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conflict
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Every conflict has many levels
Some couples live as if they are fighting a cold war. Conflicts are handled by retreat into silence with each feeling like a self-righteous victim. When we retreat into this role we abandon ourselves and our commitments to our relationship. We tear a...
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BB Quote
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"Despite all we can say, many who are real alcoholics are not going to believe they are in that class. By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic. If anyone who is showing inability to control his drinki...
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May 2 ~ LIGHTING THE DARK PAST
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LIGHTING THE DARK PAST Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have - the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and misery for them. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p 124 No longer is my past an autobiography; it is a reference book to be tak...
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Good Day ?
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What is a good day ? To me a good day consists of drinking coffee and water, a good long meditation, praying for those that need a H/P and his assistance and a long hard day of work.
With all this in tune I go forth and have a greatful day of guidance and not doing my will but his, this for me is a must to keep me i...
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Praying to get back on track
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Hi everyone. I have to say I am so grateful today to be sober. Just for the moment I am grateful. I have been doing alot of praying and really want to get back on track with AA and the program. I would appreciate any guidance and support for getting my head screwed back on right af...
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The word "Crisis"
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Interesting word, comes from a word that means: To Decide. A synonym to 'crisis' is the word Juncture.
www.m-w.com Type in "crisis" for more.
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Resentment
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I have a real juicy resentment about my brother, he is the type of person who feels better by putting others down. When he last spoke to me he just had to slip into the conversation "you have no friends" that really p'eed me off because it is exactly what he used to say when I was drinking and depended on him f...
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Staying On The Path
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Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now. To change yourself, look at what you fear and what you hate. Start There. We are all at once teachers and learners in every encounter of our lives. What's over is over. You did what yo...
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May 1 ~ HEALING HEART AND MIND
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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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Ive got to stop drinking... arrgh my life is such a mess
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IM in a real mess tonight.. yeah iv been drinking
my mum is having a go at me.. though i duno how much of it is cos she is drunk or cos of me drinking
i am just going out of my mind.. yeah iv been drinking todayu..i started drinking at 12 noon.. i slept sometime this afternoon..th...
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Humor in Journaling
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Read the posts below on Self-Discipline and Staying on the Path---I needed that! Recently, I wrote down six tips, ideas for myself to regain self-discipline in my days....and then at the bottom I wrote:
"There is no Adult Supervision in my head when I get too much into my...
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I'm back....
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Left the halls of AA and I have returned.
I "did some research" and have to tell you guys, it's still the same strange game out there.....Glad to be back among the other strange game again.... I prefer this "strange" to that "strange."
My "check engine" light has been on for week...
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Letting Go...
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LETTING GO TAKES LOVE
To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off, it's the realization I can't control another. To let go is not to enable, but allow learning from natu...
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A little Joy ?
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Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly --Langston Hughes
Watching birds spread their wings and soar can remind us of the best in ourselves. In joyful moments we all feel our own desire to fly, to reach toward what we dream of doing. Our dreams give us a di...
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Hi All
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Good evening / Morning / Afternoon.
Hope you are all well and keeping sober.
I'm back here again now that the medication I was on has reduced to a low enough dosage where I can stay awake long enough to post!
Panic attacks gone, doctor thinks it was due to a lack of some vitamins (B1) and too much coff...
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Monday
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Recovery Prayer
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.
Ple...
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What a day......
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I went up to the meeting place(club) to help fix the place up today. It was cool for a while. Then a couple of hours later two women came and I got thrown for a loop. They started talking to me like I wasn't doing anything and I started to get really angry. I kept my mouth shut but boy was I screwed up in the head....
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Hey Everyone!!!
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Well guess what I'm very excited an honored to say My first sponsee asked me to sponsor her last nite!!!!!! I told it would be a great honor ne way I'm very happy bout this.
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Singleness of Purpose
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Hello everyone, My name is Carmie and I'm an alcoholic, I am also an addict too. Because A/A has a singleness of purpose wich is Alcoholisim I show my respect for the a/a program and introduce my self as an alcoholic there is no room for my ego. A/A derived from the washatonins...
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Dementia
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Howdy troops,
i have a worse memory than my gran, and she still thinks its 1975!!!
it says in a website of AA that :
Alcohol can also lead to:
Dementia - memory loss, rather like Alzheimer’s dementia.
I wondered if any of you guys have this/had this and how you got better, i cant remember half...
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Camel Joke
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A man bought a camel from a woman at the market, the woman said "to make him go say 'phew' to make him stop say 'Amen'."
So the man hopped on the camel and said 'Phew' to make him go. The camel started running out of control. The man couldn't remember what to say to make him stop so he started calling out any o...
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ROB
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addiction counselling trust
The Addiction Counselling Trust is a registered charity which offers a free and confidential drug and alcohol service to people living in Buckinghamshire. Our staff are all fully...
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Another thought on purpose
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A little mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" the mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning, "There is a mousetrap in the...
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Conference/Gifts of this program
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Hello, all! I just got back from a AA conference in Canandaigua, NY - it was awesome! (as it is every year - I've gone every year since I've been sober) If you have never been to a conference or convention, please consider it. It is a wonderful retreat into some great sobriety, sereni...
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big book
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There is a solution. Almost none of us liked the self- searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation. But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we h...
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Today's thought
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If there is a God, there must also be a Goddess. Neither is more important than the other, both are in balance, together they create a Whole. --Marion Weinstein
In the olden days, the Goddess was seen as a Trinity: the Maiden or Virgin, the Mother, and the Crone. The Virgin was one-in-herself, ow...
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THE PROMISES OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION
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THE PROMISES OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION If we are casual with this phase of our development, we will be drunk before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new imprisonment and a new misery. We will relive the past and won't be able to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word CONFLICT and w...
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Me and drink.. How do i stop wanting?
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im drinking again.. I bought it and didnt touch it for about 1 3/4 hours..
My mate was just chattin on the phone the other day, well left an answerphone message to me.. and he mentioned that he had one beer of 5.2% with his dinner.. Just the one... I havent told him im...
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How to Fix it - Alke Style - Trivia
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Well the other day, I was moaning about having wacked my cd player on my Pc, with my knee, and It was really Broken, could barely push it back in place.
Well today, before ordering a new one, that a friend here had sent me the Catalog for.
I pulled it out, seemed really broken, then I decided to just at...
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6 months sober
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I have 6 months sober, thanks, I believe, in no small part to all the fantastic people at the many AA meetings I attend-
Have a great weekend all-
JB
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Two months!
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I've made it two whole months without a drink or drug. It's kind of hard to think positive about this because I've celebrated two months on three other occasion. It's all about what I can do differently this time to ensure that I don't fall back into my old ways. Life isn't perfect but it's a million times...
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??? re: this site
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Rather confused here! In "Step Work," do I need to register again? It seems so, but I don't know. Am I to use my same user name and password? I want to learn what the steps are... or at least the 1st one!
Also, what is the "Big Book"? Never mind, found it at bottom o...
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A big page on Forgiveness...
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Forgiveness. . . What's it for?Larry James
If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive. - Mother TheresaForgiveness works! It is often difficult, AND it works!
We often think of forgiveness as something that someone who has done us wrong must ask of US. There is always anoth...
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a purpose
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Just a check in, and a hello to all. All well here, Busy ! Busy ! Busy!
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. --Joseph Addison
Having someone to bestow our love on -- a child, friend, or...
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Still workin on some of this stuff..its neverending
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Love is Letting Go of Fear
Giving means extending one's Love with no conditions, no Expectations and no boundaries.
Peace of mind occurs, therefore When we put all our attention Into giving and have no desire To get anything from, or to change, another person
The giving motivation leads To a...
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Opportunity
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Well here in Canada the sun is shinning, the birds are singing and it is going to be a very warm day. How is the weather for everyone else. Just curious and interested. Just to let you know Canada is not as bad as Phil makes it out to be!
Here's a thought...
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Thought ..that I was Sane.."Wrong Again"
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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 u...
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UNBELIEVABLE NEW LAW IN MEXICO
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Abit of a sureal answerphone message from my mate..
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My best mate (one of two) Daniel goes out most friday and saturday nights and gets drunk with his mates at the nightclub or pub... Hes not an alki.. if he doesnt go out he doesnt drink and never drinks during the week..
Anyway hes abit different to most people, prob why we get on.. Known him since i...
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relaxing music
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hello i am looking for some relaxing music to listen to whilst trying to relax, someone has reccomended flute which is great, I wonderd if there is any famous classic composer known for soothing music, with no vocals!!!
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Rescued...
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RESCUED BY SURRENDERING
Characteristic of the so-called typical alcoholic is a narcissistic egocentric core, dominated by feelings of omnipotence, intent on maintaining at all costs its inner integrity. . . . Inwardly the alcoholic brooks no control from man or God. He, the alcoholi...
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Took this Alky, a long time, to get this one...
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Each Day a New Beginning.
Love between two people is such a precious thing. It is not a possession. I no longer need to possess to complete myself. True love becomes my freedom. --Angela L. Wozniak
Self-doubt fosters possessiveness. When we lack confidence in our own capabilities, w...
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Late night Stuff...
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I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people ta...
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Nothing gets better until this one is accepted...
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Step One
"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, w...
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anybody ever work with sombody who could not read or write
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anybody have any experience working steps with sombody who could not read or write''and is slow.
A friend of mind is having problem trying to help a new comer with the steps, she has the big book on tape''doesn't seem to be workin
anybody have any experience with this ''are no of anybody who h...
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April 28 TWO "MAGNIFICENT STANDARDS"
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TWO "MAGNIFICENT STANDARDS" All A.A. progress can be reckoned in terms of just two words: humility and responsibility. Our whole spiritual development can be accurately measured by our degree of adherence to these magnificent standards. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 271 To acknowledge and respect the view...
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Has someone put a hex on me?
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OK.. long story short..
Had set amount to drink last night and didnt go over that.. Woke early, not much sleep since. Ass out of bed emptied most of my car and hooverd it ready to put stuff back in and camping stuff.. Decided to get my road tax sorted before filing car up. &nbs...
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Wrong
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Hi there, Sorry for the post last night, was wrong of me, I suffer with alcoholism and that affects everything, I hope you guys can forgive me for being a nasty piecce of work last night
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Have a good Thursday
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Today's Gift.
Crying only a little bit is no use. You must cry until your pillow is soaked. Then you can get up and laugh. . . . --Galway Kinnell
Many of us were raised to deny our feelings; that is, we might have been allowed to describe them politely, but we were not allowed to express feel...
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Hazelden Today
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Each Day a New Beginning.
. . . suffering . . . no matter how multiplied . . . is always individual. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Knowing that others have survived experiences equally devastating gives us hope, but it doesn't diminish our own personal suffering. Nor should it; out of suffe...
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