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Dropping in to say hi
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Hi all! It's been some time since I've posted here. That's not to say I don't periodically check in to read up on the board- it's great to see so many new faces. This board and it's members helped me out quite a bit back when I was a new newbie ... I'm still a newbie in my eyes, but not as new to recovery as I once w...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/17
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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May 19, 2014Quote of the Week"I have to change what I want to get what I want." When I was new in the program, my sponsor suggested that I make a list of all the things I wanted and hoped I'd get from being sober. That was easy because I had a long list. I went ahead and made my list - items that wou...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/20
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Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.Zig Ziglar
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Sunrise Quote - 5/19
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.Lao Tzu
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Today's Gift - 5/21
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"The secret, kid," said the seal, bending toward him and speaking behind his flipper, "is to have a good compass and a following wind." --Will Watkins Sid Seal, HousemanThe secret, for us, is to never let our recovery become "dead in the water." We keep a good compas...
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Today's Gift - 5/20
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He has served who now and then Has helped along his fellowmen. --Edgar A. GuestIt's hard to be interested in something that seems too remote. Sure, we're sorry for starving people in faraway places. And the TV news story about whole villages disappearing in an earthquake makes us feel terrible - unti...
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Drama
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There are some people who thrive on high drama. They like to create it. They feel most comfortable when theyre surrounded by it. Constant drama is not only a lot of work for the individual who is creating it but it is also very draining for those who are around them. It usually doesnt take long to recogniz...
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Proof of meeting attendance
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Is there anything set up to send proof of attendance to meetings for my probation officer? sent a note to the posted email on website and it was returned undeliverable. Looking forward to my first meeting tonight.
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Grapevine
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May 21 "I can recognize that I'm caught up in my will when I desperately struggle to slam a square peg into a round hole. That's the time for me to back off and trust that God's will is far better than mine."
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Step Eleven
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Prayers in the Big Book Step 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying ONLY for knowledge for His will for us and the power to carry that out. The Eleventh Step starts at the bottom of page 85 and extends through page 88. It's a goo...
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Grapevine
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May 20 "Through Step Five, God has removed my shame about being an alcoholic."
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Addiction to Facebook bad for sobriety?
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Anyone else have this problem. I seem to be going through withdrawls and keep wanting to post stuff and be liked with a thumbs up and all my drinking friends are on there so I'm not on there now well anymore. I got sick of being invited out to bars even thought they know I don't drink anymore and seeing there...
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12 Months Hairy AA
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After the week I had last week and this week seems to be starting out about the same, I decided to do some research to see how to cope with it better. I have heard that getting close to a year gets a little rough for AA members. So I researched the following..... "12 Months Hairy AA" ....and the se...
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Step 10
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Step 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong PROMPTLY admitted it. Notice that the Tenth Step says that when we were wrong we promptly ADMIT it. It doesn't say that when we were wrong we promptly JUSTIFY it. The first three Steps are designed to bring us to the point where we beco...
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Can you see me down here?
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It seems ironic to me the cyclic nature of life once I got into recovery. So much of what I did in the past, I have adopted once again. My behavior looks similar, but it is for entirely different reasons. I once put myself last, because I believed I wasn't good enough. Then I risked believing that I was...
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Therapists Don't Walk on Water
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I wanted to share this.... Just some more shi@ about me which had so much to do with leading up to where I am now. It is pretty long-winded so there is a back arrow in the upper left hand corner of your computer for your convenience if you start to get bored. About six years ago, I went to a therapist for marita...
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Grapevine
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May 19 "Each day I feel myself growing in recovery. I can honestly say I'm happier now than ever before in my adult life."
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Instinct to Protect
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This am when we were having our morning coffee, a baby bird flew up to our porch and landed in the empty planter inches from my face. We talked gently to him and he didn't appear to be frightened because he sat there for a short while. I was surprised because I don't remember a bird choosing to stay that clos...
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A Road Map
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I have found, that as I grow, I move from: Unconscious self-centeredness to Conscious self-centeredness to Conscious other centeredness to Unconscious other centeredness
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Haven't shared in a while
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It was a very busy week. Started a new job worked 76hrs. Had two court appearances on seperate days which is finally hopefully behind me. Also getting to as many meetings as I could this week. I'm drained obviously and have the next two days off. My plans are to relax, take it easy slow down and recooperat...
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Today's Gift - 5/18
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. . . we have some unfinished business between us.When we respond to the small signals that something is amiss, we prevent bigger problems. When we feel fear in our relationship, it signals that we have some unfinished business between us. When we ask the questions we have been avoiding, we create new...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/18
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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.Jonathon Swift
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Have any of you attended AA's International Convention?
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Just read that it is on July 2-5, 2015....(what happened to this year??? Do they not have one every year?) Anyway, the one in 2015 is in Atlanta, GA. Have any of you been to one of these? Would love to hear shares if so. Is this something for mainly people who have been in the program a long time, or do you thi...
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Finding out who I am not.
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I love the program of AA. I learn everyday something about life, living and serenity rather it be challenges or blessings. Something I have realized in my fourth step is I am not the person I thought I was. Incomprehensible demoralization ruled my life and self perception until doing my forth step. Wh...
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The Prescription
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The PRESCRIPTION Bill W. We see so many people in meetings, and out on the streets, still stumbling around with the program, hurting, whining and crying, still all covered up with the Great 3 S's of our disease, Self-pity, Self-righteousness, and Self-Bullshit, and wondering why they can't g...
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Emotional Sobriety
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The Next Frontier: Emotional Sobriety by Bill Wilson January 1958(Aslo see: A Letter From Bill W. on Depression, from the memoirs of Tom Pike, an early California AA member, which is strikingly similar to this AA Grapevine Article, "The Next Frontier: Emotional Sobriety.") I t...
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Today's Gift - 5/17
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Nice guys finish last.--Leo DurocherSome of us are habitually victims, doormats, and "poor things." No matter what, we never say no. The more we practice being nice guys the less able we are to cope creatively. We place the blame, along with the responsibility, elsewhere.Darlene model...
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The Serenity Prayer
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Though clearly circulating in oral form earlier, the earliest established date for a written form of the prayer is various versions printed in newspaper articles in the early 1930s by or reporting on talks given by Winnifred Crane Wygal, a pupil and collaborator of Niebuhr's.[1] Wygal included th...
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Warning About AA's Success Rate Articles
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I have been reading some articles about the success rate of Alcoholics Anonymous. There are some grim "findings" (or so they call them) and I question the accuracy of such articles because since it is an anonymous program how can any of these "results" possibly be accurate? I t...
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Some Interesting Short Quotes
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Here are a few quotes I came across today and found especially meaningful: Here is a simple but powerful rulealways give people more than what they expect to get.-Nelson Boswell Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.-James Baldwin You get the b...
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Making Mistakes Quote
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"The most honorable thing is not to never make mistakes, but to admit to them when you do make them, and then to follow through and do your best to make the wrong things right. Mistakes are part of growing. They are a natural part of every worthwhile endeavor. If someone refuses to support you as yo...
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What others say
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I realize I have gone into overdrive with my postings and apologize if they have been annoying. "Progress not perfection". Guess I have felt overly comfortable with this board. My week just keeps getting better.  BTY -- Edited by betterthanyesterday52 on Friday 16th of May...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/16
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The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising after you fall.Vince Lombardi
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The Flapping of the Tongue
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Ok you guys...my mind is a bit in overload and I have really done so much praying today. I think it is like I heard that this disease doesn't want me sober and it will do anything to derail me. First of all...I don't want to drink and I do not have any desire to drink at all. However, (I am trying to stop using &q...
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Whoa!!
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God direct my thinking today so that it be divorced of self pity, dishonesty, self-will, self-seeking and fear. God inspire my thinking, decisions and intuitions. Help me to relax and take it easy. Free me from doubt and indecision. Guide me through this day and show me my next step. Go...
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It's a fine day for disillusionment.
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I mentioned the other day in my first post since returning, that I had just come from the doctors with a host of new diagnosis's. The truth is, there are some serious things wrong. But here's the thing: The pain level is the same as it was last week. The weakness is the same as it was last week. The fatigue...
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did more research
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it speaks for its self i need some serious help i used to be in here years ago.. its been a progression and i know i am better than this thats why i am back .. i miss the me i found .. and i know it was my will that got me here and my choices.. i need to get off drinking.. and drugs... ...
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Welcome to the site Gus!
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Look forward to having you share your ESH with us. Welcome.
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Confusing Point....Bonanza Quote
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Bonanza series: Relatives were visiting the Cartwright's. They were "well-to-do" and one of them was making hurtful remarks about the lesser-to-do man at the table a woman had chosen to marry. The woman replied to her..... "I've had enough upbringing to know you don't make fun of p...
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Duck!
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I had the mistaken idea that once I got sober and attended AA meetings my life would get so much better. It did get better in some ways. In others, it didn't... and I guess I was what some call a "dry drunk". I didn't need a sponsor or need to work those Steps. In my mind, as long as I did the first one...
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Today's Gift - 5/16
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The Fox without a TailOne day a fox became caught in a trap. In his struggle to free himself, he left his tail behind. On his way home, he devised a way to head off being made the butt of jokes. He trotted back into the forest and called together all the foxes."Foxes are much more attractive when they d...
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Checking In
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Hello MIP! I am happy to say that I have made it to 6 months without a drink or substitute. I have learned a lot of patience through the months and I am now understanding that the longer I stay sober, the more that is revealed. I am not in a hurry today for all of my thoughts to change, but I am ready to work on...
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Weekly Thought --- (warning religious content)
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Weekly VerseThrough us [He] diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. For we are to God the fragrance of Christ. 2 Corinthians 2:14-15 (NKJV)Weekly QuoteMy Mother planted seeds of faith and watered them with love. Alice GrayWeekly ThoughtMothers are a lot like flowerseach one is u...
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Being Into "Me" is Sometimes a Scarey Place To Be
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This week has been a bit hairy for me. I had slipped back into the kind of thinking which led me to slip back into drinking in the past. More prayer, more study, more meetings and more trying to be more into helping others and less into "me" is the key, I believe. I had a conversation with a member...
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Today's Gift - 5/15
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The crisis of our time . . . is a crisis not of the hands but of the hearts.--Archibald MacLeishWe singlemindedly search for love, for belonging, for affirmation from others that will wipe out the torment of alienation that haunts our wakefulness and our dreams. "Does he truly care?" we wo...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/15
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It isnt the big pleasures that count the most; it is making a great deal out of the little ones.Anonymous
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Grapevine
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May 15 "During days and nights of darkness as I face the demons of self, the knowledge that my God is always in charge keeps me trudging to the end of each journey. With God, AA, and willingness I can meet the other me and begin putting my fractured self together again."
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But, it was all a blessing....
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Monday was one of those crazy Mondays that usually causes people to hate Mondays. Seemed like everything was going wrong. First this happened...then that happened...then...something else. And, everything that happened seemed to lead to another thing going sour. Yet, I tackled each little...
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"I Wish to Live" quote
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"I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and--I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generat...
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