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Giving it away to keep it.
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Lack of replies to newcomer posts. You know, I want to say that doesnt surprise me about self centered alcoholics. But even I know I have to be willing to help those struggling if I am to stay sober. Else what's the purpose of me being here. Reminds me of the church who doesnt know you if you dont give an offe...
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Newly sober
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25/F/Newbie/ready for change
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Hello everyone, My name is Agnes. I still have a bottle of gin which I indulged in today (after telling myself I wouldn't) after a night of throwing up from drinking since noon. I have gone to an outbound group setting at CAMH (here in Toronto) for a while (about a year) which did not help. I probably shou...
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Detoxing, any advice?
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This shit is hard, been through a few times but this is bad : (
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Matt R
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sponsorship advice
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Hello all just wondering is there any videos on you tube of how to take someone through the 12 steps of AA using the big book. TIA stay safe all ODAAT
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7th Tradition for Forum Hosting
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It's time for voluntary contributions to support our MIP forums. We are currently paid up through May, and need $215.76 to extend that through the next 12 months. The donation link is below. Please note that the form says Al-Anon Family Groups, but donations will support all the forums on MIP ht...
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The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
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You know the rest....I was reading my post of JANUARY 12th.. My 46th Anniversary of continuous sobriety... I shared a window of future plan...I did indeed fly several days later to Bangkok with a completed 4 page typed out application for a "China visa"...I was told my itinerary was not SPECIFIC enou...
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Is there a 12 step group for me?
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Hi guys, I'm not in the right place but I hope you can point me in the right direction. I'm not an alcoholic - Im addicted to porn, nicotine, junk food, and watching excessive television. Nobody would see my life and think I am out of control with these things - actually the amount I indulge in any of them is...
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Gratitude
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Happy Easter to all those who celebrate this day and to those that don't, Happy Sunday. I'm usually at work, but as fate would have it, I'll be available to cook the turkey. I'm only cooking for 2 today because the powers that be have asked us not to have large family gatherings this year and if I've learne...
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Dropping the word blame
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I don't like change. But with everything that's going on, change is inevitable. I didn't like the zoom online meetings because of the controversy around the app. But, I needed a meeting. So, I re-installed zoom and went to a 7 am meeting. Apparently, they have them at 7 am 7 days a week. They read the Dail...
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Hopefully, God Hasn't Lost His Sense of Humor
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I been sober a few twenty-four hours now. In the beginning, I had a sponsor, one of those old school guys who wouldn't take any of my BS. After he helped me find a Power greater than Bernie, and I was able to get sober and stay sober, I began to sponsor new people because that's why my sponsor sponsored me. He...
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Ah There I am
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Found the old login info. I had started a new username (Traylorparkboy), but I might as well stick with the old one. I haven't been here in a few years. Hopefully I'm older and wiser. Hope everyone is safe and well. Be talking to you.
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Back again
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Hi. My name is Bernie. I've been here before. It was years ago. I can't remember what username I had so I created another one. I'm here again because all the face to face meetings in my district are closed down due to Covid-19. There are some Zoom meetings but I don't like the app so here I am. There are a lot o...
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anyone up
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hi there, just passing though haven't logged on here in quiet sometime forgot my old username and password.... anyway restless and cant sleep. Went to an online meeting this morning that has been sitting with me all day regarding what we were like and what we are like now.
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AA Meetings And Coronavirus
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Two AA clubs in my area have discontinued meetings due to the virus crisis. Over a week now of missed meetings... Another place, with 4 meetings a day, has suspended the custom of holding hands during the meeting-ending Lord's Prayer. How much has AA been affected in your area and what alternatives ar...
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Declaring Myself an Alcoholic
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Hello There are times I crave alcohol especially when I want to feel some comfort from the anxiety I am experiencing. I have only partially blackout on one occasion and am able to control my drinking most of the time. I find myself drinking and using mary jane to feel comfortable at social events and...
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Alcoholic to Sugarholic..
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Coming up on my 1st year 3/16 chip after 15 years of rot gut vodka. I do not missed or crave alcohol, but have become an ice cream junkie. I checked my sugars with Doc, and i am good. My question is does the sugar cravings finally go away or I am going have to kick another habit?
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TODAY: My 46th ANNIVERSARY OF SOBRIETY
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I have a smile on my face TODAY emanating from my heart and soul; my gratitude of a wonderful life God has given me through SOBRIETY...but that long day 46 years ago on the brink of death seems only like yesterday...a life of 30 years of failure....The guy who hired me on, several years before for my job on...
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Scared but determined
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I have been sober for 2 years and 10 months, before I got sober I lost a 23 year marriage and a 30 year career. For the entire time I've been sober I have not worked ( Thank God I had savings I could live off of ) and have pretty much isolated myself. I have now accepted a job in my old field of work. However this is...
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AA Speaker tape that deals with unemployment
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Hello Everyone, I have been chronically un/underemployed for years. Can anyone suggest an AA speaker from a speaker tape website that addresses the issue of unemployment, and for me, the side-effects of anger, resentment, giving up hope... BigZen
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What happened to this place?
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It was really hopping when I first came here 10 years ago. That was a good thing, I needed people to talk to. Anyway, Im still sober... dont expect anyone to remember me (or vice versa). Sorry to see things are no longer hopping here.
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ANNIVERSARY THROUGH GODS GRACE AND MERCY
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Each year , for last couple decades,I share the message of HOPE and the promise of FREEDOM from active addiction/Alcoholism and pray for all those who are doing the daily work in OUR solution, the program, the STEPS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN ALL AREAS OF OUR LIVES.I pray for those beginning the journey...
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Goodnight Dead Forum
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I am new
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Greetings. I am on day 7 of my sobriety journey. Today I really felt like drinking for some reason. I didnt do it...but it was close. WM
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Hello and blessings of another day
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Just stopped in to say high and wishing all working in the solution(application of STEPS in all areas of life)to all those who may still be caught in the grip and looking for a helping hand and those who have not made that 100% 1st STEP quite yet..We just dont use and WE dont get high.....be blessed ODAT.....
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It has been a long while since I have been here. Aloha. :)
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Hey, all. I have not been here regularly in a very long time. I have been out of the rooms for around 10 years, and of course you can predict that nothing great resulted from that. Nothing terrible happened, except that I wasted ten more years of my life, doing the same old shit. Anyhow, I am back working...
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Forgiveness
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My sponsor said it is being self centered to think about forgiving yourself. I agreed to disagree with her. Anyone want to comment on this?
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Obsessive Thinking
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Thank God for AA. My last drink was nearly 9 months ago and it has been a rollercoaster for sure! I know I've done the right thing and things are changing for the better slowly, but I suffer with obsessive over thinking about problems - which magnify them in my mind to huge proportions and cause me great d...
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After the relapse
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Recently had a relapse after 8 years,sobered up on 7-19-19. Shortly before I relapsed, I finally hit upon a Higher Power that I can call God. This didnt abandon me. Now I can go to meetings, say the prayers with the others, and not cringe when I hear something I disagree with. I will call that a miracle. N...
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Wedding vows
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So I have multiple years of sobriety. My fiancé and I met after I was almost a year sober and we are getting married in 95 days. Hes never seen me drink.
We decided to write our own wedding vows and Im really struggling with mine. I have a daily reprieve from drinking dependent upon my spiritual conditio...
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Alcohol neuropathy. Anyone suffering?
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i am new here. I am 8 months and 9 days sober all for the grace of God. I look forward to making some friends and getting support. Heres my Question. I am suffering from nueropathy and we believe its from alcohol I have diabetes but just diagnosed and drs are pretty sure not from that since I have not had tha...
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This is the last time.
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Today I went back out. Guess what? Didn't have that bad of a time. I will turn in my wet eight year sobriety chip in for a dry one. In all the years I've been sober, there have been NO MIRACLES or promises, just a miserable life without alcohol. I'm through with the 'don't quit 5 minutes before the miracle ha...
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My Early Recovery (DoS 01.10.2006)
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I spent my singular years in wonder of the world, wondering what was going on, what did it all mean, knowing only what was going on around me, moving around, family disruption, different schools, new faces, not knowing who I was yet feeling incredibly loving and special though confused and innoce...
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What type of meeting should I go to for my first one?
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Hey everyone. I'm new to alcoholics anonymous and am wondering where to find a good aa meeting in florida? I mean, I know they're all over the place down here, but I don't know the difference between open, closed, big book, step, etc. Thanks in advance! -- Edited by Ted Bundo on Wednesday 3rd of July 2019...
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DAY ONE COMMUNITY DETOX
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So its here day one of community detox started my meds today. Feeling a bit detached and just trying to take it one day at a time. This is the second detox I have undertaken wish me luck. Looking forward to going in to aa next week back in to the rooms to get the support and start the 12 twelve step program
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Could someone PLEASE tell me the reason why I was made to drink whiskey at the age of 14? It is most perplexing to me
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and there must be a reason. Anybody know? Thank you.
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Second Attempt
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Hi all, It has taken me over two years to come back to this site I'm about to start my journey of recovery for the second time. Two years ago I abstained from alcohol for 7 months only to foolishly think I could manage myself on a very small amount be a social drinker. How wrong was I in these two years I got mar...
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Suggest a meeting in Los Angeles on a Friday night
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I am heading to Los Angeles this Friday
Does anyone have any particular meetings to suggest?
I know how to access the meeting schedule. I was just wondering if anyone has any "recommendations"
Thanks!
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DOS.
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Hi date of sobriety May 4th 1997: I got sober in Metropolitan Crypt and various other places in Liverpool.
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4-11-19
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8 years sober as of 4-11-19
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RE: Daily Reflections / As Bill Sees It
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Faith led me out of the Forest of Fear
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Touching base
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Hi all. I'm a recovering double winner female, looking for a group to call home on my travels. I'm in an isolated little place where the bars are plenty and the meetings few; I won't be attending what passes for AA here. I can say I've reached a place of not wanting to drink, which for me is also needing to dr...
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Finding myself in sobriety
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I am now 30 days sober. Tonight I asked someone that I have a gained a good relationship through the aa community to be my sponsor. I am now working on my first step with him and it has been a big eye opener to me. This past month has been a roller coaster of emotions and trying to find myself in sobriety. I have...
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Still Drinking Everyday
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Hi everyone, I'm not even sure if this is the proper forum for me but here I go. I am the very definition of a functioning alcoholic and for the last several months I've been wanted to stop drinking altogether. I purchased the AA The Big Book and Daily Reflections... I've been reading the book and...
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Unseen effects
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A reminder of how stigmatizing alcoholism is. I have an aunt who lost a son to this thing years ago. Cousin and I were close in our youth. To this day, aunt doesn't like or can't be around me because I completely turned my life around and am sober and (somewhat) normal again. She probably secretly has tha...
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Hello
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Sober Shadow
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It continues...
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and I continue to be blessed by it all. Aloha MIP AA Family recovery and thank you all who have participated in my 40 year journey. My home group just on the outskirts of Hilo is the AA at the Bay Saturday and Sunday versions. The groups was founded over 24 years ago by several double winners including...
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Super Bowl Miracle
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Kickoff is in an hour. I am sober today. I am grateful. A miracle. Super Bowl used to be a two-drunk day...
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Tanin
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Afraid
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I'm so afraid of failing yet again. It hurts my daughter that I've tried and failed. She takes it personally. I don't want to fail, I don't want to let anybody down. I want to stop feeling ashamed.
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An hour of Bob D
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https://youtu.be/H6C1_pU5t9A
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Visionz
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