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a few quotes
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and truth. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You're not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly." by Rumi...
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More On Step Six
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Good Evening My Friends, These are todays questions from Step Six and my answers to them i hope no one minds that i am shareing this way???
Step 6 - I become entirely ready to have God remove all of these defects of character
Describe the kind of activities that you really enjoy (NOT) your addictiv...
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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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A little inspiration
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Hi all,
As some of you know I live on a farm in outback Australia. Some days I wake up wondering what on earth the next mountain will be I will have to climb, and ALWAYS ALWAYS think respectfully of those who have gone before us, and built the roads I ride on, and the lil towns I go to get supplies from etc. Ou...
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Vulnerability
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Vulnerability
Some of us may have made a decision that no one was ever going to hurt us again. We may automatically go on "feelings freeze mode" when faced with emotional pain. Or, we may terminate a relationship the first time we feel hurt. Hurt feelings are a part of life, relationships, and reco...
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5 Lessons
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Five (5) lessons to make you think about the way we treat people.
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>1. - First Important Lesson - Cleaning Lady.
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>During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions until I read the last one:
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A beautiful Prayer
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A BEAUTIFUL PRAYER
I asked God to take away my habit.
God said, no.
It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.
I asked God to make my handicappe...
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Self Esteem, Self Love, and Self Centeredness
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by Nancy Poitou, M.A., M.F.T.
I have been asked often about what is self-esteem, self-love and self-centeredness. These are very good questions and it is a fine line that separates these concepts.
Self esteem means to hold oneself in high esteem, feeling worthy of a good life and good tre...
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Canadian Eh??
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Was just thinkin--its nice to see a few Canadians on the board. Serenity? Im not too far from you--bout an hour n of Guelph. I did live in Scarborough at one time and spent 14 years in Brampton, until moving to Quiet Country. It wasnt quiet for long because I was still drinking---better now.:)
If I reme...
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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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Will Power--vroom!!
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WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to use a Higher POWER.
--Anonymous
One of the greatest decisions any of us ever made concerned our Third Step. This decision seemed to go against everything we wanted to do. We all know so well that every time we tried to manage our own lives, we produced misery and...
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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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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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I need help.:)
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A blind man walks into a bar,
grabs his dog by its hind legs,
and swings him around in a circle.
The bartender says,
"Hey buddy, what are you doing?"
And the blind man says,
"Don't mind me,
I'm just looking around
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Understanding
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I read these posts and feel so bad for what alcoholics have to deal with. As a family member I can relate to how other family members feel but never really understood the pain the alcoholic feels.
I've written before regarding my dying (ex)husband and I wanted to share that in reading some of these pos...
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food for thought
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Easy Does ItStrain & struggle abound when we try to do everything ourselves, our way. We want positive change to occur immediately & expect miracles to happen according to our personal timetable. We sometimes feel that if our Higher Power is guiding us, we should be able to accomplish great...
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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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Humility continued....Step Seven is about Humility
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Humility
The AA Twelve and Twelve tells us that "the whole emphasis of Step Seven is on humility." We first looked at humility in the Third Step when we made the decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. "The attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each of A...
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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
(Question One)
Make a list of good and bad ways th...
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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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? 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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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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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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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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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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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.
How are your plans fo...
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Anger
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Q: What causes a person to experience anger?
A: There are basically two ways of experiencing anger. You can feel angry with yourself over not having done as well as you had hoped on an examination, or you can have the other kind of anger which is directed at someone else or some object. In other words...
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child of mine
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Child of Mine Oh, little child of mine I finally know you're here and I want you to know that I am learning to care I care that you were hurt deep wounds to soul and heart and I in ignorant blindness kept myself so set apart I didn't want to hear your rage from all the pain you've had I didn't know to reach for you...
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Happy New Year
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Happy New Year everyone. All the best in 2005.
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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
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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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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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