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Sunrise Quote 11/6
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In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ~Roosevelt, Theodore on Decisions
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Today's Gift 11/6
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Do unto others...Snapping at a friend often results in being snapped at in return. That doesn't surprise us. Accusations generally elicit an angry defense from others and an argument. That comes as no surprise either. By contrast, being loving and compassionate toward the people in our lives gene...
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Started drinking after 9 years sober
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I started drinking again after 9 years sober. I need to stop but can't. I plan on going to my first meeting tomorrow since I started drinking again. I'm really struggling.
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Today's Gift 11/5
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Stop building casesYou don't have to build a big drama around your life. We may need to end a relationship or explore a new career. Instead of simply saying, This is what I'm going to do, we build a case.Like a lawyer getting ready to go to court, we prepare our arguments. We take one feeling and build a hun...
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Bill W. on AA history and the traditions - Great sound quality!
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Bill W. on AA history and the traditions, this talk is a MUST listen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ6soSvYM-g
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Today's Gift 11/4
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Angels Are EverywhereI never believed in angels. Now I do. I think of angels as people who do nice things for us without expecting much in return. They give for the love of giving. They seek out opportunities to help, even when it seems inconvenient. They don't always look like we expect them to look or s...
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Ever Hear 'I Just Don't Get It' Comment ???
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I've only been a member of AA for a few years now, but every now'n then I hear someone with a year or two tell me, "I just don't 'get it'" ... I have witnessed members with 10, even 20 years that how somehow managed to get 'n stay sober who have never 'got it' ... some of those may, or may not, admit i...
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Sunrise Quote 11/3
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The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ~Collier, Robert on Desire
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Today's Gift 11/3
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It's a simple formula; do your best and somebody might like it. --Dorothy BakerWe're never guaranteed success by others' standards. However, if we do our best according to the standards we think God has in mind, we'll be successful. And from God we'll always receive unconditional love and acceptan...
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Sunrise Quote 11/2
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As memory scans the past, above and beyond all the transitory pleasures of life, there leap forward those supreme hours when you have been enabled to do unnoticed kindnesses to those round about you, things too trifling to speak about. ~Henry Drummond
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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November 2, 2015Quote of the Week"Feelings are not facts." When I was new in the program, my sponsor would constantly tell me that my feelings were not facts. They were just feelings. "But it's a fact that I'm having these feelings," I'd argue. I paid a steep price for my stubb...
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Today's Gift 11/2
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Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. --Caitlin ThomasWe've become much less fearful of reality since we've come to know the principles of this program. Just about anything could have made us fearful in past years. No doubt practicing our addictions gave us a false cour...
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Sunrise Quote 11/1
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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. ~Smiles, Samuel on Adversity
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Today's Gift 11/1
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Always remember that no matter what the problem may be, there is an infinity of solutions. --Marion WeinsteinA girl named Iris was tormented by the boys at school. Whenever she walked by they would make rude noises. Sometimes, when no one was looking, they would block her way and not let her go home. Sh...
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Sunrise Quote 10/31
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No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to he ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Today's Gift 10/31
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. --Mark TwainWhich of the Twelve Steps teach us how to handle our fear? The Steps that scare us the most! For many of us, that would be Step Three, Step Five, and Step Nine. These Steps ask us to move from one place in our life to a new place....
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Self-sabotage
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They managed to convince me I didn't deserve anything nice.
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Sunrise Quote 10/30
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative forceWhen we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. ~Karl Menninger
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Agnostic Site
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I thought this sight may be of interest to some of you alcoholics out there. http://aaagnostica.org/ "The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking." Tradition 3
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Today's Gift 10/30
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Be strong and of good courage; be not frightened, neither be dismayed.... --Joshua 1:9It has been said when we are at the end of our rope, we can do one of three things: let go, tie a knot and hang on, or splice the rope and begin again. Whenever we feel there's nowhere to go but down and nobody to turn to, tha...
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Sunrise Quote 10/29
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It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult. ~Seneca
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Today's Gift 10/29
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Let everyone sweep in front of his [or her] own door, and the whole world will be clean. --GoetheTaking care of ourselves rather than trying to control others may be difficult. Our character defects may lead us to believe we should take responsibility for the actions of others. Sometimes we may feel w...
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I'm thinking about going to a meeting in 1 hour
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As some of you may remember my success rate in the program leaves a little to be desired, but I'm thinking about going back anyway. Cajole me to do it :)
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"When You Are Going Through Hell...." Winston Churchill Quote
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"When you are going through Hell keep on going, never never never give up." --Winston Churchill--
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lack motivation to go to my first meeting--help!
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I have been in recovery for 90 days and although I have seen the light, it has also been an intense struggle. I have isolated myself so as to avoid substances, and since 'winter is coming' (teehee), I am afraid that I will be even worse off than I already am. I have joined the gym, but it takes a lot of posit...
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Sunrise Quote 10/28
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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ~Ben Sweetland
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Today's Gift 10/28
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I often think I'm not doing enough with my life. I paint, I golf, I dabble, but is that enough? --Abby WarmanNobody can answer the question posed by Abby but ourselves. The point is, are we content? If we hesitate even a moment before replying, perhaps we need to reconsider how we're spending our time.T...
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Meeting Size
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Hi. I am in my 50's. I got high the 1st time around 12. Drinking soon followed. In the past 40 years I have not had more than three weeks sober. Self imposed three weeks. Guess I can do three weeks on my own. This past week I got thru a half gallon, then a fifth, then another half gallon between Friday afterno...
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StPeteDean ???
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Hey Brother, ... How you do'n man ... praying your cancer treatments are do'n what they're supposed to do ... By the grace of God, mine looks 100% successful ... my PSA test came back reading .01 on Tues. ... ... ... it was 9.5 at the beginning ... I credit all the prayers of local friends AND from my brothe...
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Sunrise Quote 10/27
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. ~Saint Augustine
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Today's Gift 10/27
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We learn from making mistakes and repairing them.We do not believe in perfection, we believe in mending. We make progress toward a goal, but we seldom move in a straight line toward it without missteps. Life is like a zigzag chain of events that first brings everything together just as we want and then...
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Sisterly Love
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........... -- Edited by hopefulone on Friday 23rd of October 2015 07:52:30 AM -- Edited by hopefulone on Saturday 31st of October 2015 08:25:02 AM
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Hey Tanin! You Okay?
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Haven't "seen" you on the board for a good while. Are you alright? Miss you and your little pickle.
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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October 26, 2015Quote of the Week"Honesty got me sober; tolerance keeps me sober." I didn't realize how dishonest I was before I entered recovery. I had half truths and misleading by omission down to a fine art, and by the end of my drinking and using I was even good at deceiving myself. I di...
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Sunrise Quote 10/26
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli
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Today's Gift 10/26
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Awaken to the ordinary beauty...Our lives are filled with demands, responsibilities, expectations, places to go, people to see, things to do. We may get so caught up in the next task that we miss the golden moment happening right now. No matter where we are or what we are doing, if we stop to breathe slo...
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7 Warning Signs You Are Headed for a Relapse
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I thought maybe this info would be helpful to others. Since I recently relapsed I am reading and doing everything I can to try and prevent it from happening again. I did experience some of the things pointed out in this article. One of the biggest triggers that I feel that I had before I relapsed is that I h...
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Sunrise Quote 10/25
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As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. ~Denis Waitley
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Today's Gift 10/25
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The Junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition. -- Malcolm XNow we know what the problem is. Now we can do something about it. The truth of our problem is, we can't handle alcohol or other drugs. They handle us. They control us. The Steps ask us to face the truth. And the t...
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Today's Gift 10/24
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Reflection for the DayPersonal freedom is mine for the taking. No matter how close are the ties of love and concern that bind me to my family and friends, I must always remember that I am an individual, free to be myself and live my own life in serenity and joy. The keyword in this realization is personal....
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Sunrise Quote 10/23
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain
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Early Recovery Relationships
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I have recently over heard someone say... "No where in the Big Book is it suggested that a man and woman should not endulge in a early recovery relationship..." But then the Big Book was published in the 1930's when AA was predominately carried by men to men. The few women they carried the message to, we...
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Phoenix area AAs
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Are there are Phoenix area women who are willing to pay a 12 step call to a friend at Gilbert Hospital?
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Today's Gift 10/23 --- Excellent Lesson
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Property LinesA helpful tool in our recovery, especially in the behavior we call detachment, is learning to identify who owns what. Then we let each person own and possess his or her rightful property.If another person has an addiction, a problem, a feeling, or a self-defeating behavior, that is th...
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I'm having a dark day.
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I'm new here. I new to this. I'm new to admitting that I have a problem. I'm not ready to join a group and see people face to face. I'm 42 year old female. I have three grown children ages, 25.23 and 19. I grew up in a home and a family that had major issues with alcohol. I never thought I'd be one of them. N...
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Sunrise Quote 10/22
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison
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Today's Gift 10/22
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When we have internalized Step One, our lives reflect it.Admitting we are powerless over alcohol is not very difficult for most of us. Admitting we are powerless over the alcoholic is another matter. After all, we have used shame quite successfully to get our way on occasion, intimidation sometime...
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LAST LOVE LETTER TO A STEPPER
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Please enjoy my essay here: http://www.orange-papers.org/forum/node/6713 I hope it generates some conversation.
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Dr. Referral?
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I am looking for a primary care physician (relevant here because I am ready to be honest with a PCP about my history of drinking and my desire to quit). I have been drinking heavily for about 8 years now, and have lied to every doctor about my drinking and smoking habits, except one - she wrote a prescripti...
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