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Peace during conflict...
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Peace
Anxiety is often our first reaction to conflict, problems, or even our own fears. In those moments, detaching and getting peaceful may seem disloyal or apathetic. We think: If I really care, Ill worry; if this is really important to me, I must stay upset. We convince ourselves that outcomes w...
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Father Leo's Meditation
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HYPOCRISY "Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo." -- Ambrose Bierce As a religious person I could be such a hypocrite. I thought that my "goodness" was dependent upon my judging others to be inferior. I was always putting other people down so that I could appear terrific. But a part of me always knew this w...
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Anger and Rage
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What is Raging?
Rage is a shame based expression of anger.
Rage is by definition abuse. Ragers react to strong emotions with rage. (i.e. feelings of fear, sadness, shame, inadequacy, guilt or loss convert to rage.) Ragers were typically shamed or punished by their caretakers for expr...
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Guess Picked bad time to come back.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I do know a few months back that this was a loving and careing group...
Lets take a breath count to ten and Pray,,,Let gods will be done not mine,,
Pray for thy enemy..Had to throw that one in,,,
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Thoughts on Powerlessness...
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Powerlessness & Empowerment
By Robert Burney M.A.
"The Twelve Step Recovery process is so successful because it provides a formula for integrating different levels. It is by recognizing that we are powerless to control our life experiences out of ego-self that we can access the powe...
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Amends......
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My apologies to any and all I have offended......I have felt, the last few weeks, exactly like I felt in my first 30 days of sobriety. I found out at a f2f this morning that it is a "natural" part of the process of this program/sobriety....I did not want to face the fact that I have resentments against my so...
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Who Is Bigger than the Program?
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The formate of these boards allows cross talk and public discussion. The AA Traditions tell us how the Program works. When all else fails, the Traditions keep us in line to pursue the recovery that is possible. If it were not for AA I do not know where I would be today. I am thankful for the support that oth...
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Rob and Robert....
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I think this is gona get confusing.. Im Robert too.but hav registered as Rob... lol.. Hey Robert.. .. ok so EVERYONE will have to make a point of saying ROB or ROBERT.. lol.../ Where you from Robert btw??
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Thanks to the program
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Thanks to the program, all a' ya'll, and that power greater than myself;
We have been very busy lately and it looks as if it is going to get much more so.
I've been reading the board every night but, have not logged on. Long days and I've been getting to bed much earlier.
I also have been watching and r...
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Hi all
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Just wanted to say hi and that I'm back.
I've been staying sober one day at a time but have missed all my brother and sisters on this site,,,Thank God for the phone numbers I carry on me,,,I've burnt a few ears here as of late,,My scedule had me missing meetings,,,Well I'll yak at you later..
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Waiting
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God delays, but doesn’t forget.
— Spanish Proverb
It’s frustrating to get sick, lose a job, or encounter financial setbacks. We suddenly feel curtailed, with the rhythm of our lives changed in a way we never anticipated. But our Higher Power slows us down for a reason.
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Sunday
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A New Strength
There are times in every life when we feel hurt or alone… But I believe that these times when we feel lost and all around us seems to be falling apart are really bridges of growth. We struggle and try to recapture the security of what was, but almost in spite of ourselves, we emerge on the...
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Some More Out Of The Cardboard Box
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Yesterday... Today... and Tomorrow
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is Yesterday with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed for...
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Can someone Else please
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Post the Daily Reflections, that is if you all still want them posted, someone else will have to take over.
I think I'm finished with this forum. My time here has been great for the most part but it's time to move on.
Seems as if there's a downward pattern here and I need something more.....
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Toni and Amanda
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Hi all,
Mike in Boston, here. Although I'm somewhat new to posting on this site, I have been following it on and off for a while. Over the past few weeks it has become a daily necessity for me to check in. While I can only say what my reality is, I've been sober 10 years now, done...
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24 Hours is the Recond in this Program
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hi there,
Have been doing some thinking about all the chatter on this Board about newbies, and Oldtimers. Cannot RELATE to any of it.
I have today, Period. So an accumulation of 24 hours is just that, an accumulations of 24 hours.
I did love my 1st Birthday, ONLY because it gave me so...
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24 hrs a day - mar. 5
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"When we were taking drugs we were looking for fulfillment and happiness. We couldn't face the reality of life, so we tried to create a world that we could feel comfortable in. We searched for our pleasures in sources outside ourselves - in people, places and things.
"In working our spiritual progr...
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Hazelden Thoughts For Sunday
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A.A. Thought for the Day
Sometimes we try too hard to get this pro gram. It is better to relax and accept it. It will be given to us, with no effort on our part, if we stop trying too hard to get it. Sobriety can be a free gift of God, which he gives us by His grace when He knows we are ready for it. But we have to...
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Robert is NEW Here, on 2nd Page
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Hi Everyone,
We have new person on the Board that is on Page two. His Post of his story is a good one and hope you will take the time. He is having trouble getting around on this Board at the moment.
Thanks, Toni -- Edited by Toni Baloney at 11:17, 2006-03-04
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more recipies needed
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Hello Miracle In Progress Family
Please keep sending in those recipies for the Miracles In Progress cook book. I am planning this book to be very big and filled with recipies from all over the world. I have several already but if you have not sent your in.. please do so. Empty thos...
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Welcome Robert!!
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Hi There Robert,
Welcome to this Forum, I saw you up on top, and just wanted to start a Post for you, so we can get to know you.
My name is Toni, and I am an Alcoholic. This Forum helped me very much when I had been feeling a little "lost", living in a new area, not know anyone, going to only one...
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Recovery And Acceptance
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Recovery is a learning process
Recovery is about learning to love and valve yourself enough to stop destroying yourself. It's about learning to change your mind and your heart. It's about forgiving yourself and others. It's about letting go of shame and learning to accept your true self. Recov...
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Hey Baloney???
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God!! I wish youde change your last name...
Ive gained 10 lbs..since Ive known yu...hahaha
And "Still Breathin..This too shall pass?"
Yup..Life is short....When I stop breathin...theres going to be some anxiety set in...in one hell of a hurry...lol
Keep Smilin!!
Everyone here have a g...
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hi, hanuman
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I just want to say hi. I hope everything is going alright for ya.
love in recovery,
amanda
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TRUST
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Hello
I thought I was going to be getting off PC for today, but oh well.
Had some thoughts about the word Trust, more than a word, it is what can keep something between two people alive, and without the Trust, you will have NOTHING left to keep it in tact, kind of like the glue holdi...
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Drinking is so stupid..
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Oh ffs.. why do i drink.. ffs.. its stupid.. .. i know what it does to me.. i know that if I keep on doing it, it will ruin me or kill me.. yet i do it none the less.
Thing is.. i love being drunk.. ..
I love drinking.. I love to put on a film or ps2 game and drink.. makes me part of that world...
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I feel like such a fraud when there are other people with REAL problems and real reasons to drink
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I feel like such a fraud..
I am reading on here bout some peoples stuff.. about losing their babies etc.. Soo horrible.. I am on here.. cos i need to stop drinking.. I stoped last week for 7 nights!!.. but since sunday i have been drinking agian..inc tonight.. ffs
I have phoned AA this week and...
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Howdy Robert
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Welcome to the the board eh? Im from Canada..and up here..we speak funny...so Ile print slow..so you can read this ok.:)
Hows it goin?
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I have to ask....
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I am jumping over from the Alanon board to gain some insight. I have to ask why did my A quit having sex with me? He moved out in June. Said he didn't love me, never did. Life's too short. I am not happy in this relationship. He hasn't drank in over 20 years. He has other addictions and fixations. He wor...
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Emotional Intimacy
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by Robert Burney
One of the hardest things for any of us to do is to learn to have compassion for our self. In childhood we felt like it was our fault that our wounded parents treated us in the way they did. We felt that any abuse, deprivation, neglect, and/or abandonment (actual or emot...
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today's thought
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celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume, you shall assume. --Walt Whitman
Some of us may think Walt Whitman must have been terribly conceited to have written words like that. But he wasn't. He knew himself well, and accepted himself, even his darker side. He could laugh at himse...
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today's gift
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Make yourself at home.
It was night, only a few months after I'd begun my skydiving adventure.One of the other skydivers was sitting in a lawn chair. The evening lights had been turned on and he was wrapped up in a sleeping bag, reading a book under the hazy glow. He was one of the full-time sky...
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A Prayer...
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These last two days I have been discovering and rediscovering prayers
I just rediscovered this one: -paul
Teach me, Father, to be kind and gentle in all the events of life, in disappointments, in the thoughtlessness of others, in the insincerity of those I trusted, in the unfaithfulne...
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Thank You, Posters
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You all have been a Life-line to me through these last two mornings. I am so grateful for your words of love, and hope, and peace. Thank You all! -paul
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today's thought
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Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. --Thomas Jefferson
Some of the necessary things we do are tiring and annoying. Many of these things we must do regardless of how we feel about them. Doing dishes day after day can be a tiresome job, but no matter how much we hate it, it must be done soone...
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hi, rosie light shines
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hey, rosie, precious,, I'm glad you had confidence that I am including you, too. If there is anyone else whose name I didn't mention and who needs recognition and affirmation,,, please let me know. This is a total 'we' program, without exception.
love to all
in recovery,
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hey
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hi everyone, been having this stupid voice in my head talking about drinking well, off to another meeting take care wagon
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Hi There Phil!
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Hi my friend,
I was just thinking about you and all your troubles today.
I know this treatment can make you feel like, well you know what, and just want you to know that you have been on my mind, and in my Prayers for a speedy recovery, I know you said there is no speedy recovery to this.
Hope all the peo...
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hi, there, everybody!
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I just want to let you all know that I am praying for you all,,, Phil, Toni, Rick, benny, chris, chrisb, gammyrose, helen, doll, Rob, jb, mike from boston, dan, jersey, and all the 'guests'. This is a 'we' program. Sometimes we can do more in the way of support, and sometimes less,,, ...
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Hi Folks, nothing much to say
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I keep checking in here on a regular basis to receive: advice, wisdom, life experiences..it is helping in so many ways. Regarding my punch drunk feelings, I wonder if endorphins help? After a run I do feel better, still got the headaches, am going to take all your advice and re-assess thi...
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my mom
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mom died sunday of cancer, and we buried her today i am very sad, i been able to stay sober and thats the main thing. god bless u all wagon
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Toni
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Is this all u do ????????????
kidding I see u again.
Outta here !
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newbies and old-timers
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I remember very well my first months in recovery. I went to my first meeting with a determination to do what I had to do so that by the end of a year I would be fine and 'graduate'. I looked and listened to everyone who was sharing, and I looked at the people who had obviously been in the program for a lon...
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Friday
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A.A. Thought for the Day
After we've made a surrender, the drink problem is out of our hands and in the hands of God. The thing we have to do is to be sure that we never reach out and take the problem back into our own hands. Leave it in God's hands. Whenever I'm tempted to take a drink, I must say to my self:...
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A Spiritual Program
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I am reminded this morning, with all that I have read, (the whole page) that this is a Spiritual Program, nothing less, even when it appears to be something else, that is only an illusion. Reminding myself not to be deceived by outward appearances. Recovery in this Program &nbs...
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today's gift
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Being alone and feeling vulnerable. Like two separate themes, these two parts of myself unite in my being and sow the seeds of my longing for unconditional love. --Mary Casey
How easily we slip into self-doubt, fearing we're incapable or unlovable, perhaps both. How common for us to lo...
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Quote of the month Jan 1980 grapevine
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" The storm has passed. I've learned a little more about peace. It was inside all the time."
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Out of the cardboard box..
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Being patient or tolerant is a practice. Daily we have the opportunity to practice either or both of these qualities. Some days we are better at it than others depending on what else is happening in our personal reality. Perhaps having compassion and empathy for what might be going on in an individu...
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10th Step
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I'm cleaning out and sorting through my stuff, and found a few NA pamphlets. I think Rosie is doing a good thing by putting some of their stuff. It is as good as the other sources we're using.
I found a pamphlet that is about doing the 10th Step.. our daily inventory, and it ha...
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Thankyou xxx
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thank you so much for your support last nite (god seems like forever ago) it really helped me when i really needed it, today has been really hard but i have been able to be there for my friend today with a clear mind i feel i have been able to give her so much more than iwould have been able to give her a week ago s...
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