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Grapevine
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September 8 "Alcohol robbed me of my adolescence. But I've learned to grow up in AA."
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Need Some Uplifting
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Anyone recommend any good, uplifting TV shows, movies, or albums for early recovery? Just fun, light stuff to get a person out of their alcoholic brain for a little bit :) I'm asking half for me and half because I feel like the board could use a little but of levity. Hope everyone is having a good weekend....
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letting go
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As a preamble....most members may know that I haven't had direct contact with my son for over eight years...he's 23 now.
I tried step nine and was told stay out of his life, which I have done.
I now find that recently he's changed his name....dropping the family name and using only his first three name...
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Oh Man!!!
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I see we have another piss'n contest developing here on the board ... sad ... I'd jump in but have lost the desire to 'push' my point of view ... and speak'n of piss'n contests, I'd loose ... since I have a big problem in that area anyway ... LOL I got diagnosed last week with 'advanced' stage prostate cance...
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Grapevine
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September 5 "Emotional balance is very much like balancing on a bicycle -- it is more a matter of what I don't do than what I do do ... Watch someone balance on a bike. It looks as if it would be difficult, but, in fact, it is a mindless and effortless achievement. Happiness, joy, and freedom are the...
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Question
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Okay, I have this situation. I talked with one alcoholic, who is in difficult period and I feel that I can't help him with anything. But I asked another alcoholic to help him and he told me that this is not only stupid, but it is offended. (my asking) And he told me never to ask him such things again and alone...
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Question About Sponsoring
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When I am sponsoring someone... How long should I continue to work Step 1 with someone who is not ready to admit that they are an alcoholic? A month? Three? Although their drinking history certainly sounds like they are, I know I cannot make that call and they have to be the one to do that. I just want to be s...
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2015 AA International Convention - Registration Begins Today!
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You can now register and get a hotel room for the international convention being held in Atlanta next July. A great time will be had by all. 65,000 recovering alcoholics (more or less) meeting to share their experience, strength, and hope. Come on along! AA.org to register.
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Grapevine
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September 4 "What I did need and need desperately, was not more knowledge about God, but, with God's help, a deep and penetrating knowledge about myself."
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Mike B.
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Sponsorphobia---Fear of Getting a Sponsor
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I had sponsorphobia for several months after I was first sober. I put off finding a sponsor because I didn't feel comfortable confiding all my deepest darkest secrets to someone I barely knew. In my mind I thought this is what we pay therapists for and I sure didn't want to share some of the things I thoug...
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Grapevine
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September 3 "AA's message promises healing and wholeness for any alcoholic who will pay the price. The price is simply to accept the help that will save our lives."
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First AA Meeting Tips
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You can search online and get a list of meetings in your area. Nervousness is completely natural and from what I have heard from AA'ers, most of us are nervous especially when we first start going to meetings. No one is going to pass judgements on you or think bad of you. We are all alcoholics and there for...
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This is my experience...
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I absolutely agree with this way out for us.The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer fr...
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Loose use of the term, Nazi
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My suggestion is that the word, Nazi, which refers to the political party that under Adolf Hitler was responsible for genocide, not be used so loosely. It demeans the true experience and atrocities committed by the Nazi party.
Love,
A Jewish Alcoholic
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hello.....my head is a shed
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So I'm going to get it out of my head. For 35years and 50days I had a label of BT Bill on my shirt. Now..... well maybe I'm on a gap year. Being on a gap year means I get to go to loads of meetings, get to work with loads of others, get to talk with loads of alcoholics. I can even smile and grin at the odd evangelist t...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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September 1, 2014Quote of the Week"People have the right not to recover." The first time I heard this saying I thought it was cruel and insensitive. I had been in Al-Anon about six months and was still convinced that I not only could help other people in my life recover, but that it was in fac...
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It is sobering
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Finally admitted to myself and my wife that I am an alcoholic. Last night something potentially very dangerous almost happened. I knew I had a drinking problem but I didn't realize how bad it was. I have been searching for meeting groups in my area and will be attending tomorrow. I have lost God and my tr...
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Grapevine
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August 28 "When I've examined a situation all ways from Sunday, and the only thing I can see are bad consequences, then I can say, 'God, I don't have the least idea what to do.' That seems to be the magic phrase for me. Then something happens, and it is usually an action I hadn't thought of doing, an...
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Working the Steps....as suggested
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Hi to everyone, I've been off the Board for a while, since this computer has been down, but it appears that there has been some controversy, and a bit of talk about "Step-Nazi's" here. With that in mind, I hope you'll allow me to share an experience I had at a 12 Step retreat several years ago:...
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Grapevine
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September 2 "In the first six months of my own sobriety, I worked hard with many alcoholics. Not a one responded. Yet this work kept me sober."
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Mike B.
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Sunrise Quote
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There is a difference between happiness and joy. Happiness is a changing emotion. JOY is a choice you make every day.~ Author Unknown
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Today's Gift - 9/1
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A.A. Thought for the DayAnyone can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the burden of those two awful eternities, yesterday and tomorrow, that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drives us mad. It is the remorse or bitterness from something that happened yest...
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Hi
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So its been a year since I broke my 8 month non drinking spree. I quit for the entire month of june but I went back to it again. I like to drink vodka in the morning and beer throughout the day and im sick of this nightmare circus and would like some helpful advice. Im assuming this is the place where people lik...
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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly Verse The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. Romans 8:26 Weekly Quote For the Holy Spirit is prayers great Helper. We are incapable, of ourselves, to translate our real nee...
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Today's Gift - 8/31
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Differences . . . with no hidden cutting edge.The respect and dignity a couple shows each other set the table from which they are nourished for all other activities in their lives. Any feeling can be expressed in respectful or disrespectful ways. Anger is one of the most difficult to express respectf...
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Powerlessness
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Hello, can someone help me with examples of things that I might be powerless over. Thank you
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Sunrise Quote - 8/26
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In the middle of every difficulty comes opportunity.~ Albert Einstein
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Wink From God
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Last week, I had two days in a row that were just awful. I'm currently coming to terms with the reality that much of my life has consisted of running from a God that I fear into the arms of alcohol, which has been warm and welcoming in times of crisis and anxiety. So what does it mean to turn my will and life ove...
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One Year relapse after 10 years sober - 60 days back - where do i fit?
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hello, I was a very active member and stayed sober for 10 years (and this was not the first time, took many tries before that too). eventually life got really busy and I slowly took less commitments and less service and focused (obsessed) on work, travel, money etc. As they say...anything you will pu...
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Grapevine
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August 27 "In the fear of accumulated wealth and bureaucracy, we should not discover an alibi for failure to pay AA's legitimate service expenses. For fear of controversy, our leadership should not go timid when lively debate and forthright action is a necessity."
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Grapevine
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August 26 "God has continued to send me many miracles since the first one occurred the day he gave me the courage and willingness to go to my first AA meeting."
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We don't have to die that way anymore
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We have not seen the best day of our sobriety yet. We have one ultimate authority in A.A. and it is not one of us, thank God. WE DONT HAVE TO DIE THAT WAY ANYMORE Do you remember when? We died of pneumonia in furnished rooms where they found us three days later when somebody complained about the smell. We d...
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Today's Gift - 8/26
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Mile by mile, life's a trial. Yard by yard, it's not so hard. Inch by inch, it's a cinch. -- ProverbAn important key to progress on the path is to take it one step at a time. Just as investing a little on a regular basis builds long-term wealth, the little gains we make each day pay off in spiritual dividends...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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August 25, 2014Quote of the Week"When you're going through hell, keep going!" Before recovery, hell often seemed like a destination rather than a passing part of the overall journey. Whenever I found myself in an insufferable situation, I easily convinced myself that this was my new l...
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Heavy
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About two years ago, an acquaintance of mine was on the verge of suicide, openly addicted to drugs and alcohol. In a fit of desperation, he went to an AA meeting. He loved it and kept going back to meetings, eventually finding a sponsor, working the 12 steps, and developing a close relationship with God...
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Grapevine
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August 25 "Throughout the world AAs are twelfth-stepping with thousands of new prospects a month. Between one and two thousand of these stick on our first presentation; past experience shows that most of the remainder will come back to us later on. Almost entirely unorganized, and complet...
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I haven't got work
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I am doing nothing almost all day, so I got bored. And this is symptom of my alcoholism. Every symptom restless, irritable, discontented, bored, depressed, nervous, paranoid must be viewed. Every symptom shows me that in me there is big problem, and I should take care of it. I am doing it by taking...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/24
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The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.~ Nido Qubein
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Today's Gift - 8/24
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. --Henry David ThoreauLife's crises seem terrifying and endless when they are happening. As we reflect on these stressful periods, we begin to realize that they provide a chance for change and growth. We get a feeling of hope wh...
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Can we ban the trolls?
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Sunrise Quote - 8/23
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And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.~ Mark Twain
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Today's Gift - 8/23
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We learn to expect the unexpected.Serenity and satisfaction come not when we achieve some measure of precarious temporary control, but when we learn to expect the unexpected. They come when we learn the art of responding to change and accommodating the ever-shifting circumstances of our lives.W...
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How to tell your child that their parent has wet brain?
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My son's father who is remission for stage four cancer and physically fragile 6'3 ft 110 lbs was just diagnosed with Wet Brain. He appears to be in the stage of Korsakoff's psychosis. He's 36 years old and completely disillusion. His short term memory is completely gone at this point causing him to ma...
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The text...
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arrived on my cell phone last evening from a number I didn't recognize and there was no name announced...remembered this cell is a replacement so my original one died a time back...it read, "I drank 6 steinlagers today. I am just struggling and need to figure things out. im gonna stay out of AA...
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Today's Gift - 8/22
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A man of courage is also full of faith.-- CiceroFaith and courage walk hand in hand. Courage empowers us to act in favor of what we believe, but cannot know. Courage is animated by the vision of faith. It doesn't take any faith to perform an action that doesn't require a risk. Only when the outcome is unce...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/22
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What you want to do, you do. The rest is just talk.~ John Creek
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Pythonpappy
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Write again
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I love to write, so I am really sorry If I am boring or doing harms to someone. One of the biggest lesson in my life (in my A.A. life) is that I can't depend upon human being. And this is idea that it's so hard for me to let go. But I am really trying, praying and so on and I see that with time I want more and more to d...
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26 years ODAAT
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19 Aug 1988. My 1st day of sobriety in AA. Many thanks to each and everyone of you for being a part of my new life. I would never have made it without your help and kindness.
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PURPOSE
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I find an interesting topic at meetings to be....purpose.
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Grapevine
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August 21 "It has been difficult for me to accept myself and some of my decisions ... But I've done the best I can with the information available, even if it might not be someone else's best."
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