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'tis a great day for recovery!
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Today is November 5, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery!
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"The spirit of liberty . . . is the spirit which is not too sure it is always right." -- Judge Learned Hand I am free to make mistakes. It is okay for me to be wrong. I can say or do something that proves to be incorrect. I am not perfec...
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what a day!
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i made a promise to myself that i was going to a meeting today...no matter what
i talked to a fellow member last night and we agreed to meet at the meeting....so i called the next morning to confirm...found out there was no meeting. Our detox here is apparently putting in new windows...so no meetings t...
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Standing at the edge
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There are times in my life that I feel as if I am standing at the edge of an abyss...so wide that I can't see the other side, so deep I can't see the bottom and so dark that no light can shine through. As I stand there I find myself wondering if I should turn back and pretend that I never reached that point, if I sh...
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ive blown it guys i am sorry
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im sitting here, writing this its 11.38 am ive just been to the off-licence and bought a bottle of smirnoff vodka, wich im drinking now, the lady offered me a bag but i said id put it in my pocket as i didnt want to look like an alkie walking down the street...she laughed..how easily the pretence starts aga...
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Getting really frickin' frustrated!
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Hey all-
I'm sure that this topic has come up more than once. I really get tired of this labeling bullsh*t at meetings. Being a "newbie" makes my opinion of less merit???? Being an "oldtimer" makes a person some kind of "higher power" (for lack of a better word)
Us "newbies" have opinions and feelin...
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The AA Traditions
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THE A.A. TRADITION
To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous has made the difference between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death. A.A. can, of course, mean just as much to uncounted alcoholics not yet reached.
Therefore, no society of men and women ever had...
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how MUCH is enough????
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How Much Is Enough?
We continue to weigh and measure our food when we are maintaining as well as when we are losing. Since we are compulsive overeaters, we do not have a built in concept of how much food is enough. Exact measurements relieve us of the anxiety of deciding how much is enough. Since we ar...
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Letting Go
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I am willing to trust. I know that to the degree I am willing to give up my search for a healthy love relationship, I can have it. I know I can have whatever I am ready and willing to receive. Individual receptivity is everything. Without it, nothing changes. With it, all things are possible. I no longer...
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Step ten and anger.
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"When we were wrong..promptly admitted it"
Yu know guys.....it just doesnt matter how many days, that we have in this program.. we never get it perfect....
Ive been in AA a lotta days, and still have those days where I screw up. Its a good job we are human eh?
I guess if we didnt screw up, there would...
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been here before
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do i stick it out,
its my partners house, or make a break, i have to play the system now, get drunk.. threaten suicide in order to get help, unless i want to sleep on the beach tonight.. pester my doctor?
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the truth.....my PAINFUL pal
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. --Sigmund Freud
The truth is our friend. It is a rough and humble kind of friend--but a friend nonetheless. Each of us will need to learn to spend time with this friend because it is one that is not easy to escape. It is always turning up when we le...
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today's thought
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. --Sigmund Freud
The truth is our friend. It is a rough and humble kind of friend--but a friend nonetheless. Each of us will need to learn to spend time with this friend because it is one that is not easy to escape. It is always turning up when we...
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10/3*today's gift
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Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. --Henry Ford
One of the biggest problems of addiction began with the initial desire to increase and continue to use an addictive substance. All of us who have gotten to the point of overdoing th...
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A DAILY DISCIPLINE
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A DAILY DISCIPLINE
 
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Badger, Thank you.
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Just a "thanks" for posting your blog site. It inspired me to start my own. My sponsor wants me to put pen to paper, but I just can't seem to do it. I prefer typing. I tried keeping a file on my PC, but wasn't comfortable with that. My son uses the PC alot and I was a afraid he'd find it. Blogging is...
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Forgiveness And Blame
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FORGIVENESS
Part I. Forgiveness of Others
At the root of the difficulty in learning to forgive someone is mistaking the action of a person for their being, and not seeing that the two are separate. Actions th...
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Difficult situations...
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I had a very tough time walking away from a drink yesterday. At about 3 o'clock my boss asked me and a co-worker to come with him for a few beers and something to eat while we went over some reports. This was a very common occurrence with my boss, we have spent many a night boozing and carousing over the years...
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Heaven and Hell
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A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, "Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like." The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot...
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Anger
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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."--Proverbs 16:32
Anger is an appropriate response to physical danger and pain.
Anger is not an appropriate response to mental, ego, or self-esteem danger and pain.
Anger is a...
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I've been submitting when I mean't to reply
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I've sent messages or resonses out but I was confused on were to click on this here machine I think I've got that part down now Hope I did'nt mess anything up for anybody Jim
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A reason, a season, or a lifetime
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People come into your life for a Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime. When you know which one it is for a person, you will know what to do for that person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They h...
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Verbal Abuse
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When someone loves you, it helps you to feel good about yourself. Noone has the right, to verbally abuse you, and make you feel bad, or confused.
When someone loves you.. you feel valued, respected, and free to be yourself. You shouldnt be mad...
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EDUCATED AGNOSTIC
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Personal Stories From The First Edition
EDUCATED AGNOSTIC
WHY go into the drinking pattern that is so much the same with all of us? Three times I had left the hospital with hope that I was saying goodbye forever. And here I was again.
The first day there I told the kindly doctor that I was a thorough...
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When Is Trouble Not Trouble?
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When Is Trouble Not Trouble?
By Dr. Robert Schuller
When is trouble not trouble, you ask? When it protects you from an unknown hazard on the road ahead, or shelters you from a sin that, unknown to you, lurks furtively in your path waiting to tempt and trip you, then trouble is not trouble!
When t...
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meet my IC BOTH of them!!!!
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Days of Healing Days of Joy by Earnie Larsen and Carol Larsen Hegarty, Daily Meditations for Adult Children
Many of us are afraid of the wounded child living within us. We are afraid of remembering too much, afraid of feeling overwhelmed, afraid of the rage that will be stirred up. But in...
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the promises of ALCOHOL
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THE PROMISES OF ALCOHOL If we are casual with this phase of our development, we will be drunk before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new imprisonment and a new misery. We will relive the past and won't be able to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word CONFLICT and we will know PAI...
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a great day for recovery :)
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Today is November 3, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery!
CHOICES
"Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back." -- Robert Quillen I am an alcoholic and today I choose not to drink. When alcohol is offered, I say "no". I do not go i...
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todays gift
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You can feel only your own feelings, not another person's.
Having empathy for those we love, and being able to share their joys and sorrows, is part of our nature as warm, caring human beings. Taken to an extreme, however, too much empathy can mean that we lose our boundaries as emotionally...
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12 step story
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Though these principles were advocated according to the whim or liking of each of us, and though in Akron and Cleveland they still stuck by the O.G. absolutes of honesty, purity, unselfishness and love, this was the gist of our message to incoming alcoholics up to 1939, when our present Twelve Steps w...
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Relationship Stuff
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Always Be Honest
A relationship is built on trust. If you cannot trust your partner, or your partner cannot trust you, then there is no foundation for the relationship. If a partner is capable of lying about small things, there is only his or her judgement to draw the line between those...
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I think Pennies are from Heaven
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When I came into my program, I had very little money to myself. (alanon side). However, just as sick or sicker than my alcoholic and I have had to work my program with AA members and Open AA mtgs. Anyway, the gratitude thing was a mystery to me for a very long time. Sometimes I wo...
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todays thought
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For no actual process happens twice; only we meet the same sort of occasion again. --Suzanne K. Langer
Today is not going to be like yesterday. Nor will it resemble tomorrow. Each day is special and promises us many new ideas--perhaps the chance to make a friend, or to learn something interesti...
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Meetings...
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I finally started dragging may ass to meetings and boy what a difference! I don't know how or why sitting in musty church basements and stuffy Legion Halls listening to other drunks yak about stuff works but it does. I've also been introducing myself as someone coming back/beginner and participatin...
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a British perspective
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This article, from the London Times, was sent to me by a program friend.
George Best, considered the best British footballer (soccer star) of his
generation, has been hovering near death, and is presently slowly
recovering. He was a terminal case of cirrhosis a couple of years ago,
recei...
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honesty or sympathy?????
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Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. --Gretel Ehrlich
We owe our brothers and sisters in this program our honest feedback. And we need the same honesty from them. There are times in meetings when it would be easiest to give someone sympathy and priva...
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Giving Anonymously
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I think it would help me greatly to give "Anonymously".......without getting found out. [We live in a small town!] I see folks who need this or that....right here at hometown level...but would like to do the good turn without the credit and remain anonymous. Any ideas?
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Today
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The Grief Process
To let ourselves wholly grieve our losses is how we surrender to the process of life and recovery. Some experts, like Patrick Carnes, call the Twelve Steps "a program for dealing with our losses, a program for dealing with our grief."
How do we grieve?
Awkwardly. Imperfect...
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We can't think our way into a new way of living,
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we have to live our way into a new way of thinking a day at a time,I belive this was a spirtual awakening that has helped me to live a day at a time and for that I am grateful,this program is filled with promies I just have to keep it simple thanks for letting me share Jim
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Not surprising news on the medical front
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"Individuals who obtain professional treatment and participate in AA in the first year after initiating help-seeking are more likely to achieve remission for up to 15 years later than are individuals who obtain professional treatment alone."
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/113/1...
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Good Morning
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Just thought I'd jump in and say good morning to all...hope everyone's day is as they want it to be today.
Just a little suggestion...when you make coffee in the morning, it's normally a good idea to put the carafe under the drip spout before starting the brewing process.
"...When we became alcoho...
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checking in
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hello everyone,
just dropped by to say Im still on track, I did some thinking about my question on sharing the other day and thought I would start a weblog, cos I have a long history of drinking and because it is a kind of therapy its a work in progress... abit like me hope everyone is doing ok, hav...
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My file sizes are to large to submit pictures. Any suggestions on resizing to attach??
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made it back to the rooms
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I finally made it back to meetings, in spite of myself... 4 days now, and hope is returning. Trying not to get overwhelmed by the mess I made of my life in 10 weeks of drinking and using again and take it a bit at a time.
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Post Below: Belonging and Connecting
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I read that post below with great interest. I believe we can have it all, or both ways.... traditional and new...all wrapped up into one. But it takes two, it always has. Just me.
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colonoscopy
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 would a fellow alcoholic have any experience of colonoscopy that they would care to share ? they do it with a sedation during this procedure and recommend a long resting period afterward to recover from the sedation - usally back home for outpatient procedure...
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today's gift
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Progress, Not Perfection. --Alcoholics Anonymous slogan
We don't expect our lives to be perfect. We don't expect ourselves to be perfect. We just want to stop the insanity of addiction and begin to live lives that make sense.
We don't expect to be perfect, but most of us do want to be go...
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food AINT love!!!!
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Food Is Not Love
With our heads, we know that food is not the same thing as love. When this fact sinks into our emotions, we are released from our obsession with food. In order to reach this point of emotional development, we need to abstain physically from compulsive overeating. As long as we are ph...
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Tricks or treats???
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Hi everyone...
I was gone for the weekend...my husband has 15 yrs today so we went to our home town for the birthday meeting.
I see alot of new names so welcome to the newcomers...hope you stick around so we can get to know you.
Happy Halloween to everyone here...be safe and sober tonight an...
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Please say a prayer...
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Hey guys, I'm going to visit my husband who is still here in jail this afternoon. I am not looking forward to it, the letters I've recieved lately have been full of anger, depression, blame...
He was suppose to be in a state rehab facility by now but the one in Houston was damaged by Hurrican Rita, soooo...
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today's thought
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Oh, this is the creature that doesn't exist . . . . In fact, it never was. But since they loved it, a pure beast came to be. --Rainer Maria Rilke
The unicorn, serene and white, is a strong and graceful animal with the body of a horse. A single white horn grows from its brow, making it unique among all an...
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