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Sponsorship of new members
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I have only been a member of AA for around six weeks, and I have a question regarding sponsorship that I would like to hear other members opinions on. Firstly I would like to say that I LOVE AA, and reading the big book has been the best and most inspiring thing I have ever done. The changes in my life due to t...
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Welcome Back, Pappy
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Wisdom of the Rooms 7-24
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July 24, 2017Quote of the WeekHappiness is not having what I want, but wanting what I have. I spent many years trying to get things to make me happy. If only I could get my college degree, then Id be happy. As soon as I get the right job, then Ill feel fulfilled. When I meet the one, then I will be complete a...
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New Here
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I'm not really sure where to start. I have never thought of myself as having a drinking problem, but after a fight with my husband the other night I think I may need to reevaluate some things. I don't drink every day and sometimes I go for a long period of time without having a drink, but when I do drink I alw...
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Scared its too late!
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hello. My name is Mike. I've been sober for 2 days after decades of drinking. I'm 42 now. I started when I was 12. Drank on the weekends with friends and this continued till I was about thirty and then things changed. For the past 12 years I went from a beer or two a night. Then to a six pack a night. Then f...
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Finally Trying to Quit Smoking
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Yesterday at 8:30 a.m. I made a decision to stop smoking cigarettes. My sponsor and my mom both told me not to overdo it by trying to quit smoking and drinking at the same time. I kept telling myself I was going to stop and it was hard. Guess I felt I had given up one addiction, I "didn't have to" gi...
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Damned Weddings... Origins of Alcoholism
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I hope I don't catch too much Flack for this one but here goes: So Where did the Alcoholism come from anyway? Well, This Debate can go all the way back to when Man began crushing grapes. I think it was at that Damn Wedding where Jesus said 'Let them all have more wine than they'll ever be able to drink'. Bingo...
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William Westman, RIP
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http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/06/28/life-storypay-william-westman
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Actor Reaches Bottom?
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I have been casually following the adventures of 31-year old actor Shia Labeouf in recent years. It's really a typical story of problem drinking rushing headlong to an out-of-control state of the malady that affects us all here. I see the video clips of truly cringeworthy behavior and can remember m...
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So, can you have more than one Home Group?
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I ask because i don't know the answer. I regularly attend different groups. Initially my HG was Wednesday Gawber, becasue it was the first meeting i attended. i still have a spot for that group and work permitting it's the one I don't miss. Then there's Monday Mapplewell, which is a step meeting, but I d...
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Conscience meeting matter
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Hi can anyone tell me if the set up of the room is a conscience meeting issue?
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Home Groups & Group Conscience
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Ok---at A.A. in many states over many years I have always understood that: (1) I select one home group (not 2 or 3) (2) My home group is the group to which I commit my service first (before doing service work in support of some other group) (3) When issues of group conscience have been discussed (by...
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Current Status
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Hey Family, ... Monday, go for platlet testing, an injection of some sort, and prepfor final Chemo drip .... ... ... Fri is last scheduelded treament ... Using Cane, Walker, andsometimes Wheelchair . .. havin't driven in 4 moonths now ... it sucks ... this ain't so painful as it just makes you so sick yo...
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Need Help With a Drinking Problem?
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http://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/need-help-with-a-drinking-problem
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Tanin
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"Hi, my name is Charlie, and I'm not an alcoholic."
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A slice of life from a far away AA meeting... A Father-Son Trip to Alcoholics Anonymous https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59z7nz/a-father-son-trip-to-alcoholics-anonymous
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DUI at 40
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i got pulled over the week I turned 40 and my brother turned 41. I wasn't expecting to drink as much as I did but it happened. Trump just got elected As well. I take full responsibility for it but I'm getting railroaded. First time offense in 24 years of driving. No other incidences ever! Instead of d...
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When did you decide to quit?
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Do you have a particular moment when you decided that you have to quit alcohol? Or an incident that prompted you to quit? I am sure almost everyone will have something. No one decided to quit alcohol just like that. For me it was an incident. I had a habit of getting drunk and reaching home (somehow) comp...
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Bill W. On Slips
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Quantity or Quality "About this slip business-- I would not be too discouraged. I think you are suffering a great deal from a needless guilt. For some reason or other, the Lord has laid out tougher paths for some of us, and I guess you are treading on of them. God is not asking us to be successful. He is only...
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What it looks like when God builds with me
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"God, I'm not happy with my appearance, help me lose weight please". Months go by I put on an additional 30 lbs. Well geez, thanks a lot God. I eventually get so disgusted with the mirror that I finally take action and lose all the weight, plus more. Feel amazing. _________ "God, please make this person g...
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Friends
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I am just recently breaking the news to my friends, shit to myself, that I am an alcoholic. So funny how they react. "Well, I mean, you are just going to quit during the week right? I mean what about holidays?" It's like yes, what about all of that? Figuring out myselt...don't you think I have wondered how...
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Why Bother?
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Because sometimes I can have a little fun crafting a decent reply to the same old same old stupid questions. 'Why is it so hard?'... Well that one is a bit different and brings back a memory of HighSchool Biology class discussing Human Anatomy during which some Dumb Blonde asked the teacher: 'What is th...
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Kudos To PythonPappy For Service Here
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I noticed that Pappy recently hit another milestone on this forum: 11,000 posts. Wow. More posts than any other member...ever. Whenever some new person comes around...whenever somebody posts about some troubles...whenever somebody asks for some help...whenever the time is right for a joke or f...
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Beginner looking for some input...
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I'm brand new to the program - 4 days in. I'm having trouble sleeping for two reasons: 1) I must be having nightmares that I can't remember because today I was up at 0300 having a full blown panic attack. When it passed I decided to accept what was happening and stayed up so I could attend a meeting at 0700. I...
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We beg of you
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To be fearless and thorough from the very start. what part of this does your newcomer ass not understand? That long face about why the meeting didn't work doesn't move me. I am quick to wipe my hands with a lazy one. We don't need nor should we be pampering anyone interested in sobering up permenently.
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Newbie
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I am new to the forum. I know my life can exist without alcohol but I'm not sure how to adapt it. Is that even the right verbiage? I'm drinking now when I should be in bed. I'm 31 years old and get "the shakes." I love my baby girls more than anyone could know...but get adjetated with them when I shouldn't....
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Been sober for a week now.
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I've been an addict since my late teens. I'm trying to be sober and have succeeded for a week now. How many survivors here ? Share your experiences
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New on here
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21 years old and realised that I really need to cut out drinking. I am not a frequent drinker, but when I do drink I cannot stop.
Back story is nothing terrible. Mother and father had a very unamicable break up when I was 16. Went to university at 18, where I didn't drink a lot in my third year and I only turn...
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Newbie! How to allow the want to be sober overcome the crave to drink?
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Hey guys!! Glad I found this site, looking forward to reading everyone's messages. I've tried the live chat but it wasn't so much for me. So... here's my deal... I started drinking at about 14 and haven't stopped since (with the exception of when I was pregnant). It's been 19 years... WOW.... I don't th...
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Day 6 of sobriety
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Hib. I just joined this site and Im so excited that this forum exists. I have been in and out of AA for many years. I am 60 years old woman who had been sober for almost 10 yrs with the help from my higher power and the fellowship of AA. I lost my sobriety when my mom got suddenly sick in 2013. I got away from meeti...
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The Book that started it all.
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Yay . I received my copy of "The Book That Started It All" at a bargain too. Last time it was on offer . I wanted to order a copy . All up it was going to cost me $160us dollars. Postage was the deterrent . This time , book & freight $59Aussie dollars. Pity I can't bid on the original.
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New to here ..today is day 1
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Today is day 1back in program very scary
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Online penpal
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Hi, I'm looking for an online penpal or sponser who I can write to and say how my week is going. I find writing very cathartic but don't really have anyone I can write to that understands the alcohol addiction. If interested please let me know your email. Don't have to use real names if not wanted. Just th...
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New here, just saying hello!
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Hi everyone, I am sober 3 weeks now and trying hard to stay that way. I find it hardest not to drink when I'm alone and know that my husband will be gone for hours (like now). I feel like I can sneak out and have a drink and he would never know. But I would know. So I'm not gonna do it. I have PTSD and when I'm a...
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Akron Beacon Journal’s first published account of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939
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http://www.ohio.com/news/read-the-beacon-journal-s-first-published-account-of-alcoholics-anonymous-in-1939-1.772631
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A time to be honest...
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I tell you, there is nothing worse than a head full of AA and a belly full of beer. I'm 37 soon, and I've had my spells in and out of the rooms since my early twenties, 3 years having been the longest I've been sober, or should I say DRY? Back then in my earlier years I never really had much, so i always felt a lit...
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is this relapse
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Hello all; I am a friend of Bills, and have been sober for going on four years working a program of AA. So what i am about to ask is a hard subject for me. I am not a drug addict, on the other hand if I take a drink, well all the things in the doctors opinion come true for me. I am a alcoholic... The the other day I r...
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Alcoholism At Sea
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Alcoholism at sea By Georgia Boscawen June 5, 2017 Alcoholism is an issue that appears to come hand in hand with maritime culture, but how do you identify the condition? Alcohol dependency is a problem that is (and always has been) ingrained in maritime culture. While this is widely recognised as a...
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Alcohol Abstinance As A New Meeting Format
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I just came from an alcohol free meeting. In other words the meeting itself abstained from the use of alcohol in any form. The meeting was the bimonthly open talk or speaker's meeting. The outside speaker mentioned only his drug use, but otherwise kept discussion of his use of alcohol out of his talk...
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New and need help please
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Hi. Im suffering alot these days and its really starting to affect me mentally. not an everyday drinker, but a weekend binge drinker. cant remember the last time that i had a drink and enjoyed it. ive been to a meeting but didn't really feel it. i just wish i could flick a switch, every weekend is the same...
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Donation Drive completed
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The godaddy bill has now been paid! The total was $142.46. Tanin was able to get a bit of a discount. This left me with a surplus of $7.07, which I will contribute to the activeboard fund at Sparklit.Thanks for everyone's help, we are good to go on hosting for another year! Yay!!!Kenny -- Edited by hotro...
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Trying to get over this craving
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I am 26 and I am trying to recover from alcohol addiction. My parents were alcoholics but I didn't use alcohol till I was 22. My brother passed away by taking an overdose of drugs causing a brain death leaving me in shock. I couldn't accept his death. After the death of my brother, the responsibility of l...
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Grief
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I am so grateful for you all and as and program today is 22 yrs since I lost my infant son. Kept me sick drinking for many I have him his wings I will have 11 months 2nd and can't remember not picking up a drink to bumb the pain and guilt . Today I have made it through XMAS mother's day, without picking up feeling...
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John's Passing
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John Freifeld, founder of Miracles In Progress including the discussion forums at this site, passed away early this afternoon. Rest in peace.
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Multi-Generational Sobriety
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Well I haven't been here in a while, staying sober and will have 4 years in July.
I thank the lord everyday for it.
I also thank God that my 15 year old daughter is liking meetings and has 69 days now after going out after 90 days.
Her story is a long one I don't wish to share here and now, and probably not...
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Jake "The Snake" Roberts Birthday
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Here's a guy who finally got clean and sober. Took a while. Today in Pro Wrestling history, we wish a Happy Birthday to Jake “The Snake” Roberts.https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/05/30/today-in-pop-culture-for-may-30-indy-500-finding-nemo-kingdom-hearts-jake-roberts-mel-bla...
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32 days today!
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Got a new sponsor, starting step 4 tomorrow :)
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Upset
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Being essentially sober for a number of years including 2 slips, I wonder why it is that it's considered ok for people to be punitive to me for being an alkie. Why be punitive on top of all the other struggles with having this dormant or 'in remission' disease marching along inside me? Are people with can...
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Hardest thing I've ever tried to do
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First thing I guess I should say is I'm a vet and deal with ptsd I tried meds from the doctor but it only made things worse so I started self medication with vodka first and added marijuana later. This cost me my second wife and child. im now married a third time to my high school sweetheart and we share every...
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Question Re: Alcoholics Anonymous - Narcotics Anonymous
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I have never attended an NA meeting as I never used or abused drugs. I certainly could have but Alcohol did what I needed in the beginning and it was my drug of choice. I have gotten to know several NA members that attend AA even though they did not use or abuse alcohol. They seem right at home and I can rela...
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Not feeling the A.A. meeting at all :-( Describe how a good meeting should be run... please
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Hey everyone, I'm new to these boards. Wanna just say I went to my second A.A. meeting, this one was all women, which I thought was going to be a really good thing. What a total drag. They appear to be very clique-ish, as women can be. There were three new people there, including myself, the rest appea...
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