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Fear
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Sometimes it feels to me like my brain, as an alcoholic, is wired to be a total sonofabitch. When I am not immersed in AA meetings or generally distracted by something, my brain seems to get off on driving me nuts. I worry, I fear, and I dwell on worst case scenarios. Thank God AA exists, because it serves a...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/7
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly?~ Stephen R. Covey
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Today's Gift - 8/8
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Loving others begins with respect. So many books have been written on how to love that many of us assume we don't know how and maybe will never learn. We can simplify the process, however, by focusing on the Golden Rule. For starters, we can treat others as respectfully as we'd like to be treated. Peopl...
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4th step
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I just finished my fourth step. I agonized for a month about doing it. I must say once I got it on paper it wasn't so bad. It was easy for me to identify my fears and resentments. Step five will be hard for me. I'm done things in my life I'm not proud of. I swore to myself I would never speak of any of it to anyone....
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Sunrise Quote - 8/5
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is not the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.~ Herman Cain
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Grapevine
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August 7 "The ideal of AA, however short we may be of it personally, is a thing of beauty and perfection. It is a Power greater than ourselves which has lifted us out of the quicksand and set us safe on shore."
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Today's Gift - 8/7
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman. --Vicki BaumWe must move forward with confidence, trusting that the strength we need will be given us, having faith in our visions to guide us. Problems need not daunt us. Rather, they can spur us on to more creative activity. They challenge...
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Baffling.
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I went to a meeting today...And as usual....Nobody was busting out with a topic. So I brought up....The book. Let's talk about the Big Book. I asked with a show of hands....How may people have read it? Would you believe 6 out of the 24 people there had even read it?I mean if you open the book to the forewar...
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Newbie
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I'm an alcoholic.. a Bad one, I don't hurt the people I meat, but I blow hundreds of dollars a month, and I make the family I have sad, I hate this.
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Today's Gift - 8/6
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work. --Mark TwainThunder demands our attention. From the ear-splitting boom overhead to the faint rumble in the distance, it is an impressive part of nature. Yet, it is the lightning that discharges electricity from one...
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Grapevine
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August 6 "Each night I pray that when the alarm clock goes off in the morning, I'll have a spiritual awakening."
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Mike B.
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Kind of a rough weekend.
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I've been struggling a lot with my resentments for my ex, and my resentments for myself regarding that relationship. Also a lot of fear around what/who the future will bring. I have this thought that I'm not a whole person if I'm not in a relationship. That there's something wrong with me. I've been vis...
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HP has got my back!
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Well anyone who knows me it's been a tough 3 months. Avoiding jail twice, a divorce, and uprooted to my brothers house. I've been looking for a place to live for the past couple of weeks and my brother has been on my ass to move. I suspect more like his wife maybe in the shadows. It came to the point I felt unwe...
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Today's Gift - 8/5
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When they take your smile away they might just as well shoot you. --Violet HensleyViolet is one big smile. And it's not the result of having an easy life. On the contrary, she has worked doubly hard all her life to support her family. However, she has a joyful attitude, and it has made the difference in he...
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If I am explaining something, If I am defending something - I am wrong
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Before time, I shared that there is one person, who I miss really much and who helped me a lot with recovery (alcoholic, too). In time he stopped writing me and I was really not okay with this, but I had to accept that there is time, when people came in my life and after that they can disappear and sometime...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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August 4, 2014Quote of the Week"Our neighbor's window looks much cleaner if we first wash our own." Now that it's hot again, I've begun sleeping with the windows open to let some of the cooler evening air in. My neighbor must have the same idea because her window is open as well, and the sou...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/4
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.~ Winston Churchill
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Today's Gift - 8/4
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. --Bernard BaruchIt's usually very difficult for us to bring balance into our lives. We may find it hard not to put in overtime at work. We may be obsessed about housework or yard work to the extent that we work long hours at it. Whatever we do, whatever we...
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Grapevine
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August 5 "What has happened in the past is just that -- the past! What I should have done about certain issues no longer matters. What I do now is of greatest concern."
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Grapevine
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August 4 "I am grateful to AA that I have learned some humility, so when offered help, I can now say, 'Yes, I can use your assistance.'"
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choices- take the positive ones or negative ones?
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as some of ya's know, I was diagnosed stage 3 metastatic melanoma back in 2006, 13 months into recovery. I went through a lot foor the next 3 1/2 years9ish) fighting it and it even went stage 4. over the last few years its been nothing more than PET scans, Ct,scans, MRI's, and blood draws and was up to every...
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Today's Gift - 8/3
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The most important move is to begin.We begin weaving by stringing vertical threads on a loom to form the foundation of a new cloth. Then horizontal threads are interlaced back and forth, and we create a fabric. As the cloth begins to form, new possibilities open before us. After we weave in the first co...
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Uniquely Genuine
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Deep down, the things we all really want most are love and acceptance. Thats it. Strangely, its practically universal. We want others to care about our existence. We want people to think: Hey, theyre not so bad. To gain this love and acceptance, we all want to be unique. After all, we think, if someone j...
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Step 8 & 9.
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"If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through." The words, painstaking, development and amazed were words that caught my attention in early recovery. They spoke of growth. AA is all about growth and I realised that if I sincere...
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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseIf anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 1 John 3:17Weekly QuoteIf you cant feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother TeresaWeekly ThoughtActions speak louder than words. We all know the common bit o...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/2
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.~ Pope John Paul II
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Sunrise Quote - 8/3
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Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.~ Goethe
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"I'm _____ , and I'm the problem."
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During today's meeting someone told the group that their sponsor advised them to introduce themselves as: "Hi. I'm _____ , and I'm the problem." I was really hit hard by this because I think for me it was one of the biggest hurdles I had to face in getting sober. When I was drinking, all I did wa...
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Today's Gift - 8/2
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At 70, my dad is just like he was at 35 - only more so. It's frightening that the same thing could happen to me. --Jerry Z.More of the same gets more of the same. What we were given to practice, we practiced. What we practiced, we became. What we became, we are continuing to become - only more so - every day of o...
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The invisible boat.
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This is a transcript of parts of a share done by Clancy I. He's an AA longtimer from California. I like this guy....He's pretty funny but carries a great message. He has quite a few shares available here... http://www.xa-speakers.org/pafiledb.php "The Invisible Boat" "... Th...
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do You know wot time it is
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worth thinking about only did it a couple of times (that I know of) , but I Do remember what They thought
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Why I finally stopped playing games with AA
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I have two baby girls and I can honestly say that I would jump in front of grizzly bear or leap on a grenade to protect them without even a nanosecond of hesitation. Yet I couldn't put down the bottle and be the father I wanted to be. I couldn't stop being a drunk for them. I would look into their eyes and swear...
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Trauma - How To Heal?
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I am sober quite a long time and been thru the steps. I am in an emotionally abusive/controlling relationship with my live-in BF. If I had the $ I would have gotten out A few years ago when I realized what was really going on. I can't go to a DV shelter because there's no police record or children involved. I...
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first timer here, not really sure what i'm looking for
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hello, i don't even know what to write. how does this work?
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Today's Gift - 7/31
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Without discipline, there's no life at all. --Katharine HepburnWe all have deadlines we must meet. We have bills to pay, responsibilities at work, children with school projects - all the innumerable small markers that push life forward. When we realize we're procrastinating, we need to be commit...
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To the Newcomers
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Hello and welcome to all of you. All of us (100's of regular sober posters here) were new comers once trying to find our way and get away from booze, which was killing us. This board is a good place to get information about getting / staying sober, which would be utilizing the AA program. It's not the on...
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People
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Hi All, Just wanted to check in and say hello. I've been going to a lot of meetings lately and been almost overwhelmed by the amount of great stuff I've been hearing. During today's meeting, it really sunk in for me how much of this disease is accompanied by crushing loneliness and how awesome (blissful...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/1
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Dwell in possibility.~ Emily Dickinson
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Today's Gift - 8/1
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The darkness was encumbering only because I relied upon my sight for everything I did, not knowing that another way was to let power be the guide. --Carlos CastanedaWe don't need to be blind in order not to see. Remember how long it took for us to "see" our addictions? Remember how the blindf...
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Help, I just can't stop
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Hi. I'm 37 and I have a serious problems. I gave up hope of ever becoming sober 17 years ago. I decided to drink myself to death. It didn't work. After destroying my kids' lives and losing our home, car and my job, I became temporarily sober for periods of 6 months or so -- never lasting more than a year on th...
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New here
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Determined to make it this time.
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Sunrise Quote - 7/31
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Ive learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.~ Maya Angelou
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Grapevine
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July 29 "Every day, every meeting, there's something more to learn."
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Today's Gift - 7/30
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The winds of grace are blowing all the time. You have only to raise your sail. --Sri RamakrishnaIf God seems far away, who moved? At the center of our being a fullness of life exists that wants to flow through us as vitality, love, harmony, happiness, and success. Why, then, are we not more in touch with i...
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Today's Gift - 7/29
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Other people's actions need not affect us.Our program friends are showing us how to detach from other people and their problems. We have learned we aren't the cause of a family member's alcoholism or the never-ending trauma in a friend's life, though our family and friends may try to blame us for thei...
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Gods work
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I've had a rough month. I'm feeling things I haven't in a very long time. Anger, jealousy, fear, you get the idea. I haven't made many meetings, and when I do Im not really listing. Just forcing my way through it. Tonight was no different. I show up 5 min late. I make a cup of coffee and sit in the corner with t...
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What If You Had Gotten Everything You Ever Wanted?
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Warning: Im here to interrupt your regularly scheduled life to bring you a completely optional announcement. This post may or may not momentarily screw your day up, then make it orders of magnitude better, and finally, proceed to send your life on a detour. Results may vary, and are not guaranteed. H...
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Can you think of one?
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I have a question. It's a little hard to word though. Can you think of any 'horrible' event or circumstance in your life, that hasn't set you on a road to a treasure that you would have gladly paid the price of that event? For instance, active alcoholism. If you haven't been there, words are of no use. ...
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Grapevine
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July 30 "The alcoholic is in no greater peril than when he takes his sobriety for granted."
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25 Years, Dean!
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Happy Soberversary, Dean, my beautiful Big Brother! You were instrumental in my early recovery on so many levels & I love you forever for it. Also, because you're simply a swell guy & I know how much we all love you too! Watch... Thank you for staying sober it means the world to me. Love you, Dani...
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