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I feel like such a fraud when there are other people with REAL problems and real reasons to drink
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I feel like such a fraud..
I am reading on here bout some peoples stuff.. about losing their babies etc.. Soo horrible.. I am on here.. cos i need to stop drinking.. I stoped last week for 7 nights!!.. but since sunday i have been drinking agian..inc tonight.. ffs
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Howdy Robert
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Welcome to the the board eh? Im from Canada..and up here..we speak funny...so Ile print slow..so you can read this ok.:)
Hows it goin?
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I have to ask....
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I am jumping over from the Alanon board to gain some insight. I have to ask why did my A quit having sex with me? He moved out in June. Said he didn't love me, never did. Life's too short. I am not happy in this relationship. He hasn't drank in over 20 years. He has other addictions and fixations. He wor...
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Emotional Intimacy
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by Robert Burney
One of the hardest things for any of us to do is to learn to have compassion for our self. In childhood we felt like it was our fault that our wounded parents treated us in the way they did. We felt that any abuse, deprivation, neglect, and/or abandonment (actual or emot...
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today's thought
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celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume, you shall assume. --Walt Whitman
Some of us may think Walt Whitman must have been terribly conceited to have written words like that. But he wasn't. He knew himself well, and accepted himself, even his darker side. He could laugh at himse...
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today's gift
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Make yourself at home.
It was night, only a few months after I'd begun my skydiving adventure.One of the other skydivers was sitting in a lawn chair. The evening lights had been turned on and he was wrapped up in a sleeping bag, reading a book under the hazy glow. He was one of the full-time sky...
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A Prayer...
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These last two days I have been discovering and rediscovering prayers
I just rediscovered this one: -paul
Teach me, Father, to be kind and gentle in all the events of life, in disappointments, in the thoughtlessness of others, in the insincerity of those I trusted, in the unfaithfulne...
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Thank You, Posters
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You all have been a Life-line to me through these last two mornings. I am so grateful for your words of love, and hope, and peace. Thank You all! -paul
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today's thought
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Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. --Thomas Jefferson
Some of the necessary things we do are tiring and annoying. Many of these things we must do regardless of how we feel about them. Doing dishes day after day can be a tiresome job, but no matter how much we hate it, it must be done soone...
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hi, rosie light shines
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hey, rosie, precious,, I'm glad you had confidence that I am including you, too. If there is anyone else whose name I didn't mention and who needs recognition and affirmation,,, please let me know. This is a total 'we' program, without exception.
love to all
in recovery,
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hi everyone, been having this stupid voice in my head talking about drinking well, off to another meeting take care wagon
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Hi There Phil!
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Hi my friend,
I was just thinking about you and all your troubles today.
I know this treatment can make you feel like, well you know what, and just want you to know that you have been on my mind, and in my Prayers for a speedy recovery, I know you said there is no speedy recovery to this.
Hope all the peo...
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hi, there, everybody!
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I just want to let you all know that I am praying for you all,,, Phil, Toni, Rick, benny, chris, chrisb, gammyrose, helen, doll, Rob, jb, mike from boston, dan, jersey, and all the 'guests'. This is a 'we' program. Sometimes we can do more in the way of support, and sometimes less,,, ...
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Hi Folks, nothing much to say
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I keep checking in here on a regular basis to receive: advice, wisdom, life experiences..it is helping in so many ways. Regarding my punch drunk feelings, I wonder if endorphins help? After a run I do feel better, still got the headaches, am going to take all your advice and re-assess thi...
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my mom
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mom died sunday of cancer, and we buried her today i am very sad, i been able to stay sober and thats the main thing. god bless u all wagon
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Toni
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Is this all u do ????????????
kidding I see u again.
Outta here !
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newbies and old-timers
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I remember very well my first months in recovery. I went to my first meeting with a determination to do what I had to do so that by the end of a year I would be fine and 'graduate'. I looked and listened to everyone who was sharing, and I looked at the people who had obviously been in the program for a lon...
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Friday
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A.A. Thought for the Day
After we've made a surrender, the drink problem is out of our hands and in the hands of God. The thing we have to do is to be sure that we never reach out and take the problem back into our own hands. Leave it in God's hands. Whenever I'm tempted to take a drink, I must say to my self:...
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A Spiritual Program
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I am reminded this morning, with all that I have read, (the whole page) that this is a Spiritual Program, nothing less, even when it appears to be something else, that is only an illusion. Reminding myself not to be deceived by outward appearances. Recovery in this Program &nbs...
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today's gift
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Being alone and feeling vulnerable. Like two separate themes, these two parts of myself unite in my being and sow the seeds of my longing for unconditional love. --Mary Casey
How easily we slip into self-doubt, fearing we're incapable or unlovable, perhaps both. How common for us to lo...
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Quote of the month Jan 1980 grapevine
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" The storm has passed. I've learned a little more about peace. It was inside all the time."
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Out of the cardboard box..
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Being patient or tolerant is a practice. Daily we have the opportunity to practice either or both of these qualities. Some days we are better at it than others depending on what else is happening in our personal reality. Perhaps having compassion and empathy for what might be going on in an individu...
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10th Step
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I'm cleaning out and sorting through my stuff, and found a few NA pamphlets. I think Rosie is doing a good thing by putting some of their stuff. It is as good as the other sources we're using.
I found a pamphlet that is about doing the 10th Step.. our daily inventory, and it ha...
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Thankyou xxx
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thank you so much for your support last nite (god seems like forever ago) it really helped me when i really needed it, today has been really hard but i have been able to be there for my friend today with a clear mind i feel i have been able to give her so much more than iwould have been able to give her a week ago s...
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I am having Problems Sending messages
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Hi Everyone,
Will anyone having Problems with navigating around the Board let me know, so I just just stop trying for a while.
it could be my PC, but if you are having similar problems, or not having any problems getting around, will you let know, Please.
Thank you in Advance,
Toni
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Step Eleven & Step Twelve
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It's Working
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It is hard for me to accept that I have been sober for 8 yrs, and am having to just keep reading page 449 in the big book. My van is in the shop and seems to be taking forever.
I will have to continue to wait. Financial pressure has my head working overtime. I believe I need to just get my van and get to my next jo...
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a couple of neat links
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hey,, I found these two links, which I added to my favorites. They are research and resource lists. One has a concordance to the Big Book:
http://open-mind.org/Alcohol.htm
http://open-mind.org/Directory/index.php?ax=list&cat_id=1
love in recovery,
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BB Quote
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"Yes, there is a long period of reconstruction ahead. We must take the lead. A remorseful mumbling that we are sorry won't fill the bill at all. We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we now see it, being very careful not to criticize them. Their defects may be gl...
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Easy Does It”
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Easy Does It”
“Easy Does It” One of A.A.’s Most Workable and Useful Sayings A.A. Grapevine, July, 1948 One of the most useful of the sayings that have been adopted in A.A. is that which advises, “Easy Does It.” So universally workable is this good advice that it qualifies as the expression of o...
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anger
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. --Albert Einstein
Anger can be a healthy emotion, provided we don't wallow in it or attack other people. When we express anger honestly and without reservation, we can prevent walls of resentment from building up and blocking us off from the inti...
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Prayer
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St. Theresa's Prayer:
May today there be peace within.
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget ...
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Step One ..of the 12 Steps Of Alcoholics Anonymous
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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable." Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our mi...
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Bad night
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Hi all, I'm fully aware that this post is totally irrelevent, I may not even post it. Just venting. I got called out to collect a deceased at 01:06 this morning. No problem, easy job, small person, no stairs.
Driving through a rural village a badger ran out in front of my ambulance. Swerved to avoid it,...
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Daily Reflections March 2
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HOPE Do not be discouraged. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 Few experiences are of less value to me than fast sobriety. Too many times discouragement has been the bonus for unrealistic expectations, not to mention self-pity or fatigue from my wanting to change the world by the weekend. Discouragement...
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An Article About Defences
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Defenses
Following is a list of defenses and some information about them. The list is not exhaustive, but covers the big ones.
Displacement -- One way to avoid the risk associated with feeling unpleasant emotions is to displace them, or put them somewhere other than where they bel...
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a setback can be a step forward??
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Success
"Any form of success was frightening and unfamiliar."
Basic Text, p. 14
Before coming to NA, few of us had much experience with success. Every attempt to stop using on our own had ended in failure. We had begun to give up hope of finding any relief from active addiction. We had grown acc...
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struggling
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really need help tonite i just need to get thru the nxt 40 minutes untill the shops shut so thought i wud spend a bit of it typing on here, my friend is 25 weeks pregnant and the baby died today i am heart broken for her and really want to blot this out but no i will be of no use to her drunk how can life be so cruel sh...
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Thoughts For Today
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Im not an alcoholic...Im a drunk..Alcoholics go to meetings
Drugs lead to nowwhere...but it is a scenic route.
Ive got a photographic memory..I just dont have any film.
Wanted: Meaningful overnight relationship.
Some people are only alive...because its illegal to shoot them.
I try no...
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Thanks everyone
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Just to say thanks to everyone on this site as it has helped me no end when I am at a loss as to what to do and feel like a drink I just log in and read all the posts. Thanks again.
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Wednesday Night Thoughts
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Failure, like everything else, is a choice. No matter how trouble infested your life may seem at the moment, there is nothing you cannot handle when you make up your mind to see yourself through it, around it or over it. You are a much stronger swimmer in this sea of life than you may realize.
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higher power
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My Higher Power - The Light Bulb By Clarence H. Snyder (Clarence got sober in 1938, was sponsored by Dr. Bob, & started AA group #3 in Cleveland. In the first few years of his recovery Clarence had a higher recovery rate than Bill W. & Dr. Bob COMBINED. His story, "Home Brewmeister...
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horrible morning---NEED protection prayers
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Anxiety Attack?
"[The] Power that brought us to this program is still with us and will continue to guide us if we allow it."Basic Text, p. 26Ever had a panic attack? Everywhere we turn, life's demands overwhelm us. We're paralyzed, and we don't know what to do about it. How do we break an anxiety att...
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Acceptance
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I have to accept everything as the way it is suppose to be at this moment.
I need not fight or express my opinion unless I choose to do so.
If I choose to open my mouth there may be consequences. I will never agree with everything and not everybody will agree with me. Just the way it is.
I choose my battl...
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on the road again
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ok everyone ,im on the road again 1st stop erie pa to see the kidds and wife then on to indianna for a school to get my cdl.thats some good news .i have been working hard to get to this point only with all of youre suport could i have gotton this far.i will continue to better my self and try to stay sober a day at a...
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third day
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hi everyone, i posted last friday to say i was looking for help in stopping drinking and thankyou for all your kind welcomes, when i posted my messege i did want to stop drinking but not so much as i do now, i have spent a few days reading over some articles and alot of your posts, i did a questionniare online...
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Our Disease
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I hate your meetings. I hate your higher power...I hate anyone who has a program. To all who come in contact with me, I wish you death and I wish you suffering. Allow me to introduce myself. I am the disease of Alcoholism. Cunning, baffling, and powerful.That's me. I have killed millions,and I am please...
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rearranging
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The latest news on how my apartment is coming along is that I have bought some different (not new) furniture, and given away some old. It still seems to be that there are parallels in what is happening now with my apartment, and what is happening with my life. Out with the old and useless, an...
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I got my 21 year token tonight...
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Tonight was birthday night at my home group, we had dinner before the meeting. I got my 21 year chip.
Twenty-one years...7,692 days sober...one day at a time and today was the day that counted the most.Won't bore you with my story...it's not any different than anyone elses...different peop...
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Hey..Benny The Bean
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Hows it goin down there..in the land of Bobby Orr fans...??
You doin ok?
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