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evening all
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I tried to get a substance called Gabba today as it says in 7 days to sobriety that it can help anxiety. any way when i went into the health shop i was advised it is a banned substance in bodybuilding. ,there was another item as well on the list, that promotes serotonin , this is banned too and has been known t...
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observation...
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... when a sober person in AA publicly tells a struggling, tormented, still drinking alcoholic who deperately wants to stop but is finding it very hard to surrender to.. "s**t or get off the pot" does that mean he should go away and stop annoying this sober community until he is himself sober and on the p...
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Things seem to be gettin worse
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Things seem to be gettin worse
My weekend was pretty shit just like last weekend..
I just cant seem to stop drinking......... part of me wants to drink
i woke up this mornign feeling awful and thinking that tonight i was not gona drink (as iv thought SOO many bloody t...
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I almost cut my hand off...
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Every so often I go on a drinking binge for a couple of months. Every time before, I could quit when I really decided it was time. But this time... I started in January and have been drinking heavily most of the time. However, the last month or so, I had been trying to quit, but failing....
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Blame Mom: Bizarre Cause of Alcoholism
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Women who breastfeed their infants for just a month or less could be placing them at a far higher risk of becoming alcoholics as adults. That's the startling word from new research conducted at Copenhagen University in Denmark, which concluded that early weaning is one factor that predisposes adul...
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Calming the Mind--OM
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April 25, 2006 Silencing The Chatter Taming Monkey Mind In Meditation
It's been called the monkey mind - the endless chattering in your head as you jump in your mind from thought to thought while you daydream, analyze your relationships, or worry over the future. Eventually, you start to fe...
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Tuesday night share...
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True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.
Author:
Walter Anderson
It doesn't make any diffe...
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sponcer
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someone ask me to be their  sponcer sunday night. been sober but 16 months, still wet behind the ears myself, is this to soon? wagon
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Morning All
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According to a book I am reading at the moment, alot of alcoholics suffer from depression due to a particular amino acid in the brain being depleted, which then gives us little or no serotonin to fire, I am thinking of going to the Dr's today to see if this would be a safe option for me to suppliment with to h...
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morning all
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Hello!
I have had a wonderful weekend
I have taken a real dive into collecting funk soul and blues records which has always been a passion of mine, however alcohol made me forget but I have now re membered
As a coming up to the acedemic year I am both excited and nervous and just need to let go and turn...
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Bye for now
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Hi all, got 1hr and 20 mins to go before a meeting with my local alcohol support team. If it works out ok, I'll be in North Wales in 3 hours and sitting on the beach on Hell Island (Sorry Shell island!)
See ya next week, all the best.
Chris.
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April 25
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ENTERING A NEW DIMENSION In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension - freedom under God as we understand Him. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 283 I am for...
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today's gift
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We have within us a limitless supply of new beginnings. --Joan Fitzgerald
We can start our day over any time we choose. If we wake up crabby, on the "wrong side of the bed," we are not doomed to a day of gloom. Each minute can be a new reality for us. We can start a new day with just an ounce of will...
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From The Big Book...
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The Promises If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know pea...
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Good morning
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Today starts my first (hands on) day at work. No more orientation, yay!
Yesterday I went and hung out with one of the guys from the meetings. We worked out with some free weights. It was really cool. We went to a meeting later on. It was a big book study which included the promise from into action. I'm rea...
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Finding the Gift-from OM
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April 24, 2006 Finding The Gift Bad Days
We all have days from time to time when it feels like the world is against us or that the chaos we are experiencing will never end. One negative circumstance seems to lead to another. You may wonder, on a bad day, whether anything in your life will ever go ri...
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i need to live like NOW really is all i got
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MONDAY , APRIL 24, 2006
You are reading from the book Touchstones </OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=212>.
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. --Albert Camus
We live our program in one-day portions - and our acti...
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i love but i love with CARE
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SUNDAY , APRIL 23, 2006
You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go </OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=1271>.
Opening Ourselves to Love
Allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in recovery.Many of us have blocked ourselves from re...
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Grattitude
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Hi there, I ahve been to a place called the sactury today, I have been accepted for addiction counselling and also a big book study, looking fwd to it.
went into town for the first time in months today , was a bit strange. got some records from a thrift shop. Was a bit shocked when i went to the loo to find bi...
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april 24
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LEARNING TO LOVE OURSELVES
Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were surrounded by people who loved us... We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others . . . We still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy sort of domination or depe...
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Sponsees
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Wow, what a weekend with a couple of my sponsees. One ended up in the hospital sick with some unknown thing. One ended up homeless with kids. It's so hard sometimes as a sponsor to know when to step in and help out above the regular taking through the steps, etc... and give some practi...
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on the plus side
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I won this on ebay for £11
Most Valuable Album:
Album: Bob Dylan - Freewheelin’ Estimated Value: $25,000
Background: 1963. US. Stereo. This is the first release. Has "Stereo/360º sound" logo and a sticker with that reads "Singing His Sensational Hit 'Blowin' in the wind' ".
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Opening up...
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Opening Ourselves to Love
Allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in recovery.
Many of us have blocked ourselves from receiving love. We may have lived with people who used love to control us. They would be there for us, but at the high price of our freedom. Lo...
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guess what?? some better news
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hey u guys, the salesman who handled the job, that i had "screwed up" told me in a very nice email "rosie what U did was fixed--- we were SECOND lowest bid---so if we dont' get the job, its over PRICE, not what U did".....
i was so relieved that i didn'...
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Do It Anyway...
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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 freinds, and true enemies
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today, will be forgotten tom...
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Fire works
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Hello its all fun and games here, I had got in and was putting the roast pork on, and my partner got me! trying to control the situation as usual., I was just drainging the juices of the pork and my partner insisted that she take over, i firmly told her no, well that was it, she screamed at me threw down the cle...
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these are getting way to common
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04/23/2006
Two Teens Hurt In Crash West Of Sioux Falls
The South Dakota Highway Patrol says alcohol was a factor in an early morning crash west of Sioux Falls that sent two teenagers to the hospital with serious injuries. A 17-year-old driver lost control of his car on 267th Stree...
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DAY 1
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Well, today is day 1 for me again............
I drank the past two nights and felt like shit and didn't call my sponsor yet but I will today. I am starting over with step 1
Admitted we were powerless over alcohol and our lives had become unmanagable
Yes that is me. Power...
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Afternoon All
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Hey there. how is everyone doing today?
I am doing ok, just won a job lot of 28, 1970's 45 records (soul and funk) for guess how much....£1.70 ebay is cool man! I know i like stuff like the meters curtis mayfield jackson sisters, but i have a background that is in modern music, so this is all new to me!&nbs...
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Avoiding Conflict is an no...no...
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The number one problem in marriages seems to be avoidance of conflict. Whether it is not wanting to discuss who takes out the trash or who takes Susie and Johnny to their soccer games, conflict is not something we look forward to. It just seems easier either to ignore the problems or just accept them,...
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Just sharing a moment from within...
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If you want more love in the world
Create more love in your heart
If you want people to respect you
Respect them
This relationship applies to everything
In all aspects of life.
Life will give you back
Everything you have given to it.
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HOPE is a word, th...
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anyone doing the online meeting tonight?
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2 guesses - what I am cooking for tea tonight
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GO on see if im predictable
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ah its working! phew!!
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Hello how is it going? I have not been able to get on here due to what seemed tech problems!
I have a alcoholic counselling assesment on monday, with a place called the sactury they do B/Book studies also . and best of all its free!!
I am looking fwd to it!
Right boys night in again , me and the pooch, wi...
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i ALMOST got drunk today
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well i am entering the 60th year and its still hell
i made an honest mistake at work, (told the truth to a guy, when the salesmen was not so honest---long story)
but anyway, i am facing job loss.....the beat goes on for me....one thing after anohter &...
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NEED HELP & SUPPORT
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I've fallen so far off the wagon I don't know if I can get back on. I went through treatment in 1989 and stayed sober for 12 years. Then, in 2001, I decided I could handle alcohol again and would have a few drinks now and then. In 2002, my mother passed away, and all HELL broke loose.&nbs...
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Greetings......
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Hi everyone. I thought I was going to be working today in the factory/warehouse, whatever it is, but I ended up on the computer for eight hours absorbing information about procedure and safety. God I feel like my brain has been through the blender.
Just got off the phone with my sponsor and he wants me...
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Two alky's married for three years
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My wife and I have been having problems communicating. We were on the verge of divorce a few days ago. We are both alkies. Just wanting some feedback from people in AA that have been married for a while.
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Struggling
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Good morning everyone! I am really struggling the past week or so with the crap going on in my head. I have been thinking about drinking again and I know that is not the answer. I am having a hard time looking at myself. I want to be a better person, I want to have that serenity but...
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Impatient and Intolerant?
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Why are we Impatient and Intolerant?
As humans we reach out to others to fill a void in life
We seek to find our completeness in the company of another
or by possession of an object--
as if what another or anything outside of ourselves can offer
will make us happy
We expect a c...
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The High Cost....
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The High Cost of Resentment and Anger in Marriage
Many spouses carry heavy suitcases filled with a collection of anger and resentment from their marriage. Periodically, they unpack these suitcases and review every situation in which they feel they were treated unfairly.
"Resentment is...
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out of touch
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Hi there, sorry i have not been in touch, it has been a mad few days, anyway its the weekend, I have a belly full of tandori masala and im content. speak soon
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Havent slept since Tuesday
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Man I am feeling groggy., I slept quite poor on tues night, last night, I kept having panic attacks and felt like crap after drinking too much pop. it sounds wack but I dont think im gonna sleep tonight either. I am so bored.
I hate not sleeping, reminds me of the early days.
Perhaps I should go to bed? b...
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New Member
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hello all. My name is Michael and i am an alcoholic. I am married with two children ages 5 and 6. I am 27 years old from tennessee. my beer drinking habits are ruining my family and my life. I am in need of support and prayers. I found this message board today as if God directed me here. Thanks for any advise or...
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Re: Toni Baloney
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Just had a carrier pigeon..fly in from California....
Computer down...could be a few days...
Message to Sober...."Congrats on new job..glad everythings going better for you"
And to everyone on the board? "She sends her love...and will miss you."
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oops...Had to do a spe...
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New Job!!!
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The new job went well. Lots of paper signing and video watching along with some tests. Passed the tests with flying colors. Reading and comprehension is still easy for me. I guess my brain still works when it comes to certain things!!! The real work starts tomorrow. Hands on.
After all that I'...
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April 21
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CULTIVATING FAITH "I don't think we can do anything very well in this world unless we practice it. And I don't believe we do A.A. too well unless we practice it. . . . We should practice . . . acquiring the spirit of service. We should attempt to acquire some faith, which isn't easily done, especially for t...
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GREAT DAY TODAY
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Hello folks, sorry I have not visited for a couple of days. I have been so busy, I started back to work on Monday and am having a good time at it for a change, I also take in 2 meetings a day one in the am and one @ 5:30 pm and then I am also doing what they call IOP so I am staying very busy both in my recovery a...
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Touching base....
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Hi everyone I have not posted a topic for some time so just wanted to say hi. Things are good with me (reason being I have not had a drink!) Moving house soon and I am finding all the buying/selling very stressful. Although at the same time it is exciting I just pray I can stick with sobriety throughout the s...
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Hello
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Hello Everyone,
I just wanted to say hello and thank you for being here. Recovery has changed my life and I cannot thank AA and all the AA's enough. In 1993 my journey in recovery began and I continue to love my sober life. I was only a baby when I got sober (just 21) but through this pr...
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