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To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. --Sir John Lubbock
A caterpillar knows instinctively that it must spin a cocoon. When finished it will use the protection it has made to turn itself into a beautiful butterfly. When the time is right, th...
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Anything is possible
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I jsut wanted to let you's know how important you are to me..and to thankyou for coming here every day.
I've enclosed a pic...if it works
From the bottom, top and sides of my heart..thankyou for being a part of my journey
Hugs to you all.
\\// & luv, Wendy
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Hey Cheri!
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Why do we fight? --well-I dont know about you but I never did take or read directions and follow them.:) on anything.
Ile do this my way!!
With this kid, it was self centeredness, self will, stubborness--Im smarter
than you guys are--Ile fix it myself-Im not getting humble...
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down in the dumps
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today was kinda along day for me rain most of the day. remindes me of what iused to do on days like this ,but i did not want to go there! i think yas know what that would be. so i just watched some tv. i guess im just one who has to stay busy.just thougt i would get allittle off my chest as it makes me feel better ,go...
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Patterns and Unloving Light
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PATTERNS AND UNLOVING LIGHT The Hidden Infestation
Any part of us that has been in denial is vulnerable to unloving light's imprint/influence. And any part of us that has been in denial - if it has been outside us, outside our acceptance, especially if it has been in the gap - has been touche...
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Goodmorning all...
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I'm having another cup of tea, and then I'll get busy. I haven't left town. Just enjoyed my granddaughter yesterday. My daughter picked her up last night.
She had a talk with her Dad, he had cleaned himself up yesterday ,spent the day with his sponsor. Today he and his spon...
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um-did everybody leave town??
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Patience is the ability to: Sit back and wait for an expected outcome without experiencing anxiety, tension, or frustration. Let go of your need for immediate gratification. Display tolerance, compassion, understanding, and acceptance toward those who are slower than you in developing matu...
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Serenity Prayer
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When our life is not working the way we feel it should be, faith, trust and patience will lead us towards new insights if we allow it. If you can remember not to panic but to be still and "breathe" yes you heard right, I did say breath. Deep slow breaths to calm you down so that you can hear and feel the spirit w...
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Accepting Personal Responsibility
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What is accepting personal responsibility? Accepting personal responsibility includes: Acknowledging that you are solely responsible for the choices in your life. Accepting that you are responsible for what you choose to feel or think. Accepting that you choose the directi...
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Dreams
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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. Oftentimes we may have selectively s...
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other substances
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Anyone else here ever have any trouble with other substances like tobacco, caffeine, OTC medicines, herbs (like ephedra), etc. since getting sober?
I started smoking again about a year ago after a 13 year hiatus. And I just can't seem to give up the massive dose of caffeine in the morning either,...
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What is Vulnerability?
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What is vulnerability? Vulnerability is: Feeling of being exposed to emotional hurt, being taken advantage of, or abused. Feeling of being fragile, weak, or susceptible to emotional pain and suffering. Feeling of being trapped or imprisoned in a situation where your feelings and right...
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Venting
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Hey guys, It has been a rough few days. I am trying soooooo hard to let go and let God. I am having a lot of physical problems, headaches, joint and connective tissue pain and I know alot of it is because of the stress I am under, or should I say, I have put myself under.
I told you about my husband, well he was...
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Another Day
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I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me. --Angela L. Wozniak
We create problems for ourselves because we think we need to be more than we are. We fear that we are inadequate to the task before us, fear that another person is more attractiv...
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For Anyone new coming to AA
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For Anyone New Coming to A.A. For Anyone Referring People to A.A. This information is both for people who may have a drinking problem and for those in contact with people who have, or are suspected of having, a problem. Most of the information is available in more detail in literature published by...
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hard thing
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im doing pretty good except that old friends do not treat me the thesame as they did when i was drinking so i just been staying away and staying closer to my family these friends are of course still drinking . i miss some of them do you have to give up these friends forever somewhat sad . ...
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What Is Trust?
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What is trust?
Trust is:
Letting others know your feelings, emotions and reactions, and having the confidence in them to respect you and to not take advantage of you.
Sharing your inner feelings and thoughts with others with the belief that they will not spread them indiscriminately....
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'stay in the light'
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Obsession is this diseases middle name..well actually, first, middle and last!!! The only way to put that into remission is to practice taking our thoughts elsewhere as soon as we realize thats what we're doing!. Practice makes correction! Before we know it, it's happening less often... My head is...
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Today-A Changed Outlook
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long time no see...
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hey guys and gals...
I started this new job and are doing work on the computer at home and I haven't had the time to breath...
I never had to do serious work on the comp before and was entirely burnt out ant the thought of getting on this board and seeing the comp was not as relaxing as it was before...lol...
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when do cravings stop??
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 Last night I was fit to be tied. It's been only a week, and I had no cravings until last night. I would have walked in my nightgown to get a bottle of wine. It's disgusting. I wonder about my life without it and all my elegant restaurants without wine??? What do I order water??
I need that elegan...
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dpendancy
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Hi guys
Hoped someone could help clear this up a bit for me. Since my recovery in AA started I have realised recently that alcohol aside, I have dependancy problems. I latch onto something and then I am reliant on it or them.
I have realised and accepted that after 12 years of mar...
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USA
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Im just wondering is anyone else in here from the USA besides me?
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Tonight....
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Tonight is birthday night at AA, I am on my way to pickup the cake.One of our members is having his 15th birthday and we may have one with a year also.But you know the most important person at the meeting will be any newcomer who might be there tonight.I have to always remember that, and reach out to them, li...
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Say Yes to Life!!!
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AMBITION
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure." --Thomas Alva Edison I need to strive for new things in my life. I need to push out into new areas and discover the richness of God's world. I need to explore the varied creativity of creation.
There is so much th...
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Today-Readiness to serve others
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Yupper!!
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Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunate...
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Fears
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What are fears? Faceless horrors that lie waiting in the silent darkness of night. Unsound phobias that Exist in the furthest reaches of the mind Approaching shadows that threaten to blot out all light. All are contained in the worthless Scripts know as fears, a terrible script th...
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Where have you been?
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I love Australia, but am still yet to make it over west...I love travelling, especially on my bike. I can roam for hours and days if life lets me. I love the long roads, the different people, and the wildlife when you get out in the boonies. I love the Queensland weather for roaming, but enjoy the historic...
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Ever done something heroic?
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The funny thing with saving lives, or protecting or rescuing folks is it never really seems heroic when you do it...you just do it. Then later, for me anyway...there's this weird peace that comes from knowing you were just in the right place at the right time.
Over the years I have pulled 7 drow...
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What makes you laugh?
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I just love it when important people...or people who are trying to be important...do dumb things like the rest of us. You know...when Camillia or the Prime Minister trips over...or when newsreaders have a cough...I love that stuff.
When I stood very majestically for my wedding waltz (knowing ful...
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What scares you?
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My biggest fear would be losing my kids. There is a boy here in Australia who went missing 18 months ago. He went to buy Christmas presents for his family and was never seen again. I ache for his parents and his twin - the pain must excrutiating. The thought makes me shudder.
I don't fear drinking anymor...
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New hobbies-staying sober
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 I have already decided to get a sewing machine. I have made up my mind that part of my obsession with drinking was keeping myself busy, only with something poisonous to my body and mind and spirit. I feel so much better already and have gone to a couple of amazing meetings. I start the real work...
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alone@sad
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Im so tired of being alone and Sad, Its so hard not haveing any friends, my feelings sometimes get out of control and Im overly emotional,,, most of the time I just don't know what to do when that happens..
Oh well just venting,,
Godbless!
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tryin' is good...doin' is even better!!
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i never thought you would get to this day and gone so far in getting clean. i guess that came from the first time you went to rehab, after that i lost confidence but you've proved me wrong. for the first time in my life i'm glad to be proved wrong ---but you need to give yourself lotsa time and have lotsa p...
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Step Board
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Cheri has posted Step Two for AA. Please stop by the board and add your share.
Love in Recovery - Dot
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Mrbillfrog...Mrsbillfrog
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Hey Mrs... I just read your post below on Walk the Walk. First things first, to edit your profile,click on User Details and then click on edit profile. That should do it.
And since I Hail from the great state of Tx also, I can say we're havin' checking for supper this evenin' with a big glass of sweet tea,...
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Today - Our Primary Purpose
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sad
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went to the cementary this morning to see a old friend of mine the booze got him what a waste!!!!!a sad wagon god bless yas wagon
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If you drink like a fish, drink what a fish drinks
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Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket? I am the Queen. Why? Because my pantyhose say so. Buckle up. It makes it harder for the aliens to snatch you from your car. If you drink like a fish. Drink what a fish drinks. If all is not lost, where is it. I only do what my Rice Crispies tell me to do. If I has tw...
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Affirmations
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Affirmations What are negative self-scripts? Before we can become self-affirming, we need to learn about the effects of negativism in our lives. Negative self-scripts are the: Negative beliefs you have about yourself and of which you remind yourself daily. Ne...
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family
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hey i just got back from a couple days ofvisiting family in minnesota this is going to be a tough one asturns out to be a big party by six oclock everyone was in the bag i went for a walk and visited a church after hours to get away from it all i made it though it.with the support of aa and everyone in this f...
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I can't cope
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My husband doesn't believe me because he thinks I was drunk.
My mother went crazy.... she punched her little dog in front of me and I said "if you do that again I will punch you"
She went like excorcist....upstairs and I thought I had to call the doc cos she wouldn't stop scream...
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Today-True Tolerance
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The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking. 12x12 pp 139
I heard the short form of the Third tradition in the Preamble. When I came to AA I could not accept myself, my alcoholism, or a Higher Power. if there had been any physical, mental, moral, or religious requi...
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25 years of 'getting out ' of things
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I am 47. I started drinking at college. It got worse in my first marriage. It got worse in my second marriage, I plummeted in my third marriage, was arrested for domestic violence,my fourth marriage ended in two months, was arrested for DUI after my fourth marriage. I thought it was all under control af...
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I Surrender
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Powerlessness and Unmanageability
Willpower is not the key to the way of life we are seeking. Surrender is.
I have spent much of my life trying to make people be, do, or feel something they arent, dont want to do, and choose not to feel. I have made them, and myself, crazy in that process, said one rec...
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How can AA change me ?
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Hello I have another question. Im wondering how AA can change someone who's main problems are disabilities? Like I said before I have not drank since the year 2001 drinking is not messing up my life right now, but my disabilities are..
They always have and that is the reason I ever start...
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Hey everybody....
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Got back from Kansas Wednesday evening and have been playing catchup. Welcome to all the newbies who are posting , glad you are here. It's good to be home and I'll get back into posting more. I missed ya'll !
I hope all are having great sober night or day whatever the case may be.
(((Hugs)))
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Butterflies can't go back.
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I found sobriety in the city. I had a General Service Office around the corner...Meetings available for breakfast, morning tea, lunchtime, dinner and supper...A bookshop that was open everyday except weekends...about 3 rehabs, the A&E, and psychward were within 5 minutes for when I&...
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Today-Equal Rights
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Daily Reflection May 28
At one time or another most AA groups go on rule making benders...After a time fear and intolerance subside. [and we realize] We do not wish to deny anyone his chance to recover from alcoholism. We wish to be just as inclusive as we can, never exclusive.
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