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A Bit Unsettled......Rehab???? Pills?????
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Ok...I am really confused. Sponsor recently (in her words...)..."strongly encouraged" me going to rehab. (She told me this was her friend's suggestion actually--the one she shared my stuff with recently). I haven't picked up again since my relapse. She said with everything going on w...
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Funnies!
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One of the greatest secrets of life is having patience & wisdom!
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Medical Update
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I'm home, First surgery complete, home resting. Lymph nodes gone.  Tongue surgery next wesnesday, please keep me in your thoughts and prayers.
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Sunrise Quote 1/15
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Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. ~James Russell Lowell
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Today's Gift 1/15
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I am living out my life in accordance with my faith. --Ruth CaseyDoes faith in God guide your actions as it does Ruth's? It's certain our actions are guided by some set of beliefs. If our memories of past situations are troublesome, maybe it's because we allowed our behavior to be controlled by certain...
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Promise
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if I win the 1.5 billion dollar lottery, I promise to up my financial contributions to AA, and, to help John out paying for this board. Matter of fact, if I win, I will just pay the yearly fees for this board for the rest of my life. just letting you all know in advance. It's The least I could do. (now com'on,...
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Sunrise Quote 1/14
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The meaning of life is to find your gift; the purpose of life is to give it away. ~Pablo Picasso
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Today's Gift 1/14
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I believe there has been a grand plan for my life; so much has happened that I hadn't counted on. --Louise JeromeWhat Louise believes might offer great comfort, particularly to a mind that is fraught with fear and uncertainty. But it's not all that important whether or not we believe that God has plann...
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How to Choose an AA Sponsor
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http://alcoholrehab.com/addiction-articles/how-to-choose-an-aa-sponsor/
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Time To Be Blunt With Myself - Help?
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Hello folks! Let's face it, I'm 22 and trying to grow up. Here's my deal: alcohol. I'm not even worried about ciggies...I've found them completely unappetizing but nevertheless, the easier of the the two. Now I've only been drinking for 2 years. Pretty heavily after diagnosis with type 1 diabe...
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Sunrise Quote 1/13
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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. ~Henry Drummond
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Today's Gift 1/13
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The adventure of connection is to speak out. . .The feeling of connection we yearn for with our partner comes when we speak what is on our mind; we have to stop guessing what each other feels and stop guarding against all offenses. A relationship with vitality is not so guarded that we constantly have to...
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Today's Gift 1/12
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Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. --Norman Vincent PealeWhat does it mean to like other people? It means giving respect and attention to their opinions and perspectives on life. It means respecting their feelings, attitudes, and values without passing judgment or...
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Phobaphobia...Fear of Fears
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I have lived most of my life being fearful.....I have hated going anywhere in the car for fear of getting in a car wreak. I have hated meeting new people for fear of what they would think about me. Any job I have managed to have I have had a fear of doing something wrong and getting reprimanded or fired. (And...
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Sunrise Quote
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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. ~Brian Tracy
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Today's Gift 1/11
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I can still remember my mother clutching her heart, threatening to have a heart attack and die, and blaming it on me. --AnonymousFor some of us, the idea that we were responsible for other people's feelings had its roots in childhood and was established by members of our nuclear family. We may have bee...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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January 11, 2016Quote of the Week"God will never give you more than you can handle - but life will." Before recovery, life was pretty overwhelming. It seemed that no sooner had I put out one fire that two more started. Without a Higher Power in my life, it was up to me alone to handle everyth...
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Grateful for my sense of humor....
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My sponsor called me yesterday. We were supposed to meet at 1:00 for our meeting. She said it turned out to be such a nice day (it has been raining a lot here lately) that she wanted to take her dogs for a walk and she had a commitment at 4:00 so she wasn't going to have enough time to do those things and meet wit...
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George A Little 1948 Article -- The Non-Alcoholic Who Started AA in Canada
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Very interesting..... http://www.barefootsworld.net/aagodconcept.html
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Today's Gift 1/10 ... Good One!
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Love is a positive feeling and if one cultivates this feeling in their life, they will surely free themselves from any unbalanced condition that surrounds them. --Syd BanksAnger, whether unfocused or triggered by a troubling experience or a hostile person, discolors our perspective through an a...
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A Good One for this Board as Well As Everywhere....
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"I have the right to have a different opinion from someone else and to feel at ease with this." This is from the Al-Anon Bill of Rights, which I stumbled upon. I am going to be working on this one because I have had problems with it. Think I already shared about me feeling like I had to agree, say...
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Today's Gift 1/9
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Today I will review the goals I've set for myself.Have I met some of them? Do some of them seem out of reach? If so, I will consider how I can simplify them by breaking them down into smaller goals.If one of my goals is to live in a nicer house, I'll look at ways I can begin to work toward that goal. Do I already k...
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The Latest
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I am at a loss.....my sponsor told me from the beginning that everything I shared with her was completely confidential. Then last night I get an email message from her informing me that she shared something of a sensitive nature with her best friend and someone she "uses as a co-sponsor" so...
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Today's Gift 1/8
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Suffering is a journey which has an end. --Matthew FoxPain is part of life. To live a spiritual life, we need a way to understand the suffering we sometimes endure. Looking back at other difficult times can give us a better perspective of the pain we feel today. All of us can recall a loss or a sudden diffi...
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Found Some Advice for a Friend
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Sunrise Quote 1/7
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. ~Irving Wallace
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Today's Gift 1/7
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We don't want to live in the past, but we do need to learn to live comfortably with it."We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it." This is a promise of the Twelve Step program.One of the most useful tools we have for learning to live with our past is the Fourth Step inventory. Onc...
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Quotes Worth Remembering
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I need to print out these and super glue them to my nose for my eyes to see and my brain to remember. Most of my "issues" have had to do with not being able to accept the things I cannot change and not working hard enough to change me instead of hoping/trying others will change. So I have a huge ego-...
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The "Right" Way to Say That is....
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When I was a kid I had a problem. I was teased unmercifully for it by other kids because I could not say words correctly. Some kids and adults tried to "teach" me how to say the words correctly. This made me feel embarrassment and shame. It wasn't until I was in fifth grade that a speech therapis...
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Sunrise Quote
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Today see if you can stretch your Heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much. ~Daphne Rose Kingma
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Today's Gift 1/6
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive. --Sir Walter ScottTo deceive means to fool people into believing things that are not true. As addicts, we did this in many ways. We lied. We hid facts. We were sneaky. While we were trying to fool other people, we also fooled ourselves. Ev...
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This is a Test...
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Just passing through -- Edited by MarcLacroix on Wednesday 6th of January 2016 01:01:31 AM
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Trust
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I have been in recovery for a short while 39th day. My dilemma is regaining trust which has been damaged by my alcoholism. I currently rent a house with my partner my name is not on the rent book and I would like to have a legal stand on tenancy. We also have a joint account which my salary goes in to but hers go...
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Today's Gift 1/5
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. --Spanish proverbThe beauty of the Third Step is that there's no real work for us to do. Making a decision to turn our will and our life over to the care of God requires no energy, no movement. We don't have to grit our teeth. It's only a decision an...
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All This God Stuff
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A woman I know was always bringing up that she didn't believe in God, nor did she have a Higher Power. Although I made it clear to her in the beginning of our "newly blossoming" friendship that I am a Christian therefore I do believe in God, it did not stop her from bringing up the subject during...
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What Other People Think of Me is None of My Business
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When I relapsed not long ago, I had decided I was not going back to AA the day I picked up again. I had "had enough" of sobriety. I allowed my depression and all over the place emotions get the better of me and I lost sight of what should have been my number one priority and that is to stay sober. Wit...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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January 4, 2016Quote of the Week"God can't give you anything new until you let go of the old." Oh how I love to hang on to what I think I know. I came into the program filled with opinions, ideas, resentments, attitudes, beliefs, etc., and even though many of them were literally killing me...
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Today's Gift 1/4
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Is there room in your day for the unexpected?Recovery works best for me when I'm open to what comes along each day. I used to set rigid schedules for myself, write long lists of things to do, and proceed through the day wearing the blinders of my preconceived scenario. Binges were my way of rebelling aga...
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Sobriety as A New Year's Resolution
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I like this article...so many good tips/points. I noticed that attendance for our New Year's Eve AA meeting went up quite a bit than it had been in months--we had a full house (and we have a fairly large meeting room). The number of people picking up chips was not very many, however at tonight's meeting,...
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Today's Gift 1/3
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Moral InventoryIt is fortunate that we can think in secret, because our thoughts would quickly get us in trouble if others could read them. In our thoughts, we can choose what we wish to reveal to others before we speak or act. In the long run, however, we do not really conceal our true thoughts and feeli...
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Sunrise Quote
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At the hour of death, when we come face to face with God, we are going to be judged on love-not how much we have done, but how much love we put into our actions. ~Mother Teresa
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My Three GirlFriends
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Hiya; Hope all is well with you all... Here is some food for thought for those of you contemplating a Step Four Sex Inventory. :) Adultery/Infidelity are not recognized as criminal activity in most states but when I examine my past behaviors I see that I had Three GirlFiends while I was married. I loved...
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Today's Gift 1/1
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. --Rainer Maria RilkeWe carry problems and discrepancies within us, quandaries that are not easily answered - and we have bigger questions about life and the world. Why did I act as I did in my younger years? C...
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Today's Gift 1/2
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Learning new waysOnce we make a connection with our Higher Power, the ongoing problem is to hold on to it. Repeatedly we slip into our old ways of thinking and behaving. If not curtailed, eventually these will lead us back to that first fix, pill, or drink. We need only a word, thought, or familiar situa...
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Got any funny recovery sms text lately?
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Last week I was a bit concerned about a newcomer who had an over preoccupation with female newcomers. I sent him a text saying "under every skirt is a slip". His response was "Yes I know. Marriage is like a deck of cards. In the beginning all you need is two hearts and a diamond. By the end,...
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Sad to notice the doorway getting narrower.
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More and more people are becoming aware of AA. What comes with that is a growing number of people who have become anti-AA. However, I have also noticed that most of them do not explain an alternative recovery program. Where I come from (Northern NSW, Australia) topic meetings are replacing identific...
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First time to reach out for help... wits end
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Hello,I'm reaching out tonight in hopes of any words of encouragement. I had my first drink at 13 and it was great - made me feel normal! I'm 45 now and have had a serious problem with alcohol for the past 8 years (although plenty of alcohol related drama many times before that), but the past two years ha...
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To ALL at MIP
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MY Wish for YOU This Year.
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i'm Partying this New Years!!
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I'm going to Party like crazy tonight... I just put a whole darn bag of popcorn in the microwave, made a ice cold Pepsi, and going to spend time with my sweet baby NF. (Netflix) until "the ball" drops. Bet I don't end up drunk doing stupid, or in jail having to ask someone if I can use the phone, or.... tomorr...
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Bat S@#t crazy and spiritually sick.
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If I make it to bed tonight without a drink, I'll have 7 months sobriety in the morning. I'm really not considering a drink, but I'm having a bad day and don't really want to talk about it at my home group tonight or to my sponsor, because I know I'm just being a weak snivelin' puss full of selfishness, self...
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