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Letting Go
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Letting Go To let go doesn’t mean to stop caring; it means I can’t do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off; it is the realization that I can’t control another. To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences. To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the ou...
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Spirituality
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Spirituality
When I am at peace with myself and my Higher Power, there's no greater force. No person, place, or situation has power over me. I will ask my Higher Power to grant me the strength I will need to be the best I can be today. I will take in my Higher Power until my whole being is filled with the s...
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Give Thanks
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"Though I still find it difficult to accept today's pain and anxiety with any great degree of serenity -- as those more advanced in the spiritual life seem able to do -- I can give thanks for present pain nevertheless.
"I find the willingness to do this by contemplating the lessons learned from pas...
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Humilty
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Dr. Bob defining humility:
On his desk, Dr. Bob had a plaque defining humility:
"Perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble.
It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore;
to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing
done against me. It is to be at rest when nobo...
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Choice
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"Yet we finally did make choices that brought about our recovery. We came to believe that alone we were powerless over alcohol. This was surely a choice, and a most difficult one. We came to believe that a Higher Power could restore us to sanity when we became willing to practice AAs twelve steps. In sho...
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Misery
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I have been sober 3 days now. I am upset about the fact that I am not happy all the time. I mean I am miserable a lot of the time, in spite of the fact that I feel physically better than when I was drinking and I am very glad that I have stopped . I want to be acstatic but I feel so low sometimes l...
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god chose us
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Why We Were Chosen
God in HIS wisdom has selected this group of men and women to be the purveyors of His Goodness. In selecting them through whom to bring about this phenomenon, He went not to the proud, the mighty, the famous or the brilliant. He went to the humble, to t...
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Goodmorning all...
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I wanted to check in this morning and see how all is going. I have been busy caring for my Mom and getting ready for a garage sale with a friend. I miss you all when I can't get on 4 or 5 times a day.
Good for you Miller, 32 days, one day at a time. That's how we all do it. It sound like you are living life on lifes te...
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let go let god
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Rick
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Hey, thanks for your shares while Phil is away--appreciate the effort. you posted some real good stuff. Wish I could have added to them but this isn't my week, one of thoes times that I needed to step back and get direction.
just wanted to say thanks and God bless...
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BB QUOTE
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"Many of us felt that we had plenty of character. There was a tremendous urge to cease forever. Yet we found it impossible. This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as we know it—this utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4...
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pushing forward
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Picked up a yellow chip yesterday... long thirty days.
I wont say all is great, or that my life is all fixed up, or even that Im happier now. Lots of things still really suck right now. I take some comfort in the fact that I now realize that even folks that arent alchoholics have problems. Im beginning, i...
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Unconditional love
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I lost my new puppy 11 days ago and tried to figure out why.
One girl said she may have gave her life up to save my grandson.
Maybe she was sent to help me with my depression ( bad at the time) and her job was over.
I thought God only knows ( after calling him names and cursing him)
I thought about...
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Dear Alcohol,
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Dear Alcohol, First & foremost, let me tell you that I'm a huge fan of yours. As my friend, you always seem to be there when needed. The perfect post-work cocktail, a beer at the game, and you're even around in the holidays,
Hidden inside chocolates as you warm us when we're stuck in the midst of end...
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Tuesday
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Stopping, calming, and resting are preconditions for healing. When animals in the forest are wounded they find a place to lie down and rest completely for many days . . . They just rest and get the healing they need. --Thich Nhat Hanh
We hurt. We suffer. We wrong our loved ones and they do wr...
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BB QUOTE
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"The less people tolerated us, the more we withdrew from society, from life itself. As we became subjects of King Alcohol, shivering denizens of his mad realm, the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down. It thickened, ever becoming blacker. Some of us sought out sordid places, hoping to fin...
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instinct to live
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When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unatrual act. Defying their instinctive desire for self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. They work against their own deepest instinct.
As they are progressively humbl...
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the value of time
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To realize The value of a sister Ask someone Who doesn't have one.
To realize The value of ten years: Ask a newly Divorced couple.
To realize The value of four years: Ask a graduate.
To realize The value of one year:
Ask a student who Has failed a final exam.
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Facing Your Fears
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Suzy...
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I just read your post below. It sounds to me this may be your bottom, and you said you will not drink today. That is where we all started, just don't pick up that drink today.
I really want to encourage you again to find a face to face meeting and go. If you call the AA number in the phone directory or the the 8...
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Prayer
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Praise God for who he is...just wanted to share this with my friends and family. Dear Lord, I thank you for this day. I thank You for my being able to see and to hear this morning. I'm blessed because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God. You have done so much for me and You keep on bl...
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Wishing each of you a great week!!
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Flying out in the morning to spend a few more days with my wife, on the East coast.
My thoughts are with each and every one of you each day, as we trudge this sobriety journey.
Some days arent easy, and others are great--Whatever the case may be--we do it TOGETHER. We do it with compassion, and underst...
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Faith, Trust, Patience, and Hope
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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 h...
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I need help. I am so screwed up.
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I got sober the first time back in 83 and stayed sober about 8 years due to lots and lots of meetings, a good sponsor, the steps, all that stuff. But the "God" thing never clicked for me and eventually drove me out of AA. More honestly, I drove myself out because I just felt so different because I could not "G...
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Whew
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Sure is quiet in here.:) everybody in sleep mode??
This is a description of depression.
People with a low self image ... who feel negatively about themselves ... are likely to feel depressed. Low self-esteem is not the only cause of depression. Other possible causes include an actual los...
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Wendy?
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Hi Wendy,
Just wanted to know how things are going for you? How's your Mom?
Love, cheri
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Today
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. --Helen Keller
There is wonder in the moment, if we but look for it, let it touch us, believe in it. And with the recognition and celebration of the wonder comes the joy we desire and...
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Julia and Suzy...
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I just want to say welcome to Julia and great to see you posting again Suzy, I've missed you. You are both in the right place to learn about the disease of Alcoholism, to hear how those of us who have found sobriety have done it.It is a one day at a time deal and I have to turn my will over to my Higher Power , who I...
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Patience
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Patience is taking an hour to put a post up on the board, and then having it dissapear completely.
Patience comes into play when one does not kick the computer, and calls it names, but takes a deep breath, and says" Well I got to read it all anyway' hahaha
You guys have a good Monday.!! -- Edited by Phil...
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Sunday
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It's been a week from Hell. But I didn't have to drink.
Thank God for meetings and this site. May you all have a wonderful Blessed Sunday. I pray mine will be better than last Sunday. As i say this week has been a real test, but it's over. ONE DAY AT A TIME
Lead Me and Guide Me
Almighty God, I h...
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Anxiety
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What is anxiety?
Have you ever felt the butterflies in your stomach before a big performance or speech or test? That's anxiety. Put simply, anxiety is fear. Anxiety is normal. It's normal to feel scared before a big event. Anxiety can show up as a variety of body signals: elevated heart rate, excess...
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Thank You
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I can't beleive the caring I feel coming from your replies. It's hard to accept that people really care about me when you don't know me. When i drink that is lkely a good thing. I have gone to a meeting each day and am finding that it gives me strength. This happened last time but I thought I was stonger than a...
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negative thoughts
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln
Our negative thoughts can be like pebbles rolling down the mountainside. One pebble bumps into another one. The second begins rolling and slams into a third. On and on it goes until thousands of pebbles, rocks, an...
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Saturday
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. --Mark Twain
It is not unusual to feel afraid. It is unusual, however, to hear anyone admit to feeling afraid. Sometimes we think there are some people who are so cool and calm that they never feel afraid. This may make us think we'r...
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Hey Cabbage!! Ole Chap!!
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Read your response to anxiety. Been there. Drove myself nuts between depression, anxiety, and bottled up anger . Went to councelling-did 4rth and fifth steps--the whole ball of wax. Finally went to a good phycologist where I was told my body chemistry was way outa whack likely partly due to al...
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Phil and Rick...and all
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Phil , I want to say thank you for all the encouragement you give me in this situation with my husband , and if I thought it would help I'd sent for each and everyone of you to help , but I think, your prayers will help just as much. So thanks to all who will pray for my husband and me.
And I am smiling to...
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Doin' the happy dance...
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..Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that. It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will find release from care, boredom, and worry. You're imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Thus we fin...
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We need your support !
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Hi there we do need your support!
Please visit our new A.A. discussion forum and post a message.
www.AAcanada.com discussion forum.
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smile
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There's one thing you can't give away. You can't give away a smile. It always comes back to you. --Violet Hensley
We have had years of experience with the results of smiling. How many times have we felt better simply because we smiled, even at a stranger? Smiling is somewhat like yawning. When we see s...
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Happy Friday!!
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Coping With Stress
Inevitably, there are times of stress in our lives, no matter how long we've been in recovery.
Sometimes, the stress is outside or around us. We're feeling balanced, but our circumstances are stressful. Sometimes, the stress is within; we feel out of balance.
When the stre...
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wantneeda
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thanks for the site I put it in my "favorites". Now I will be able to do anything on the computer and listen to the program at the same time instead of my music. A must check-out site!
God Bless and Good Night Everybody...
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XA SPEAKERS
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http://www.xa-speakers.org./pafiledb.php?action=category&id=13
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Cultivating Faith-april 21
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"I don't think we can do anything well in this world unless we practice it. And I don't believe we do AA too well unless we practice it....We should practice...acquiring the spirit of service. We should attempt to acquire some faith, which isn't easily done, especially for the person who has al...
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An Article On Handling Fear
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Everyone has times when they're afraid of something. Fear has a legitimate function for us because it alerts us to something which could possibly be harmful to us. Usually, we are able to evaluate the situation and see if there is any real danger, then take steps to deal with it. &n...
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IF I KNEW
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IF I KNEW If I knew it would be the last time That I'd see you fall asleep, I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep. If I knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door, I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more. If I knew it would be the last time I'd hear...
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We are not cured
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"It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th E...
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growth
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"Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him. Afterward, we found ourselves accepti...
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why can't I seem to do it
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I am so glad I found this site. I have screwed up AGAIN. I hate myself and what I become when I drink. This is my third time coming back and I have to make it this time. I need your help
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I Am Your Disease
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I hate meetings. I am the disease of addiction. I hate everyone 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 adddicton. Cunning, Baffling, and very powerful; that's me.I have killed millions, and I am ple...
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