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today's gift
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Progress, Not Perfection. --Alcoholics Anonymous slogan
We don't expect our lives to be perfect. We don't expect ourselves to be perfect. We just want to stop the insanity of addiction and begin to live lives that make sense.
We don't expect to be perfect, but most of us do want to be go...
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food AINT love!!!!
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Food Is Not Love
With our heads, we know that food is not the same thing as love. When this fact sinks into our emotions, we are released from our obsession with food. In order to reach this point of emotional development, we need to abstain physically from compulsive overeating. As long as we are ph...
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Tricks or treats???
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Hi everyone...
I was gone for the weekend...my husband has 15 yrs today so we went to our home town for the birthday meeting.
I see alot of new names so welcome to the newcomers...hope you stick around so we can get to know you.
Happy Halloween to everyone here...be safe and sober tonight an...
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Please say a prayer...
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Hey guys, I'm going to visit my husband who is still here in jail this afternoon. I am not looking forward to it, the letters I've recieved lately have been full of anger, depression, blame...
He was suppose to be in a state rehab facility by now but the one in Houston was damaged by Hurrican Rita, soooo...
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today's thought
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Oh, this is the creature that doesn't exist . . . . In fact, it never was. But since they loved it, a pure beast came to be. --Rainer Maria Rilke
The unicorn, serene and white, is a strong and graceful animal with the body of a horse. A single white horn grows from its brow, making it unique among all an...
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Rick??
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i don't think i was dreaming....:)
i'm SURE i saw you pop in here briefly...?
we miss you!
hugs, Wendy
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Belonging And Connecting
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We have powerful desires to belong and to connect with a special someone. We inherited a model for marriage and relationships that has remained largely unchanged for over 50 years. That traditional model was never intended to integrate our individual needs with the needs of the partnership. The...
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"I must not allow the painful things of my past affect what i can do today!
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Today is October 31, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery!
SAINTS/SINNERS
"Every saint has a past and every sinner a future." -- Oscar Wilde I must not allow the painful things of my past to affect what I can do today. Guilt is a killer if I allow it power in my life. I have made my amends. I have...
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it HAS to be HP pushing me along
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Our Relationship With A Higher Power
"Ongoing recovery is dependent on our relationship with a loving God who cares for us and will do for us what we find impossible to do for ourselves."Basic Text, p.96Working the Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous gives us a fresh start in life and some guidan...
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acting AS IF!!!!
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All Our Needs
And my God shall supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory... --Phil. 4:19
This verse has helped me many times. It has helped me when I have wondered where my next friend bit of wisdom, insight, or meal was coming from.Everything I need today shall be supplied to m...
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Thanks for the prayers and Doll?
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Thanks for the prayers guys, I truly believe in the power of prayer.
The visit with my husband went okay, I think he was suprised to see me. I tried to encourage him, but reminded him why he was there. It wasn't because they (the probation officers) are out to get him,it was because of the alcohol...
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hey phil
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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that ye
do singe yourself,
I know I'm crazy but it keeps me from going insane.
When you pray for potatoes, you'd better grab a hoe.
Continuing to hate someone is like you taking poison
and waiting for your enemy to die.
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self value
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Self Value
We have a real life of our own. Yes, we do.That empty feeling, that senses that everyone except us has a life - an important life, a valuable life, a better life - is a remnant from the past. It is also a self-defeating belief that is inaccurate.We are real. So is our life. Jump into it, and we...
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walking on water
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When I was a newbie in the 12 Step program,, and beginning to learn the Steps, Traditions and Principles.. I was not sure of myself at all. My old patterns of behavior got triggered very easily by a lot of things that came up to happen in my day,, with my cranky boss, my child, my finances,etc...
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hey alicia
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welcome!!!!! great to have u here. this is a great place for recovery, there is alot of great people here to help each other along again welcome may god bless u wagon
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It's Way Too Easy
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Hi all! Been a while since I visited, thought I'd let you know I'm still here and hangin' on to each 24 hours of life in the real world.
I realize now that we all have our shortcomings, our weak points, our selfish, foolish pride to deal with on a daily basis. I'm grateful to a higher power that keeps me p...
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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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big book
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We never apologize for God. Instead we let Him demonstrate, through us, what he can do. We ask Him to remove our fear and direct our attention to what He would have us be. At once, we commence to outgrow fear." god bless wagon
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Stuff
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"It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them"
"When mistrust comes in, love goes out"
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will...
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Thoughts
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Four out of five voices, in my head say, "Go For It!!
A clear conscience is usually the sign, of a bad memory.
A conscience is what hurts, when all your other parts feel so good.
Allow me to intoduce myselves.
Always glad to share my ignorance....Ive got plenty.
Are the noises in my head bother...
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Just sharing a bit
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Good morning, All.
Things here in Redneckville, USA are good. I've had a very busy week at work and still managed to give my son quality time and get to a f2f everday. My homegroup had the annual Halloween party last night, lots of food, costume contests, raffles, excellent fellowship and a sp...
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change me/ change my karma
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. --Florence Scovel Shinn
Should we make this move? Should we change jobs? Should we talk to others about our feelings? We are seldom short on prayers when we're filled with fear and indecision. We are, however, shor...
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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(((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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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