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Purpose
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The reasonable man encounters circumstances and adapts himself to them. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt circumstances to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man. --George Bernard Shaw Finding Your Purpose Everyone has a dream. Everyone has a purpose or mission...
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New Here
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Hello Everyone
My name is brook i have been sober almost 6 years in october i feel good i love being sober i have many reasons im sober right now for my health my family and my new baby girl who will be two weeks old thursday and she is a blessing in my life im married to my husbund who is also in AA he has been...
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New Member
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Hello! My name is Andrew and I am an alcoholic. It is time for me to give up this addiction. I have been to a few AA meetings, but have not given up my beer just yet. I had a hard time accepting the fact that I am an alcoholic. I always thought alcholics were those who d...
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HOW IT WORKS
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How It Works
Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are suc...
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It's time.. I'm a newbie
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I've been battling alcohol for quite some time now.. I decide I want to quit at night as I tuck my two babies into bed, then by morning my resolve is less, by the end of the day, I'm cracking open a bottle of wine, drinking it all and some.. and saying tomorrow I'll quit.
Tomorrow comes and the same thing ha...
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todays thought-Aug 15
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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. --Simone Weil
How terribly complicated we choose to make life's many questions. Should we call a friend and apologize or wait for her call? Are the children getting the kind of care they must, right now? That we "Came to believe in a power gre...
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husband in rehab
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I wanted to thank everyone again for their thoughts and shares.
My husband entered rehab 4 days ago. A place fully covered by insurance.
Not posh like the Betty Ford Center---but he's out of credit and cash.
I'm still doing my thing here. I will visit tomorrow for family day...
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a great day for recovery-Aug 14
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Today is August 14, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery!
TRUTH
"If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth." -- Hans Reichenbach I believe that in order to discover spirituality in our lives, we need to confront the "disease", that dest...
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We do not have to handle our problems alone.
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We do not have to handle our problems alone.
Thinking that we needed no one's help made us feel strong and proud. We were capable, we were good managers, and we had the answers. It's not easy to accept that our perceived ability to manage may well have been a facade for gross unmanageability a...
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asmith,purplehaze,wagon
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I'm headed for the chat room...click the link in the upper left hand corner.
Let's ahve a meeting
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cheri
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i would love to dothat sometime have a meeting i been in there and looked no body ever there so i stopped tring
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Weary and waiting...
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HI All,
It has been a huge weekend, with some very funny hairy dudes, lots of raucous laughter and very amazing machinary. Will attach a couple of pics for the folks who like vehicles of the two and four wheeled varieties. It was great to catch up with old mates and make new ones. The bless...
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Hey Nic
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Hey Gal
I poested to u a couple times. I don't ignore if im here. Anyway it'sd been hot. Managed to put the knees in the breeze for about 500 miles this week. Between meetings and business the ol bike was handy. Love it always had one since being a kid.
Youe picture was kool....
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For The Newcomers
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what do u think
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for years ,some of my let call them friends for now .play cards in the winter and fall months in a pool hall here in town. they have been calling me to come and play again .this has been fun but had involed lots of drinking.they know im clean now but still want me to play cards with them .i dont know if i should a...
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Need some help - please
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As a writer, I get emails from people around the world - usually from spouses or parents of alcoholics - wondering how they can help - or asking questions which at times, is quite a challenge. Tonight, I emailed this person and said I would try to get some "expert" advice for them.
This persons child...
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"A Look Back"
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August 12 First we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done... Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.77
As a traveler on a fresh and exciting A.A. journey of recovery, I experience...
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" A Clean Sweep"
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August 13 ...and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with evey human being we know. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions&...
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A Solid Foundation
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Life is busy and the world is complex. Give yourself time to take it all in. Events come at you quickly, and keep coming all the time. Regularly give yourself the time and space to make sense of it all. When you get too caught up in your efforts, you can lose track of why you're making them. Take the time, aga...
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Going To A Party
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Hey All,
Going to a party today!!!!
A little nervous about alchol being there. Its actually my first gathering
around a-lot of people partying Cancelled the last party invited to.
I know it way too soon to be going around all the alchol, just going to
stay strong...and re...
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Overcomming Resentment
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only mistake you can make
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In AA the only mistake you can make is not coming back.
Gratitude is the streetcar to a better attitude.
The catch-22 of recovery: You've got to change your thinking to change your drinking. But to change your thinking, you've got to change your drinking.
AA: Absolute Abstinence.
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Dealing With GUILT
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Dealing with the Guilt.
Guilt. It's a word that can invoke in us the deepest, most terrible feelings of loss, horror, anger, and helplessness. Why did I do what I did? Why couldn't I have done more? Did I not do enough? Did I do too much? ...
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Angel beat
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A drunk man in a beat up Ford. They said he ran the light That caused the six-car pileup On the 109 that night. When broken bodies lay about And blood was everywhere, sirens screamed out eulogies, For death was in the air. A mother, trapped inside her car, Was heard above the noise; Her plain...
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My First Meeting
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Hey guys,
Its finally happening, Going to my first meeting.
It sounds like an excuse...Having a vehicle to do some running around is a mayor hassle. Not to mention the poor thing isnt running too good.
Going to kill lots of "birds with one stone".:ju...
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This is my first attempt ever
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Hello, I have never been to an AA meeting, nor received counseling for alcoholism. I don't know what the 12 step program is, but I have heard about it. I am not so much interested in that, as I am just getting a little advice.
MY girlfriend and I have started this great new diet, and it is working to lose we...
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Tonights Thoughts
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Even when we know what is right, our conscious mind can use our fears, doubts and insecurities to convince us to do something different.
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Most of the emotional pain in our lives is caused by our fears, doubts, and insecurities. Our emotional pain is self inflicted, and we must learn fro...
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Drinking guide for social drinkers?
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Drinking Guide" SYMPTOM: Feet cold and wet. FAULT: Glass being held at incorrect angle. ACTION: Rotate glass so that open end points toward ceiling. SYMPTOM: Beer unusually pale and tasteless. FAULT: Glass empty. ACTION: Get someone to buy you another be...
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A quote from Charlie Brown
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"Im still hoping yesterday will get better" :) DOH!!
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comfortable ?
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The world shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. --Anais Nin
First you crawled, then you learned to walk, and the world grew a little bigger. You learned to ride a bike, and it grew even more. Then you learned to drive a car and bought a plane ticket. Suddenly, the horizons were limitless....
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a great day for recovery-Aug 12
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Today is August 12, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery!
LIFE
"The tragedy of life is what dies in man while he lives." -- Albert Schweitzer Addiction progressively takes away the vitality of life. It robs life of meaning. Addiction isolates; it kills by atrophy. People, places and thi...
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smilin' 12 steps...:)
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Step 1_ "We admitted we were powerless over humor, that our lives had become more manageable." 2. Came to believe that a smile greater than ourselves could restore us to laughter.Step 3e A Decision To Turn Our Lives Over To The Care Of Humor,as We Understood It. Step 4: Made a searching and fearl...
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Removing "The Ground Glass"
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August 11 The moral inventory is a cool examination of the damage that occured to us during life and a sincere effort to look at them in a true perspective. This has the effect of taking ground glass out of us, the emotional substance that still cuts and inhibits. As Bi...
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Misfortunes
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I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. --Anne Frank
We don't find the rewards of today by searching through our misfortunes. Pausing to seek out something good for everything we find bad is a step in the right direction. We may find the good outweighs the bad.
But ho...
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its real
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Some Days its Like.............
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Emotional Hangovers Step 10
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When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well in today. But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not.
That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterdays and sometimes todays excesses of nega...
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Serenity Prayer
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A version of the Serenity Prayer I use a lot.
God Grant me the Serenity
to Accept the Person I cannot Change
Courage to Change the Person I Can
and theWisdom
To know that Person is Me
Keeps me honest!
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Hey Rick
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Just thought I'd say G'day and let you know I'm glad you're back.
How's the road on your side of the world? Am pulling the horse out for the day tomorrow, taking my mate and my munchkins over to a regional town for a shopping spree.
They are taking off next week for a Rock Eis...
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Pink Cloud Phase
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 Hi All,
I went thru a phase that was refered as the "Pink Cloud" at Meetings a few years back.
Hopefully I have the correct name for it.
Any help would be appreciated.
"Have A Great Day"
Nancy Jo
 
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more reasons not to drink today...
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http://www.beaubaldwin.com/pictures...t_to_drink.html
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A great day for recovery-Aug 11
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Today is August 11, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery!
INDIVIDUALITY
"The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual." -- Charles Towne The spiritual program that involves a "love of self" has made me get in touch with my individuality. Al...
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Sober fact:
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Man said: If I lie I have to face a lie detector. Woman said: You mean a Polygraph test? Man answered: No, my sponsor!
Drunk classic for sober people:
There was an alcoholic woman in my home town who, in the course of her drinking, married four times: a millionaire, a magician, a minister, a...
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step prayers and promises
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"God, I offer myself to Thee — to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always!"
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Functioning drunk
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"Came the day when I realized that I couldn't keep dragging myself off to work in the morning and spending half the energy of every day concealing the fact that I was a barely functioning drunk"
-from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, pg 392.
Hi all. Nic got my curiou...
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TODAYS GIFT
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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. --Will Rogers
We may have learned rage at a very early age from an alcoholic parent. We may have found we could manipulate people and distance them by taking off at them like a rocket. We found they had no choice but to take cover or speedil...
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life
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hi all things are good here. just thinking back to the first months .how close i came to giving up.i glad with everyones help i made it through it boy that was tough.now sober for some months i got a handle on my life again and ready to take a few chances in life again . thinking about investing in the r...
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Hey everyone...
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Just a quick check in....I guess I'm doing okay. Still packin', how does one accumulate soooooo much stuff. I am the queen of stuff, but I'm tossing out a lot, giving alot to charity, will have a garage sale. Last week-end my son send home some furniture because he moved to a different apartment so I have...
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Angels
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Angels appear in the Bible from the beginning to the end, from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Revelation. The Bible is our best source of knowledge about angels - for example, Psalms 91:11, Matthew 18:10 and Acts 12:15 indicate humans have guardian angels. Angels announce the birth of Jesus to the s...
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Now I'm curious
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Hi all.
Well, now I'm just curiousas to whether this message board is approved, endorsed or affiliated with AA.
The homepage does ask that 2 traditions be observed, they are anonymity and topics. I could not find anywhere that it stated "AA aproved" , etc.
Did I miss it? If s...
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Thanks to my friends
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Hi Friends, I haven't taken the the time to say Thanks ya'll, for the hard work that I believe it has taken to get this site where it is today. I have tried a few other online recovery groups, and was sadly disapointed by the bickering amongst the members, so so sad. but the Big Book tells me there's o...
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