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Oh God! I'm so scared
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I have an hour before I have to leave for my very first meeting. And I'm terrified. My mind keeps saying " This really means I can't drink ever again. This really means I AM an alcoholic. Where will I go now, who will be my friends, what will I do with my free time, cuz doing anything always invo...
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AA Meeting Questions - I'm soooo confused
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Why is it so difficult to get a straight answer from someone? I have planned to attend my first meeting in a few hours, and going online to find when and where is soooo confusing. They say things like Open, closed, speaker, etc. (I get the ns, women, etc part, just not the rest). Then I...
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There's beer in my fridge.....
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But I know it's OK, TODAY. My last beer was about 11:30 pm Friday night and I had sooo many I'm still recouperating from that. So, the beer will stay in the fridge un-opended atleast for a few more days. But, soon enough, the hangover will be gone and so will the feelings of guil...
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Today is the first (sober) day of the rest of my life
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today is the first day of the rest of my life (I hope) that i will no longer drink. been doing it pretty regular since i was 14, 39 now! newly divorced, about a year, used to drink at home, alone, but discovered bars recently. well, after about 3 months now of going pretty regular and "h...
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forced retirement
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Well everyone the day has come when my husband was forced to retire he will be 67
in September and the job he had was so stressful I know it is a blessing in disquise.
And I have to trust Higher Power that he will look after us. Our plans was for him
to work another year but as tired as he was gettin...
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1st step
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Though I've been sober for a number of years, I am most certainly new around here. I've left a few post's and have done a lot of reading. And I've enjoyed it all. MANY trips down memory lane. Whether here or at an AA meeting, I am thankful for newcomers. The one's who have...
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Goodmorning world!
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Well, I've had a cup of coffee and 2 cups of tea this morning and have just got caught up posting the Daily Reflections for the past 3 days. My hands have really been hurting, I have carpral tunnel in both, and a few other problems. Sorry I get behind, will try to do better.
The path my Higher Power has me on...
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"Experience The Best Teacher"
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July 3 Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. Alcoholics Anonymous p. 87
Some say that experience is the best teacher, but I believe that experience is the only te...
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"The Heart of True Sobriety"
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July 2 We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirtuality of the program. Willingness, honesty,and open-mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But these are indispensable. Alcoholics Anonymous p.570
Am I honest enough to accept myself...
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"The Best For Today"
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July 1 The principles we have set down are guides to progress. Alcoholics Anonymous p.60
Just as a sculptor will use different tools to achieve desired effects in creating a work of art, in Alcoholics Anonymous the Twelve Steps are used to bring about results in my own life. I do...
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Thank god every day
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 I am so grateful to God for the life I have. I am the luckiest person alive. When I think of all of the horrible things that could have been much worse and I know that God kept me safe.
I am also knowledgeable that without God I cannot have this existence. My faith is stronger than ever. I am getting...
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forth of july
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well here comes another july 4th . but this year it going to be different i cannot remember the last 4th that i wasnt sh faced by 4 oclock. maybe this year i can go to the fireworks with my family and remember it. man did i waste alot of years . now sober i owe much to all here for helping me stay tha...
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Good Morning all
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Hi everyone,
This is a busy weekend for those of us that live in the USA, and I hope everyone has a safe, sober holiday weekend.
We are having rodeo and carnival this week, so I've been really busy. We have had lots of rain, the hills are green instead of brown. I'm starting to see all the babies as I driv...
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Hi from a newbie
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Hi to all from a newbie here. I am starting day 3 and thought I would post to introduce myself
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Hello, first timer here online
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Hi there, I just wanted to say hello to all the folks here. I am seeking some companionship in my recovery and would like to chat with other fellow AA folks. Drop me a line! I have been sober for almost 2 months. Long story, would like to share, but would also like to listen as wel...
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From Akron to the Internet
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A time line of A.A. communication
The ways A.A's carry the message has changed over the years. The message hasn't.
1935: Bill W. & Dr. Bob meet face to face in Akron.
1939: The Big Book is published, carrying the message in print.
1939: First public service message about the Big Book app...
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Living with alcoholism
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http://www.thirdage.com/healthgate/files/13347.html
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Interesting hypothetical: Your thoughts?
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Bill Binge has come to you for advice. He looks disheveled and has an odor of alcohol about him. He has provided the following information.
Bill was a Vice President of Rigrental Corp. where he headed the sales division. Rigrental leases truck trailers througho...
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Sacrifice=Unity=Survival
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June 30 The unity , the effectiviness, and even the survival of A.A. will always depend upon our continued willingness to give up some of our personal ambitions and desires for the common safety and welfare. Just as sacrifice means survival for the individual alcoholic ,...
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The past unfolds
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I spent hours looking at photo albums and most of the pictures I remember but I wonder what the hell went wrong with so many incidences? I remember so many people that were in our lives and a drunken outburst from myself or my sister would alienate them forever.
I'm roasting for the 14th night in a row. A...
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"A Rippling Effect"
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June 29 Having learned to live life so happily, we'd show everyone else how... Yes,we of A.A. did dream those dreams. How natural that was,since most alcoholics are bankrupt idealists...So why shouldn't we share our way of life with everyone? Twelve Steps and Twelve Tra...
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didnt make the whole weekend but....
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ev thing was ok untill sunday after work,my ex was stood there begging me to have him back,i felt strong and said no.sat at home for an hr tops on my own and that bloody little voice started....just get 8 it will be ok!!it was'nt.needless to say this section went on til monday evening i couldnt get my son to...
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Why study AA History?
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Why Study A.A. History? This article is written by nationally recognized historian and oft-quoted Alcoholics Anonymous archivist Mitchell K.
Why study, or for that matter, even discuss the history of Alcoholics Anonymous? What difference would it m...
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Daily Readings
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Hi All
Just wandering what kind of daily readings people "do".
My ritual is to get up, have coffee and open some kind of daily ready book.
In the first year it was that "24 hour a day book" but it was not good for me, so I switched to Daily Reflections for a few years. In my fourth year, som...
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Alcoholic and Drug Addicted Doctors in Denial
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Imagine going to sick doctor to get help.
I remember how sick I was before I came into recovery. I was riddled with denial and my decision making was way off center. My decisions did not serve me or those around me. God help us if I was a doctor with that kind of head!
Now it seems that Alcoholism and Drug...
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"The Determination Of Our Founders"
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June 28 A year and six months later these three had suceeded with seven more. Alcoholics Anonymous p. 159
If it had not been for the fierce determination of our founders, A.A. would have quickly faded like so many other so-called good causes. I look a...
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"Conforming To The A.A. Way"
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June 27 We obey A.A.'s Steps and Traditions because we really want them for ourselves. It is no longer a question of good or evil; we conform because we genuinely want to conform. Such is our process of growth in unity and function. Such is the evidence of God's grace and love...
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Isn't life grand?!!!
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Clean and sober....nothing compares...nothing!!!!
I took my boyfreind to a meeting today.,...he was really nervous!! But he said as long as I stayed close to him he thought he'd be ok...He was asked to share ( and before going to the meeting he said he was going to give a fake name...) but he said he re...
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Hi Everybody
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Just got back from spending the weekend at my sponsor's wedding...got to visit with all the people I love and miss so much. But I really missed all the people I've met here...Wendy,Nic, and Gammy especially.
Welcome to all the new people here...I'm so glad the board is picking up in activity again. K...
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cheri
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"A Gift That Grows With Time"
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June 26 For most normal folks , drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that li...
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helpless feeling
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hi to everyone,
ive just found your site and read alot of the posts, im finding it hard at the moment and cant put it into words!i have only managed to do 3 days at the moment and feel like crying to be honest.its my 1st friday night without booze, (seem to drink everyday that i...
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sick of it
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I haven't been here in awhile..mostly because I had gotten my drinking under control...mostly because I was having trouble accessing the board for some reason. I had a few slips but nothing was as bad as the other night. i found myself not in black out drunk mode..but stupid enough to sli...
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allison
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Personal Inventory
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The ways by which people try to dominate others or demonstrate selfishness are of two types: the active, obvious ways, and the less active, more indirect ways. Among the active, obvious techniques are the use of physical force, bullying, boasting, temper tantrums, and excessive noisiness. these...
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"A Spiritual Kindergarten"
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June 24 We are only operating a spititual kindergarten in which people are enabled to get over drinking and find the grace to go on living to better effect. As Bill Sees It p.95
When I came to A.A., I was run down by the bottle and wanted to lose the obsession to drink, b...
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Fear of quitting
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For many years I have wondered about the cause of my drinking. Lately I have been seeking counseling. A pastor I have been sharing with is in my mind trying to get me to accept the fact that I was molested as a child. I feel he is totally off base. A mental health specialist believes I have a combination of Ag...
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"A Two- Way Street"
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June 25 If we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions. But in no case does He render us white as snow and keep us that way without our cooperation. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions P.65
When I prayed , I used to omit a lot of things for which I needed t...
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hello
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hi everyone today is friday i used to think oh no. i not suppose to drink because im in aa nowt i enjoy the weekends with my family and friends (not the peple from the bar i thought were friends) i feel great and doing fine just checking in god bless you all WAGON
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A little help cheering up my girl
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A little help cheering up my girl
Thanks you all for your support. I’m just trying to cheer up my girl with a joke / prank. She has really been struggling lately. I found an old photo of her when she was 12 (bad hair photo) and posted it on Jones Soda Pop label page. To my surprise it received 600 vo...
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"Trusting Others"
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June 23 But does trust require that we be blind to other people's motives or, indeed, to our own? Not at all; this would be folly. Most certainly, we should assess the capacity for harm as well as the capacity for good in every person that we would trust. Such a private invento...
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Let go of the past
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Let go of the past
"Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time."
-- Asha Tyson
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Hey Wendy...
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Wendy , Congratulations again on your first year birthday. Have a piece of cake  for me too. The promises are coming true my friend.
(((Hugs)))
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"Today I'm Free"
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June 22 This brought me to the good healthy realization that there were plenty of situations left in the world over which I had no personal power -- that if I was so ready to admit that to be the case with alcohol , so I must make the same admission with respect to much else. I woul...
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"Fear And Faith"
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June 21 The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. When under heavy attack, acute illness,or in other conditions of serious insecurity, we shall all react to this emotion --well or badly, as the case may be. Only the self-dec...
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Happy Father's Day
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Goodmorning....I don't know how many Dad's we have these days but if you are a Dad , I pray you have a blessed sober Father's Day.
I miss my Dad, he's been gone 12 years now and as I drank my first cup of coffee this morning I thought of him. I have a lot of good memories of him and a few not so good ones. He was an...
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"Release From Fear"
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June 20 The problem of resolving fear has two aspects. We shall have to try for all the freedom from fear that is possible for us to attain . Then we shall need to find both the courage and grace to deal constructively with whatever fears remain. As Bill Sees It p. 61
Most of my...
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My problem
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I am on my 2nd day of not drinking today and I know to take it one day at a time. I will tell you that I have Social Anxiety which I use alcohol as a crutch whenever I am in a social situation,with friends,family,etc. Pretty much all my friends and family drink whenever we get together. I even ha...
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U.K. Conventions
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Is anyone out there going to the Birmingham convention or the Cannock camp out in July?
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mikey
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Things I Don't Worry About ........anymore
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1.Who I called last night.
2. What I said and did yesterday.
3. Hating myself
4. Hangovers
5. Lost events, happenings
6. Cops
7. Breaking the law
8. Job woes
9. Wondering who to blame this time
10. My future
11. My faith in God
12. Money
13. Who my true friends are...my so...
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back4good
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Getting Current
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Hi Folks,
I haven't posted much. I came to this site just about 60 days ago when I was in serious need of help. I haven't had a drink since then. I'm going to four or more meetings a week. I've gotten a sponsor and started the steps. I'm doing Step 4 right now. I've also started meditating and honestly aski...
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one thing at a time!! but all together:)
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hi friends!!
i've missed you!
Lots going on in my world...my daughters friends has moved in with us...she was having problems with her Aunt and Uncle, she is 19 years old, a good girl, she doesn't plan on being here too long, she wants her own place. I have too soft of a heart, can't see anyone out on th...
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