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Day 7.
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I'm on day 7. Losing my mind. Tried calling some friends from the program but they are either out of town, in rehab, unavailable or male. I'm not opposed to calling guys (and I know a few pretty good), but have been told it's not a good practice to get into. Took an ADD inventory today at my therapist's off...
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Happy St. Georges Day
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It's Shakespeare's birthday too. Contrary to popular myth, St. George did not slay any dragons and he wasn't an English Knight. He wasn't even English. 1707 years ago today a Roman soldier was executed by his tormentors before the walls of Nicomedia, after suffering terrible tortures. Tribunus Ge...
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Sorrow And Gratitude
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We have no right to ask, when sorrow comes, Why did this happen to me? unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way. --Philip S. Bernstein All of us have reasons to be grateful. Usually, the word implies we have received something. We often think of gratitude as that warm feeling we get...
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How Do Others at AA Help?
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I'm just having a hard time understanding how these complete strangers will make me feel welcomed to meetings? I don't know them... they don't know me... I've spent too much time being judged by other people for my drinking I'm scared this will happen at a meeting too. Help?
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the core values of the program
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the core values of the program in my opinion are clean house trust in a god of own understanding and help others and practice the principle in all of your affairs and the work the steps with rigrous honesty and work or must have sponser to help u
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day 12
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I think I'm being a bit of a dry drunk. I feel irritable and have lots of mood swings. While I am not actually being snippy with people, I am in my head, you know? One of my employees said that a client had a question. He asked what he should tell them. "Tell them I hate them." I responded. Ye...
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Busy night's sleep
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Good morning everyone. Last night I had some of those crazy dreams I have had before when I tried to get sober. The first was a horrible drinking dream. I woke up and felt that awful intense shame and fear and then sweet relief when I realized it wasn't real and there I was in my bed completely sober! It was s...
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Make it true
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Make it true What you tell yourself most frequently, you will believe. What you truly believe, you will incorporate into every aspect of your life. It doesn't matter if it is objectively true or not. What you continue to tell yourself, day after day, becomes true for you and has a profound effect on you...
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Other people have problems too.
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Larry's post on how does a binge start got me thinking about some of my civilian friends and the problems they have dealt with..... Like the guy who's daughter left home on her 16th birthday and moved in with a 33 year old, married him 6 months later, divorced him 11 months after that. Like the guy who'...
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Sponsorship helps me Focus
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I've blundered along sponsoring people for a wee while now, but just recently I've had sponsees who WANT TO GET ON WITH IT! I don't chase after sponsees, it's a two way street, I'll help when asked, but I don't make house calls. The sponsees I've currently got, two of them, want to get to grips with the pro...
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Bare minimum
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"Some of us don't like Step Two because we think it asks us to believe in somebody else's idea of God. It doesn't. It doesn't even ask us to believe in our own idea of God. The most important thing is to find a Higher Power not necessarily the Highest Power to help us stay sober, one that can teach us to s...
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womens meeting...
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Just thought I would post about a new meeting I have gone to lately. Its a womens meeting. I have been going to the same meeting week in, and week out. Dont' get me wrong I love those meetings! But a woman told me about an all womens meeting on Wednesday evenings. At first I thought how boring, but I nee...
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No Conditional Sobriety
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Walk in Dry Places - From Hazelden No Conditional Sobriety Admission of Powerlessness Sobriety in AA is unconditional. This means that theres never been a reason for drinking, no matter how bad our circumstances may become. As the AA pioneers were fond of saying, THERES NOTHING THAT DRINKING WON'...
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Protecting Sobriety
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Walk in Dry Places - From Hazelden Protecting Sobriety Though AA members never criticize drinking customs, we do tell newcomers that it's wise to avoid situations involving alcohol. Even this is not an absolute, because we also concede that it's sometimes necessary to attend a cocktail receptio...
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Daily Reflections ~ A.A. Is Not a Cure-All & 24hrs a Day
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It would be a product of false pride to claim that A.A. is a cure-all, even for alcoholism. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 285 In my early years of sobriety I was full of pride, thinking that A.A. was the only source of treatment for a good and happy life. It certainly was the basic ingredient for my sobriety and even to...
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Quiet My Mind
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Today's thoughts from Hazelden are: Quiet My Mind Dear Lord, Teach me to quiet my mind. Stop my thoughts from racing from one thing to another. Stop me from the obsessive thinking about the lives of others. Help me rest and quiet my mind. Help me let go of trying to control the lives of others. Free my mind...
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Devastated
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Hi family, Got a call from my sponosor today. My ex-girlfriend whom I broke up with a couple months ago overdosed on some kind of medication. Heart stopped beating for over ten minutes. She is in a coma and won't be alive for much longer. I was with this girl for three years of my life and this hurts like hel...
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YEAH!!!! ONE WEEK!!!!!
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Today is one week! I am so happy! I have been doing great all day. The only urge I had for a beer was when I was done with my workout this evening. I made a glass of juice and am all good now. I was taken aback by the people who have said that I am helping them and others stay sober by my daily posts. I never ex...
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relationships in recovery
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I am newly sober, after being in AA for about 5 months, i went back out. I stayed out for about two months, then came back in only to drink again about two months later. The relationship I was in has ended, and there doesnt seem to be any chance of it being repaired due to some things I did in my past.I am having...
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A little twist on the Serenity Prayer
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When I say it for the first time in the morning, I like to add a few words. Here's my own personal version: God, please grant me the serenity and humility to accept the things I cannot change; Courage and willingness to change the things I can; And wisdom and understanding to know the difference.
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HURRY UP AND RELAX!!!!!
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anyone understand??? care to comment????
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Broken today
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Hello everyone. I am reaching out to all of you. I have not been on here for quite some time, playing toe touch with my home meetings as well, not b/c I don't want to go but...well there really is not excuse other than the fact that I can't share at a meeting w/o crying my eyes out. I'm 27 months sober, and I am...
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I'm new and I have questions...
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Hey, New to this. I'm only 12 days sober - I know I have to start somewhere. I am early 30s, and I have a job which places me in the public eye on a very regular basis, so my need to stay anonymous...it's very important to me. Especially so early on. I am managing, but I have not been to an AA meeting yet. I know it...
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The 12Steps to Insanity
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The 12 Steps to Total and Complete Insanity We admitted we were powerless over nothing. We could manage our lives perfectly and we could manage those of anyone else that would allow it. Came to believe that there was no power greater than ourselves, and the rest of the world was insane. Made a decision...
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Been feeling out of sorts for a few days, but feel better now.
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Sometimes I need to hear something at a meeting, which fires off my synapses and helps me to see what wrong with me. I've been feeling emotionally disturbed at times over the past few days. As you may know, I haven't had much (well barely any) contact with my adult children for 4 years. I've made amends as...
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Going to meeting?
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So I think I might actually take a chance and try out a meeting. I found one close by my house that's going on tonight and I think it's a "speaker" meeting and I won't have to talk. I'm nervous, I've never been to one but everyone on here seems to think they are the greatest so I guess I'll give it a t...
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How come you don't drink anymore?
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I do not know who wrote this but I like it. Larry, -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------How come you don't drink anymore? "How come you don't drink anymore?" a renewed acquaintance from long ago asked the other day. "Anymo...
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Symptoms and the causes
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" Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes and conditions." AA book pg 64. When this truth finally dawned upon me, I was already a year sober. It took me another 2 years, to thoroughly and honestly face the facts about my life. My kind sponsor told me I had run out of time, and I...
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Informal Poll on Quitting drinking
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This version of message board software doesn't have a poll function or it's not enabled (John are you listening ), so we will have to add manually after posters are finished. Include one of these statements (or write "I'm a #1, 2, 3, or 4) in the opening line of your post. Feel free to elaborate o...
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A baby showed up...
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Our new daughter, River Rose, was born yesterday at 2pm central time, US. She's in good health as is her mother. Can't wait to tell my noon meeting! Peace, Rob
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So I relapsed.... :( READ IMPORTANT INFO ESPECIALLY IF YOUR A FACEBOOK FRIEND!
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If your on my facebook account please dont make any comments about it, I ask this from my heart as some certain people need to hear it from me first. I just felt I needed to share it here first... More details to come, just had to share.
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Why did you come back and attend your 2nd AA meeting?
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We all know what motivated us to go to our 1st AA meeting. It was usually The Judge, My Family, I had no where else to go or I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. This list could go on and on. My question is what caused you to come back? I am sure most of us were told at that 1st meeting to "Keep comi...
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Alano Club Issues
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When I first started putting on a sober karaoke show at a new Alano Club in town, there were so many singers that sometimes people would only get to sing once or twice during the night. Then it started going downhill. Since I didn't live in the area and was only there once a week, I had no idea what was happe...
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Expectations are hard!
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I am only 4 months sober, but my sponser and i agree that my job is holding me back in every way possible. Iv interviewed at two different companys, and one of them said i would here back on the 19th which is tomorrow. God i want this job so much. It would definately help me in my day to day happiness, as well a...
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....and still better each day
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Thank you again, for all the love and the encouragement. yes, Vonnegut is my solace at night now. LOL Sooooooo much better then relying on that old marriage that didn't work!! hand Specialist said I need nerve conduction studies and electromyogram, which consists of thin needles being pushed into m...
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Prayer of an Unknown Confederate Soldier
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I know some have already heard this, but I love to read it from to-to time. I asked God for strength, that I might achieve; I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health, that I might do greater things; I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for riches, that...
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Day 9
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Hiya folks. Just checking in. It's so odd. Normally I think I comment a lot and offer support when people are having a rough time, but here I feel a bit intimidated not only because I'm new but because I feel like "Who's going to take the advice of someone who has only been sober nine days?" ...
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New Member
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Hi Everyone, I have been reading these messages for about 3 weeks now and just decided to join up and post myself. I have known that I am an alcoholic for years and years now, gave it up once before. So it's been about 3 weeks for me this time. The straw that broke the camels back for me was... I decided to get a...
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Daily Reflections ~ New Soul.... New Roots & 24hrs a Day
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Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know. Roots of reality, supplanting the neurotic underbrush, will hold fast despite the high winds of the forces which would destroy us, or which we would use to destroy ourselves. AS BILL SEES IT, p....
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One week! Cheers! ...er, with lemonade or something!
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Well today I have been sober one week. That is just incredible to me. I am thrilled! I have been to at least one meeting every day and know I never could have done it without that. I went to an amazing meeting on Friday called "fearless" where we have a speaker on, yup, you guessed it: fear! ...
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How to Go Back Out
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1. stop praying for God's help in the morning 2. stop going to meetings regularly and often 3. stop inventorying your feelings and fears 4. get lonely, bored, resentful and don't do anything about it 5. start to think you are in control of your life and that you don't need to worry about AA's tools to help...
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Steaming Mad.........But Still Sober
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So it's now 12:05 A.M. EST. My wife and I attended a black-tie dinner tonight. Not just any dinner, but the biggest event of the year in our town of 25,000. Every doctor, lawyer, and politician in town was there. My hands are shaking as I write this. My wife asked me if I would be O.K, I said yeah. She asked m...
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Back
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Hi folks, I'm back. Wish it was under better circumstances.
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Confessional information
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Precisely because it bothered me to "waste" it down the drain, I hearby put it in writing that I just got out of bed to dump out a half a bottle of Jagermeister which I found burrowed in the back of the freezer a few months ago. I don't know if it was mine from last year(it was one of my fave liquor...
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Daily Reflections ~ Cultivating Faith & 24hrs a Day
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"I don't think we can do anything very well in this world unless we practice it. And I don't believe we do A.A. too well unless we practice it. . . . We should practice . . . acquiring the spirit of service. We should attempt to acquire some faith, which isn't easily done, especially for the person who...
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Unmanageable
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The 1st step tells me that my life had become unmanageable. The 1st pertinent idea also tells me that I could not manage my life. I do not find any thing in the AA text which says that I will regain manageability. Therefore I submit to a life long reliance on God to manage my life. It has become so easy for me t...
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Today's thought from Hazelden 4/20/2010
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Today's thought from Hazelden is: There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Perhaps it was only yesterday or the day before that we doubted our value to society, or to our family or friends. We often lose our direction. That's normal an...
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Honesty discussion...
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Aloha All...I've got both of the boards I participate with in on this one. Honesty seems to be the asset of focus at the moment and I am (and have for a while) listening for feedback from others in recovery for their perceptions; ESH. I will be grateful. Take your time and keep and open mind with good rec...
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Happy Bellybutton Bday, CAMitch!!! xx
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Welcome to MIP, Craig.. Do we have 90 days sober as yet too?? Godbless you today & for all your sobriety 1Day@aTime. Keep coming back & letting all of us in this program love you like we do. Godbless you in all your efforts. Have a wonderful 24hrs all about you Just for Today ;) Recovery love &...
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Why we NEED eachother- and ELEPHANTS....
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Because we can't on our own, process the world around us and the things that happen, and react sanely like we ought to, due to our disease of maladjusted perception. The text book for one of my classes right now had an exerpt of the story about the 3 blind men from India who came upon an elephant, an animal t...
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