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struggling tonight
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I'm struggling tonight and I don't want to call my sponsor because she's already in bed, she said she had to work early in the morning. I know, I know I should call anyway but I can't bring myself to call people this late at night. Nothing's wrong, it's just late on a Saturday night with nothing to do so I wan...
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Choose differently
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"It is always your next move."
-- Napoleon Hill
The great benefit of heightened awareness is that we have more choice in how we live our lives. At any moment, we can purposefully choose a new experience for ourselves. We can choose to pay attention, breathe more deeply, laugh, rest, play, appreci...
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I'm back...I'm here...I'm still sober!
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First...thanks to those of you that msg'd me privately thinking of me...it sure was nice to log in today to find so much thoughtfullness! 
I'm sorry for my abrupt absence....I was having a hard time....Thursday was my 5 month sobriety birthday and I was feeling really discontent and agitat...
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Walked out of a Meeting
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Last night I went to a meeting. Vented some garbage that was in my head. Then this lady starts talking and talking and talking and talking and talking. You get the picture. I really don't want to hear about your active alcoholism and your views on stuff other than alcohol. That was how I felt. Said Fu** th...
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Letter from alcohol?
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At the AA group I go to they have a letter on the bullitin board from alcohol to the alcoholic, where it's saying it's your best friend and all this stuff but it makes you realize how bad it is and what it's done to you. I'd seen one online for self-injury before too but never saved a copy. I was wanting a copy o...
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Goodbye
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Well Folks, Through Prayer and Meditation I have come to the decision that I cannot be an active participant of the Group here. It was a hard decision to make but the only one that I feel at peace with myself about. This is undoubtably one of the best groups in recover on the internet today. It is not the gro...
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Higher Power
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New website: blog.asweunderstandit.com Designed to support those lacking belief or faith in God, yet still maintaining their sobriety through the remainder of the AA program
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Tonights Meeting
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Just a reminder, on the AA chat there's an AA meeting at 6 PST, 9 EST on Tuesday's and Saturdays. Just left the meeting, and we could use a few more people. Had a wonderful chairperson tonight, and an excellent topic. Hope others will join us. Saturdays are good for me, Tuesdays iffy, but su...
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alittle resentment
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We all know resentment isnt good.I have been going back to meetings sharing i had 16 years and picked up and how gratful i am to have came back.there is always someone who wants to beat you up about it.as if im not doing a good job of doing that myself.He really got me angry i said thank you for your caring and...
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Struggling
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Was feeling good all day up until I got to my meeting. Talked with one of the old-timers and got a huge reality check. Kind of gained a new perspective on meetings and how to view things. All I know right now is that I'm in spiritual pain. All this stuff on my mind and it's all crap I can't do anything about. Fe...
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Perscription
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A friend sent this to me - thought I would share it - hope you like it .
Prescribed by the** **Great Physician** ** ***************************** The next time you feel like GOD can't use you, just remember... Noah was a drunk Abraham was too old Isaac was a daydreamer Jacob was a liar Leah was u...
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finding a higher power
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Did anyone else struggle with this when you started AA? I have no faith anymore. I was a wiccan when I was a young teen, and then I became a Christian when I was 16 and lost my faith about a year ago. I believe there's some type of god because I don't believe in evolution or the big bang theory, someone had to cr...
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Acceptance and Surrender
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Each Day a New Beginning.
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. --Olive Schreiner
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change. Many times -- yesterday, last week, today, and even tomorrow -- we'll come face-to-face with a seemingly intolerable...
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Emotional Sobriety...???
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 Anyone been to any of these non-AA workshops? Just wondering.., thuinking about attending one, but dunno yet. Would like to get some opinions first....
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Steps 4 and 5
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Step 4-Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 5-Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
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Emotional Sobriety
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Good morning,
Just wanted to open this topic up, for discussion, this a.m. The very best part of my Recovery, if there is such a thing, is Emotional Sobriety.
No More Mellow Drama, Just life being life, with it's ups and downs. I have been upset in the last few days, and have been feeling off-cen...
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Toni Baloney
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AA Founder's Day!!!!
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I live in the Akron, OH area and had the great pleasure of attending Founder's Day this past weekend. What a humbling experience, to be with fellow recovering alcoholics from around the world. I met people from Australia, Ireland and England. James from England ended up sharing his story at on...
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New here...
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Hi everyone, I'm new here, I'm Lisa and I'm an alcoholic... I'm 22, and I've been drinking off and on since I was 12. My sobriety date is only 4 days ago, 6/12/2006. I'm a binge drinker, I'm fine for months and then I start drinking again and it's nearly every night for a few weeks, drinking until I get sick m...
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got a sponser
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My ego wants me to do things my way i hate having a sponser after all these years of sponsering other woman.But i am taking direction and she also had 16 years and went out a few years ago so God has a plan and i dont. hugs thank you for all you love and kindiness jean
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giving up anger...
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At my meeting tonight we were talking about the principles of AA, we mostly talked about the whole giving up anger part of it. I actually joined in and talked a bit even though I'm still new to this. It's been 4 days of no alcohol and I'm already noticing a difference, I'm not as irritable as I have been thes...
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Shadows
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Getting older, things changing.. One day everthing perfect, care free... next day f**k*d up, everthing out the window. Years ago - nothing to worry about, everything great, happy carefree..... now everything tits up more things to frown at than to smile at.. A family so perfect now so f**k*d up... F...
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Missed meetings
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Hi everyone,
I have missed my regular meetings this week so I thought I would share here. Not too much going on in my life, just regular day to day stuff. I am doing ok physically, some good days, some bad. My son is feeling much better after his bike accident. Sports day at th...
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Healing with Hurt
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Using Your Pain To Help Others
Pain is a fact of being and one that permeates all of our lives to some degree. Since the hurt we feel may be a part of the experiences that have touched us most deeply, we are often loathe to let it go. It is frequently easier to keep our pain at our sides, where i...
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The Problem..and The Solution
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Self Acceptance
The problem
The lack of self-acceptance is a problem for many recovering alcoholics. This subtle defect is difficult to identify and often goes unrecognized. Many of us believe that using alcohol was our only problem, denying the fact that our lives had become...
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Acceptance
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And acceptance is the answer to all your problems today. When you are disturbed, it is because you find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of your life -- unacceptable to you, and you can find no serenity until you accept that person, place, thing or s...
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A share about control and acceptance
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"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Phil
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Hello
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Good Morning from Mississippi my Friends! first I need to make amends for my lack of participation on the message board and to the Members of MIP. I give no excuses just a heartfelt apology. I will try to do better in the Future, thanks for being here for me.
"Bobby Dean"
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CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS????
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BEER
Chock full of nutrients (including iron, magnesium and B vitamins) and antioxidants, beer fights cellular inflammation and may prevent chronic diseases, concludes a new Austrian study. Drinking a glass a day also lowers your risk of developing dementia by 20 percent, accor...
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Program works
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Had a hard day today, a loved one in my family died yesterday of cancer, she was diagnosed as critical last week, and also the LEA are not going to fund me for uni, I am currently 3K short of making my life work, if anyone gets a winning scratch card please think of me!!
I did not drink on it and I discussed it...
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Robert
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Spiritual Life or Alcoholic Death
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One of my favorite speakers shared this at a round-up once:
As a survey, stand outside a Walmart, and ask the people coming out if they would rather live a spiritual life or die an alcoholic death.
The normies would say "by "alcoholic death" do you mean getting all puffy and yellow and so sick...
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Check in
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Good morning all. Stopped drinking 48 hours ago, and the shaking has just about stopped. Been eating vit B pills and other vits, drinking loads of water, still dehydrated though. Food is just starting to become an option again.
I'm not looking for sympathy.....that comes between Sh*t and syphili...
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poll question
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Poll Question: you must eat only biscuits or only sausage rolls..which?
Biscuits (one type only)
(1 vote, 14.2%)
Sausage rolls
(5 votes, 71.4%)
I'd top myself
(1 vote, 14.2%)
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Robert
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life
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hello all, things here in iowa are great. just wanted to let you know how its going for me.been busy with my meetings and my aa stuff,but most of all getting on with my life. doing things with my boys, one going to start his second year at college and the other a sophmore in high school,they both have jobs an...
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Our Fears
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Today's Gift.
Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J. H. Newman
Our fears lock us up if we let them. They can prevent us from tasting adventure, from experiencing new wonders. We are often terrified of unknowns and fret about what might...
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Research (Humorous)
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MAKE A BEAUTIFUL LIFE....
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How to make a Beautiful Life
Love yourself.
MAKE PEACE with who you are and where you are at this moment in time.
Listen to your heart.
If you can't hear what it's saying in this noisy world, MAKE TIME for yourself.
Enjoy your own company.
Let your mind wander among the stars.
TRY.
Take c...
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restless, irritable, and discontent
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What a day......
Ever have one of those days where nothing seems to go right? Well, it's been one! It's like the simplest tasks become near impossible feats of strength. LOL! Was at work today just struggling, struggling and that's when all those crappy feelings started kicking in. Man, oh man. Wha...
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sluggish
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nearly got angry at work today, I have not been trained to do what i do, and I didnt know what to do on a call, every time I need help the manager seems to not be there, and when he is he cant be bothered! its really good practice for tolerence, but i nearly had my way today, that aint good thy will be done
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Robert
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just got back from a meeting
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Well i did it folks i entered the rooms again and noone kicked me out.Im going to be alright one day at a time.Thanks you for helping me find my way
god bless
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The Racing Brain
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Listening to Thought
In opening the mind, or 'letting go', we bring attention to one point on just watching, or being the silent witness who is aware of what comes and goes. With this insight meditation, we're using the three characteristics of change,displeasure,honesty) to observe mental and...
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Its past midnite in New York
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So Technically it is June 13, here in California, must be pretty bored tonight, cause I really made this Post so I could be the FIRST to make a Post for the 13th.
Some are sicker than others, I am living PROOF.
ROFLMAO,
Toni
Happy Tuesday, from one that is still in Monday in the Sunshine s...
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Just a Quick Update
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Hi Everyone,
The MIP Chat Rooms are now on a new server called
irc.chat4all.org. You really only need this information if you use an IRC
program like mIRC to enter the #aachat room. Just add this server to your
server list on your IRC program.
I have also upgraded the j...
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Needing to slow down.......
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I don't know what's going on with me lately. Can't concentrate, can't focus. Trying to exercise, brain still won't come off overdrive. Talked to my sponsor about it. He told me it's a double edged sword dealing with an anxiety/depression disorder along with alcoholism. That's kind of hard to accept...
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Thank God I am sober
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 Hi everyone,
My son had a bad biking accident on the weekend. We just took his training wheels off and he was riding on his own. He was going too fast and I was yelling for him to slow down when he hit a rock and went over his handlbars. It was a mess. He lost his front teet...
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Wishing you all another sober 24...
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that w...
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Phil
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A Bad Joke to Share at an A.A. Meeting
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Last week there was this guy telling jokes before the meetings, just like he always does. Got to laugh, right? Well he ended with this one how many blah blah does it take to screw in a light bulb. Anyways, I told my joke which was not received well. Must've been the audience. I'll shut up now.......
How m...
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aaah! oh my god this is hard!
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What is this! Im going insane! this is my fourth or third day sober i dont even know, Ive never been so anxious in my life i want to pull my hair out or run or scream. My skin is crawling my body is swollen with water my ears are ringing my muscles are tense what the hell. My room is a mess. I didnt realize i hadnt c...
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More.. on Emotional Sobriety & the 12 Steps
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EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY
2. And The Steps of AA
Emotional Sobriety (ES) loosely follows the path of AA’s Twelve Steps, but through necessity, is formatted to suit a new approach. In our system, there is a need to group some steps in order to undertake certain goals. These groups are looked upo...
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Onion-OM
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Peeling The Onion Breaking Through Barriers
The human psyche is almost infinitely complex, made up of layers upon layers of thoughts, experiences, emotions, fears, loves, and goals. Those who seek to find the true essence of being or to move past a fear find that there are many intermediat...
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my mom has no faith in me
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I think i may be one of the youngest in here.
so this morning (or i should say afternoon) I wanlked through my back door into the kitchen. My dad gave me a cheery "hello boo!" I said hello. "Where have you been?" I could see the concern in his eyes through that fake smile.. " I slept at cindy's" He wanted to b...
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