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Happy New Year
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Happy NEW YEAR. I am certainly grateful for the past year. That I can look back today with more Wisdom that I had a year ago. Why do I have a years worth of Wisdom? Because I am a year older another year Sober and that qualifies me right there. But it takes more than just having a Birthday to attain Wisdom....
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Al-Anon Step Eleven
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Step 11 : "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out." Hi everyone, looks like Dot might be busy so I thought I'd put up the topic. Al-Anon contains many rea...
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Step Three - Al-Anon
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Step Three - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
From "How Al-Anon Works for Families and Friends of Alcoholics" pg. 49 (Copyright 1995 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Limited use by express written permision of Al-Anon Family Gro...
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STEP 10 -AA
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STEP 10 CONTINUED TO TAKE PERSONAL AND WHEN WE WERE WROUNG PROMPTLY ADMITTED IT. Step 10 which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along . We vigorously commence this way of living as we cleaned up the past. We have entered the world of th...
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Step Two Al-Anon
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Step Two - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
From Paths to Recovery - Al-Anon's 12 Steps, Traditions and Concepts, pg 19. (copyright 1997, by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc., Limited use by express written permission of Al-Anon Family Grou...
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Christmas behind RAZORWIRE
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Hey everyone, We pray that you all had a very Merry Christmas and that your upcoming New year is glorious. Today was filled with travels to each of our parent's homes. Mine then my husband's, and the Sister-in laws. The best part of the entire Christmas Day. Well, it was going to a ricketty Old Chapel si...
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USING PROGRAM OR BEING 'DISTRACTED'
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ML here....powerless over my emotions.....I am a grateful member of Emotions Anonymous. This is just about my experience with my Program. Take what you need and leave the rest. I always have a choice. I always have a choice to use Program. I always have a choice of ask for HP's will or follow my own. I can...
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step 10 NA
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I have found a daily inventory or "look back" at my day to be very helpful in identifying areas of my life which need attention or more work. NA has an information pamphlet entitled "living the program" which I have found to be very helpful in a daily analysis of how my recovery i...
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It was the night before christmas...
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The most beautiful christmas forward that I received this christmas... moved me to tears... a post from the loved one of an addict... This beautiful share filled with the loving grace of the Higher Power has to be shared with all... 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house One creatu...
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A Group Concience
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The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. Hi everyone and Merry Christmas. Do you know that I need to bring something to the group conciense for review. Several months ago I was kicked off the A.A. message board. The reason that was given was because I spoke to much about my h...
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Young people and alcohol
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Hello out there! I have a 22 year old Son that has been drinking since he was around 13 years old maybe a little older or younger I am not sure. It is his story not mine. The reason I am bringing him up is because I am watching part of my life go through another Generation. One I prayed and prayed and thought wo...
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Newbie from Pa
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Hello all from Pa. Started my recovery 40 days ago and I'm taking it day by day. Glad to be here. Grateful
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EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS STEP 11
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Step 11 : "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out." From the workbook entitled Step by Step for Emotions Anonymous I will paraphrase a simple thought....
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I cant go to AA because i'm a single parent without babysitters
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Hi, I admit and know wholeheartdly i'm an alcoholic and with this have always not been able to do anything outside of child time due to being a single parent. The AA meetings are in my area once a week on a Sunday and have to travel elsewhere to get to one. I won't leave my child (a young teen) alone that...
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Beating "OUR" Addictions, Compulsions, Habits.
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An ALcoholics Testimony This letter is to all those Grateful Alcoholics, Addicts, and people with Co-Occuring Disorders. First of all I want to say I LOVE YOU ALL. I don't have to know you, or ever speak to you, meet you, or talk to you in person. But we all share a common bond between us. That bond is the bo...
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EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS STEP 12
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"Having had a spiritual awakening as the results of these steps, we tried to carry this message and to practice these principles in all our affairs." Step 12 is often thought to be 'gratitude in actions'. If we are grateful for our new way of life, for our serenity, than it's important to ex...
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You can beat your addictions!
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Hello everybody, well I just wanted to come on here and talk to you all about fighting your addictions. Having to witness firsthand what it's like to see someone go through their addictions is a very painful experience. I had a friend of mine fall into the pits of substance abuse, and he never came out of...
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Hello I'm new.
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Hi. I've been trying to quit drinking. I've heard about the 12 step program, AA, etc. However, I see myself as very prideful. I can't bring myself to go to AA meetings. I figured this would be the next best thing. I'm hoping to get some support and meet some new friends.
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Gratitude
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Gratitude! Isn't just like a Breath of Fresh air to walk into a room of A.A. after being gone for awhile and still feeling the LOVE you did when you first walked in the DAY you got SOBER. That's how I felt tonight. After a very depressed, tired, lonely day. God in his Grace places a meeting into my Heart to go...
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slow message board?
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Today is Novemer 11th and I don't see any posts for this month at all. Is this just not a very actice message board? or is it run differently than most boards? Thanks, Dee
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