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From The Language Of Letting Go
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Emotional Balance
The goal of recovery is balance - that precious middle ground.
Many of us have gone from one extreme to another: years of taking care of everyone but ourselves, followed by a time of refusing to focus on anyone's needs but our own.
We may have spent years refusing to id...
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Hi Phil...
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I like that, just when I think I understand everything, I regain consciousness. I don't know, having a rough time, maybe the sun needs to come back out, or I need to find that shut-off valve for the Heart. duh! Head has it, not the heart yet. doy, feel stupid. The...
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Finally made it
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Hi All - any chance of anyone popping in on the online meetings over the next few weeks? It might be good to get these happening... in the interests of those who pop into the board and are maybe hesitant or considering their first f2f meeting.
Also those who live too far from those meetings, and&...
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Honesty In Recovery
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Good Evening My Friends
When i entered into this program i thought of myself as an honest person but something happened today that made me rethink that. i allmost found myself slipping back into an old pattern. today a friend of mine asked me if i had ever stolen anything in my addiction? i was surpriz...
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A Really BIG page on ANGER
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THE FOUR FACES of ANGER
by Mark Gorkin, LICSW
What's the first thought that comes to mind when you hear the word ANGER? Frustration? Yelling? Loss of Control? Violence? Maybe fear, silence or avoidance? All reasonable responses...Or are they? A bit one-sided, for my taste, that is, the "ange...
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For some of us older folks
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Reason to smile:
Every Seven minutes of every day, some one in an aerobics class, pulls a hamstring.
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They keep telling us to get in touch with our bodies.
Mine isnt always that comunicative.
But I heard from it the other day
When I said
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Thank you to each and everyone
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My Dear Friends,
Thank you for being here when I needed you most! I was very much in shock, devastated and at a loss of self. Thank you for giving me a shove in the right direction when I hesitated. Thank you for giving me hope. Thank you for bringing peace to my heart and for all the wonderfu...
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Prayer And Medatation
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Good Afternoon My Friends
For a very longtime now i have struggled with prayer and medatation whenever i start to pray i get a 101 thoughts that start running through my head and they are at lighting speed. i pray for there removal they go away for a minute or two but then as soon as i start to pray again th...
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World Time Clock
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http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
For those like me... who just can't seem to get the whole international time thing sorted... A friend has just sent the answer to my prayers.
Hope others find it useful.
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The Meeting From Here
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Good Afternoon My Friends
Last night i went to the online meeting that is on this website the one for Tuesday and Saturday nights at 9pm. it could really use some support there was only two people there last night it was a great meeting but it could really use some of our help i remember my sponsor...
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Goodmoring...
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Well, good Monday morning all.Just finished my first cup of tea and need to get going for the day. Just want to share a little of my weekend. I was ask a few weeks ago to start a recovery program at my church, so I did ,we use the Alcoholics for Christ program, anyone heard of it? Anyway, we have had some good m...
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Todays Stuff
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A.A. Thought for the Day
"We cannot get along without prayer and meditation. On awakening, let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking. Our thoughts lives will be placed on a much higher plane when we start the...
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learned living
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"Don't let your worries get the best of you. Remember, Moses started out as a basket case" Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited - until you try to sit in their pews. Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers . It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to l...
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just feel like talking...
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there were a lot of things that led to my wanting sobriety. i've been drinking for 9 years, which is almost half of my life, and the funny thing is is that i never thought of alcohol to be a problem. when i was 15 i started using meth daily until i got pregnant at 17. i sobered up during the...
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First meeting
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Well I finally went tonight. My husband went with me to the open meeting. It was ok. I wasn't crazy how they went around the room and I had to at least introduce myself. I would have liked to have just sat in the back and listened but there was no "back". It was set up with tables set in a U shape so people were in...
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TO SERENITY & SCHLEICH...
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I want to welcome you both and I hope you'll keep coming back often... the more you share and get feedback, the better you get to know who and what you're all about. Going to lots of face-to-face AA meetings speeds up the process.
I came into AA thinking I was St. Alice, the sacrificial martyr.... you kn...
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Bizarre Thoughts And Feelings
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Life gives us so much time to collect bizarre thoughts and feelings. -
-Claire Weekes
As we go through life, we run into all kinds of negative messages: teasing on the school bus, insulting nicknames, and other put-downs. Pretty soon we may discover that some of these messages stick in our mind...
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Dealing With Anger
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Angry feelings is one of the greatest challenges for recovering alcoholics and addicts. Relapse is often related to the inability to constructively handle anger. Mismanged anger poses a threat to recovery for the newcomer and the oldtimer. Sometimes the greatest threat is to relationships.
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Self-Righteous Anger
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Good Afternoon My Friends,,,, This passage is taken from Step Six in our AA 12 And 12, Self righteous anger can also be very enjoyable in a preverse way we can actually take satisfaction from the fact that many people annoy us for it brings a comfortable feeling of superority. gossip barbed with our ang...
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a few quotes
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and truth. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You're not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly." by Rumi...
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Fear Of Socialization
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Hi my name is Serenity, I am new to this website and i guess i am what you might call coming back i suffer from the fear of socialization and i dont go out much. i go to online meetings, and i work the steps daily, i have a sponsor and we work very closely tog everyday on my recovery. i am sob...
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A little inspiration
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Hi all,
As some of you know I live on a farm in outback Australia. Some days I wake up wondering what on earth the next mountain will be I will have to climb, and ALWAYS ALWAYS think respectfully of those who have gone before us, and built the roads I ride on, and the lil towns I go to get supplies from etc. Ou...
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Vulnerability
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Vulnerability
Some of us may have made a decision that no one was ever going to hurt us again. We may automatically go on "feelings freeze mode" when faced with emotional pain. Or, we may terminate a relationship the first time we feel hurt. Hurt feelings are a part of life, relationships, and reco...
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5 Lessons
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Five (5) lessons to make you think about the way we treat people.
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>1. - First Important Lesson - Cleaning Lady.
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>During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions until I read the last one:
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A beautiful Prayer
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A BEAUTIFUL PRAYER
I asked God to take away my habit.
God said, no.
It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.
I asked God to make my handicappe...
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Self Esteem, Self Love, and Self Centeredness
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by Nancy Poitou, M.A., M.F.T.
I have been asked often about what is self-esteem, self-love and self-centeredness. These are very good questions and it is a fine line that separates these concepts.
Self esteem means to hold oneself in high esteem, feeling worthy of a good life and good tre...
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Canadian Eh??
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Was just thinkin--its nice to see a few Canadians on the board. Serenity? Im not too far from you--bout an hour n of Guelph. I did live in Scarborough at one time and spent 14 years in Brampton, until moving to Quiet Country. It wasnt quiet for long because I was still drinking---better now.:)
If I reme...
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Hi All
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A quick Hello to each and everyone of you!!!!
Phil,
I plan to commit myself in returning back to this message board on a more regular basis. I surely miss you all. My schedule has been altered in keeping it simple. I have taken on way too much the last few months. This week is very hectic in finis...
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Will Power--vroom!!
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WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to use a Higher POWER.
--Anonymous
One of the greatest decisions any of us ever made concerned our Third Step. This decision seemed to go against everything we wanted to do. We all know so well that every time we tried to manage our own lives, we produced misery and...
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just sharing a few things
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Trapped Within ~~~~
I feel trapped... Within my fears Within my dreams Within my hope Within my insecurities Within my life Within my love Within my loneliness I can't escape these feelings They always come back I could be happy *as forever* And with a single, errant thought CRASH The warm feelin...
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hello...
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Hello everyone. I am beginning my challenge to face my addiction to alcohol today. It has gone on for too long. I am 45 and have been drinking since I was 17; real heavily the last few years. I am going to a meeting tonight and am trying to get in a rehab program tomorrow night.&n...
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I need help.:)
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A blind man walks into a bar,
grabs his dog by its hind legs,
and swings him around in a circle.
The bartender says,
"Hey buddy, what are you doing?"
And the blind man says,
"Don't mind me,
I'm just looking around
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Understanding
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I read these posts and feel so bad for what alcoholics have to deal with. As a family member I can relate to how other family members feel but never really understood the pain the alcoholic feels.
I've written before regarding my dying (ex)husband and I wanted to share that in reading some of these pos...
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food for thought
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Easy Does ItStrain & struggle abound when we try to do everything ourselves, our way. We want positive change to occur immediately & expect miracles to happen according to our personal timetable. We sometimes feel that if our Higher Power is guiding us, we should be able to accomplish great...
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hello...
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hello, my name is Samantha, i'm an alcoholic and a drug addict. i'm 21 yrs old and have been clean and sober a little over 4 months. i'm trying to get as big of a support group i can, so i thought i'd see what this forum is all about.
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Humility continued....Step Seven is about Humility
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Humility
The AA Twelve and Twelve tells us that "the whole emphasis of Step Seven is on humility." We first looked at humility in the Third Step when we made the decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. "The attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each of A...
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Working Step Six, On The Question About Pride
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Good Afternoon My Friends, I am currently working on step six with a question about pride if anyone has any esh on step six or pride i would sure love to hear from yah.
Step 6 - I become entirely ready to have God remove all of these defects of character
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Make a list of good and bad ways th...
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A few things re Humility
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Humility looks like saying, “There is something here that I don’t know, the knowing of which would change everything.” Humility looks like saying, “You may be right,” or, “I can understand how you could feel that way.”
Humility looks like an open acknowledgement that we don’t have it all figure...
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An article about ego
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Struggling with Ego
By JJ Gormley
Commonly thought to represent the self, the ego commands center stage in our lives for the simple reason that the ego marks us as individually distinctive from other selves or egos. Our ego is basically our personality. Psychologically cast, ego controls our t...
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? Phil
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Since u live in Canada do u watch the red green show it comes on here Sat eve at
10:30pm It gives us a good laugh to go to sleep on. I know this isnt program
but tryin to lighten up Busbe
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it's a new day
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Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times.
Fortunately for baseball fans, Babe Ruth didn’t let his many strikeouts defeat him. He continued going to bat & he kept hitting home runs. How many of us stay willing to try an activity when we’ve experienced defeat, particularly public d...
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and how
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Today's Quote The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor’s shoulder is to pat him on the back. -Unknown
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Pssst...Phil....DW, all
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Hi, got any goodies on file about insecurity? Boy, I got very insecure after Christmas (and sick, physically and spiritually). THe old insecurities came out like a volcano... Needless... to say I made a huge mistake...but to make a LONG story short, maybe some things HAD to get w...
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New Years Resolutions
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New Year's Resolutions for Internet Junkies...
I will try to figure out why I *really* need 9 e-mail addresses.
I will stop sending e-mail to my wife (husband).
I resolve to work with neglected children -- my own.
I will answer my snail mail with the same enthusiasm with which I answer my e-m...
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Zoo, Phil....
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Well, Phil ...the zoo is pretty quiet. It's just me and the monkies in my mind. I gave my cat away a few weeks ago, he was not happy after my son went to college and life is a little calmer now. I am going to have to venture out in the cold in awhile to check on my Mom and go to the post office.
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Anger
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Q: What causes a person to experience anger?
A: There are basically two ways of experiencing anger. You can feel angry with yourself over not having done as well as you had hoped on an examination, or you can have the other kind of anger which is directed at someone else or some object. In other words...
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child of mine
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Child of Mine Oh, little child of mine I finally know you're here and I want you to know that I am learning to care I care that you were hurt deep wounds to soul and heart and I in ignorant blindness kept myself so set apart I didn't want to hear your rage from all the pain you've had I didn't know to reach for you...
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Accepting
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Accepting Help
Some of us have felt so alienated that we've forgotten we're not alone. We've come to believe that we have to do it ourselves. Some of us have been abandoned. Some have gone without love. Some of us have gotten used to people never being there for us. Some of us have struggled, had hard...
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Nic, catherine, anyone...dry or active?
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I read with great interest your posts on dry drunks. I witness, too, my spouse, get angry, disappointed in others ambitions and achievements, lose his clarity. Sometimes he tries to rain on my parade, spoil my mood. I usually have to pull out my boundary bag and use one for s...
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A Year To Grow
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A Year To Grow
This new year can be a time of growth in sobriety. While we have no crystal ball that tells us what luck and fortune the year will bring, we do have a program that gives us the power to make the best of this year, to grow in sobriety. We can make progress in overcoming resentment and selfish...
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