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Daily Reflections ~ A Glorious Release
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The minute I stopped arguing, I could begin to see and feel. Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I cant say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now. To acquire it, I had to stop fightin...
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Hello My Name Is Lauren and I'm An Alcoholic
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I currently have 34 days without alcohol. My story is a bit different than the ones that you hear in the meetings. I am a mother of three, two of which are under 24 months of age. I am a full time Realtor here in Atlanta with a team of three assistants under me. I'm married to an amazing man who is not an alcohol...
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As Bill Sees It
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As Bill Sees ItPg. 38 Pipeline to God "I am a firm believer in both guidance and prayer. But I am fully aware, and humble enough I hope, to see there may be nothing infallible about my guidance. "The minute I figure I have got a perfectly clear pipeline to god, I have become egotistical enoug...
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AA Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 7, 2009 Simplicity The simple words "Thy Will Be Done" and the simple ideas of honesty and of helping others are taking on a new meaning for me. I should not be surprised to find myself coming to the astounding conclusion that God, who...
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Hello
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Hi everyone! This is my first post on this forum. Just thought I would introduce myself. I am 26 and have been abusing alcohol for about 7 or 8 years. I decided to get help two weeks ago today and haven't drank since. After a course of Valium and plenty of recouperation, I feel a lot better and have started...
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new to all of this
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Hello group, I am new to all this and could use a few words of both encouragement and advice. I have been sober for 1 day. I recently had an incident that made me realize that I want to get sober, I need to get sober. I have made an appointment with an AODA counselor, and I have found the location of a meeting t...
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Edging on 5 months now. Woo hoo! A couple of weeks ago I had the flu....bad. I laid on the couch and was thinking, why me? I mean, I felt like total junk. Then, I closed my eyes for a minute and started to think of the feeling I had every morning before I got enough alcohol in my body to rid the shakes. ...
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Daily Reflections ~ A Rallying Point
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Therefore, Step Two is the rallying point for all of us. Whether agnostic, atheist, or former believer, we can stand together on this Step. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 I feel that A.A. is a God-inspired program and that God is at every A.A. meeting. I see, believe, and have come to know tha...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 6th Feb 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day On a dark night, the bright lights of the corner tavern look mighty inviting. Inside, there seems to be warmth and good cheer. But we don't stop to think that if we go in there we'll probably end up drunk, with our money spent and an awful hangover. A long mahogany bar in the tropica...
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My Question About Meetings~
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I think there will be different answers to this however, I hear repeatedly that you should attend on a daily basis. That beings said, how in the world do you do this with a family (who you are feeding around meeting times in the evenings) and a full time career? I saw someone say "you made the time to d...
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Just a Thought
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This is something I got this morning, in an e-mail, that made me sit up. Have a good day! Thought for Today Thursday, February 5, 2009 Is it possible that I am so busy doing That I no longer have time to enjoy being? Wilson
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Pocket Sponsor
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Good morningFriendsDay Six/9:00 PM: We often miss opportunity knocking at the door because it can be disguised as a huge problem. With the next problem you encounter, ask, "What can I learn from this?" I watch for big problems; they disguise BIG opportunities. Excerpt from the Pocket S...
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Stopping Victimization
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Before recovery, many of us lacked a frame of reference with which to name the victimization and abuse in our life. We may have thought it was normal that people mistreated us. We may have believed we deserved mistreatment; we may have been attracted to people who mistreated us.
We need to let go, on a...
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question about ANDA's
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Do you think it's ok for a person to identify him/herself as an alcoholic ANDA drug addict, given our fifth tradition?
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A Full and Thankful Heart
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As Bill Sees ItPg. 37 A Full and Thankful Heart One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings and then for a right acceptance of the many gifts that are mineboth temporal and spiritual. Here I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude. When such a brand of gratitude is repea...
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AA Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 6, 2009 Irrationality Few indeed are the practicing alcoholics who have any idea how irrational they are, or seeing their irrationality, can bear to face it. Some will be willing to term themselves "problem drinkers" but cannot e...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 5th Feb 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day One thing we learn in A.A. is to take a long view of drinking instead of a short view. When we were drinking we thought more about the pleasure or release that a drink would give us than we did about the consequences that would result from our taking that drink. Liquor looks good fro...
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A little off topic but...
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Pocket Sponsor
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Day Five/11:00 AM: It's a very interesting thing about human nature, when you stop treating yourself poorly, it will become unacceptable for others to do so. If I don't take care of myself, why should anyone else? Excerpt from the Pocket Sponsor, By The Hazelden author of ' Day By Day' & other Medi...
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AA Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 5, 2009 Footprints Stepping into the first footprint that led from the dismal swamp of alcoholism toward the sunlight of sobriety would not take me far enough. Would I muddle along some little trail of my own in the weeds, vaguely paralleling t...
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Daily Reflections ~ When Faith Is Missing
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Sometimes A.A. comes harder to those who have lost or rejected faith than to those who never had any faith at all, for they think they have faith and found it wanting. They have tried the way of faith and the way of no faith. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 28 I was so sure God had failed me that I becam...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 4th Feb 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day Treating others to drinks gave us a kind of satisfaction. We liked to say, "Have a drink on me." But we were not really doing the other people a favor. We were only helping them to get drunk, especially if they happened to be alcoholic. In A.A., we really try to help othe...
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How to Stay Awake in AA Meetings
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How to Stay Awake in AA Meetings - A Public Service Announcement Do you keep falling asleep in meetings? What about those long and boring drinkables? Here is a way to change all that... 1. Before (or during) your next meeting, prepare yourself by drawing a square. I find that a 5" x5" is a good...
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AA related videos DIVX MP4 etc
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Does anyone know where I can download stuf like this? Such as the films I've seen of Bill W. I'm not looking for copyrighted material and I would hopefully be making up some discs for newcommers, I've done the same with speaker MP3 downloads. Many thanks Dave M
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A little about things that are happening in my so called life
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Hi I haven't drank in over a month and the last time was newyears. I had 4 beers and a glass of very cheap champane. Someone posted the 5 types of A's. If I have a label I am the functioning one. I used to have 4-5 beers and when the buzz started I would stop although I have to admitt that some times 3-4 times a ye...
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Pocket Sponsor
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Day Four/4:00 PM: Part of recovery is becoming whole and that includes relationships. But we must be a whole person seeking a whole person, not a broken person seeking another to become whole. It's not a question of me finding the right person, but becoming the right person. (Especially if I'm al...
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Suffering Transmuted
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As Bill Sees It Pg. 35 Suffering Transmuted "A.A. is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress." {{{{{{{{{{}}}}}}}}}} For Dr. Bob, the insatiable craving for alcohol was evidently a physical phenome...
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AA Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 4, 2009 Usefulness We hear a lot in meetings that a grateful alcoholic doesn't get drunk. What I have found, though, reaches far beyond feeling grateful, and that is feeling useful. I believe that when I am grateful, It is usually for what I have...
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Enjoying Recovery
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What a journey!
This process of growth and change takes us along an ever-changing road. Sometimes the way is hard and craggy. Sometimes we climb mountains. Sometimes we slide down the other side on a toboggan.
Sometimes we rest.
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Not Allied with Any Sect
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As Bill Sees It Pg. 34 "Not Allied with Any Sect..." "While A.A. has restored thousands of poor Christians to their churches, and has made believers out of atheists and agnostics, it has also made good A.A.'s out of those belonging to the Buddhist, Islamic, and Jewish faiths. For...
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When the desire is removed
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I never understood how the people I met in AA were able to deal with the thought of never being able to drink again. I believed that they must secretly be suffering and living miserable unhappy lives. I told myself that they probably we're just nice and happy at meetings but then went home and yelled at t...
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Growth
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I posted this in the Alanon forum but I thought I's post it here too... since I'm both. I was thinking about it with regard to people in Alanon and their expectations from their recovering alcoholic.... you know, expectations = premeditated resentments . Anyway, here it is... --------------- I...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 3rd Feb 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day By drinking, we escaped from boredom for a while. We almost forgot our troubles. But when we sobered up, our troubles were twice as bad. Drinking had only made them worse. In A.A., we really escape boredom. Nobody's bored at an A.A. meeting. We stick around after it's over and we...
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Pocket Sponsor
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Day Three/12:00 AM: Egoism isn't necessarily thinking a lot of yourself--just thinking of yourself a lot. I begin this day by thinking of another first. Who is distressed or frightened that I may offer words of comfort? Excerpt from the Pocket Sponsor, By The Hazelden author of ' Day By Day' &...
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AA Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 3, 2009 Philosophy For me, AA is a synthesis of all the philosophy I've ever read, all of the positive, good philosophy, all of it based on love. I have seen that there is only one law, the law of love, and there are only two sins: the first is to inter...
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Rejecting Shame
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Shame can be a powerful force in our life. It is the trademark of dysfunctional families.
Authentic, legitimate guilt is the feeling or thought that what we did is not okay. It indicates that our behavior needs to be corrected or altered, or an amend needs to be made.
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Daily Reflections ~ Rescued By Surrendering
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Characteristic of the so-called typical alcoholic is a narcissistic egocentric core, dominated by feelings of omnipotence, intent on maintaining at all costs its inner integrity. Inwardly the alcoholic brooks no control from man or God. He, the alcoholic, is and must be the master of his destiny...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 2nd Feb 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day We got a kick out of the first few drinks, before we got stupefied by alcohol. For a while, the world seemed to look brighter. But how about the letdown, the terrible depression that comes the morning after? In A.A., we get a real kick: not a false feeling of exhilaration, but a rea...
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4 months
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Today marks 4 months of continuous sobriety. I am still keeping track of my days which are now at 124. But I am really starting to count months now. Some weird changes are occurring at meetings, in the fellowship, and with me. Beginners meetings have turned over completely and many of the people t...
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Saying Hi
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Hellooooo....to the wonderful world of living in recovery.....and all the loving people in it...:) Its been a while. Have been off line for a couple of weeks now...due to f***d up telephone lines..so..have been borrowing and begging computer use from others, just to get a fix...and forward email j...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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Wisdom of the Rooms February 2, 2009 Quote of the Week "It works if you work it." It happens every time - when I get too busy, or too stressed, or too tired, I slow down on the things that make me feel better and, before long, I'm a little bit irritable, slightly discontented, and I feel a growing...
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I Didn't Have Time
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I Didn't Have Time I got up early one morning And rushed right into the day. I had so much to accomplish That I didn't have time to pray. Problems just tumbled about me and heavier came each task. "Why doesn't God help me," I wondered. He answered, "You didn't ask." I wanted to see jo...
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Pocket Sponsor
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Good MorningFriendsStill no lights here may be another week or 2Day Two/3:00 PM: "For a time we are living inside a scream where there seems to be no exit, only echoes. The small cares that seemed so important yesterday seem like nothing, and our daily concerns become petty and irrelevant. Wh...
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AA Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net) February 2, 2009 An Answer If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which keeps you from accepting what is in this book, I feel sorry for you. If you still think you are strong enough to beat the gam...
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Trusting Our Higher Power
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Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him. -- Step Three of Al-Anon
So much talk about a Higher Power, God, as we understand God. So much joy as we come to understand Him. Spirituality and spiritual growth are the foundations of change. Recovery from cod...
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Daily Reflections ~ Goal: Sanity
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Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I cant say upon what occasion or on what day I came to believe in a power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 27 Came to believe! I gave lip service to my belief when I felt like it or...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 1st Feb 09
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A.A. Thought for the Day When we think about having a drink, we're thinking of the kick we get out of drinking, the pleasure, the escape from boredom, the feeling of self-importance, and the companionship of other drinkers. What we don't think of is the letdown, the hang over, the remorse, the waste of...
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Psychiatrist
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Went to a psychiatrist today. I had been on zoloft and ativan per my primary MD. Today my psych left the zoloft but swapped out ativan for Kolonopin. Just wanted feedback on this. I have generalized anxiety disorder and history of panic attacks.
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Day One/6:00 PM: Gaining our strength in recovery by admitting our powerlessness in addiction is a mystery to us. But, the First Step says we are powerless over "our drug of choice" and not powerless over "our recovery." Don't limit yourself. I am powerfully recovering. Exc...
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Moral Responsibility
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As Bill Sees It Pg. 32 Moral Responsibility "Some strongly object to the A.A. position that alcoholism is an illness. This concept, they feel, removes moral responsibility from alcoholics. As any A.A. knows, this is far from true. We do not use the concept of sickness to absolve our members...
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