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fear sucks, but is normal
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There is nothing so moving--not even acts of love or hate--as the discovery that one is not alone. --Robert Ardrey
Our fears are normal. Some of us fear going to a new school and making new friends. Taking an important test causes jitters in the bravest looking person. Maybe staying alone in the ho...
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i shall begin again and again
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Clear Thinking
Strive for clear thinking. Many of us have had our thinking clouded by denial. Some of us have even lost faith in ourselves because we've spent a degree of time in denial. But losing faith in our thinking isn't going to help us. What we need to lose faith in is denial.We didn't resort t...
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detaching...regrouping
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Hope for Today - October 29 Before I came into Al-Anon, I took disparagingcomments to heart. I believed them and found myself wondering what was wrong with me. Even asI became older, I carried inside the person who grew up with alcoholic parents and endured the abuse that accompanied the disease. A...
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Honesty
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"To be honest is to be real, genuine, authentic, and bona fide.
To be dishonest is to be partly feigned, forged, fake, or fictitious.
Honesty expresses both self-respect and respect for others.
Dishonesty fully respects neither oneself nor others.
Hon...
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Acceptance
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Acceptance
A magical potion is available to us today. That potion is called acceptance.
We are asked to accept many things: ourselves, as we are; our feelings, needs, desires, choices, and current status of being. Other people, as they are. The status of our relationships with them. Problem...
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Survival
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Dirk and Kenny...
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Just wanted to welcome you guys to the board.Dirk I hope the procedure goes ok and all is well.Hope you let us know.
Kenny , keep posting, great advice.
Stay sober, ya'll.
(((Hugs)))
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Humility
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Step Seven "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."
Since this Step so specifically concerns itself with humility, we should pause here to consider what humility is and what the practice of it can mean to us.
Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principl...
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I wonder. . .
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She's a shapely, voluptuous brunette with wavy tresses of dark hair literally gleaming with health and vigor. Her body is hypnotically appealing--feminine, luring, inviting. She loves to wear hip-hugger jeans and short blouses, and when her back is to me I can see the tattoo of a phoe...
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sucky day!!! need hugs/encouragement
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You are reading from the book Food for Thought </OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=33>.
Food Is Not Home
Breaking abstinence may be an attempt to go home emotionally. Since we associate food, and especially certain foods, with early experience, we may turn to food when we crave th...
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colonoscopy
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would a fellow alcoholic have any experience of colonoscopy that they would care to share ? they do it with a sedation during this procedure and recommend a long resting period afterward to recover from the sedation - usally back home for outpatient procedure...
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Caffine Thoughts
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
While we are postponing, life speed...
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I'm afraid to go to a meeting...
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I've gone before and I was so uncomfortable, I felt really lost and out of place. I felt like I didnt belong there, like I didnt deserve to be with these people. This sounds terrible but I actually feel discouraged by their success. They seem to have already climbed this mountain that I'm at the bottom of...
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Canadian Smile For The Day
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Mike was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an
important
meeting and couldn't find a parking place.
Looking up toward heaven, he said, "Lord, take pity on me. If you
find
me a parking place I will go to church every Sunday for the rest...
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mountains or molehills??
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Problems have only the size and the power that you give them. --S. H.
We will not be free from all difficulties today, or during any period of our lives. But we have the personal power to eliminate the threat, the sting of any challenge. But it's our vision of circumstances that gives them their inte...
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kinda sad..another grief cycle
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Subject: Meditation: A Resting Place Daily Reflections, page 137
After writing down my character defects, I was unwilling to talk about them, and decided it was time to stop carrying this burden alone. I needed to confess those defects to someone else... Step Five provided me with a feeling of b...
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WE DON'T DRINK, NO MATTER WHAT
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When I first got sober, I started going to a meeting once a week...the "old man" meeting. It's members probably had 100 years sobriety combined, most of them had at least 20 yrs or more. They welcomed me into their meeting...one of the few women who ever went for a long time and taught me so much about what...
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(((Cheri)))
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how are you doing??
i noticed another post that you mentioned 2 meetings a week aren't enough for you, are you ok?
and i've really missed you on here...sniff, sniff
big, huge, hugs, Wendy
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hello there
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Hello all,
Been awhile since the last time I pop in. Alot as been going on in my life, dealing with the ex and other personal matters. So all I been doing is going to school and throwing myself into meetings. It's amazing. for atleast hour and a half a day, I can forget the bad things....
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"justice is truth in action"
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Today is October 27, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery!
JUSTICE
"Justice is truth in action." -- Benjamin Disraeli It is not enough for me to believe that a thing is true, it is important for me to live out my beliefs. For too long I had a thousand beliefs that only kept me silent. A fear of d...
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The Pickle Jar
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The pickle jar as far back as I can remember sat on the floor beside the dresser in my parents' bedroom. When he got ready for bed, Dad would empty his pockets and toss his coins into the jar. As a small boy I was always fascinated at the sounds the coins made as they were dropped into the jar. They landed with...
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a Question about sharing
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who knows
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Im looking from my bedroom window as I tap this out on the laptop, everything is so clear today, everyone says it’s the hottest October day since 18 something or other,
The Solent is a dark blue strip under a great pale cloudless sky, summer has come back today, everything white is very white, the sail...
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response to awilliam from above.
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Dont know of any pills Andrew--tried antibuse to keep from drinking, but it didnt stop me.
And I also didn't give a flying f.... about anything--or anyone.
I didnt give a shit about anything.-- and lost everything there was to loose. I knew it was all a slow suicide--and thats where I wanted to end u...
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Addict in a hole
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I sole this off another boardbut think you'll all will enjoy it, just substitute alkie for addict.
Just wanted to share a story with you that I discovered a while back. The author is anonymous, but it came from an NA newsletter. It's called "Addict In A Hole."
An addict fell in a hole and couldn'...
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It's Time....
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It's Time....
I just wanted to share with everyone who has read my posts over the past couple of weeks in which I have been faced with much hardship in abusive situations with my employer, my daughter, my ex husband..... As some of you know, my doctor has even kept me off work until th...
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Anne Frank and my gratitude
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Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. --Anne Frank
Anne Frank had good reason to be unhappy, full of fear, and deeply discouraged. Years of her life were spent in a small apartment hiding from the Nazis who wanted to destroy her and her family. Yet even in this little hiding place she had hap...
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The Big Book
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Is it available to read on line? I don't mind paying for it but I don't know when I'm going to be able to get to a meeting.
I'm really feeling like I need to read the "chapter to the agnostic" right now.
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A Turning Point
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Hi, gang.
I may have mentioned this before, but I am currently involved in a very intimate relationship to a woman who means a great deal to me. Unfortunately, we live 1300 miles apart, and for those of you who have ever attempted a "long-distance" romance you know at once what difficulties an...
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Mistaken beliefs about Relapse
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A MISTAKEN BELIEF IS SOMETHING THAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE TRUE AND ACT AS IF IT WERE TRUE WHEN, IN FACT, IT IS FALSE. Mistaken belief #1: If you stop addictive use for a while and then begin using again, you have relapsed. Fact: Relapse cannot occur until the addict acknowledges the presence of addictive dis...
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Thought for today
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You can't make chicken salad
out of chicken shit!
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Never Lose Hope
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Never Lose Hope If you can look at the sunset and smile, then you can have hope If you can find beauty in the colors of a flower, then you still have hope If you can find pleasure in the movement of a butterfly, then you still have hope If the smile of a child can still warm your heart, then you still have hope If...
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Dadrrb
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Hi all. I am not a regular poster to your side of the board but wanted to let you know of a sad event. My husband, dadrrb, was a member of this site. He didn't post often but read your posts faithfully and gained a lot of ES&H from all of you. His name was Robert. He passe...
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Reflections for Beginners
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Reflections for Beginners 'Hour To Hour - The First 30 Days' - Shelly Marshall Sometimes reality slaps us right in the face. We may be out of money, facing jail, losing a loved one, or hating our circumstances. However, right this hour we have only one true reality: SOBRIETY. Without sobriety a...
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emotional sobriety
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Emotional Sobriety "If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. Let us, with God's help, continually surrender these hobbling liabilities. Then we can be set free to live and love; we may then b...
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Another Turmoil and Healing thing
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Emotional Turmoil and Healing in Separation and Divorce
separation and divorce = strong emotions. This can be a wide range of very powerful emotions, including, but certainly not limited to, hurt, rage, love, longing, confusion, betrayal, surprise, guilt, failure, desperation. Sometime...
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can't seem to stop the insanity etc.
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I had a sponsor but just stopped calling her. I have not had a drink for over 90 days now but don't seem to be able to stop other bad habits... i.e. being honest with myself and others. I am a horse theif and want to stop.l At the meetings everyone says that if I keep coming back things wil...
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refraining from bad relationships
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Abstaining from Harmful Relationships
Habit sometimes locks us into relationships, which are not in our best interest. It is easy to mistake dependency for love. When we stop overeating compulsively, we can evaluate our attachments to other people with greater clarity and perception than w...
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Please...please someone...
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tell me what I need to do to stop. I will listen, I will do it...just tell me.
I know I've been arrogant on this board in the past. I know I've been argumentative, and difficult, but I'm tired of fighting and I just want to have some peace and order in my life. -- Edited by TipsyMcStagger at 12:43, 2005-1...
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"better bend than break"
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Today is October 25, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery!
FLEXIBILITY
"Better bend than break." -- Scottish Proverb Dis-ease: to be controlling, stiff, uncomfortable and unbending.
Sobriety: being relaxed, comfortable and flexible in my personal life and my interaction with o...
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Sao
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Hello e boa vinda. Perdoe-me, mim não falam o português, mim estão usando um tradutor em linha. Você diz que você têm 15 anos do sobriety e você para assistir a reuniões, você tem um patrocinador? Você destilador está indo às reuniões? Aqui nos EUA eu mantenho-me no contato próximo com outros membros d...
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Confusion says......
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Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of.
Army Laws: If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, pick it
up. If you can't pick it up, paint it.
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music therapy
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http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=2916411&q=lo
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Another Day
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Letting Go of the Past
Some people believe that each of our days were planned, Divinely Ordered, before we were born. God knew, they say, and planned exactly what was to transpire.
Others suggest we chose, we participated in planning our life - the events, the people, the circumsta...
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Cumprimentos de Londres
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Olá,
Eu gostaria muito de encontrar uma madrinha portuguesa, há por aí alguém que queira contactar comigo.
Sobriedade não se pode manter sem que se tenha uma madrinha, no meu caso tornasse muito urgente comunicar o que só se pode ser comunicado na minha língua materna.
Recuperação envol...
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ACCEPTANCE...from the big book
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Acceptance "And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it i...
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EMOTIONAL INTIMACY
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Emotional intimacy is one of the most wonderful experiences we ever have. Nothing else really comes close to the experience of sharing our deepest thoughts and feelings with another, of being deeply seen and known, of sharing love, passion, laughter, joy, and/or creativity. The experience of i...
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i had to become nothing first
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Become nothing before God, learn to keep silent; in this silence is the beginning, which is first to seek God's kingdom. --Soren Kierkegaard
So many devastating things can bring us to our knees. With experience we learn that pain and trouble are part of life. Most of us have fought against everyd...
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inventory doesn't have to be a beheading
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Hope for Today - October 24
My years in Al-Anon made me aware that I need to be careful about how I hear and interpret certain words. Consider "defects of character" and "shortcomings," which are found in Steps Six and Seven respectively. I came into Al-Anon believing I was responsible for...
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Heroes?
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Ozzy Osbourne says he wrote the song Suicide Solution after the death of his friend Bon Scott who died after drinking heavily one winter's night and passing out in his car.
Suicide Solution Wine is fine But whiskey's quicker
suicide is slow with liquor
Take a bottle drown your sorrows
Then it...
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