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Daily Reflections
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June 13 Living Our Amends
"Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic. The entire family is to some extent ill." Alcoholics Anonymous, p.122
It is important for me to realize that, as an alcoholic, I not only hurt myself but also those ar...
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love all your posts
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Hi there, it is Michelle here, I just browsed over all the posts, and you know what? alot of good sobriety here. Some more so than others, but wow!!! nice to hear a bit of this and a bit of that. I myself had a great week-end, I was feelin...
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Daily Reflections
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June 12 Forming True Partnership
But it is from our twisted relations with family ,friends, and society at large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a tr...
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Daily Reflection
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June 11 Family Obligations ....a spiritual life which does not include...family obligations may not be so perfact after all. Alcoholics Anonymous,p.12
I can be doing great in the program--Applying it at meetings ,at work,and in service activi...
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Cabbagehead Chris...
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Hey Chris...Refresh my memory , when is the big day.How many days, hours, minutes,seconds? If you don't know ask the future Mrs..Glad you stopped by, stay sober and keep us posted, please.
(((Hugs))) GammyRose
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Like to introduce myself
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Hi there, my name is Michelle, I live in Montreal, Que, Canada. I just came across this message board, and wondering if it is very active. So if there is anyone out there who would like to talk now and then on any subject, it would be very nice. I am quite act...
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Cheri!!
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I am sorry that I wasn't able to come on line last night...Had to babysit the grand-child and go shopping we will have to get up and get a new time my e-mail is ...marchese83@msn.com so we can keep the board for recovery topics...ya know?
have a good day and look foward to hearing from you later....:aww...
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Responsiblity
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"...I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere reaches out, I want the hand of AA to always be there. And for that, I am responsible."
What does this mean to you?
That's not a rhetorical question, I really would like others' feelings on this. I had this quoted to me when I said no to someone...I really f...
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hey
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 hi everyone i have not posted in a while been busy at work installing 10 cental air cond units in a school takes up most of mytime lately. i am saying sober and attending aa . i really feel good the last week or so thanks everyone and god bless wagon
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Today...70 YRS AGO
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...Anne and I drove him to the hospital at nine o'clock. I handed him a bottle of beer to steady his nerves so he could hold the knife, and he went in. We returned to the house and sat down to wait. After what seemed an endless time, he phoned; all had gone well. But after that he didn't come home for hours. Des...
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Phil...oh Phil!!!??
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are you ok??
miss you here!!
hugs & hugs, Wendy
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365 one day at a times!!!!
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Yeah!!!!!!!
thankyou for my sobriety my friends!!!!!
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It's awfully quiet around hear...
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How is everyone doing? Today was a very long day for some reason... I haven't really figured out why? I haven't been feeling very good for the last few days, running a little fever.And then it's been our hottest days this almost summer so far. I love the heat though, I usually thrive in it.
I didn't go to...
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"Came to Believe"
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From"Came to Believe" Chapter 1 "Spiritual"? pg.1
Do not let any prejudice you may have against spirtitual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they might mean to you. Bill W. "Alcoholics Anonymous" pg 47
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Ellen?
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Do you feel like going to the chat room?
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Emotional Sobriety
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This is the substance of a revealing letter which Bill Wilson wrote several years ago to a close friend who also had troubles with depression. The letter appeared in the "Grapevine" January, 1953. EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY "I think that many oldsters who have put our AA "booze cure" to severe but successfu...
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Newcomer problems...
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This is from "As Bill Sees It" pg. 14
The temptation is to become rather possessive of newcomers. Prehaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't really competent to give at all. Then we are hurt and confused when the advice is rejected, or when it is accepted and brings st...
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Nic....
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Nic, I just read your post on the thread from yesterday. I feel that the world, AA,or a family would be a very boreing place if we were all the same, had the same personalities and veiws.None of us have the same DNA, so thank God for the different thoughts, actions,and responses.
When I came into...
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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?
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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."
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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
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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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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??
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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.
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