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Grapevine
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April 22 "If I am to have a share of those promises enumerated in the AA book, there is a price I must pay. That price is destruction of self-centeredness."
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Today's Gift 4/21
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Quiet My MindDear Lord, Teach me to quiet my mind. Stop my thoughts from racing from one thing to another. Stop me from the obsessive thinking about the lives of others. Help me rest and quiet my mind. Help me let go of trying to control the lives of others. Free my mind to be at rest. This I pray.
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Dog gone
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I laid to rest my 14 year old beagle today . I haven't felt this crappy in a longggg time. I know tomorrow will be a better day, just for today I don't take a drink. Wagon
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Faith
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***Faith******Dwell on the possibilities******and keep coming back***
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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April 20, 2015Quote of the Week"Let go of your old ideas - even the good ones." When I was new in recovery, my sponsor always used to ask me what my "back pocket" plans were. These were the plans and ideas I had that were so good I thought I didn't have to run them by him. Once I did thou...
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Grapevine
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April 20 "More and more we regard all who labor in the total field of alcoholism as our companions on a march from darkness into light. We see that we can accomplish together what we could never accomplish in separation and in rivalry."
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Today's Gift 4/19
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People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. --Joseph Fort NewtonRemember building snow forts? After a sticky snowfall we'd build a big snow wall. Then we'd mass-produce snowballs, preparing for battle. The team who built the best snow fort usually won, for their wall provided t...
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Celebrate! (Sober, of course)
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I'm doing the Happy Dance! A recent positive turn of events has given me the ability to upgrade my life beyond my wildest imagination. There could be a "rags-to-riches" AA success story in here somewhere...! long story short...I left my abusive husband and spoiled life after 26 years. ...
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First 4 weeks have been easy. What do I need to watch out for?
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Some or all of this may come across as naive. I'm just telling it as it is. I'm 60 and have drunk too much all my adult life (in fact, from my early teens when I first started playing sport in adult teams and the adults would buy me beer after the game). I'm an obsessive/compulsive living with bipolar. Meds a...
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Today's Gift 4/16
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. --Thomas FullerIn the Serenity Prayer, we pray for the wisdom to know the difference between what we can change and what we cannot. That distinction can be hard for many of us to recognize. When we finally see the reality...
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What to do when someone else takes your inventory...Thoughts?
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Had the weirdest experience today of meeting up with an old friend and having them spend some of the time taking MY inventory. I feel like I am centered enough to not become out right angry with the person. I figure this was their first experience in taking inventory and it is easier to explore why someon...
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Grapevine
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April 15 "I've found a life I never knew existed. I'm so overwhelmed with gratitude that there's no room for a bad day."
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Today's Gift 4/15
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Love is the lamp that lights the universe: without that light . . . the earth is a barren promontory and man the quintessence of dust. --Mary Elizabeth BraddonAll of us are lighted by love. Childcare, car repair, concluding a report - are easier tasks when we know we're loved. We don't feel quite as alon...
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My rant about FrUsTrAtIoN!!
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I make no sense, even to myself, sometimes! In my heart, I have no desire to drink...and I know I wouldn't like the outcome if I did (tried that experiment enough times to know). So I ask myself why I get an unpleasant attitude when my "normie" friend wants to go out drinking or has already be...
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Sunrise Quote
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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.~ Les Brown
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Today's Gift 4/14
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Bring Any Request to GodBring any request you have to God.No request is too large; none too small or insignificant.How often we limit God by not bringing to God everything we want and need.Do we need help getting our balance? Getting through the day?Do we need help in a particular relationship? With a...
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Grapevine
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April 14 "The other Steps can keep most of us sober and somehow functioning. But Step Eleven can keep us growing, if we try hard and work at it continually."
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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April 13, 2015Quote of the Week"Take my advise, I'm not using it." Before I entered recovery, I thought I knew everything. I knew the right way you should be living your life, the right diet to eat, the right way to vote, etc. And because I knew everything, I was quick to tell you about i...
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Sunrise Quote
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A smile of encouragement at the right moment may act like sunlight on a closed up flower; it may be the turning point for a struggling life.~ Alfred A. Montapert
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Today's Gift 4/13
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Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom, which flows through your life. Then, without effort, you are impelled to truth and to perfect contentment. --Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen the renowned composer Johann Sebastian Bach was praised for his music, he responded, "To God go...
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TAKE A SURVEY ABOUT YOUR AA MEMBERSHIP
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Hello! My name is Camille and I am a student in a high school anthropology class. I am working on an ethnography about a subculture of my choice and i have chosen AA members. I would really appreciate it if you took the time to fill out my survey honestly- it will be kept completely anonymous. Thank you so m...
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Grapevine
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April 13 "Part of the magic of AA is that the Fellowship, like the loving God who presides over us all, never gives up hope for the suffering alcoholic."
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Spiritual Principle From a Friend
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Amigo...Remain Radiant in the Filth of the World....James Joyce My Sobriety is Contingent on my Spiritual Well Being Today
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Today's Gift 4/11
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Sharing is healing. --Cathy StoneIt's not easy to share the intimate details of our lives. We have guarded our secrets for years. But now it's suggested that we tell our secrets to people whose names we barely know. That's certainly not the way we were raised, and listening to others reveal their awfu...
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Help Needed For Research Study On AA
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Hi, my name is Damien and I have been in recovery for eight years. I am also a PhD student researching the relationship between recovery and compassion. I wonder if some of you could help me out and complete my short anonymous questionnaire which I hope will improve understanding of 12 steps among ment...
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Today's Gift 4/7
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I can live for two months on a good compliment. -- Mark Twain NewcomerAt a meeting I shared about a loss I've gone through, and the response was amazing. People expressed sympathy and understanding, and a number of them shared experiences of their own that were similar to mine. It surprised me. I'd tol...
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Serenity for a long night
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Grant me the Serenity... The Serenity Prayer is what often comes to mind to help me keep things in perspective. Tonight, as I'm pulling an all-nighter with Mom's sleep apnea home test kit, I've got plenty of time to think about life, life's issues and sobriety. (She's sleeping, I'm not) God, gran...
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Sunrise Quote
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The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.~ Robert H. Schuller
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Today's Gift 4/10
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Martyrs set bad examples. --David RussellSometimes we call people "martyrs." We think of them as victims. They suffer, but sometimes not for a cause. They play "poor me." They want people to notice how much they suffer. They are afraid to really live. These are the people who s...
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Today's Gift 4/9
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Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best. --Harry Emerson Fosdick What am I doing with what I...
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Grapevine
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April 10 "When we meet and defeat the temptation to take large gifts, we are only being prudent. But when we are generous with the hat we give a token that we are grateful for our blessings and evidence that we are eager to share what we have found with all those who still suffer"
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My grandson
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Nathanael is afflicted with a condition called Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy. It's condition caused by oxygen deprivation. It's a very serious life threatening condition. The doctor has got him kept under controlled temperature of 33.5 degrees Celsius for 72 hours to allow the brain to recup...
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Grapevine
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April 9 "I inevitably find that when I'm able to stay focused on my primary purpose, my 'secondary purposes' (school, jobs, relationships) work themselves out quite satisfactorily."
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Just looking for some help and guidance
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Hi there,I'm just reaching out online for the first time. I'm not particulairly new to the program but I am young (21). This time I've got just about 6 months sober in the program. I live in a remote northern community so at most there's 3 meetings a week. That being said I love the meetings (just wish we co...
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Today's Gift 4/8
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GoodwillHave you ever envied someone else's good fortune? Consider the friend who calls with a different ring to her voice. Instead of sharing her troubles and woes, she proceeds to tell you good news. Something exciting, financially beneficial, glamorous, wonderful beyond belief has happened...
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Grapevine
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April 8 "The process of one alcoholic confiding in another has without a doubt saved my life. Nowhere else have I ever found such devotion and understanding as with AA sponsoring."
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Grapevine
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April 7 "I'm not so quick to judge others. If I'm critical of you, it's often because I'm trying to ignore that quality in myself."
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Sunrise Quote
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Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.~ Tryon Edwards
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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April 6, 2015Quote of the Week"Everyone wants to feel better, but no one wants to change." Before recovery, I did a lot of things to feel better. I moved, changed jobs, girlfriends, cars, tried different combinations of drugs and alcohol, took up yoga, joined a gym - the list is endless...
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Welcome to MIP 'slurms'
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Glad you found us ... thanks for posting ... slurms posted: Hi there,I'm just reaching out online for the first time. I'm not particulairly new to the program but I am young (21). This time I've got just about 6 months sober in the program. I live in a remote northern community so at most there's 3 meetin...
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Antabuse
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Hi, New here! This Sunday 4/5/15 I'll be getting my 30 day chip. Just got out of treatment for my OD, and this Friday will be starting treatment for my alcoholism. During my 3 week stint including a few days IP on psych ward and then doing a 3 week intensive outpatient program to deal with my Bipolar II, I st...
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Mahalo
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For the kind thoughts and prayers and heartfelt expressions which sobriety allows us to feel and express with others. I am trying to be obedient and humble. Its not impossible and it is difficult mostly because of that egotistical gene I carry. Humorously and humbly HP puts tons of people in m...
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Today's Gift 4/6
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Reflection for the DayEvery person, no matter what his or her balance for good or evil, is a part of the Divine economy. We are all children of God, and it is unlikely that God intends to favor one over another. So it is necessary for all of us to accept whatever positive gifts we receive with a deep humilit...
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Great Easter and Gratitude Idea....
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Came away from my home group this morning and on the way home was expressing to my wife the positives of this journey of hospitalization and recovery over the last couple months. I expressed the need during the hospital stay for the need to have AA literature available during the quiet, still times...
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Sunrise Quote
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The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.~ Earl Nightingale
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Today's Gift 4/5
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Reflection for the DayThe Program is a road, not a resting place. Before we came to The Program - and, for some of us, many times afterward - most of us looked for answers to our living problems in religion, philosophy, psychology, self-help groups, and so on. Invariably, these fields held forth the go...
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Sunrise Quote
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.~ Epicurus
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Today's Gift 4/4
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If I should lose, let me stand by the road and cheer as the winners go by. --Berton BradleyIf we are to be among the winners in the recovery from addiction and obsession, we must maintain the attitude of success. Winners in any Twelve Step program take fearless inventories, correct shortcomings, and w...
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Fun In Recovery
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When I first came into the program I was attracted to stay because I was able to find Fun In Recovery! With a background in the Entertainment Industry, I found a place where I could bring my talents to the fellowship, and help others to realize we are not a glum lot. I served on a couple entertainment com...
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Nouvelle venue
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Bonjour à tous, Je suis nouvelle sur le forum! Je me présente je ai 34ans, sans emploi de ACTUELLEMENT, je suis célibataire, je vis Seule et l'alcool is Entré Dans ma vie en avril 2012. Je suis plutot de Nature Timide, très discrète, pas franchement A l'aise en société. Je suis quelqu'un de calme Qui str...
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