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surrender
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To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yoursel...
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Many many moons ago...
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We started a post on here Re: Where everyone was from.. I would like to start one again.... Its amazing how close, that we can be living to some that share on this board, without realizing it...and its also amazing, just how small the world becomes in the fellowship of AA. My name is Phil.....from Ontar...
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A better way than drinking when anxious or depressed
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How to Fight Depression and AnxietyBy Hara Estroff Marano for MSN Health & Fitness Q: What is the best way to deal with depression and anxiety? A: Quickly and definitively. Whatever kicks them off, depression and anxiety both are maintained by styles of thinking that magnify the initial insult...
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how did you do it??
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step 4 i seem to have no confidence in doing step 4 the big book way A fellow member at a meeting the other night said in order for him to do his steps he really had to simplify. He said if you do it simply, it can be done on a napkin... don't need to have a thousand written pages. if I tend to stretch the truth..L...
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Daily Reflections July 11
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TURNING POINT, p.301 A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something we must have. 12 & 12, p.75 Either the A.A. way of life becomes one of joy or I return to the darkness and despair of alcoholism. Joy comes to me when my atti...
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Bad Day
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I managed to stay sober 5 days last week which is getting better so i am proud of that and today i have got up and got back on the wagon and working on just today. Health wise i feel rubbish and very emotional cant stop crying which does not happen hardly ever as i dont show my feelings i know it,s just the d...
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Offerings of the Day
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Finding Gifts In All When we have good days, we often find ourselves going over the details later, enjoying them a second and third time as we feel the joy of our good fortune. When we have bad days, we may find ourselves poring over the details of our misfortunes. However, we can reframe those bad days by...
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Bring Any Request to God
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Bring any request you have to God. No request is too large; none too small or insignificant. How often we limit God by not bringing to God everything we want and need. Do we need help getting our balance? Getting through the day? Do we need help in a particular relationship? With a particular character d...
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Newbie Intro and share
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Hi i am 34 years old my name is fletch. I wanted to introduce myself to the forum and say Hi to everyone and am so pleased to find this site. I have been using drinking as a boost for self esteem, confidence and courage it also makes me feel good baout myself, or it did. My first drink was around 14 and i wo...
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Daily Reflections July 10
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TOWARD PEACE AND SERENITY . . . when we have taken a square look at some of these defects, have discussed them with another, and have become willing to have them removed, our thinking about humility commences to have a wider meaning. 12 & 12, p.74 When situations arise which destroy my serenity, pa...
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Using Today's Tools
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Are we becoming stuck in the "if onlys"? "If only I had more money." "If only I were more attractive." "If only my parents had listened to Dr. Spock." The "if onlys" will get us nowhere. We would do better to think about what we have to work with to...
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Hi all
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Just thought check, Went on holidays for a week, and of course went to visit my son. He is doing so well and daughter graduation went well. Also was long week as well, with legal matters in regards to my mom's accident. hopefully someday soon things well, work out for the best and every one can move past...
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I will not die an unlived life
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ArticlesDiscussionsUser InterestsUser LocationUser NameUser Email I found this particularly beautiful this morning and wanted to share it---chris From "I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion" by Dawna Markova Posted by: DailyOM Living Wide Open: Landsc...
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Be Who You Are
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See who you are. Own who you are. Be who you are. Don't apologize. -- Jerry K. At some point in our recovery, we need to admit to ourselves and others who we really are. Looking inside and pondering our shortcomings is not the most comfortable thing the program has asked us to do. In the past it's been mor...
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aa big book
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There is a solution. Almost none of us liked the self- searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation. But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we h...
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Forgiving Yourself
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Releasing Guilt We all know what it feels like to feel guilty about something and many of us struggle with feeling guilty all the time. Guilt makes us feel that we are somehow unforgivable. While this experience is common, it is detrimental to our overall wellbeing. Feeling guilty generally promote...
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Please God remove my self~centred fear x
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Hello my lovely on~liners. Missed you all & been very busy with work. I'm checking in for some much needed AA love&help since I know you're here & have always been there for me when I've needed so THANKS so much in advance. I'm going out to a meeting with my Sponsor & go to a meeting shortl...
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Sometimes, life can be Cool !!
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As some of you know, Im getting back on track being that I took a deture for a few Mos. after being sober 13+ years. In a earlier post, I told about my buddy next door coming over with 2 Ice cold long necks and offered me one. (at the time I had 3 days clean). Well, to make it short,He told me today He got into som...
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July 9 Daily Reflections
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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 only do for me what He c...
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John and Rose
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may your day and your life together be all you hope it to be and more wishing you a lifetime of heart smiles, happiness, health and prosperity God bless Wendy
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update on the critters..... and question on sponsorship?
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Still no sign of Cammi, my missing chicken, I'm sure something got her :( managed to catch my little pheonix roo in the trap this morning lol set it again tonight... wondering which one gets the treat of bologna and bread and pays the price of sitting in a trap till we get up in the morning lol My guine...
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Walking Through
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When Doors Open When a door opens, walk through it. Trust that the door has opened for a reason and you have been guided to it. Sometimes we have a tendency to overanalyze or agonize over the decision, but it is quicker to simply go through the door and discover what's there as that's the only way to know. E...
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Getting It All Out
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Get it out. Go ahead. Get it all out. Once we begin recovery, we may feel like it's not okay to gripe and complain. We may tell ourselves that if we were really working a good program, we wouldn't need to complain. What does that mean? We won't have feelings? We won't feel overwhelmed? We won't need to blow...
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1/3 Americans were alcoholic
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This is from today's Bakersfield Californian courtesy of California wire services: Nearly one-third of Americans were alcoholic, study says. (I like the term WERE...TE) More than 30 percent of American adults have abused alcohol or suffered from alcoholism at some point in their lives, a...
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Daily Reflections July 6
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IDENTIFYING FEAR . . . . 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...
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changing sponsors
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Not to long ago my sponsor of almost 7 years came to me and asked me if I would work the steps with her. She has been really struggling with "life" stuff - a year ago she died on the operating table and was brought back to life, and dealing with this wonderful gift has been actually quite difficu...
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Forgiveness
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Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills. -- Catherine Ponder Getting mad at someone, a friend perhaps, is normal. Everybody gets mad sometimes. But when we stay mad for very long, it ruins all the fun we'd planned on having throughout the day. Staying mad multiplies. Sometimes it s...
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Spirituality
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Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays, rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail . . . The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life. -- Christina Baldwin (Life's Companion [1990]) My heart...
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*sigh* lost a critter... just hurting right now... :(
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Overall today was a good day... been keeping busy... doing good on my smoking... spent lots of time with bf, and time with the critters... But, this afternoon, I lost one of my hurt turkeys... It was getting time that I had decided we'd have to butcher her, and probably the other hurt one also... I...
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warning may make you poop yourself
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Why AA Is Spiritual
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Why Alcoholics Anonymous Is Spiritual One of the many terms for Spiritual Practice is "avodah", a word from hebrew. It is also a synonym for "work" or "discipline." Spirituality is a Discipline. When people say to me, "I'm a spiritual person," they oft...
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Hope there are no blondes on this board...or I'm going to get killed..:)
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Two Blondes With Hammers.... Norma and Donna, were doing some carpenter work on a Habitat for Humanity house. Norma who was nailing down house siding, would reach into her nail pouch, pull out a nail and either toss it over her shoulder or nail it in. Donna, figuring this was worth looking into, asked,...
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Daily Reflections July 5
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NEW DIRECTION Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly. . . Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.45,85 I hear talk of the "weak-willed" alcoholic, but I am one of the s...
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Have a good sober 4rth of July U.S. of A.
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DAILY REFLECTIONS JULY 4
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A NATURAL FAITH . . . 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, a...
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Finding Your Joy
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Be Happy Every Single Day Our lives are rich with potential sources of happiness, but sometimes we become victims of negative thinking because we believe that focusing on all that has gone wrong will provide us with the motivation we need to face the challenges of survival. When we choose to focus on w...
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I AM THAT (reprint) loooong
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For many of us it takes something major, perhaps catastrophic, for us to stop from the hustle and bustle of daily life to look deep within. We stop, we think, we re-think, we examine. Quite often, in this reflection, we find that there are quite a few parts of our lives that are found to be lacking. This is...
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need advice
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I have an issue that I would like some feedback on please. I am 15 months sober and have recently met someone in the program who shares some of the same interests as me. I have dropped all of my using friends and have found it hard to find others in the program who like to do what I do. The problem is he makes poo...
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AA Meeting Maps Online
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Hi guys, A few of us here in LA are working on getting AA meeting locations translated into Google maps. You can check it out here: http://www.aameetingmaps.com Los Angeles is the only city that's really populated, but we're working on some others, especially NYC. We'd love feedback from the commun...
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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 along, yo...
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Who Knows Best?
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Others do not know what's best for us. We do not know what's best for others. It is our job to determine what's best for ourselves. "I know what you need." . . . "I know what you should do." . . . "Now listen, this is what I think you should be working on right now." These are a...
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Wanna see some new pics?
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first, little update... found out more than likely my guinea was low on protien, they apparently need more protien than chickens... so went out this morning and got starter feed again, am giving him straight starter feed, and mixed some in with the layer feed out in the barn for the others... keepi...
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Daily Reflection July 3
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EXPERIENCE: THE BEST TEACHER 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. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS , p. 87 Some say that experience is the best teacher, but I believe that experience is the only teacher. I have b...
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sponsors...
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Hey y'all... Well, I've got this friend online... actually the one I mentioned in my last post that more or less "keeps me in line" lol I've known him for awhile now and we talk a lot, and he's actually a huge help to me in my recovery... Well, I do know the whole "stick with the same se...
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When your hut is on fire
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The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him. Everyday he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the element...
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Purpose
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You are here for a purpose. There is not a duplicate of you in the whole wide world; there never has been, there never will be. You were brought here now to fill a certain need. Take time to think that over. -- Lou Austin No other person is exactly like you or me. No one can do exactly what we can, or touch anoth...
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I've got the squirrely Shirleys!!!!!
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I noticed the past couple of weeks I have been feeling just a bit off kilter, nothing major, but more emotional than usual. Then it hit me. It seems every year around a month or so before I celebrate another year milestone in recovery, I get the squirrely Shirleys! At least I can say it isn't nearly as seve...
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Just popping in to say Hello
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Goooooood Morning everyone ! I havent been posting latley, But I just wanted all my new cyber friends who have helped me get my Life back onto the road to recovery to know I still read the post ...and Im still sober , Thanks to My Best friend Jesus Christ and a bunch of Cool folks on this web site, and of cou...
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Count Down to "Married"
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Rose and I are pretty excited about our wedding that is right around the corner. July 7th, 2007. Just days away. Our families will be sitting in the same rooms for the first time... oh gawh... two dysfunctional families celebrating with us LOL Friends from Al-Anon, AA and NA will be present... we a...
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Doll... and thanks Carol... and my relationship...
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Doll, wow, I can so relate to the relationship problems right now... I saw your post, and your apology on another thread... and no need to apologize, well, if you need to apologize, then so do I cuz I drag my relationship problems here too lol as people said in reply to that thread, if it's somethin t...
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