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Introduction
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Hi, my name is Laurie and I'm an alcoholic. Thought I'd try starting my day off this way and see where it goes...
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Crabby Alcoholic
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... and boy does it show!! Gotta sh&tload of resentments I am working on right now in Step 4 too.... more will be revealed! Love you guys
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Three grand essentials to happiness -- from Hazelden
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. --Joseph Addison Having someone to bestow our love on - a child, friend, or lover, perhaps a pet - will provide us with a time each day for intimacy, a tim...
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Daily Reflections ~ The Easier, Softer Way & 24hrs a Day
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If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking. Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 72 I certainly didn't leap at the opportunity to face who I was, especially when the pains of my drinking days hung over me like a dark cloud. But I soon heard at the meetings about the fellow member who just didn't want to t...
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Something valuable to share!
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Outside reading.I have found this pertinent to all who carry the message of recovery.It talks of 'SOMETHING VALUABLE TO SHARE" a simple honest message of recovery from alcoholism always rings true.Check it out! YOU MAY IiDENTIFY... Your sitting at a meeting/celebration etc and first few...
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Looking for an affirmation...
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Let me hear it from you fellows...Anyone experience crosstalk jabber during the opening protocol of your meetings specifically during the reading of "how it works" when just before the reader mentions "the point is..." someone shouts out "So what's the point?"...
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Re: Divorce
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Hi, I need some advice. I am new to the forum and this is my first post. I have recently stopped drinking and am two months sober. Two days after I decided that I needed to quit drinking, my husband hit me with divorce papers, on my birthday nonetheless. He is angry and his biggest issue with me is that i...
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Thus We Grow
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Life among Alcoholics Anonymous is more than attending gatherings and visiting hospitals. Cleaning up old scrapes, helping to settle family differences, explaining the disinherited son to his irate parents, lending money and securing jobs for each other, when justified these are everyday occ...
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17 days today..
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Long time no update...Feeling ok... I wish I could just fast forward sometimes. I hate having almost 60 blowing it, then almost 90 and blowing it. But this time I am determined to try and not blow it again... one day at a time..
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Top priority for me,the rest will trickle down!
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My spiritual readings for this morning tell me"When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. Only by the Grace of God(His unmerited favor for me)do I enter today,sober and striving thru prayer and meditation to improve my co...
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The Alcoholic And Mood Swings
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Disclaimer: This is not my writing but it is interesting and as an Alcoholic I can identify with it. Larry, ------------------- The Alcoholic And Mood Swings Each time the medication (alcohol) is taken, it reacts within the alcoholic's system. So theoretically, if that "system"...
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HORSE now has a full saddle....
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Hi All, Never talk about this, very personal, and also did not "feel good" about it.....for Medical reasons, I have had to stay away from crowds of people,which of course rules out AA Meetings, have only gone to some on Sundays where I know the attendance is very low.... But for the last 2 we...
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Just Toni
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Who are you when you black out?
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How do you explain to others/yourself who you become when you've blacked out? Do you feel as if you become an entirely different person, or that you are acting out feelings you normally keep pent up inside? Apparently when I was drinking, I told my friend that I loved her romantically, but I have no me...
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Come out of the rain
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I have to admit I am finding online AA new, different and confusing, it's like suddenly, after living for 20 years where the sky is blue, to a place where the sky is green, it's literally that foreign and confusing to me. It's like I come from a place where it rained on me every day, i got sores, fell down, co...
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Trigger (s)
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Hi, My name is Rob and I'm alcoholic. I've been drinking alcoholically since Spring, 1980 sometime around my 14th birthday. I was fully immersed at my first drunk. I've been in AA since July 6th 2009 and it seems like every 90-120 days or so I get drunk again, each one worse than the last. I know that I need...
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Daily Reflections ~ The Past Is Over & 24hrs a Day
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A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character defects which cause or aggravate them. If . . . Step Four . . . has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember . . . then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghos...
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H.A.L.T. tonight's recovery BREATHER
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Sometimes it is good to "take a powder" and wash off the challenges, hard work and exhaustion of a day. They tell us in AA that we need ot take care of our bodies while we get to the business of staying sober in AA. Rome wasn't built in a day, you know. AAers warn that sometimes it is good to H.A.L.T...
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I like AA better...
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than Intensive Out Patient therapy. For one thing...maybe 10% of them WANT to be there or even recognize the NEED! How can a guy with three year's probation and four teeth honestly say "my meth use hasn't done anybody any harm." Something really good came out of it, though. We get this.....
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Are you ashamed?
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I was wondering if anyone feels ashamed of being an alcoholic? I do feel ashamed but I downloaded the big book and I was listening to it, and the guy said some things that made me start to think of myself as having a genuine illness. Just like lupus or ocd or being allergic to penicillin even, and I started t...
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Yet another small miracle found in the Rooms of AA tonight
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I decided earlier to go to a 9pm discussion meeting, and a relative (Al Anon) was over at about 7 as I was starting to "get ready".... when she left I realized I was getting ready for an 8pm meeting... hmmm... so I said, "hey, I'll just go to the 8pm meeting and get home to relax a little earl...
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Words of Wisdom.love it!
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Outside readings"I keep hearing about "real " alcoholics the newcomer said to her sponsor.What is the difference between and alcoholic and a "real" alcoholic? Sponsor says 'The same as the difference between "dead" and real dead"..I love profound s...
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Why? How? I drank.
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I can't begin to express the shame, the regret, the pain, humiliation and the betrayal I feel. I don't remember getting home. I don't remember calling my sponsor, but my wife (who is now right back to "stay vs. go") said that my sponsor suggested going into treatment. She said that I got up at...
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Daily Reflections ~ A New Sense of Belonging & 24hrs a Day
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Until we had talked with complete candor of our conflicts, and had listened to someone else do the same thing, we still didn't belong. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 57 After four years in A.A. I was able to discover the freedom from the burden of buried emotions that had caused me so much pain. W...
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I was told...
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On May 1st, I went to a meeting and the daily reflection was used for the topic and from it came... I must walk in darkness to find light and walk into fear to find peace . I sat there in amazement at the strong feeling of a God in the room... a very spiritual meeting. A meeting in which I came home and put my thou...
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Anyone see Crazy Heart?
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Watched the movie last night and really liked it. Anyone else see it? If not, I highly recommend it.
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Runnergirl
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I see you....hiding down there..... Let us know how you are, we want to know /hug
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Franny
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Dear God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference. Relapsed tonigt. I guess you all were right that I need to go to AA meetings. 28 days gone down the tubes..... May peace be with you......... Franny
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It's Working :o) TAKE HEED!!
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AA and common sense suggestions, that's it. A slip after a long time with no mettings, a month clean and sober again while going through a divorce, a serious hand unjury, a move out of my home and into an apartment, psychiatric issues, money issues, Group counseling at an outpatient facility, and a h...
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Looking to ride share in Arizona
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Hello my name is Matt and I live in Queen CreekArizona. Unfortunately in Queen Creek most of our meetings are late in the afternoon (7:30pm) and few and far between, I believe there is a total of 10 only per week. I prefer the 12:00 meetings at my home group G.I.T. in Chandler, Arizona however it is a 40 min...
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Feeling connected to something outside of ourselves - Hazelden
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: My relationship with nature and plants is almost like religion with me. --Monty Cralley Feeling connected to something outside of ourselves is important to our perception of life. And being alive assures us of many new situations. Maybe it's a move to a smaller res...
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A New Day
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After a busy week at work I am tired and my mind is wandering into that place that it shouldnt go. I got plenty of sleep last night and a few cups of coffee when I woke this morning. I will be fine.I think what is getting to me is loneliness. Living sober I have realized how isolated I have made my life. I h...
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Happy Mothers day to all Mothers
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Wishing all Mothers a great and happy Mothers Day!!!!!! Larry, ----------------- A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan -- Edited by Larry_H on Sunday 9th of May 2010 06:56:39 AM
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Is Alcoholism The Result Of Nature Or Nurture?
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--------------------------------------------------- Is Alcoholism The Result Of Nature Or Nurture? The debate as to whether alcoholism is a product of nature (genetic) or nurture (l...
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Daily Reflections ~ Free At Last & 24hrs a Day
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Another great dividend we may expect from confiding our defects to another human being is humility - a word often misunderstood. . . . it amounts to a clear recognition of what and who we really are, followed by a sincere attempt to become what we could be. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 58 I knew...
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Congratulating Our Newest Old Timer!!!
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Aha, Larry!!!! I know you're on 499 at the time of this posting but one more & you're there!!! LOL Thank you for all you share here. There's been much response to your sagely postings & you stimulate alot. Thank you for sharing in your recovery with us. You are a gift. Thank you for being here. God...
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i'm new here
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Hi all. I am nine days sober. Just saying hello. I am 29 years old. I drink to the point of blacking out regularly. It is these blackouts that have terrified me, as I become violent or other things happen to me that are very bad. I am terrified. I have come to accept Step 1. But I am having a really hard time &qu...
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contemporary AA
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I heard this a the between meeting smoke break. Waht's that I ask. Well it seems to be the way many AA meetings are going - keep coming back, God loves you and so do we, don't worry about going back out just keep coming back and finally, Don't Drink and Go To Meetings - said this guy. I dunno - does keep coming b...
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Need a bit of advice
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Well, really not sure if this is the best place... or not, but I'm needing a bit of advice. My boyfriend is a recovering alcoholic and has been through an AA program within the last 2 years (before I met him). When I first met him he was also smoking (cigerates) as well as drinking it was like the two went tog...
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Hey all
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Just wanted to let you all know I'm still alive. Probably going into a 90 day program. Right now that sounds like a vacation. I've lived most of my adult life in institutions. Jails, institutions, and ????? Well, I'm alive and sober. Not so much by choice right now because things suck. I am still having t...
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I just want my bro back!!
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I also submitted this on the Al-Anon board...My bro and I are doubles... I once thought that when a recovering Alcoholic was taken at gun point from a meeting while on his way from the bathroom that HP could not raise the "test" bar any further. It's true he was taken at gun point (after the fac...
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i'm in Akron, OH
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Came here for wifes family reunion. Went to AA intergroup and got a great archive tour. Got to hold the very first Big Book that was published and given to Bill W by the publisher for review. I am tickled by how well the history oF AA is being recorded here. Just wanted to post this from my blackberry, will s...
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Character defects
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I did my step 5 a while ago as well as Step 9, etc. I work my Step 10 daily and to my Step 11 work too. I still notice my character defects like impatience, selfishness, fearfulness, pride, dishonesty, carelessness, procrastination, self-pity, sloth, and about 10 zillion others really ruling the roos...
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Happy 25th Anniversary, Ellen!!!
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Congratulations and thanks for sharing your sobriety with us. Keep Coming Back!
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After staying sober just for today, what is you next desire, Happiness or Peace of Mind?
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Hi All, Was reading the Post below about how to achieve Happiness, and whenever I see the word Happiness, I almost always think inside, I choose Peace of Mind over Happiness. Have spent many years in this Program, and doing all the Stepwork involved to give me a better chance at staying sober, and of cou...
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Daily Reflections ~ A Resting Place & 24hrs a Day
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All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they all deflate our egos. When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five. But scarcely any Step is more necessary to longtime sobriety and peace of mind than this one. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p...
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Fun without alcohol
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Our local AA clubhouse organised a dinner and dance today. It is a platform for newcomers to experience fun without alcohol. My wife and I had a lot of fun and humour at the dinner tables and on the dance floor. Everyone enjoyed themselves. But just underneath is an earnestness to recover and get well th...
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If you've just had a relapse.... congratulations!
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Was talking to a guy at a meeting during the break, and he said something that seemed instantly true to me. He said, "Well, you can't have a relapse if you haven't had a recovery." Good point! So I would suggest to anyone who's had a relapse, (and to my future self, should I relapse), to try a...
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Stock Market, Volcanoes, Times Square, Job Market, Oil Spills, Disobedient Kids.........
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Sigh................ God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,...
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Sometimes you go a bit more than half way to a newcomer.
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But you got to know when to stop. I met a newcomer on Wednesday, gave him my phone number and he started ringing me from 6 a.m. on Thursday. Called me every hour on the hour to midday. We were all set to go to a meeting when he cried off, started drinking again, because his doctor had told him not to stop dead wi...
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Late Diagnosis - Late To Get Help
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Disclaimer: This is Not my Writing, but I tend to agree with it --------------------------------------------------------------------------And most will also agree that all alcoholics are typically diagnosed and seek help for their problem much l...
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