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Absolute powerlessness - Back home
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Aloha MIP family...I'm home still sitting in the atmosphere of powerlessness with the assurance that I can't...God can...and I will let God. No I didn't drink and yes I lost the compulsion to drink up to the moment. Last Monday at about this same time I was being medevac'd over to Oahu and another s...
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Today's Gift 5/22
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It took me a long time to realize that when I hate somebody it doesn't hurt them. Only me. ***** Call your sponsor before, not after, you take your first drink. ***** Nothing is so bad that relapse won't make it worse. ***** I can't handle it, God. You take over. ***** You cannot think your way into right a...
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Addiction Story
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I found this video on Alcohol addiction I though I would share. Its amazing to see someone strugle with such similar struggles with alcohol.Vodka Addiction I'm so greatful that 2 years later I am clear and sober.
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Stress and guilt
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Tomorrow is our town's Tuesday night meeting. I'm anxiously waiting. I'll be there unless mom is having a bad day. Every time I leave the house for a short time something happens. Or she's fine when i leave but stressed out when I get back. The things I've been doing the last few days are necessary t...
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Grapevine
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May 20"Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It is what we do with them that we need to concentrate on."
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Sunrise Quote
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.~ Normal Vincent Peale
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Today's Gift 5/21
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We must continuously fine-tune our bearings.No one can set sail and expect to forget the wind. First you stand in the open air, feel the wind touch your face, and take note of its direction and force. Then you set your sail to carry your boat toward your goal. And you continue to recheck the wind because i...
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Today's Gift 5/19
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To err is human; to blame it on the other guy is even more human. --Bob GoddardWe are on a path that leads us to become better people with greater insight and stronger character. A central theme on this path is learning to take responsibility for ourselves, our mistakes, and our choices as we deal with ou...
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Grapevine
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May 21 "I cannot give anyone the precious gift of sobriety; but I can listen to a newcomer's problems and tell her how it works for me."
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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May 18, 2015Quote of the Week"Humility is not thinking less about yourself, but rather thinking about yourself less." Oh, how the ego rebels against the thought of humility. "If I'm humble, I'll be a nothing. I'll vanish! I must be distinguished, different, better than! Only by s...
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A man takes a drink
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man. -- Proverb NewcomerI've heard Alcoholics Anonymous members say, "It's the first drink that gets you drunk," and Overeaters Anonymous members say, "Don't take that first compulsive bite." It seems a li...
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Happy to be back...
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Yesterday was hard. I had been on a binge for around a week. Don't remember but small portions of anything that happened those few days. It always amazes me how quickly things go from going great to firestorm! I ended up in the hospital getting fluids and then I was off to my local AA group. I have my s...
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Grateful Still --
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May 17 1979, Was the last time I found it necessary to drink. It was a decent drunk as drunks go. Three days later all Hell Literally broke loose. The demons would not back down. Laughed at my puny pistol. I called the cops on myself. They say No way, Hose'. The cops give me a member of A.A. phone number. I...
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Today's Gift 5/18
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The process rather than the product is primary in caring, for it is only in the present that I can attend to the other. --Milton MayeroffThe moment that captures us now is all we have for certain. We can dream endlessly about next week and next year but there are no guarantees. Thus, it is important to car...
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Home sweet home
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Sober life is good! I got my cabin yesterday. It will be delivered on Wednesday. This is my second major accomplishment since getting sober. For the last 6 months, I've lived dirt poor, worked hard and saved hard to accomplish my goal of getting a mini cabin and a patch of land in the boonies to call h...
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Today's Gift 5/17
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Letting Go of Old BeliefsTry harder. Do better. Be perfect.These messages are tricks that people have played on us. No matter how hard we try, we think we have to do better. Perfection always eludes us and keeps us unhappy with the good we've done.Messages of perfectionism are tricks because we can ne...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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May 11, 2015Quote of the Week"Try praying. Nothing pleases God more than hearing a strange voice." This quote hit me on several levels. First, it reminded me of how often I forget to use one of the most powerful tools in my spiritual toolkit - prayer. I was taught early on that praying is sim...
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Help
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Im new here...pretty down today. Where do I start?
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wtf is she talking about.....emotionally unavailable?
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THIS is what shes talking about Einstein.... i thought i had many relationships, however, i only had one that was repeated over and over. the "end" result leading to a spiritual discovery is attached. -- Edited by phoenix24x on Saturday 16th of May 2015 08:40:00 AM
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Today's Gift 5/16
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Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. --Doug LarsonLife is never just one thing. It is quite possible to feel optimistic and happy even when some things are not right with us. An optimistic outlook gives us energy to handle the harder things that we have to deal with. Rese...
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Grapevine
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May 12 "I do not agree that the newcomer is the most important member at any meeting. In my opinion, equally important are those old-timers who showed me the way, and any middle-timer who may today be suffering. If newcomers are indeed the lifeblood of AA, old- and middle-timers are its skin a...
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Sunrise Quote
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Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...~ Audre Lord
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Today's Gift
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"Depressions are transition times for me," an older fellow stated. "I look at my lows as a preparation period, an inner time to grow and change even though I'm not consciously aware of what's going on inside me. But I didn't always think this way."I used to get terrified when I go...
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Today's Gift 5/14
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Nature is the Art of God. --Sir Thomas BrowneThe most relaxing activities may be the ones in which we do absolutely nothing. And if we can do nothing amid the sounds of nature - birds chirping, water bubbling in a brook, the wind rustling in the trees - so much the better. During these moments, away from t...
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Grapevine
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May 15 "I know that my life is no longer my own. My life now is in the hands of 'a new Employer.' Even though I still complain now and then about the working conditions and sometimes have trouble getting along with my fellow employees, it's a great improvement over the way things were when I was in c...
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Tradition Five
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What does "its" refer to by the reading in the Twelve and Twelve?
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pickled
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like me when I was drinking. would have put th fire out.
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Two people working on one character defect together
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Suggestions for a format for two people working on the same character defect, but not as sponsor sponsee?
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Sweet Dreams
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I am making an effort he said through clenched teeth. I told you to empty yourself of EMOTION Yeah, I'm finding that hard at the moment Harry snarled Then you will find yourself easy prey for the dark side. Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wal...
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In need of a sponsor.
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I am looking for an online sponsor, even if it is a temporary sponsor. Of course id much rather have one I could meet with face to face but at the moment I don't feel like that is much of an option. I recently moved back to my hometown and relapsed a few months ago. The closest real recovery is over an hour away...
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need advice
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Hei all!My sister is a member of AA. She is the sponsor for a lady. This lady was chairing yesterday AA meeting and many participants of the meeting realized that she was drunk. They asked her about it and she said that she visited a dentist and received an injection with anesthetic.She left immediatel...
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Grapevine
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May 6 "We need to be aware not only of our limitations, defects and shortcomings, but also of our strengths, talents and successes."
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Grapevine
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May 5 "The sanity I've received through work on the Steps is far more than I could have hoped for."
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Sunrise Quote
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No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.~ Charles Francis Adams
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Today's Gift 5/5
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Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. --Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe NewcomerI signed up to take a course in something I'm kind of interested in. I'm pretty anxious about it. I don't have the skills and experience that the other students have. I don't know if I can keep up with the work and still...
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Higher Power ramblings
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Since December 2006, I started discovering my true Higher Power...Whom I choose to call God. I think of Him as my creator. I was under duress when I discovered Him, and it happened because there wasn't a church service of my affiliation (in Baghdad). I was invited to a Christian service and enjoyed it v...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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May 4, 2015Quote of the Week"You may be the only Big Book anyone ever reads." As I was leaving a meeting at a church near my home the other night, I saw one of our members bring his cigarette onto the church parking lot (smoking is not allowed on church property), and then throw it on the groun...
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Today's Gift 5/4
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I hope I shall follow firmness of virtue enough to maintain that I consider the most enviable of all titles - the character of an honest man. --George WashingtonHappiness in recovery and in society depends on our honesty. We create pain for others, and ourselves, when we are dishonest. True honesty b...
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Yup, still around
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Hello, all of my MIP buddies! It's been a while, for sure- but I miss it here, so I figured I'd drop a quick 'Hello'. It's great to see so many newer people here- this place really helped me tremendously as a supplement to meetings and all that. I'm coming up on 3 years, holy crap! Haha- I'd have never believ...
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Had one of those Home Group meetings....
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You know the ones you wish wouldn't end...they go a bit overtime and the recovery shared is top drawer. It was one of those and the consequence for me is that feeling of gratitude which confirms that I am in the right place which was suggested to me by a power greater than myself and listening to others...
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'Eskimo'
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I'm trying to find a reference in AA literature about the term "Eskimo". I found one reference on page 101, but that's not the one I'm looking for. I remember years ago people at meetings talking about 'Eskimos' as someone who suddenly appeared in their life to give them direction or guidan...
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Today's Gift 5/3
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We can practice forgiveness each day.Resentments have a way of creeping back into my psyche even after I have let go of them. I know that holding a grudge is harmful to my emotional health and can threaten my abstinence, but what can I do when I keep feeling anger toward someone?In the interest of recove...
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pirate or alkie
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Trigger and grateful for it.
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I just got triggered by the story of a new comer and while his inventory was taking me back into my pre-program history I started to member my most well oiled tool...Gratitude. Coming from where I came from...inside the disease at the age of 9 and not even knowing the word,,,how it was said and what i...
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Today's Gift 5/2
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The gifts we receive are meant to be shared.Thanks to the progress I am making in recovery, I like to think I am more loving, more open, more spontaneous, more confident. I believe these gifts have come to me through my Higher Power, the Twelve Steps, and the friends who have helped me grow.If I am to keep...
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Today's Gift 5/1
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A man is what he thinks about all day long. --Ralph Waldo EmersonThis is true for women too. We sure learned that about our disease as well. It kept us thinking about alcohol or drugs all day every day until we could think of little else. Finally we became addicts, gobbled up by our all-consuming thought...
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Grapevine
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April 29 "I think we simply fail to recognize miracles for what they are. Sobriety -- one-day-at-a-time -- is truly a miracle."
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Today's Gift 4/30
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Patience is a particular requirement. Without it, you can destroy in an hour what it might take you weeks to repair. --Charlie W. SheddEnjoying the moment, in its fullest, makes possible a peaceful and patient pace. Progress is guaranteed if our minds are centered in the present, on the only event de...
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Sunrise Quote
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It doesnt matter where youve been, it only matters where you are going.~ Brian Tracy
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Grapevine
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April 30 "Peace and enlightenment come when you stop evaluating in terms of good or bad and merely accept all of life as it is and try to learn from it."
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