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Feeling out of Control!
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Well I did go to a meeting today and it was really good - am starting to fit in, first I had to tell them why I was not feeling like I was fitting in, my old thinking stuff.
But I have a Problem today with my PC, and it is making me feel #*$$#*&##$%&(*...
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please help
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I am a mother of two children 3 and 2 I have had 13 months sober upto November 2005 and I was secretary for a meeting. But I picked up 8th November 2005 and got done for drink driving. Since then I have found it hard to put the drink down for good. I can go several weeks or even a few days and then it happens...
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SHARE
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I have something good to say today because it is my sixth month of sobriety today. I can not believe that it has been this long! It has been especially hard the last couple of weeks with the loss of a very close friend. This to shall pass. The s...
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So True
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I'm slipping when I begin to dislike the company and conversation of the Program. --Anonymous
There is a reason why a lamb gets separated from a flock. The flock will be eating on a particular pasture and a lamb will take a fancy to graze just off to the edge of the field. So the lamb takes a li...
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Friday
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When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden. --John Ruskin
What do we need most in order to be happy? Certainly we all need to be loved. Yet we need even more than that. The spirit also wishes to be needed. When we...
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topic - living one day at a time
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People appreciated the topic discussion shared on earlier.. so I decided to try my hand at posting up a topic. I have an approved list of discussion topics here, and was looking at them, cuz they fell off my shelf.. and decided that I'd pick one and put it up... and it turned out to be:...
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Daily Reflection Jan 27
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FREEDOM FROM GUILT Where other people were concerned, we had to drop the word "blame" from our speech and thought. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 47 When I become willing to accept my own powerlessness, I begin to realize that blaming myself for all the trouble in my life can be an ego trip back i...
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Sorry, but I just HAD to
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What do you call cheese that isn't yours?
Nacho Cheese.
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Relationship Co-Dependence
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If you are in a relationship, check it out the next time you have a fight: Maybe you are both coming out of your twelve-year-olds. If you are a parent, maybe the reason you have a problem sometimes is because you are reacting to your six-year-old child out of the six-year-old child within y...
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THe pink cloud and the deep hole ?
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The process of living, for each of us, is pretty similar. For every gain there is a setback. For every success, a failure. For every moment of joy, a time of sadness. For every hope realized, one is dashed. --Sue Atchley Ebaugh
The balance of events in our lives is much like the balance of na...
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Faith
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Breathing your native air
By Dr. Robert Schuller
It's terribly important to understand that a believer is a normal person. Faith is the mark of normality. A persistently negative and cynical attitude is a mark of emotional illness. Birds were designed to fly. The air under the wings of a bir...
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wow !!
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TRYING TO CATCH UP ON POSTS
What a job after a few days off.
Toni I went thru losing 3 dogs and a cat. The first dog I had to put down. I beat myself up for a long time. Was it time?? Even though the vet said it was. The pain is unreal. I couldn't eat for days, then it was for ever bef...
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possibly a moment of clarity ???
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Thanks all for sharing your stuff with me yesterday. It was all excellent!
Although I still feel a bit dis-come-bob-u-lated, I got up this morning feeling some better.
Every now and then I have a fleeting moment of clarity and it hit me last night, maybe this hole is god's way of sayin...
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Anyone want to share? II
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Hi does anyone feel like sharing: My Topic is: The Way out is in the 12 Steps
(Thought I would copy something Jen did last night- it felt like an on-line meeting)
How the 12 steps have changed who I am as a person, have given up being a manipulative, self-seeking person only inter...
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Daily Reflection Jan 26
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RIGOROUS HONESTY Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant? Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done? Who cares anything about a Higher Power, let alone meditation and prayer? Who wants to sacrifice time and energy in trying to carry A.A.'s message to the ne...
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MY Big Hole
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Well, what the Hell is my problem?! I don't get it. I really am happier than I've ever been in my life. I work this program, I'm practicing truth, I'm trying the solutions, nothing seems to be working today. I'm grateful for the fact that I have no desire to drink at this.... I'...
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13th Annual Spring Fling, Galesburg, IL
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Email: aa_springfling@yahoo.com (may have to type in) or contact phone # is 309-484-6012 (Larry)Alanon, AA, speakers [Rooms at COMFORT INN near Mall, $49. through April 7th with the mention of SPRING FLING.]&n...
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AMANDA
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ANSWER FROM THE OTHER DAY'S POST
MY GRANDAUGHTER IS 3 AND ABLESSING FROM GOD
I DON'T KNOW IF U READ MY POSTS FROM A WHILE BACK
ANYWAY SHE WAS RAN OVER BY A SKID STEER ( BOB CAT LOADER )
SHE WAS CRITICAL AND IN INTENSIVE CARE AT THE MEDICAL CENTER
NOW SHE IS DOING WELL**CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH**
WE CA...
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a program story
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A nice man was being tailgated by a stressed out woman on a busy boulevard. Suddenly, the light turned yellow, just in front of him. He did the right thing, stopping at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection. The tailgating woman hit the r...
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Phil.....anyone
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On the Alanon board I posted a Sixth Step Prayer. If you can click it and get it on this board for others, appreciate it...still have a lot to learn about 'puters!
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Attitude about Pain has Changed!
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Well you all know that I poured my heart out the other day, about some hurt that was inside me, that felt unconsolable. Well, it did get consoled, by your love and support, and my begging for help from my Higher Power.
Today, what has changed in me is that the hurt is still there, but my Attitude ab...
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Now it's my turn to get real!
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I did it. I admit it.
My Mother died 2 &1/2 years ago. Her value exceeded 1.5 mil. dollars in real estate and investments. When my step-father took control, I realized and accepted that whatever her wishes were for her part of her estate would be ignored and the will would be changed...
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I have 90 days sober today-
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90 days free of alcohol and other intoxicants- Wow, how a life can change so much so quickly. I was very alone, unemployed, in hospitals, losing my mind and falling apart physically, unable to go a day without drinking or using- when something got me to a meeting.
Some things that I think have hel...
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anyone want to share ?
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The topic I have picked - SOLUTIONS
I'm an alcoholic and my problem today is Jennifer.
For me there are many solutions I can use, ALL of them I have learned from AA and it's members, f2f and MIP. It depends on what the problem at hand is. It could be something simple, so I apply the "this to...
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Daily Reflection Jan 25
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WHAT WE NEED - EACH OTHER . . . . A.A. is really saying to every serious drinker, "You are an A.A. member if you say so . . . nobody can keep you out." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 139 For years, whenever I reflected on Tradition Three ("The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop dr...
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Yoo Hoo Phil
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Just want to say hello and hope you are feeling a little better, sounds like you have a duzzy with the flu and a cold on top of if.
Wishing you a Speedy Recovery!!
Take good care of Phil!
we need you around here!
Toni NO B...
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It's a beautiful day!!
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At least here in my corner of the world, Portland Oregon. The rain has stopped, the sky is blue, the sun is shining! It's still cold outside, but I don't care, just to see the sun again after about a month of rain seem like a miracle!
And, the husband is in the basement, leaving me alone.&nb...
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dry drunk
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The term 'dry drunk' is an important concept in the AA program. We say that first the alcoholic needs to dry out. When this is accomplished, by detox or whatever,,, we have an alcoholic with no alcohol in his or her system. But being dry, simply not drinking, is not the same as...
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Recovering
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The Ten Practical Points Of Recovery
found in
Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd. Edition
Pages 58-60
1)"...thoroughly followed our path." p.58 line 2
2)"...completely give themselves..." p.58 line 3
3)"...developing...rigorous honesty." p.58 line 9
4)"...willing to go to...
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results of recovery
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Twenty Questions Revisited By: Charles N. Roper, PhD I feel healthy; I have energy and stamina. I like waking up in the morning to the promise of a new day. I have a healthy appetite for good, nutritious food. I make appropriate, rational decisions which usually turn out well. My gut-level feelings ab...
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well,,, here we are again
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Well, I woke up this morning. It's all still here. Landlord, room, mess, shoulder.
Last night I wanted to get drunk. The thing is that,,, even though we might not take a drink,,,, a dry drunk can be just as bad. I can do a great dry drunk,,,, carry on and all without the drink. That is...
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My sponcer passed away
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My sponcer passed away the other day after a long battle with cancer. I wrote this poem for him and he read right before he died. I will remember "the big D" always.
Remember me. Remember me when the days are long, for I will not be here to share them with you. Remember me on short nights when sleep e...
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Thank you all!!Bunches
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5 stages of Grief
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1) DENIAL
In the denial stage we refuse to believe what has happened. We try in our mind to tell ourselves that life is as it was before our loss. We can even make believe to an extent by re enacting rituals that we used to go through with our loved one. Making an extra cup of tea for our loved one who is no l...
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Daily Reflection Jan 24
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GETTING INVOLVED There is action and more action. "Faith without works is dead." . . . To be helpful is our only aim. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , pp. 88-89 I understand that service is a vital part of recovery but I often wonder, "What can I do?" Simply start with what I have today! I look around to see where the...
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You are not alone (especially for Amanda and Toni today)
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An alcoholic fell in a hole and couldn't get out. A businessman went by and the alcoholic called our for help. The businessman threw him some money and told him to buy himself a ladder. But the alcoholic would not buy a ladder in this hole he was in.
A doctor walked by. The alcoholic said, "Help I can't ge...
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Where did this s%$t come from ????
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I hear so many things that ARE NOT in the literature. So much psycho babble and so many profound-sounding statements rattling out of the mouths of those who want to either sound good or put someone else down. Then there are those who say those things just because they've heard them over and over....
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Feels like I've fallen into a Big Hole
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I am writing this almost reluctantly, but her goes.
When I joined MIP, I talked a lot about how difficult it was to lose a llitle friend of mine, Annie, my Kitty of 15+ years. I talked about it a lot, cryed a lot, prayed and prayed about her.
Then I began to feel some relief from the excuiat...
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uh oh
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See? now... all of a sudden it hit me. I want to get drunk. I mean really schockered. I want the oblivion that comes from drinking enough to escape the present moment. I have H.A.L.T. I thought I was dealing with this hard day okay.... but... it is a...
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God is doing for me what I can't do for myself
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And here's the proof, folks! I have been on thin ice w/my job for a while now, before I got sober I called in a LOT, so every call in over my 40 hour sick leave time is an occurance that goes on my record and it affects raises, bonuses, promotions etc. Well, the danger zone for these is 4 in a 12 month peri...
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Step Two...from The AA 12 and 12
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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 convince...
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alcoholic mothers
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It would be nice to talk to other mothers who have had young children while they were drinking and the guilt that is associated with this.
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hey phil
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Whats the deal on server change?
Is it done?
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Daily Reflection Jan 23
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HAVING FUN YET? . . . we aren't a glum lot. If newcomers could see no joy or fun in our existence, they wouldn't want it. We absolutely insist on enjoying life. We try not to indulge in cynicism over the state of the nations, nor do we carry the world's troubles on our shoulders. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 13...
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experience needed
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I hope this post will not offend anyone, if it does, please forgive me in advance. But, as alcoholics no one should be shocked
I'm 10 months sober, have what I call good recovery, a good sponsor, work the steps, have done mu 5th all ready. I was in a 3 yr relatioship wit...
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Resentments
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The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
--Moses Luzzatto
This program promises many rewards for those who follow it, but it does not promise to be easy. We search our conscience for resentments and face them. No man can progress in his recovery while ho...
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Quote
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The late, great Chicago writer Mike Royko wrote after his wife died: "Do her and me a favor. If there is someone you love but haven't said so in a while, say it now. Always, always, say it now."
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Today's Gift
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We merely need to follow our conscience.
Where are we going? What's the plan for our life? Most of us didn't intend to end up as we have, but here we are! And a significant number of us might not be alive if it weren't for this program. We may have thought we knew where we were headed in our youth, but few of u...
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Need avice please
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Hi, I'm new here, and I hope someone can give me some practical advice.
How can I explain to my husband that his attitude really brings me down? He's very depressing to be around. He complains all the time about something or other, seems to hate the world, his life, and everyone ar...
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Daily Reflection Jan 22
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"LET'S KEEP IT SIMPLE" A few hours later I took my leave of Dr. Bob. . . The wonderful, old, broad smile was on his face as he said almost jokingly, "Remember, Bill, let's not louse this thing up. Let's keep it simple!" I turned away, unable to say a word. That was the last time I ever saw him. ALCOHOLICS ANON...
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