Alcoholics Anonymous

paul · paul

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...

Phil · Phil

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...

Phil · Phil

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...

Phil · Phil

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...

mikey50 · mikey50

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...

Doll · Doll

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...

Rob · Rob

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...

Robert · Robert

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

Phil · Phil

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...

Phil · Phil

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...

soberdrunk · soberdrunk

Hey everyone. I was kind of wondering if what I say turns people off. I try to be nice and friendly, yet there are very few people in here that seem to care. I wish I could tell you this doesn't bother me but it does. I was hoping that I could get some support in here. I really need it. I was told by a friend to make...

Robert · Robert

Deleted due to popular demand -- Edited by Robert at 15:36, 2006-04-28

Robert · Robert

Deleted due to popular demand -- Edited by Robert at 15:35, 2006-04-28

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Hi everyone, I have been reading the Board for the last week, even when my PC would not let me sign in, and am curious about some things. I have been here since December, and sometimes on the week ends it gets so quiet, makes sense, people are busier on the week ends. The Board kind of feels like a meetin...

Pauly · Pauly

Not much to report really, I`ve reached the 100 days without a drink, (without counting, honest..just suddenly realised

) I`ve had a couple of tests, naturally...I suppose in some ways I`ve avoided the forum `cos I don`t want to be reminded of my alcoholism but it`s there, it`s w...

Cabbageheadchris · Cabbageheadchris

Hi all. just letting you all know that if I post on here in the next 12 days or so, it will probably be total garbage. Just ignore me. Had to come back home from my holiday because I turned into a shaking mess. (Panic attacks) Saw a doctor in Barmouth (140 miles from where I live) and got some medication. Ca...

Toni Baloney · Toni Baloney

Hi Everyone, I am so happy I made it back into this site, only took 5 days, ha ha, hope everyone is o.k. and doing well. I missed you all. Toni -- Edited by Toni Baloney at 23:58, 2006-04-26

Robert · Robert

GOsh I woke up today feeling blue its work that does this to me, i just need to remind myself that I am not going to have to be there much longer and that i have a new life starting now I have started the day with a grattitude list, but boy does work leave a sour taste

iffer · iffer

Alcohol Always Lied to Me ========================== I Drank for Courage... and woke up night after night horrified. I Drank for Sophistication... and became crude. I Drank to find Peace... and ignited a war within myself. I Drank to be Friendly... and became argumentative and nasty. I Drank to be...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

April 26 Self-Acceptance "The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery."IP No. 19, "Self-Acceptance"Most of us came to recovery without much self-acceptance. We looked at the havoc we had wreaked in our active addiction, and we loa...

Robert · Robert

When I first came in, I went to 3 meets a day, and when i was not in a MEETING and doing anything else i was watching a movie, instead of that bottle pick up a DVD, go to tescos, asda what ever and get your fav pudding, for me fresh choc cookies and a BIGGGG bottle of coke. YOU CANT GET DONE FOR FAT DRIVIN...

soberdrunk · soberdrunk

I kind of feel sad today. I just came to the realization today that I honestly don't ever want to drink and drug ever again. I guess when I got sober before I always had a lurking notion that someday I might want to go at it again. I've spent about eight years of my life behind bars due to crimes to support my ad...

John · John

Hello everyone, Wow... where do I start? First, I want to say that as a long time member of AA with almost 17 years sobriety, and the founder/webmaster of this site, my door (i.e. phone) is available to any member of this message board that feels there is a issue or problem that needs to be addressed o...

Doll · Doll

HAPPINESS IS NOT THE POINT I don't think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? AS BILL SEES IT, p. 306 In my search "to be happy," I changed jobs, married and...

Phil · Phil

The Language of Letting Go. Negativity Some people are carriers of negativity. They are storehouses of pent up anger and volatile emotions. Some remain trapped in the victim role and act in ways that further their victimization. And others are still caught in the cycle of addictive or compul...

Robert · Robert

I tried to get a substance called Gabba today as it says in 7 days to sobriety that it can help anxiety. any way when i went into the health shop i was advised it is a banned substance in bodybuilding. ,there was another item as well on the list, that promotes serotonin , this is banned too and has been known t...

Niall · Niall

... when a sober person in AA publicly tells a struggling, tormented, still drinking alcoholic who deperately wants to stop but is finding it very hard to surrender to.. "s**t or get off the pot" does that mean he should go away and stop annoying this sober community until he is himself sober and on the p...

Rob · Rob

Things seem to be gettin worse My weekend was pretty shit just like last weekend.. I just cant seem to stop drinking......... part of me wants to drink i woke up this mornign feeling awful and thinking that tonight i was not gona drink (as iv thought SOO many bloody t...

LJ Looser · LJ Looser

Every so often I go on a drinking binge for a couple of months. Every time before, I could quit when I really decided it was time. But this time... I started in January and have been drinking heavily most of the time. However, the last month or so, I had been trying to quit, but failing....

Doll · Doll

Women who breastfeed their infants for just a month or less could be placing them at a far higher risk of becoming alcoholics as adults. That's the startling word from new research conducted at Copenhagen University in Denmark, which concluded that early weaning is one factor that predisposes adul...

Wren · Wren

April 25, 2006 Silencing The Chatter Taming Monkey Mind In Meditation It's been called the monkey mind - the endless chattering in your head as you jump in your mind from thought to thought while you daydream, analyze your relationships, or worry over the future. Eventually, you start to fe...

Phil · Phil

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort. Author: Walter Anderson It doesn't make any diffe...

wagon · wagon

someone ask me to be their

sponcer sunday night. been sober but 16 months, still wet behind the ears myself, is this to soon? wagon

Robert · Robert

According to a book I am reading at the moment, alot of alcoholics suffer from depression due to a particular amino acid in the brain being depleted, which then gives us little or no serotonin to fire, I am thinking of going to the Dr's today to see if this would be a safe option for me to suppliment with to h...

Robert · Robert

Hello! I have had a wonderful weekend I have taken a real dive into collecting funk soul and blues records which has always been a passion of mine, however alcohol made me forget but I have now re membered As a coming up to the acedemic year I am both excited and nervous and just need to let go and turn...

Cabbageheadchris · Cabbageheadchris

Hi all, got 1hr and 20 mins to go before a meeting with my local alcohol support team. If it works out ok, I'll be in North Wales in 3 hours and sitting on the beach on Hell Island (Sorry Shell island!) See ya next week, all the best. Chris.

Doll · Doll

ENTERING A NEW DIMENSION In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension - freedom under God as we understand Him. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 283 I am for...

Rick · Rick

We have within us a limitless supply of new beginnings. --Joan Fitzgerald We can start our day over any time we choose. If we wake up crabby, on the "wrong side of the bed," we are not doomed to a day of gloom. Each minute can be a new reality for us. We can start a new day with just an ounce of will...

Phil · Phil

The Promises If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know pea...

soberdrunk · soberdrunk

Today starts my first (hands on) day at work. No more orientation, yay! Yesterday I went and hung out with one of the guys from the meetings. We worked out with some free weights. It was really cool. We went to a meeting later on. It was a big book study which included the promise from into action. I'm rea...

Wren · Wren

April 24, 2006 Finding The Gift Bad Days We all have days from time to time when it feels like the world is against us or that the chaos we are experiencing will never end. One negative circumstance seems to lead to another. You may wonder, on a bad day, whether anything in your life will ever go ri...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

MONDAY , APRIL 24, 2006 You are reading from the book Touchstones </OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=212>. I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. --Albert Camus We live our program in one-day portions - and our acti...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

SUNDAY , APRIL 23, 2006 You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go </OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=1271>. Opening Ourselves to Love Allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in recovery.Many of us have blocked ourselves from re...

Robert · Robert

Hi there, I ahve been to a place called the sactury today, I have been accepted for addiction counselling and also a big book study, looking fwd to it. went into town for the first time in months today , was a bit strange. got some records from a thrift shop. Was a bit shocked when i went to the loo to find bi...

Doll · Doll

LEARNING TO LOVE OURSELVES Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were surrounded by people who loved us... We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others . . . We still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy sort of domination or depe...

kspear · kspear

Wow, what a weekend with a couple of my sponsees. One ended up in the hospital sick with some unknown thing. One ended up homeless with kids. It's so hard sometimes as a sponsor to know when to step in and help out above the regular taking through the steps, etc... and give some practi...

Robert · Robert

I won this on ebay for £11 Most Valuable Album: Album: Bob Dylan - Freewheelin’ Estimated Value: $25,000 Background: 1963. US. Stereo. This is the first release. Has "Stereo/360º sound" logo and a sticker with that reads "Singing His Sensational Hit 'Blowin' in the wind' ".

Phil · Phil

Opening Ourselves to Love Allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in recovery. Many of us have blocked ourselves from receiving love. We may have lived with people who used love to control us. They would be there for us, but at the high price of our freedom. Lo...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

hey u guys, the salesman who handled the job, that i had "screwed up" told me in a very nice email "rosie what U did was fixed--- we were SECOND lowest bid---so if we dont' get the job, its over PRICE, not what U did"..... i was so relieved that i didn'...

Phil · Phil

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false freinds, and true enemies Succeed anyway. The good you do today, will be forgotten tom...

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	Rescued... (Preview) 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...	paul	3	409	Apr 29, 2006 by jimhere
	Took this Alky, a long time, to get this one... (Preview) *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...	Phil	0	319	Apr 29, 2006 by Phil
	Late night Stuff... (Preview) 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...	Phil	0	357	Apr 28, 2006 by Phil
	Nothing gets better until this one is accepted... (Preview) 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...	Phil	2	366	Apr 28, 2006 by Phil
	anybody ever work with sombody who could not read or write (Preview) 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...	mikey50	3	332	Apr 28, 2006 by mikey50
	April 28 TWO "MAGNIFICENT STANDARDS" (Preview) 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...	Doll	1	508	Apr 28, 2006 by rosie light shines
	Has someone put a hex on me? (Preview) 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...	Rob	3	444	Apr 28, 2006 by rosie light shines
	Wrong (Preview) 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	Robert	5	395	Apr 28, 2006 by Robert
	Have a good Thursday (Preview) *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...	Phil	4	370	Apr 28, 2006 by jeannie
	Hazelden Today (Preview) *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...	Phil	0	351	Apr 28, 2006 by Phil
	Feeling invisible....... (Preview) Hey everyone. I was kind of wondering if what I say turns people off. I try to be nice and friendly, yet there are very few people in here that seem to care. I wish I could tell you this doesn't bother me but it does. I was hoping that I could get some support in here. I really need it. I was told by a friend to make...	soberdrunk	7	372	Apr 27, 2006 by soberdrunk
	Feeling alone (Preview) Deleted due to popular demand -- Edited by Robert at 15:36, 2006-04-28	Robert	6	354	Apr 27, 2006 by Robert
	Tonight (Preview) Deleted due to popular demand -- Edited by Robert at 15:35, 2006-04-28	Robert	0	301	Apr 27, 2006 by Robert
	This Board Today- my take (Preview) Hi everyone, I have been reading the Board for the last week, even when my PC would not let me sign in, and am curious about some things. I have been here since December, and sometimes on the week ends it gets so quiet, makes sense, people are busier on the week ends. The Board kind of feels like a meetin...	Toni Baloney	2	313	Apr 27, 2006 by Phil
	Hi folks, sorry I`ve not been here for a while (Preview) Not much to report really, I`ve reached the 100 days without a drink, (without counting, honest..just suddenly realised) I`ve had a couple of tests, naturally...I suppose in some ways I`ve avoided the forum `cos I don`t want to be reminded of my alcoholism but it`s there, it`s w...	Pauly	1	301	Apr 27, 2006 by Phil
	Please be aware! (Preview) Hi all. just letting you all know that if I post on here in the next 12 days or so, it will probably be total garbage. Just ignore me. Had to come back home from my holiday because I turned into a shaking mess. (Panic attacks) Saw a doctor in Barmouth (140 miles from where I live) and got some medication. Ca...	Cabbageheadchris	10	396	Apr 27, 2006 by iffer
	I made it back into this site!!! (Preview) Hi Everyone, I am so happy I made it back into this site, only took 5 days, ha ha, hope everyone is o.k. and doing well. I missed you all. Toni -- Edited by Toni Baloney at 23:58, 2006-04-26	Toni Baloney	11	363	Apr 27, 2006 by cooncatbob
	Morning (Preview) GOsh I woke up today feeling blue its work that does this to me, i just need to remind myself that I am not going to have to be there much longer and that i have a new life starting now I have started the day with a grattitude list, but boy does work leave a sour taste	Robert	5	342	Apr 27, 2006 by recovering jb
	Alcohol always lied to me (Preview) Alcohol Always Lied to Me ========================== I Drank for Courage... and woke up night after night horrified. I Drank for Sophistication... and became crude. I Drank to find Peace... and ignited a war within myself. I Drank to be Friendly... and became argumentative and nasty. I Drank to be...	iffer	7	378	Apr 27, 2006 by Phil
	learning to accept me (Preview) April 26 Self-Acceptance "The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery."IP No. 19, "Self-Acceptance"Most of us came to recovery without much self-acceptance. We looked at the havoc we had wreaked in our active addiction, and we loa...	rosie light shines	3	324	Apr 26, 2006 by carmie
	To Rob (Preview) When I first came in, I went to 3 meets a day, and when i was not in a MEETING and doing anything else i was watching a movie, instead of that bottle pick up a DVD, go to tescos, asda what ever and get your fav pudding, for me fresh choc cookies and a BIGGGG bottle of coke. YOU CANT GET DONE FOR FAT DRIVIN...	Robert	3	326	Apr 26, 2006 by Robert
	Change (Preview) I kind of feel sad today. I just came to the realization today that I honestly don't ever want to drink and drug ever again. I guess when I got sober before I always had a lurking notion that someday I might want to go at it again. I've spent about eight years of my life behind bars due to crimes to support my ad...	soberdrunk	2	310	Apr 26, 2006 by soberdrunk
	Regarding this boards Post/Replies (Preview) Hello everyone, Wow... where do I start? First, I want to say that as a long time member of AA with almost 17 years sobriety, and the founder/webmaster of this site, my door (i.e. phone) is available to any member of this message board that feels there is a issue or problem that needs to be addressed o...	John	1	393	Apr 26, 2006 by Phil
	April 26 ~ Happiness is not the Point (Preview) HAPPINESS IS NOT THE POINT I don't think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? AS BILL SEES IT, p. 306 In my search "to be happy," I changed jobs, married and...	Doll	2	359	Apr 26, 2006 by rosie light shines
	Wednesdays shares (Preview) *The Language of Letting Go. Negativity* Some people are carriers of negativity. They are storehouses of pent up anger and volatile emotions. Some remain trapped in the victim role and act in ways that further their victimization. And others are still caught in the cycle of addictive or compul...	Phil	1	337	Apr 26, 2006 by rosie light shines
	evening all (Preview) I tried to get a substance called Gabba today as it says in 7 days to sobriety that it can help anxiety. any way when i went into the health shop i was advised it is a banned substance in bodybuilding. ,there was another item as well on the list, that promotes serotonin , this is banned too and has been known t...	Robert	4	378	Apr 26, 2006 by recovering jb
	observation... (Preview) ... when a sober person in AA publicly tells a struggling, tormented, still drinking alcoholic who deperately wants to stop but is finding it very hard to surrender to.. "s**t or get off the pot" does that mean he should go away and stop annoying this sober community until he is himself sober and on the p...	Niall	9	360	Apr 26, 2006 by Phil
	Things seem to be gettin worse (Preview) Things seem to be gettin worse My weekend was pretty shit just like last weekend.. I just cant seem to stop drinking......... part of me wants to drink i woke up this mornign feeling awful and thinking that tonight i was not gona drink (as iv thought SOO many bloody t...	Rob	15	465	Apr 26, 2006 by Robert
	I almost cut my hand off... (Preview) Every so often I go on a drinking binge for a couple of months. Every time before, I could quit when I really decided it was time. But this time... I started in January and have been drinking heavily most of the time. However, the last month or so, I had been trying to quit, but failing....	LJ Looser	11	454	Apr 25, 2006 by LJ Looser
	Blame Mom: Bizarre Cause of Alcoholism (Preview) Women who breastfeed their infants for just a month or less could be placing them at a far higher risk of becoming alcoholics as adults. That's the startling word from new research conducted at Copenhagen University in Denmark, which concluded that early weaning is one factor that predisposes adul...	Doll	4	371	Apr 25, 2006 by Doll
	Calming the Mind--OM (Preview) April 25, 2006 Silencing The Chatter Taming Monkey Mind In Meditation It's been called the monkey mind - the endless chattering in your head as you jump in your mind from thought to thought while you daydream, analyze your relationships, or worry over the future. Eventually, you start to fe...	Wren	2	354	Apr 25, 2006 by Robert
	Tuesday night share... (Preview) True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort. Author: Walter Anderson It doesn't make any diffe...	Phil	0	315	Apr 25, 2006 by Phil
	sponcer (Preview) someone ask me to be their sponcer sunday night. been sober but 16 months, still wet behind the ears myself, is this to soon? wagon	wagon	10	358	Apr 25, 2006 by mikey50
	Morning All (Preview) According to a book I am reading at the moment, alot of alcoholics suffer from depression due to a particular amino acid in the brain being depleted, which then gives us little or no serotonin to fire, I am thinking of going to the Dr's today to see if this would be a safe option for me to suppliment with to h...	Robert	4	288	Apr 25, 2006 by Robert
	morning all (Preview) Hello! I have had a wonderful weekend I have taken a real dive into collecting funk soul and blues records which has always been a passion of mine, however alcohol made me forget but I have now re membered As a coming up to the acedemic year I am both excited and nervous and just need to let go and turn...	Robert	5	336	Apr 25, 2006 by wagon
	Bye for now (Preview) Hi all, got 1hr and 20 mins to go before a meeting with my local alcohol support team. If it works out ok, I'll be in North Wales in 3 hours and sitting on the beach on Hell Island (Sorry Shell island!) See ya next week, all the best. Chris.	Cabbageheadchris	3	310	Apr 25, 2006 by Robert
	April 25 (Preview) ENTERING A NEW DIMENSION In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension - freedom under God as we understand Him. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 283 I am for...	Doll	0	415	Apr 25, 2006 by Doll
	today's gift (Preview) *We have within us a limitless supply of new beginnings. --Joan Fitzgerald* We can start our day over any time we choose. If we wake up crabby, on the "wrong side of the bed," we are not doomed to a day of gloom. Each minute can be a new reality for us. We can start a new day with just an ounce of will...	Rick	2	284	Apr 25, 2006 by Phil
	From The Big Book... (Preview) The Promises If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know pea...	Phil	4	338	Apr 25, 2006 by Phil
	Good morning (Preview) Today starts my first (hands on) day at work. No more orientation, yay! Yesterday I went and hung out with one of the guys from the meetings. We worked out with some free weights. It was really cool. We went to a meeting later on. It was a big book study which included the promise from into action. I'm rea...	soberdrunk	4	329	Apr 24, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Finding the Gift-from OM (Preview) April 24, 2006 Finding The Gift Bad Days We all have days from time to time when it feels like the world is against us or that the chaos we are experiencing will never end. One negative circumstance seems to lead to another. You may wonder, on a bad day, whether anything in your life will ever go ri...	Wren	4	365	Apr 24, 2006 by Wren
	i need to live like NOW really is all i got (Preview) MONDAY , APRIL 24, 2006 You are reading from the book Touchstones </OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=212>. *I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. --Albert Camus* We live our program in one-day portions - and our acti...	rosie light shines	1	315	Apr 24, 2006 by Wren
	i love but i love with CARE (Preview) SUNDAY , APRIL 23, 2006 You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go </OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=1271>. Opening Ourselves to Love Allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in recovery.Many of us have blocked ourselves from re...	rosie light shines	1	307	Apr 24, 2006 by wandajf
	Grattitude (Preview) Hi there, I ahve been to a place called the sactury today, I have been accepted for addiction counselling and also a big book study, looking fwd to it. went into town for the first time in months today , was a bit strange. got some records from a thrift shop. Was a bit shocked when i went to the loo to find bi...	Robert	2	305	Apr 24, 2006 by rosie light shines
	april 24 (Preview) LEARNING TO LOVE OURSELVES Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were surrounded by people who loved us... We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others . . . We still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy sort of domination or depe...	Doll	1	292	Apr 24, 2006 by rosie light shines
	Sponsees (Preview) Wow, what a weekend with a couple of my sponsees. One ended up in the hospital sick with some unknown thing. One ended up homeless with kids. It's so hard sometimes as a sponsor to know when to step in and help out above the regular taking through the steps, etc... and give some practi...	kspear	3	332	Apr 24, 2006 by rosie light shines
	on the plus side (Preview) I won this on ebay for £11 Most Valuable Album: Album: Bob Dylan - Freewheelin’ Estimated Value: $25,000 Background: 1963. US. Stereo. This is the first release. Has "Stereo/360º sound" logo and a sticker with that reads "Singing His Sensational Hit 'Blowin' in the wind' ".	Robert	3	324	Apr 24, 2006 by Wren
	Opening up... (Preview) Opening Ourselves to Love Allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in recovery. Many of us have blocked ourselves from receiving love. We may have lived with people who used love to control us. They would be there for us, but at the high price of our freedom. Lo...	Phil	10	387	Apr 24, 2006 by amanda2u2
	guess what?? some better news (Preview) hey u guys, the salesman who handled the job, that i had "screwed up" told me in a very nice email "rosie what U did was fixed--- we were SECOND lowest bid---so if we dont' get the job, its over PRICE, not what U did"..... i was so relieved that i didn'...	rosie light shines	3	318	Apr 24, 2006 by amanda2u2
	Do It Anyway... (Preview) People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false freinds, and true enemies Succeed anyway. The good you do today, will be forgotten tom...	Phil	2	1035	Apr 24, 2006 by Phil
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