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what are you running from?
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Catchy title huh? My hubby seems to think that everyone that abuses alcohol, even binge/party drinkers, is running from something in their lives. Do you think it's true? We all have had pain in our lives, but do you think that's why you actively drink? Or is it habit? Is it just the pull from the al...
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Sunday
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. --Katherine Anne Porter
Each of us has miraculously been summoned to the road to recovery. We no doubt felt hopeless many times. We no doubt pleaded, a...
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just a quick hello
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hi every one . just thought id say that ive nissed being able to read and post with you all .things are still going well for me im still sober and hp has realy been taking good care of me and my familey. my new job is great i miss being home butt it seems that much more speacial to me when i get the chance to be here...
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Happy Mother's Day!
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Happy Mother's Day to all! and a happy day to all those that make us to be mothers! kids and fathers.
I had an amazing spiritual awakening last yesterday at a special charismatic retreat. I went into it feeling down and in need, and came out feeling totally amazed at how God 'enter...
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Have a good day everybody..
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Each Day a New Beginning.
Your sense of what will bring happiness is so crude and blundering. Try something else as a compass. Maybe the moralists are right and happiness doesn't come from seeking pleasure and ease. --Joanna Field
We think we know what will make us happy. Seldom do we r...
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Daily OM
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May 12, 2006 Repression _Expression Passive Aggressive Behavior
If you've ever found yourself repressing your anger and behaving in other ways to get your point across, you may be someone who is adept at engaging in passive-aggressive behavior. Although passive-aggressive behavior i...
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A email to share with my friends!!!!
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John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
&nbs...
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Mother's Day
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Happy Mothers Day to all of the Mothers here.
Toni -- Edited by Toni Baloney at 12:26, 2006-05-13
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Oh shucks
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Im sorry!
Quite ashamed of my silly posting, get a bit depressed when im tired.
Hope I have not peed any 1 off.
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evening
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Off the drugs now. took a months supply in 3 days. dont feel any support from my sponcer, ie he has not called me once since I told him, man I just dont know.
can I call diazepam a drug?: I called "frank" when I was doing them 3 years ago badly, and was told they only help people on crack and stuff. felt isolat...
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still sitting atop the pot :o(
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Well hello again all from flumpy land,
Oh dear where do I start?, well I think I'll start by letting all those of you who replyed to my other post know that I HAVE been a good girl since then, eventhough I am still stuck in that deep dark place.
In the past when I have felt the way I do now I have always resor...
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In the Repair Shop
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-- Edited by Toni Baloney at 11:45, 2006-07-19
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Funny
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SIPPING VODKA
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It’s funny
A new priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak.
After mass he asked the monsignor how he had done.
The monsignor replied, “When I am worried about getting nervous on the pulpit, I put a glass of...
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THE POWER
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God Is Here
The Power, which restores us to sanity, is not something remote and abstract, which we must search for by reading books and performing great feats. Our Higher Power is with us constantly and is involved in the minute details of every day. We do not have to wait and work to beco...
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Today's Inspiration
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Don't Give Up Each day’s a brand new day. We’re different today than we were yesterday. And tomorrow, different again. Don’t give up now. You’ve only just begun. You’re going to be fine, don’t worry. You can do it. Just let go, and let the Spirit of God envelope you. Let the Holy One hold you in its arms, pr...
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Light in Darkness-Daily Devotional
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" O Greatness, hear! O Brightness, hark! Leave us not little, nor yet dark"~ John Masefield
From the beginning of time, people have been appealing to the Power that lies beyond their comprehension when they are in trouble. This Power has been invoked under many names by many people. In our current p...
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just one more
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Patience and Tolerance
By Margaret Ann Lembo
About Margaret
According to Random House Dictionary, tolerance is “1. a liberal spirit toward opinions and practices that differ from one’s own; 2. the power to endure or resist discomfort or hardship.” To tolerate is “1. to allow without...
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happiness...
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Happiness--a Quality of our Soul
Happiness is dependent on no outside stimulus
to be felt or attained
Happiness is part of our real nature--
always present
but covered by the disillusionment in mortal life
that an outward quest will give us lasting and fulfilling satisfactions
If w...
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Patience and Tolerance
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Seeker Magazine
Patience and Tolerance
Patience does not crimp the flow of events
Patience accepts and tolerates
the different ways we each have
of seeing and acting out life
Tolerance accepts that each of us
is doing what we need to for this moment
Tolerance arises fro...
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Steps 8 & 9
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Step Eight "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all."
Steps Eight and Nine are concerned with personal relations. First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt t...
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Antidotes To Guilt
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ANTIDOTE 1 - Reflect on responsibility. Often it may prove it is/was not my responsibility or fault! Blaming oneself for everything negative that happens is a form of ignorance and self-centredness. Obviously, if I am careless and intended to cause problems, then I should take m...
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COMMUNICATION CHALLENGE
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Does anyone know the way to communicate, or how to get communication, from an emotionally unavailable man? Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
-- Edited by jeannie at 21:53, 2006-05-10
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Thursday
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Each Day a New Beginning.
Bad moments, like good ones, tend to be grouped together. --Edna O'Brien
Rough times may be pouring in on us at the moment, and they may seem unending. Difficulties appear to attract more difficulties, problems with loved ones, problems at work, problems wi...
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Higher Awareness--Time
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Spend time with your soul
"Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise."
-- Sophia Bedford-Pierce
What would your soul consider a waste of time?
To a soul, the only real time is right NOW. Not the future or the past. It lives in connect...
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Morning
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Hello. woke up this morning - felt not a great deal to be excited about. it says quite clear that we suffer from self delution.
Its a sunny day, I have a dog to walk, a pool to swim in at the near by leasure ctr and some records to be listenning into.
I think its time for action!!
bye for now.
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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS IS A 'SPIRITUAL PROGRAM'
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-- Edited by Toni Baloney at 11:44, 2006-07-19
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sure path to frustration
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from "The Grapevine"s 'i-say':
A sure path to frustration is to always expect perfection from imperfect people.
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Hey...How ya'll doin???
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Yu know how..yu can be in a problem sometimes...and yu just hafta step outside the problem ...and
look at solutions..? Like easy does it....and dont analyze the crap out of it?
The best reaction is no reaction..
Live and Let Live..
...and Let Go stuff? A mirror helps..(s...
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the Grapevine
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I just found the link to the magazine that AA puts out, called 'The Grapevine":
http://www.aagrapevine.org/
love in recovery,
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5 days now !
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I made it to 5 days.
Sweats abit last night but not that much, alot better. Very tired today. Work was dull and irritating but nvm.
At tomorros meeting i can now say, for the first time, that i have some days sober. I guess tomorrow night is gona be difficult after the meeting..&n...
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To: Phil
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Hi Phil,
Just want you to know how much I have been missing your Posts, and your presence here. A break, or a breather is healthy, but just wanted to say I feel most of us are really missing you a WHOLE BUNCH!
A Big Hug, and look forward to your return, whenever that time comes. Just hope you have not...
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FORGIVENESS?
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Explaining Forgiveness? "I want to have some peace but I am not sure how to reach it. Can you forgive someone and still not accept what they did, still be upset with their actions, and choose to limit their involvement in your life? Or does forgiveness mean unconditional love, understanding and tryin...
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wherez phil???
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Has anyone seen Phil in a couple of days???
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from Step 12 - ACoA & How it Works
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from the book, "The 12 Steps for Adult Children"
Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs"
p. 154
"We can prepare for Step 12 by ensuring that our Higher Power has been a part...
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my sponsee got drunk
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I got a phone call from sponsee this morning , she confessed to me she got drunk. After working off some frustration (by exercisng), and calling sponsor and talking to her about it, I am feeling sort of numb. I was curious, what are some approaches that you all use with...
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the good ol' days ...lol
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The Five Stages Of Drunkenness And Sobering Up
Drinking
* Stage 1 - Clever: This is when you suddenly become an expert on every subject in the known universe. You know you know everything and you want to pass on your knowledge to anyone who will listen. At this stage you are always rig...
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Clear Head
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Hi there, heads feeling a little clearer now. been to work today, seems ok, managers are as useless as ever but not too bothered! trying desperatly to save money as that is my latest addiction!
how are you guys?
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A REALLY BAD DAY.
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Deleted post.. cost it makes me sound pathetic.. -- Edited by Rob at 13:43, 2006-05-10
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What can I bring?
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Good morning all.
I just wanted to share something that has become a paramount part of my recovery. It actually started when going through a Big Book study with a group I used to belong to in my old home town. As we were reading through the chapter "Working With Others", we stumbled acros...
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Soul Perspective on Control
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Control
Do you have control issues? Personality control is the biggest issue everyone must face in the spiritual journey. Because this is not understood nor often enough addressed, the spiritual journey for many is a disguised ego trip.
We think we can control everything we experience – with b...
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What Others Think of Us - - -
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Good Afternoon to all,
For some reason today, my old Sponsor, from many years ago, has been on my mind today, she was a very wise woman. She had about 20 Degrees from Stanford University, in the Field of Pychology, and way beyond that she had one of the Stongest Spiritual Programs of any that I have se...
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Step 11 prayer
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Lord, make me a channel of thy peace--that where there is hatred, I may bring love--that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness--that where there is discord, I may bring harmony--that where there is error, I may bring truth--that where there is doubt, I may bring faith--that wher...
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Clearing a Channel
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from 'As Bill Sees It', p. 78
During the day, we can pause where situations must be met and decisions made, and renew the simple request 'Thy will, not mine, be done.'
If at these points our emotional disturbance happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance provided we remember, and rep...
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TURN IT OVER
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OK. please give me your perception on the turning over to god biz because I have probs with this bit , I have always looked after myself and look where that got me, I know I need to and want to hand over on each day., problem is how do I surrender? how how how? am I dumb or what? I dont get it.
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recipes from Rob & Robert?
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Along with everyone else's, I'm really interested in the recipes for the salads and stuff that Robert make,,, and I hope that some will be in the cookbook. eh, guys? One of my 'hobbies' is trying various recipes from different ethnic groups. What do the English eat? and the Canadians? the Calif...
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Hi all, I came back again
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Hi Everyone,
How you all been?.
Well last time I was here I was sitting on my 'Pitty pot' a little,
and hey guess what......? I'm back on it again,
I have had a drink every night this last week, but not got drunk...just had at most 4 drinks.
I lost my baby on April 30th, not through me doing anythin...
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evening all
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hi there, just got out of bed, was very tired, was my first day back today, re the stuff that happened last night, I am disserpointed in my sponcer, was as if he was tutting at me, tut tut tut well well, and then I quote "instead of turning to god you turned to drugs"
Not quite sure how i feel apart from , when...
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Day by Day - May 9
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"If we are asked for information or spiritual guidance, we should be sure that we have it before we try to give it away. We shouldn't assume that just because we are clean and sober anything we suggest is correct. There is nothing degrading about saying, "I don't know," or suggesting a more appropriate...
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Just sharing a bit
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I read the post by Robert that he took some pills and it made me think about where I am today and I wanted to share. I am Not pointing fingers at anyone, nor am I judging or taking inventory. Just sharing what it's like for ME AND HOW I FEEL TODAY.
Before sobriety, I was diagnosed with d...
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Daily Power Words
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Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year. ~ Horace Healing: Typically, when we think of healing our first thoughts turn to the physical. However health and the healing process are multi-lateral. We are all co...
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