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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!
 Bobby Dean
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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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Thoughts For Tonight
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What other people think of us affects us all, but all what other people think of us really affects is our fragile ego. We have to rise above our own ego. We have to believe what we know to be true, not what someone else thinks of us. If we do not do this we are compromising ourselves to satisfy someone else.
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" Redoubling Our Efforts"
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August 10 To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what ways. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 77
As I continue to grow in sob...
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really? i can post a thread?? get out!
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we'll see if it sticks anyways..
ok another day in the life of Wendy
i planned to sit on the computer for just a little while..drat...5 hours later i made myself go do something else. Got a good rain here today which was nice after all the really hot weather we/ve had. Made some phone call...
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another great day for recovery:)
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Letting Go of Perfection As I journey through recovery, more and more I learn that accepting myself and my idiosyncrasies - laughing at myself for my ways - gets me a lot further than picking on myself and trying to make myself perfect. Maybe that's really what it's all about - absolute loving, joyous,...
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ooooo yaaaa eh?
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Letting Go of Perfection
As I journey through recovery, more and more I learn that accepting myself and my idiosyncrasies - laughing at myself for my ways - gets me a lot further than picking on myself and trying to make myself perfect. Maybe that's really what it's all about - absolute loving, joy...
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FOR THE WOMEN
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A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she told him. "I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will." Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?" "All women cry for no reason," was all his dad c...
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Aug 9- a great day for recovery
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Today is August 9, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery!
ACCEPTANCE
"The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give to every creature the same reverence for life that he gives to his own." -- Albert Schweitzer Today I accept people. Even the people with who I do not agree...
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Sometimes...
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Looking Good
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Thoughts for tonight
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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We must accept that fate sometimes seems cruel, and let go. We must be confident that time will heal if necessary. Even when we are scared, and our emotions overtake us we must trust that fate is right...
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TODAY'S GIFT
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My relationship with nature and plants is almost like religion with me. --Monty Cralley
Feeling connected to something outside of ourselves is important to our perception of life. And being alive assures us of many new situations. Maybe it's a move to a smaller residence or our recove...
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Today
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What is without periods of rest will not endure. --Ovid
When we are tired, we need to stop and give ourselves time to rest. Sometimes we think we can't spare the time. But without rest, all our activity soon becomes a burden and there is no joy in it. Animals know it is necessary to take time to rest. Th...
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"... Of All Persons We Had Harmed"
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August 9 ...and became willing to make amends to them all. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 77
One of the key words in the Eight Step is the word all. I am not free to select a few names for the list and to disregard others. It is a list of all persons I have harmed. I can see immediately th...
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"Made A List..."
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August 8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed... Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions p.77
When I approached the Eighth Step, I wondered how I could list all the things that I have done to other people since there were so many people, and some of them weren't alive a...
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The Unknown
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The unknown is the place from which all realities spring. It is a pure place without exception or judgement or lack.(unknown)
  Our lives are governed by things invisible.We are blind, in essence. Yet when we look inward...
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what is mine
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it's so hard to let go of a toxic person and have them bring you right into there misery.
had my ex reem me out for another persons opinion in the matter-who i shouldn't have shared with--and now he is out of control trying to control and trying to blame me for everything.
i accepted whats mine i...
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What a wonderful day, Today
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Hi all. Just a little update on my situation. I'll try to get to the point without going on and on. LOL
I surrendered again yesterday morning and it felt great. This is what I believe happended to me: I read a post on another website the other day that said something like "the BB and a cookbo...
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looking for insight
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Hello all,
I've read quite a few posts and I am impressed by your fight for sobriety.
I'm going to post my tale, succinctly and would love any suggestions.
My husband is 37 years old, always drank too much when out but never drank at home.
Eventually, he realized that he was intending on grabbin...
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Post By Wantneeda
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Cant get your post on separate Wendy? Here-grab my hand--wele give you a boost gal.:)
There yu go!!
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hi there
another one of those days where i can't start a new thread...sigh...so if you don;'t mind i'll add my day here
been doing l...
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Tact!
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Ha ha, some / all of you may well be aware of this problem associated with being sober.
You tend to stop taking S**t, you tend to be more honest.
For the Blokes, When your woman says ' is my arse looking big in this?' it's not deplomatic to reply that it would look big in the Melinnium dome (thankfully i'...
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online speaker tapes
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http://www.elmoware.com/spktapes.htm
thought i'd share
hugs, Wendy
ps....(op i tried to post a reply to your last post, lost it in the shuffle i'll try again though)
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Life Is Short--Grab It
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Gratitude for what's been offered us in our lives softens the harsh attitudes we occasionally harbor. Life presents us with an assortment of blessings; some bring us immediate joy; some invite tears; others foster fear. What we need help in understanding is that all experiences are meant for our go...
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