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my thought for today
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Busyness rapes relationships. It substitutes shallow frenzy for deep friendship. It promises satisfying dreams but delivers hollow nightmares. It feeds the "ego" but starves the inner person. It fills a calendar but fractures a family...
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Change
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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
--Faith Baldwin
Change surrounds us. It lies within us, too. The trees in the yard have changed. They've grown taller. Their leaves die and scatter on the ground in the fall. We don't resemble our baby pictures much anymore, either. Like tree...
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Living Today
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Living Today
The beginning of the New Year will often bring back sad memories. This has been the big day for hangovers, coming down, remorse, guilt, and shame. But if we stay with our new purpose - staying clean and staying close to our Higher Power - we don't have to fear the New Year. God has forgi...
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HapPy nEW yeAr!
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Happy New Year!!
May 2005 be full of happiness, joy and freedom for both,
YOU and those you love!
Should you find yourself in a slump, just remember... YOU ARE A
MIRACLE IN PROGRESS!
Yours In Healing and Recovery, John F. Wilmington, NC
-- Edited by John at 01:10, 2005-01-01
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Taking the opportunity
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To thank each and every one of you for being here the last 365 days.
Its been quite a ride.
Looking forward to a smoother one in 2005--God Willing.
My sobriety moment of 20 years --one day at a time-- is tomorrow at 115pm
Im not bragging about that--Im just pretty damned grateful
I r...
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Today is a New Year
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Hi there,
I was browsing the internet and found your site after coming to terms with the fact that I am an alcoholic.
I am young, only 22 years old and are what some people call a "functional addict." I have the nice job, I'm active in my community, I was always class President in High Sch...
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Hello Hoolia - RE: Dry Drunk
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Welcome Hoolia!
This board moves quite quickly, with lots of people popping in, so thought I would post again to make sure you know you have been noticed, and we are glad you're here.
You asked, "What is a dry drunk?"
... to me it is just living sober. I am dry, as long as I don't pick up a drink. Someti...
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request for advice with AA personality. . .
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Greetings,
This is my first post here, so I apologize if I'm not used to the norms and standards in use!
I'm an alcoholic who is struggling to make my life better, to improve myself with the help of God and others like myself. I've been attending meetings for close on three years, though I ashame...
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On-line friendship
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Hi all,
I have just heard from an on-line friend, who's son had been about a month sober. I haven't had face to face contact with any of this family, and have developed a genuine friendship with his Mum over a few years online. I really like her and feel I can relate to her words. When he decided he wanted t...
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am I still welcome
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Hi everyone,
I hope I am still welcome on this board after my dry drunk through the holidays
Im doing better with that now but now down with bronchtus that I just got over
I wish I would learn that emotional upsets make me sick...After all these years
one would think a person would catch on oh well...
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opening ourselves to love
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Opening Ourselves To Love Allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in recovery. Many of us have blocked ourselves from receiving love. We may have lived with people who used love to control us. They would be there for us, but at the high price of our freedom. Love was g...
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remember when
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someone here tried to send this joke a couple of times but the ending was cut short every time. someone just sent it to me and i thought i would pass it along.
Marty wakes up at home with a huge hangover. He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirin...
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can you relate?
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Received this from a friend.........is she right? Been around the block once or twice myself. Never thought of it this way before myself but now that she has pointed it out......well there is some truth in what she says in my experiences. I really don't think she can put all men in t...
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Happy New Year
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Happy New Year everyone. All the best in 2005.
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Consumption of Alcohol
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VERY TRUE
Canadian liquor manufacturers have accepted the Health Canada's
suggestion that the following warning labels be placed immediately on
all varieties of alcohol containers:
WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering
what the hell happened to your bra a...
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New Years Eve
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Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Past New Year's Eves may have meant times of excessive chemical use. We may have embarrassed ourselves in many ways. W...
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New Years Eve
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Praying that all have a very blessed New Years Eve and 2005. I will be sober this New Years Eve, it's a choice I have made this morning as I sat,drinking that first cup of tea.
As I sat praying and ask God what I needed to do today, where I needed to go, who I needed to reach out to, what He would have me do? He sa...
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Just a small share-Have a great day guys
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"In learning how to achieve some emotional balance in our lives, it is necessary to be able to look at our self, our own inner process, and the life dynamic itself, from different perspectives. It is this looking at different levels that is the process of processing. Processing is a matter of looking a...
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Only a practicing Alky could think this one up
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It was New Year's Eve ... by then, actually, it was very early on New Year's morning. The drunk staggered out of the men's room and wobbled his way to the bar.
"I, uh, lll..., I'll ha-have anudder. Maske itta dubble." The bartender looks him over and notices the vomit staining the front of the drunk'...
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Sign In A Bar
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----------------------------------------------------- Edited by Phil at 16:56, 2004-12-30
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Waiting
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I've started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things. Waiting can be very, very powerful. Time is a valuable thing. If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you threw up in the...
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Thoughtful Things to Remember...
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"Become a Searcher, for those who seek are the Finders of Treasures" (author unknown)
"Be a good Listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble" (by Frank Tyger)
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight" (by Benjamin Franklin)...
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The Foundation
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Laying the Foundation
The groundwork has been laid.
Do you not see that?
Don't you understand that all you have gone through was for a purpose?
There was a reason, a good reason, for the waiting, the struggle, the pain, and finally the release.
You have been prepared. The same wa...
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Into Action - Thought for the day
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Be A Sponsor*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ INTO ACTION A.A. is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven't been given the truth may die. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 13 I desperately wanted to live,...
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Have a great day guys
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There are two days in every week
about which we should not worry,
Two days which should be kept free of fear and apprehension.
One of these days is YESTERDAY,
With its mistakes and cares,
Its faults and blunders,
Its aches and pains.
YESTERDAY has passed forever beyond our control.
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Self Destruction
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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
--Rita Mae Brown
There once was a woman who told her husband what she thought he wanted to hear. She told him she was happy when she wasn't. She told him she liked his friends when she didn't. She tried to figure out what he wanted so she could do it for hi...
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Remember When
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*** Signs that you "just might" have a drinking problem. ***
You lose arguments with inanimate objects.
You have to hold onto the lawn to keep from falling off the earth.
Your job is interfering with your drinking.
Your doctor finds traces of blood in your alcohol stream.
Sincerely beli...
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Working Today
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Working today
As we approach a new year, many of us feel fear. We look back on the past and worry about the future. But if we remember we only have today, we can work to make that future better. We have found true friends in our fellowship, and this is a time to be with them.
Am I ensuring a fruitful fu...
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Right Back at ya, Phil
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Well, ya know what they say about us with PMS, a new Hairdo once a month! (that's me) No, that's 49, not 92! Here's your  (kick) in the butt to pack!  It's 49, plus add X amount of pounds having given birth to four! Now...
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Phil....
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I noticed your little joke on marriage below. Am flipping you an email with another goodie. You can post it here sometime, if you haven't already. (You'll easily recognize my email addy in your inbox.)
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Just Wondering.... Footwork
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Well, it's that time of year again...New Year's resolutions. ha,ha. I have been telling myself I have these teeny, tiny goals I want to set, really tiny ones, not too difficult. I don't know, I don't know if my HP chuckles or frowns, and says "You have more Footwork to do".&n...
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Phobias
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Commitment phobia – this is the fear and avoidance of having to commit to anything, but especially relationships.
It can express itself in all kinds of different ways, but typically sufferers may exhibit any of these:
Being overly critical of the other partner in the relationship, and/...
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Expectations
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Expectations can cause havoc in our daily living. We all have a basic right to be treated with dignity and respect, but that doesn't mean life will always go our way. The twists and turns of life often carry us up rivers of disappointment to shores we never chose to visit. Facing life as fully involved tr...
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Thought For The Night
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No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.
Have a nice night Guys.
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Glad to Be Back...
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Must Say, I am Soooo Tired today. I think the whole month of December has caught up with me Today! Pooped! Practicing H.A.L.T. all day today. Have a few sniffles to treat with some potato soup, and broth. Munching on crackers to settle my tum. (Ev...
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Amanda
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How's it going over there?
You have been in my thoughts.
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Hey! Its Monday!!
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Well Guys!! did we all get through the weekend ok?
Amanda. good to hear your back on track. Some days I wonder what that is. Emotional balance they say.:)
Busbe. I have all the answers. I just hafta matchem up with the questions.(Smile)
I do know that we hafta take care of US first. And in tur...
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from the mouths of babes
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Today I had a MountainWings Moment: My husband and I got into an argument on the way home from shopping today. When we got home I went into the bedroom to be alone because that's what I like to do when I'm mad. My daughter (who just turned four two weeks ago) came into the bedroom after me and said, "Mo...
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Phone call
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I dont know how to start this but Im going to try to explain...My husbands alcoholic
brother called which I had a feeling he would today havent heard from him for a year
except for the card they sent to let us know they know about our grandson which
I sent a christmas letter to the daughter of husband...
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AA Thought for the Day
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AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)
December 18, 2004
Depression
During acute depression, avoid trying to set your whole life in order all at once. If you take on assignments so heavy that you are sure to fail in them . . . then you are allowing yourself to be tricked by your unconsci...
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native american code of ethics
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NATIVE AMERICAN CODE OF ETHICS 1. Rise with the sun to pray. Pray alone. Pray often. The Great Spirit will listen, if you only speak. 2. Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy and greed stem from a lost soul. Pray that they will find guidance. 3. Searc...
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Grateful Stuff
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Some time ago a man punished his 5-year old daughter for wasting a roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became even more upset when the child pasted the gold paper so as to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift box to her fat...
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Stress of going bald removed!
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Here is a picture of a guy who had been
balding 22 years and is now growing hair. He lives in S.F. his "before shots"
are on the website. He is 48 years old.
This is all new hair grown over the last 5 months from scalp that had been bald for 22 years.
http://www.rk19.com/RKResults.html
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Santa's been
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Hi All - Over this side, Christmas is winding to an end. There are sneaky bits of gift wrap still sneaking out from under couches and cupboards, despite the fact I keep putting them into the bin...the kids have test run every new toy, dvd and peice of technology and have headed to bed pleasantly ex...
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Christmas Day!
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Good morning all. Hope you have a great day today.
I've just crawled out of bed after a hectic night with my womans entire family at the house (all 30 of them, the house just isn't big enough).
It's 10:44 AM and I need a drink, a large strong one, probably about a pint, just to start the day. Obvio...
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Well Stan ole Boy:)
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Bored hu?
Well-Ile share a few things with yu Stan, my man.
Over the past year, Ive gone through Luekemia and Chemo treatments.
Ide rather be sober and bored.
My marriage went for a crap.
Ide rather be sober and bored
Was in a deep depression for 10 months and suicidal
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after falling
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A good thing about AA is that the people support the good efforts of those who are sincerely trying, even if they fall. Yesterday I went to a meeting after I had drunk some wine, and didn't know where to go from there... I went to the meeting, and they welcomed me... they didn't shun me, or jud...
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Visit with Dying (ex) Husband
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I went to visit my (ex) husband this past Sunday at the nursing home he is staying at. I don't know how many of you have experienced seeing someone dying with liver failure (Cirrhosis of the Liver) but it is heartbreaking. He is disoriented, cripple up with his hands and arms, can barely walk with his wal...
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thank you all, and thank God
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My weekend ended up one of the best ever. I am soooo grateful for the 12 Step recovery programs and people. Thank you , Phil,,, for the support. Thank you, Jesus, my Higher Power.
I rearranged my schedule for today,,,, and it turned out just the way my Higher Power wanted it. Inste...
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Merry Christmas Ya'll !
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Just stopping in to wish all a Merry Christmas and a blessed sober day. I have the ham in the oven and another cup of tea in hand. I was surprised by my 18 year old last night who got off work at 8 pm and drove the 100 miles home on very icy roads, those angels were with him. He said the first bridge he drove on was a...
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