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laughter.
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Hi,
I have this routine I watch a couple of certain shows before I got ot be it helps me sleep.Last night I heard my self laughing I mean the real laughing not the kind you do so no one knows your heart is breaking and you are loseing your mind but real laughter at the old rerun .
I want...
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Some humor to brighten your day
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Hello All,
Just wanted to share some humor with ya!
Due to a power outage, only one paramedic responded to the call. The house was very dark so the paramedic asked Kathleen, a 3-yr old girl to hold a flashlight high over her mommy so he could see w...
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Emotions--Higher Awareness
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Here's a take from a slightly diff. point of view~wren
Pay attention to your emotions
"Emotions are the next frontier to be understood and conquered. To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and...
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Online Meetings
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Hi all,
I have two questions, well for now anyway .
1) Are the AA meetings here online open or closed?
2) The meetings are Tuesday night and Saturday night, right?
Yours in Recovery,
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Good vs Bad Stress
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Challenging Perspective Good Stress Vs. Bad Stress
In recent years, stress has gotten a very bad name, but studies show that some stress is good for us, increasing our immune systems' capabilities and sharpening our intelligence. Bad stress, on the other hand, has the opposite effect, weakenin...
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I think I need advice.....
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Got out of rehab and fell again on the 18th June. Sick of this disease I want my life back. I know it is easy just DO NOT DRINK but my illness is playing games with me!! so f***ing scared I will die of this disease. Doing the right thing right now NOT having a drink talking to my sponsor and going to meeti...
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Toni Baloni
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I replied to your post in my mailbox. I'm not sure I did it right. Did you get a reply from me today?
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Isn't it great .....?
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Isn't it great to wake in the morning feeling fresh, bright and being able to remember everything that you said or did the evening before? No more claiming being hit by a sudden bug to cover the need for taking aspirin or paracetamol for the blinding hangover; no more having to wonder how to dispose of th...
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Does Honesty Scare You?
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I'm sure some of you have read the anger I expressed in my previous thread. But it was honestly how I felt in the moment. Honesty is a scary thing for me. I'm so used to glossing everything over with a smile and "I'm fine. How are you?" I'm not quite comfortable with sayin...
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Hello, I'm new here...
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Just wanted to introduce myself, I'm Steve and I'm an alcoholic.
I came across this board after comming home from a meeting the other night. I post on a few other message boards that have nothing to do with AA or recovery but have plenty of what I don't want in my life anymore, so basically I was lo...
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Rob
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Hey,
where are you ? How are you ?
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Welcome Home Dan- We Missed You
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Just checking in and I saw your name, and said Yahoo, Dan is BACK!!! Hope your vacation was a blast.
R& R is so great, want to hear all about it, noisy little Toni Baloney.
A Big Hug,
you know who
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Thoughts and ideas
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After being around A.A. for a while I have an understanding of how the program works. When I read the big book I find most of it very inspirational. There is no written code by which the meetings should operate. Each group is autonomous. In my mind that means there is no right or wrong way to run a meeting. I...
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Sought my God
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Sought my God, I could not see,
Sought my Soul, it eluded me..
Sought my Brother, found all Three.
Just one of my Sponsor's Favorites, wanted to share it.
Happy Holiday to all of us.
Toni
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Check in
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Hi all.
I've been sitting back and watching the board for a while.
Seems to be a lot of arguements? Re: AA and Religion
I Am in two minds about this, AA in the UK tries to push people into Christianity, Surely we can help people who don't have a 'god' without the 'turnoff; of excess religion!
I stop...
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Hatred and Resentment
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Okay, I am new again to the program. Still on step one as far as I know. But this past couple of days, especiallly at work, I've had these horrible feelings and thoughts regarding other people (customers and coworkers). I have always been the nice, courteous waitress. But t...
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Procrastinating....
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I have to confess this...I am totally and completely sitting on The Steps. I am procrastinating getting to Step 4. I recently went back to Step 1, right...I think I shared that a few weeks back...anyhow....my Sponsor is kicking me in the ass big time for it, she's cool beans and she keeps reminding me of...
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LIFE and How we respond to it!
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What happens to us is not as important as how we respond.
The external events of our lives are largely beyond our control. We do not choose our parents, our emotional environment, the historical period in which we live, our body type, or the flow of circumstances that shape our experience. These a...
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HAPPINESS
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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. --Alice Meynell
It's all too easy to blame a friend, spouse, or co-worker for the uneven quality of our lives. If only others would behave according to our plans and dictates, then all would go well, we think. What seldom is rem...
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For those of us...that feel like giving up..some days..
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When things go wrong as they sometimes will When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill
When funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh
When care is pressing you down a bit Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit
Life is queer with its twists and turns As everyon...
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Alcoholism.... HEARTBREAKING
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Wowee. It is great to be sober.
And painful to see when someone else is not. Reminds me to keep trudging.
Last night I was on my way back from dropping girls off at a treatment center after a meeting. I pulled into a drive-in restaurant to get burgers for my husband for dinner.
I saw a man who...
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Rationalizing behavior through the steps
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How often have we heard someone rationalize their actions and behavior through the tenth step at a meeting? Is it okay to call someone on their bs in a meeting? I hear people with years of sobriety doing this. Oh I acted this way and said this but it's okay because I said I'm sorry. I don't care whether or no...
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Sober now thanks to this board
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Hi all -
A few months ago I started checking out this board and the al anon board desperately seeking answers because of my bf's drinking problem. Not my own mind you, I didn't have a problem! Well, I started to see myself in some of the posts I read and it hit me. Appart...
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Life Feels Great!
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Well everyone,
I can't quite believe that I'm saying this but, this evening, I have completed my Step 5!!!
I feel so fantastic about it. I had been dreading doing my Steps 4 & 5, but I finally faced them and the pay-off is terrific. I've just hit 'Wowsville' at one hundred miles per hour!!!
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From: Night Light
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Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow----Nietzche
It has been said truth will set us free. Truth is not simply being honest with ourselves and others. It is also the ideals by which we would like to live. Some peo...
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Hi all..
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Ya know i said about the prey thing to get to a meeting.. well i still ent been.. i keep bottling out..
last week, last monday i had a really bad day cso i had drank so much on the sunday, as i already posted about.. Anyway i didnt drink mondya night, just stayed up watching tv for most the ni...
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A Portion of-A Vision for You, Chapter ll, AA Big Book
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Chapter 11
A Vision For You
For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinkin...
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Happy sober 4 of july
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Hi,
Happy 4 th to all and I hope it is a safe and sober day for all of us.
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Happy, Happy 4th of July!!!
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Just wanted to drop in and say that I hope everyone had a great, great Holiday.
Just came back from a Barbecue, Neighborhood thing, and my Co-sponsor came and brought her husband, that I had never met. What a treat that was, they have been married for 25 years, and both have a great sense of humor. So w...
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How do I deal with gossip??
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Can anyone help me I am at my wits end and my head has gone I am in a bad state.
I dont know what to do to deal with this person, yes I pray but nothing resentment wont lift can anyone out there help me I feel like drinking...
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Open to Trust
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Open to trust
“When I grip the wheel too tight, I find I lose control.”
-- Steve Rapson
WE SEEK TO CONTROL OUR LIVES WHEN WE DO NOT TRUST, WHEN WE DO NOT LOVE. Our ego, perceiving itself to be vulnerable and insecure, uses control in an effort to protect itself.
At the root of our...
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If I am having a Problem with someone else
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Just a little trivia this 4th of July week-end.
And was thinking of how, when I am having a Problem, with another person, the solution to that Problem, always ends up, with me going into a room and looking in a mirror. (Not my favorite thing to do).
I personally really like the new slogan in Alano...
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111 Days - 16 Weeks
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I'm off to a noon meeting this morning - haven't been in a while - it's amazing to me that I'm still sober, usually, a slip is what brings me back to meetings, but not this time!!
Wishing you all well & a happy sober Sunday
My horoscope says :
"You're not the only one who has this opi...
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Canada Day...and Joni Baloney..:)
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Canada Day - HistoryCanada Day used to be known as Dominion Day, the First of July, Confederation Day and July the First. Canada wasn't born on July 1st, but the holiday celebrates the events that took place on this day. On July 1, 1867, the British North America Act created the Canadian federal govern...
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If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix it-JUSTIN
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For us Alcoholic's my take on this Title, is just the OPPOSITE of how we are, and it's not going to be changing in my life time.
"It will aways be Broken, and it will always need fixin"...............always going to need a
Spiritual Repair Kit, Meetings, Meetings, Meetings, and the 12 Steps, a...
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i have ISSUES... help...
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I am Joni, Recovering Alcoholic. Wife of a workaholic. I need the help of the program right now to deal with it. I am concerned for his health and mental state. He has worked nearly 30 days straight now.
Josh is working himself to death and he thinks it's funny; that he is a 'hero'. I got a we...
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AA meetings
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Just returned from an aa meeting and felt totally alone. No one spoke to me and I shared honestly. Anyone else had this exerience
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Thinking too much.......
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Yeah, I do think too much. Sometimes I become unaware of that fact. The only time I feel completely sane is when I'm at an A.A. meeting. I become totally focused and pay complete attention to almost everything that is said. I notice I really hone in on what the people with quality sobriety have to say.
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Also new here
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First time here reading the postings. I can relate to I'm done. I also have 2 small children and I drink alot. I have been wanting for years to stop drinking but because "I'm bored or stressed or need to relax or because that's what we do when we rent movies or its Sunday and I'm cooking or... or.... or...."...
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Happy Canada Day!
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Good morning everyone and happy Canada Day to us northerners! We are experiencing a heat wave in BC right now and it sure is great! Lots and lots of water, not booze.
I was at the beach yesterday and saw a lady smoking a cigarette. Suddenly I thought to myself that a cigarette and a d...
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Opinions please?
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Would anyone say that just being a part of this forum would make one a member of Alcoholics Anonymous?
I already know what I think just wanted some input on this!
Plus, what I think can change from minute to minute!
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on WAKING UP SOBER......
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Aint' it grand???
Waking up wioth no headache, no diarrhea, fully hydrated..
Nat afraid to pull the blinds and gaze out at the sun...
Still have a few bucks in the old pocket...
Don't have to ask anybody, "what in the H*LL did I do last night?"
...or worse.... "who's this in the sack!!!????"
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Sat. MORN' Lots of us up I see...
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Good morning to all!!! Waht are all your plans for this beee-autiful Saturday?
Jonikins 
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Happy Day
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To everyone
HAPPY
CANADA
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HAPPY
CANADA
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FROM THIS PROUD CANADIAN
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Welcome to 'im done'...
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Just cut and pasted a step one worksheet I got from Quetzal here on this board. Have used it along with a young lady I am sponsoring and we really both got a lot out of it.
Of course, read the book.
But this worksheet was an eye-opener for me.
Jonibaloni
Step One worksheet:
Hav...
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Just Wondering...
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Hey everyone! I'm on day 5 here. I was just wondering how you all deal/have dealt with your cravings in the first few weeks of sobriety? Any good tidbits, besides the telephone, of course. Thanks!
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Appropriate to be here?
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Hello All,
I wanted to introduce myself as I have been doing some reading on the board, and have so far been able to get alot from the posts that I have read.
I have been a member of alanon for almost 6 years and have been with my alcoholic for 9 years. I have attend many AA and NA meetings (he is also an addi...
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HELP
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I need to talk with someone and decided to log in to this message board for some comfort......... maybe someone out there might know or has also been diagnosed with liver damage and is going through the final stages. I live with an alcoholic (I am not) that has just been diagnosed with no li...
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Introducing Myself...(long)
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I am in my 30's and the mother of two precious chidren. I am recently divorced but in a relationship with a wonderful man who has opened my eyes to my drinking problem. He's been on me about it for about 18 months, all the time I resented him for it, saying he just didn't drink, so he didn't understand, or he w...
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everyone preys..........
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If they are desperate enough.
when you see a movie and the plane is going down, the man does not say "If come out alive I will go to the supermarket to buy some milk" NO he says "please GOD dont let me die"
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