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Sunrise Quote
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"There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond that failure."- Kyle Rote, Jr.
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Th mirror
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I pointed to the two old drunks across the bar and said to my mate, "That'l be us in ten years. He said, "That's a mirror, you idiot"!!!
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Why am I struggling so??
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Had a really rough week last week. Was out of the office with the flu. Did not get to attend any meetings, go to any sponsored events........was just rough. And I won't lie, I wanted a drink in the worst way. Was on my knees a LOT last week..........prayer and meditation........and other . If you can't ma...
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I Am Addicted to The MIP Board
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First I started with just a few minutes at a time on this board, and it kept increasing and now I am at two hours at a time...just reading posts, responding to some. Lots of learning here! I have a noon AA meeting and guys and gals, I love this board so much I just cannot get enough! After my meeting, I'll hav...
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This is it!
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Hello all. Binge drinking has nearly taken everything from me. I'm an Alcoholic, I have known that for years. I am a successful businessman have a fabulous life, plenty of cash and lovely kids. I have now got to the stage where it is affecting everything. I have to stop. The remorse is killing me from th...
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Dinner Party
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My wife hosted a dinner party for all our friends, some we hadn't seen for quite a while, and everyone was encouraged to bring their children as well. Dinner Party All during dinner my wife's best friend's four-year-old stared at me sitting across from her. The girl could hardly eat her food for starin...
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The Alcoholic and His Children
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Okay, this has been on my mind today.......I am sure that a lot of you have or are dealing with this topic. I have not seen my children in almost 4 weeks (basically since getting out of rehab). I talk to them every single day and they are happy to hear my voice. My two oldest know what has gone on and they supp...
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Sunrise Quote
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." - Marcus Aurelius
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....But I Didn't Have to Drink
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I posted awhile back that my SO was going to a wedding which is out of town. Been worried a lot about being alone--I haven't been by myself much at all over the last couple of decades. I had an invite but since there was going to be drinking, and I haven't been sober but just a few months, I didn't think I could...
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Let's talk about the first step.
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Step One....We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.Would love to hear your feedback on this step...When I first saw this step it made no sense to me at all....None of them did really...I had a drinking problem that cost me everything and damn near killed me...
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congrats on one week gtt... i think its time for a new thread!!!
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Today's Gift
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Becoming forgiving The lack of a forgiving spirit hurts our spiritual progress. Being unforgiving causes resentment, which is always a danger to our new way of life. We have learned that if we forgive, we will be forgiven; but if we do not forgive, we will not be forgiven. So it seems we are just hurtin...
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Meeting of the mods!
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Stpetedean and pinkchip aka Dean and Mark
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All my friends relapsed this week.
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I have 3 close friends in AA - we all came in around the same time. One has a young girl the same age as my daughter, and we did many play dates this summer. One has been off and on sober. One I found out has pretty much never stopped drinking, but was hiding it. Anyway - they all crashed and burned last wee...
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Today's Gift
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It is the act of forgiveness that opens up the only possible way to think creatively about the future at all. -- Father Desmond WilsonToday is full of endless possibilities and dreams. In many cases, we are limited only by our fear and lack of hope, in others and ourselves. Each new day we are given a clea...
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Grapevine
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October 15 "I found I had to exert every ounce of will and action to cut off these faulty emotional dependencies upon people, upon AA, indeed, upon any set of circumstances whatever. Then only could I be free to love."
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I am in St. Pete
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I think someone that posts here lives near here...not sure who...
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Welcome Curly
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Welcome to MIP Curly, ... glad you found us ... looking forward to you sharing your ESH here ... God Bless, Pappy
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Alcohol and the Soul
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I just spent the past half hour Google searching various iterations of "alcohol and the soul" and "addiction and the soul". I was looking for articles or blog posts by people who have written about what alcohol does to the "soul" while we are drinking, both in the sho...
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I did not relapse
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This time the grapevine let me know they are going to publish another one of my posts from here at MIP. It was from about 2 yrs ago - when I first came to MIP and drank again after about a month. It's going to say "my recent relapse" in one of the paragraphs, now mind you - this will be 2 years old....
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Sunrise Quote
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"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has." - Billy Graham
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Today's Gift
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Simplicity and greatness go together. -- Monty Cralley We have probably heard the phrase Keep It Simple thousands of times. It's possible we are mystified by it, even yet. So many things in life have seemed complicated: getting an education, starting a new job, advising children and friends. Not...
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Grapevine
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October 14 "How does one tune in to the Higher Power? The answer I have learned from AA is to recharge my spiritual battery every day -- 'you can't pull today's load with yesterday's horse.'"
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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October 14, 2013 Quote of the Week "The answer is not in the problem;the answer is in the solution." Before recovery, I lived in the problem. If things weren't going right, or if something went wrong, that's all I thought about. I'd dwell on it, talk to my friends about it, and think about...
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A simple meeting?????
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Ok I went to a meeting this morning. I decided to share on the topic of fear. I am a musician who has some high profile concerts coming up. I have performed in the past based on fear. Fear of not being well thought of as a musician, a person etc.... I know what I need to do and I spoke to my sponsor about it,...
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Col
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I have your avatar pic on my phone as you know, and my daughter and I were scrolling through pics. When we got to your picture my daughter had to stop and look a while. I did too. She asked who you were, and I said 'that's my friend' and she said you look nice. You are nice Col. How's it going?
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Just a simple "Hello" to everyone!
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Hi MIP folks! Nothing big to write about today. Life is getting rather simple and I like it like that. No drama, just me, my dogs, a bit of work, going to meetings, and trying to stay on top of things financially as we head into the winter season, which is always a rough time for me. Pressure Washing home...
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THE STEPS OF A.A. - AN INTERPRETATION
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I really like this guy...One of the original 100 that worked on the book. He was a strong headed alkie...I think he and Bill W. butted heads...Also a strong headed alkie. Some say he should have been one of the Co - Founders of AA...I just like how he kept it simple.He talks about the phases of the steps.....
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Sunrise Quote
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"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller
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Today's Gift
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Children do not know how their parents love them, and they never will till the grave closes over those parents, or till they have children of their own. --Edmund Vance Cooks As adults, we may feel we were cheated out of a "normal" childhood because of our parents' emotional, physical, or sp...
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Welcome 'brigy'
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Welcome to MIP brigy, ... we're glad you'r here and Congrats on 8 months sober ... please share with us ...
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Grapevine
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October 11 "One night, in a moment of desperation, I got down on my knees and remembered a prayer an old sponsor had given me. It said, 'God, help me be of service ... to something or someone...' I knew intuitively it was the answer."
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Sunrise Quote
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"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly will light upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Will Step Four be painful for me?"
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Hi everyone! I'd like to share with you a question that I've been asked many times by many sponsorees: "Will Step 4 be emotionally painful for me?" The only way I can ever answer that question is out of my own experience with doing a Fourth Step inventory myself. To begin with, we must est...
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Sunrise Quote
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"The first duty of love is to listen." - Paul Tillich
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Today's Gift
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CommunicatingHe said, "Let's go to the movies when we're done with our work." She said, "That's a great idea!" But when the work that she had in mind was finished, he still had several tasks that remained undone. So they got into a dispute. It was not a disagreement, it was a misun...
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Love and Tolerance
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Yeppers...that was the topic at this mornings AA at the bay, Saturday version, home group meeting. Go figure...really?...alcoholics and alcoholic/addicts talking about love and tolerance of others who may be threatening their recovery? Has recovery become soooo valuable that a recoveri...
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Can someone help me, please?
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This is my 3rd time coming back to this board. Somehow, I guess I just keep getting myself stuck in the same messes, over and over. A lot has changed in the last few years. When I first started writing, I was new to Boston, in my early 20s, on my own, meeting new people, dating new people, and JUST starting to...
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Any one live in Georgia??
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I am considering making a move to Monroe, outside of Athens... just curious... no decision made yet, but it is a possibility.John
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Welcome to the MIP Board 'harley kid 67'
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Hi harley kid, ... Glad you found us and we look forward to you sharing your ESH with us ... God Bless, Pappy
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Just when I thought life was getting simple and drama free!!
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Some of you might remember the video i posted about an ex girlfriend drinking for 6 days and going into a alcoholic comatose state after a length of sobriety. Well, anyways that was about a year ago, and she was in the hospital for 11 days, and in coma for 9 of them. Upon her discharge on day 11, she was phy...
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I Finally Got a Sponsor!!!! Happy Happy Joy Joy!!!
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I had been making excuses out of fear for not finding one. Been praying lately to my HP that if He wanted me to have one, please bring one into my life and lo and behold, I was introduced to someone the other night after a meeting. I have enjoyed this person's shares and feel a big sense of relief. Still a litt...
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Today's Gift
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If you want to be found, stand where the seeker seeks. --Sidney Lanier When does a good program turn into a bad program? When it becomes a hiding place. As adult children, we are good no, ingenious at finding hiding places. Sometimes we hide behind our work by staying super busy. We hide in prayer itself...
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Today's Gift
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To the rationally minded, the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backward. His conclusions are reached before his premises. --Frances Wickes Intuition is a valuable form of wisdom that often seems mystical. We lose our keys and can't find them in any of the usual places and then an idea...
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Sunrise Quote
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"Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world." - Samahria Kaufman
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Ohhhh I don't know...
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Recovering alcoholic use to work for NASA and use to counsel kids about alcoholism and drug addiction in life and yesterday I watch a news clip that NASA is sending an 11 year old boy into space soon and what will he do?....Brew Beer. Somebody please realign the thought here so I can get it better? Rea...
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Today's Gift - THIS was an Extremely Hard Lesson for me!!! ... A Must Read!!!
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This hit home for me like you wouldn't believe ... I had made it to step 8 a couple of times and just never had that 'change of heart' referred to here ... Once that did occur, I was able to complete the rest of the steps, and the miracle happened, I was 'free at last', I was now capable of 'love' like I'd never k...
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Grapevine
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October 9 "With the clock ticking like it is, I do not have time for anger, resentment, or self-pity. Time is far too precious."
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Mike B.
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Sunrise Quote
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"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."- Leo Tolstoy
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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October 7, 2013 Quote of the Week "You need to spend some time with God this morning and then let your day go." I can start my day two different ways: the way I usually do which means rushing through my morning preparing for work and thinking (or worrying) about how I'm going to control eve...
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