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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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Please...please someone...
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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...
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Anne Frank and my gratitude
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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...
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Dadrrb
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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...
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Thought for today
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You can't make chicken salad
out of chicken shit!
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"better bend than break"
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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...
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Cumprimentos de Londres
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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...
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Mistaken beliefs about Relapse
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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...
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emotional sobriety
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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...
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Reflections for Beginners
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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...
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refraining from bad relationships
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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...
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Another Turmoil and Healing thing
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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...
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Another Day
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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...
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Confusion says......
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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.
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Heroes?
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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...
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Sao
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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...
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music therapy
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http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=2916411&q=lo
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EMOTIONAL INTIMACY
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Emotional intimacy is one of the most wonderful experiences we ever have. Nothing else really comes close to the experience of sharing our deepest thoughts and feelings with another, of being deeply seen and known, of sharing love, passion, laughter, joy, and/or creativity. The experience of i...
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Monday eh?
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Opening Ourselves to Love
Open ourselves to the love that is available to us.
We do not have to limit our sources of love. God and the Universe have an unlimited supply of what we need, including love.
When we are open to receiving love, we will begin to receive it. It may come from the most surpri...
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ACCEPTANCE...from the big book
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Acceptance "And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it i...
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Great Weekend
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I hope everyone had as great a weekend as I did!
Glad to be home......... missed you all Gotta get to reading now.
Love and hugs
Doll -- Edited by Doll at 18:21, 2005-10-23
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i had to become nothing first
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Become nothing before God, learn to keep silent; in this silence is the beginning, which is first to seek God's kingdom. --Soren Kierkegaard
So many devastating things can bring us to our knees. With experience we learn that pain and trouble are part of life. Most of us have fought against everyd...
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inventory doesn't have to be a beheading
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Hope for Today - October 24
My years in Al-Anon made me aware that I need to be careful about how I hear and interpret certain words. Consider "defects of character" and "shortcomings," which are found in Steps Six and Seven respectively. I came into Al-Anon believing I was responsible for...
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"name calling"
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...words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated. --May Sarton
How burdened we became, as little girls, with the labels applied by parents, teachers, even school chums. We believe about ourselves what others t...
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WOW!!! 12Steps in plain english
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The 12 Steps in Plain English
1. Alcohol will kill me. 2. There's a power that wants me to live. 3. Do I want to live or die? (if you want to die, stop here) 4. Write about how I got to where I am. 5. Tell another person all about me (let God listen). 6. Want to change. 7. Ask a power greater than me to help me ch...
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hi guys
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hey guys. everything here is good, just that winter is starting to show its ugly face as a few snowflakes this am. oh well, winter is going to be hard for me as i dont like it and did alot of drinking in those months, as work slows down,and more idle time on my hands. everyone be safe god bless wagon:weirdfac...
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IF YOU SO CHOOSE
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If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined. If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persist...
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It matters to me, too
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I read this on another site, thought it was great and wanted to share.
A man walking on the beach saw a little boy tossing starfish back into the ocean. Seeing that there were thousands of starfish beached, the man went to the little boy and asked him what he was doing. The little boy sai...
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inner values
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Express your inner values Do your outer choices reflect your inner values? If not, then your life will move from one conflict to another.
Yet when the choices you make do indeed come from the person you are, then you will travel steadily in the direction of your highest visions. When your actions are...
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reaping what i sew with the 12Steps
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Self-knowledge and self-improvement are very difficult for most people. It usually needs great courage and long struggle. --Abraham Maslow
This is a simple program but it isn't easy. We cannot take the principles we learn and thereby possess them as if we were taking a class or reading a book. W...
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focusing more on the SOLUTION
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. --D. H. Lawrence
Sometimes when we feel sorry for ourselves we will sit alone in our bedroom. We may even feel so down in the dumps that we decide to stay there, indulging in self-pity, thinking about how the world is against us. However, if we use our imagina...
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Thoughts For Friday Night
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My wife and I divorced over religious differences. She thought that she was God, and I didnt.
I dont suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
Some people are alive, only because, its illegal to kill them.
I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
You're just jealous because the vo...
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learning to trust again!!
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Learning to Trust Again
Many of us have trust issues.Some of us tried long and hard to trust untrustworthy people. Over and again, we believed lies and promises never to be kept. Some of us tried to trust people for the impossible; for instance, trusting a practicing alcoholic not to drink again....
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love takes time
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Love Takes Time
Love takes time. It needs a history of giving and receiving, laughing and crying...
Love never promises instant gratification, only ultimate fulfillment.
Love means believing in someone, in something. It supposes a willingness to struggle, to work, to suffer, and to rej...
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'tis a great day for recovery
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Today is October 21, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery!
CONSCIENCE
"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place." -- Mohandas Gandhi How I used to hate myself. So many times I caught myself pleasing the crowd, agreeing with people I did not understand or respect, lau...
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ANOTHER YUP-EH?
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grant me the to accept the things I cannot change to change the things I can and the to know the difference
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College work ideas?
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I have to do a research paper and i decided to do it on Children of Alcoholics but I'm not sure what aspect I should do it on since this is such a broad subject. If you have any ideas let me know, ASAP!
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FINALLY i can "erase his name"
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this is off the "hope for today" boy i can see my attitude changing becuz this *take" came completely spontaneous/ from my heart!!!!
Hope for Today - October 22
Making amends isn't about apologizing for every problem. It's about figuring out how a relatio...
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I jus want to share
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I am new to this board, and would like to share a little bit of my story. I was first introduced to AA over 12 years ago when I was 18. After starts and fits, I finally achieved a lasting sobriety when I was 19. I worked the program hard, all my friends were AA members, when I wasn't in classes or working I was do...
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test your knowlege
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so i did my first night at my DWI course...for those who don't know it stands for... Driving Without Intoxication this was our first assignment...this course is a requirement for getting my drivers liscence back true or false: 1. the amount of alcohol in an average serving (1 1/2 oz.) is complete...
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TODAY, i will have faith in my recovery
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faith in the "process"
hi everyone, i usually do my shares on the "dailys" taken off the NA/ AA/ Hazeldon , however today i am going to do a share on MY daily....."faith in the process" this is my own journal on having "blind faith in the process".......
as i have traversed in my r...
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12 promises for beginners
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The Twelve Promises For Beginners (origin unknown) 1. You will know your full name and address. 2. You will be able to shave yourself 3. You will be able to dress and undress yourself. 4. You will know the town, state and country you are in. 5. You will be able to find socks that match. 6. You will be able to s...
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The Good Points
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Our Good Points
What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know. --Beyond Codependency
We don't need to limit an inventory of ourselves to the negatives. Focusing only on what's wrong is a core issue in our codependency.
Honestly, fearless...
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Canadian thought for the day-eh?
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When one gets tired of the dust, from travelling on gravel and dirt roads.
When one gets banged up and bruised, from hitting dead ends, and running over big rocks.
When one just wishes to park the car in a ditch and say "Screw It"
Try a paved road...... There might be a few curves, but there ar...
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The Steps made Simple for this newbie
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Step 1: Honesty After many years of denial, recovery can begin when with one simple admission of being powerless over alcohol -- for alcoholics and their friends and family.
Step 2: Faith It seems to be a spiritual truth, that before a higher power can begin to operate, you must...
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