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Alcohol Came First
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Alcohol came first... Before Family  Before Food  Before Financial Security  Before Friends  Before My Health  Before My Sanity  Before Living.....  Alcohol Became the Most Important Thing to Me!!! I remember thinking...
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54 years old today.
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I thank God for another birthday. He has been kind to me despite my squandering His gifts. I was the arrogant, selfish alcoholic, who got sober by the grace of God and nothing else. The AA book's chapter to the Agnostic, silenced my arrogance and this psalm from the bible challenged me tremendously, to...
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Will I always be a jerk?
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While my life has improved in unimaginable ways I can't help but notice that I'm still not very nice in my personal life at times. I can be condescending, argumentative, confrontational, flippant, impatient and difficult. I'd like to not be those things but it just seems like it's part of my persona...
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Valentines Day... memories pressed between the pages of my mind...
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I have read a lot of post this morning regarding Valentines Day... everything from well wishes, to feelings of loneliness. I remember the first Valentines day card I got in school. I was in the second grade. She put it on my desk. And I immediately fell in love with her! LOLThen I discovered she gave...
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In My Message Box This AM....."Don't Give Up Until You've Dated a Cougar"
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Ha! The joys of looking through my email messages in the morning  I've been getting all these ads for painless face lifts, weight loss, life insurance, funeral insurance, Publisher's Clearinghouse (which I entered, and regret doing so because everyday I get multiple emails telling me...
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Today's Gift
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Coping with FamiliesThere are many paths to self-care with families. Some people choose to sever connections with family members for a period of time. Some people choose to stay connected with family members and learn different behaviors. Some disconnect for a time, and then return slowly on a dif...
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Sunrise Quote
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Love doesnt make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.Franklin P. Jones
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Grapevine
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February 14 "With respect to its own affairs, the collective conscience of the group will, given time, almost surely demonstrate its perfect dependability. The group conscience will, in the end, prove a far more infallible guide for group affairs than the decision of any individual membe...
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Today's Gift
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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side. --Hugh PratherDestiny has its own course in each of our lives. And our movements with others who are special will thankfully be parallel at times. However, our paths will shar...
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Humor is Good for Us......
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I never understood alcoholics joking about this disease when I first started going to AA meetings. Finally can laugh at them myself and here are a couple which I hope don't offend anyone, but if so..sorry about that (I didn't write em).... How many alcoholics does it take to change a lightbulb? Just o...
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It's Snowing!!!!
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Anybody else getting this funky white sticky stuff? It's really coming down in VA! People are already going crazy. Traffic is a mess, stores are packed with people stocking up on their bread, milk and beer (not me on that last one). It's a good night to find an old movie on t.v., make some hot tea :coffeec...
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Heard @ Meetings
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A cheap brand of AA is Not a bargain. AA has a wrench to fit Every Nut that walks through the doors. AA is a "check up , from the neck up" AA is Not for people who need it , AA is Not for people who want it , AA is for people who Do it . AA is the highest priced club in the world , f you have paid your dues , Why N...
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Good one for today ... (religious content)
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Hi Lord If you take 1 minute to read this prayer, imagine how many prayers are going up for our country. Hi Lord, its me. We are getting older and things are getting ....bad here. Gas prices are too high, no jobs, and food and heating costs too high. I know some have taken you out of our schools, governm...
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Checking In
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Hi all I hope you are all doing well. I'm on my 115 day of sobriety and even though I come to this board at least once a week I don't always post but I find much wisdom on this board and you all give me so much help just reading your posts. I go to a meeting every morning and in the beginning I felt I had so much to sh...
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Today's Gift
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What if?I was talking to a friend one day about something I planned to do. Actually, I was worrying about how one particular person might react to what I intended to do. "What if he doesn't handle it very well?" I asked. "Then," my friend replied, "you're going to have to ha...
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Sunrise Quote
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Values are not just words, values are what we live by. Theyre about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.John Kerry
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Grapevine
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February 13 "Empathy, not sympathy or pity, is the most useful quality a sponsor can cultivate."
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Another one......
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Did you hear there's a new 12-step program for people who talk too much? It's called on-and-on-anon. 
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MY FAVORITE!!!!!
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A newcomer asked his sponsor about the difference between a non-alcoholic, a potential-alcoholic, and the hopeless-alcoholic, explaining that he was confused by this terminology in the Big Book. So the sponsor took the new comer to the raunchiest bar in town. Upon arriving, they stopped out ba...
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craving sugar
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Sunrise Quote
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As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.Nelson Mandela
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Extra Special Chocolate Cake for Your Valentine or AA Meetings! Special Alert to PAPPY!
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This is fast and won't cut into too much more of your time. I added a bag of shredded coconut (Dollar Tree) and 3/4 bag (you can add whole one) of semi-sweet chocolate bits to the a box of chocolate cake mix and other things the box calls for (3 eggs, 3/4 cup oil, 1 cup water--I think that is what it says). Then...
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Today's Gift
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I find it awfully hard to give myself a break. I don't know where that attitude comes from.--Walker I."I can't. I shouldn't. It's my fault." These self-abasing and self-defeating thoughts are expressions of shame. Because repeated thoughts turn into beliefs and long-held beliefs tur...
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Grapevine
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February 12 "Clearly, the chief mark of restoration to sanity is our not taking the first drink."
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sittin' on my hands again.
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Ok. POF. What a minefield. Full of users and cruisers, hiders and sliders. Have to be sodding ruthless at the dating game. Had one date. Lovely woman. Looked like felicity kendal on her profile pic. Which was ten years old. Went for dinner. Pleasant personality but she's a chucker. Went to the bathroo...
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90 in 90
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Tonight's my 90 in 90 completion and I will get my 3 month chip. It feels good to have done the right thing this time around. I am quite sure I'll continue my daily meeting attendance though, seems to be working, life's getting a little better. Constant vigilance is what I need. (and yes, I am doing a lo...
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Family Day
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Yesterday was "Family Day" where I live. It's a provincial statutory holiday and something I would've scoffed at a year ago and refused to acknowledge. Actually I probably would have just used the day off as an excuse to go out and get drunk. This year I spent it at home with my family. We all...
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Would This Be Considered Cross Talking?
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Strange meeting last night. I know we are not supposed to share what we hear in meetings so I will be vague and just ask if someone says something which comes across to me as derogatory about AA's program, would it be cross talking if I share that I don't agree? There were quite a few newcomers there and I wa...
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Can Willpower Alone Keep An Alcoholic From Drinking?
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Although I have had willpower at times when I was an active drinker, it didn't last long. I could go a day, two even longer. My willpower didn't hold out. I was reaching for a drink to "calm down". I would tell myself all I needed was one drink to take the edge off and relax and then I could go on abo...
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How Much Info Is to Much Info to Tell Relatives About Our Sobriety
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Good afternoon.... I know I can be long-winded so will try to make this brief... Just got off the phone with my mom a while ago. Haven't seen her in the last few years because mainly of my drinking--you get it I know. Our relationship has been better since I have been sober and we have been emailing/phonin...
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Heard @ Meetings
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and to think , when I got here . I a PhD . But for my case it was a > Poor Helpless/Hopeless Drunk. with a Lot of I - S - M's . @ th top of th list was - Incredible Short Memory I sponsor/sabotage Myself I Self Me In Side Me but ended up with Incredible Spiritual Moments it could get worse , I could be nuts - Not Us...
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Grapevine
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February 11 "From the moment I pulled open the doors to my very first meeting, I felt something different, something good was going to happen. Those doors, which at the time I believed to be the heaviest ever made, allowed me to walk into a new way of life."
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Sunrise Quote
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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.Ayn Rand
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Today's Gift
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. --Calvin Coolidge There's really only one way to achieve self-respect and that is to act respectably. We can't go back and undo our past. But we can act and behave respectably today, so that when we close our eyes...
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On Death by Kahlil Gibran warning religious content
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Many thanks and much gratitude to Goingtotry for telling me about Kahlil Gibran. I don't think I have ever heard of him. I started reading some of his amazing quotations and searched to see if he had any about this subject. This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read and wanted to share. On...
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now, I'm not complaining. ...
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My alkie obsessive compulsive behaviour has led me to keep a log over the past few weeks.
it don't matter what time I go to bed. I get out again wide awake after exactly 5h48m.
I've tried getting up for a pee and going back.
I've tried getting up and doing something boring.
I've tried just laying there...
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Birthday Sunday
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at AA by the Bay my Sunday version home group which is a very very nice place to celebrate mine. Yesterday was my 35th anniversary and it was nice and today it was nicer because my sponsor was in the house and another very special alcoholic both of whom have anniversaries coming up. Robert has his tomo...
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Heard @ Meetings
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the steps came in 3X3 hurrah hurrah , the steps came in 3X3 hurrah. the 1st Three steps did Pick Me Up , Hurrah . the next three steps Did , Clean Me Up , Hurrah. I worked the next three steps to Make up These last three steps DO Keep Me Up , Hurrah , Hurrah . In early sobriety I became a group secretary - I did - ope...
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Grapevine
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February 10 "A vast communications net now covers the earth, even to its remotest reaches ... Nothing can matter more to the future welfare of AA than the manner in which we use this colossus of communication. Used unselfishly and well, the results can surpass our present imagination. Should...
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Sunrise Quote
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Wisdom is knowing the right path to take integrity is taking it.M.H. McKee
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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February 17, 2013 Quote of the Week "I don't believe in miracles,I depend on them!" If you had asked me before recovery if I believed in miracles, I would have laughed in your face. "Look at my life!" I would have said. "There are certainly no miracles happening h...
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Where and how do we find God?...As you understand God.
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This is one of my favorite passages from the Big Book. I love how Bill says the same thing over and over with different wording.Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems. They said God made these things possible, and we on...
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Today's Gift
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.--Margaret AndersonThe expression of real love is so easy between grandparents and children - and between good friends it passes effortlessly. But why is it so hard to share real love with a spouse or lover? Why...
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A Funny ... from an AA brother!
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Complete and Finished> > No English dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference> between these two words. In a recently held linguistic competition held in> London , England , and attended by the best in the world, Samsundar> Balgobin, a Guyanese man from Bache...
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What Alcoholics Anonymous Has Done For Me
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These are just some of the ways Alcoholics Anonymous has changed my life........ I am starting to love me again!! I love that I don't want to cry all the time  I love that I don't worry as much.  I love that I am not as lonely anymore.  I love that I am not as fearful as I was. :fea...
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Weekly Thought --- (religious concept)
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Weekly VerseAnd now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13Weekly QuoteAll the fruits of the Spirit...are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. Jonathan EdwardsWeekly ThoughtSome scripture is so cl...
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"One Drink Killed Philip Seymour"
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That's what is on the news.....after 23 years of sobriety, he decided to have one celebratory drink...which led to a binge.
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Been Watch'n Some Golf, ... ergo ... 50 Shades of Golf
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I'm really trying to get in a better mood than I've been in lately, maybe this'll help!!! ... ... ... Four guys have been going to the same golfing trip to St Andrews for many years. Two days before the group is to leave, Jack's wife puts her foot down and tells him he isn't going this year. Jack's mate...
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Today's Gift
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To avoid pain at all costs forces us to reject half the lessons life can teach. --Jan PishokIf we could remember that every experience we'll ever have is unique and offers us a lesson we will grow from, we'd accept them all with far greater ease. What's there to be afraid of anyway? God is never absent. In...
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