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i gotta love ME before i can love others
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History provides abundant examples of . . . women whose greatest gift was in redeeming, inspiring, liberating, and nurturing the gifts of others. --Sonya Rudikoff
Part of our calling as members of the human community is to unconditionally love and support the people emotionally close to us. W...
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no matter what..its a great day for recovery!!!
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Today is October 16, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery!
CULTURE
"The great law of culture: let each become all that he was created capable of being." -- Thomas Carlyle We are capable of great things. This history of man, although surrounded by wars and unspeakable acts of violence, is...
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Daily Reflections Oct 16
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OK, Im A Softy. Sue Me.
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True love is not a bargain made, and not a thing to deal or trade. For love's a gift that has no strings, as free as songs the bluebird sings
Unconditional Love seeks only to give, and expects nothing in return. When there are no expectations, there can be no disappointments or hurts. When we can give Lo...
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i am a magnet for all things good
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We know about remorse and death. But do we know about hope and life? I believe in life after birth! --Maxie Dunham
We do not need to create difficulties and pain in our lives. They come with the package of human existence. Some of us even feel bewildered when we aren't pressed by trouble. As we grew in...
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Family visit....
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Just got back from a family visit with my sister & her family. I went with my folks, Dad is a recovering A over 10 years, Mom, well, let’s just say Mom feels sorry for herself A LOT.
Well, after driving over an hour in the backseat with Mom & Dad in front (I felt like I was n...
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heart
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wow!!! really begining to see the heart on this board. Been viewing this site (as well as acoa) for past several days and something about tonights posts and responses have been quite touching and inspiring. Good to see and encouraging!!!! I will continue my search here.&...
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NOW i have a choice
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Choices
"We did not choose to become addicts."Basic Text p. 3When we were growing up, all of us had dreams. Every child has heard a relative or neighbor ask, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Even if some of us didn't have elaborate dreams of success, most of us dreamed of work, families, and a...
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Flip....ooops! I Mean PHIL !
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Hi, gotcha. Just had to drop in and say hi. I haven't forgot you. I remember all the time how "We" and I mean all of us would work the 12 Steps on the Boards. Wow, I am so grateful for having been able to do so with AA members/alanon members alike! ...
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Poem from 1640 England
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Not feeling to good.
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Hi,
Things between me and my partner are at an alltime low just now, I love this Lady very much, we have been together for nearly 2 years now, i realise she is still very angry with me, ive been in trouble with the police arrested 7 times through drinking, most of her family dont speak to her, ive spent her...
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To: Doll, Bob, Wagon and the rest...
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In response to your comments about me being "weak", or that I'm "not a real man", or Dolls sarcastic commented on how "my disease is progressing nicely", or how I'm in denial, etc, etc...
I have some news for you people, your lives don't appear to be all shits and giggles. Most of you who post on her...
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Klynnenicholas...
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I just wanted to say it's great to see you posting. I remember your first post. How have things been going?
I hope you have a sober week-end.
(((Hugs)))
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can i get some support please????
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CAN I GET SOME SUPPORT PLEASE?????
this past two days, i had a wonderful visit from my OLD babysitter, i mean my first 11 years of life i was very close to him....we stayed in touch, kinda *hit and miss*....but always kinda in each others thoughts....
he was driving back to calif. (his home now) fr...
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Hello, I am your disease
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Hello, I am your Disease
I Hate meetings...I Hate higher powers...I Hate anyone who has a program. To all who come in contact with me, I wish you death and I wish you suffering. Allow me to introduce myself, I am the disease of addiction. I Am cunning, baffling, and powerful. Th...
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Daily Reflections Oct 15
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MY CHECKLIST, NOT YOURS
Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too. Here we are not trying to help those we criticize; we are trying to proclaim our own righteousness. ...
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big book
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The alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his way through the lives of others. Hearts are broken. Sweet relationships are dead. Affections have been uprooted. Selfish and inconsiderate habits have kept he home in turmoil. We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough....
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hello friends
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hey gammy, i got your message,
i've actually been home since late monday night and i've been reading the posts here as a guest
My weekend would have been wonderful if i wouldn't have screwed up
i've been too ashamed to post
i broke everyones hearts
i just read your post Rosie, welcome by the wa...
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Surrender - Hope - Power
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Surrender Beaten into complete defeat by alcohol, confronted by the living proof of release, and surrounded by those who can speak from the heart, we have finally surrendered. And then, paradoxically, we have found ourselves in a new dimension, the real world of spirit and of faith. Enough willing...
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Twenty years of Sobriety
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The twenty years of sobriety gratitude list:
Grateful I found a Higher Power, who I call God, who loves me unconditionally unlike some of the people in my world.
Grateful that through working the steps of AA,I was able to find out who I am, what made me who I am, how I could improve on&nb...
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Sharing
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Time only moves forward. It leaves the past behind. Yet we forget to move forward, out of the past. Disappointments, might-have-beens, old sorrows stack up in our consciousness. We store files of old memories, returning sometimes to open them. To be liberated is to switch our minds from th...
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Do I have a drinking problem?
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Hi - I was hoping for some advice. I currently have about 4 drinks (between 3 to 5), usually wine, a night. I tend to skull the drinks just before bed. Do I have a problem? I don't think I can stop, but am worried about health issues in the future. I managed to stop when I fell pregnant and while I was breastfee...
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The Promises
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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 peace. No matter how far...
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Peace
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I apologize for the tone of my recent posts. I was reacting to comments that I took offense to and was somewhat hurt by. No one likes to be told they're wrong, or weak or that they aren't sincere...especially when the comments are coming from strangers who are far from perfect themselves. I've read the b...
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To Tipsy
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I owe you an apoligy Bud. I had no right to criticize you, or judge you in any way-so I apoligize for my part.
The rest of it?
Im addicted to alcohol. As an alcoholic--thats what I do. I drink. I cant control it--and I cant predict what Ile do if I pick up a drink.
To arrest the addiction, I hafta go to mee...
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My quote for the day, that I hafta practice.:)
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"Sometimes, the best reaction, is no reaction."
Y'all have a good serene evening-eh? :)
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Daily Reflections Oct 14
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Prayer
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A Prayer for a Hard Day
Grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I cannot accept,
And the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people
I had to dispose of today because they peeved me off
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Help me to be careful of t...
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Hey Guys??
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Just got on after a few days off the computer...seems there is alot of anger floating around. Please remember what we read before each meeting
..."If you want what we have and are willing to go to any lengths to get it, than you are ready to take certain steps. At some of these we balked, we thought we cou...
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An epiphany
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I've been observing people who seem to drink the same way that I do yet experience none of the guilt, remorse or shame that I do and I've come to a conclusion. They just don't care, they aren't hypersensitive suckholes who feel so darn bad about every little thing that happens. They seem to be able to acce...
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To Tipsy regarding your epiphany
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Ok, Man, I'm tired of tip toeing around you, fear of offending you has kept my replies to your post "nice". Had someone tip toed around me, I'd probably be 6 feet under right now, and my son would be without a mother, So, here's the truth !
From this day forth, if you want to drink, you'll drink, y...
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Alcohol warning - Truth in Humor
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The consumption of alcohol may lead you to think people are laughing WITH you.
The consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering what the hell happened to your bra.
The consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not.
The consumption of alcohol is a m...
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The recovering atheist
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barebones honesty---total willingness
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Rigorous Honesty
As we work the program, we find that we cannot be rigorously honest about what we are adicted to unless we are rigorously honest about our other actions as well. Once our Higher Power takes charge of our lives, a general housecleaning occurs. Gradually, we see that the attitudes...
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Its a "Turn off the brain" day
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A grown-up is someone who suffers from responsibility. They who are afraid to ask are ashamed of learning. Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. Sermons and biscuits are improved by shortening. If your parachute doesn't open up for you, you've obvi...
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working on my SUBSTANCE
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Substance over Form
I'm learning that for a variety of reasons, I've spent much of my life focusing on form rather than substance. My focus has been on having my hair done perfectly, wearing the right clothes, having my makeup applied perfectly, living in the right place, furnishing it with th...
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Alcohol wants me Dead
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Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the article online where the disease is talking and wants me dead?
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Daily Reflections Oct 13
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chocolate@coffee "oh my"
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hi there, ive been dry now for 40 days,eating like a horse,going to meetings (not as many as i could) getting on pretty well with my partner( she is still sceptical,) she has joined an on-line Al-anon group wich has been a help to her. I am at step 3, maybe i am avoiding the next step, i dont know,but i am un...
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Today I Will Remember
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Pain
My attitude toward the pain in my life will determine how I experience it. Pain is not the worst thing which can befall me.
Not being able to feel is worse.
Pain is a natural part of life. It is not meant to diminish my life or me. Only if I resist it is my life made smaller and my misery incre...
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Me!
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-- Edited by Doll at 15:44, 2005-10-12
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Simple and Real
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A simple friend can stand by you when you are right, but a real friend will stand by you even when you are wrong.
A simple friend identifies himself when he calls. A real friend doesn't have to.
A simple friend opens a conversation with a full news bulletin on his life. A real friend says, "What's new w...
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How it Works.
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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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its OK to be imperfect
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Being Right
"When we admit that our lives have become unmanageable, we don't have to argue our point of view... We no longer have to be right all the time."Basic Text p. 56
#######ROSIE....oh yeah, when i realized that i could not was not going to *fight it anymroe*...all of a sudden, i d...
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boundaries rather than barb wire
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Hope for Today - October 12
When I think of boundaries, it helps if I think of a castle in a lake. Boundaries are the drawbridge connecting the castle with the world. Usually the drawbridge is down, and people can walk freely back and forth. However, when danger is sensed, the drawbridge r...
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when sobriety is all you got
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been going through a time in my sobriety where i have been questing myself about everything and i don't mean my abstainance from alcohol and drugs. more so where i am in this world and where i want to be and how to get there.
sure i am suppose to live in the day....but i feel that i need to re-evaluat...
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to everyone
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Hi Everyone,
Just read the post that GammyRose shared about the father of three who took his life. My father took his life when he was 38. I was a year and a half old, and I don't remember him at all. He had been in rehab during his 20's but was not interested in any kind of recovery later. I would give...
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Trusting
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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.Placing confidence...
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Daily Reflections Oct 12
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Howdy
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Hi Folks ... been away from the group for a while and just wanted to say I'm still alive and sober. I could probably use more than the one or two meeting a week I've been getting to ... but other than that life is wonderful. I never would have thought life could be be this good by putting down the drink and emba...
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