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Pauly


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I keep checking in here on a regular basis to receive: advice, wisdom, life experiences..it is helping in so many ways. Regarding my punch drunk feelings, I wonder if endorphins help? After a run I do feel better, still got the headaches, am going to take all your advice and re-assess things after 3 months or so. 

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amanda2u2


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My advice is that we are not supposed to give advice.  lol    Is there a reason you are not going to meetings?  There is lots of wisdom there.  We can share with you AA resources,,,  and what our individual experience has been, and is,,,  the strengths that we have, mostly gained from the AA 12 STep program,,,  and that there is hope - if we can recover then so can you.


natural endorphins are always good, eh?  running, laffing.  That is the natural high that is good for us.  We learn how to enjoy life naturally.


I'm glada you are teachable,,, there is soo much that we all have to learn. It beats thinking that we already know everything, cuz then we are unteachable.  'The wise man knows that he has a lot to learn. It is the fool who thinks s/he already knows it all.'


I'm so glad to know that you find this board helpful to you. We try very hard. We have to give back what we got,, or we lose it.


Have you begun to learn the Steps yet? Are you reading the Big Book?  Here are links to both of them online:


scroll down this one and click on  the drop down menu and 'go to' and exploer this one for the 12 Steps:


http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/sobertransitions/index.html


and here is the Big Book online:


http://www.recovery.org/aa/bigbook/ww/


love in recovery,


amanda



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Toni Baloney


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Hi Pauly,


I just want to  say something about something you said to me, regarding meetings.  You know this Board  can make you "feel" better,  well a Meeting can even make you feel even better.


As Alcoholics we all come in from a place of desolation, isolation, desperation, and feeling very private,  AA changes that, the Face to Face meeting where you are with people, a whole bunch of good people that have this Disease and are in Recovery.  This Board helped me get back on track when I moved to an area, where I did not know anyone, and could not get that feeling of belonging.


I just kept plugging away, and now I go to 5 meetings a week, and I do get more from those meetings that I do on this Board.  This Board is a GREAT Suppliment, and or Compliment to the Meetings.  But there is nothing that take the place of Meetings for me.  I am of course speaking of my own Personal experience.


So, I am glad to see you Posting. and hope your life is going well.


Love, Toni



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Phil


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Hey our Freind....


I hafta agree with the girls... Pauly....


If I dont go to AA meetings...my thinkin becomes pretty insane...


When my thinking becomes insane....sooner or later Ile pick up, a drink..


When I pick up a drink ...the odds are..I wont stop at one...


The odds are I wont stop...


The odds are...Ile wind up in jail...a padded cell...or in a morgue..


Bottom line...for this kid...I hafta go to meetings to keep my thinkin straight...and get a ckeck up from the neck up...


Ive taken a lot of little surveys since comming into AA...and seen people go back out after being sober 3 months 5 years 20 years...It just doesnt matter how long...


Ive asked a lot of them..why they went back out..


Their answer...."I quit going to meetings..and tried staying sober on my own"


Thats the end of that share


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Number 2...:)


I never wanted to quit drinkin when I first  came to AA..in 1979...Just wanted to get things better in my life...so I drank and went to AA meetings...till Jan first 85...


Things didnt get better....there was nothing left..it was pull the trigger...or pick up the phone...I didnt have the guts to pull the trigger..


End of that share....


Do what yu gotta do for you buddy...your call...


 


 



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Cabbageheadchris


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amanda2u2 wrote:




'The wise man knows that he has a lot to learn. It is the fool who thinks s/he already knows it all.'


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The more we learn about something, the more we realise there is to learn about it!


 


Stick with it Pauly, you will start to feel more normal as time passes.


Hope everyone here has a great weekend, best wishes to you all.


Chris.



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