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Daily Reflections Jan 2
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FIRST, THE FOUNDATION Is sobriety all that we can expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning. As Bill Sees It, p. 8 Practicing the A.A. program is like building a house. First I had to pour a big, thick concrete slab on which to erect the house; that, to me, was the...
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drink til you puke??
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Happy and merry to you all!!
I'm new to this and don't even know if i am on the appropriate forum for my problem, so please hear me out and/or refer me to another forum that can help.
about me.....i'm an amercan ex-pat [50's]retired and living in Thailand. married for 5 yrs to a Thai woman [35]&...
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Lost and Found
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Thought I'd share some lines from one of my favorite songs, with all of you on this New Year's Eve.
"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me......
I once was lost, but now, I'm found....
I was blind, but now, I see."
I used to lose all kinds of things dur...
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New Here
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Hello everyone. My name is Denise and I'm new to this group and I'm an alcoholic. As of yesterday I was on day 12 of sobriety. Today I'm starting over. I feel horrible that I slipped up, but I know I can do this. I hope to meet some new friends in here.
Happy New Yea...
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a New Year, A new Beginning
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Hi to all, just want to wish everyone a wonderful and Sober year.
There are so many goods Posts this morning, my computer is acting like a two year old, I have been spending hours on the Board with Replies, when i go to Send, the message is deleted.
Congratulations Doll!!...
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Gotta, gotta, gotta share it !
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WOO HOO! Damn it! I feel GRRREEAAT! My very first New Year's day without a hangover, still drinking, still drunk or hugging the porcelain god!! 
I spent last night at my home groups Alco-thon. We had a BLASSST! I laughed so hard thought I was gonna wet my pants a couple times. We cooked the trad...
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A link to find meetings in ur area
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www.anonymousone.com
Go to the bottom of the home page and select "meetings." Enter your preferred group and geographical location for local meeting places and times.
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AA Thought for today
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30 years in the belly of the beast...
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Hi all,
Just wanted to let you all know how much this forum is helping me. Yup, thirty years of being controled, dominated and bitch slapped by a meer liquid. Spent most of the last 30 years planning my entire life around my addiction to alcohol. I am probably one of the most functional dr...
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Daily Reflection Jan 1
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Another day...a different date...
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Just taking a few minutes to wish everyone here, another day of sobriety. For most of us..thats a miracle in itself.
In sobriety? God (as we understand Him)..works through people...
And He does it through everyone on this board..as we share our experience strength and hope..with ea...
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1/1/06 - 12:26AM EST
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Happy New Year!
To my wonderful MIP family!
My grandma used to say whatever you do on New Year's Day, you'll continue to do throughout the year - so I hope ya'll are doing something that means a great deal, but no matter what it is do it sober!
Love you all.
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hey
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Your presence is a present to the world. You are unique and one of a kind. Your life can be what you want it to be. Take the days just one at a time.
Count your blessings, not your troubles. You will make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong....
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Dec 31 Meditation
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I found a good group
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I'm scrambled, dizzy and over emotional today. About 25 people. Nice folks, down to earth. Two speakers. I made it through the meeting fine, I shook hands an exchanged names with nearly all of them. At the end of the meeting, the moderator said if anyone wanted to joi...
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Welcome to the Guests! come on it
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I can see I am the only member online and there 4 guests, is there anyone that needs to talk?
Someone is usually on line and available if you need any help. Just make a Post, and someone will respond.
So to all the guests! Welcome
Toni -- Edited by Toni Baloney at 19:55, 2005-12-...
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Daily reflection Dec 31
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How I made it into the arms of AA
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I'm Chris, alcoholic.
My Mother and Father met in a bar in Biloxi, Ms. He was 26 and she was 14. My Mother looked and dressed much older. She wasn't drinking. She was looking for someone to rescue her.
My Father was a sort of celebrity. Aside from being a cler...
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Some Days I still kick my own ass..all over the place..
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No Regrets Please!
Guest editorial by Dr. Laura B. Lyons
Since life does not have a rewind button, one of the most significant challenges that we face in the process of living is putting regrets behind us. Life does not provide a dress rehearsal for the real thing. The life we are now living is the...
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First AA meeting
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Well that didn't work. Online and over the phone I was told the meeting started at 7pm. I got there at 7:01pm. I expected about 10 or 15 people, but found the parking lot jammed. Had to park across the street. Right next to the hall was a firehouse and across the street wa...
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is anyone there?
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just wondering if anyone is there to talk to.
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Touchstones - I love this!
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Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
After we get a new understanding about ourselves we think, "Now I will never have to make the same mistake again!" But our lessons are usually not that easily learned. We have to get the...
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Gratitude
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I am greatful for/to;
That power greater than myself who, gave me a life.
All of my past experiances.
My Father who, abandoned me for alcohol.
My Stepfather who, physically and emtionally tormented me.
My Mother who, allowed it to happen.
My Grandfather who, introduced me to alcohol at...
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Fell Short Of Victory
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I had a few drinks.. I feel bad about it, but I live in an area were we have 10 or so friends in the area.. They are all planning a big New Years Eve Thing... It is gonna be very hard.. I don't want to drink.. Just in the short time I have not drank. I feel better and my thinking is more clear..I know I will co...
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Hi all
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Hi all. Hope you all had a great Christmas. Looks like I've missed a lot on the message board in the last two weeks, I'll have to catch up when I get back home to England.
At the Moment at I'm in Wellington, New Zealand having got married 2 days ago!
Another 2 weeks to go and I'll be home.
Best wishes to y...
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Article re Depression
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When depressed, I experience:
Couldnt get it on the board..sorry..OOOPS!! There is a God!!
www.coping.org
-- Edited by Phil at 13:33, 2005-12-29 -- Edited by Phil at 13:47, 2005-12-29 -- Edited by Phil at 13:50, 2005-12-29
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This is NO fun!!!!
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It is 12:10 in California, and I have been the only one this board for about 45 minutes.
I guess most of you live in the time zones where you are all snozzzzzing.
And it's no more fun, so GOOD NITE
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Emotional and Verbal Abuse
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Emotional and Verbal Abuse by Beth J. Lueders Denying someone access to other relationships. Taunting on the playground. Yelling degrading remarks. Downplaying accomplishments. Threatening to take the children away. From bullying and manipulative mind games to sexual harassment and elder c...
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Yesterday..Today...And Tomorrow
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There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is YESTERDAY with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. YESTERDAY has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in t...
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Daily Reflection Dec 30
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THE JOY OF LIVING  
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!!!!!Don"t Forget!!!!!
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Attitude Adjustiiiinnnnggg!
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Hi to all,
just want to tell you, some of these posts, and esspecially your Post this a.m. Doll. Was remembering your share all day, thinking about how my background was so similar. anyway it threw me back to when I first got sober, I was thinking of those first few months in Recovery, the ones th...
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Buenos Dias, Ya'll
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That Power Greater Than Myself has gone and done it again!
I woke up this morning figuring I'd be flying with the angels and he went and gave me one more day above ground.
Have a great day, or whatever kind of day you choose.
UR'E-BRO-N-AA, Chris B.
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Just sharing a bit of ES&H
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I thought since there are several NEW newcomers and I am a newcomer I'd share how and why I got my ass into AA.
I knew for many years I had a drinking problem, was I an alcoholic? I didn't know. I'm a single parent, have a home, a good job, everything I need, most of what I want, never been fired...
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More AA humor.....
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At lunch time, a recovering alcoholic decides to pay a visit to his new sponsee, who sells hot dogs from a push cart. "Make me one with everything," says the sponsor. The sponsee fixes up a hot dog with all the trimmings and hands it to the sponsor, who pays with a $20 bill. The vendor puts the bill...
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Father Leo's meditation
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Depression?
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Help!
I need any input that may help. I have been in recovery for almost 12 years. For the 12 years I have been actively going to meetings, and involved in almost every area of service that I can think of. The past 6 months or so, I have lost interest in attending meetings, my thinkin...
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big book
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As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done." We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, se...
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Have The Best Day You Can Eh???
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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction. --Rita Mae Brown
There once was a woman who told her husband what she thought he wanted to hear. She told him she was happy when she wasn't. She told him she liked his friends when she didn't. She tried to figure out what he wanted so she could do it for hi...
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Gratitude
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Hello to all on this Forum,
Just want to check in. Thank's to all that contribute to this Forum, I stumbled onto (Well not literally, that's what I use to do). Only 8 day ago, and I feel like I've been here a longer time.
I find this Forum a "Comfort". I told everyone that whe...
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Hospital Room.....302
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Subject: Fw: Fw: THE LADY IN ROOM 302 >>>> >> >>>Room 302 - Anyone who has ever had a loved one in the hospital >>>will enjoy this: >> >> A woman called a local hospital. "Hello. Could you connect me >>to >>...
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Daily Reflection Dec 29
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just checking in
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Hi: I added a little more to my bio. Hope radtk is feeling better this morning. Been thinking again of all the $ I could save If quit drinking, and smoking. $250.00 a month!!! Thats what Im spending. Not including the junk I won on Ebay. And I wont have to run to the computer for damage control on the dumb ema...
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Not an "urge" but a "thought"
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I had dinner with a friend last night and he asked if it would bother me if he had a glass of wine. (He's not in the program, and doesn't need to be.) I honestly answered him "no, I don't mind." He poured 1/2 a glass, took one sip, put the glass on the counter and went outside to check the food on the grill...
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Following Phil ;)
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A sponsor and his newcomer were at a meeting when the newcomer suddenly collapsed, went into cardiac arrest and fell to the floor. The paramedics arrived, performed CPR and brought the newcomer back to life. "My GOD!", said the sponsor. "I thought we had lost you". The newcomer looked up and told his s...
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Thanks to everyone
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I was looking at the calendar today and I can not believe I actually got this far without taking a drink! This program, the support from the people on the board, the face to face meetings and of coarse support from friends and family. I just can not believe it.&n...
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Daily Reflection Dec 28
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SUIT UP AND SHOW UP  
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How Long HaveYou Drank
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I was just wanting to see an average of, how long some might have drank and how much on average. I am trying to see were I fit in to this group... Thank you and sorry for the question.. I just am curious... Thanks all James
P.s I tried the AA Chat no luck tonight..No one on??? GOD Bless -- Edited by jam...
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My second post
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I just had a question? I left a post about a young man I had read about in the local newspaper.
He was 30 years old and lost his battle to Alcoholism.. I am 32 and scared .. I have been drinking regular for the last 5 years and a twelve pack a night for the last 2 years..
My mother also died of cirrosis at age 4...
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Just starting
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I am just starting my steps to recovery. I am 32 years old and have drank for the last 5 years. The last 2 plus years it has been a 12 pack a night. I read an obituary 3 days ago about a young man , 30 years of age , he lost his battle with alcoholism. I quit drinking 3 days ago.
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