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The Understanding Underneath
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Experiences With Multiple Meanings
Though we humans are self-aware, we nonetheless cannot distance ourselves from the world around us and have a natural tendency to ascribe meaning to all that we experience. The significance we perceive in our experiences is rooted in our observation of patte...
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Miracles Really Do Happen!
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Hi everyone,
I just wanted to try to share what has happened in the last twenty-four hours to me. It's been amazing!
I was chosen to look after all of the literature at my home group last night. I feel really good about that and I'm looking forward to doing it.
This morning, I received all of t...
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Another Gift Of The Program
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I am celebrating 9 months of sobriety today. It's still kind of shocking to me the events that have taken place to get me to this point. The good and the bad.
All I know right now is that without this program and a HP I would be still out there.
This is one grateful alcoholic!
Just wanted to say thanks t...
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A-Z of Recovery
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Hi everyone,
I came across this on another website and thought I'd share it here.
Take care,
Carol
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Acceptance (of having to start over)
Beyond My Wildest Dreams
Change the things you can.
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A quote...
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"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power."
– Alfred Tennyson
My friend posted this on another board... and when I read it, it reminded me of what I need to strive for actually... it actually coincides with the meeting I went to yesterday ab...
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Cherri
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Hi Cherri, starting a new topic is on the top of the box when you come into the site, upper right, right under user details.
Welcome to the board. I think many of us here have done exactly what you're sharing--going back out always was harder and harder on me. The more I heard in the program, the worse my r...
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Daily Reflections Nov 28
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ATTRACTION, NOT PROMOTION Through many painful experiences, we think we have arrived at what that policy ought to be. It is the opposite in many ways of usual promotional practice. We found that we had to rely upon the principle of attraction rather than promotion. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITION...
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Winning and Losing
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I haven't won yet but I haven't lost, either.-- Dennis C.
A favorite saying in sports is, "It isn't losing to get knocked down. Losing is staying down."
In life as in sports, that idea makes great sense. Like "Let go and let God" or "Let it begin with me, " it is a saying that reminds us of an impor...
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What to do
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I love binge drinking and me and the same group of friends have been doing it for almost 12 years now, we are all very close but we have all got into trouble with this. I have been arrested 5 times for alcohol related offenses, but considering I drink heavily about 4 days a week, not bad ratio, but I am...
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Don't Quit
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When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest! if you must; but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns, As ev...
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True Power
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Power is a force that is often misperceived. Our true power lies within us at our source, and is not dependent on argument, or subjecting ones will onto another. True power comes from a place of peace and gentleness. All of us have power beyond measure; it is what we choose to do with it that determines it...
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Emptiness
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When we are feeling unloved and depressed and empty inside, finding someone to give us love is not really the solution. -- Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D.
Each of us wants to be significant to someone else. And we are -- we're significant to all the lives we're touching at this very moment.
The empti...
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setting myself up to fail
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Why do I do this? I'm setting myself up to fail... I do this when I start doing good. I haven't taken my morning meds in 3 days. I'm still taking 2 of them because I get withdrawals if I don't have them, and I can't function without those two. But I'm sick of being on so many meds, and I did ok on just these 2 befor...
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If you wake up....
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If you wake up one day and feel like you are heading down the wrong path, don't go back the way you came, make a new course instead. --unknown
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Keep It Simple
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Keep It Simple *** ** It's going to be a long hard drag, but we'll make it. ---Janis Jopin Some people start each day with a groan. They act like staying sober is no fun at all. They may have turned over their illness to their Higher Power. But they haven't yet turned over their will and their life. They don'...
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Daily Reflections Nov 27
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THE PERILS OF THE LIMELIGHT In the beginning, the press could not understand our refusal of all personal publicity. They were genuinely baffled by our insistence upon anonymity. Then they got the point. Here was something rare in the world -- a society which said it wished to publicize its principle...
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That time of year again
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Just realized something today;
Is it just me or is it this time of year that I feel this way, Guest it's just the fact that Christmas is around the corner and I'm dreading it. I feel that certain things about christmas has become to comercialized and people get involved in how mu...
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angry
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yesterday I had a real bad argument, ,if I didnt have this wonderful program I would have a real thick head now and probably be playing catch up with what ever is left in the bottle. thank god I didnt pick up.
I do not usually argue but I saw red yesterday! I dont want to be a doormat but that is what is happen...
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My very first amends
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I've been heavily leaning on people in the program as of late. I have experienced total inasanity to it's fullest. Putting off this amends is the root to all of my problems as of late. I have been putting off amends ever since I came in the program in '02. I think I have figured out what's behind all these th...
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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 part...
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From Living Sober - Using the 24-hour plan
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Using the 24-hour plan
In our drinking days, we often had such bad times that we swore, "Never again." We took pledges for as long as a year, or promised someone we would not touch the stuff for three weeks, or three months. And of course, we tried going on the wagon for various periods of time...
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i need you..
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namaste'
i had one of the best and worst days of my life yesterday
i've been taking a career planning workshop this week...i think i finally know what i want to be when i grow up
really my ultimate goal....is to 'Live who I Am'-in peace, luv and harmony
i've gotten much closer this week to narrowi...
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Always Forgive Your Enemies
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Always forgive your enemies --nothing annoys them so much. -- Oscar Wilde
Letting Go
According to a Japanese legend, two monks were walking down the road when they saw a finely dressed young woman standing before a large mud puddle. She explained that she had no way of crossing the...
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OK...Whats up?
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To all those good folk in the US of A....
um...its about the leftover pies from yesterday eh...
Been watching for "UPS" "FEDEX" and "Canada Post" trucks all day.....
You ate em all...didnt yu...hu.hu.hu.??? Dam!!!
Ok.....I'll order pizza....
No resentments here....
&nb...
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Life, Your Perfect Teacher~OM
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Many of us long to find a spiritual teacher or guru. We may feel unsure of how to practice our spirituality without one, or we may long for someone who has attained a higher level of insight to lead the way for us. Some of us have been looking for years to no avail and feel frustrated and even lost. The good ne...
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1st step - admitting then accepting
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From a recent post I went back in time to early sobriety. For the record, I love meetings that have a lot of newcomers; they always seem to teach me something. Whether it’s from the insanity we came from or remembering my own early struggles.
You listen to a newcomer and many (myself included) will e...
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Thankful For The Thorns
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Sandra felt as low as the heels of her Birkenstocks when she pulled open the florist shop door, against a November gust of wind. Her life had been as sweet as a spring breeze and then, in the fourth month of her second pregnancy, a "minor" automobile accident stole her joy. This was Thanksgiving week and...
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True Humility
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. -- Italian proverb
Much of our time has been spent saying, "I'm not good enough for that job," "She's too good for me," or "I don't deserve that compliment." Sometimes we have been very status conscious because underneath we felt...
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Free to be me
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Hey World,
I've been struggling lately with so many things. But mainly I have realized that since I've sobered up a began to clean up my life I have been striving to reach this invisible bar that is right up there with - oh lets say - Mother Theresa.
I have major health issues, other prob...
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Daily Reflections Nov 24
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UNIVERSAL SEARCH Be quick to see where religious people are right. Make use of what they offer. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 87 I do not claim to have all the answers in spiritual matters, any more than I claim to have all the answers about alcoholism. There are others who are also engaged in a spirit...
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Hey!!
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Just want to wish all you gals and guys, south of the border, a big "Have a good Thanksgiving"
And if you're on your own? and just trying to get through it...and a "This too shall pass?"
Shoot me an email....I'll give you a buzz...
It's a "We Thing"
And any leftovers from all you family folk? ...
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Only In Alky Land
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CHINESE SICK LEAVE > >> > >> Hung Chow calls into work and says, "Hey, I no come work today, I > >> really > >> sick. Got headache, stomach ache and legs hurt, I no come work." > >> > >> &nb...
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Am I An Alcoholic?
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The sub-questions are designed to help shed light on the basic question. Read them only if necessary, but don't count them separately. What will eventually happen is that you will have a discussion with yourself; this is only an outline to give your conversation some constructive direction.
Thi...
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Crossing the threshold....
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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable." Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our mi...
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A update on yesterday's topic
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Sat down and talked with my son yesterday:
Got a few out on the table and have a better understanding of the situation. Son is crying out for help and not sure how to help him, right now all I can do is offer my support, We actually hugged for the first time in a while and it felt like a start....
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one minute im a lay on the floor drunk now im a budding computer geek
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well almost, but i did manage to change the pc sound card and graphics card, for me that is huge!!
mad hey, I would have paid someone to do it a couple of years ago, oops no I would have pawned if for booze at the first sign of problems changing the cards over.
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Moving Beyond Appearances
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Softening Judgment
It is our natural inclination to judge people, since it happens without our even thinking about it. We take one look and summarize a whole person-overweight, pretty, stylish, sloppy. This habit comes from the mind's need to categorize the world in order to be able to function w...
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Courage
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Courage: The power to let go of the familiar. -- Raymond Lindquist
Some days our recovery demands giant doses of courage. It is so hard to let go of slippery people, places, and things. We still miss our old using friends. Knowing that they're not good for us doesn't take the missing away. We feel...
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Review of the Letting Go Stuff..
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To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off, it's the realization I can't control another. To let go is not to enable, but allow learning from natural consequences. To let g...
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Daily Reflections Nov 23
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HOLD YOUR FACE TO THE LIGHT Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the Light, even though for the moment you do not see. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 3 One Sunday in October, during my morning meditation, I glanced out the window at the ash tree in our front yard. At once I was overwhelmed by its magnificent, golde...
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Happy Sober Thanksgiving
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Hope everyone has a happy and sober Thanksgiving!
I'm on day 9 today...which, if the past is any indication, is usually when I begin to suffer strong temptations...so when the wine is being poured with the family tomorrow, it's going to be hard for me.
Wish me luck!
~ Scott
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Thanks Giving Prayer
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I just got this off another forum (machinery) thought I share it with all you.
Quote:
I would like to share with you something we (as a family) read in our
household every night before bed.
These words are based upon The Thanksgiving Address, an ancient message of
peace and appreciat...
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hungry angry lonely TIRED
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some thing has sparked the old insecuritys off with me, and I am making music 247, to once again "prove to the world im impotant" (big book)
I dont know why. I was doing so well then I think its because my brother has gone on a trip for 9 months across the world, and on the leaving party he made me feel real sm...
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Frustrated/Fed Up
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I've been dealing with a 17 year old whom has a problem with drugs. He did stop drinking as a result of me asking him to leave my home. But the drug use is still in prscess, this morning I told him how I felt and told him if he doesn't stop. I'm gonna have no choice but to wash hands of it for g...
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Holiday Blues
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I have noticed that people tend to relapse around the holidays and old feelings of drinking resurfaces out of the blue....
We all need to stay strong and know Tis the Season to be Greatful for Sobriety!
Happy Holidays my friends
Tina/march
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Update for my peeps
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 To All
I have been away for a few weeks now and haven't been able to post during that time. I promised a member on this board that I would keep them posted on my recovery...It's been 3 weeks and 4 days without a drink and I feel great! It's funny because when you are...
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Daily Reflections Nov 22
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ONLY TWO SINS . . . . there are only two sins; the first is to interfere with the growth of another human being, and the second is to interfere with one's own growth. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 542 Happiness is such an elusive state. How often do my "prayers" for others involve "hidden" prayers for my own ag...
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Prayers Needed/Wanted
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Hi everyone,
I have just come off the 'phone to my Mum. She is going to have a series of scans and tests tomorrow and I know that she is very worried about the results.
She has a tumour on her parathyroid gland, which is making her very ill, and we'll soon know just how bad or otherwise it is. She has a...
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Eating HUMBLE PIE - aagghh
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Hi,
What a day this has been. I've been walking around trying so hard to deal with things and I thought keeping quiet was the "sober" way to do it. I thought that me being sober meant that things weren't suppose to bother me. I thought I was suppose to be above it all. Well I fel...
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hi
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Often I think of how great sobriety is but then remember how great being drunk is waking up sober is a great feeling but the promise that alcohol offeres is so ...fulfilling.
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