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BAWLING MY EYES OUT...
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There it goes again... the beautiful happy-crying thing again...
Just wanted you all to know that I am so in awe of so many of you and your journey(s)...
I just started crying again after decades, and have not shed a 'pain-tear' yet (I know they will come at some point...) but I am being washed with te...
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My Daughter
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Hello Everyone,
I am new here and hoping someone may have some words of wisdom. I recently attended a few alanon meetings and am finding them helpful. Last night I also attended an open AA meeting which was also very informative. I'm hoping someone may have an opinion on my daughter-- if this i...
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Soul Perspectives on Control
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Control
Do you have control issues? Personality control is the biggest issue everyone must face in the spiritual journey. Because this is not understood nor often enough addressed, the spiritual journey for many is a disguised ego trip.
We think we can control everything we experience – with b...
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So friends im still alive, after a hospital visit
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So after I posted my "IM GOING CRAZY!" message, i went to bed only to find the next day to be alot worse. By night time i really needed to talk to someone, so i called the nurses hotline. I told her my physical symptoms and she said i was going through sever withdrawal. So she said I HAD to go to the hospital. I t...
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Friends- OM
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Gifts We Give ourselves Friends Good friends enrich our lives in so many ways. Through a magical combination of similarities and differences, friends offer us the opportunity to know ourselves as we are and help us grow into who we want to be. Our similarities attract us to each other, c...
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Making Life Easier
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Life doesn't have to be hard.
Yes, there are times we need to endure, struggle through, and rely on our survival skills. But we don't have to make life, growth, recovery, change, or our day-to-day affairs that hard all the time.
Having life be that hard is a remnant of our martyrdom, a leftover fr...
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Hi there again...am back in the relatively real world....
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....and not drinking! Only been a couple of days. I still can't get to any meetings: my daughter who is only three prevents me from going to all the local ones except for this one on Fridays where they have a creche. There should be more creche meetings! Maybe I could start one up myself, but...
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Dragons of the mind
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There are five drivers that get in the saddle and drive us. They’ve got spurs on their boots and they kick us, and all of our emotional miseries come from being dominated by one of those drivers."
Here are the drivers:
Be perfect.
Please everybody.
Try harder.
Be strong.
Hurry up.
Have y...
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Phil
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Hi Everyone!
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Good day to be sober! Hope you are all doing well!
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Life on Life's Terms
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Hi to All,
Just glad you are all here today.
Toni -- Edited by Toni Baloney at 20:10, 2006-06-30
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Sherr
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Did you find us, you have to sign in, o.k.?
Toni
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Numb
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Well I am going to write this, and then probably edit it out, I don't really know if it belongs on this AA Board. As some of you know, I have a Son, that is in Prison, for committing a very serious crime, while in the middle of a pychotic break. He suffers with Schizophenia, and had been taken good medication...
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Thought for the day
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The A.A. way of living is not an easy one, but it's an adventure in living that is better than our old drunken way of living that there's no comparison. Our lives without A.A. would be worth nothing. With A.A. we have a chance to live reasonably good lives. It's worth the battle, no matter ho...
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Sober for 3 years, but new to AA
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I am a 27 year old female who had a very bad drinking problem. I truly don't think I was the definition of an alcoholic, because I didn't need it 24/7, but I definitely abused alcohol. I was a binge drinker and throughout high school and college that was very normal behavior.&...
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Everyone knows now
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I just emailed the last person I felt needs to know about the drinking and AA... my best online friend that I've known for 7 years... he was there for me through problems I had when I was 15 and 16, he helped me to find out about God and know God and eventually led me to decide to get baptized about a year after I...
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struggling tonight
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I'm struggling tonight and I don't want to call my sponsor because she's already in bed, she said she had to work early in the morning. I know, I know I should call anyway but I can't bring myself to call people this late at night. Nothing's wrong, it's just late on a Saturday night with nothing to do so I wan...
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Choose differently
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"It is always your next move."
-- Napoleon Hill
The great benefit of heightened awareness is that we have more choice in how we live our lives. At any moment, we can purposefully choose a new experience for ourselves. We can choose to pay attention, breathe more deeply, laugh, rest, play, appreci...
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I'm back...I'm here...I'm still sober!
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First...thanks to those of you that msg'd me privately thinking of me...it sure was nice to log in today to find so much thoughtfullness!
I'm sorry for my abrupt absence....I was having a hard time....Thursday was my 5 month sobriety birthday and I was feeling really discontent and agitat...
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Walked out of a Meeting
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Last night I went to a meeting. Vented some garbage that was in my head. Then this lady starts talking and talking and talking and talking and talking. You get the picture. I really don't want to hear about your active alcoholism and your views on stuff other than alcohol. That was how I felt. Said Fu** th...
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Letter from alcohol?
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At the AA group I go to they have a letter on the bullitin board from alcohol to the alcoholic, where it's saying it's your best friend and all this stuff but it makes you realize how bad it is and what it's done to you. I'd seen one online for self-injury before too but never saved a copy. I was wanting a copy o...
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Goodbye
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Well Folks, Through Prayer and Meditation I have come to the decision that I cannot be an active participant of the Group here. It was a hard decision to make but the only one that I feel at peace with myself about. This is undoubtably one of the best groups in recover on the internet today. It is not the gro...
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Higher Power
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New website: blog.asweunderstandit.com Designed to support those lacking belief or faith in God, yet still maintaining their sobriety through the remainder of the AA program
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Tonights Meeting
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Just a reminder, on the AA chat there's an AA meeting at 6 PST, 9 EST on Tuesday's and Saturdays. Just left the meeting, and we could use a few more people. Had a wonderful chairperson tonight, and an excellent topic. Hope others will join us. Saturdays are good for me, Tuesdays iffy, but su...
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alittle resentment
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We all know resentment isnt good.I have been going back to meetings sharing i had 16 years and picked up and how gratful i am to have came back.there is always someone who wants to beat you up about it.as if im not doing a good job of doing that myself.He really got me angry i said thank you for your caring and...
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Struggling
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Was feeling good all day up until I got to my meeting. Talked with one of the old-timers and got a huge reality check. Kind of gained a new perspective on meetings and how to view things. All I know right now is that I'm in spiritual pain. All this stuff on my mind and it's all crap I can't do anything about. Fe...
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Perscription
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A friend sent this to me - thought I would share it - hope you like it .
Prescribed by the** **Great Physician** ** ***************************** The next time you feel like GOD can't use you, just remember... Noah was a drunk Abraham was too old Isaac was a daydreamer Jacob was a liar Leah was u...
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finding a higher power
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Did anyone else struggle with this when you started AA? I have no faith anymore. I was a wiccan when I was a young teen, and then I became a Christian when I was 16 and lost my faith about a year ago. I believe there's some type of god because I don't believe in evolution or the big bang theory, someone had to cr...
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Acceptance and Surrender
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Each Day a New Beginning.
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. --Olive Schreiner
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change. Many times -- yesterday, last week, today, and even tomorrow -- we'll come face-to-face with a seemingly intolerable...
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Emotional Sobriety...???
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 Anyone been to any of these non-AA workshops? Just wondering.., thuinking about attending one, but dunno yet. Would like to get some opinions first....
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Steps 4 and 5
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Step 4-Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 5-Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
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Emotional Sobriety
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Good morning,
Just wanted to open this topic up, for discussion, this a.m. The very best part of my Recovery, if there is such a thing, is Emotional Sobriety.
No More Mellow Drama, Just life being life, with it's ups and downs. I have been upset in the last few days, and have been feeling off-cen...
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Toni Baloney
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AA Founder's Day!!!!
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I live in the Akron, OH area and had the great pleasure of attending Founder's Day this past weekend. What a humbling experience, to be with fellow recovering alcoholics from around the world. I met people from Australia, Ireland and England. James from England ended up sharing his story at on...
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New here...
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Hi everyone, I'm new here, I'm Lisa and I'm an alcoholic... I'm 22, and I've been drinking off and on since I was 12. My sobriety date is only 4 days ago, 6/12/2006. I'm a binge drinker, I'm fine for months and then I start drinking again and it's nearly every night for a few weeks, drinking until I get sick m...
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got a sponser
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My ego wants me to do things my way i hate having a sponser after all these years of sponsering other woman.But i am taking direction and she also had 16 years and went out a few years ago so God has a plan and i dont. hugs thank you for all you love and kindiness jean
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giving up anger...
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At my meeting tonight we were talking about the principles of AA, we mostly talked about the whole giving up anger part of it. I actually joined in and talked a bit even though I'm still new to this. It's been 4 days of no alcohol and I'm already noticing a difference, I'm not as irritable as I have been thes...
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Shadows
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Getting older, things changing.. One day everthing perfect, care free... next day f**k*d up, everthing out the window. Years ago - nothing to worry about, everything great, happy carefree..... now everything tits up more things to frown at than to smile at.. A family so perfect now so f**k*d up... F...
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Missed meetings
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Hi everyone,
I have missed my regular meetings this week so I thought I would share here. Not too much going on in my life, just regular day to day stuff. I am doing ok physically, some good days, some bad. My son is feeling much better after his bike accident. Sports day at th...
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Healing with Hurt
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Using Your Pain To Help Others
Pain is a fact of being and one that permeates all of our lives to some degree. Since the hurt we feel may be a part of the experiences that have touched us most deeply, we are often loathe to let it go. It is frequently easier to keep our pain at our sides, where i...
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The Problem..and The Solution
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Self Acceptance
The problem
The lack of self-acceptance is a problem for many recovering alcoholics. This subtle defect is difficult to identify and often goes unrecognized. Many of us believe that using alcohol was our only problem, denying the fact that our lives had become...
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Phil
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Acceptance
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And acceptance is the answer to all your problems today. When you are disturbed, it is because you find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of your life -- unacceptable to you, and you can find no serenity until you accept that person, place, thing or s...
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A share about control and acceptance
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"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Hello
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Good Morning from Mississippi my Friends! first I need to make amends for my lack of participation on the message board and to the Members of MIP. I give no excuses just a heartfelt apology. I will try to do better in the Future, thanks for being here for me.
"Bobby Dean"
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CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS????
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BEER
Chock full of nutrients (including iron, magnesium and B vitamins) and antioxidants, beer fights cellular inflammation and may prevent chronic diseases, concludes a new Austrian study. Drinking a glass a day also lowers your risk of developing dementia by 20 percent, accor...
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Program works
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Had a hard day today, a loved one in my family died yesterday of cancer, she was diagnosed as critical last week, and also the LEA are not going to fund me for uni, I am currently 3K short of making my life work, if anyone gets a winning scratch card please think of me!!
I did not drink on it and I discussed it...
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Spiritual Life or Alcoholic Death
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One of my favorite speakers shared this at a round-up once:
As a survey, stand outside a Walmart, and ask the people coming out if they would rather live a spiritual life or die an alcoholic death.
The normies would say "by "alcoholic death" do you mean getting all puffy and yellow and so sick...
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Check in
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Good morning all. Stopped drinking 48 hours ago, and the shaking has just about stopped. Been eating vit B pills and other vits, drinking loads of water, still dehydrated though. Food is just starting to become an option again.
I'm not looking for sympathy.....that comes between Sh*t and syphili...
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poll question
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Poll Question: you must eat only biscuits or only sausage rolls..which?
Biscuits (one type only)
(1 vote, 14.2%)
Sausage rolls
(5 votes, 71.4%)
I'd top myself
(1 vote, 14.2%)
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life
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hello all, things here in iowa are great. just wanted to let you know how its going for me.been busy with my meetings and my aa stuff,but most of all getting on with my life. doing things with my boys, one going to start his second year at college and the other a sophmore in high school,they both have jobs an...
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Our Fears
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Today's Gift.
Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J. H. Newman
Our fears lock us up if we let them. They can prevent us from tasting adventure, from experiencing new wonders. We are often terrified of unknowns and fret about what might...
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Research (Humorous)
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