Alcoholics Anonymous

Phil · Phil

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...

wagon · wagon

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

Phil · Phil

"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...

Phil · Phil

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...

Doll · Doll

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...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

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...

Phil · Phil

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...

Phil · Phil

"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. Hon...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

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...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

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...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

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...

TipsyMcStagger · TipsyMcStagger

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...

Doll · Doll

 

GammyRose · GammyRose

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))) GammyRose

Mikel · Mikel

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...

cheri · cheri

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...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

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...

Phil · Phil

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 find me a parking place I will go to church every Sunday for the rest...

Phil · Phil

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...

wantneeda · wantneeda

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

Doll · Doll

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...

Badger · Badger

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Donnamaria · Donnamaria

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....

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

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...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

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...

Phil · Phil

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...

sanddie · sanddie

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...

wantneeda · wantneeda

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...

Badger · Badger

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...

soberbrit · soberbrit

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...

cooncatbob · cooncatbob

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'...

Phil · Phil

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...

TipsyMcStagger · TipsyMcStagger

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.

Mikel · Mikel

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...

TipsyMcStagger · TipsyMcStagger

tell me what I need to do to stop. I will listen, I will do it...just tell me. I know I've been arrogant on this board in the past. I know I've been argumentative, and difficult, but I'm tired of fighting and I just want to have some peace and order in my life. -- Edited by TipsyMcStagger at 12:43, 2005-1...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. --Anne Frank Anne Frank had good reason to be unhappy, full of fear, and deeply discouraged. Years of her life were spent in a small apartment hiding from the Nazis who wanted to destroy her and her family. Yet even in this little hiding place she had hap...

txmom · txmom

Hi all. I am not a regular poster to your side of the board but wanted to let you know of a sad event. My husband, dadrrb, was a member of this site. He didn't post often but read your posts faithfully and gained a lot of ES&H from all of you. His name was Robert. He passe...

Doll · Doll

You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit!

wantneeda · wantneeda

Today is October 25, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! FLEXIBILITY "Better bend than break." -- Scottish Proverb Dis-ease: to be controlling, stiff, uncomfortable and unbending. Sobriety: being relaxed, comfortable and flexible in my personal life and my interaction with o...

Sao · Sao

Olá, Eu gostaria muito de encontrar uma madrinha portuguesa, há por aí alguém que queira contactar comigo. Sobriedade não se pode manter sem que se tenha uma madrinha, no meu caso tornasse muito urgente comunicar o que só se pode ser comunicado na minha língua materna. Recuperação envol...

wantneeda · wantneeda

A MISTAKEN BELIEF IS SOMETHING THAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE TRUE AND ACT AS IF IT WERE TRUE WHEN, IN FACT, IT IS FALSE. Mistaken belief #1: If you stop addictive use for a while and then begin using again, you have relapsed. Fact: Relapse cannot occur until the addict acknowledges the presence of addictive dis...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Emotional Sobriety "If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. Let us, with God's help, continually surrender these hobbling liabilities. Then we can be set free to live and love; we may then b...

Doll · Doll

Reflections for Beginners 'Hour To Hour - The First 30 Days' - Shelly Marshall Sometimes reality slaps us right in the face. We may be out of money, facing jail, losing a loved one, or hating our circumstances. However, right this hour we have only one true reality: SOBRIETY. Without sobriety a...

rosie light shines · rosie light shines

Abstaining from Harmful Relationships Habit sometimes locks us into relationships, which are not in our best interest. It is easy to mistake dependency for love. When we stop overeating compulsively, we can evaluate our attachments to other people with greater clarity and perception than w...

Phil · Phil

Emotional Turmoil and Healing in Separation and Divorce separation and divorce = strong emotions. This can be a wide range of very powerful emotions, including, but certainly not limited to, hurt, rage, love, longing, confusion, betrayal, surprise, guilt, failure, desperation. Sometime...

Phil · Phil

Letting Go of the Past Some people believe that each of our days were planned, Divinely Ordered, before we were born. God knew, they say, and planned exactly what was to transpire. Others suggest we chose, we participated in planning our life - the events, the people, the circumsta...

Phil · Phil

Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. Army Laws: If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, pick it up. If you can't pick it up, paint it. &...

Badger · Badger

Ozzy Osbourne says he wrote the song Suicide Solution after the death of his friend Bon Scott who died after drinking heavily one winter's night and passing out in his car. Suicide Solution Wine is fine But whiskey's quicker suicide is slow with liquor Take a bottle drown your sorrows Then it...

Doll · Doll

Hello e boa vinda. Perdoe-me, mim não falam o português, mim estão usando um tradutor em linha. Você diz que você têm 15 anos do sobriety e você para assistir a reuniões, você tem um patrocinador? Você destilador está indo às reuniões? Aqui nos EUA eu mantenho-me no contato próximo com outros membros d...

001jaycee · 001jaycee

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Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Humility (Preview) 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...	Phil	6	943	Oct 30, 2005 by rosie light shines
	big book (Preview) 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	wagon	2	845	Oct 30, 2005 by rosie light shines
	Stuff (Preview) "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...	Phil	3	762	Oct 30, 2005 by rosie light shines
	Thoughts (Preview) 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...	Phil	1	684	Oct 30, 2005 by rosie light shines
	Just sharing a bit (Preview) 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...	Doll	4	934	Oct 30, 2005 by rosie light shines
	change me/ change my karma (Preview) *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...	rosie light shines	1	1008	Oct 30, 2005 by wagon
	Acceptance (Preview) 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...	Phil	6	833	Oct 30, 2005 by anirvanakr
	Honesty (Preview) "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. Hon...	Phil	5	857	Oct 30, 2005 by Doll
	fear sucks, but is normal (Preview) *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...	rosie light shines	1	787	Oct 29, 2005 by Phil
	detaching...regrouping (Preview) 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...	rosie light shines	2	967	Oct 29, 2005 by GammyRose
	i shall begin again and again (Preview) 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...	rosie light shines	0	702	Oct 29, 2005 by rosie light shines
	I'm afraid to go to a meeting... (Preview) 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...	TipsyMcStagger	11	997	Oct 29, 2005 by rosie light shines
	Survival (Preview)	Doll	3	878	Oct 29, 2005 by rosie light shines
	Dirk and Kenny... (Preview) 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))) GammyRose	GammyRose	1	686	Oct 28, 2005 by Kenny
	I wonder. . . (Preview) 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...	Mikel	6	730	Oct 28, 2005 by Cabbageheadchris
	WE DON'T DRINK, NO MATTER WHAT (Preview) 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...	cheri	5	1335	Oct 28, 2005 by Kenny
	sucky day!!! need hugs/encouragement (Preview) 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...	rosie light shines	4	759	Oct 28, 2005 by Kenny
	Canadian Smile For The Day (Preview) 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 find me a parking place I will go to church every Sunday for the rest...	Phil	4	766	Oct 28, 2005 by Phil
	Caffine Thoughts (Preview) 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...	Phil	2	759	Oct 28, 2005 by Phil
	(((Cheri))) (Preview) 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	wantneeda	2	658	Oct 27, 2005 by amanda2u2
	The Pickle Jar (Preview) 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...	Doll	3	1181	Oct 27, 2005 by CAM
	a Question about sharing (Preview)  &nb...	Badger	6	790	Oct 27, 2005 by rosie light shines
	hello there (Preview) 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....	Donnamaria	3	695	Oct 27, 2005 by Phil
	kinda sad..another grief cycle (Preview) 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...	rosie light shines	1	912	Oct 27, 2005 by Phil
	mountains or molehills?? (Preview) *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...	rosie light shines	1	753	Oct 27, 2005 by Phil
	Never Lose Hope (Preview) 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...	Phil	2	765	Oct 27, 2005 by rosie light shines
	It's Time.... (Preview) 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...	sanddie	3	839	Oct 27, 2005 by rosie light shines
	"justice is truth in action" (Preview) 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...	wantneeda	4	1052	Oct 27, 2005 by rosie light shines
	who knows (Preview) 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...	Badger	1	686	Oct 27, 2005 by Badger
	can't seem to stop the insanity etc. (Preview) 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...	soberbrit	6	869	Oct 27, 2005 by cheri
	Addict in a hole (Preview) 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'...	cooncatbob	3	985	Oct 26, 2005 by Doll
	response to awilliam from above. (Preview) 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...	Phil	1	733	Oct 26, 2005 by Doll
	The Big Book (Preview) 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.	TipsyMcStagger	5	781	Oct 26, 2005 by Phil
	A Turning Point (Preview) 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...	Mikel	6	850	Oct 26, 2005 by Phil
	Please...please someone... (Preview) tell me what I need to do to stop. I will listen, I will do it...just tell me. I know I've been arrogant on this board in the past. I know I've been argumentative, and difficult, but I'm tired of fighting and I just want to have some peace and order in my life. -- Edited by TipsyMcStagger at 12:43, 2005-1...	TipsyMcStagger	7	1008	Oct 26, 2005 by jim
	Anne Frank and my gratitude (Preview) *Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. --Anne Frank* Anne Frank had good reason to be unhappy, full of fear, and deeply discouraged. Years of her life were spent in a small apartment hiding from the Nazis who wanted to destroy her and her family. Yet even in this little hiding place she had hap...	rosie light shines	2	970	Oct 26, 2005 by Trixie
	Dadrrb (Preview) Hi all. I am not a regular poster to your side of the board but wanted to let you know of a sad event. My husband, dadrrb, was a member of this site. He didn't post often but read your posts faithfully and gained a lot of ES&H from all of you. His name was Robert. He passe...	txmom	8	980	Oct 26, 2005 by wagon
	Thought for today (Preview) You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit!	Doll	5	765	Oct 26, 2005 by Phil
	"better bend than break" (Preview) Today is October 25, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery! FLEXIBILITY "Better bend than break." -- Scottish Proverb Dis-ease: to be controlling, stiff, uncomfortable and unbending. Sobriety: being relaxed, comfortable and flexible in my personal life and my interaction with o...	wantneeda	2	969	Oct 26, 2005 by Sick of being sick
	Cumprimentos de Londres (Preview) Olá, Eu gostaria muito de encontrar uma madrinha portuguesa, há por aí alguém que queira contactar comigo. Sobriedade não se pode manter sem que se tenha uma madrinha, no meu caso tornasse muito urgente comunicar o que só se pode ser comunicado na minha língua materna. Recuperação envol...	Sao	3	931	Oct 26, 2005 by Sick of being sick
	Mistaken beliefs about Relapse (Preview) A MISTAKEN BELIEF IS SOMETHING THAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE TRUE AND ACT AS IF IT WERE TRUE WHEN, IN FACT, IT IS FALSE. Mistaken belief #1: If you stop addictive use for a while and then begin using again, you have relapsed. Fact: Relapse cannot occur until the addict acknowledges the presence of addictive dis...	wantneeda	8	2518	Oct 26, 2005 by wantneeda
	emotional sobriety (Preview) Emotional Sobriety "If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. Let us, with God's help, continually surrender these hobbling liabilities. Then we can be set free to live and love; we may then b...	rosie light shines	5	1224	Oct 25, 2005 by rosie light shines
	Reflections for Beginners (Preview) Reflections for Beginners 'Hour To Hour - The First 30 Days' - Shelly Marshall Sometimes reality slaps us right in the face. We may be out of money, facing jail, losing a loved one, or hating our circumstances. However, right this hour we have only one true reality: SOBRIETY. Without sobriety a...	Doll	0	852	Oct 25, 2005 by Doll
	refraining from bad relationships (Preview) Abstaining from Harmful Relationships Habit sometimes locks us into relationships, which are not in our best interest. It is easy to mistake dependency for love. When we stop overeating compulsively, we can evaluate our attachments to other people with greater clarity and perception than w...	rosie light shines	2	902	Oct 25, 2005 by Hanuman
	Another Turmoil and Healing thing (Preview) Emotional Turmoil and Healing in Separation and Divorce separation and divorce = strong emotions. This can be a wide range of very powerful emotions, including, but certainly not limited to, hurt, rage, love, longing, confusion, betrayal, surprise, guilt, failure, desperation. Sometime...	Phil	0	804	Oct 25, 2005 by Phil
	Another Day (Preview) Letting Go of the Past Some people believe that each of our days were planned, Divinely Ordered, before we were born. God knew, they say, and planned exactly what was to transpire. Others suggest we chose, we participated in planning our life - the events, the people, the circumsta...	Phil	1	797	Oct 25, 2005 by rosie light shines
	Confusion says...... (Preview) Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. Army Laws: If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, pick it up. If you can't pick it up, paint it. &...	Phil	1	751	Oct 25, 2005 by rosie light shines
	Heroes? (Preview) Ozzy Osbourne says he wrote the song Suicide Solution after the death of his friend Bon Scott who died after drinking heavily one winter's night and passing out in his car. Suicide Solution Wine is fine But whiskey's quicker suicide is slow with liquor Take a bottle drown your sorrows Then it...	Badger	6	939	Oct 25, 2005 by Doll
	Sao (Preview) Hello e boa vinda. Perdoe-me, mim não falam o português, mim estão usando um tradutor em linha. Você diz que você têm 15 anos do sobriety e você para assistir a reuniões, você tem um patrocinador? Você destilador está indo às reuniões? Aqui nos EUA eu mantenho-me no contato próximo com outros membros d...	Doll	0	643	Oct 25, 2005 by Doll
	music therapy (Preview) http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=2916411&q=lo	001jaycee	0	650	Oct 25, 2005 by 001jaycee
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