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aa big book
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Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power. take care wagon ...
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What are we doing here?
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Hi everyone,
Let me start off by saying that for 2 weeks, I have sat in the background watching the stuff that has transpired on this board go on. I had chosen to not practice my control issues here, but instead seek Gods guidence and not let my ego guide me in how to deal with the variety o...
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Sobriety Pets
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I know there have got to be some animal lovers here on this site, so I would like to hear about everyone's pets, how they enrich your sobriety, and what they tell you about yourself and your progress!!
My baby Scouty (my icon picture) is 10 months old, and she has taught me so much about myself a...
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Off Topic... Music Suggestions
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Sorry, if it's not ok for me to post this here, go ahead and delete it. Just looking for some suggestions...
Does anyone else here like rap? My ipod's full of rap but a lot of it's old stuff... a few newer songs I looked up on the rap station's website and downloaded... looking for some new stuff to down...
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Lemons
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Today's Gift.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade. --Dale Carnegie
Good fortune is built on misfortune. By losing a race we learn what mistakes to avoid next time we run. A burglar may make us install the lock that will keep out a murderer. Each time a toddler falls is a lesson i...
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i feel like a LAB RAT in detox
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 Im new to being sober. everytime i see a councellor or nurse or doctor i feel like a specimen, or exhibit a. "this girl is withdrawing from blah blah blah" " and she is suffering from this and that" aaaahhh, when i talk they look at me all screw faced like  and will you be.. "s...
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sorry Rob, I called you John!
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sorry bout that. I replied to your 'getting back to AA' thread and I was referring to you as John throughout. I hope you are not offended. It must have been a Freudian slip, because I have a brother called John who has big drug problems and I am worried about him. Oddly enough, unlike everyone else in our fa...
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On The Lighter Side....
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Paddy, the famous Irishman, is driving home after downing a few at the local pub. He turns a corner and much to his horror he sees a tree in the middle of the road. He swerves to avoid it and almost too late realizes that there is yet another tree directly in his path. He swerves again an...
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Feels like the Train is SLOOOWING Down!
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This site engine is really slowing down, now at the Bottom of the Page, that usually shows "Transerring Data" it is now showing "Tranferring data from Sparklet" which is the message we get when it site goes down.........so hold on tight.....cause I think it is coming to a screahing halt.......hope n...
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1000 Post - Yicks
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Don't know how to feel about this, this will make 1000 Post and Response from this Alke in 6 months. I am only so greatful that this is only a typing forum, and not a speaking forum, because I would be suffering a lot today, with the reputation of being a Pretty Big Mouth, saved by the Bell, or by Cyber space,...
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Belle of the Bar - on the 'Net?
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Hi all,
I was at an AA meeting recently and the reading from the Big Book was "Belle of the Bar". I got so much out of that and it was so me! It isn't included in the copy of the Big Book that I have. I have been searching for it on the Internet all morning using Google, but I haven't been able to find it. I have...
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physical pain, expectations, sobriety...
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Hi pals...
I am in a horrendous amount of physical pain today... just taking Tylenol and laying back... very very aggravated.
Pulled my back out major-league right under the left shoulder blade... how it happened: we had an old pool table in the garage that needed to be dis-assembled in order to b...
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How I Feel Right Now!
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It just had to happen. He just had to do it.
OK, folks, this is going to be a major moan here, but I've gotta get it out. I apologize in advance.
I've had a wonderful day. I joined this great Forum this morning and introduced myself. You have to be the best folk that I have ever 'met'. You have all gi...
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NewbieAlchie
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Hi All! I just signed up for this and am looking forward to supporting anyone who needs it. God knows I do. So hi and howdy and hello.
So I am going to type out some frustration because at 12:00 am there are no meetings in the area and I looked online to see if the...
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Hi Everyone
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Good evening. To the new people: Welcome, To everyone else: Apologies for my absence.
Drunkenness is a self fulfilling condition: You can't be normal without drink............. I took the time out from work.
This for me is the third (or forth) attempt at sobriety............ it feels good so f...
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CHECKING IN -PHIL
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Hey,
Just had to come over on this side and read your posts Phil they always encourage me and move me in the right direction.They are simple ..
I am doing good working it and staying busy work , kids and on and on .
miss your posts
Dori a greatful person in alanon
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To Cabbagehead Chris
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My deepest apologies, I went into your Post, and took out the "FF" AA. Which is standard procedure around here now.
That is all I took out, and when I went back to re-read your post, I accidentally removed about a third of the end of you Post.
Please, Please forgive me. It was an accident. and I am s...
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TODAY
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And if not now, when? --The Talmud
It's so easy to put things off. Sometimes we're like Scarlet O'Hara, who hoped and dreamed for a better life by saying, "There's always tomorrow." But is there always a tomorrow? If we live too many of our days counting on tomorrows, we may find o...
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It's a small world!
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I went to my meeting tonight and we were sitting there talking and this loud motorcycle pulls up and someone starts saying something about someone named Skeeter, and I'm sitting here thinking there's not that many skeeters around... My husband's uncle is named Skeeter, and I knew he was a recovering...
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on top of the world feeling
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Did anyone else here get this way when you stopped drinking and started going to AA? This really good feeling like you're on top of the world... my sponsor said some people get that way just from putting down the alcohol and doing something good for yourself. I've definitely been this way over the past w...
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Newbie Here!
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Hi everyone,
I have just joined this forum and wanted to say 'hi' to everybody.
My name is Carol and I'm an alcoholic. I have been sober since November 5th 2005 and I am feeling really great about it. I'm starting to feel great about life and beginning to love every minute of it.
I regularly a...
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BAWLING MY EYES OUT...
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There it goes again... the beautiful happy-crying thing again...
Just wanted you all to know that I am so in awe of so many of you and your journey(s)...
I just started crying again after decades, and have not shed a 'pain-tear' yet (I know they will come at some point...) but I am being washed with te...
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My Daughter
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Hello Everyone,
I am new here and hoping someone may have some words of wisdom. I recently attended a few alanon meetings and am finding them helpful. Last night I also attended an open AA meeting which was also very informative. I'm hoping someone may have an opinion on my daughter-- if this i...
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Soul Perspectives 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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So friends im still alive, after a hospital visit
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So after I posted my "IM GOING CRAZY!" message, i went to bed only to find the next day to be alot worse. By night time i really needed to talk to someone, so i called the nurses hotline. I told her my physical symptoms and she said i was going through sever withdrawal. So she said I HAD to go to the hospital. I t...
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Friends- OM
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Gifts We Give ourselves Friends Good friends enrich our lives in so many ways. Through a magical combination of similarities and differences, friends offer us the opportunity to know ourselves as we are and help us grow into who we want to be. Our similarities attract us to each other, c...
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Making Life Easier
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Life doesn't have to be hard.
Yes, there are times we need to endure, struggle through, and rely on our survival skills. But we don't have to make life, growth, recovery, change, or our day-to-day affairs that hard all the time.
Having life be that hard is a remnant of our martyrdom, a leftover fr...
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Hi there again...am back in the relatively real world....
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....and not drinking! Only been a couple of days. I still can't get to any meetings: my daughter who is only three prevents me from going to all the local ones except for this one on Fridays where they have a creche. There should be more creche meetings! Maybe I could start one up myself, but...
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Dragons of the mind
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There are five drivers that get in the saddle and drive us. They’ve got spurs on their boots and they kick us, and all of our emotional miseries come from being dominated by one of those drivers."
Here are the drivers:
Be perfect.
Please everybody.
Try harder.
Be strong.
Hurry up.
Have y...
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Hi Everyone!
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Good day to be sober! Hope you are all doing well!
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Life on Life's Terms
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Hi to All,
Just glad you are all here today.
Toni -- Edited by Toni Baloney at 20:10, 2006-06-30
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Sherr
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Did you find us, you have to sign in, o.k.?
Toni
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Numb
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Well I am going to write this, and then probably edit it out, I don't really know if it belongs on this AA Board. As some of you know, I have a Son, that is in Prison, for committing a very serious crime, while in the middle of a pychotic break. He suffers with Schizophenia, and had been taken good medication...
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Thought for the day
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The A.A. way of living is not an easy one, but it's an adventure in living that is better than our old drunken way of living that there's no comparison. Our lives without A.A. would be worth nothing. With A.A. we have a chance to live reasonably good lives. It's worth the battle, no matter ho...
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Sober for 3 years, but new to AA
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I am a 27 year old female who had a very bad drinking problem. I truly don't think I was the definition of an alcoholic, because I didn't need it 24/7, but I definitely abused alcohol. I was a binge drinker and throughout high school and college that was very normal behavior.&...
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Everyone knows now
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I just emailed the last person I felt needs to know about the drinking and AA... my best online friend that I've known for 7 years... he was there for me through problems I had when I was 15 and 16, he helped me to find out about God and know God and eventually led me to decide to get baptized about a year after I...
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struggling tonight
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I'm struggling tonight and I don't want to call my sponsor because she's already in bed, she said she had to work early in the morning. I know, I know I should call anyway but I can't bring myself to call people this late at night. Nothing's wrong, it's just late on a Saturday night with nothing to do so I wan...
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Choose differently
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"It is always your next move."
-- Napoleon Hill
The great benefit of heightened awareness is that we have more choice in how we live our lives. At any moment, we can purposefully choose a new experience for ourselves. We can choose to pay attention, breathe more deeply, laugh, rest, play, appreci...
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I'm back...I'm here...I'm still sober!
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First...thanks to those of you that msg'd me privately thinking of me...it sure was nice to log in today to find so much thoughtfullness!
I'm sorry for my abrupt absence....I was having a hard time....Thursday was my 5 month sobriety birthday and I was feeling really discontent and agitat...
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Walked out of a Meeting
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Last night I went to a meeting. Vented some garbage that was in my head. Then this lady starts talking and talking and talking and talking and talking. You get the picture. I really don't want to hear about your active alcoholism and your views on stuff other than alcohol. That was how I felt. Said Fu** th...
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Letter from alcohol?
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At the AA group I go to they have a letter on the bullitin board from alcohol to the alcoholic, where it's saying it's your best friend and all this stuff but it makes you realize how bad it is and what it's done to you. I'd seen one online for self-injury before too but never saved a copy. I was wanting a copy o...
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Goodbye
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Well Folks, Through Prayer and Meditation I have come to the decision that I cannot be an active participant of the Group here. It was a hard decision to make but the only one that I feel at peace with myself about. This is undoubtably one of the best groups in recover on the internet today. It is not the gro...
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Higher Power
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New website: blog.asweunderstandit.com Designed to support those lacking belief or faith in God, yet still maintaining their sobriety through the remainder of the AA program
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Tonights Meeting
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Just a reminder, on the AA chat there's an AA meeting at 6 PST, 9 EST on Tuesday's and Saturdays. Just left the meeting, and we could use a few more people. Had a wonderful chairperson tonight, and an excellent topic. Hope others will join us. Saturdays are good for me, Tuesdays iffy, but su...
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alittle resentment
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We all know resentment isnt good.I have been going back to meetings sharing i had 16 years and picked up and how gratful i am to have came back.there is always someone who wants to beat you up about it.as if im not doing a good job of doing that myself.He really got me angry i said thank you for your caring and...
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Struggling
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Was feeling good all day up until I got to my meeting. Talked with one of the old-timers and got a huge reality check. Kind of gained a new perspective on meetings and how to view things. All I know right now is that I'm in spiritual pain. All this stuff on my mind and it's all crap I can't do anything about. Fe...
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Perscription
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A friend sent this to me - thought I would share it - hope you like it .
Prescribed by the** **Great Physician** ** ***************************** The next time you feel like GOD can't use you, just remember... Noah was a drunk Abraham was too old Isaac was a daydreamer Jacob was a liar Leah was u...
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finding a higher power
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Did anyone else struggle with this when you started AA? I have no faith anymore. I was a wiccan when I was a young teen, and then I became a Christian when I was 16 and lost my faith about a year ago. I believe there's some type of god because I don't believe in evolution or the big bang theory, someone had to cr...
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Acceptance and Surrender
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Each Day a New Beginning.
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. --Olive Schreiner
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change. Many times -- yesterday, last week, today, and even tomorrow -- we'll come face-to-face with a seemingly intolerable...
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Emotional Sobriety...???
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 Anyone been to any of these non-AA workshops? Just wondering.., thuinking about attending one, but dunno yet. Would like to get some opinions first....
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