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frustrations
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receintly I have been around people who can't seem to get the program and yes It is one of thoes things that let me look back on the early days. I can honestly say I don't know how I understood the prograqm and try to live day to day practicing what I have learned. I know that it was all the God of m...
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to the group
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Tradition One
"Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on AA unity"
Without unity, AA dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each AA's life depends on obedience to spiritual principals. The group must survive or the individua...
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Thoughts For Monday
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From early infancy onward we all incorporate into our lives the message we receive concerning our self-worth, or lack of self-worth, and this sense of value is to be found beneath our actions and feelings as a tangled network of self-perception. --Christina Baldwin
Lifting our self-esteem is...
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Relapse signs and symptoms
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Relapse Signs and Symptoms
Experiencing Post Acute Withdrawal: I start having problems with one or more of the following; thinking difficulties, emotional overreaction problems, sleep disturbances, memory difficulties, becoming accident prone, and/or starting to experience a serious s...
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steps
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Sponsor to Sponsee: You can certainly avoid working the steps for as long as you wish... my experience has been that I have never woken up to white clouds, blue skies, and chirping birds and said, "Gee! I just feel so damn great, I think that I'll work the steps!" My experience has been that I generally...
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AA on Toast
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AA on Toast February 1956 AA Grapevine This is what I told Joe: "There are no musts in AA. Take it cafeteria style -- take it your own way. Don't worry about the spiritual part of the program. Take the First Step, but never mind the rest of them right now. Just stay away from the first drink for twenty...
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Family matters
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I am doing my best. I emailed my sister and brother that I didn't want to be treated like they were the ones who had their shit together and I was some loser boozer.
Well my sister emailed me back this very cruel and biting email. It was filled with half truths and superiority. (My sister smokes marijuan...
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Problems stress
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Ok, Im really stressed out here, the transmision in my son's car just went under so now he needs a new transmission for his car or at least a used one, my son doesn't have a job, he doesn't seem to even care about his futrue or getting a job. There are many other problems but I just can't talk about it al...
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Alanon Share
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Detachment is neither kind nor unkind. It does not imply judgement or condemnation of the person or situation which we are detaching. It simply is a means that allows us to separate ourselves from the adverse effects that another person's alcoholism can have upon us and our lives.
I am making a cons...
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Tuesday
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You are reading from the book Each Day a New Beginning.
Without discipline, there's no life at all. --Katharine Hepburn
Procrastination is habitual. It's perhaps a habit we've struggled with over the years, and not one that can be willed away. It eats at us, no doubt. How many times have we go...
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Police Dog In Training
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http://www.12stepforums.net/mid/dogboard.wmv
Ya never know where you'll get pulled over or what by anymore....
Smile some today...
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Where are Suzy, Matisa, and Back4good?
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You know me, I miss people when they don't check in? I hope all is going well for these 3 and others who haven't posted lately?
Back how did the appointment go?
(((Hugs)))
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um-Nic Gal?
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I have no idea what you looking to be explained my freind--re the following part of a post from below.
I can remember a day or so ago responding to a post by someone that was asking for advice, and my answer was, I beleive--that "You do what you feel is right" which simple means "be honest."
Noth...
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Lets learn about each other
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How and when did you start drinking?
How has drinking affected your life?
How and when did you realize you had a problem?
How long have you been attending AA meetings?
I'll start.
I started drinking when I was 18. I never drank during high school but a few months after I started going...
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I Need some advice please!
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What do you think???
Ok friends...i need a little help with this one.... I've been at my job now for 3 1/2 months, some of you know it's at a personal care home...i look after 5 sweet little old ladies. My boss has to do a criminal background check on me..it's a liscensing requirment. I turned myself i...
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Wear Sunglasses!!!!
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Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97, Wear sunscreenIf I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will...
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down in the dumps
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today was kinda along day for me rain most of the day. remindes me of what iused to do on days like this ,but i did not want to go there! i think yas know what that would be. so i just watched some tv. i guess im just one who has to stay busy.just thougt i would get allittle off my chest as it makes me feel better ,go...
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Entirely Ready?
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Daily reflection June 5
"This is the step that separates the men from the boys."...the difference between "the men and the boys" is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and for the perfect objective which is of God....It is suggested that we ought to become entirely wi...
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Hey Cheri!
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Why do we fight? --well-I dont know about you but I never did take or read directions and follow them.:) on anything.
Ile do this my way!!
With this kid, it was self centeredness, self will, stubborness--Im smarter
than you guys are--Ile fix it myself-Im not getting humble...
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Graditude
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Goodmorning, I started my morning off with a cup of coffee and a gratitude list. I am so thankful for ya'll, thanks for the replies to my post yesterday.
I am grateful for my God, my sobriety, my family,the health I have today,my serenity,the laughter in my life, my AA-Alanon family, my church family...
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Sunday
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To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. --Sir John Lubbock
A caterpillar knows instinctively that it must spin a cocoon. When finished it will use the protection it has made to turn itself into a beautiful butterfly. When the time is right, th...
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Anything is possible
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I jsut wanted to let you's know how important you are to me..and to thankyou for coming here every day.
I've enclosed a pic...if it works
From the bottom, top and sides of my heart..thankyou for being a part of my journey
Hugs to you all.
\\// & luv, Wendy
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um-did everybody leave town??
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Patience is the ability to: Sit back and wait for an expected outcome without experiencing anxiety, tension, or frustration. Let go of your need for immediate gratification. Display tolerance, compassion, understanding, and acceptance toward those who are slower than you in developing matu...
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Goodmorning all...
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I'm having another cup of tea, and then I'll get busy. I haven't left town. Just enjoyed my granddaughter yesterday. My daughter picked her up last night.
She had a talk with her Dad, he had cleaned himself up yesterday ,spent the day with his sponsor. Today he and his spon...
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Patterns and Unloving Light
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PATTERNS AND UNLOVING LIGHT The Hidden Infestation
Any part of us that has been in denial is vulnerable to unloving light's imprint/influence. And any part of us that has been in denial - if it has been outside us, outside our acceptance, especially if it has been in the gap - has been touche...
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Serenity Prayer
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When our life is not working the way we feel it should be, faith, trust and patience will lead us towards new insights if we allow it. If you can remember not to panic but to be still and "breathe" yes you heard right, I did say breath. Deep slow breaths to calm you down so that you can hear and feel the spirit w...
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Accepting Personal Responsibility
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What is accepting personal responsibility? Accepting personal responsibility includes: Acknowledging that you are solely responsible for the choices in your life. Accepting that you are responsible for what you choose to feel or think. Accepting that you choose the directi...
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other substances
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Anyone else here ever have any trouble with other substances like tobacco, caffeine, OTC medicines, herbs (like ephedra), etc. since getting sober?
I started smoking again about a year ago after a 13 year hiatus. And I just can't seem to give up the massive dose of caffeine in the morning either,...
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Dreams
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Follow your dream . . . take one step at a time and don't settle for less, just continue to climb. --Amanda Bradley
Dreams are common to us all. Dreams are special as well. We probably keep to ourselves many of our dreams for fear of derision or misunderstanding. Oftentimes we may have selectively s...
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Venting
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Hey guys, It has been a rough few days. I am trying soooooo hard to let go and let God. I am having a lot of physical problems, headaches, joint and connective tissue pain and I know alot of it is because of the stress I am under, or should I say, I have put myself under.
I told you about my husband, well he was...
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when do cravings stop??
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 Last night I was fit to be tied. It's been only a week, and I had no cravings until last night. I would have walked in my nightgown to get a bottle of wine. It's disgusting. I wonder about my life without it and all my elegant restaurants without wine??? What do I order water??
I need that elegan...
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Ever done something heroic?
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The funny thing with saving lives, or protecting or rescuing folks is it never really seems heroic when you do it...you just do it. Then later, for me anyway...there's this weird peace that comes from knowing you were just in the right place at the right time.
Over the years I have pulled 7 drow...
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What is Vulnerability?
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What is vulnerability? Vulnerability is: Feeling of being exposed to emotional hurt, being taken advantage of, or abused. Feeling of being fragile, weak, or susceptible to emotional pain and suffering. Feeling of being trapped or imprisoned in a situation where your feelings and right...
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Another Day
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I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me. --Angela L. Wozniak
We create problems for ourselves because we think we need to be more than we are. We fear that we are inadequate to the task before us, fear that another person is more attractiv...
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For Anyone new coming to AA
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For Anyone New Coming to A.A. For Anyone Referring People to A.A. This information is both for people who may have a drinking problem and for those in contact with people who have, or are suspected of having, a problem. Most of the information is available in more detail in literature published by...
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'stay in the light'
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Obsession is this diseases middle name..well actually, first, middle and last!!! The only way to put that into remission is to practice taking our thoughts elsewhere as soon as we realize thats what we're doing!. Practice makes correction! Before we know it, it's happening less often... My head is...
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hard thing
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im doing pretty good except that old friends do not treat me the thesame as they did when i was drinking so i just been staying away and staying closer to my family these friends are of course still drinking . i miss some of them do you have to give up these friends forever somewhat sad . ...
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USA
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Im just wondering is anyone else in here from the USA besides me?
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dpendancy
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Hi guys
Hoped someone could help clear this up a bit for me. Since my recovery in AA started I have realised recently that alcohol aside, I have dependancy problems. I latch onto something and then I am reliant on it or them.
I have realised and accepted that after 12 years of mar...
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What Is Trust?
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What is trust?
Trust is:
Letting others know your feelings, emotions and reactions, and having the confidence in them to respect you and to not take advantage of you.
Sharing your inner feelings and thoughts with others with the belief that they will not spread them indiscriminately....
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Where have you been?
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I love Australia, but am still yet to make it over west...I love travelling, especially on my bike. I can roam for hours and days if life lets me. I love the long roads, the different people, and the wildlife when you get out in the boonies. I love the Queensland weather for roaming, but enjoy the historic...
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long time no see...
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hey guys and gals...
I started this new job and are doing work on the computer at home and I haven't had the time to breath...
I never had to do serious work on the comp before and was entirely burnt out ant the thought of getting on this board and seeing the comp was not as relaxing as it was before...lol...
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Today-A Changed Outlook
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What makes you laugh?
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I just love it when important people...or people who are trying to be important...do dumb things like the rest of us. You know...when Camillia or the Prime Minister trips over...or when newsreaders have a cough...I love that stuff.
When I stood very majestically for my wedding waltz (knowing ful...
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What scares you?
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My biggest fear would be losing my kids. There is a boy here in Australia who went missing 18 months ago. He went to buy Christmas presents for his family and was never seen again. I ache for his parents and his twin - the pain must excrutiating. The thought makes me shudder.
I don't fear drinking anymor...
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New hobbies-staying sober
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 I have already decided to get a sewing machine. I have made up my mind that part of my obsession with drinking was keeping myself busy, only with something poisonous to my body and mind and spirit. I feel so much better already and have gone to a couple of amazing meetings. I start the real work...
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Tonight....
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Tonight is birthday night at AA, I am on my way to pickup the cake.One of our members is having his 15th birthday and we may have one with a year also.But you know the most important person at the meeting will be any newcomer who might be there tonight.I have to always remember that, and reach out to them, li...
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alone@sad
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Im so tired of being alone and Sad, Its so hard not haveing any friends, my feelings sometimes get out of control and Im overly emotional,,, most of the time I just don't know what to do when that happens..
Oh well just venting,,
Godbless!
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Say Yes to Life!!!
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AMBITION
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure." --Thomas Alva Edison I need to strive for new things in my life. I need to push out into new areas and discover the richness of God's world. I need to explore the varied creativity of creation.
There is so much th...
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tryin' is good...doin' is even better!!
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i never thought you would get to this day and gone so far in getting clean. i guess that came from the first time you went to rehab, after that i lost confidence but you've proved me wrong. for the first time in my life i'm glad to be proved wrong ---but you need to give yourself lotsa time and have lotsa p...
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