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Higher Awareness-Void
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"When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slip backward -- we may actually be backing up to get a running start." ( I love this quote~w)
-- Dan Millman
To change, we must go through a transition zone. It's not easy being in transition. Thoughts, beliefs and habits are all in flux. It can c...
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A Thought For The Night
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" I'd rather do something GREAT and fail ... than attempt to do NOTHING and succeed ! " Dr. Robert H. Schuller
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HOPE
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Hi to Everyone,
I have been doing a lot of reading here and we have some wonderful new people,
enjoying the great undisputable Gifts of this Program. As well as all the great folks that are here, for themselves, but truthfully,I believe, more for the new Person.
And what I have personally be...
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I called
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Well, my silly little saga is over - I hope. I returned my client's call. I got his voice mail so I left a message saying that I was feeling not so great - some good days, some bad. I thanked him for calling to see how I was and told him I appreciate his thinking of me. So, that is it.&...
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Good Morning Everyone!
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Its a little foggy out right now but they say its going to turn off beautiful! Sunny & 75! Early this morning when I was sleeping I felt the other side of the bed move--my husband works midnights so I knew it wasnt him. Both dogs were sleeping in their own beds so it wasnt them eithe...
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have managed one sober day, at last.
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well, that's it. had to be pretty cruel to my ex on the phone and tell him to go away as I really can't bear talking to him at the moment without glass in hand.
Actually the one sober day is a bit of a godsend, rather than willpower, as I've had a bad cold that has gone to my lungs and have to be on a...
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Very Good! Read This!
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June 7th, 2006
A.A. Thought For The Day
Alchoholism is a progressive illness. We go through the three stages of social drinking, trouble drinking, and merry-go-round drinking. We land in hospitals and jails. We eventually lose our homes, our families, and our self-respect. Yes, alcoholism i...
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Ashamed
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Hey Gang,
New to this site. Also new to a city. I have to admit that I've not always availed myself of AA, and have spent many years spinning my wheels. Now I'm in a situation where I have a significant amount of time sober, but my program, and my life, are for shit. I wan...
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sorry
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Hi there people,
Oh god where do I start?
christ! i am so sorry to you all, cabbageheadchris for one for 'finding streanth in my situation' and all the reast of you for putting up with me going on about me me me.
i am sorry that i am me i am sorry that i have a weakness, i am sorry that i am human, i am...
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flumpy
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thank U angels for comforting me
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i just wanted to thank U guys for taking time to "hug" me in my world of hurt here
i am working the steps on having to accept that all i may get out of this program is to love/treat me and others better...
there may NOT be any lights at the end of the tunnel...there may NOT be any be...
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rosie light shines
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Hello--new here with silver chip
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Hello. I just picked up my silver chip--I did the 90 meetings 90 days and now that I have hit 6 months I havent been able to get to more than two meetings a week. Its our companies busy time---actually crazy time! I thought this might be a nice place to come when I cant get to my meeting.&...
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From How It Works
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Perhaps there is a better way, we think so. For we are now on a different basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. We are in the world to play the role He assigns. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable...
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Resentment
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Well, I guess I want to talk about resentment. I understand it can be about anger, resentment, fear, etc. But can it just plain be anything that ticks you off....and then you wonder what's the real issue? [Anger for me is so cyclical. I think it's...
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WOW, me after 28 months
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Hope for Today - June 7 I rarely cried while I was growing up in myalcoholic family. I was sure it was a sign ofweakness. However, my emotions came as apackage. When I turned off one feeling, I shut offall the others.. If it weren't for the program, mysponsor, and the support of fellow members , I wouldn...
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Soul Perspectives
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On...
Authenticity
The greatest social and familial pressure everyone experiences is to conform. We learn early in our life that if we want to get others to help us or cooperate with us, we need to do what pleases them. We also find that we get approval for how we are when we conform to others’ expect...
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Hi....all....
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Guess the last time I posted, well, had a very rough spot. Thought my husband was drinking again. (?) After much worry, and a session w/my counselor--we talked about energy drinks. She said "do you think that maybe he was that way from the energy drinks...
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5 Stages of Grief
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Stage One: DENIAL
You tell yourself that it isn't happening. You tell yourself that your spouse will come back to you. With a divorce, you think that he / she is just going through a phase or mid-life crisis and will come to their senses. You think that you cannot accept that it is ending, and you refuse...
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A message of hope
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To anyone who is reading this and is currently going threw treatment or has gone threw treatment, i would like to congradulate you. I come from a home from a drinker who i loved deeply and was not a bad person. This person did not get treatment and unfortunatly passed away from the disease....
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Hazelden Today
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Today's Gift.
A good anger acted upon is beautiful as lightning and swift with power. A good anger swallowed clots the blood like slime. --Marge Piercy
How does it feel when someone tells us we should play basketball when we don't want to? Often, it angers us that someone else is telling us wha...
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Got to Laugh at Life- or my part in it!
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First , let me say up front, this is a Trivia kind of Post.
Woke up at 4:45, this am, with about 4 1/2 sleep, got on the Board, then make coffee, and breakfast, was headed back to beddy bye, and no I had to stop and read the Board again.
Well I look at the right hand, and can see, I have been into my OCD. My...
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geeeez i feel like doggie doo doo
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last night i cried AGAIN!!!
i am lying in bed last night, getting ready for sleep, and it hit me!! here i am goin on 60 this month and i **feel** like i MISSED out on life.....the abuse-- the resultant addictions/ codependency disease, u know, the aftershocks of the trauma, and NOW, i get my...
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The innocence
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I was reading a little homemade book my 7 yr old daughter wrote while spending last Saturday night at her friends & I still have a smile on my face since I read it Sunday morning. If anyone is having a tough day or evening maybe after reading it you will feel a little better--I'll type it j...
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Rebuilding Trust
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Rebuilding Trustby Lynette J. Hoy, NCC, LCPC
What does trusting someone signify?
Trust, in a practical sense, means that you place confidence in someone to be honest with you, faithful to you, keep promises, vows and confidences and not abandon you. Here are some factors to consider abo...
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Feeling Bad
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I don't know what's going on. My brain is so screwed up right now. I can really see why people go out and drink over the decision to not deal with the 4th step. Man, it would be nice to just drown my past away. Not ready to do it today though.
I went to the meeting tonight and it was a BB study on To The Wives. Sho...
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There is Only Now-OM
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There Is Only Now
It can be easy for us to walk through the world and our lives without really being present. While dwelling on the past and living for the future are common pastimes, it is physically impossible to live anywhere but the present moment. We cannot step out our front door and take a...
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The promises
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The AA 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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Welcome Terri!!!
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Good Morning Terri,
i saw you come in last night, and make a Response, and just thought I would make a Post to you, so that hopefully we can get to know you, and Congratulations on this being now your Second Day. We all start there. day l, day 2, and so it goes.
I am, We are, looking so forward to getti...
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Hello friends
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Hi everyone,
I have been reading posts and am so happy to see some new members reaching out. Welcome to you! I look forward to getting to hear your experience. Rather than saying "keep coming back" I would rather say "stay!". I am glad you are here. The progra...
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Happy week!
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Hi everyone,
Hope you all had a good, sober weekend. I had a quiet time. Did some gardening, played with my kids, went to a movie, dinner at the in-laws. What a "normal" life I have now. I love it! I always thought sobriety would be boring, and when I first came into the...
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I bet
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that if you could take an alcoholic & show them through a crystal ball how wonderful their life would be if they quit drinking than I bet we would have very few alcoholics. My heart goes out to those who have very little family support or those who have many more problems than alcoholism.&nbs...
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12 Step Info
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Anyone looking for information on the 12 step program should check out My Name is Bill W, which is coming out on DVD pretty soon. Its a good watch about the history of AA and how/why it was founded.
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My Secret Life With Alchol
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My Secret Life with Alcohol
www.pittsburghdietdiaries.blogspot.com
I started getting drunk at about 16. Throughout my teens and in my 20s, even after the birth of my daughter, I got drunk. I can remember some pretty shocking and stupid things I have done and said while drinking. At one poi...
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Nervous family
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My husband has been absolutely wonderful in helping me quit drinking. Luckily I didnt end up hitting bottom or losing anything from my drinking. It started to cause problems at home--with my husband but luckily I was ready to quit--I was too tired of trying to find new hiding spots, too f...
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Anger at meetings
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Was at this meeting tonight. It's like all the anxiety just travelled straight into my brain\body.
This guy brought up a topic. After a few of us started sharing our experiences in dealing with the subject the guy started to get real uneasy and cross-talk, getting really defiant. I thought there wa...
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ahh what a day
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feeling good, taken the pooch for a walk now going for a picnic, this beats hugging the loo anyday
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Robert
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Not allowed to edit our own posts now?
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Just out of interest why has the option to edit ones own posts now not available..?
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Just saying 'Hi'
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Hi there everyone 
I did actually try and post this earlier but I think I forgot to fill the 'topic' section in and so no post! 
Anyway, just want to say 'Hi' to you all and say 'Thankyou' to all who have read and replyed to my last post In my week of need 
I have thus f...
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Working with Others
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Chapter 7
Working With Others
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one el...
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Havent gone past step one
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Hello! I am new here--posted once tonight already--I tend to be compulsive when I do things! Drinking was definately one of those compulsive things. Anyhow, I have been going to AA for a little over 6 months. I "think" I was an alcoholic for about the past 6 years. It i...
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Harboring Regrets
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Eight Common Excuses for Harboring Regrets What's yours? A closer look at why you hold on to regrets is the start of letting them go. 1. “It’s too late to let go of my regret.” The passage of time neither improves nor impairs our ability to let go of regrets. Letting go is a function of willingnes...
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My Mum
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My mum n dad are going away tomorrow for two weeks, house and dog sitting for their friends whilst they are way.. nice house, nice place etc.. Mum and dad both drank tonight.. dad went to bed early.. Mum, cos shes over weight doesnt eat much.. and ofcourse still drinks alot.. so thats why sh...
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Stalling ...
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Ok, I am doing everything I can to avoid calling my boss back. I am running out of laundry. The time must be coming. GRRR! I hate doing things I don't want to do! I am such a child sometimes.
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About AA
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If you have a desire to stop drinking and your drinking is causing you problems -- or, if you have discovered that living without alcohol is uncomfortable, and you get restless, irritable or discontented when not drinking -- it is highly suggested that you find a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. Y...
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Taking Responsibility-om
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Answering The Call Taking Responsibility For Your Destiny
There are those of us who believe that our lives are predestined and that we should resign ourselves to our lots in life. Yet the truth is that it is up to each one of us to decide what that des...
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Thanx everyone and esp Toni: also I want to say something abouth 'therapy'
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To be honest, because my last post was so negative and self-pitying and also written while I was not 100% straight, I really expected to be kicked off this board. Imagine my relief when I logged in today and found 5 caring, sympathetic responses! You guys really are great (I'm almost tearful as I write t...
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Confused...(long...sorry)
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Hi all,
I'm new here, and I am just looking for...I suppose...suggestions, past experiences, etc.
I'm a stay at home mom of two darling girls, ages 2 and 5. My husband is a successful businessman, and we live a nice life. My husband and I have been married for 8 years, but togeth...
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how to annoy your manager
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Ha
my manager was well cheesed off! I am the piece of turd at work and all the managers keep this info close to them, I have seen their documents "watch everything Rob does" "Robs a trouble maker" bla bla bla.
Well I had my first week on the phones this week (I work in a call centre) and I have never done...
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Robert
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Following Your Dream
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Each Day a New Beginning.
Follow your dream . . . take one step at a time and don't settle for less, just continue to climb. --Amanda Bradley
Dreams are common to us all. Dreams are special as well. We probably keep to ourselves many of our dreams for fear of derision or misunderstanding....
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Denial
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Denial is the psychological process by which human beings protect themselves from things which threaten them by blocking knowledge of those things from their awareness. It is a defense which distorts reality; it keeps us from feeling the pain and uncomfortable truth about things we do not want t...
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embittered and long....don't read if you are feeling crappy yourself!
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Was just wondering. I think in a post I made previously I referred to Van Gogh - miserable his whole adult life, an alcoholic and also apparently a misogynist who assaulted prostitutes....when I was younger (a LOT younger) I really romanticised the whole 'wastoid' lifestyle. In 1986, when I w...
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