises coming from the bedroom. He rushes upstairs to find his wife naked on the bed, sweating and panting. "What's up?"...
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my story
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I had been drinking since I was 15. It made me feel human for the first time in my life. It took away my fear and gave me an inner glow I never felt before.
Most importantly it took me out of myself.
I soon discovered that if I drank enough, I got this mystery power and id wake in the morni...
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New here
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Hi, Im Jon a 32 year old alcoholic from NJ. Last year i recieved my 4th DUI.
I'm right out of rehab and looking for all the help I can get. I hope to get to know some of you.
thanks, jon N
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Helped me in the young days
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http://www.xa-speakers.org/pafiledb.php?action=category&id=13-- Edited by Robert at 11:44, 2006-12-08
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serenity prayer - revised
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"God grant the Serenity to accept the person i cannot change, Courage to change the person i can, Wisdom to know that person is me.
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Struggling
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This is the worst I've felt in a long time. Part of me just wants to fire my sponsor, say f AA, and go it alone.
These past two nights I've just layed in bed crying. I feel so horrible. I don't really know what's causing it either. I called my psych doctor yesterday and tried to set an appointment to no avail...
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Wisdom
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"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us" "One's first step in wisdom is to question everything and one's last is to come to terms with everything" "Life's challenges are not suppose to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you d...
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Enriching My Family
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When more love, understanding, and harmony are needed in a family, it's really a change of heart by the individuals that is needed. I pray for a change-not to change the other people in my family, but for the wisdom to realize that the only person I am responsible for changing in or am abl...
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All We Have Is Now
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All We Have Is Now
We can only live now, this moment. We cannot erase the mistakes we made yesterday or bring back the good times we had. We cannot know what tomorrow will require of us, nor can we ensure future security and happiness. Now is what we have, and now is everything.
We can fo...
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Daily Reflections Dec 8
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SERVICE 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...
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Acting "as if"
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Everyday . . . life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly. -- Dr. Ann Faraday
Facing the day straight on is occasionally difficult to do. There are those days we feel like crawling under the covers and staying there, certain that we can'...
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Quit hiding my real picture.
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Downloaded a real recent photo of me as my avatar. Booze is hard on ya man!
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Christmas Carols For The Disturbed..:)
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>* 1. Schizophrenia --- Do You Hear What I Hear? > >* 2. Multiple Personality Disorder --- We Three Kings Disoriented Are > >* 3. Dementia --- I Think I'll be Home for Christmas > >* 4. Narcissistic --- Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me > >* 5. Manic --- Deck the Halls and W...
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(((((((((MIP)))))))))
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got a quick moment on a computer
just wanted to say hello, i miss you's and i'm doing ok
been averaging 2 meetings a day, day 27 today:)
still in a transition house but i've started looking at apartments, really my whole life is up in the air...lol.....no literally ...isn't that step 2 and 3?
wis...
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lihP yadhtriB yppaH
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Well there, if you figured that out, you can't be too old!
Have a wonder-filled day buddy...Tim
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Yesterday was a doozy
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I don't know what's going on in Justins' head anymore. Pure insanity yesterday. I feel like Scrooge. Bah Humbug! Yesterday I had either two choices to pick from. Anger or depression. Which ever one felt better. I got so pissed at work I chose to march into the head bosses office and let him know that I'm t...
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Hit a road block
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Hi everyone
Just wanted to say the hit road block, lol.
Guess it took me sometime to realize that I've road block, not drinkin though.
Guess we make some decisions that at the time seems to be the right one in sobriety, than realize it's not turning out the way it should or things don't fall in to pla...
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Daily Reflections Dec 7
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TRUE AMBITION True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the deep desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 124-25 During my drinking years, my one and only concern was to have my fellow man think highly of me. My ambition in...
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A reason..A season..or A lifetime..
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People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed outwardly or inwardly. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you wi...
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lack of hope
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I was working on my ab*se workbook, and the last section was on hopes when you were growing up, and how they were crushed.. I was supposed to list 3 things that I hoped for and how they were crushed. I was only able to come up with one thing that I'd hoped for as a child - that my dad would marry this girlfriend I...
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The Simple Approach to the 12 Steps
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The Simple Approach to the 12 Steps!
Step 1: There's a power that will kill me.
Step 2: There's a power that wants me to live.
Step 3: Which do I want? (If you want to die, stop here. If you want to live, go on.)
Step 4: Using examples from your own life, understand that selfishne...
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Maintenance...long one
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"Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."
As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure of a new life. But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way of living to practical use, day by day, in fair weather or foul. Then co...
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Seeing the Positive side.
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My drunken personality always saw the bad things in all situations. No matter what, no matter how perfect something was I always found it's flaw and made it a point to do so. How arrogant is that?
Seeing the positive side of things now helps me through each day. I have learned to le...
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I'm an Atheist (Don't want to be converted but looking for help)
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I don't want to argue, but I need help. I don't want to create a god or anything so that I can rely on it, but I would like some advice from people who don't believe in god and all that..
I am not trying to hurt your board, but there must be other people like me out there who are having a really hard time and ju...
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Daily Reflections Dec 6
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WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN 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...
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*LOVE*
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LOVE
The Wonderful Love of a Beautiful maid,
The Love of a Staunch True Man
and the Love of a Baby Unafraid
have Existed since man began.
But the Greatest Love, the Love of All Loves
Even than that of a Mother
is the Tender, Compassionate, Infinite Love
of One Alcoholic for Ano...
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Each day provides its own gifts
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Each day provides its own gifts. -- Ruth P. Freedman
We are guaranteed experiences that are absolutely right for us today. We are progressing on schedule. Even when our personal hopes are unmet, we are given the necessary opportunities for achieving those goals that complement our unique de...
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AA and traveling
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Hi All AA friends
I am sober since August working on the programm daily, and need to start working again which I like. But my work makes me traveling a lot! how do you handele this and how do you go in new meetings? Pleas advice regards Jo
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Find Peace Inside~Higher Awareness
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Find peace inside
"All spiritual disciplines are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit."
-- Swami Ramdas
Getting into the habit of meditating, praying and/or resting daily helps us pull back from our preoccupation with the material world. In silenc...
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2 things at once, or is it one?
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I went to my first meeting last Monday. I'm now sober 9 days, the longest ever. I've read the big book and have been to 4 meetings. I never prayed to God but a handfull of times, and it was always a selfish prayer.
Last Thursday, after reading the agnistic chapter I clutched the book...
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Maybe Everything...
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The Language of Letting Go.
Letting Go
"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...
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From Living Sober: Staying away from the first drink
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Expressions commonly heard in A.A. are "If you don't take that first drink, you can't get drunk" and "One drink is too many, but twenty are not enough."
Many of us, when we first began to drink, never wanted or took more than one or two drinks. But as time went on, we increased the number. Then, in late...
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Newbie
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I'm new here and just wanted to tell everyone hi.
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Daily Reflections Dec 5
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A NEW STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 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 usual...
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It's good for your heart
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It's good for your heart.
"I know I've got some emotions up, just brewing right beneath the surface," Jake said one day. "I'm edgy, irritable, and definitely not centered. But I don't want to look. I don't want to go into the emotions. I don't like feelings. Whenever I give into them, I en...
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