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June 14 - A.A. Thought for the Day
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In A.A. we have to learn that drink is our greatest enemy. Although we used to think that liquor was our friend, the time came when it turned against us and became our enemy. We don't know just when this happened, but we know that it did because we began to get into trouble-jails and hospitals. We realize n...
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Steps made simple
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step 1-- accept the truth step 2 --have faith in the truth step 3 --commit to the truth step 4 -- examine the truth step 5-- share the truth step 6-- want the truth step 7 -- be the truth step 8 --find the truth step 9-- recover the truth step 10 -- be aware of the truth step 11 -- live the truth step 12 -- give the t...
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does this sound dodgy to you guys?
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(email from the seller of an item i won on ebay): Item: Korg Triton Rack - Excellent Condition - Extra RAM () This message was sent after the listing closed. "Your item is in the mail, sorry for the delay... I have an unusual request. There is a grey plastic bag attached to the outside of the box...
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REMEMBERING SEX....LOL
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(((((((((((((((Guys)))))))))))))))) I read a post about Intamacy, and wow, It has given me some food for thought. For the last few years, I have not gone near sex..Because I never trusted anyone enough to let them close to me. Last year I started having sex, as you all know. And It was like learning...
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Guilt and Shame
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Two distinct ways of feeling "bad" afflict every human being. How those afflictions work -- and how they can be healed -- find clearest expression in the lives of alcoholics and addicts. Neither experience is unique to the alcoholic, but each has a special place in the process of recovery...
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Letting Go Of Timing
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"When the time is right, child." When the time is right. How often have we heard those words - from a friend, a sponsor, our Higher Power? We want things so badly - that job, that check, a relationship, a possession. We want our life to change. So we wait, sometimes patiently, sometimes anxio...
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man im in pain
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Howdy folks. I was assulted today, some person who I shall call THUG decided that it would be a good idea to throw (like a frisbie) a car hub cap at me. It shocked me as if my calculations are correct the hub cap travelling at say 20 and me at 50= a sore chest. The only snag was I was on my motorbike with no jacket...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 12th June 2007
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Thought for the Day ~ When we came into A.A., we made a tremendous discovery. We found that we were sick persons rather than moral lepers. We were not such odd ducks as we thought we were. We found other people who had the same illness that we had, who had been through the same experiences that we had been th...
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Empowered Perspective
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When someone has hurt us, consciously or unconsciously, one of the most difficult things we have to face in resolving the situation is the act of forgiveness. Sometimes it feels like it's easier not to forgive and that the answer is to simply cut the person in question out of our lives. In some cases, en...
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Change
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"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change." -- Jim Rohn "Slowness to change usually means fear of the new." -- Philip Crosby Just as the tumultuous chaos of a thu...
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Depression and Despair
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Do we go about our daily work dutifully but joylessly? Have we settled for less in our jobs, homes, or relationships than we want? Have we substituted financial security or physical comfort for the freedom to pursue our heart's desires? Very few of us give ourselves the opportunities to explore our r...
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Owning the Roots~OM
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Leading By Example We all know from experience that we cant change other people, yet most of us have a tendency to try. This is because we naturally feel the need to do something to change situations that we find troubling. It often doesnt occur to us that the best way to create change is not to try to convi...
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Daily Reflections June 13
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LIVING OUR AMENDS "Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic. The entire family is to some extent, ill." ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 122 It is important for me to realize that, as an alcoholic, I not only hurt myself, but also those around me. Making ame...
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rough day... not much serenity right now...
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Started off the day checking on my babies out in the barn... and I lost 2 turkeys... I left them loose in the barn last night, I really think something scared these 2, or at least one of them, he was between 2 cages with his wing stuck through the bars of one, spread out, and his head twisted around in the ot...
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Website difficulties ???????
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I've gotten some PM's and a couple emails asking if I'm OK, "you don't post the Daily Reflections anymore" - Just wanted you all to know it's due to this site. I usually posted the DR from work on my break, but over the last month or so it takes forever to sign on, start a new topic etc.......It's...
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Hanging on to Old Relationships
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We want to travel baggage-free on this journey. It makes the trip easier. Some of the baggage we can let go of is lingering feelings and unfinished business with past relationships: anger, resentments, feelings of victimization, hurt, or longing. If we have not put closure on a relationship, if we c...
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first timer
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Hello. This is my first post here. I found this site after being fortunate enough to hear from 5 members of AA last week. I was pulled over in January and received my first DUI. I have been attending a drunk driver program to get my license back. It was suspended for 90 days. One of the guys said something th...
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Spontaneity and Fun
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Practice being spontaneous. Practice having fun. The joy of recovery is that we finally get to experiment. We get to learn new behaviors, and we don't have to do them perfectly. We only need to find a way that works for us. We even have fun experimenting, learning what we like, and how to do what we like. M...
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I felt sorry for myself before
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Sometimes I like a little emotional feedback for mental (& perhaps ego stimulation). I've been allowing my stories & attitude to unfold in response to other people's posts & not starting very many of my own at all. Is it a faux pas to share of yourself in reply to another's post & then e...
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Ten Months WAS Today
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That didn't sound right. No, I didn't fail at 9 months, thirty days...It's just that I was so busy today I didn't realize it until I came here a few minutes ago. Cool! Life is good. And in the last post from Quetzal about the Five freedoms, Thinktank had mentioned something about the ability to reali...
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Daily Reflections June 12
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FORMING TRUE PARTNERSHIPS But it is from our twisted relations with family, friends, and society at large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with an...
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Just for today...and Keep on truckin!!
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"When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation--some fact of my life--unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment."--Alcoholics Anonym...
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depression when quitting drinking?
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hi all, a month ago, my A has deceided to get back into AA. (was very involved for 3 years then fell off the wagon for a while) since returning to AA he is so quiet. doesn't talk much. i am just wondering what he is going through. is this usual when someone stops drinking? thanks and have a good one........
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Worries
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. - A. J. Cronin There is always something to worry about. What if it rains tomorrow on the family picnic? What if the baby gets sick and we can't go? What if we can't find a shady spot for our lunch table? Will the water be too cold fo...
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Is AA For You?
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Only you can decide whether you want to give A.A. a trywhether you think it can help you. We who are in A.A. came because we finally gave up trying to control our drinking. We still hated to admit that we could never drink safely. Then we heard from other A.A. members that we were sick. (We thought so for yea...
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Moving Forward
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Much as we would like, we cannot bring everyone with us on this journey called recovery. We are not being disloyal by allowing ourselves to move forward. We don't have to wait for those we love to decide to change as well. Sometimes we need to give ourselves permission to grow, even though the people we l...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 10th June 2007
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A.A. Thought for the day ~ If we have had some moral, religious, or spiritual training, we're better prospects for A.A. When we reach the bottom, at this crucial moment when we're thoroughly licked, we turn instinctively to whatever decency is left in us. We call upon whatever reserves of morality an...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 9th June 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ We finally came to the bottom. We did not have to be financially broke, although many of us were. But we were spiritually bankrupt. We had a soul-sickness, a revulsion against ourselves and against our way of living. Life had become impossible for us. We had to end it all or do so...
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Some pics of my babies... :)
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The guineas eating... and a couple of turkeys Chicks Polish chicks Turkeys... Booger (standing up) and Jewel (lying down)... Booger follows me around everywhere lol and Jewel's still hurt, legs still taped together... not healing too well Bobbie Callie
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Wedding RSVP
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Hello Family, This is actually Rose. I am need to know who is going to try to make it to North Carolina for the wedding. I know a few of you are and I am so grateful!!! I do have access to some hotel rooms but they are going fast. Please let me know asap Thanks and love you all Rose ImFree2004
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Responsibility
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Self care means taking responsibility for ourselves. Taking responsibility for ourselves includes assuming our true responsibilities to others. Sometimes, when we begin recovery, we're worn down from feeling responsible for so many other people. Learning that we need only take responsibili...
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A LONG ONE
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The Missing Piece: The Spiritual Malady by Mike L., West Orange, NJ "Carry THIS Message" Group, West Orange, NJ From "The Doctor's Opinion" to the end of "More About Alcoholism" the Big Book discusses the first part of Step 1, which states, "We admitted we wer...
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My take on spirituality
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Something I was thinking about... Im like the guy that climbs the mountain looking for the guru that sits on top, to seek the meaning of life. The awnser to all of lifes questions... Seems I spent most my life searching for that great big awnser. True spirituality ... kinda, is knowing that I'll never kn...
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Panic
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Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going berserk. -- Codependent No More Don't panic! If a swimmer was crossing a great lake, then suddenly focused too heavily on the distance remaining, he might start to flounder and go under - not because he couldn't...
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hey everyone!
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Hey y'all... just thought I'd check in... been really busy since I got home from my trip... finally got around to calling my dad last night, he said he wondered when he was gonna hear from me, I'd been home for a week lol Kinda tryin to take it easy too... my back got worse about halfway through my trip...
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The Five Freedoms
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The FREEDOM to see and hear what is here, instead of what should be, was, or will be. The FREEDOM to say what you feel and think, instead of what you should. The FREEDOM to feel what you feel, instead of what you ought. The FREEDOM to ask for what you want, instead of always waiting for permission. The FREED...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 8th June 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. We always get worse, never better. We are never cured. Our alcoholism can only be arrested. No matter how long we have been sober, if we try liquor again, we're as bad or worse than we ever were. There is no exception to this rule in the whol...
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spiritual experiances
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here is one of mine, ( ive got lots) . i would like to hear some of yours. this one is about the time i was early in recovery. long enough to have made some good friends. i hit a very low spot, made a decision to get drunk, i however thought i should call my 2 friends to tell them so as to spare them hearing it throu...
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Just Checking In
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Hi, It's been a while and I thought I'd just check in and let you all know that I'm still sober. I just read Lisa's post--Hi, Lisa--glad to see others checking in. I have been so crazy busy and I haven't been to any meetings over the past couple of weeks. I honestly, have little to no time with school coming...
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Intoduction...
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Hey all, I'm Dave. I'm 30 and live in the Waukesha, WI area. I've gone back to school this last year at UW-Milwaukee. I'm extremely wet behind the ears with my 'once again' new found sobriety. I'm currently sitting at 48 hours...or is it better put 2x24hrs. In any case I came across this site and figured t...
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Gave up my 6 month chip.........
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Hello All: Well, I stood up in a Mens group (60+ guys) on Friday the 11th of May and revealed that while I had not had a drink in over 7 months.....I never stopped smoking pot. It was time to be true to myself, so I handed my chip to my sponsor, and revealed my new sobriety date of May 8, 2007. I'm just about 30 da...
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Hey
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Hello I saw that Lisa and Laura had checked in so I thought I would as well. I'm 74 days sober just finished step 4 and I'm making friends and learning to lean not only on my sponsor but to some extent on all of my local fellowship. I'm making new friends, learning to love and learning to be loved again. F...
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following
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Well since people are checking in I may as well follow their lead! I haven't been posting much at all.... life is a bit hectic! I decided to go back to school so I have been really busy with that and working all the time. When I am home I have been spending most of my time studying. I have never been so focused o...
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Conflict
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Conflict can produce positive results. If our policy is to avoid conflict at all cost, we may impede our growth by trying to sweep important issues under the rug and refusing to deal with them. The issues don't disappear, however, and by sweeping them under the rug, we make them more toxic and unwieldy...
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Life Is A Process
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The process of living, for each of us, is pretty similar. For every gain there is a setback. For every success, a failure. For every moment of joy, a time of sadness. For every hope realized, one is dashed. -- Sue Atchley Ebaugh The balance of events in our lives is much like the balance of nature. The pend...
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24 Hours a Day ~ 7th June 2007
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A.A. Thought for the Day ~ Alcoholism is a progressive illness. We go throught the three stages of social drinking, trouble drinking and merry-go-round drinking. We land in hospitals and jails. We eventually lose our homes, our families, and our self-respect. Yes, alcoholism is a progressive ill...
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Ever had one of those days - story
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The day had been absolutely terrible. From the moment she had gotten up in the morning things had gone wrong. Her son had dragged his feet just long enough to miss the bus. Then she had gotten caught in traffic and the car over heated. By the time she made it to work she was over an hour late, and her bo...
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A Donkey Story !
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One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over an...
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Enjoying Life
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Hello family. It's been a while. I've heard sobriety defined as many things. A struggle, bliss, a journey, evolving, and many other things. I'm just kind of blown away. I remember in the beginning wondering how on earth can I live sober! Life would be so boring, right? Wrong! I love my life. I owe everyt...
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Daily Reflections June 6
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ALL WE DO IS TRY Can He now take them all -- every one? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 76 In doing Step Six it helped me a lot to remember that I am striving for "spiritual progress." Some of my character defects may be with me for the rest of my life, but most have been toned down or eliminated. All that...
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