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Daily Reflections Feb 5
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A GLORIOUS RELEASE "The minute I stopped arguing, I could begin to see and feel. Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now. To...
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Greetings from the UK
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Hi all, I'm new to this forum stuff but not to AA. I have been sober, a day at a time, for quite a number of days now!!!! Visited California (Santa Barbara) last October and got myself to a few meetings - was blown away by the love and sense of belonging - can go anywhere in the world and find friends who un...
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AA for Losers? We Think Not!
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This was in another thread here. "In the past 6 months I went to a AA meeting and there was nothing but losers and drug addicts," Wow. That's a statement...Anyway... When I was in my early twenties and full of the infinite wisdom that consumes many of us in that deluded stage, my younger...
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not enough meetings
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So I've been in Nebraska 2 weeks and have only made it to one meeting... things have been so busy since I got here, and we have to go into town to get to meetings... my boyfriend says it's hard to get to many meetings living out here on a farm. Hopefully I can get to one soon, I really need to get a sp...
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The Wisdom In An Experience
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again... but also, she will never sit down on a cold one any more. -- Mark Twain "Last night I asked for help, but...
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Differences
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Differences . . . with no hidden cutting edge. The respect and dignity a couple show each other set the table from which they are nourished for all other activities in their lives. Any feeling can be expressed in respectful or disrespectful ways. Anger is one of the most difficult to express respectfu...
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WAH
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Whiners Anonymous Whiners Anonymous Help (WAH!) Do you whine, complain, or snivel? Are you a grumpy old fart? Do you seek out others in taverns or internet chat rooms to whine about things? Do people ever tell you to "like it or lump it"? Are you asked, "What are you crying about?"...
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On The Lighter Side..:)
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Randy, the painter, often thinned his paint to make it go further. The Baptist Church decided to restore its biggest building. Randy put in a low bid and got the job. He bought the paint, and, yes, thinned it with turpentine. Well, Randy was painting away, the job nearly completed, when suddenly ther...
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Honest humility
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"... whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted." -Matthew 23:12 "In his parable about the Pharisee and the tax collector praying in the temple, Jesus is stressing the importance of a humble heart when it comes to prayer. At the same tim...
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can any 1 reccommend
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some nice calming classical music for when my mum comes over for tea
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Rejecting Shame...
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Authentic, legitimate guilt is the feeling or thought that what we did is not okay. It indicates that our behavior needs to be corrected or altered, or an amend needs to be made. Shame is an overwhelming negative sense that who we are isn't okay. Shame is a no-win situation. We can change our behavi...
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Today I'm The Best I Can Be
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Next year I'm going to be better than I am now, but today I'm the best I can be. It is quite possible to waste a lot of time and energy trying to make impossible changes. Many of us, inspired by the dynamics of the program and driven more by enthusiasm than prudence, strike out on missions that cann...
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Laura's Update
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Hello, I've been coming to this forum for a little less than two weeks. I wrote my first post a little over a week ago and have appreciated reading and responding since. It's been just about four days since I last had a drink. I know I still need to go to meetings. I'm still so scared. For the fi...
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Anger management (circa 500 BC)
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
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Daily Reflections Feb 3
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FILLING THE VOID We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. "Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?" As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way. ALCOHOLICS...
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Ouch
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Avoiding a Critical Spirit Kevin Offner, InterVarsity graduate staff One of the vices I hate acknowledging in me is a critical spirit. I want to put the best spin on myself, of course, so I give this poisonous quality nice names like “reflection,” and “being properly analytical.” Here are a few sn...
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Man Need Some Responses
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Ok I've been sober for about 36 days now.... I'm going to be 100% honest with this. At first it seemed really neat to be sober, I thought clear and started to manage a little in my life, I felt good and seen hope. I don't know if this is normal but I have got the biggest fear of being around people...
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Like Nobody's Watching~OM
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Shake Your Tail Feathers Most of us express our distinctiveness in many ways throughout our lives. Although, as we proudly share our offbeat traits and preferences with the world, we take great pains to downplay those eccentricities we ourselves deem odd. Instead of living lives colored by these q...
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UPDATE
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Ive been married for a little over a month, my beautiful wife is SO understanding... I had cut back my drinking for over a year but recently she found a bottle of vodka that I was hiding, she caught me redhanded and I admitted to sneaking shots almost on a daily basis. I love this woman with all my heart and...
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Winter poem
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I found this beautiful winter poem and thought it might be a comfort to you. It was to me, and it's very well written. ENJOY! " WINTER " a poem by Abigail Elizabeth McIntyre " SHIT It's Cold ! " The End
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Daily Reflections Feb 2
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RESCUED BY SURRENDERING Characteristic of the so-called typical alcoholic is a narcissistic egocentric core, dominated by feelings of omnipotence, intent on maintaining at all costs its inner integrity.... Inwardly the alcoholic brooks no control from man or God. He, the alcoholic, is and mus...
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Night Light
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Be strong and of good courage; be not frightened, neither be dismayed----Joshua 1:9 It has been said when we are at the end of our rope, we can do one of three things: let go, tie a knot and hang on, or splice the rope and begin again. Whenever we feel there's nowhere to go but down and nobody to turn to...
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Do I drink too much? (How much do you drink a day?)
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or how much did you used to drink per day? I used to drink a 40 oz. a night, and then drink heavily when going out or on weekends. Now, I hardly I drink beer, and drink vodka. I've came down from a 1/2 liter a day to 1/4 liter a day. I usually mix with sprite, lemonade, cranberry juice, etc.. I start drin...
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Ironman
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Hello, I made the mistake of stopping by MB today and read the posts to my thread...
Oh, how that hurt my heart...just not being understood, by it appears to be condemned for my choice...
All this time I felt that I had friends who supported me there...it was just dishearting...
Someone sa...
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Im glad I found this place, I need to talk...
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Ive been married for a little over a month, my beautiful wife is SO understanding... I had cut back my drinking for over a year but recently she found a bottle of vodka that I was hiding, she caught me redhanded and I admitted to sneaking shots almost on a daily basis. I love this woman with all my hea...
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Hey Family
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Just wanted to drop in and say hello to my sober MIP family! Life is good today. It's kind of weird. I went from being a single recovering alchy to having a girlfriend with three kids. We're talking about getting a place together in March. Things just keep getting more and more interesting bein...
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Kerri's introduction
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Hi I'm new to the online forum I posted yesterday and received no response. I figured I must be doing it wrong. I posted as a reply. This is under new posting. Anyway I just typed out my whole deal and erased it, I'm tired. Just want to say it's been a month with no alcohol, not because I wanted t...
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Hi-New To This Board But Not to AA
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Hi Everyone, I am a grateful recovering alchoholic. I have been sober for almost 16 years now. I haven't been to a meeting in a long time, but I work the steps everyday. I am here because I need to share and get some advice on getting out of a bad marriage. I am married to a very controlling man who is an en...
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Daily Reflections Jan 31
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OUR COMMON WELFARE COMES FIRST The unity of Alcoholics Anonymous is the most cherished quality our Society has. . . . We stay whole, or A.A. dies. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 129 Our Traditions are key elements in the ego deflation process necessary to achieve and maintain sobriety in Alco...
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Listening
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It's not enough to talk to plants, you also have to listen. -- David Bergman Plants grow best when we pay attention to them. That means watering, touching them, putting them in places where they will receive good light. They need people around them to notice if they are drooping at the edges or look...
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Letting Go Of Guilt
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The Language of Letting Go.
"There's a good trick that people in dysfunctional relationships use," said one recovering woman. "The other person does something inappropriate or wrong, then stands there until you feel guilty and end up apologizing."
It's imperative that we stop feeling so gui...
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No longer alone since finding AA and MIP
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One of my favorites. I like to post it every now and again to remind myself I never have to be alone again because for sooooo long I thought there was no hope, then, I found others just like me......Jen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An alcoholic fell in a hole and couldn't get out. A businessman...
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Freeing Ourselves of 'Shoulds'
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Thou shalt not should thyself.-- Anonymous When someone tells us we should do something, do we want to do it, or do we feel mad that someone else is telling us what we want to do? Sometimes we forget that these messages are not our own, but are the desires of others. It's important to listen to what we t...
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Hi Guys - I'm a newbie!!
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Hi everyone. This is my first post - and first off i just want to say if this is the right place to be posting or not but . . . well .. . . feel like I need to post somewhere as I can't talk to anyone about it. Ok - I guess i have a question - Is it possible to be an alcoholic if you don't drink everyday? I don&#...
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A Beginning
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Through the example and friendship of the recovered alcoholics in A.A., new members are encouraged to stay away from a drink "one day at a time," as everyone in A.A. does. Instead of "swearing off forever" or worrying about whether they will be sober tomorrow, people in A.A. co...
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Accepting the Journey of Others---Loooooong
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Each of us, in life, walks on the special path that the soul is destined to undertake. Our journeys are very different and we progress at different rates. The pitfalls and blessings we encounter are unique, yet we are all learning and no one form of knowledge is more important than any other. Even so...
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Just want to past this on
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click on the 4 Candles link below... it is truly awesome! ........Wait for the first 3 candles to go out then watch the 4th candle... 4 Candles and hope it touches your rough days and good days as it touched mine -- Edited by tina at 06:45, 2007-01-31
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Religious Freedom
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The Language of Letting Go "...a Power greater than ourselves...." "God as we understood Him." These words introduce spirituality in the Twelve Steps. They are the first two references to God, and they are worded that way for a reason. We each have the freedom to define, and u...
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Daily Reflectins Jan 30
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FREEDOM FROM . . . FREEDOM TO We are going to know a new freedom. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 83 Freedom for me is both freedom from and freedom to. The first freedom I enjoy is freedom from the slavery of alcohol. What a relief! Then I begin to experience freedom from fear - fear of people, of economic ins...
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Laura's Introduction
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Hello, I feel strange writing a message here, but I feel like it's the first step. Funny thing is I don't know what exactly that means. I mean, I know it's a "first step," and I know I have a desire to stop drinking, but I'm such an intensely private person . . . well, here we go....
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Newbie
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Hi all
I'm new on this site and not really sure the best way to use it.
I haven't yet been to an AA meeting but thought I'd try some on line support first ( I have been to counselling etc but still continued binging...)
This is my first day sober so I guess I'd just like some advice on h...
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Two thirty in the morning.
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I just delt with problems without getting drunk, and learned more about what an idiot I can be on top. I lay down, going to sleep, and keep hearing the kid is tossing and turning because she's been a little conjested. So the genius, me, gets up, finds her cough syrup, gets her some water. And since I&#...
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welcome newcomers!
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there's so many new people on the board lately i cant keep up, so here is my welcome to recovery guys! like everyone says ...meetings, one day at a time and find a sponsor.....i say" easy does it", took awhile to get here and doesnt get fixed fast. i myself have been on step 2 for about 20 yea...
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Just For Today
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Just for today I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appal me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime. Just for today I will be happy. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Just for today I w...
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The Key...
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And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. 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...
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We Are All Special
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Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. -- Leo Buscaglia We are each special, which means there is not another person just like ourselves. Nobody looks just like us. Nobody's voice sounds quite like our own. And nobody thinks through a story just like we d...
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Daily Reflections Jan 29
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THE JOY OF SHARING Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you. to have a host of friends - this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and...
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Birthday Today!!
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60 Days folks!!!! I have clarity I have peace I have Love I have God I have Serenity! By now I've brought in two newcomers, and one is stuck in the program now! I've established a newer, better marriage, and better relationship with my children and am a busy beaver! I can't belive how much...
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A Relationship with my Higher Power
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca When we reach a stressful time in our lives, our vision gets narrow. We fail to see the options and possibilities we have. If we give ourselves over to our worries and fears, our sight c...
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An Article on Emotions
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we feel that our problems have been thrust upon us from outside. "I have difficulties because my parents yelled at me, my boss is inconsistent, my children don't listen to me, the government is corrupt, others are selfish." Thus we devise wonderful advice for others to follow and bel...
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