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Today's Gift 10/17
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You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment. --David D. BurnsGood thoughts are like bright colors in a painting. Negative thoughts are dark and dreary and drab. Each day we paint pictures of our own lives with our thoughts. If we step back and look at the canva...
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After First Meeting
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Hi everyone......I couldn't find my previous thread about going to my first meeting but I said I would be back after going and so here I am. I went to my first meeting and it was great. They made me feel right at home even asked me some questions. For the first time ever I introduced myself as an alcoholi...
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Sunrise Quote 10/16
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Do you believe in dreams? Don't oversleep if you want your dreams to come true! Don't let dreams become nightmares. ~Henrietta C. Mears
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Sunrise Quote 10/15
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When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. ~Patrick Overton
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"Trusting" excerpts from Anne Wilson Schaef
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"Trust me"--our favorite words! How long it has taken us to learn not to trust people who can't be trusted." (True for me.) "To trust or not to trust--that is the dualism, and dualisms keep us stuck." Now I need to go look up what "dualism" means...
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Today's Gift 10/16
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Reflection for the DayWhen a person says something rash or ugly, we sometimes say they are "forgetting themselves," meaning they're forgetting their best selves in a sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury. If I remember the kind of person I want to be, hopefully I won't "forget myse...
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Going to First Meeting.....Need Advice
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I was first introduced to AA some 20 years ago and went for awhile, all the while still drinking. I guess I wasn't ready to admit or work the steps. I just sat quietly and listened. I am going to my first meeting since then tomorrow. It was in August that I admitted to being alcoholic. I have been sober...
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Anti AA Rhetoric
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I often come across people who have very negative thoughts about AA. They talk about it like it's either some sort of evil cult that's after all your worldly possessions and your first born child or like it's some sort of spiritual Amway that's brainwashed you into trying to sell your n...
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Today's Gift 10/15
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I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. --Alcoholics Anonymous (The AA Big Book) Newcomer Nothing much seems to have changed for me lately. I still have the same problems and issues I had months ago. Spons...
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Could use some good thoughts...
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Hey all. Well, the good news is I've been sober for three weeks, three days. Still going strong, even though it's been hard. The bad news is that I got some blood results back that indicate I'm diabetic. :\ My glucose was high but my doctor (delightful person *rolls eyes* He flits in, gives me this...
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Sunrise Quote 10/14
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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ~FeNelon, Francois on Spirit and Spirituality
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60 Minutes Feature On Patrick Kennedy
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There was an interesting feature on 60 Minutes Sunday about Patrick Kennedy and his book, "A Common Struggle." Alcoholism has hit the Kennedy family pretty hard, it seems. Patrick, who is now in recovery, attendz 12-step meetings daily and is working to promote the importance of better...
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Last night's meeting.
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I went to a meeting last evening. I am at a place that I didn't want to go, but I needed to go. So I went. Well, it was one of the best meetings that I ever went to. I am sure you all know what I mean. I just had to share this with everyone here. Oh I also learned something from EVERYONE who shared. ...
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Struggling with a Higher Power?
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https://www.facebook.com/tashaeswaby/videos/769495383088113/
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Today's Gift 10/14
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A person shows their true self by how much they need other people. --AnonymousWhat giving we have discovered in our Fellowship! From the very first meeting, we received an outstretched hand that offered us help. People gave freely and asked nothing in return. We, who had known so much taking, could h...
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Newcomer, steps 1-3
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I am not new to AA but I am a newcomer anyway. I went to AA meetings 15 years ago but I never admitted to being an alcoholic. I've been drinking for 25 years. My last drink was on September 8, 2015. I admitted to being an alcoholic in August. So I know some about the steps. I have now been sober for 33 days...
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Sunrise Quote 10/13
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You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself. ~Buddha on Spirit and Spirituality
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Today's Gift 10/13
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It's okay to have fun.Although we're working hard on recovering, we can also have fun. In fact, we can have much more fun now than we did before we found the program. With the awakening of our spiritual self, life takes on new zest. We smile more and frown less.We can give ourselves permission to enjoy wh...
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Redchile ... Welcome
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Welcome to MIP Redchile ... we're glad your here ... We know of all the problems alcohol usage can cause in one's life, believe me, we've "Been There, Done That" ... from your post, you seem to be nearing a 'crossroads' in your life ... you don't see how in the hell you can keep drink'n OR how in...
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I'm going to be a father
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I found out with two days sober, on June 7. Haven't shared it here for whatever reason. We're both out here in LA but we're driving across the country in 10 days to move closer to her family in Pennsylvania. I still can't wrap my head around it. Me? A father? What?
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I'm new, where do i start?
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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October 12, 2015Quote of the Week"Quit with the thinking and start with the doing." It took me a long time to learn that I can't think myself into feeling better. If I'm sitting at home depressed and I wait until I feel like going to a meeting or feel like calling someone, it means I'm going t...
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Sunrise Quote 10/12
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Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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Today's Gift 10/12
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. --Aldous HuxleyThis is a hard concept for us addicts to get. We believed avoidance was a form of self-care. Our illness depended on our ability to deny its existence. Only when we were bleeding out of every pore of our body, were we willing to admit th...
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My Dry Drunk Syndrome before AA.
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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 drinking. The old ple...
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Sunrise Quote 10/11
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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. ~Rohn, Jim on Leaders and Leadership
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Today's Gift 10/11
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If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation it would be the ability of each individual to learn to laugh at himself. --Charles SchulzIn recovery, we learn to laugh at the kind of person we were when our addiction was out of control. We don't laugh at the fact of our addiction; w...
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What are some of your favorite recovery movies
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One of my favs is "My Name Is Bill W." It's and oldie but a goodie. And, from what I know pretty accurate historically. Here are some movies about addiction and recovery I put together on my site. The movies play well on laptops or desktops, but other devices not to sure. The movies are meant to...
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Soberversary
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The calendar informs my soberversary is at hand. I am grateful, humbled, satisfied, relieved and amazed. I thank God, AA, and all its members because there is no way I could have stayed sober by myself. Man, am I glad to be living a sober life today. Am going to pick up a chip at a meeting today...
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Fantastic start to the day
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Morning everyone, someone must really be looking after me(my higher power i think), went to work yest for a meeting and managed to keep my job, after asking them could i have some unpaid leave of absence to get well, they suggested i go to the doctors and get a sick note for 4wks and that way i will still get...
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Sunrise Quote 10/10
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Let each become all that he was created capable of being. ~Carlyle, Thomas on Excellence
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Today's Gift 10/10
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The most useless day of all is that in which we have not laughed. --Sebastian R. N. ChamportWe are told that laughter is sunshine filling a room. And where there is laughter, there also is life. They say that people who laugh a lot live longer than do the sour-faced. When we laugh together, gratitude com...
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Today's Gift 10/9
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. --George EliotWho are we, really? It seems like we are one person on the inside, and yet we often act like someone else. Can a good person do bad things? Can a bad person do good things? It's pretty confusing, isn't it?Our recovery program teache...
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Sunrise Quote 10/9
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Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences. ~Adrian Rogers
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John Belushi; A Sad Natural History Of A Disease
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This story runs somewhat parallel to the Patrick Kennedy story I posted yesterday. For example, I see the "pathology of silence" prominent in the Belushi case. And, of course, denial is present (exhibited by the funniest joke about alcoholism denial I have ever read). Ebert does a fine j...
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Day nine
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Feeling great although i am under no illusions that this illness can tap me on the shoulder at any time. Ive got a plan for today to keep busy and am looking forward to one of my favourite meetings tonight. How is everyone elses day going? xxx
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Sunrise Quote
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Never look down on anybody, unless you're helping them up. ~Jesse Jackson Sr.
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Today's Gift 10/8
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Being openSometimes we think we're supposed to have more recovery under our belts. Perhaps we feel the need to impress our peers with our success in staying off mind-altering chemicals. But perhaps we are really just trying to convince ourselves. We know how difficult recovery is, and surely our Hi...
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Just thinking out loud...
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I have been in AA for a number of years. It has helped me stay sober. I now have a new boyfriend. You guessed it, he drinks. This is the first boyfriend that I have, since being sober, that drinks. Just wanted to get this out there. You can all image what is going through my mind. Oh some days lif...
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Today's Gift 10/7
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Courage is fear that has said its prayers. -- Dorothy BernardNo one of us is always courageous. With trepidation we embark on many journeys. Fear is dispelled each time we rely on our inner strength and trust that our lives are in good hands.Self-talk is powerful and will prepare us to meet whatever li...
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New here
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I'm scared I'm going to fail at this and let everyone down.
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Sunrise Quote
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire
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Sunrise Quote
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Coming together is beginning;keeping together is progress;working together is success.Henry Ford
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Things are looking up
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Morning all, and what a beautiful day it is here. Got some good news, me and my husband have been offered a house to rent from a friend, just need to view it but think were gonna take it. Our daughter will be over the moon, its got a big garden for her to play in, as we only had a yard in our old house. Also on my 8th...
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from an AA Friend ... (humor)
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RAMBLINGS OF A RETIRED MIND Today I was in a store that sells sunglasses, and only sunglasses. A young lady walks over to me and asks, "what brings you in today?"I looked at her, and said, I'm interested in buying a refrigerator. She didn't quite know how to respond. Am I getting to be th...
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th way we think
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yeppers , this IS how an Alkie would think.
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Hey Kaz ... How you Do'n???
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Was just think'n 'bout you ... hope thing's are well ... Love ya and God Bless, Pappy
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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October 5, 2015Quote of the Week"How do you know when you've hit bottom? When you stop digging." For years I was driven by an obsession to drink. In the beginning I tried to control it, but after a while it had complete control of me. Alcoholism took me to a deep emotional, spiritual and phy...
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Today's Gift 10/6
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced. --Soren KierkegaardMaybe our debt is spiraling so out of control we can't face it. We can't tolerate sitting at the table one more time trying to manipulate figures to meet the month's expenses. If we're responsible for creating the de...
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Today's Gift 10/5
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Gifts of the SpiritThrough the program, we come to desire spiritual gifts as well as material necessities. Experience shows us that serenity is priceless and something to be desired. Courage, wisdom, faith, hope, love, humility - these are all spiritual gifts which come to us from our Higher Power...
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