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Checking in
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Hi All! I haven't been on this board in awhile--busy living life on life's terms. All is well. 10 months sober. Going to meetings. Calling my sponsor. Not drinking Living. It's good. Amazing doors have opened for me as I'm learning to ask for my HP's will for me and the power to carry it out: opportunit...
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On line share
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Hi, By the grace of my Higher Power and the fellowship of AA I have been sober 21 years. I have been very active in AA service but now I am older I am finding it difficult to get to as many meeting as I would like. I would like to share with a member on a one to one and general, at my age it doesn't matter if a male of f...
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Got sorta chewed out at a meeting today ; )
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There was a little bit of confusion over how to get the door unlocked at the clubhouse today. The older gentleman who was having a bit of a problem was holding up the line of us freezing Wisconsinites wanting to get in... but that wasn't a big deal. We're used to being cold most of our lives. What I though...
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Alcoholism and kids
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My children are so amazingly sweet and precious... when they are asleep! It seems that most of the other hours in the day leave me wondering how I can dislike these little people I love so much! LOL Recovering with young children doesn't make me special or unique. It doesn't mean I have it worse, or ha...
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5 days without meetings is getting to me
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Since I wasn't able to get to meetings this week I worked really hard on keeping up with my readings and talking to my sponsor. Tonight I chose to miss my meetings I've attended the last three weeks to help out my mom. I'm paying for it now. I am so irritable I can't even stand me. The girls are driving me craz...
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Meeting # 2
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My husband went to his second Alanon meeting. He did nothing but complain about how it wasn't all about him, how the topic wasn't useful for him, how people didn't make him feel welcome, how the topic of service was totally useless to anyone and people had stupid things to say, how he doesn't fit in, how...
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Relapse after 8 years
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I am so disgusted with myself. After 8 years of sobriety, I have relapsed and been heavily drinking for the past 2 months. My youngest son moving away triggered it. No excuse though. I need to stop. Just pulled out all my AA coins and some jewelry that I had engraved myself. Tonight is the last ni...
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Progress ( nowhere near perfection:)
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Just a silly story that I wanted to share with you all:) I left college about 10 years ago.. It was about that time that years of drinking started to catch up with me and I ceased being a "functional alcoholic". I simply cared nothing for anything aside from my torrid affair with the bottle. So...
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I NEED A SPONSOR!!!!!!!!!!! VIRGINIA BEACH AREA
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Hi, I just got out of jail 9 days ago for a DUI and I am in desperate for a sponsor. I asked someone to be my sponsor when I first came home, they said yes and I called and called and they Never called me back. I thought it might helpful if I had a sponsor that had also experienced jail because I am going through...
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Sober Holidays
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Just remembering my first Thanksgiving and Christmas sober. My sobriety date is October 1st so, by the time Thanksgiving rolled around, I had just under 2 months sober. I recall being really immersed in AA and in the midsts of doing my 90 in 90. I had Thanksgiving with my sponsor at his house. There...
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Thought I Would Share This
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The Grapevie will push a quote each day to your e-mail address. I've enjoyed receiving these each day and thought I would pass it on to my brothers and sisters. You can sign up below. An open mind is a fertile environment for growth. November 15 ...
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"Thanks'Giving'"
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Here is a 2 ... 1/2 minute movie clip that is sure to touch your heart ... :http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/paid-in-full/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-FR-_-11.16.12-_-PaidInFullmovie&j=27565&e=rgpapaw@gmail.com&l=3516_HTML&u=1253778&mid=7001668&jb...
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Today's Gift 11-16
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Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. --Leo Buscaglia We are each special, which means there is not another person just like ourselves. Nobody looks just like us. Nobody's voice sounds quite like our own. And nobody thinks through a story just like we do. E...
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Daily Reflections ~ Vital Sustenance & 24hrs a Day
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Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and o...
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Welcome Chad
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Welcome to MIP Chad, glad you found us ... you wrote: hucksley wrote: Hello everyone, my name is Chad, I'm 21 years old and I'm an alcoholic. I haven't started attending meetings yet but will in the very near future (as in tomorrow). A little bit about my story/situation...It all started last year in m...
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Today's Gift 11-15
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When one door closes, fortune will usually open another. -- Fernando De RojasSometimes, especially in early recovery, we concentrate on our losses instead of our gains. We see a chapter in our life closing, and we mourn. We must leave some friends behind, or say good-bye to a social life we enjoyed. W...
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Today's Gift
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The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be. --Raymond Charles Barker The attitude that we carry with us into a particular setting will greatly influence our perceptions of any event. Our attitude also influences, positive...
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Jumping up and down.
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My daughter did something so amazing this morning, that I literally jumped up and down clapping like a little kid with excitement for her. The house shook a little, things rattled, and I suddenly remember I am a big person ; ) Still... these days, I'm so much more involved in my life, and I can actually f...
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Checking In
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Hi. Hope you're all enjoying sobriety. I am. Haven't been here for a while. Still active in AA just not coming here as often as I was. Got an anniversary on the horizon. 15 years they tell me. God, I'm almost an oldtimer. How did that happen? So, what else have I been up to? Well, I'll just share this with ya....
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The Visit
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Okay, so I'm standing on the back deck a little while ago and there's this sudden 'thump' near me that caught my attention ... I look over and see this beautiful little bird, laying upside down on the walk beside the house ... I reach down and pick up the bird not expecting much, but the poor thing was still...
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It's never them. It's always me.
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"I hate [person]! and you know why? [names inconvenient action]! they do this all the time. I mean, all I did was [insert understated action] and they went a head and [fill in this blank]!"
and then I looked at myself after ranting and thought "this happens all the time to me. If you do...
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Today's Gift 11-13
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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. --MontaigneOur program isn't working. We are misunderstood. Nothing's going well at work. We just can't see it through. Why doesn't someone help u...
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my friend AC wrote a book
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Please check out my friend's new book she wrote long term alcoholic/physician in recovery "You Can Trust Me I'm A Doctor' AC Gross very good book iuniverse
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Today's Gift 11-11
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... all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. --Julian of Norwich Why are we prone to exaggerating the seriousness of the circumstances in our lives? Perhaps it's because we lived for years barely on the fringe of sensible choices. We reacted hysterically to all ma...
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Daily Reflections ~ Morning Thoughts & 24hrs a Day
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Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 For many years I pondered over God's will for me, believing that perhaps a great destiny had been ordained for my life. After all, having been born into a specific faith, hadn't I been...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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November 12, 2012 Quote of the Week "Things aren't necessarily going wrong justbecause they're not going my way" This is still hard for me to accept. My ego tells me that my plans and ideas about how things should go, and how you should act, are 99% right, and that if everybody wou...
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Today's Gift 11-12
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We fear to trust our wings. We plume and feather them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling too often to the perch. --Charles B. Newcomb Even before it has learned to fly; a baby bird is pushed from its nest. It will totter upon the ground, stubby wings outstretched from its body, following th...
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Was that really me?
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I looked at my husband after watching the movie flight last night - and I said "The powerlessness? If you would have told me I was losing my kids and my family while I was drinking, I would not have been able to stop even if I wanted to. With out help, I would have so badly not wanted to drink again, but...
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The other War
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Today I would like to salute all those I served with,the ones that didnt make it back and the ones that made it back and are still suffering. The Vietnam Era was a rude awakening for this young pup and alcoholic.I made it thru that conflict and came back to the other war ,my addiction.That battle continu...
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Walking out of a meeting
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I started taking banjo lessons last Friday. I asked if I could also learn the flute, something I was told no to many years ago - and it's always bugged me. I was a bad student. I got really frustrated, and threw my hands up "I'm too old for this" a few times - but the teacher kept gently nudging...
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Pride
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Home is my favorite hippie mint and rosemary soap washing off a day of trouble. It's two children pushing two lovers to opposite sides of sleepy oblivion at 3 a.m. only to rustle us awake in a few short hours. I watch as they bend heads together like flowers drooping in the autumn sun, finding it - their d...
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Happy Bellybutton Birthday, nezyb!!! (Kelley!!)
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I won't mention years just my bestest wish for you enjoying a beautiful day full of love & sobriety! Godbless, Lady. I see how much we appreciate your message, experience, strength & hope. Thank you for being here :D Recovery love & fellowship, Danielle x
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And that's how the fight started - british humour
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HOW TO START A FIGHT One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift... The next year, I didn't buy her a gift. When she asked me why, I replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!" And that's how the fight started...... _____________...
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Some of the 'best' 'advice' stories you have heard.
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True Story. A patient at a public Psych hospital in Sydney , in one of the 'drug & alcohol brain damage wards' , had to attend several 'outside' meetings , as well as All the hospital meetings . Old mate had been going allright for awhile , had even started the ward's own meeting . Which they named afte...
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Lost time
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The longer I'm sober, the more it becomes apparent to me that my entire 20s and half of my 30s were a hazy mess of dysfunction and alcholism. I do not regret the past, because it took what it took for me to get to where I am today, but I can't help but shake my head at how I spent such a long time half dead. Wow. ...
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Grateful to be sober today
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-- Edited by justadrunk on Sunday 4th of November 2012 09:12:28 AM
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The taste of alcohol
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This came up in another post here and also in a conversation with my sponsor. He was saying to me that he didn't understand why people drank vodka because it tasted so awful. In my drinking, it eventually progressed to me drinking gallons of vodka so I had an answer for that. I never drank for the taste...
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A new thread
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Last night my sponsee's room mate called to ask me what to do about my sponsee being drunk and passed out. About the fact that she's now drinking at work. She asked me if they should do an intervention and then put her in treatment. She's been drinking every day for 4 yrs. Her father just died. "Her fr...
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Daily Reflections ~ A Sense of Belonging & 24hrs a Day
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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105 That's what it is belonging! After a session of meditation I knew that the feeling I was experiencing was a sense of belonging because I was so relaxed. I...
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Comfort in not getting my way
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When ever I don't get my way, or I get something that I don't want, or I don't get something I want.....I am grateful today that I can find comfort in the knowledge that maybe if I'm not getting my way, then maybe God is getting His way.
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I had some serious thoughts about drinking.
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Jumping up and down screaming "don't drink, don't drink!" to my group, and worrying about how I sound, more than what's really going on inside me... focusing so very much on the message, and if it's being delivered "right" as I am saying to them "who you are is good enough - w...
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Today's Gift 11-10
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Accepting the past Noted psychiatrist Carl Jung once said, "If one can accept one's sin, one can live with it. If one cannot accept it, one has to suffer the inevitable consequences." We must come to accept our past acts before they will stop causing us pain. All the Steps help us do this, but...
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Memory Getting Bad
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Sorry if I've already posted this ... I really can't remember ... but if you're new here, maybe you'll get a chuckle out of it ... have a great day! I have been in many places, but I've never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can't go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone. I've also never been in Cog...
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Today's Gift 11-04
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A.A. Thought for the DayLet us consider the term "spiritual experience" as given in Appendix II of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous. A spiritual experience is something that brings about a personality change. By surrendering our lives to God as we understand Him, we are changed....
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A Family disease more evidence...
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I was shopping Home Depot the other day and bumped into my cousin who has been missing for a year and a half. She was working for Home Depot when she disappeared and then she was gone. She is a mysteriously discovered relative from my natural family on the natural father's side. This is one of the alc...
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Daily Reflections ~ Stepping Into The Sunlight & 24hrs a Day
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But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10 Sometimes I think I don't have time for prayer and meditation, forgetting that I always found the time to drink. It is possible to make time for anything I want to do if...
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Hi everyone...
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Just reaching out a hand and indrocucing myself to the group. Not sure if I'm posting it where I should be, but oh well! I'm Robin and I am an alcoholic. I live in Princeton, TX and my homegroup is ODAAT in Plano. I recently had surgery and have not been released yet so I'm kinda stuck at home for another week...
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Humor Helps Us Heal - Air Traffic Controller Quotes
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This is a re-post from much earlier ... I thought it was great ... the second time too!!! Funny Air Traffic Controllers QuotesTower: Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 oclock, 6 miles!Delta 351: Give us another hint! We have digital watches!TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees.Centre...
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Hear me out
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I'm just going to get straight into my thought. I am a "newcomer", almost 60days sober. I love AA. I have met some wonderful people! We are indeed a very unique group of people. We all have interesting and sometimes helpful opinions. Sadly, opinions do not save lives, they can ac...
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I got everything I wanted
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I went to a meeting I used to go to more frequently as a newcomer and one of my old timer friends remarked how nice it was to see the changes in me. More specifically, he stated that it sounded like I got everything I wanted. I got a better job, a loving partner, I finished the schooling I needed, am about to...
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