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A few things re Humility
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Humility looks like saying, “There is something here that I don’t know, the knowing of which would change everything.” Humility looks like saying, “You may be right,” or, “I can understand how you could feel that way.”
Humility looks like an open acknowledgement that we don’t have it all figure...
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An article about ego
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Struggling with Ego
By JJ Gormley
Commonly thought to represent the self, the ego commands center stage in our lives for the simple reason that the ego marks us as individually distinctive from other selves or egos. Our ego is basically our personality. Psychologically cast, ego controls our t...
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Working Step Six, On The Question About Pride
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Good Afternoon My Friends, I am currently working on step six with a question about pride if anyone has any esh on step six or pride i would sure love to hear from yah.
Step 6 - I become entirely ready to have God remove all of these defects of character
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Make a list of good and bad ways th...
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just sharing a few things
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Trapped Within ~~~~
I feel trapped... Within my fears Within my dreams Within my hope Within my insecurities Within my life Within my love Within my loneliness I can't escape these feelings They always come back I could be happy *as forever* And with a single, errant thought CRASH The warm feelin...
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it's a new day
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Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times.
Fortunately for baseball fans, Babe Ruth didn’t let his many strikeouts defeat him. He continued going to bat & he kept hitting home runs. How many of us stay willing to try an activity when we’ve experienced defeat, particularly public d...
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Hi All
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A quick Hello to each and everyone of you!!!!
Phil,
I plan to commit myself in returning back to this message board on a more regular basis. I surely miss you all. My schedule has been altered in keeping it simple. I have taken on way too much the last few months. This week is very hectic in finis...
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and how
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Today's Quote The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor’s shoulder is to pat him on the back. -Unknown
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hello...
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Hello everyone. I am beginning my challenge to face my addiction to alcohol today. It has gone on for too long. I am 45 and have been drinking since I was 17; real heavily the last few years. I am going to a meeting tonight and am trying to get in a rehab program tomorrow night.&n...
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Pssst...Phil....DW, all
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Hi, got any goodies on file about insecurity? Boy, I got very insecure after Christmas (and sick, physically and spiritually). THe old insecurities came out like a volcano... Needless... to say I made a huge mistake...but to make a LONG story short, maybe some things HAD to get w...
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hello...
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hello, my name is Samantha, i'm an alcoholic and a drug addict. i'm 21 yrs old and have been clean and sober a little over 4 months. i'm trying to get as big of a support group i can, so i thought i'd see what this forum is all about.
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? Phil
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Since u live in Canada do u watch the red green show it comes on here Sat eve at
10:30pm It gives us a good laugh to go to sleep on. I know this isnt program
but tryin to lighten up Busbe
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Zoo, Phil....
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Well, Phil ...the zoo is pretty quiet. It's just me and the monkies in my mind. I gave my cat away a few weeks ago, he was not happy after my son went to college and life is a little calmer now. I am going to have to venture out in the cold in awhile to check on my Mom and go to the post office.
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Fear Of Socialization
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Hi my name is Serenity, I am new to this website and i guess i am what you might call coming back i suffer from the fear of socialization and i dont go out much. i go to online meetings, and i work the steps daily, i have a sponsor and we work very closely tog everyday on my recovery. i am sob...
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Accepting
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Accepting Help
Some of us have felt so alienated that we've forgotten we're not alone. We've come to believe that we have to do it ourselves. Some of us have been abandoned. Some have gone without love. Some of us have gotten used to people never being there for us. Some of us have struggled, had hard...
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New Years Resolutions
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New Year's Resolutions for Internet Junkies...
I will try to figure out why I *really* need 9 e-mail addresses.
I will stop sending e-mail to my wife (husband).
I resolve to work with neglected children -- my own.
I will answer my snail mail with the same enthusiasm with which I answer my e-m...
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A Year To Grow
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A Year To Grow
This new year can be a time of growth in sobriety. While we have no crystal ball that tells us what luck and fortune the year will bring, we do have a program that gives us the power to make the best of this year, to grow in sobriety. We can make progress in overcoming resentment and selfish...
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Have a good day!!
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Step Ten "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."
As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure of a new life. But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way of living to practical use, day by day, in fair weather...
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my thought for today
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Busyness rapes relationships. It substitutes shallow frenzy for deep friendship. It promises satisfying dreams but delivers hollow nightmares. It feeds the "ego" but starves the inner person. It fills a calendar but fractures a family...
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Change
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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
--Faith Baldwin
Change surrounds us. It lies within us, too. The trees in the yard have changed. They've grown taller. Their leaves die and scatter on the ground in the fall. We don't resemble our baby pictures much anymore, either. Like tree...
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Living Today
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Living Today
The beginning of the New Year will often bring back sad memories. This has been the big day for hangovers, coming down, remorse, guilt, and shame. But if we stay with our new purpose - staying clean and staying close to our Higher Power - we don't have to fear the New Year. God has forgi...
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Nic, catherine, anyone...dry or active?
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I read with great interest your posts on dry drunks. I witness, too, my spouse, get angry, disappointed in others ambitions and achievements, lose his clarity. Sometimes he tries to rain on my parade, spoil my mood. I usually have to pull out my boundary bag and use one for s...
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Hello Hoolia - RE: Dry Drunk
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Welcome Hoolia!
This board moves quite quickly, with lots of people popping in, so thought I would post again to make sure you know you have been noticed, and we are glad you're here.
You asked, "What is a dry drunk?"
... to me it is just living sober. I am dry, as long as I don't pick up a drink. Someti...
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Today is a New Year
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Hi there,
I was browsing the internet and found your site after coming to terms with the fact that I am an alcoholic.
I am young, only 22 years old and are what some people call a "functional addict." I have the nice job, I'm active in my community, I was always class President in High Sch...
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opening ourselves to love
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Opening Ourselves To Love Allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in recovery. Many of us have blocked ourselves from receiving love. We may have lived with people who used love to control us. They would be there for us, but at the high price of our freedom. Love was g...
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remember when
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someone here tried to send this joke a couple of times but the ending was cut short every time. someone just sent it to me and i thought i would pass it along.
Marty wakes up at home with a huge hangover. He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirin...
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On-line friendship
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Hi all,
I have just heard from an on-line friend, who's son had been about a month sober. I haven't had face to face contact with any of this family, and have developed a genuine friendship with his Mum over a few years online. I really like her and feel I can relate to her words. When he decided he wanted t...
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HapPy nEW yeAr!
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Happy New Year!!
May 2005 be full of happiness, joy and freedom for both,
YOU and those you love!
Should you find yourself in a slump, just remember... YOU ARE A
MIRACLE IN PROGRESS!
Yours In Healing and Recovery, John F. Wilmington, NC
-- Edited by John at 01:10, 2005-01-01
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request for advice with AA personality. . .
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Greetings,
This is my first post here, so I apologize if I'm not used to the norms and standards in use!
I'm an alcoholic who is struggling to make my life better, to improve myself with the help of God and others like myself. I've been attending meetings for close on three years, though I ashame...
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Happy New Year
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Happy New Year everyone. All the best in 2005.
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Taking the opportunity
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To thank each and every one of you for being here the last 365 days.
Its been quite a ride.
Looking forward to a smoother one in 2005--God Willing.
My sobriety moment of 20 years --one day at a time-- is tomorrow at 115pm
Im not bragging about that--Im just pretty damned grateful
I r...
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Consumption of Alcohol
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VERY TRUE
Canadian liquor manufacturers have accepted the Health Canada's
suggestion that the following warning labels be placed immediately on
all varieties of alcohol containers:
WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering
what the hell happened to your bra a...
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New Years Eve
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Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Past New Year's Eves may have meant times of excessive chemical use. We may have embarrassed ourselves in many ways. W...
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can you relate?
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Received this from a friend.........is she right? Been around the block once or twice myself. Never thought of it this way before myself but now that she has pointed it out......well there is some truth in what she says in my experiences. I really don't think she can put all men in t...
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New Years Eve
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Praying that all have a very blessed New Years Eve and 2005. I will be sober this New Years Eve, it's a choice I have made this morning as I sat,drinking that first cup of tea.
As I sat praying and ask God what I needed to do today, where I needed to go, who I needed to reach out to, what He would have me do? He sa...
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Just a small share-Have a great day guys
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"In learning how to achieve some emotional balance in our lives, it is necessary to be able to look at our self, our own inner process, and the life dynamic itself, from different perspectives. It is this looking at different levels that is the process of processing. Processing is a matter of looking a...
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Sign In A Bar
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----------------------------------------------------- Edited by Phil at 16:56, 2004-12-30
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Waiting
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I've started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things. Waiting can be very, very powerful. Time is a valuable thing. If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you threw up in the...
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The Foundation
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Laying the Foundation
The groundwork has been laid.
Do you not see that?
Don't you understand that all you have gone through was for a purpose?
There was a reason, a good reason, for the waiting, the struggle, the pain, and finally the release.
You have been prepared. The same wa...
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Thoughtful Things to Remember...
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"Become a Searcher, for those who seek are the Finders of Treasures" (author unknown)
"Be a good Listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble" (by Frank Tyger)
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight" (by Benjamin Franklin)...
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Only a practicing Alky could think this one up
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It was New Year's Eve ... by then, actually, it was very early on New Year's morning. The drunk staggered out of the men's room and wobbled his way to the bar.
"I, uh, lll..., I'll ha-have anudder. Maske itta dubble." The bartender looks him over and notices the vomit staining the front of the drunk'...
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Into Action - Thought for the day
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Be A Sponsor*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ INTO ACTION A.A. is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven't been given the truth may die. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 13 I desperately wanted to live,...
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am I still welcome
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Hi everyone,
I hope I am still welcome on this board after my dry drunk through the holidays
Im doing better with that now but now down with bronchtus that I just got over
I wish I would learn that emotional upsets make me sick...After all these years
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Remember When
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*** Signs that you "just might" have a drinking problem. ***
You lose arguments with inanimate objects.
You have to hold onto the lawn to keep from falling off the earth.
Your job is interfering with your drinking.
Your doctor finds traces of blood in your alcohol stream.
Sincerely beli...
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Have a great day guys
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There are two days in every week
about which we should not worry,
Two days which should be kept free of 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.
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Self Destruction
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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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Thought I was doing okay....
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Tonight at an open AA meeting, potluck before meeting, I felt so alone and I know it was just my old stuff coming to the surface. I sat there ,with people I've known in the program for the 13 years and wished my husband was there and sober, instead of 300 miles away in a halfway house. I finally had to tell mys...
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Working Today
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Working today
As we approach a new year, many of us feel fear. We look back on the past and worry about the future. But if we remember we only have today, we can work to make that future better. We have found true friends in our fellowship, and this is a time to be with them.
Am I ensuring a fruitful fu...
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Right Back at ya, Phil
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Well, ya know what they say about us with PMS, a new Hairdo once a month! (that's me) No, that's 49, not 92! Here's your  (kick) in the butt to pack!  It's 49, plus add X amount of pounds having given birth to four! Now...
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Just Wondering.... Footwork
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Well, it's that time of year again...New Year's resolutions. ha,ha. I have been telling myself I have these teeny, tiny goals I want to set, really tiny ones, not too difficult. I don't know, I don't know if my HP chuckles or frowns, and says "You have more Footwork to do".&n...
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Phil....
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I noticed your little joke on marriage below. Am flipping you an email with another goodie. You can post it here sometime, if you haven't already. (You'll easily recognize my email addy in your inbox.)
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