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A Power Greater Than Ourselves & Tolerance for Others Right to Choose Their Own HP
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Christmas is tomorrow and I was just curious about this.... Most of the AA meetings I attend are held in churches. We say at least one of the following and a lot of times two of these at each of the meetings I have attended: "The Lord's Prayer", "The Third Step Prayer" and "The...
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Don't drink and go to meetings!
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Sone interesting observations othis is saying. Some stays regarding chips given out and AA success rates. http://www.aastudy.org/_articles/Don't_Drink_&_Go_To_Meetings.pdf
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Christmas Down Under
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To All at MIP , a Happy , SAFE & Sober Christmas & Prosperous New Year To those who don't celebrate Christmas , enjoy Your day & all the best to you as well.
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Have a Good Christmas!!
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Twenty five years ago today.........
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Twenty five years ago today, I dragged my butt into a AA holiday marathon at a local AA club, scared and badly shaken by a mercifully brief relapse that happened after spending several months on the fringes of AA and trying to stay sober on my own - mostly by just showing up in meetings and hanging out with...
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Reflections......
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As I look back on this year, so many things have happened. Some for the good, and some for the very bad!! At the beginning of the year, I lost someone who was very dear to me. She showed me the kind of person that I really did want to spend the rest of my life with. Unfortunately, we were both 'sick' people at th...
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Grapevine
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December 24 "Experience has taught us that simplicity is basic in preservation of our personal sobriety and helping those in need."
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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December 23, 2013 Quote of the Week "It's progress not perfection,we are not saints." I had some friends over the other night for dinner and we started talking about road rage. We each had a story to tell about how we had participated in an escalating episode of honking, c...
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Today's Gift
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How we treat other people comes back to us always. Offering others understanding and compassion changes how we perceive the world around us on a daily basis. Our acts of love inspire love from others. What we send out to the people who share our path changes, ever so subtly, the complexion of each life...
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Sunrise Quote
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If we continually practice filling our minds with thoughts of faith, hope and gratitude, it will eventually crowd out our fears. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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Want to go for a Helicopter Ride ???
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Want a good laugh, watch this... The ride is over before it begins, however, the facial expression of the passengers is quite memorable... http://www.youtube.com/embed/bAYrcu5_Pko?rel=0 -- Edited by Pythonpappy on Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:45:11 PM
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The Back Nine
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This is just an interesting email I got recently and thought I'd pass it on ...!!! *_THE BACK NINE_* *I FIRST STARTED READING THIS EMAIL & WAS READING FAST UNTIL I REACHED THE THIRD SENTENCE. I STOPPED AND STARTED OVER READING SLOWER AND THINKING ABOUT EVERY WORD. THIS EMAIL IS VERY THOUGHT PRO...
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24 years ago today....
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I surrendered to the process of recovery and started this amazing journey. Thank you for trudging the road of happy destiny with me. John
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What do we stick with?
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I heard that we should stick with winners. The ones with a long time sober that are working the program. Seems simple enough. It was what I was told. it makes me wonder why we have so many threads discussing simple things in the big book like they are a complex equation. We are not talking about the qua...
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Giving up - letting go
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I had all but given up on selling our house - and for the last showing I didn't even put in much effort at all - I had already let go. I reported here that we had no luck and began the acceptance process and continued to seek God's will for my life through prayer. Then a great offer from that last couple came th...
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Why is this bugging me so much and what self inventory will help me overcome this kind of thing?
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Feel so silly posting this...however, hasn't stopped me before so here goes... I was concerned about someone who hasn't attended meetings for several weeks. She really adds a lot to meetings with her shares and I just have missed her as well as have been concerned about how she is doing. So I talked wit...
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Smarting off to the cops.
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I'll never forget the time I got pulled over for speeding on 'the drag' near my town. I was going about 40 in a 25 - maybe 50. The cop was young and cute, and I was younger and cuter lol. Back then I wasn't too big on honesty or anything like that at all. I lied and told him I was hurrying to get to the bathroom...
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Today's Gift
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Slow down and let go On a road trip up the California coast a while back, I tried to call home only to find that the battery in my cell phone had died. I worried. What if someone needed to get in touch with me? What if there was a problem with the house? What if my family couldn't find me and got worried? I passe...
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All I Want for Christmas...
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I have posted several things on this board about my fears, shortcomings, hang ups, etc. I have been grateful for the responses from not only the ones with longer sobriety times than myself, but also for the newly sober ones as well. The insightfulness and experiences of others has been amazing to me. I...
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The Line....
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Human beings are given the natural ability to see the clear well-defined line that distinguishes between right or wrong, and good or evil. Once we cross that line, it begins to fade and disappear. And, the more times we cross it, we naturally lose our ability to see it at all. One of the highest point...
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Today's Gift
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Live and let live is good advice. The more comfortable we are with the knowledge that each of us has a unique journey to make, a specific purpose to fulfill, the easier it is to let other people live their own lives. When family members are in trouble with alcohol or other drugs, it's terribly difficul...
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An inspiring bit of poetry
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What follows is a poem by Linda Ellis titled "The Dash". I read of a man who stood to speakAt the funeral of a friend.He referred to the dates on her tombstoneFrom the beginning to the end. He noted that first came the date of her birthAnd spoke of the following date with tears.But he said th...
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I heard this today and wanted to share it with you....
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I watched a local news video about a recovering addict and she said this and it really is beautiful.... "It doesn't pay to be mean to anyone because you can be entertaining an angel." 
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Sunrise Quote
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Your greatness is measured by your horizons. Michelangelo
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Are you or we're you ever scared.....
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Of taking a searching and fearless moral inventory. Of yourself that is! Ha! in looking back, and recently chatting with a friend, this seems to be something so many of us felt. I felt fear. No candy coating it. I ran and drank from that crap. When sobering up, the last thing wanted to do was go jump...
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Today's Gift - 12/21
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History books begin and end, but the events they describe do not. --R. G. Collingwood Each day we turn a new page in our recovery, and we grow more settled in our new life. As we learn to live in the present, neither fearing the future not feeling shame about the past, we discover new pleasures in simply li...
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Sunrise Quote 12/19
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Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest. George Washington
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Sunrise Quote 12/21
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It requires the eye of wisdom and bravery to see the radiance of a dark day, and impart its brightness to the world. Ella E. Dodson
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Participants wanted for AA Sponsor Study
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My name is Martine Marte and I am clinical psychology doctoral student at the Wright Institute in Berkeley working on my dissertation. I am currently looking for participants for my dissertation study who are currently sponsors in Alcoholics Anonymous. Participation in this study will involve f...
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Feeling a little lost. I'd like to hear from some of the older members of the board.
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It appears that a fair amount of the older members of this board are doing a lot more reading than posting these days. Myself included. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for all the new and newer members, and grateful for the older members that post regularly, it's just not as familiar as it once was....
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H & I
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I never thought that going into Jail & Mental Ward would give so much Peace I remember wen i was 6 months sober & i hung out with a bunch of old timers and they come & pick me up, we are going to a out of town meeting wen we were almost there they would tell me we are going to Mental Hospital & by t...
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At My Age
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"Be Wary of Drinking Occassions" timely chapter I like during the holidays
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In The Living Sober book I have been reading there is a special chapter about "Be Wary of Drinking Occassions". I know for myself that I am not able to attend any function where alcohol is being served. I couldn't attend a wedding and a recent Christmas party where this was the case, altho...
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John's Share
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John's share about expectations - yanked from another board. I have been asked a few times if someone could have a copy of what I said in the meeting last night. I decided I would post it here, share it with everyone, and from here it can be copied by those who want to keep it for later reading. the topi...
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The phone and calling people....
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So I have a lot of women's phone numbers. I'd like to make friends. I just can't seem to call people. What do I say? I'm not gonna drink. I have a shrink for my problems. I don't need extra help right now but I am kinda isolating. I stopped going to the bars for obvious reasons. I stopped going to my coffee shop...
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A Problem with an AA member at my meeting
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Hi, I am so happy to join this site and I would welcome any advice on the above subject. My situation is that I am 5months sober and feel I have finally got my life back on track.It is down to my higher power, the meetings and support from other AA members. Previous to the 5 months I had a serious slip. A member...
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Antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds & AA
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I don't know how many days into the program I am, somewhere in the 100s, but I'm 22 days sober, finally found myself a good sponsor, have been talking to her every day and following her directions, and want to keep doing so... And then she tells me that she has to "check with her grand-sponsor"...
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Grapevine
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December 20 "Like every AA member I have a definite responsibility to become a citizen of the world around me; to channel into it the experience of living and working which has been mine in our Fellowship. "
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The Serenity Prayer...
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God, Grant me the Serenity To accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference.We say this prayer a lot...I remember the first time I said this prayer in rehab....I didn't have a clue what it meant...I figured the things I could not change....My al...
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That big ol' black dog is following me around.
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I don't know if that translates but here the black dog is a euphemism for depression. I know why it is happening - a combination of the withdrawal mood swings and my marriage break up - but I'm not sure what to do about it. I can't use medication because (1) I don't want to swap the bitch for the witch and (2)...
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Grapevine
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December 19 "When I call my sponsor, my friends, someone on my home group's phone list, or someone who scribbled their number on a napkin after a meeting, I make progress ... If we just call, we help one another stay sober, one call at a time, one connection at a time."
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Checking in......
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Have not posted in a while so I thought I would check in. Things are going well......better than I deserve. Been attending meetings, will be seeing my children this weekend......all in all, life is pretty good. On a sad note, I think that the wife and I will be parting ways. Maybe not for good (as she has i...
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Am I an Alcoholic?
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I need help determining whether or not I am a candidate for AA or belong in AA. Any help would be appreciated. Basically, since I turned 21 I have been a regular drinker. I used to drink 1-2 beers a few nights per week. Then that progressed to pretty much every night. Now, I'm drinking 3 beers per night usua...
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Sunrise Quote
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton
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What my child taught me about God.
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Hi to all of you. I have a little story from my own life in sobriety that I want to share with you guys. To begin with, I should probably tell you that I'd spent all of my past life living in a lot of shame about myself. And, to be honest, I had plenty to be ashamed of. I was no angel. While a large portion of t...
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What to do......
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....as a new member having trouble with the somber, formerly derelict crowd at the meetings having me listen to horror stories and feeling a generally depressed atmosphere.. In comparison I'm a lightweight. I never spent time in DOC, never murdered a human (only pigeons), have always been a nice g...
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"Live and Let Live"
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I hope everyone is having a great day..... Being a people pleaser I have sometimes found myself agreeing with people who I really didn't agree with for fear that they would think bad of me if I told them how I really feel. I have always wanted others to like me. I am becoming more assertive and expressing m...
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Grapevine
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December 18 "You've got one life to live. Don't screw it up with a lot of maybes, what-ifs, and could-have-beens. Focus on what you have."
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Coffee Is Better After I Stopped Drinking
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Sounds like a silly post, I know, but I sure am enjoying my coffee tons more since I stopped drinking a little over a week ago. Is it because I'm starting to feel better about myself, or has anyone else experienced this? Drinking some now -- soooooooo good!
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Being comfortable with being imperfect human beings.
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Good morning to all of you! I love getting up early for quiet meditation, and I hope you won't mind if I share what I've been thinking about in these lovely and quiet hours before sunrise. When I do my daily 10th Step at the end of each day, I always hope to find that I've gotten through the day perfectly &q...
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