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Newbie
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Hello to you all. I am new here. 5 months sober. I am an alcoholic and realize I can never drink again. It's not an option I just have times where it's almost unbearable to fight the urge. I quit smoking a year and a half ago and gave up drinking for 3 months just to get past that. I thought I was ok that if...
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help
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I'm new to this. Seems like the only time I want help is when I'm drinking. When I'm not drinking, I'm miserable and depressed. Maybe this isn't where I should be but I don't know where else to go. Please help me.
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Daily Reflections 7/9
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Daily Reflections I AM AN INSTRUMENT Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 12 & 12, p.70 The subject of humility is a difficult one. Humility is not thinking less of myself than I ought to; it is acknowledging that I do certain things well, it is accepting a compliment graciously. God can on...
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24 hours a day-july 9
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Disillusionment and spiritual confusion mark our age. Many of us have cast aside old ideas without acquiring new ones. Many men and women are creeping through life on their hands and knees, merely because they refuse to rely on any power but themselves. Many of them feel that they are being brave and i...
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Disappointments
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No matter how hard we try and how positive we try to remain about situations, we all end up having to deal with disappointments sometime during our life. We plan, we set goals in order to succeed in life but invariably, even though we give it our best shot, things dont turn out as expected and disapp...
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Independence Day
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Just wanted to say Happy 4th of July everyone. May we all be Independent of the chains that held us. For as much as I lurk I thought I should contribute a bit. I am new to AA and will be six months straight as of July 15th. Its been an interesting 6 months, for sure. I went to my first and only meeting with a g...
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"Made a List......" NIGHTMARES!
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I had been putting off my 8th Step due to the fact that I am not willing to make amends to them all. I had it my head that if I couldn't include everyone then what was the point of even listing only some. I have spent much time praying and asking for willingness. So, not so long ago, I got out my paper and pe...
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Self Acceptance
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It just never stops, the more things change, the more they stay the same... My HP has a sense of humor. i'm still smiling - i have a serenity - new feelings - i guess this is what normal feels like? I never knew so how would I know? I live and learn. Usually, those feelings are real - and yes, they change an...
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Need support for the Sunday morning meeting
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Wagon and I had a good meeting last sunday. I won't be able to chair this morning as I have a 9-10 am appointment. Help!
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24 hours a day-7/7
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Monday, July 7, 2008 You are reading from the book Twenty Four Hours a Day Hardcover (24 Hours) A.A. Thought for the Day We had become hopelessly sick people, spiritually, emotionally, and physically. The power that controlled us was greater than ourselves - it was John Barleycorn. Many drin...
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Daily Reflections - Identifying Fear...
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The chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 76 When I feel uncomfortable, irritated, or depressed, I look for fear. This evil and corroding thread is the root of my distress: Fear of failure; fear of others opinions; fear of harm, and many ot...
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Daily reflection 7/7
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AND LETTING GO OF IT July 7, 2008 . . . primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to get something we demanded. Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we cou...
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Off to the French Mountains
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Enjoy your days while I'm away, dear Sobervibers! I'll be back around the 17th July x I don't know if I'll have access to any internet so I can't promise to post the 24 or Reflections. If anyone here would like to you're most welcome. They help keep me sober :) If I do get to visit I'll pop up what I can. Until...
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Survivor Guilt
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We begin recovering. We begin taking care of ourselves. Our recovery program starts to work in our life, and we begin to feel good about ourselves.
Then it hits. Guilt.
Whenever we begin to experience the fullness and joy of life, we may feel guilty about those we've left behind - those not recover...
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Freedom.......comes in many forms.
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I'm driving to work at 3:30am Friday, July 4th. I'm the only car on the road until I'm about 2 miles from my destination. I stop at redlight and a car load of 20something year old guys pulls up beside me. The passenger side window goes down and this drunken 'boy' proceeds to shout at me "Hey baby, foll...
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The story of the milk snake...... musings from Manitoulin Island.
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I was laying linoleum in the spare bedroom on Friday. The floor was cut and the sub-floor prepared. I had to go out to the shop to get the floor adhesive. As I went to pick up the pail, the smelt net (Google 'smelt net' if you don't know what that is) behind it moved. Caught in the clutches of the fine netting...
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Emotions
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I'm coming to find out that one of the hardest parts for me in staying sober is figuring out how to handle my emotions. They are all over the place! Realizing that I have spent the last 8+ yrs of my life running from things makes it understandable. But that little voice in the back of my head keeps poppi...
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24 Hrs a Day - 6th July 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day - We tried to study our alcoholic problem, wondering what was the cause of our strange obsession. Many of us took special treatments, hospitalization, even confinement in institutions. In every case, the relief was only temporary. We tried through crazy excuses to convinc...
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A New Start
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I didn't see a thread for introductions so I hope this is okay here. I wanted to find some online support and this looks like a great place for it. I recently relapsed pretty badly. That's really an understatement. I've had this drinking problem for a long time and decided on my own that I needed help back...
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help
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anyone out there I failed.... I wanted to impress my hubby and well drank over half of a boones wine.. and puked five times in guild.... help..
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can this work?
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A few months ago I met someone and since I have totally fallen head over heels for him. I met him while on vacation through my brother. We instantly clicked and it felt like we had known each other for years. I live 2,000 miles away from him but we have managed to keep a long distance relationship. I have eve...
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Any Other July Annys?
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My anniversary is comming up this month. (July 25th, 19 years) I've been feeling the obligatory squirlyness (word?) and had to laugh today. So just wondering if anyone else is celebrating this month? Dean -- Edited by StPeteDean at 06:49, 2008-07-03
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Daily Reflections ~ A Natural Faith
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 . . . deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as ol...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 4th July 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ In Alcoholics Anonymous there is no thought of individual profit. No greed or gain. No membership fees, no dues. Only voluntary contributions of our money and ourselves. All that we hope for is sobriety and regeneration, so that we can live normal, respectable lives and can...
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Things are well
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Just wanted to drop in Just to say the new job is going well and the kids are great. Had my share of dealing with situations and well getting through them, one day at a time. Son's laid for a week or two, do to an injury playing basket ball and well aaahhhh... But managing, So things are coming together...
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Celebrate
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Take time to celebrate.
Celebrate your successes, your growth, and your accomplishments. Celebrate you and who you are.
For too long you have been too hard on yourself. Others have spilled their negative energy - their attitudes, beliefs, and pain - on you. It had nothing to do with you! All alon...
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How To Live Your Life Without Regrets
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Everyone has made poor choices or done something in their past that could possibly be labeled as "regrettable." But, think about it. The fact that you are now able to look back and realize that a mistake or mis-step occurred means you have learned a valuable lesson. Some of my choices may ha...
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Daily Reflections ~ Experience: The Best Teacher
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Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 87 Some say that experience is the best teacher, but I believe that experience is the only teacher. I have been able to learn of Gods love...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 3rd July 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ In the beginning of Alcoholics Anonymous there were only two persons. Now there are many groups and thousands of members. True, the surface has only been scratched. There are probably ten million or more persons in America alone who need our help. More and more people are mak...
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Books.
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Can anyone suggest any good, insperational reading material for someone who is recently sober?
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Daily Reflections ~ The Heart of True Sobriety
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We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program. Willingness, honesty and open-mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But these are indispensable. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 570 Am I honest enough to accept myself as I am and let this be the me that I let others see? Do...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 2nd July 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ In the association with members of the A.A. group to which we belong, we have the advantage of sincere friendship and understanding of the other members who, through social and personal contact, take us away from our old haunts and environments and help to remove in large mea...
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15th day
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I originally started coming to the forum to read the AA Thought for the Day. But since I keep coming back, I believe introductions are in order. I'm 28 yrs old, and this is my 15th day sober. I had tried to give up drinking in 2001 following a suicide attempt, but failed miserably. It has taken me this...
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Daily Reflections ~ The Best for Today
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The principles we have set down are guides to progress. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 Just as a sculptor will use different tools to achieve desired effects in creating a work of art, in Alcoholics Anonymous the Twelve Steps are used to bring about results in my own life. I do not overwhelm my self with li...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 1st July 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ In following the A.A. program with its twelve steps, we have the advantage of a better understanding of our problems. Day after day our sobriety results in the formation of new habits, normal habits. As each twenty-four hour period ends, we find that the business of staying s...
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Receiving
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Here is an exercise.
Today let someone give to you. Let someone do something nice for you. Let someone give you a compliment or tell you something good about yourself. Let someone help you.
Then, stand there and take it. Take it in. Feel it. Know that you are worthy and deserving. Do not apologize. D...
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Makes sense to me.....:)
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1. A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. 2. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives, then you will be afraid to cough. 3. Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vege...
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Daily Reflections ~ Sacrifice Unity Survival
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The unity, the effectiveness, and even the survival of A.A. will always depend upon our continued willingness to give up some of our personal ambitions and desires for the common safety and welfare. Just as sacrifice means survival for the individual alcoholic, so does sacrifice mean unity and sur...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 30th Jun 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Alcoholics are unable or unwilling, during their addiction to alcohol, to live in the present. The result is that they live in a constant state of remorse and fear because of their unholy past and its morbid attraction, or the uncertain future and its vague forebodings. So th...
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Day Two
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Now that I feel at least like I'm not going to pass out any second, I'm going to leave the house today.
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Accepting Change
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One day, my mother and I were working together in the garden. We were transplanting some plant for the third time. Grown from seed in a small container, the plants had been transferred to a larger container; then transplanted into the garden. Now, because I was moving, we were transplanting them agai...
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Hi
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Hi, I drank heavily this weekend at a work thing. I woke up on Saturday morning in my boss's room with a bucket next to me. Apparently I was too drunk to find my own room key so she was looking after me. Then I drank again on Saturday night and got into an argument with my coworkers. I hate myself right now, lik...
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Insomnia in Early Recovery
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Hey guys new to this forum but familiar with AA. I am on day 16 and am having major trouble sleeping. Usually I get to bed around 3-4 am and sleep a while, just having trouble getting to sleep. But last night I didn't sleep a wink, it is 6:30am right now and I am tired but can't sleep. Mainly due to racing thoug...
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Daily Reflections ~ A Rippling Effect
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Having learned to live so happily, wed show everyone else how. . . . Yes, we of A.A. did dream those dreams. How natural that was, since most alcoholics are bankrupt idealists. . . . So why shouldnt we share our way of life with everyone? TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 156 The great discovery of so...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 29th Jun 08
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The program of Alcoholics Anonymous involves a continuous striving for improvement. There can be no long resting period. We must try to work at it all the time. We must continually keep in mind that it is a program not to be measured in years, because we never fully reach our goa...
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Rough Patch
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Well, folks, I hit a bit of a rough patch this week. On Monday, when reading my morning meditation books, my mind focused on the fact that this was the week when I relapsed four years ago after almost 18 years sober. Then, my mind went to: "you would have been sober 22 years next month." It h...
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God's Will
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God's will most often happens in spite of us, not because of us.
We may try to second guess what God has in mind for us, looking, searching, hypervigilant to seek God's will as though it were a buried treasure, hidden beyond our reach. If we find it, we win the prize. But if we're not careful, we miss out....
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Surrender
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June 28, 2008 Well, I surrender. Ha! Facing the demons of my addiction whew! Is that it? Who knew? Events of seven years ago haunt me still. Is it guilt? Whoa is me? hell, no. I have humbly asked to no avail? What do I need to learn? Is it that easy? Yes. It was the drink that killed me back th...
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My Name is Bill W.
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A wonderful speech from the movie starring James Woods as Bill W. & James Garner as Dr. Bob ------ Gives me chills everytime I hear it. Lois, his wife asks, "Is it me?........... Why do you do this to yourself?" ---- " It's not you.........it's me. I watch all the normal people wa...
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New and terrified
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I'm new here and haven't, well I guess I have, decided I'm an alcoholic. I drink way too much at night and don't remember many nights. My husband isn't helpfull, he drinks too just not as heavily as I do most nights. He tells me I need help but doesn't want me going to treatment, I do too much for the fami...
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