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easy now
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Hi there, feeling a little better today, feel like I am achieving something finally, need to get a meeting in today or tomorrow, havent wanted to take a drink today, and for that I am grateful, just going to sit and watch a comedy, then off to hospital to see a sick realtive.
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Daily Reflections Sept 28
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LOVE WITHOUT STRINGS Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89 Sponsorship held two surprises for me. First, that my sponsees cared about me. What I had thought was gratitude was more li...
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rough day
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I've had a really rough day... just something I'm dealing with... I feel drained, about to go to bed and pass out. I really feel like I'm making some progress though... I'm learning how to get through this without drinking/other bad things... haven't even had a thought of it today even though today suc...
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Sorry Off Topic
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I'm getting to where I fear going to bed at night. I'm so tired right now, but hubby's still up, so I might as well stay up, or that's what I'm telling myself... truth is, I don't want to face the racing thoughts that I've always had at night that have only gotten worse in the past 2 months since I've been deal...
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HEY THERE
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HEY THERE, everything seems ok in life, not upset or depressed but really fancy a beer! not good huh?
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Letting Go...
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LETTING GO TAKES LOVE
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 natu...
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re: longer term difficulties
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I tried something today, just for the hell of it, did without coffee. I drink a pot or two, spaced out through the day, and often have my ol (never washed) coffee cup in my hand when i'm off work and around the house.
Fairly dramatic difference.
Last night, after half a day off coffee, I layed down and r...
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Earth to JUSTIN!!!!!!!!!
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Where ya' been??
Hope all is going well......
Joni
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Ego Tricks
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"One of the great dangers of transformational work is that the ego attempts to sidestep deep psychological work by leaping into the transcendent too soon. This is because the ego always fancies itself much more ‘advanced’ than it actually is."
-- Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson
The Tibetan tea...
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The next right thing - HOW ???
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Need some help........My son is on a road to no where, fast. He's 16, barely passing in school, lieing about where he is and what he's doing. He got suspended 3 days while I was in AZ, I found out today when the letter came from the school. I provide him with a truck, I pay the insurance and I give him a t...
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working too much
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Just thought I'd let everyone know that I'm still around. Just working long hours...averaging from 55 to 65 hours a week right now, trying to keep the factory above the red line. Hit the office at 6:45am today and finally left at 7:15pm with 15 minutes off for lunch. Gotta be crazy t...
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Sick of being sick
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My Pink Cloud Days!
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Hi everyone,
I've been having a great few days recently. My boyfriend and I have finished setting up my new computer and it works just great; we had lunch out yesterday in a wonderful restaurant that specialises in fresh sea food, overlooking a marina; we are planning on going away for a few days ea...
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Isn't it great life is open-ended!
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Isn't it great life is open-ended! -- Brigitte Frase
Elizabeth Lawton, known as "Grandma Layton," is an American artist who never drew a picture until she was 68 years old. She spent all the years before that time trying to cope with depression. She had gone through therapy, medications, and s...
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Where's WALDO?????
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Just in case I 'vanish' for a week or so at some point in time, this is where I'll be...........
Joni
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Thoughts For The Day
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Men are always whining about how women are sufficating them.
Personally, I think if you can hear them whining..you are not pressing hard enough, on the pillow.
If your'e not supposed to stick Q-tips in your ears..what the hell are they for???
Actually...you can have a healthy sex life, well in...
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Daily Reflection Sept 27
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WITHOUT RESERVATION When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, . . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p.37 While practicing service to others, if my successes give rise to grandiosity, I must reflect on what brought me to this point. What has been given joyfully, with love, m...
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Against the Grain~OM
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Going Against What Is Popular
Just because an idea or way of doing things is popular doesn't mean it's right for everyone. However, part of the way that something becomes popular is that many of us don't take the time to determine what's right for us; we simply do what most of the people we know are doin...
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Today I will be grateful for where I am now.
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Today I will be grateful for where I am now.
My life might not be perfect, and I might not have achieved the goals I thought I would have by now; I might not be living the kind of life I thought I would be or want to be, but I'm grateful for this day, right now, and the fact that I've made a commitment to mysel... >
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little bit better
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I actually for the most part feel ok right now... since counseling today. I was dreading counseling so bad... I'd been doing writing exercises from a book and emailing what I wrote to my counselor... and then I had a really bad weekend... I was dreading talking about it all... but we talked about mostly...
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Good to be back at Home!!!!
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Had a great time in Oklahoma City and it was wonderful traveling through 5 beautiful states to get there. The ex-wife did NOT freak out at all, to my surprise... no, my husband ended up being the emotional one!!!!
Anyhoo, it was so good to see the boys. Oklahoma City is very beautiful and the weather wa...
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update - long
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Hi everyone,
I’m back. Did some more research again & WHAT a lesson…..why do I do this to myself? Again & again?
I have no one to blame but myself!
I had a no-where job, no-where life so I decided to put in my notice with my apartment complex. ...
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It has been a little while
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Well it has only been a week, last Sunday, but feels I have been away from the Board for a month, got this Bug, and have been in Bed, and Ugh, that can just so boring.
Just wanted to say hello, and hope everyone is doing o.k. today, and hope to rejoin you all soon.
Hugs, Toni
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A bit of a relapse
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Ok it was a big one.I went on a boat crusie on Friday night with every intention of behaving but had that first beer.I felt so bad on Saturday and embarrassed of my self because I didnt have the self-control to control my drinking.I was doing so good,I now know that I cant be around booze.I am thinking that...
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Daily Reflections Sept 26
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OUR CHILDREN The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly relations with his children. . . . In time they will see that he is a new man and in their own way they will let him know it. . . . From that point on, progress will be rapid. Marvelous results often follow such a reunion. ALCOHOLICS ANONYM...
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advice
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my partner is suffering from anxiety, I need some advice, she is anxious about being off work with anxiety! I love her and dont want to see her hurt, but I feel that I can get annoyed with her as I think that she is trying to rush things through, I said "you wouldnt be running if you had a broken leg, so dont get...
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Are you afraid to be different?/ Joy
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Are you afraid to be different?
On the path of evolution, we move from being a willing and obedient member of the group to wanting to take control over our own lives. This is a necessary but difficult transition.
Andrew Schneider says, "At this point we are afraid of being ourselves. We are afraid o...
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Longer term difficulties
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I stumbled across a page of stuff that could be helpful concerning the dificulties we face after short term sobriety, just linking, copyrights and all.. http://www.tlctx.com/ar_pages/paw_part1.htm 3 pages, good stuff. Gave me another check up from the neck up. I get into an awfull rut with cigar...
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One Step at a Time
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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Does the prospect of changing and growing seem monumental to you? Just too much to tackle?
Then consider this approach. Take a simple step of affirming your openness to experience more or something new....
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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas
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Got home last night. What a glorious trip. Spent 2 days in Las Vegas, definately something to see, but I really enjoyed my time traveling thru Arizona. I've never been off the East Coast, so this was a real treat for me.............It is always wonderful to get away, but there is no place like home. :smi...
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Can someone be a "drunk"?
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OK, now, I don't think that's at all the acceptable term (drunk), but I don't know how to explain it any other way. My ex husband was what appeared, in every way, to be an alcoholic. Drank every night, got abusive, wrecked cars, lost jobs, cheated, lied, etc. And, in the past few mont...
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Daily Reflections Sept 25
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FIRST THINGS FIRST Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job -- wife or no wife -- we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 98 Before coming to A.A., I always had excuses for taking a dr...
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Today Offers Me ....
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I didn't really have a plan for a career, but I learned how to run our business quite successfully one day at a time. -- Joann Reed
Whether we have a specific plan for how we anticipate our lives unfolding or we react to opportunities spontaneously, we have to take whatever comes in small incremen...
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Quotes from Step Ten
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Courtesy, kindness, justice, and love are the keynotes by which we may come into harmony with practically anybody.
When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well today. But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drink...
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still hurting... BUT
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I don't have to drink over this!
depression's not quite so bad as it was yesterday... well kinda up and down depression today, goes from bad to worse, bad to worse... but I will make it through this.
I feel weird though... confused??... uncomfortable??... no real word to place on what I'm feel...
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Daily Reflections Sept 24
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VIGILANCE We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that somed...
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Update; Family Death
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Hi Family,
As many of you now know, two of my aunts were brutally murdered in Fort Myers, Fla. on the 10th of Sept, two weeks ago.
Well, on Saturday, Sept 23rd, the person who murdered them was caught in Topeka, Kanas and is now in jail there. He was identified by finger prints and other forscen...
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Never let your head hang down
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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. --Satchel Paige When children are tired they make their feelings very clear. They just sit down and start to cry. As adults, we may sometimes feel like...
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does anyone play piano?
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one of the most important things in my life is music, and my memory is gone! if anyone plays piano, i have some questions for you if you dont mind, it really aches not knowin what i once used to know, its like a part of me is missing....
Rob
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Online meetings
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Does anyone go to these online meetings that are listed above as being on Tuesdays and Saturdays?...Tim
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off topic
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does anyone know what drivers I can install or rather down load so I can watch/play dvd's on the pc?
Rob
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Hurting...
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I'm hurting a lot right now... I'm depressed, angry, raging... I was having fleeting thoughts of drinking... just thoughts like "I could use a drink right now" or "I need something to numb all this". I talked to some other alcoholics and I think I'm past it for now. I DO just want something to numb all thi...
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In me there is .....
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In me there is darkness. But with you there is light. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A speaker at a meeting said, "To continue something when I'm making mistakes takes emotional courage." She was talking about making a decision to turn her will and life over to her Higher Power, and how it works in her life...
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Hey Younguns? Sayings I used to hear from my parents in 1955..
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"I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20."
"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2000 will only buy a used one."
"If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a p...
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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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Introducing my self
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Hi everbody
I am a 37 year old male that has been drinking for 25 years,with the very few and far between recreational pharmacutecal.I have never really admitted before that I have a problem only because I never drank everyday.I can go with out but if i have that first beer or drink it will lead to a lo...
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Surprising Ourselves
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. . .we may surprise ourselves by discovering a treasure.
Not all secrets are bad. Some secrets are more like unspoken, unacknowledged mysteries than sinister destructive forces. We may quietly know what it is like to be a man or a woman in an intimate relationship, but we may never have told anyo...
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pls answer 2 questions
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in volume 3 of the big book page 449 has that wonderful paragraph on acceptance. what page is it on in volume 4?
material success follows spiritual progress, it never precedes it. where is this quote found? i think it is in the steps.
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Emotional Shoplifting
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What is Emotional Shoplifting?Emotional Shoplifting is when you steal truth from yourself and/or fail to disclose truth to another person with whom you have an intimate, personal relationship. Each time you stifle your feelings, you are literally shoplifting, stealing and sabotaging your sel...
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New start today
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Hiya. started uni today, felt less "alone" in a crowded room than I thought I would, have the chance to study into alcohol abuse, think I will get a distinction in that bearing in mind I have lots of experience!, do you think I should or would it be better to go for something that is not so close to home like c...
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The Suns a commin up...
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We wake up each morning
Cobwebs in head
Man!! We’re still breathin
When we shoulda been dead
Four cups of coffee
And three smokes on the go
Lighting a fire
And thinkin of snow
It’s 5am
What the hell’s goin on
Should be in bed
Am I sick in the head?
Oh well..up and at it
And onwa...
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