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12 Steps of a Relapse
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TWELVE STEPS OF A RELAPSE
Hi Gang, here is something I picked up. You might enjoy it.
1. I decided I could handle any emotional problems if other people
would just quit trying to run my life.
2. I firmly believe that there is no greater power than myself and
anyone who says dif...
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Higher Awareness-Daily Forgiveness
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Daily forgiveness
"As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind."
-- Isabelle Holland
We cannot avoid daily resentment and thoughts of guilt. They are a part of human nature. What we can do is release their grip on us. We can forgive others and ours...
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can you help me understand?
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my Aboyfriend is completely draining me with his negativity and his criticism. As far as he's concerned I'm completely wrong in almost everything. (then in the middle of his speech about my faults, he changes mood and starts telling me it would all be okay really if I apologised and could be aware of my...
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Anybody remember these days??
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When life gets me down, I can think of a million reasons to be happy......
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Pact Feet
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It is important throughout the life stages to invest in relationships. Here are some tips. They are easily remembered by the phrase PACT FEET.
P = Patience: This is a necessary quality to any relationship. Relationships grow slowly and require lots of time, nourishment, patience and...
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Just posting...
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A lot good posts about relationships the last couple of days. Making me take some personal inventory instead of someone else's for a change. Good thing yes, but ouch. Feels like pulling a scab off.
I like the joke about the two A's on their second date - that was pretty much me and m...
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Does God (Higher Power) Exist??
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This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen.
It's an explanation other people will understand. A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber bega...
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12 Step Poem
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Hi everyone,
I just found this 12 step poem, and wanted to share it with you.
Take care,
Carol
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I took Step One, began to moan
I can't do this one on my own.
I took Step Two, began to pray
Restore me God, please now, today.
I took Step Three,...
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When Everything Seems To Go Wrong ...
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When everything seems to go wrong ... just P.U.S.H.!
When the job gets you down ... just P.U.S.H.!
When people don't react the way you think they should ... just P.U.S.H.!
When your money is "gone" and the bills are due ... just P.U.S.H.!
When people just don't understand you ... just...
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Daily Meditation & Reflection Aug 10
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Today is August 10, 2006 A Great Day for Recovery!
FAITH
"Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense and understanding." -- Martin Luther An obstacle to my understanding the spiritual life was my intellectualization; my head was forever getting in the way of my he...
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A Burden on My Heart
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Hi everyone! I went to the doctor today and got my medication switched around--he's putting me on Wellbutrin and weaning me off Paxil. I went off birth control (which aggrevates depression) and he's allowing me to take Vistrol for anxiety as needed. Whew! Hopefully I wil...
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Should I or Shouldn't I?
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Hi Everyone!!
To give you a little background-I've been married for 20 yrs. Hubby found someone else last Dec. We've been separated since Feb. Our final court date is Aug. 22.
Now to my dilemma. A guy that was in my IOP and now goes to the same meetings that I do has asked me...
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Don't Be Fooled By Me..
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Don't be fooled by the face I wear, For I wear a mask, I wear a thousand masks. Masks that I am afraid to take off. But none of them are me. But don't be fooled. I give you the impression that I am secure, That all is sunny and unruffled with me, Within as well as without, That confidence is my name and coolness m...
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Higher Awareness
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Heal dualities
"Beware of the fury of the patient man."
-- John Dryden
Our minds perceive and give relative value - positive and negative - to the different sides of a duality. We usually shun the negative.
It’s important to know that you cannot eliminate the negative by focusing exclusivel...
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Sanity
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What is sanity?
I have been possessed by this question for two years, since the first time I joined AA. I understood the idea that insanity is "doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results." But what was the opposite of that? Sanity. The concept...
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Trynig to stay off Carnival Ride
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Well, for those that were here with my weekend-husband-situation, I have been moving real fast trying to avoid the onset of the "What-the F***'s"...
My "Full-Tilt-Whirl" is catching up with me.
So I'll just have to keep reaching out, keep praying, keep reading and focusing elsewhere, and keep...
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Hi Folks, just checking in
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Nearly 7 months now since the last drink, I'm coping well I reckon, hope everyone is as OK as can be expected. Not sure who is still here since I found this piece of internet sanctuary back in January, saw Phil still posting, he and others helped me more than they realised back in Jan/Feb......
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Words to live by.....
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Life ISN"T about keeping score. It's not about how many friends you have Or how accepted you are. Not about if you have plans this weekend or if you're alone. It isn't about who you're dating, who you used to date, how many people you've dated, or if you haven't been with anyone at all. It isn't about who yo...
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Daily Reflection Aug 9
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". . .OF ALL PERSONS WE HAD HARMED" "...and became willing to make amends to them all." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 77 One of the key words in the Eighth Step is the word all. I am not free to select a few names for the list and to disregard others. It is a list of all persons I have harmed. I can see im...
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Ready to admit it...
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I'm an alcoholic. First time I've said it out loud or typed it.
Up until now I've preferred "drinking problem" but I've had a lot of time to think about it over the weekend especially with my slip on Friday. I've known deep down for a while that I am an alcoholic but I haven't b...
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Achieving Dreams...
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The ABC's of Achieving Your Dreams A. Avoid negative sources, people, things, and habits B. Believe in yourself. C. Consider things from every angle. D. Don't give up and don't give in. E. Enjoy life today: yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come. F. Family and friends are hidden treasures. See...
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NO ONE is happy 24/7.....
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"Exuberance is an abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion. It is kinetic and unrestrained, joyful, irrepressible. It is not happiness, although they share a border. It is instead, at its core, a more restless, billowing state. Certainly it is no lulling sense of contentment: exuberance lea...
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Picked this up at a meeting tonight...
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"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition....
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Just sharing a bit......
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Hi All.
Just needed to share some............Picked up my 30 day chip! Still sort of feel like a loser on shooting 10 months in the foot (or would that be the ass) but, nothing happens by mistake. And I actually am much happier now. That slip was meant to be. It openend my eyes wider than they have...
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just checking in
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Hello everyone
So how many active members on this site, Have been here for a couple of weeks and see the same10-15 people not a bad thing and have enjoyed reading their post and getting to know them. I am a social person and enjoy chatting and am working on my Drinking Problem. AA meeting last week and...
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maybe I wasn't ready
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to get my white chip... I laid in bed all night thinking about how I was going to go get vodka and sprite today... and I got up and that's exactly what I did. I did try to call my sponsor, but it was one of those things where I was going to call her, tell her what I was thinking and then do it anyway. I'm already fee...
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A New Life
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A New Life
I have been granted a new life thanks to the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. I have found a reason to have hope, a reason to go on living. I have true friends that aren't around me because of some material thing I might possess. I can now be grateful for what little I have, knowing that I am star...
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Thought, Meditation & Prayer..August 8th
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Twenty-Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought For The Day For awhile, we are going back to the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, and pick out passages here and there, so that they may become fixed in our minds, a little at a time, day by day, as we go along. There is no substitute for reading the Big Book. It is our "bib...
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Courage to keep on Truckin'
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I was reading Caitlin Matthews tonight, she writes alot on Celtic spirituality which I find very interesting. She was talking about Fear and Courage, which was mentioned in an earlier post. Quoting " I will rise, I will go back to the white and silver shore. I will have courage, as the sun does, rising a...
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Think, Think, and then THINK
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First before you read further, have to say this is one of those rather useless trivia Posts of mine.
Last night on the late night news, there was a warning of bacteria in all the water, and not to drink any, use any, unless you boil it for at least 1 minute, or use Bottled water.
Well early this mo...
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Stuck on something
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When I started this journey 6 months ago it was due to someone else's drinking. I read everything I could, joined Al Anon and focused on that side of it. One thing that stuck out was the selfishness that seems to be a common trait among alcoholics - including me I guess which is where I...
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Daily Reflections Aug 8
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"MADE A LIST. . . . " Made a list of all persons we had harmed, . . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. 77 When I approached the Eighth Step, I wondered how I could list all the things that I have done to other people since there were so many people, and some of them weren't alive anymore. Some of the hurts...
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Campral?
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Does anyone here take (or has anyone taken) Campral? My doc has me on it. It makes me feel weak and listless for about 30 minutes, but other than that, I think that it works to help the cravings for alcohol.
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Quote fpr Today
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When people have pet peeves, you would be surprised how many times they pet them. (rofl, that has been me! in silence, holding it all in!)
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Alcoholic Summed Up
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SheIsSober wrote:
I heard something in AA that made me think: people who don't have a problem don't wonder if they're alcoholics.
Thanks for the reminder..........
Thoughts at 4am
If I am an alocholic I shouldn't drink - If I am not an alcoholic I don't ne...
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Two Solitudes
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Today's Gift.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. --Rainer Maria Rilke
For a relationship to be healthy and fulfilling, each of us must respect the other. "Two solitudes" is exactly what we are, and we will never be one, no matter how close we beco...
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OK.. up late too......
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Hahahaha... and I'm the PROFESSIONAL SLEEPER nowadays....
Perhaps I am awakened cause I need to do a little extra praying.
A girlfriend in the program, a sister in sobriety (we have the same sponsor), is a newly sober homecare nurse. She has just been diagnosed with MS, and like I said, is ne...
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cant sleep
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Boy im gonna have fun tomorrow when the boss trys all he can with me because It it now 2:15 I need to be up in 5 hours and I have not slept a wink, I am fed up, not only that but I get ratty with myself, I start kicking all over the place, ah whats the point. im gonna have a bad day tomorrow. and hey I welcome it, the pr...
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Thought, Meditation & Prayer for Aug. 7th
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Twenty-Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought For The Day We in A.A. are offering an intangible thing, a psychological and spiritual program. It's a wonderful program. When we learn to turn to a Higher Power, with faith that that Power can give us the strength we need, we find peace of mind. When we reeducate our...
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screwed up
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Ok so I screwed up. All I did was prove to myself that I am an alcoholic. I couldn't stop at 3 or 4 beers. I drank a 6 pack and got drunk. And then went out with an ex at 4am and got my husband pissed off at me. And today I feel like crap. not hungover, just depressed, feeling like a loser, feeling like a f**k up... i...
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Hi Rob!!!!
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Hi Rob,
I just spotted you on line and I wanted to say 'hi' to you and ask how you are doing. I do hope that all is well with you. I've been thinking of you. Please let us know how you are, won't you?
Take care,
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OMG!!!!!! Kiddo's are here!!!!!!!
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We have not seen my husbands boys since Christmas... didn't think we'd see them til Oklahoma trip in Oct....
Their grandma flew them up TODAY, as a surprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
goptta get this house cleaned up... so they can TRASH it....
Their grandmother is toxic for me....
Josh is g...
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Joke of the day
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Girls from SC Three men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives housekeeping duties. The first man had married a woman from Iowa, and bragged that he had told his wife she was going to do all the dishes and house cleaning that needed done at their house. He said that it took...
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for tea tonight
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http://www.rosetterecipes.com/Fish/66-Lemon+Sole+Wrapped+In+Palma+Ham
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Holistic Prayer
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Holistic Prayer Great Mother, I am your daughter and I call to you. Teach me courage and kindness and how to love myself Help my heart be pure and my vision clear Show me how to live without bitterness and blame Let me know nature which is always true Fill me with your silence as I learn the art of patience Te...
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I took that step
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Hi All,
Oh my God, I feel like I am back in the land of the living. I got to Edmonton from my old small town 4 days ago. I felt so afraid, lonely, fearful and physically sick. I just kept telling myself "tommorrow, tommorrow I'll get to a meeting." After weeks my long-distance...
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Life on life's terms?
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Hi everyone - I've only posted once, about a month ago. Things were going very well (obviously, from the screen name I picked). Have been sober for over 2 months and blew it last night. No good reason just gave in to the craving I guess. I have no idea what m...
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trying to prove...
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that I'm not an alcoholic... ok maybe I'm just really f**king up. But I keep having so much denial and thoughts like well, I never tried to control my drinking, maybe I can if I wanted to. I guess I just need to prove to myself whether or not I'm an alcoholic. Went out and bought beer on the way home... didn't...
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Daily Reflection Aug 6
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DRIVEN Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS , p. 62 My selfishness was the driving force behind my drinking. I drank to celebrate success and I drank to drown my sorrows. Humility is th...
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Thought, Meditation & Prayer for Aug.6th
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Twenty-Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought For The Day Psychologists are turning to religion because just knowing about ourselves is not enough. We need the added dynamic of faith in a power outside of ourselves on which we can rely. Books on psychology and psychiatric treatments are not enough without th...
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