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nic mainly-everyone else too
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on a very serious note, I read your thread to the reading of the day and my opinion.
I really identified with your story, I was teased as a kid, sexually abused, and raped (during my addiction). I just mean to say that I need to take responsibility for the outcomes to situations. I can't le...
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"Toleration
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is the greatest gift of the mind"
Hellen Keller
I think about this quote as often as possible. I need to as I sometimes have very little of this precious commodity. Sometimes, I want others to do what I want, when I want it - still. This is old behavior, unhealthy for my own mind. Being intolerant no lo...
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the day we finally "get it"
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The day we finally get it!!!!! The Awakening A time comes in your life when you finally get it... When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks, and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out - ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on. And, like a child...
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A Word To Drop: "BLAME" 4-11
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To see how erratic emotions victimized us often took a long time. We could perceive them quickly in others, but only slowly in ourselves. First of all, we had to admit that we had many of these defects, even though such disclosures were painful and humiliating. Where other people...
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Hey Amanda...
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I'm glad you checked in , I miss you when you don't. How are things going in your life? Have you started gardening yet? I've been doing a little at my house and the church.
You are right about the 11th and 12th step, that's when God is leading and guiding me.He has blessed me so that I can be a blessing to oth...
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For Certain Eyes only
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Oookay...I can't find any direct emails, but I would particularly like to pass this on to Phil, Stan and Cabbagehead. There may also be others who find this amusing...BUT...there may be some who do not.
Soooooo, all those who are easily offended by the development of the English lang...
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Glimmer of hope
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My wife and kids just stopped by. On their way back from the horse arena to where they are staying. They left 12 days ago and had no real reason to stop in tonight other than to say Hi.
It was wonderfull seeing them. They are full of bitterness and I know it may take a long time, but Im praying to God to soften...
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for the women,ok,you men can look too...
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My sponsor emailed this to me...thought you all would get a chuckle out of it!
20 ways for women to tell if they've had too much to drink
1. I have absolutely no idea where my purse is
2. I truly believe that dancing with my arms in the air and wiggling my butt while yelling "WHOO HOO" is the sexiest dan...
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HI GIRLS....
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Having one of thoes days. my husband is a trumpet player, he plays in this blues band. He and I are going on three years this year. I went to one of his gigs last night and stayed up past 2a which is a big deal when you get used to 10p as a bed time. I don't know how i used to do it. I mean p...
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Wendy...wantneeda
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Hi Wendy, Just read your post below. I will be praying for you and your Mom.It would be tough to be so far away from a loved one who is sick, God can see you through this. I am praying you make that 10 months, go to a meeting,call your sponsor or someone in the program, post here, but don't pick up a drink. This t...
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Happy Friday:)
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Hey Guys:) They have computers out here. Was starting to go into withdrawals.hehehe
And no. Rick and Miller and Stan arent with me. If they were, wede all likely be having bar fights sober. hehehe
Nice country on the East Coast of Canada. Slower pace than most places==takes some adjusting, every...
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Hey miller....
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Way to go , congrates on your 10 days. Were you able to get in touch with your sponsor? Was it Cheri who ask if you had a list of numbers from your meeting? Do you?Anyway, the Grace of God is always with us , I just have to remember to allow it to work in my life.
(((Hugs)))
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Press Release
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PRESS RELEASE
Hello everyone
I need your opinion and help! I have started a newspaper called, Crosspoint Times, that is full of hope and positive articles. My vision is that I have writers like all of us that can write uplifting stories, poems, quotes, testimonies etc. We can celebrate our chi...
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Good Morning!!!
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Hello, i'm a drug addicted alcoholic called Wendy, on Saturday (providing i don't pick up that nasty first) i will be 10 months clean and sober!!!
My life is pretty much the same, a drunk-a-log, drug-a-log.................it took everything but my life. God led me to recovery and i...
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RESENTMENT
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Resentment is the number one offender. It distroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.
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H.A.L.T
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I really like this - HALT,"Hungry, Angry, Tired , Lonely", anybody have anything to share. I use this everyday.
(((Hugs)))
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Gammy
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No I didn't say live and let live about you i meant that i wanted to get conversation going on the board and i, myself weren't accepting the board the way it was. so there was irony for me to look at.
sorry about your situation. I just got a phone call last night about a girl who left an apartme...
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An Inside Look-april 8th
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We want to find exactly how, when and where our natural desires have warped us. We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves. By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction.
Today I am no longer a slave to...
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Stan's young fella
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Hey Stan,
I dunno why I'm having so much trouble staying in line with your comms, but I have been missing them...sorry, keep finding everything heaps late. You tack some good stuff on the ends of other posts..
Anyway...re: contacting your son
There is obviously lots to weigh up and if you think c...
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An Inspiring Person
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Have any of you ever heard of Ronan Tynan? My friend who works at umvd introduced me to him. He's a classical opera singer...who is such an inspiration to me. He has overcome his disabilities to become an olympic medalist, a doctor, and now someone referred to as The World's Most Famous Ir...
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i think i heard a pin drop...
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just doing my evening check in and where has everyone been. Gammy, Wendy and Chery--it's been nice hearing from you. If anyone wants to start a topic that would be great. As my attempt to with this post is not very illuminating. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME GOD BLESS...
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Progress
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About 6 months ago a couple of ponies came out to our farm. A white one was chosen by my youngest daughter, who desperately wanted a pony. He was old and beautiful and had come from a now defunct petting zoo, so I figured he'd be a good teacher. None of us are horse savvy... I know dogs, and I'm not bad with goa...
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just popping in to say hi
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Just wanted to say hello and I hope everyone had a great day.
I want to stop by at least once every day even if I have nothing to share but a smile.
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A Wide Arc Of Gratitude
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And, speaking for Dr. Bob and myself, I gratefully declare that had it not been for our wives,Anne and Lois, neither of us could have lived to see A.A."s beginning.
Am I capable of such generous tribute and gratitude to my wife, parents and friends, without whose support I might never have survi...
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Looking For
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Was hoping to find some of my old brothers from the former 5th Chapter MC. I was very involved both nationally and in the Midwest, Particullary looking for Animal in Iowa and Hippy in Tulsa and any others from the Midwest.
God Bless!
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a life time process-april 6
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We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a pray to misery and depression,we couldn't make a living,we had feelings of uselessness,we were full of fear. we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of real help to other people.
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Hanuman...
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Thanks for the post with the searchable version of the BB.
How's everything going with you? Miss you when you don't post.
(((Hugs)))
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Going to really miss this board for a few days.:)
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Wishing each and every one of you a good week and a great weekend, one day at a time.
Taking off again till Monday, and flying to the coast to spend time with my wife. God works, if we LET HIM.
You will all be in my thoughts. With Love Phil
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Tuesday
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I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeant-major-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to look and readiness to accept whatever came. --Joanna Field
Resistance to the events, the situations, the many people who come into our lives...
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True Brotherhood-april 5th
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We have not once sought to be one in the family, to be a friend among friends, to be a worker among workers, to be a useful member of society. Always we tried to struggle to the top of the heap, or to hide underneath it. This self centered behavior blocked a partnership relation with an...
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Stans mate
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Allo mate,
Just read your post about your flatmate...
Has triggered some memories for me. When I first got sober Stan, I couldn't have done what you're doing. I separated from society and focussed very much on kids for the first couple of years, because I figured they were safer...and heaps smart...
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Quotes from Meetings
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Quotes from Meetings
"When you have reached the end of all the light that you know, and you must step out into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: either you will have something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly!"
"I am not guilty; I a...
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Hello
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Today was day six for me.
Hello Everyone.
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Welcome Christine
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Ohh Boy!! Another Eskimo!! :)
Im in Ontario bout 2 hrs nw Of Toronto. Used to be a city slicker, but AA caught up to me.
In a small town now, where everbody knows everybodys business, but anythings better than the rat race, of the past.
Good to have you here amongst freinds, as we share...
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Crying for the moon
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This very real feeling of inferiority is magnified by his childish sensitivity and it is this state of affairs which generates in him that insatiable, abnormal craving for self-approval and success in the eyes of the world. Still a child, he cries for the moon. And the moon, it seems, won't hav...
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Positively Negative
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A clearer way of looking at things: We can be positive that our drinking was negative.
We drank for happiness and became unhappy. We drank for joy and became miserable. We drank to be outgoing and became self-centred. We drank for sociability and became argumentative. We drank for sophisti...
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Monday
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All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear. --Elizabeth Goudge
There is no problem too difficult to handle with all the help available to us. Let's not be overwhelmed. The program tells us to "Le...
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Murphys Other Laws
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> > > 1. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. > > 2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest. > > 3. A day without sunshine is like, well, night. > > 4. Change is inev...
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Anger
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Q1: What is it? A1:
Anger is an emotional state that varies in intensity from mild irritation to intense fury and rage. Q2: How frequently does it occur? A1:
Anger is a completely normal and healthy emotion to feel and to express in a constructive manner. Q3: What may I b...
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Have a good Saturday guys
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Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. --Step Four of Al Anon
By the time we get to the Fourth of the Twelve Steps, we are ready to face our darker side, the side that prevents us from loving others, from letting others love us, and from enjoying life and ourselves. The purpose o...
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NIC
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i really see where you are coming from. i guess that maybe i shouldn't haqve jumped the gun with my comment to stans reply. i may have taken for granted that information and not given respect to the fact that not ALL of us knows that.
i have been thinking about our threads yesterday and slept on it...
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Big Book Online
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This is the link for the Big Book online...
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No defense ?
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Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 4...
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April Fools Day Thoughts
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How important does a person have to be before they are considered >assassinated instead of just murdered? > >If money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches? Since bread >is square, then why is sandwich meat round? > >Why do you have to "put your...
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Nic?
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Nic, I'd like to know if this is a common sight down there:
http://community.webshots.com/photo/115765832/121731511qTdfDS
love in recovery,
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Alcohol Warnings
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Newly issued alcohol warnings
The Toronto Board of Health has proposed that warning signs be placed on all alcohol bottles to tip off drinkers about the possible peril of drinking a pint or two of any alcoholic beverage. 1. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to wake up with a breath tha...
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Stress
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A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "how heavy is this glass of water?"
Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it."
"If I hold i...
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Challenge
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Nic has come up with Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy.
Can anyone else come up with a more complicated word associated with getting pissed too much?
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Thursday
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Each Day a New Beginning.
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. --Joyce Brothers
Anger is familiar to us all. We feel it toward others and from others. The expression and acceptance of anger is where we often falter. Most of us were told when we were small g...
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