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Ask..and ye shall receive...Wren..bud
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People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist...
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spud time
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greetings earthlings
Feeling ok just got in from the gym, eating a spud
felt abit odd not going to my home group this eve, was scared of the unknown like as if id steer to the bar. the spud its far nicer me thinks,,,
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Hi Bob
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Hey Bob! Good to see you on the board tonight. How's it going?
-- Edited by Sick of being sick at 21:18, 2006-07-27
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PLEASE SEND ME SOME STRENGTH
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Hey All,
I've been cruising in and out of this web-site for some time. Please send me some strength to get myself to an AA meeting. No-one know better than my-self that I'm an alcholic. This board literally saved my life last year...My life is a-lot different now.
I am back home in Ill. and hav...
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Thank You
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Hi everybody,
I just wanted to say a very big 'Thank You' to you for all of the support that has been given to me over the last few days. It has meant such a great deal to me. I will never be able to express just how much it has meant. I have said for a while that I am glad that I'm an alcoholic, but it has been un...
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Scared as hell, but contacted Allen
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Hi all
Iv been drinking tonight
These last few days have been HELL!!!!..
omg duno even where to start about these last few days..
I just txt Allan... the guy i spoke to all those months back..
Hes just phoned me.. We chatted for about 10 mins..
I g...
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CHEESE
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IF YOU CAN FIND A MORE CHEESY SONG THAN THIS YOU WIN A PRIZE!!! :SI've got the key
I've got the secret
I've got the key
To another way
Ah ah ah ah ah ah
A ha a ha
Ah ah ah ah ah
I've got the key
Yeah
yeah
a ha
Yeah
yeah
a ha
Yeah yeah
Yeah
yeah
I've got the key
I've got the ke...
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help
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Turns out that I have a health problem and my doctor is sending me to an oncologist. Could someone explain to me what exactly and oncologist is?
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Trying Soooo Hard...
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The Language of Letting Go.
Letting Go
Stop trying so hard to control things. It is not our job to control people, outcomes, circumstances, and life. Maybe in the past we couldn't trust and let things happen. But we can now. The way life is unfolding is good. Let it unfold.
Stop trying so...
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I found my serenity again, thanks for the help!
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Well in my previous post "Scared of My Husband's Sponsor" I talked about my hubby's sponsor suggesting that because I didn't accept the fact that I could have some control over my hubby's using/drinking, then he didn't think that we belonged together.
I really stuggled to post that or not, as the pe...
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Couple pics of me dog and nephew!
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Picture of fluffy 115 lb South Russian Sheepdog, cute nephew, and a sober drunk!
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Hello to all
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Here we go. Its starting again. It is now 4.13pm in work. My mind is starting to think about the stop off at the liquor store again on the way home. That awful routine of the liquor store. I use 3 or 4 different ones and go to them in rotation so I won’t be known as “they guy who comes in everyday” into any one of t...
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Tense night
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Went thru (going thru) a rough few hours tonight/this morning. For the first time in many years, I spoke to the father of my youngest daughter. Very very sick relationship. Anyway, it was some stuff to be discussed regarding both my grandson and my daughter, who is in Chow Chila, in california,...
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New Here
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Hi Everyone,
I am new here to this board. I have been in Al Anon for a little over a year. What a year its been, never imagined when I entered the rooms of Al Anon would I be saying I was an alcoholic a year later. But, when I honestly worked the steps I could no longer deny my own issue.
So I am a...
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Look out for Scary email
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Last night I was on my PC, and got an email, from who, I do not remember, I deleted so fast, but the subject of the email stated, "delete all you files from Internet".
Just want everyone to be on the lookout for this email.
I hit "delete" and then "permanently delete" in record speed.
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Choose to be depressed?
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I heard a good lead tonight, but one of the commentors said, that we choose to be depressed. Is that really true? Can we have that much effect on our moods? I mean, we're powerless over alcohol, but do we have power to control how we feel? Just wondering...
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Oklahoma... need to process a bit...
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Going there in sept... will need a meeting for sure. Will contact Intergroup ahead of time... but I don't know where everybody on the forum is from... wondering if by chance someone here is from the area and 'knows the meetings' in/near Oklahoma City??
My husb and I are going to visit his sons (...
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OM
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Hey Wren! You know when you have posted articles from "Daily OM", I have to admit that I thought for quite a while that you were talking about the Yogic diety. Kinda been into that transcendental meditation thing since the 60's.
"OM".... that great encompasing of all thi...
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Be aware of Your Thinking
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Be aware of your thinking
"There is a thought in your mind right now. The longer you hold on to it, the more you dwell upon it, the more life you give to that thought. Give it enough life, and it will become real. So make sure the thought is indeed a great one."
-- Ralph Marston
Most of our self-talk com...
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To: our Friend, Niall
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Hi All,
Just want to make a Post to a fellow Alcoholic, that is struggling with the Disease of Alcoholism, right now, and wanted you to know, Niall, we have ALL been there, the Isolation, the Gloom, the Depression, go to a meeting feel better, go home, face those demons of above, drink again, and go bac...
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A Humbling Experience
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Its a humbling experience to walk into a local library...and use their computers...when ones own has crashed..:)
Im sitting beside kids...playing games..and they are lookin at me kinda funny..eh..
Like.."Whos the old guy"??
Anyway...Just dropping in to wish you all a serene sober day......
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Shoulda' THUNK first.........
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 This afternoon, I slathered up with cocoa butter and sat in the sun for an hour or so....
then I got the bright idea  to chop down some of the 'jungle' that is in the back of our yard.... with shorts and tanktop on.... and cocoa butter...
I was eaten alive within 15 minutes.... LOL:do...
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New to this board
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Hi Everyone,
My name is Sonya and I'm an alcoholic. I just found this site and hope to chat with ya'll often. I'm new to being sober (40 days and counting), so I'll probably have alot of questions about what ya'll do to cope.
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prison meetings
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i want to start an AA meeting inside a prison in the state of louisiana and i have no idea how to get started. i have been to every web site i could find, but they were all dead ends. i need help. ive prayed about this for a couple of days and i believe it to be the right thing to do, so any input would...
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Self-Acceptance
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The problem
The lack of self-acceptance is a problem for many recovering alcoholics. This subtle defect is difficult to identify and often goes unrecognized. Many of us believe that using alcohol was our only problem, denying the fact that our lives had become unmanageable. Even aft...
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Just a Big Burp!!!
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Seems like I just had a big Burp, nothing serious, in my own Recovery.
When I decided to leave, guess what, I forgot that my Primary Purpose here is to aide in my Own Recovery, and THEN be here for the Alcoholic that is still suffering.
Read your email, Niall, and was compelled to change my mind. ...
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WORRY
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WORRY "When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened." --Winston Churchill I know I can worry myself into the grave. I can project an incident into a calamity. I can make mountains o...
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I think my pc is dying. Just wanted to say hi.
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Just checking in..
I think my pc is about to die...
im using an old hdd now, its like only 30gb.... i have a new one on order.. but im starting to think it might be my motherboard too.. 
Its my birthday tomorrow... gona be 30!!!!
Im hoping to go to the Weymouth for a couple of days b...
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Caring - love
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It is easy to love those who are at their best. But it is during those times we are unlovable that we may need love the most. And what a beautiful thing when we get it. And even more beautiful when we find the grace to give it.
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Scared of Husband's Sponsor
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Hi all,
I have a question, and I am stuggling for words, which is not always the norm for me.
My husband and I have been together almost 9 years, August 12th is our anniversary. And during that time he has been in and out of the program. And once during that time, he and I seperated, his sponso...
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On the "ROADTRIP"....
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YAYYYYYY!!!!! This little road trip ROCKED!!!
There were about 20 AA's there... mostly close girlfriends in the program... only about 2 husbands..LOL So it was a bikini-infested hot dog and brownie munching wave-runnering wonderful day!! The weather was PERRRFECT... low 80's, breezy and sun...
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Feeling devastated
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I was at a meeting earlier this evening and the main speaker said that she was "loved back to sobriety". I thought that that was a beautiful thing to hear.
I needed to hear that as my boyfriend and I have been hitting problems recently. We separated due to my alcoholism and we have been trying to work t...
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Just Listen
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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.---Laurence Coughlin
"Do I talk to much?" Most of us wonder this sometimes. There are some ways to find out. Ask yourself these questions: "How much do I know about people in my life?" "What do they think and feel?" "Do I listen to them?...
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Afraid ?
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. ---Gore Vidal
Many of us used a "know it all" act to keep people away. We kept everyone around us on edge. They were afraid of our judgments, just we were secretly afraid of theirs. Why were we so busy with everyone e...
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Appointments
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It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind. Better immersion than to live untouched. --Tillie Olsen
We have each had days when we preferred hiding under the covers, avoiding life at all costs. And in times gone by, we did just that, sometimes too frequently. What we didn't always kno...
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Daily reflections July 25
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THOSE WHO STILL SUFFER For us, if we neglect those who are still sick, there is unremitting danger to our own lives and sanity. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151 I know the torment of drinking compulsively to quiet my nerves and my fears. I also know the pain of white-knuckled sobriety. Today,...
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panic attack
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I had a real bad panic attack at the cinema yesterday. I left about 4 times "to go to the loo" one time I went to the sweet stop to see if some fizzy sweets would help, that made it worse, I started getting short of breath and having to leave,.perhaps its the small space I was in
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stroppy partners
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any of you guys got one?
heres my words:
were going for dinner at her parents and every week they serve the same for dinner a cold sandwich and a cake
my partner for lunch only wants to go and get another sandwich out, of which I am paying for, I want something hot, so we go through the choices, she at th...
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Welcome Newbie... Tonibaloney...LOL
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Well, it is time to start working toward the 'thousand posts mark' again!!!! (I am already getting up in numbers there rather quickly... yikes!!) I am so glad you are back here with us, where we ALL belong....
Each and every one of your previous posts that I have read since being more active her...
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$2064 or $6046.46
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Which one sounds better?
That's what it's going to take to clear up my financial responsibility to work towards getting my license back! My last DUI was almost ten years ago! Haven't had a license since 92.
I'll find out Wednesday which of those figures is correct. Hopefully the smaller one.
It...
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VACATION
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Have a short, much needed, well deserved vacation planned, leaving today after work. My mother, sister, son and myself are going to the falls, the better side (Canadian). I just can't wait to get out of here for a while - I am plain sick and tired of this small town and all the crap and...
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walked out on A.A
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I have walked out of my home group cos this guy keeps picking on me, I told him not to talk to me like he did and he just laughed, every week for months he has been doing it but I cant bear it any more, left in tears on tues and nearly drank on it, I dont know what to do as this guy seems to go to lots of meetings even th...
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a few things..
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Hi All,
Read this somewhere... the endless 3 point cycle of active alcoholism:
EXCITEMENT
DEPRESSION
ANXIETY
Excitement: (gettin’’ loaded, goin out to clubs & bars, meeting other drunks, gettin a false sense of “comraderie”)
Depression: (wakin up to discover all the exci...
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MIRACLE CURE JUST APPROVED BY FDA
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Daily reflections July 24
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HELPING OTHERS "Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 20 Self-centeredness was my problem. All my life people had been doing things for me and I not only expected it, but I was ungrateful and re...
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Relapse
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Long story short...this girl from my meeting place relapsed this weekend. Just had 6 months and everything was great and then.........whammo. This shit hurts. You spend time around someone who's right in the same boat and then they fall off and it messes me up mentally/emotionally. I know I'm not ge...
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don't know how to handle this....
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Hi everyone,
I'm from alanon. I'm desperately trying to understand, and trying hoped you wouldn't mind me coming to you for advice.
My boyfriend is a chronic alcoholic, he smokes cannabis regularly as well. Its a cross addiction I would say but he wouldn't admit that.He has been in and out of...
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The Lone Roadtrip
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Heading out to an AA party that is at a private lake, for jet-skiing and swimming and such...
The drive is going to be something else, though..
An hour and a half away, and about 10 different turns out in the boondocks... never been out there and a little worried about the drive.
This amazes me, as I...
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Just thinking
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Hi everyone,
I was at a meeting recently and heard that one of the regular members had died. I knew him from when I first started going to AA in 2004. He was a great guy and really worth listening to. He had been ill for a little while and died peacefully. His widow asked for our group to be told that h...
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felt welcome
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Hello!
Went to a meeting out of town today and shared openly as I could about me and how excited I was to be there, some good people there,
anyway after the meeting I did something daft, I rode off on the bike with the chain still attached and ended up busting up my bike!
This chap who I have never met be...
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