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A Fellowship of Freedom
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June 18 ...if only men were granted absolute liberty, and were compelled to obey no one, they would then voluntarily associate themselves in the common interest. As Bill Sees It p.50
When I no longer live under the dictates of another or of alcohol,...
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Albert Schweizer said...
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown back into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
...Dunno who Albert is, but I think I would like him.
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"Deep Down Within Us"
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June 17 We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found...search diligently within yourself...With this attitude you cannot fail. The consciousness of your belief is sure to come to you. Alcoholics Anonymous p.55
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Falling apart
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 Last night I got yelled at by my best friend. I am sober 22 days. She said she's surprised I didnt lose my job for being taken into protective custody 3 weeks ago.
She said I would lose everything if I drink.
She spent an hour talking with my son and two minutes telling me how awful I am.
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Help with stress - about to backslide
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Please, I need immediate advice. If I'm posting in the wrong place, someone tell me as I am new. I am 10 years sober and have been through a lot of stress without taking a drink.
My mother is quite ill and a son has dropped out of school and even though we took him to a counselor today, he is ranting and ragin...
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Open-Mindedness
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June 16 We have found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him. To us, the realm of spirit is broad, roomy,all inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek .It is open we believe to all men. "As Bill Sees It", p.7
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Theophostics???
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Has anyone ever heard of this? My husband is going to school to be a counselor and he is working at a treatment center during break...he asked me if I had ever heard of it. I did an internet search but didn't find much...kind of looks like RET with alot of bible thrown in.
If anyone else has anymore inform...
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Daily Reflections
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June 15 Making A.A. Your Higher Power
"... You can...make A.A. itself your 'higher power.' Here's a very large group of people who have solved their alcohol problem ...many members ... have crossed the theshold just this way ... their faith broadened and deepened ...t...
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How's everyone doing?
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Well, it's been pretty quiet around here, I guess that means everyone is busy or just doing so well in recovery they don't have anything to discuss. I hope everyone is sober and doing great. Miss you all.
I have an AA meeting tonight. I really need one , life on the homefront is tough every now and then. T...
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton said...
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"When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry."
How's that for a name? Quite prestigious sounding...don't you think?  Hope he wasn't born with a lisp.
I like what he said...I have my ex really angry with me tonight. I have raised my girls for 12 years without support, and he reme...
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Teen Alcoholism
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This is the intro to some online Teen Alcoholism information/study notes... to locate the full chapters, go here.
http://www.enotes.com/teen-alcoholism/
ALCOHOL IS A DRUG. As such, it has the power to alter both the mind and body, and it is also potentially addictive. While most adults know...
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look mom no hands
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   today is my 5 month sober birthday wow i didnt think i could make it 5 days WAGON
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We always question ourselves. We are our own worst enemy.
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FEAR IS FAITH THAT FORGOT TO SAY IT'S PRAYERS
in convo with a friend in the program...on this work thing i'm dealing with...
Step 1 will be sharing with your boss about the past
Step 2 will be trusting that God will get you through this
Step 3 will be the willingness to trust in God and lea...
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Daily Reflections
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June 14 When The Going Gets Rough
It is a design for living that works in rough going. Alcoholics Anonymous, pg.15
When I cameto A.A. , I realized that A.A. worked wonderfully to help keep me sober. But could it work on real life problems, not concerned with drink...
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One Mans Story - Excellent Online ID
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This took a while to load for me, you may want to let it load in the background if you have trouble with it, but it really is a good way in which one guy shares his life and reaches out to others. Includes real $values in terms of personal and societal costs.
http://www.nhpr.org/static/programs/speci...
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In the News...
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Found this today online in the Register Gaurd (which is apparently an Oregon Paper...) Ya'll may have already seen it?
June 10, 2005 'My name is Bill W.': Alcoholics Anonymous began 70 years ago
A Register-Guard Editorial
Forward story
Printer- fri... >
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Causes of Poverty
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Reporter asks , ‘Why are there so many poor people in the world?’
Engineer said, ' poverty is caused by industrialisation'
Political scientist says, ' poverty is caused by political conflict'
Sociologist discussed class stratification, and economis...
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help for family
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Hello,
I am a newlywed of 5 months, and my wife is a recovering alcoholic - 2.5 years sober. I have always tried my best to support her. I used to drink alot, although I do not consider myself an alcoholic, but since we started dating, I have stopped drinking completely when I'm aro...
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Hi all
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Hi all I am new here, just lookin for a place to help me get through this, I just stopped drinking yesterday and not to sure on what to do. so i found this site and signed up. so far i am doing pretty good, so if anyone has any suggestions i am open to them.
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for those who don't yet have a BB
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http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/en_tableofcnt.cfm
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Daily Reflections
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June 13 Living Our Amends
"Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic. The entire family is to some extent ill." Alcoholics Anonymous, p.122
It is important for me to realize that, as an alcoholic, I not only hurt myself but also those ar...
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love all your posts
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Hi there, it is Michelle here, I just browsed over all the posts, and you know what? alot of good sobriety here. Some more so than others, but wow!!! nice to hear a bit of this and a bit of that. I myself had a great week-end, I was feelin...
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Daily Reflections
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June 12 Forming True Partnership
But it is from our twisted relations with family ,friends, and society at large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a tr...
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Daily Reflection
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June 11 Family Obligations ....a spiritual life which does not include...family obligations may not be so perfact after all. Alcoholics Anonymous,p.12
I can be doing great in the program--Applying it at meetings ,at work,and in service activi...
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Cabbagehead Chris...
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Hey Chris...Refresh my memory , when is the big day.How many days, hours, minutes,seconds? If you don't know ask the future Mrs..Glad you stopped by, stay sober and keep us posted, please.
(((Hugs))) GammyRose
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Like to introduce myself
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Hi there, my name is Michelle, I live in Montreal, Que, Canada. I just came across this message board, and wondering if it is very active. So if there is anyone out there who would like to talk now and then on any subject, it would be very nice. I am quite act...
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Cheri!!
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I am sorry that I wasn't able to come on line last night...Had to babysit the grand-child and go shopping we will have to get up and get a new time my e-mail is ...marchese83@msn.com so we can keep the board for recovery topics...ya know?
have a good day and look foward to hearing from you later....:aww...
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Responsiblity
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"...I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere reaches out, I want the hand of AA to always be there. And for that, I am responsible."
What does this mean to you?
That's not a rhetorical question, I really would like others' feelings on this. I had this quoted to me when I said no to someone...I really f...
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hi everyone i have not posted in a while been busy at work installing 10 cental air cond units in a school takes up most of mytime lately. i am saying sober and attending aa . i really feel good the last week or so thanks everyone and god bless wagon
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Today...70 YRS AGO
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...Anne and I drove him to the hospital at nine o'clock. I handed him a bottle of beer to steady his nerves so he could hold the knife, and he went in. We returned to the house and sat down to wait. After what seemed an endless time, he phoned; all had gone well. But after that he didn't come home for hours. Des...
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Phil...oh Phil!!!??
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are you ok??
miss you here!!
hugs & hugs, Wendy
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365 one day at a times!!!!
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Yeah!!!!!!!
thankyou for my sobriety my friends!!!!!
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It's awfully quiet around hear...
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How is everyone doing? Today was a very long day for some reason... I haven't really figured out why? I haven't been feeling very good for the last few days, running a little fever.And then it's been our hottest days this almost summer so far. I love the heat though, I usually thrive in it.
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"Came to Believe"
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From"Came to Believe" Chapter 1 "Spiritual"? pg.1
Do not let any prejudice you may have against spirtitual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they might mean to you. Bill W. "Alcoholics Anonymous" pg 47
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Ellen?
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Do you feel like going to the chat room?
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Emotional Sobriety
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This is the substance of a revealing letter which Bill Wilson wrote several years ago to a close friend who also had troubles with depression. The letter appeared in the "Grapevine" January, 1953. EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY "I think that many oldsters who have put our AA "booze cure" to severe but successfu...
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Newcomer problems...
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This is from "As Bill Sees It" pg. 14
The temptation is to become rather possessive of newcomers. Prehaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't really competent to give at all. Then we are hurt and confused when the advice is rejected, or when it is accepted and brings st...
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Nic....
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Nic, I just read your post on the thread from yesterday. I feel that the world, AA,or a family would be a very boreing place if we were all the same, had the same personalities and veiws.None of us have the same DNA, so thank God for the different thoughts, actions,and responses.
When I came into...
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frustrations
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receintly I have been around people who can't seem to get the program and yes It is one of thoes things that let me look back on the early days. I can honestly say I don't know how I understood the prograqm and try to live day to day practicing what I have learned. I know that it was all the God of m...
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to the group
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Tradition One
"Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on AA unity"
Without unity, AA dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each AA's life depends on obedience to spiritual principals. The group must survive or the individua...
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Thoughts For Monday
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From early infancy onward we all incorporate into our lives the message we receive concerning our self-worth, or lack of self-worth, and this sense of value is to be found beneath our actions and feelings as a tangled network of self-perception. --Christina Baldwin
Lifting our self-esteem is...
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Relapse signs and symptoms
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Relapse Signs and Symptoms
Experiencing Post Acute Withdrawal: I start having problems with one or more of the following; thinking difficulties, emotional overreaction problems, sleep disturbances, memory difficulties, becoming accident prone, and/or starting to experience a serious s...
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Sponsor to Sponsee: You can certainly avoid working the steps for as long as you wish... my experience has been that I have never woken up to white clouds, blue skies, and chirping birds and said, "Gee! I just feel so damn great, I think that I'll work the steps!" My experience has been that I generally...
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AA on Toast
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AA on Toast February 1956 AA Grapevine This is what I told Joe: "There are no musts in AA. Take it cafeteria style -- take it your own way. Don't worry about the spiritual part of the program. Take the First Step, but never mind the rest of them right now. Just stay away from the first drink for twenty...
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Family matters
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I am doing my best. I emailed my sister and brother that I didn't want to be treated like they were the ones who had their shit together and I was some loser boozer.
Well my sister emailed me back this very cruel and biting email. It was filled with half truths and superiority. (My sister smokes marijuan...
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Problems stress
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Ok, Im really stressed out here, the transmision in my son's car just went under so now he needs a new transmission for his car or at least a used one, my son doesn't have a job, he doesn't seem to even care about his futrue or getting a job. There are many other problems but I just can't talk about it al...
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Alanon Share
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Detachment is neither kind nor unkind. It does not imply judgement or condemnation of the person or situation which we are detaching. It simply is a means that allows us to separate ourselves from the adverse effects that another person's alcoholism can have upon us and our lives.
I am making a cons...
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Tuesday
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You are reading from the book Each Day a New Beginning.
Without discipline, there's no life at all. --Katharine Hepburn
Procrastination is habitual. It's perhaps a habit we've struggled with over the years, and not one that can be willed away. It eats at us, no doubt. How many times have we go...
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Police Dog In Training
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http://www.12stepforums.net/mid/dogboard.wmv
Ya never know where you'll get pulled over or what by anymore....
Smile some today...
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Where are Suzy, Matisa, and Back4good?
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You know me, I miss people when they don't check in? I hope all is going well for these 3 and others who haven't posted lately?
Back how did the appointment go?
(((Hugs)))
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