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Today's Gift 01-22
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The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have. --Leonard Nimoy Look around you at the happiest people you know. They are also the most generous and giving people. A generous spirit creates its own environment. In recovery we talk a lot about gratitude - and we have a lot to be grateful for. This...
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Let there be Cake!
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Am I the only one that starts thinking of food this time of day??? ... I don't care what kind, food is good ... well, better than looking for the bottle I misplaced, LOL ... the fact that I'd rather eat than drink now still amazes me ... here's a recipe that I ran across in my archives that still gets my intere...
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I need all of you!
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This message board has been a major bonus to my recovery. I have grown to love all of you, and you are just as much a part of my AA family as those I see here in my own AA community. This board stays alive and here for all of us in support through the posts and support and love we give to one another. What an ama...
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I want what I want when I want it...
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I have no patience, I never have. For as long as I can remember my philosophy has been if something wasn't worth making happen right now then it wasn't worth waiting for. I find this character trait frustrating when it comes to my recovery. I want to be fixed now, not after years of torturous step work and...
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Welcome rubyredz
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Welcome to the board here rubyredz, ... we're glad you found us ... looking forward to you sharing your ESH ... Love ya and God Bless, Pappy
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Grapevine
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January 18 "AA does not teach us how to handle our drinking; it teaches us how to handle our sobriety."
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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January 21, 2013 Quote of the Week "If you stay on the train long enough,the scenery will change." Whenever I talk to a newcomer, I remember the insanity of early recovery. I used to talk in endless circles about my problems and about the people, places and things responsible...
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How to determine if you're a "Real Alcoholic"
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lady stuff
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I have had a real awful go of the PMS stuff over the past year. This will be my 10th go at it in sobriety. Every month for this week, I am restless, irritable and discontented TO SAY THE LEAST, and I attribute it to something lacking in my program, or something lacking in THE program all together. I start...
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My mom
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For years and year I thought of my mom as being a thorn in my side and I have defined her as constantly critical and grating - Though at any given time I would always have told you I loved my mom despite these things. She would typically call me once a week and berate me telling me she worried about me when I did...
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Today's Gift 01-21
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Love is a great beautifier. --Louisa May Alcott How do we feel when someone says, "I love you"? Do we feel a rush of warmth throughout our bodies? Do we walk a little taller? Do smiles come more easily to our lips? Words of love are inspirational. They bring out the best in us; perhaps they even...
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A New Day in Recovery
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Along with this wonderful daily reprieve from active alcoholism, I have been blessed with many amazing opportunities to inventory the crux of my problem i.e. myself and it seems like when I am paying attention I actually learn something. Over the last few weeks, I have realized that in my lifetim...
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First potluck
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My husband and I went to our first potluck banquet last night, and there were husband & wife alanon/aa speakers. They were very good and it was interesting and moving for both of us. I noticed that the people who were there enjoying a bit to eat, were people really serious about recovery. No newc...
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Today's Gift 10-20
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Staying in the Present Moment Often, one of our biggest questions is, "What's going to happen?" We may ask this about our relationships, our career, our recovery, and our life. It is easy to tangle ourselves up in worrisome thoughts. Worrying about what's going to happen blocks us from f...
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Thought
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"You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."~C.S. Lewis
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Weekly
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Weekly QuoteGod has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. - John Henry NewmanWeekly ThoughtCharles Plumb was a U.S. Navy jet pilot in Vietnam...
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How True!
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P.M. wouldn't Allow This ... No option for it
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Hey Tasha, ... After one of Dean's posts, I think I figured out how to get the cartoon to you that I wanted to share ... guess the whole board will have to see it !!! ... Here goes:
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On the verge of being organized
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Update: Fell from rocks is September, busted the leg pretty bad, plates, screws, bone growth stimulators. After battling the Oxycodone thing I guess until late October, I limped through physical therapy--but the problem now is one of the breaks did not heal. The Doc's call it a non union and may requ...
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Today's Gift 01-19
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There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure. --Gandhi Life responds not to what we wish or even to what we desire. Life responds to a made up mind. The moment that you definitely commit your...
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2 things
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I showed up at the animal shelter 'way up der in da nort woods'. The workers were out to lunch. The little hand written note hung half crooked by a piece of silver duck tape. I had to appreciate that I was in a land even more 'laid back' than my own slower moving little town of about 350 residents. The doo...
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AA penpal
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hi everyone, I am an alcoholic from China, I would like to make some friends who are trying to use the AA steps to rid of the alcohol problem. It is unfortunate that i can not find many people with the same problem to communicate with here. if you are interested, please email me : moreshine@gamil.com
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Playing with fire ,, and restored order
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So I went out saturday night, with a girl friend, she called me up and she was like i'm drunk and i'm here waiting for you to come. She doesn't normally drink much cuz shes muslim , but after i finished my beer i could see that she had too many so I stuck to water, I knew she drove there and I was gonna have to dri...
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Returning Phone Calls
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My best friend in AA (a woman) has become frustrated lately with people not returning her phone calls. I can't help her with this because I don't identify. She says when she asked 2 of the people why they didn't return her calls they said they didn't get back to her because after they let a few days go by the...
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The flu
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Yup, its my turn for the flu post. I thought I could avoid it through sheer stubbornness and willpower! Hmmm.. Sounds familiar. The sweats, shakiness, body aches.. Feels like a hangover. I actually woke up feverish and soaked in sweat and had a half-awake fleeting moment of panic- did I drink last nig...
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Peace of Mind
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Weekly ThoughtIn a study on "peace of mind" performed by Duke University, several factors were found to contribute greatly to emotional and mental stability. Among common-sense indicators like avoiding self-pity and accepting challenges as a part of life, researchers identified o...
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Boudreaux (smooth talker)
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Boudreaux, the smoothest-talking Cajun in the Louisiana National Guard, got called up to active duty.Boudreaux's first assignment was in a military induction center.Because he was a good talker, they assigned him the duty of advising new recruits about government benefits, especially the GI i...
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Fifty Shades Of ... ... ...
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>> FIFTY SHADES OF..... >> >> You appeared from nowhere and shamelessly, without any reservations, >> You laid on my naked body...you sensed my indifference, so you applied >> Your hungry mouth to me without any guilt or humiliation, and you >> Drove me near...
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Today's Gift 01-18
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile. And then come back to it and begin again. -- Robert Frost Do we think it's weak to need a break? Do we ignore the need to recharge our batteries? Responsibility for our own lives requires us to recognize the need to restore our energy. Maybe our former escape from the...
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My AA Friend Jersey John
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In a recent posting Funny but True, I alluded to one of our members who was known as Jersey John. During one of our armed conflicts John got shot in the head.. He survived with the aid of a steel plate. He saw life very simply and had the natural ability to somehow always say the right thing.. I asked him once...
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Back on the sober pony
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So I slipped. Something clicked in my alcoholic brain and I went on a two day drinking binge. The good news is that afterward I felt physically sick, emotionally crushed and deeply remorseful. Good! I'm glad I still feel like shit 3 days later. I'm glad I'm so profoundly miserable because of it. I was ar...
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Daily Reflections ~ Happiness Comes Quietly & 24hrs a Day
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The trouble with us alcoholics was this: We demanded that the world give us happiness and peace of mind in just the particular order we wanted to get it by the alcohol route. And we werent successful. But when we take time to find out some of the spiritual laws, and familiarize ourselves with them, and pu...
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Funny But True
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It must be 15 years or so ago at the meeting after the meeting.. True story.. One of the group members, we called him angry Harvey stated that he had quality sobriety.. Harvey had about 2 years sobriety before his slip now he was back 4 months.. Jersey John had about 15 years.. he had a plate in his head from...
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From the Grapevine
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January 17 "My drinking career was all about running away. I could pack up and vanish in a flash. Now ... I'm taking the risk to stick around, to just show up and see what happens. "
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Today's Gift 01-17
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. --Hannah Arendt When we refuse to forgive ourselves, we think we are being very noble for not letting ourselves off the hook. What we're really doing, however, is setting ourselves up to use again.We're not accepting the fact that we are powerless over ou...
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Recovery and your significant other
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If you are married or in a relationship, how much do you talk with your partner about recovery? Do they 'get it'? I find myself not knowing how to talk about it.
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Alcoholics.......Anonymous?
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Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions... There was no internet at the time of my first AA meeting, my shrink gave me a card with the AA phone # on it. I called and the lady gave me a time and address of a meeting close to my home, asked if I would need a ride and had someone from the meet...
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A solitary moment.
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"For a brief moment, I had needed and wanted God. There had been a humble willingness to have Him with me-and He came. But soon the sense of His presence had been blotted out byworldly clamors, mostly those within myself. And so it had been ever since. How blind I had been." BB pg12. Just a so...
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Sober identity
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I don't even understand what that could possibly mean for over 1 year, and all at once the fog sloooowly begins to lift. How can I not be my identity? That was always how I blew that phrase off and kept myself from really caring or wondering what more could be revealed. I am sober - so this is my sober iden...
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I grew a beard
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Wanna know why? It's a really stupid reason. Somewhere in my alcoholic brain I thought that if I changed the face I saw in the mirror it would help me change who I am inside. I've always been this baby faced man-child who everyone seems to let get away with murder and I thought that maybe if I looked more gro...
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Material Possessions, romance and Finance
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Buckle up fellers, this could be a long 'un. we'll start with the motorbike. Caught fire a couple weeks ago and the parts list to repair comes to almost as much as the insurance valuation. Add labour and I reckon it'll be a write off. I'm keeping positive as no one was hurt, it's insured, it's below freezi...
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WARNING! My annonimity has been compromised here.
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Do not use your regular email address here. Someone Googled my email address and found me on this and another forum related to the same thing.. Plus I was stupid for putting my own pic up as my avatar. I never knew they could find you that way.
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Saying sorry
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A while ago, prior to my coming back, I worked with a guy who was an alcoholic and I really used to bust his balls about being in AA. I was constantly making drinking jokes, threatening to spike his coffee, burping at him after a night out, etc. very immature stuff. He was a very calm, mild mannered guy...
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Today's Gift 01-15
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Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but only waits to be provoked. --Katherine Anne PorterWe often enter into our relationships believing there is one perfect way to act, and if we can only find that way, we'll be successful, accepted. Bu...
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Today's Gift 01-16
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The self is a calm stable center surrounded by a continuous changing sea. Merge with yourself and be ready for any emergent sea. --Coretta Scott King Wise ones tell us to be true to ourselves. Being true to ourselves means daring to disagree with a loved one, even when we know it might cause painful tens...
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I'm having a very difficult time all of a sudden
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Everything was going great, you might even say I was getting a little cocksure of myself and my newfound mature outlook on sobriety...and then I got absolutely hammered. I'm sitting here asking myself why I did it and I have no answers. None that make sense anyway. I don't drive drunk, fight anyone or e...
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Not much luck finding a sponsor... definitely need one
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Well I made a fine mess this weekend. And by "fine mess" I mean I relapsed & nothing happened other than I pissed off my family & now I feel like a loser YET AGAIN. Basically I just sat on my couch, watched TV, nothing else happened which I think is the worst thing that could ever happe...
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Cruising in AA
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Well folks, I am back from my 7 day cruise. San Juan, St. Maarten, St. Thomas....all very pretty. I had a wonderful time with my partner. I have to say the most unexpected and pleasant thing of the whole trip was the AA meetings on the boat. There were about 7 of us. I had planned on maybe going to one me...
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Grapevine
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January 15 "I am grateful that the people in AA showed me how to live sober. However, I have learned many things from other sources. I learned about quiet from the breeze floating through the grass on a warm summer day. I have...
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And here comes Step Four
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I can't believe how many ppl, institutions, and principles I have on my list. It's insane. I carry around more resentment and negativity than I even realize. It's ugly.
I woke up today knowing I need to stay close to the program and my Higher Power. Tough stuff coming up in stepwork is coinciding with t...
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