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Fearful
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I'm 30 years old and here I am again... Same story since I was 12... Hungover, shaking & embarrassed as all hell. The guilt & shame seems unbearable. I haven't worked a program since I was 18. I don't want to live like this forever. I feel so alone. But most of all... There is this fear. Fear of Fail...
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Today's Gift - 11/28
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To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. --Mother TeresaOur spiritual nature must be nurtured. Prayer and meditation lovingly kindle the flame that guides us from within. Because we're human, we often let the flame flicker and perhaps go out. And then we sense the dreaded aloneness....
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7 days...
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Without a cigarette! Next month is my 56th birthday, my 25th sober anniversary, and the holidays... what better gift could I give myself than stop smoking which has been reducing my quality of life for the past few years? Keep me in your prayers as this is so very important I do at this time. Just 7 day...
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Happy Thanksgiving To All
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To all the regulars, to all the infrequent posters, to all the visitors, to all the missing, to all who have left freely, to all who have been booted, to all the newcomers, to all the oldtimers, to all the gurus, to all the neophytes, to all to those who have drifted away from recovery, to those across the U...
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Welcome Dobby
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Welcome to MIP Dobby from 'down under' ... glad to have you with us ...
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Need a Laugh ???
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Okay, ... home alone sickish ... can't give this crap to my son ... sooooo ... my mind is up to no good, LOL ... have a chuckle on me!!! ... -- Edited by Pythonpappy on Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:36:04 PM
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The Silent Meeting
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THE SILENT MEETINGA member of a certain AA group, who previously had been attending meetings regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, another group member decided to visit him. It was a chilly evening.. The group member found the man at home alone, sitting before a blazing fire. Guess...
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Coffee, it's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore
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Caffeine Is My ShepherdCaffeine is my shepherd; With it besides me, I shall not doze.It maketh me to wake in green pastures:It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses.It restoreth my buzz:It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shado...
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Morn'n Coffee - (Humor)
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Checking in and struggling!!!
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Have not checked in in a while and thought I would do so. Complete honesty here........I have had a couple of relapses over the last year and am really struggling with what to do about things. I am still maintaining contact with my sponsors on a daily basis, attending meetings, keeping a job, but I am sic...
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Today's Gift - 11/2
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The Wolf and the CraneA wolf had been eating when a bone became stuck in his throat. Soon, the pain became excruciating. He rushed to a pond, thinking water would loosen the bone. But he could not swallow. Frantic, he looked around and saw a crane watching him. "I would give anything," he ras...
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Grapevine
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November 26 "If we expend even five percent of the time on Step Eleven that we habitually (and rightly) lavish on Step Twelve, the results can be wonderfully far-reaching."
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If You're Struggling with the Belief in a Higher Power, Maybe This Can Help!
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I'm going to be brave and go out on the limb here. I am NOT an old timer. I am no religious expert, nor even religious at all. But, the miracles I have received from learning how to incorporate having a Higher Power/God in my life, as a result of learning the steps from my sponsor, I wanted to share these br...
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Sunrise Quote
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There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. ~ Ralph H. Blum -- Edited by Pythonpappy on Thursday 27th of November 2014 08:39:26 AM
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Sunrise Quote
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.~ Peter F. Drucker
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Today's Gift - 11/27
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Count Your Blessings Count your many blessings, name them one by one, Count your many blessings, see what God has done! --from Count Your Blessings by Johnson Oatman Jr.
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Today's Gift - 11/26
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You start preparing when you're thirty for the person you'll be at eighty. --Janice ClarkWe can't get away from ourselves, at least not entirely. Who we were at ten and twenty and forty and fifty remain as threads in our tapestries. Many of us shudder because some details of our personal panorama were...
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Today's Gift - 11/25
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(For those of you who like these, sorry, I been very ill ... trying to get back on my feet!) I always have two lists: things I'm happy about and things I'm not. It's my choice which list I focus on. --Anne ArthurWhy do we all too eagerly see the glass as half empty rather than as half full? It need not be a habi...
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I treat the World
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Through the steps of AA and progress toward that "Psychic Change", I must always remember and practice something I have found very important. That is, I must look at the world as if I treat the world a certain way vs the way the world treats me. This is the difference between serenity and an...
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Grapevine
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November 25 "Good public relations are AA lifelines reaching out to the alcoholic who still does not know us."
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Betterthanyesterday52 are you there? Are you out doing more research?
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You can come back anytime you know. I've done it lots :) Thinking of you and wishing you well.
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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November 24, 2014Quote of the Week"Develop an 'Attitude of Gratitude'." I have a secret weapon in my recovery tool bag - the Gratitude List. Oh I know, you've heard all about gratitude lists, but when was the last time you made one? Whenever I'm feeling overwhelmed, stressed or in fear,...
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Grapevine
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November 24 "In this moment, regardless of what happened before or what may happen tomorrow, what is the very best thing I can possibly do, right now?"
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Sunrise Quote - 11/24
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Tell a person they are brave, and you help them become so.~ Thomas Carlyle
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Today's Gift - 11/24
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. --Oscar WildeThe mature person eventually forgives his parents. Any adult can look back and see childhood wrongs and unfairness. Many of us were disappointed by our parents, even neglected or...
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Today's Gift - 11/23
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There is no total answer.Studying and reading are traditional methods of spiritual growth. With a lifelong routine of study each day, a person or couple grows under the guidance of the sages. Civilization exists because each generation builds upon the progress of the past. We do not have to reinven...
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YooHoo Tipsy..Where did you go, another long vacation ??????
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Hi There,
Just wondering how you are doing.
Let us know, okey dokey, you are MISSED !!
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Today's Gift - 11/22
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The program has given me the best days I've ever had. But thinking about all that lost time can still bring me down. --Jane S.Telling the difference between yesterday, today, and tomorrow may be easy for most people, but it isn't for many of us. Our past tends to overshadow both the present and the fut...
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Why AA's 12 Steps Worked For Me But Sometimes Not for Others
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Why AA's Twelve Step Program Worked For MeBut Sometimes Not for Others I learned the hard way that suppressed, unhealed pain and fear is the underlying cause of addictive behaviors (drinking or drugging, overeating, over-working, over-shopping, gambling, habitually seeking sex/love rela...
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Spiritual Lessons that I Remind Myself Today
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KARMA is unlearned lessons... The lessons have to be learned in a calm spirit. PATIENCE really means confidence in God My Sobriety is contingent on my spiritual well being just for today
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Grapevine
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November 21 "'Historians may one day point to Alcoholics Anonymous as a society which did far more than achieve a considerable measure of success with alcoholism and its stigma; they may recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instr...
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Today's Gift - 11/21
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Love involves a willingness to suffer and to be inconvenienced. --Lewis F. PresnallThe act of loving another broadens our understanding of the human condition and often pinches our egos. Indeed, one of the greatest gifts, though not necessarily cherished, which is granted through loving anothe...
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Grapevine
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November 20 "I don't know the music, but there is sound -- sometimes rushing and furious, sometimes gentle and caressing. But always there's the sound of a master pianist at play, conducting some mad orchestra of life. I don't know what or why or how, but I know I'm here. And the best I can do is to fi...
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Today's Gift - 11/20
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Going EasyGo easy. You may have to push forward, but you don't have to push so hard. Go in gentleness, go in peace.Do not be in so much of a hurry. At no day, no hour, no time are you required to do more than you can do in peace. Frantic behaviors and urgency are not the foundation for our new way of life.Do not b...
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Freedom from bondage.
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No, i'm not talking about 50 shades of grey. Today I'm free from being a slave to alcohol. Also from people places and things which requires acceptance over situations I can't control. Almost 4 months into my new Apt. and now I have peace of mind. I'm actually enjoying the ride to recovery trudging the...
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Today's Gift - 11/19
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Behind an able man there are always other able men. --Chinese proverbMost of us have had a strong desire in our lives to "do it ourselves." We have had the idea that strength and independence meant we should not rely on or receive help from others. Now, in recovery, we are learning a far more m...
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Grapevine
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November 19 "It is not stupid to accept myself and others complete with our imperfections. It would be stupid not to."
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1 year
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Just wanted to check in with MIP and let you know that I have made it to my 1st year anniversary. I went to a meeting pretty much daily for this first year, which is just want this alcoholic has needed. There were plenty of ups and downs, but through everything, i was able to not pick up a drink or substitut...
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Today's Gift - 11/18
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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we? --Rose KennedySome of us have been through an awful lot. We have endured pain and hopelessness. Now we have some choices to make. We can allow our pasts to make us feel bad about ourselves or we can sing after the storm. We can feel proud that we are not giving up,...
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Is there hope in a 12 step program for the "non-believer"
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I've been in the rooms for a few months now, and back in after a recent relapse. The 2nd time around has challenged me more than I had anticipated. When a meeting starts some start with the serenity prayer, which starts with the word GOD, they read the AA Preamble (which mentions in a nutshell its a fel...
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Sunrise Quote - 11/18
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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.~ Danny Kaye
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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November 17, 2014Quote of the Week"Recovery isn't for people who need it; it's for people who want it." After I was sober a while I started thinking about all the people I knew who could really benefit from, and in fact really needed, the recovery I had found in the program. This was espec...
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Sunrise Quote - 11/17
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.~ Arthur Ashe
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Today's Gift - 11/17
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We're not here to lose our sense of humor. --Richie BerlinBeing too serious is habit forming. However, many aspects of our lives are serious and need to be addressed. Our disease, for one, is very serious. Working the Twelve Step program to the best of our ability is serious too. So are being honest and...
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Grapevine
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November 17 "Self-justification is a universal destroyer of harmony and of love. It sets man against man, nation against nation. By it, every form of folly and violence can be made to look right, and even respectable. Of course it is not for us to condemn. We need only investigate ourselves.&q...
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Today's Gift - 11/16
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AcceptanceWhen we have given our lives back to our Higher Power, we gradually learn to accept what happens to us as part of the plan. Most of us made a mess of trying to run our own lives. We are amazed at how much better things go when we acknowledge that the Power greater than ourselves is in control. Ever...
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Sunrise Quote - 11/15
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Positive thinking will let you do everythingbetter than negative thinking will.~ Zig Ziglar
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Today's Gift - 11/15
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Some of us have an insatiable desire to do something about every situation that occurs in our lives. We fret about this, we rush into that, and we push our confused minds to the edge of despair. Weary from our relentless struggling, we become short-tempered, highly critical, and completely irration...
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I want to stop, but can't.
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HELP!!!!! Sponsor advice needed
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I am a gay white male in my late 20s and recently hit my very first AA bday. I had a sponsor who found me in the beginning and he basically faded away after a couple of weeks leaving me high in the water. I'm not sure how but I was able to get to one year the first time by just going to meetings. I have major trust is...
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