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Wisdom of the Rooms
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September 1, 2014Quote of the Week"People have the right not to recover." The first time I heard this saying I thought it was cruel and insensitive. I had been in Al-Anon about six months and was still convinced that I not only could help other people in my life recover, but that it was in fac...
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It is sobering
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Finally admitted to myself and my wife that I am an alcoholic. Last night something potentially very dangerous almost happened. I knew I had a drinking problem but I didn't realize how bad it was. I have been searching for meeting groups in my area and will be attending tomorrow. I have lost God and my tr...
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Grapevine
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August 28 "When I've examined a situation all ways from Sunday, and the only thing I can see are bad consequences, then I can say, 'God, I don't have the least idea what to do.' That seems to be the magic phrase for me. Then something happens, and it is usually an action I hadn't thought of doing, an...
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Working the Steps....as suggested
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Hi to everyone, I've been off the Board for a while, since this computer has been down, but it appears that there has been some controversy, and a bit of talk about "Step-Nazi's" here. With that in mind, I hope you'll allow me to share an experience I had at a 12 Step retreat several years ago:...
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Grapevine
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September 2 "In the first six months of my own sobriety, I worked hard with many alcoholics. Not a one responded. Yet this work kept me sober."
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Sunrise Quote
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There is a difference between happiness and joy. Happiness is a changing emotion. JOY is a choice you make every day.~ Author Unknown
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Today's Gift - 9/1
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A.A. Thought for the DayAnyone can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the burden of those two awful eternities, yesterday and tomorrow, that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drives us mad. It is the remorse or bitterness from something that happened yest...
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Hi
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So its been a year since I broke my 8 month non drinking spree. I quit for the entire month of june but I went back to it again. I like to drink vodka in the morning and beer throughout the day and im sick of this nightmare circus and would like some helpful advice. Im assuming this is the place where people lik...
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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly Verse The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. Romans 8:26 Weekly Quote For the Holy Spirit is prayers great Helper. We are incapable, of ourselves, to translate our real nee...
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Today's Gift - 8/31
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Differences . . . with no hidden cutting edge.The respect and dignity a couple shows each other set the table from which they are nourished for all other activities in their lives. Any feeling can be expressed in respectful or disrespectful ways. Anger is one of the most difficult to express respectf...
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Powerlessness
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Hello, can someone help me with examples of things that I might be powerless over. Thank you
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Sunrise Quote - 8/26
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In the middle of every difficulty comes opportunity.~ Albert Einstein
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Wink From God
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Last week, I had two days in a row that were just awful. I'm currently coming to terms with the reality that much of my life has consisted of running from a God that I fear into the arms of alcohol, which has been warm and welcoming in times of crisis and anxiety. So what does it mean to turn my will and life ove...
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One Year relapse after 10 years sober - 60 days back - where do i fit?
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hello, I was a very active member and stayed sober for 10 years (and this was not the first time, took many tries before that too). eventually life got really busy and I slowly took less commitments and less service and focused (obsessed) on work, travel, money etc. As they say...anything you will pu...
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Grapevine
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August 27 "In the fear of accumulated wealth and bureaucracy, we should not discover an alibi for failure to pay AA's legitimate service expenses. For fear of controversy, our leadership should not go timid when lively debate and forthright action is a necessity."
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Grapevine
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August 26 "God has continued to send me many miracles since the first one occurred the day he gave me the courage and willingness to go to my first AA meeting."
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We don't have to die that way anymore
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We have not seen the best day of our sobriety yet. We have one ultimate authority in A.A. and it is not one of us, thank God. WE DONT HAVE TO DIE THAT WAY ANYMORE Do you remember when? We died of pneumonia in furnished rooms where they found us three days later when somebody complained about the smell. We d...
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Today's Gift - 8/26
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Mile by mile, life's a trial. Yard by yard, it's not so hard. Inch by inch, it's a cinch. -- ProverbAn important key to progress on the path is to take it one step at a time. Just as investing a little on a regular basis builds long-term wealth, the little gains we make each day pay off in spiritual dividends...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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August 25, 2014Quote of the Week"When you're going through hell, keep going!" Before recovery, hell often seemed like a destination rather than a passing part of the overall journey. Whenever I found myself in an insufferable situation, I easily convinced myself that this was my new l...
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Heavy
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About two years ago, an acquaintance of mine was on the verge of suicide, openly addicted to drugs and alcohol. In a fit of desperation, he went to an AA meeting. He loved it and kept going back to meetings, eventually finding a sponsor, working the 12 steps, and developing a close relationship with God...
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Grapevine
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August 25 "Throughout the world AAs are twelfth-stepping with thousands of new prospects a month. Between one and two thousand of these stick on our first presentation; past experience shows that most of the remainder will come back to us later on. Almost entirely unorganized, and complet...
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I haven't got work
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I am doing nothing almost all day, so I got bored. And this is symptom of my alcoholism. Every symptom restless, irritable, discontented, bored, depressed, nervous, paranoid must be viewed. Every symptom shows me that in me there is big problem, and I should take care of it. I am doing it by taking...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/24
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The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.~ Nido Qubein
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Today's Gift - 8/24
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. --Henry David ThoreauLife's crises seem terrifying and endless when they are happening. As we reflect on these stressful periods, we begin to realize that they provide a chance for change and growth. We get a feeling of hope wh...
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Can we ban the trolls?
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Sunrise Quote - 8/23
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And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.~ Mark Twain
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Today's Gift - 8/23
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We learn to expect the unexpected.Serenity and satisfaction come not when we achieve some measure of precarious temporary control, but when we learn to expect the unexpected. They come when we learn the art of responding to change and accommodating the ever-shifting circumstances of our lives.W...
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How to tell your child that their parent has wet brain?
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My son's father who is remission for stage four cancer and physically fragile 6'3 ft 110 lbs was just diagnosed with Wet Brain. He appears to be in the stage of Korsakoff's psychosis. He's 36 years old and completely disillusion. His short term memory is completely gone at this point causing him to ma...
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The text...
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arrived on my cell phone last evening from a number I didn't recognize and there was no name announced...remembered this cell is a replacement so my original one died a time back...it read, "I drank 6 steinlagers today. I am just struggling and need to figure things out. im gonna stay out of AA...
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Today's Gift - 8/22
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A man of courage is also full of faith.-- CiceroFaith and courage walk hand in hand. Courage empowers us to act in favor of what we believe, but cannot know. Courage is animated by the vision of faith. It doesn't take any faith to perform an action that doesn't require a risk. Only when the outcome is unce...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/22
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What you want to do, you do. The rest is just talk.~ John Creek
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Write again
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I love to write, so I am really sorry If I am boring or doing harms to someone. One of the biggest lesson in my life (in my A.A. life) is that I can't depend upon human being. And this is idea that it's so hard for me to let go. But I am really trying, praying and so on and I see that with time I want more and more to d...
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26 years ODAAT
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19 Aug 1988. My 1st day of sobriety in AA. Many thanks to each and everyone of you for being a part of my new life. I would never have made it without your help and kindness.
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PURPOSE
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I find an interesting topic at meetings to be....purpose.
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Grapevine
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August 21 "It has been difficult for me to accept myself and some of my decisions ... But I've done the best I can with the information available, even if it might not be someone else's best."
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Today's Gift - 8/20
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Moving Forward Much as we would like, we cannot bring everyone with us on this journey called recovery. We are not being disloyal by allowing ourselves to move forward. We don't have to wait for those we love to decide to change as well. Sometimes we need to give ourselves permission to grow, even thou...
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need to share
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Need to reach out... tonight the pain is too much...can't think...can't get in front of it. Too much for too long ...no breaks. Stared crying...can't stop. Hurts too much. Pouring sweat... It'll pass though...maybe tomorrow grateful for autocorrect...hands arent' working correctly...fi...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/20
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Grapevine
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August 20 "For thousands of alcoholics yet to come, AA does have an answer. But there is one condition. We must, at all costs, preserve our essential unity; it must be made unbreakably secure. Without permanent unity there can be little lasting recovery for anyone. Hence our future depends...
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We have Alcoholism....NOT a drinking problem
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The most important fact for me to keep in front of me is the fact that Alcoholism is not a drinking disorder..
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Character Defects.
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I feel something so right doing the wrong thing. I feel something so wrong doing the right thing. This is how it went for me when I first started tackling my defects. I did not know any other way, giving into them my whole life. So doing the next right thing was uncomfortable and unnerving. Faced with the f...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/19
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You too? I thought I was the only one!~ C. S. Lewis
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Today's Gift - 8/19
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God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. --The Serenity Prayer NewcomerWhat if the person to whom I'm trying to make amends is still too angry to accept my apology or doesn't want anything to do with me?S...
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Grapevine
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August 19 "What I have learned in the past twelve years is that my relationship with God and my spiritual practice is the only answer, even when I'm not sure of the question."
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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August 18, 2014Quote of the Week"The key to happiness is usefulness" This quote really resonated with me the instant I hear it. I immediately thought about how serenely happy I am right after working with a sponsee, and how that feeling can last for hours. The secret of course is being of se...
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Grapevine
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August 18 "With each passing year we increasingly realize the immense importance of adequately presenting the program to every new prospect who is in the least inclined to listen. Many of us feel this to be our greatest obligation to him and our failure to do so our greatest dereliction. The di...
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Self-Diagnosis if I am or I am not alcoholic
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It's all about experience. I've learnt that I must try to identify in what is written in Big Book about the real alcoholic to see if there is necessary to take these Steps. This topic is provoked by other topic about alcoholism and drinking problem, so I decided to write some words about it.So, let's sta...
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Sunrise Quote - 8/18
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If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind.~ Jeffrey Gitomer
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Today's Gift - 8/18
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Reflection for the DayLooking back, I realize just how much of my life has been spent in dwelling upon the faults of others. It provided much self-satisfaction, to be sure, but I see now just how subtle and actually perverse the process became. After all was said and done, the net effect of dwelling on t...
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Today's Gift - 8/17
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I am responsible for myself, my recovery, my well-being, my happiness. All these things are, ultimately, my own responsibility. --AnonymousOur Higher Power does not lay claim to our free will. We can choose not to be responsible and make ourselves more miserable by going to new levels of despair an...
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