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Selfish Program ???
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Last night at my meeting we did the 7th step out of the 12&12. So of course we talked about humility. I heard many different explanations of what humility means to different people. I know in the book it talked about becoming loving and tolerant of other people. For me there are two things that stand...
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Sunday
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Thomas Alva Edison I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.:)
Have a good day...Im outa here...
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painful weekend
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Hope for Today - April 9
My father, who was a violent drunk, died of alcoholism when I was 18 years old. For many years I thought of him as bad, evil, and weak. I judged him and felt confident I was correct in my harsh assessment of his behavior. I said in meetings that I understood alcoholism as a...
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Interesting website
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Went looking for a topic on anger and found this website. Other topics also on problems that go hand and hand with alcoholism. www.apa.org/topics/topicanger.html   
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ex-girlfriend.........continued....
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Hello everybody,
I have been thinking about moving in with my ex. I talked to her two nights ago and told her that I couldn't do it. Not now. I'm not in any position to leave this area into a possibly stressful environment. The way I look at it I won't be able to care for anyone else like I want to unti...
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Hey Mistermook
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Hey ..
Hows your weekend going mate?
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I have 5 days now :-)
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Hi all
***This post has ended up really long..  oh well you dont have to read all of it***
Well now i have 5 days..
Probably going fishing tomorrow.. Got some maggots and worms today.. mixed up some groundbait tonight.. not had much experience with that so hope that works out.....
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its Saturday- I should be pleased
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I have just won on the grand national but I cant even be arsed to work out what I have won. I am feeling a bit down, I think it is my partner, I have suppressed my feelings for 5 years and done everything her way, now I am doing something for me and it threatens her want want wants and she is being really "off" wit...
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To "Let Go" Takes Love
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To "Let Go" Takes Love
To “let go” does not mean to stop caring,
it means I can’t do it for someone else.
To “ let go” is not to cut myself off, it is
the realization I can’t control another.
To “let go” is not to enable, but to allow
learning from natural consequences.
To “l...
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Poured it down the toilet.. I dont need it!
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Bollox to it..
Iv got no alcohol here and i havent had any..
I now have 3 days sober..
So Alcohol, you tried to catch me? Not this time my old friend! No this time I stay with my new friend Sobriety.
Alcohol how many times did you bring me down and let me down? Sobriety n...
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4th Night sober ! :-)
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Well the offli is closed.. Another sober night for me 
I didnt go to a meeting.. Had been thinkign about it.. wasnt really sure if i would or wouldnt tonight.. but i kept dosing off in the bath and when i woke up i was starvin, no time to eat and go to meetin.. So went out for a burger....
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Resentments
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heard at meetings ...
"Resentment is when You drink the poison and wait for the other guy to die."
(and you might imagine what sort of poison that an alcoholic might drink)
"Resentment was not getting my way in the past, anger is not getting my way today, and fear is not gettin...
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Saturday
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Each Day a New Beginning.
Life is patchwork--here and there, scraps of pleasure and despair. Joined together, hit or miss. --Anne Bronaugh
As you look ahead, to this day, you can count on unexpected experiences. You can count on moments of laughter. And you can count on twinges of fea...
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Daily Reflections April 8
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AN INSIDE LOOK We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us. We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves. By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS...
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Two months on this forum!!.. Thankyou
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I was just readin my very first post on this board... It was on the 6th feb.. Soo.. iv been on here for two months now..
I just wana thank everyone again.. For everything.. For welcoming me. For all your support. All the information.. For listening to m...
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HEY
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I GOT INTO UNIVERSITY ! ! !
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A Powerful Doorway to Personal Growth
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Compassion – by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
What if there was one choice you could make that would change everything in your life for the better? Actually, there is. It’s the choice to move out of judgment and into compassion for yourself and others. Compassion is defined as a deep caring...
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Those Old Time Feelings
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Those Old Time Feelings
I still have bad days. But thats okay. I used to have bad years. --Anonymous
Sometimes, the old feelings creep back in. We may feel fearful, ashamed, and hopeless. We may feel not good enough, unlovable, victimized, helpless, and resentful about it all. This is a cond...
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does this snake have a tail???
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" 'Oh no! Not something else to work on!' How often we feel discouraged when we become aware of yet another self-defeating pattern in our lives. 'Who needs this much awareness?' we may wonder. Yet many of these frustrating patterns are rooted in a healthy love- centered search for what is beautiful. W...
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Good morning Rob
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Hi There,
I saw that you were online, and just wanted to say Good Morning.
Hope today brings you some good things your way,
Love, Toni -- Edited by Toni Baloney at 11:12, 2006-04-07
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paradoxical commandments
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The Paradoxical Commandments by Dr. Kent M. Keith People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed an...
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The Promises -My Experience Today
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Why Dogs Don't Live as Long as People
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From: Why Dogs Don't Live As Long As People... Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog's owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy, Shane, were all very much attached to Belker and they were hoping for a miracle.
I examine...
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a new perspective...
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Just a few days ago, I was feeling so sorry for myself... My marriage sucks, my job sucks, I feel the only good thing in my life is my children. and then...
Well , there's this woman who needs an apartment, and we work with this group, Cascade Aids Project, not too many people will re...
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hey, everybody!!
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I just want to say hello to everyone. I see a lot of us happen to be online at the moment.
love in recovery,
amanda
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a concern
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Hello folks ...
I'm not trying to stir up controversy but I've had an on-going concern (for about 15 years) of closing meetings with "The Lord's Prayer".
I've become general chair of an 11th Step group in my area where it's becoming increasingly common for people to be a bit indiscreet in shar...
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?????????
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I don't know what's going on with me. I'm sober and I feel like crap. I feel like someone injected freon in my veins. I had this horrible headache and now I feel like I've been poisoned or something. Talk about fear. I took excederin and then ibuprofen a few hours later. I don't think that can cause problem...
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drinking quotes
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Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with,...
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Attitude
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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James (1842 - 1910)
I am still determined to be cheerful...
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Hiya
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Hi there, sorry for my out burst, I have been a little down in the dumps of late. I am feeling not too bad today and intend to keep it that way. I understand that alcoholism is a disease not just a moral issue.
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Security (and more)
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through exper...
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FARMER
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* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. * Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. * Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. * A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. * Words that soak into your ears ar...
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Tonight
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Well its coming up to 22:30, offi closed half an hour ago.. didnt buy drink..
BUT i did find a can under my bed when i was looking for some crisps.
I have not drank it.. i prob wont. But im not gona post till tomorrow.. just encase ..
Not much else to say at the mo.. i pretty much posted ever...
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An Article On The "Big One"
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Random Thoughts and Reflections on Love
Larry James
How do you define love?
Some say it's mysterious, magical, complex, difficult, imaginary, thought-provoking, inspirational, intuitional, joyous, immeasurable, ecstasy, and undefinable. Perhaps.
In one of Dr. John Gray's audi...
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2nd night sober
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Ok.. so its just gone 10pm.. the offlicense is now closed and im sober..
I tired as hell and going to bed soon.. Probably for the best.. probably dream about irish shellfish with italian names scuttling along a sandy beach.. and mabe something to do with pigs... lol..
Again Alcoho...
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Good Morning
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Patience
How sick and tired we may become of people telling us to be patient or to learn patience. How frustrating it can be to want to finally have something, or to move forward, and then not have that happen. How irritating to have someone tell us to wait while our needs have not been met and were in t...
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Pour ME
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Self Pity
"Poor little ol' me." The PLOMS. How often do we succumb to this temptation? Usually it's an excuse for not doing what we know we should do, but do not want to do. Or it's a way to manipulate someone else into doing something for us which we should be doing ourselves. If we spend our tim...
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when i laugh now it is REAL
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The following is from "Hope for Today" An Al-Anon daily meditation reader approved by World Service Conference Al-Anon Family Groups (c) 2002 Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc ---------------------------------------------
Hope for Today - April 6
I always used s...
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Only Human
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"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are m...
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Daily Reflections April 6
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Daily Reflections A LIFETIME PROCESS We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of rea...
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BEACHOLOGY
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When I stand up for myself and my beliefs, they call me a BEACH.
When I stand up for Those I love, They call me a BEACH.
When I speak my mind, think my own thoughts or do things my own way, They call me a BEACH.
Being a BEACH means I won't Compromise what's in my heart.
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Property Lines
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Property Lines
A helpful tool in our recovery, especially in the behavior we call detachment, is learning to identify who owns what. Then we let each person own and possess his or her rightful property.
If another person has an addiction, a problem, a feeling, or a sel...
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Amazing
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I was amazed on my way back from a meeting, there was a injured wood pidgeon in the road and another wood pidgeon swooped down, picked this injured bird up with its feet and fluttered it to safty. Why would a bird do that? I always thought it was only humans who were given the gift of God and spirituality, bu...
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A great day
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Hey guys. have done my morning prayer and feeling good, I wondered if you could share insight as to what to pray as I am new.
I know that the book tells us " Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives...
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Today was quite fun.
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Omg i am so tired.. Stayed up online and then watchin film till bout 01:40 this morning.. got to sleep by about 2 or alittle after i gues.. .. Bit of a rough night.. no too bad.. t-shirt soaked when i woke up.. bloody sweats.... Actualy i had a dream that it was today and that i had real bad shake...
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Wednesday
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Real love is like holding an egg in your hand. The tighter you squeeze, the more you lose. Ron P.
When we learn to love the beauty & gifts of others as separate from us, healthy relationships can flourish. Control is the enemy of love & at the heart of our pa...
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I didnt go to a meeting today but i didnt drink either
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Hey everyone.
Well i didnt go to the meeting tonight.. gees im so tired tonight.. even more so when i first left work... I kept thinking of walking into the meeting and the guy called Carl outside sayin "how are you doing?... improvement?".. he said somethign like that last week ..and also facing ala...
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Keep it in today
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One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone. --Ida Scott Taylor
It's not always easy to understand that the day stretching before us is all that counts. Daydreaming about the party last week, or getting upset all over again about a fight we had yester...
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hey all
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well the wheather is getting warm. and im am glad . going to get gared tilled next week. and getting my tomatoes started. (friom seed). also flower box to fill so starting flowers too. life is good!!!! take care all stay sober wagon
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Stress
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Hi A.A.
I think that I suffer with stress and it has to be stopped, I cant seem to be able to relax and I am always anxious about things, I would say my career in business does not help too much, a lady said reiki is my answer today but I do not know if I believe in it!
Have you had a problem with stress? and how...
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