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24 Hrs a Day ~ 19th January 2008
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ On the foundation of sobriety, we can build a life of honesty, unselfishness, faith in God, and love of our fellow human beings. We'll never fully reach these goals, but the adventure of building that kind of life is so much better than the merry-go-round of our old drinking li...
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God's Stairway
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Did you know ?
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Binge drinking is the hardest to overcome? I recently heard this. And of all places it came from Dr. Drew on Celebrity Recovery (or Rehab) on VH1....... My disease has conditioned my mind and body to be able to go for periods of time without alcohol......Then, out of no where, it blindsides me! ...Now...
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Step 4
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Hello everyone, Rosco here and I just need some advice about Step 4. I have set it up in BB format but, if I may say so I really don't know at what point do I stop? My Sponsor just tells me to do my best. I put down the things that bother me the most. I am also ready to forgive and move on. My sobriety is so ver...
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Happy New Year
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It's been a while guys. Checking in to say hello and let you all know my update. My husband and I have decided that we have reached the end of our journey together. This is for the better but it's still never easy. I've learned how to take care of myself and that I deserve to be in a healthy relationship....
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Random thoughts
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Must have been dreaming about giving a lead or something.... Im wondering why I am here in AA..... Why did God chose ME to be an alcoholic? At times I get pissed and think poor me. Why cant I be normal? Well, today for some reaon, Im thinking, WHY DID God choose me to be an alcoholic and be in such a wonderful...
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Owning Our Power
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There is one feeling we need to pay particular attention to in recovery: feeling victimized. We do not need to become comfortable with that feeling.
How do we feel when we've been victimized? Helpless. Rageful. Powerless. Frustrated.
Feeling victimized is dangerous. Often, it can prompt us i...
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ROUND THE CLOCK FAITH - Daily Reflections 1/19
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ROUND-THE-CLOCK FAITH Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.16 The essence of my spiritually, and my sobriety, rests on a round-the-clock faith in a Higher Power. I need to remember and rely on the God of my understanding as I pursue all of my...
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Going Away for awhile
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Hey gals and guys, you're getting a little vacation from me, literally. Going skiing with Mrs. Dean tomorrow, be back in 8 days. No internets there unless I can find a cyber coffee shop. I'll miss you. -- Edited by StPeteDean at 20:31, 2008-01-17
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 18th January 2008
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The new life can't be built in a day. We have to take the program slowly, a little at a time. Our subconscious minds have to be reeducated. We have to learn to think differently. We have to get used to sober thinking instead of alcoholic thinking. Anyone who tries it knows that the...
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WOULD A DRINK HELP? Daily Reflections 1/18
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WOULD A DRINK HELP? By going back in our drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 23 When I was still drinking, I co...
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Gratitude
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Sometimes in life, things happen too fast. We barely solve one problem when two new problems surface. We're feeling great in the morning, but we're submerged in misery by nightfall.
Every day we face interruptions, delays, changes, and challenges. We face personality conflicts and disappoint...
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New thread re an old thread
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For all my dear Sober~vibers.. I want to share with you this. I went right back when MIP was new@activeboard. I wanted a flavour of our heritage & came back with this from the archives. Only had a quick skip down those memoir lanes but enjoyed it thoroughly. Thanks to everyone for keeping on coming b...
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Being to seriouse
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Hi everyone i went to a meeting last night it was graet it always is for me. But i realise that i take everthing too seriouse my life just about evey one, And it has taken me 8 years to see this how mad is that . love Linda xxx
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Help!!
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I have been sober 14 years - November 26, 1993. I have never relapsed with alchohal or drugs, but have found my way to other addictions. Sex, internet, gambling, pornography, ect. I have become very lazy in my recovery. I have not gone to a meeting in about 6 months - I simply leave my house as if I am going...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 17th January 2008
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ It doesn't do much good to come to meetings only once in a while and sit around, hoping to get something out of the program. That's all right at first, but it won't help us very long. Sooner or later we have to get into action by coming to meetings regularly, by giving a personal wit...
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HAPPINESS COMES QUIETLY - Daily Reflections 1/17
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HAPPINESS COMES QUIETLY "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 weren't successful. But when we take time to find out some of the spiritual laws, and famil...
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Hitting Bottom - Daily Reflections 1/16
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HITTING BOTTOM Why all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom first? The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom. For practicing A.A.'s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 16th January 2008
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A.A. Prayer for the Day ~ The A.A. program is more a way of building a new new life than just a way of getting over drinking, because in A.A. we don't just stop drinking. We did that plenty of times in the old days when we "went on the wagon." And, of course, we always started to drink again, becaus...
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Had surgery today... rambling lol
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I went in this mornin to get my adenoids out and tubes put in my ears... you'd think I'd be passed out right now, right? no... wide awake, even with the pain meds. but after my last surgery I was like this too, once the anesthesia wore off I was wide awake the rest of the day... weird huh? lol Oh well....
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Prayer
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As a matter of fact, prayer is the only real action in the full sense of the word, because prayer is the only thing that changes one's character. A change in character, or a change in soul, is a real change. -- Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount
Erica Jong has said that we are spiritual beings who are human...
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not me! a hp!!
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Today i have 3 yrs, by the grace of god i go. wagon
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New Here - Please Help
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I've been sober since April 30, 2000. It's been almost 8 years. Wow. Sobriety has been really great for me. I got married 3 and a half years ago, have 2 kids, bought a house and a business, have a great job... Since I moved 2.5 years ago I haven't got to a meeting. Haven't read the Big Book. I haven't wa...
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Do you think it's possible?
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Hello. I'm an alcoholic currently working on controling my drinking. Basically just being a social drinker. Not getting drunk, but not quiting entirely. For the past week I have succeeded in this. I still feel that feeling, though. The voice that tells me to drink more and more and more. I resis...
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4 members & 2 guests online
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4 members & 3 guests online at 1 time, hey! Glad tis yous. Wherever 2 or more are gathered.. Feels good. Hope you guys are good. Love you all loads. Gotta go! ;) Danielle xxxxxxx -- Edited by Sobrietyspell at 10:16, 2008-01-16
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A Share From Hazelden
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Step Ten: Building the spiritual basis for recovery each day The Twelve Step program of recovery from alcoholism and other addictions rests on a notion of spirituality that is not about having the "right" beliefs. Instead, it is about adopting daily practices that help people stay c...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 15th January 2008
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The A.A. program is a way of life. It's a way of living and we have to learn to live the program if we're going to stay sober. The twelve steps in the book are like guide-posts. They point the direction in which we have to go. But all members of the group have to find their own best way t...
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Got invited...
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Hey all: Throwing this out for some suggestions: Our neighbors called and asked us to go out on friday to a mexican place with the other neighbors. There are four houses in a row and weve all partied together over the last 8-10 years. We really havent hung out with them for the last 6 mos or so as my husband a...
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Accepting Anger
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Anger is one of the many profound effects life has on us. It's one of our emotions. And we're going to feel it when it comes our way -- or else repress it. -- Codependent No More
If I were working a good program, I wouldn't get angry.... If I were a good Christian, I wouldn't feel angry.... If I were really u...
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AN UNSUSPECTED INNER RESOURCE - Daily Reflections 1/15
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AN UNSUSPECTED INNER RESOURCE With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 569-70 From my first days in A.A., as I struggled for sobri...
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Standing Up for Ourselves
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We learn some behaviors have self-defeating consequences, while others have beneficial consequences. We learn we have choices. -- Beyond Codependency
It is so easy to come to the defense of others. How clear it is when others are being used, controlled, manipulated, or abused. It is so easy to fi...
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Thank you
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I am so grateful for all of you sharing your adivce and your own experiences with me. I am trying to understand my A's problem and to read your stories makes me truly understand that I can't "save" him but i can do my best to be there for him, that it isn't my fault and that i need to take care of mys...
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"a members eye view of AA"
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Cool pamphlet my husband found has this to say, I rather like it... "I am personally convinced that the basic search of every human being, from the cradle to the grave, is to find at least one other human being before whom he can stand completely naked, stripped of all pretense or defense, and trus...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 14th January 2008
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ When we first came into A.A., a sober life seemed strange. We wondered what life could possibly be like without ever taking a drink. At first, a sober life seemed unnatural. But the longer we're in A.A., the more natural this way of life seems. And now we know that the life we're l...
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Daily Reflections 1/14 - NO REGRETS
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NO REGRETS We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.83 Once I became sober, I began to see how wasteful my life had been and I experienced overwhelming guilt and feelings of regret. The program's Fourth and Fifth Steps assisted me enormously in healing those t...
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Post 4th & 5th Steps... ES&H needed.
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I did my first 4th & 5th step last Saturday. As I posted before, I was exhausted for a few days afterwards, but then began to feel so much better...Now....Not feeling so good. I've started having very colorful, crazy dreams ! AND I've had 3 or 4 drinking dreams, too! I, again, am exhausted. Just don...
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I'm Back & Have Good News!!!
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Hi everyone,
I got back from my trip late last night and it is so good to be back home. But, it was a super break and my parents are looking well. I saw lots of my relatives and that was good and I spoke to so many more of them over the 'phone.
On the second day there I told Mum that I was an alcoholic and attend...
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A thankfull alcoholic
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Thnkyou all for all your love.I went to a meeting tonight it was nice seing old friends. Any way thats all from me today i need to put this foot up. Love and fellowship to you all xxxx
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 13th January 2008
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ When we were drinking, we were living an unnatural life physically & mentally. We were punishing our bodies by loading them with alcohol. We didn't eat enough and we ate the wrong things. We didn't get enough sleep or the right kind of rest. We were ruining ourselves physi...
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Good Feelings
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When we talk about feelings in recovery, we often focus on the troublesome trio - pain, fear, and anger. But there are other feelings available in the emotional realm - happiness, joy, peace, contentment, love, closeness, and excitement.
It's okay to let ourselves feel pleasurable feelings too...
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"It Doesn't Happen Overnight" Daily Reflections 1/13
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IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 The most common alcoholic fantasy seems to be: "If I just don't drink, everything will be all right."...
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12 Signs of a spriritual awakening
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12 Signs of a Spiritual Awakening 1. An increased tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen. 2. Frequent attacks of smiling. 3. Feelings of being connected with others and nature. 4. Frequent overwhelming episodes of appreciation. 5. A tendency to think and act spontaneously rath...
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24 Hrs a Day ~ 12th January 2008
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The longer we're in A.A., the more natural this way of life seems. Our old drinking lives were a very unnatural way of living. Our present sober lives are the most natural way we could possibly live. During the early years of our drinking, our lives weren't so different from the...
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Keeping your mind off it.
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Hi again all, well i'm on day 2 and things are pretty tough. The desire to drink is on my mind all the time, but suprisingly enough I do notice a difference even between just the first 2 days of not having liquor in my body. I'm just wondering some of the strategies or things that some of you did to keep your mi...
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Finding Balance
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The goal of recovery is balance - that precious middle ground.
Many of us have gone from one extreme to another: years of taking care of everyone but ourselves, followed by a time of refusing to focus on anyone's needs but our own.
We may have spent years refusing to identify, feel, and deal with our...
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Being feed up with me
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It seems to me i cant stop feeling this way i am at home at the moment sick with uclsers on my feet so i cant go to work' And i cant see them geting anybetter so thats why i feel like this. I know i am lucky because i am sober today thankgod but i cant help the way i feel anyone out there with any idears thanks Linda x...
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Sponsee of 7 years died, it hurts
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Hi Everyone, I'm really feeling bad tonight. A sponsee of 7 years that I truly got to know, befriend and cherish died about 2 weeks ago, after a really short bout with cancer. He died clean and sober. He was a true friend in recovery. We worked steps together, did 12 Step calls together, went to AA and...
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Where in the world is Quetzal
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Well, its been a week + that our fine friend has left us! An early welcome home to you!!!!! You were sure missed by all, especially me!!!!!! Hope your trip was a good one! Cant wait to hear the details!!!! Lani
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~as Bill Sees It~ We Cannot Stand Still
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We Cannot Stand Still In the first days of AA, I wasn't much bothered about areas of my life in which I was standing still. There was always the alibi: "After all," I said to myself, "I'm far too busy with much more important matters." That was my near perfect prescription for com...
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Hey all! Here's a me update!
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I just thought I'd drop you all a line and tell you that I'm doing well. I hope you all had a great holiday and new year. I also wanted to ask you guys to vote for me on CKNW's Talk Idol. It will take literally 2 seconds and your vote could get me my own radio talk show on one of the most respected radio stations in...
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