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I'm a mommy! lol
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We've had 3 hens sitting... and I've seen one with 5 chicks, we've got 2 more around here somewhere with their chicks too! And... Our friend went crazy today... bought 60 baby ducks, 6 baby turkeys, 2 baby guineas, and 300 baby chicks... lol and... she surprised me with 4 baby turkeys and 3 baby gui...
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just checkin in...
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Hey y'all... just checkin in... I'm doing good... 3 days sober... getting to meetings, got a sponsor, doing my first step... It's funny, my roommate and I went to our Thursday night meeting last night, and when I shared I said something about how I'd been on a dry drunk... and after the meeting, m...
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Anxiety - Man is it ever a big part of this - Justifiably so...
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I've been feeling so much anxiety throughout this but I really don't think it's a symptom of anything - It's just a practical reaction to what's happening... The worst part about this whole ordeal is not having any life insurance - The answers are out there they're just not within practical financia...
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MIRACLE OF THE 12 STEPS
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Bonjour Hey, just a quick update, remember the girl who wanted to end her life, who was depressed, bla bla bla. Because her recovering alcoholic friend could not give her love in return.....lol Well guess what.. That girl who was scared of everything, heights, flying, people, life... Has just had...
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Powerlessness
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This week I've encountered how really helpless/powerless one can be over life events. My beloved sister underwent colon surgery this past Mon. They took a malignant mass along with 1/2 the colon plus a part of her small intestine. The tumor perforated the wall of her colon, grew and had a...
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I would like some input, please
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I have recently relapsed, about 3 months ago and when this happens, my 2 adult children, do not call, do not e-mail and I am not allowed to go to their homes or see my grandchildren. I had been sober for almost 4 years and I decided to pick up one evening after work. I drink at home, but that evening my son an...
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Addiction History
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Into my 4th week of treatment its required that my addiction history is given to my group....which means all the attention is given to me. This is going to be so hard for me because I dont like to be the center of attention...at all... Durning high school if it was speech time you would find me anywhere bu...
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Moving this one to the top of the board..."MILLER2" :)
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Cigars it is then! :) Yup, she delivered a tiny lil six pound fifteen ounce baby boy at 5:30 this morning. Just got back from the hospital about an hour ago. Every one is happy healthy and wonderfull. This is the second grandbaby now ... and what a wonderfull thing... to be able to be there and be sober... f...
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Daily Reflections apr 29
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GROUP AUTONOMY Some may think that we have carried the principle of group autonomy to extremes. For example, in its original "long form," Tradition Four declares: "Any two or three gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that as a group they have...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 28th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ We're so glad to be free from liquor that we do something about it. We get into action. We come to meetings regularly. We go out and try to help other alcoholics. We pass on the good news whenever we get a chance. In a spirit of thankfulness to God, we get into action. The A.A. progra...
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Initiating Relationships
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Often, we can learn much about ourselves from the people to whom we are attracted. As we progress through recovery, we learn we can no longer form relationships solely on the basis of attraction. We learn to be patient, to allow ourselves to take into account important facts, and to process informati...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 29th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The A.A. program is one of faith, hope, and charity. It's a program of hope because when new members come into A.A., the first thing they get is hope. They hear older members tell how they had been through the same kind of hell that they have and how they found the way out through A....
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Food for Thought
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Who am I? Where do I come from? Why am I here? Do these questions sound familiar? These are universal questions, voiced by people from all walks of life at some point during their journey here...For many of us it takes something major, perhaps catastrophic, for us to stop from the hustle and bustle of da...
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Free of Gravity
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Flying Home As earthbound beings, humans have always had a fascination with winged creatures of all kinds. The idea of being able to spontaneously lift off from the earth and fly is so compelling to us that we invented airplanes and helicopters and myriad other flying machines in order to provide our...
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Three Choices
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You have three choices: keep on fighting, ignore each other, or make up and be friends. -- John Knoblauch Once there were four sixth-graders - two boys and two girls - who started to fight even though they'd been friends for years. One morning at the bus stop, the boys started playing keep-away with the...
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Daily Reflections Apr 28
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TWO "MAGNIFICENT STANDARDS" All A.A. progress can be reckoned in terms of just two words: humility and responsibility. Our whole spiritual development can be accurately measured by our degree of adherence to these magnificent standards. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 271 To acknowledge and resp...
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OK, this is anxiety LOL
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My wife just called. Seems my youngest daughter (18) is on the way to the hospital. I'll prolly have a new grandson by morning.
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need some help
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Hello all, i'm looking for some help, haven't been to a meeting for a while, since i lost the desire. Got so mixed up at meetings and often left me feeling drained seemed to go home with my problems and yours too. Became dissilusioned and stopped going, when i first read the 12 steps my heart skipped a bea...
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Sharing an article on "ANGER"....long
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Anger can be a Cover Up for Guilt, Shame and Vulnerability Lynne Namka, Ed. D Anger is a normal emotion that we all have. Humans have had anger since the caveman days, and it is necessary for our survival as a species. Anger, as an emotion, is neither good nor bad, it is just a feeling. Anger, as a response o...
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I am beyond angry
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Hey all, it's been awile since checking in. So sorry to dump this but I really need to vent. Picture this, the gosslings have hatched...5 of them, so cute! So after my children 5 and 2 beg me to go feed them, I decide that it would be a good idea. We take some bread down and are feeding them. My 5 year old a...
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Relationship Expectations.....long
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Blaming others for the pain we feel each time someone fails to live up to our expectations is no different than burning our tongue on coffee that's too hot to swallow, and then calling our cup an idiot! - Guy Finley ---------------------- Unfulfilled expectations always cause problems. Having expe...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 27th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ By submitting to God, we're released from the power of liquor. It has no more hold on us. We're also released from the things that were holding us down: pride, selfishness, and fear. And we're free to grow into a new life, which is so much better than the old life that there's no co...
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Daily Reflections Apr 27
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JOYFUL DISCOVERIES We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven't g...
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Recovery is possible
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As I sit and write this, my 29 year old daughter who is an active alcoholic/addict sits in jail...again. I had watched her life parallel mine in so many ways, hoping that age 28 might be the turning point for her as that is the age I went to rehab. It was not her time. This past weekend I sat with my 11 year old g...
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Letting Go of the Need to Control
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The rewards from detachment are great: serenity; a deep sense of peace; the ability to give and receive love in self-enhancing, energizing ways, and the freedom to find real solutions to our problems. -- Codependent No More Letting go of our need to control can set others and us free. It can set our Hig...
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just checking in
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Hey everyone and welcome to the newcomers Yeah I know I haven't been around for a while - life happens. The new job which was suppose to be full time-assistant manager well the manager lied to me just to relieve her eighty hour work week. The just of the story is that she fired me because I had a confront...
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Let Go Of Resentments
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Resentments are sneaky, tricky little things. They can convince us they're justified. They can dry up our hearts. They can sabotage our happiness. They can sabotage love. Most of us have been at the receiving end of an injustice at some time in our lives. Most of us know someone who's complained of an i...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 26th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ The A.A. program is one of submission, release, and action. When we're drinking, we're submitting to a power greater than ourselves, liquor. Our own wills are no use against the power of liquor. One drink and we're sunk. In A.A. we stop submitting to the power of liquor. Inste...
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Daily Reflections apr 26
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HAPPINESS IS NOT THE POINT I don't think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? AS BILL SEES IT, p. 306 In my search "to be happy," I changed jobs,...
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Looking for opinions
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To give you a little background, my husband and I were asked last year to start an Alanon group at our church. At the time I told them that we could not be affiliated with the church, we would have to rent the room etc. Recently an AA meeting was started at the same church, same time as Al-Anon and both non s...
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Books
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I know my friend needs to decide on his own to quit drinking but are there any books that maybe someone could recommend? Something to motivate him a little. He won't attend meetings right now so maybe something in the meantime.
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Finding Our Own Truth
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We must each discover our own truth. It does not help us if those we love find their truth. They cannot give it to us. It does not help if someone we love knows a particular truth in our life. We must discover our truth for ourselves. We must each discover and stand in our own light. We often need to struggle,...
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Daily Reflections Apr 25
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ENTERING A NEW DIMENSION In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension - freedom under God as we understand Him. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 283 I am for...
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Feeling Safe
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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the brea...
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I screwed up
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I screwed up... 8 months down the drain... I knew what I needed to be doing, I talked about how I'm going to stay sober, and get to meetings, etc... and I did try to get to a meeting last night, didn't make it because I had to pick up some stuff way across town and didn't realize how long that would take... ...
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Sponsor 'giving away' sponsees!
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My sponsor, since 2005, has been the very first one I chose. She had quantity and quality and of all the women in this area, she had the most of what I wanted! I found out a few weeks back, she's retiring from her job and moving away. I really wasn't worried, I know God will send me who he wants me to have. BUT...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 24th April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ It's been proved that we alcoholics can't get sober by our willpower. We've failed again and again. Therefore I believe there must be a Higher Power which helps me. I think of that power as the grace of God. And I pray to God every morning for the strength to stay sober today. I kno...
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Patience
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"You silly thing," said Fritz, my eldest son, sharply, "don't you know that we must not settle what God is to do for us? We must have patience and wait His time." -- Johann R. Wyss The story of the shipwrecked Robinson family is a lesson in patience. It was years before their rescue...
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Daily Reflections Apr 24
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LEARNING TO LOVE OURSELVES Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were surrounded by people who loved us... We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others . . . We still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy sort of domination or depend...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 23rd April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Men and women keep coming into A.A., licked by alcohol, often given up by doctors as hopeless cases, they themselves admitting they're helpless to stop drinking. When I see these men and women get sober and stay sober over a period of months and years, I know that A.A. works. Th...
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Feed Your Soul (from care2.com)
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Printed from www.care2.com Feed Your Soul - 3 Easy Ways Adapted from Fifty Ways to Feed Your Soul by Rosemary Cunningham (Red Wheel/Weiser, 2004). Simple Solution When the world is too much with us, or personal crises erupt, or were just plain having a bad day, these three simple but potent ideas can b...
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Types Of Fear
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There are two types of fear, deluded or unhealthy and non-deluded or healthy. These can also be divided into fear of the inevitable and fear of the evitable. The key to dealing with fear is to check which type of fear we have, and to transform our unhealthy fears of what we can do nothing about into heal...
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How to go about quitting???
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I need to quit drinking and I dont know how to go about it I heard you can die during detox what should I do? I have no insurance to be monitored!!!
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Imprisoned by your thoughts
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Problems exist only in the human mind. -- Anthony de Mello For most of us, theres always a long to do list. Thats a fact. And its easy to feel victimized. Poor me! Thats not a fact thats a choice. Experiment with your life to explore how much your mind is your jailer. Simply let go of the oh woe kinds of though...
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Daily Reflections April 23
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A.A. IS NOT A CURE-ALL 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 m...
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Courage
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain It is not unusual to feel afraid. It is unusual, however, to hear anyone admit to feeling afraid. Sometimes we think there are some people who are so cool and calm that they never feel afraid. This may make us think we're not...
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Guess everyone was right...
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There's too much crap going on right now... but I'm getting to meetings again even though the drive into town kills my back, it was getting better, now it's all screwed up again... but I need meetings right now. I guess everyone was right... not about moving up here to Nebraska... I still think that...
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We've had it!
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To make a really long story short my husband and I have a couple that we are very close friends with. The husband in the couple is an alcoholic. He has had numerous close calls ie. serious fall of his bike resulting in a brain injury leaving him with damage and now no drivers license to keep a job. He has b...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 22nd April 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ People believe in A.A. when they see it work. An actual demonstration is what convinces them. What they read in books, what they hear people say doesn't always convince them. But when they see a real honest-to-goodness change take place in a person, a change from a drunkard to...
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From MIP...For those that haven't seen this
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http://www.12stepforums.net/interviewwithgod.html
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