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Denial.
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Sad to lose a 32 year old to alcoholism. Came to AA but remained in denial. Alcoholics Anonymous offers a life time solution to the problem of alcoholism, but few take it. People with other life threatening diseases easily accept their plan of recovery, but not with alcoholism.
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My story/Help
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Hello everyone. Alcohol has completely ruined my life. How I'm not in jail or worse is nothing short of a miracle. I got pulled over this weekend and somehow the cop didn't arrest me. He just took my home, I couldn't believe it. The next morning I woke up with bruises from stumbling into my furnitur...
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Good moment all
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Hello all. I lost internet service for a long bit but I've got it back. Good to be back. I hope everyone is doing well. Oh, and I celebrated 22 years on Saturday. :)
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Anger
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I thought yesterday was just the crappiest day for me. One thing happened which upset me. Then another and I felt depressed and drained most of the day. When my sponsor made up my list of character defects "angry" was not one of them. I realized today that I needed to add that to my list, as I hav...
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Grapevine
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May 14 "Sometimes I wonder if this illness isn't a gift rather than a problem."
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Today's Gift - 5/14
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Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of life.--Carl JungThe times that life works best are when we get out of the way and let the power work through us. The writer says of an inspired short story, "I didn't write this story; it seemed to write itself." After...
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certainly
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Step 4 with a sponsee
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How do you all handle a resentment that is justified and of no fault of the sponsee? Such as an verbally abusive, degrading mother? Or the case of a step father who physically molests the sponsee and a mother who turns a blind eye. These are currently two sponsee situations I am dealing with. I have be...
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IT WORKS! How Many Days of Sobriety Do You Have?
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343 for Me! 
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When You Measure Somebody Quote I LOVE THIS
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Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning-because that ain't the time at all...when you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken...
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Welcome to MIP fiberfreak
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Welcome fiberfreak ... glad you found us ... please let us know a little about you ... Pappy
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Today's Gift - 5/13
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Having boundaries doesn't complicate life; boundaries simplify life.--Beyond CodependencyThere is a positive aspect to boundary setting. We learn to listen to ourselves and identify what hurt us and what we don't like. But we also learn to identify what feels good.When we are willing to take som...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/13
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I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.Pete Hamill
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Step three
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Step 3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives our to the care of God as we understood Him. If the writer of a textbook has an understanding of a word, but the reader of the book has a DIFFERENT understanding of the SAME word, then the information that comes through will be garbled and incomplete. The...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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May 12, 2014Quote of the Week"Drinking gave me the feeling of a job well done without having done a thing." I remember a restaurant/bar in the rich neighborhood of Brentwood , CA I used to go to after work. I'd saddle up to the long, swank bar and order cocktails while I watched the successf...
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Grapevine
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May 13 "While I have years of sobriety, I really only have this day."
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Today's Gift - 5/12
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Every human being is a problem in search of a solution.--Ashley MontaguEach of us is a strong and fragile creature. We're always subject to forces outside our control, and we're learning steps for living that help us cope and rise above these problems. Our particular situation might seem special to...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/12
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If you're not riding the wave of change. You'll find yourself beneath it.Unknown -- Edited by Pythonpappy on Monday 12th of May 2014 04:32:55 PM
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Can Someone Please Come and Kick My Butt?
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Had a great Mother's Day. Went to see my mom and got along with her superbly. No second guessing, paranoid feelings about what she meant when she said something. It was wonderful. My daughter sent me an email last night wishing me a Happy Mom's Day and telling me she is proud of my sober time. Oh, and she en...
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Step Two
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Step 2 Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. The chapter "We Agnostics", which begins on page 44, starts with a good review of Step 1: "In the preceding chapters you have learned something of alcoholism. We hope we have made clear the distinc...
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Is recovery for abstinence or moderation?
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What is the goal of recovering or recovered alkies? Is it complete abstinence from alcohol or is it moderation?
I've read and heard various experiences with this.
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substitute for booze
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Do recovering or reformed alcoholics substitute something else for the booze?
I have known and heard about some people who begin using drugs, overeating or sugar drinks/ foods.
Is this true.
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Mother's day & AA.
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It was on Mother's Day in 1935 that AA was formed by the meeting of Dr Bob and Bill W. providentially arranged by God, through Henrietta Sieberling and Anne Smith. The embryo of AA was conceived that day by two men sharing about their utter futility of their alcoholism. They shared for almost 5 hours. At...
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Grapevine
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May 12 "I'm still mystified by how I got sober, and the only answer that makes sense is that I stopped drinking through the grace of God. I was thinking about the difference between those of us who get sober and those who are still drinking, and I believe the difference is that we have accepted the...
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Partner's father died
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He was 72 and an alcoholic. He latched on to a little bit of AA towards the end (in the last 3 years or so). His quality of sobriety was questionable because of being so doped up on meds that it still seemed like he was drunk much of the time and he half-assed it with no step work so he still flipped out period...
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New to AA
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My name is Katie and I'm an alcoholic. I am a functional alcoholic looking to stop drinking. Coming on here for support.
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Sweet Alert
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I have gone sugar crazy since being sober. Went through almost a pound of M&M's last night while watching a Lifetime movie. Had had a couple of pieces of fudge and brownies earlier and a bowl of Nutty Buddy Ice Cream. It is amazing I am not as big as the place I live in. I only eat one meal a day, so that may...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/11
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A Mother is not to be compared to any other person she is incomparable.African Proverb
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Today's Gift - 5/11
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Presence"C'mon. Hurry. Let's go," my friend said, shifting nervously from one foot to the other. I looked around. Another friend, Michael, had just walked into the room. I hadn't seen him for a while. I felt compelled to go over and talk to him, even though I didn't have anything important...
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Sock Monkeys And Reading Minds
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This may qualify as being the silliest posting I have on this site. Just had a burning desire to share a dream I had for some reason, so here goes.... First of all I love sock monkeys. They are the stuffed animals people make out of socks (thus, the name--sock monkeys). Well, in my dream this woman was sel...
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Working on Relationships After the Booze is Gone
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I am planning on going to see my mom. It has been at least four years since I have seen her. When I was drinking I always thought about seeing her, however, I couldn't take the lectures I would get about my drinking. I called her sometimes (she never called me because either she was protecting herself or th...
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Today's Gift - 5/10
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Maturity doesn't come with age or intellectual wisdom, only with love.--Ruth CaseyWe may have thought being mature meant being "grown-up." This meant acting rationally, showing good judgment, no longer exhibiting childish behavior. It's doubtful that we ever considered the expre...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/10
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Rain and sun are to the flower as praise and encouragement are to the human spirit.Unknown
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Today's Gift - 5/8
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No matter what faces us an unhappy relationship, a serious operation or illness, a feeling of uselessness or helplessness it is vital to realize that there is a solution.We must not expect that the solution to our problem will bring us immediate peace of mind. Focusing our energies and emotions o...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/8
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Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass its about learning how to dance in the rain.Unknown
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Grapevine
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May 9 "How will I know if I've really hit my bottom?' I asked at my home group. 'When you stop digging,' they told me."
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Today's Gift - 5/9
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.--Will DurantSometimes we say bad things about others. When we do this, it makes us look bad too. Our friends worry what we might say about them behind their backs. They're afraid to trust us. We become known as gossips.The things we say ab...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/9
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Pearl S. Buck
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it does not take much to lift me up.
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Wednesday, after mum's funeral, after the post funeral bun fight, after the hour solitude driving to a meeting.
best suit on and big james says 'eyup mate, was it court no 1 or no 2' and I reply no james, my mum's funeral.
brutally, carelessly. The pain in his eyes showed how embarrased and hurt he wa...
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Newbie
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Long story...I am still with my second wife I dearly love...the feeling is just not mutual now. I went to detox, which was more boring than anything, but I got clean. My wife and I hit another rough patch and though I am doing better, I started to hit the bottle again. I know my trigger. It is her and stress a...
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Seeing it from their perspective
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Can someone share any ESH on how someone who was affected by my alcoholism. That doesn't drink. How do they recover. I mean how is it for them in recovery. What do they go through, what difficulties to they face in recovery. I know my part and the past. The BB focuses on the damage we did and what to expect. H...
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Mickey D Magic
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I was toast Wednesday afternoon coming in from my business which is labor...sometimes fast and efficient and other times "HARD". Wednesday was a "Hard" one and I just couldn't make it the next mile to get home. Didn't have the moxie to make my own lunch and sit alone in my hous...
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Step One
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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. 1. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness (defects of the thinking mind.)2. We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first ste...
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Found an old note
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I was cleaning up my house as I am preparing to move, and I found an old journal, it was actually one of the many journals I started as an attempt to help myself recover. It goes " Its Jan 01 2013, I need to stop my drinking now, I need help, I cannot continue like this, I either have to stop drinking or ki...
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Sunrise Quote - 5/7
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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.Robert Brault
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5 Interesting Rules for Life
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Funny, ... when I got this, I thought of Phil ... the 'nut dude' here, ... LOL This is just for some 'comic relief' and in no way represents my view on 'life' ... just soo's you know ... LOL ...
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anti alcohol posters
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http://www.juxtapoz.com/design/soviet-anti-alcohol-posters-from-the-1920s60s
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Today's Gift - 5/7
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God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.-- Catherine MarshallAn omniscient God must know what we desire before we ask. God knows that what we really need most is reliance on God. And how do we develop reliance? Like mos...
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Grapevine
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May 8 "Should our present success continue, people will commence to assert that AA is a brand new way of life, maybe a new religion, capable of saving the world. We shall be told it is our bounden duty to show modern society how it ought to live ... "Fortunately most of us are convinced that th...
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