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I can not stay clean today on yesterdays recovery
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Hello Family i want to share how my HP's presence is evident in my life lately. today i am 2 years , 11 months and 1 day clean. Longer than any time i've ever had in recovery. I feel stronger today than ever that i must stay in touch with the first 3 steps. In hindsight i realize that every time i went back out...
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Reading all these posts
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I am glad that this site is here. I was reading the post about putting your all into this thing. I know from other life experiences that you get out of something what you put into it...for the most part. So here is where I need some help. I have a sponsor now, online albeit, and am starting on my step work. I am...
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november 29 just for today
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November 29 Our Higher Power's Care "We believe that our Higher Power will take care of us."Basic Text pg. 55 Our program is based on the idea that the application of simple principles can produce profound effects in our lives. One such principle is that, if we ask, our Higher Power will car...
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joke for the 29th
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A married woman is having an affair. Whenever her lover comes over, she puts her nine year old son in the closet. One day the woman hears a car in the driveway and puts her lover in the closet, as well. Inside the closet, the little boy says, Its dark in here, isnt it? Yes it is, the man replies. You wanna buy a...
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Im surrendering
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Hi all. Well after a couple of very very unproductive and miserable weeks,I have called my sponsor and feel like a different person already! Why is it when we know exactly what to do, we get so damned stubborn and would rather wallow in self pity? Im not so sure if you would have asked me a few days ago that I...
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joke for the 28
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A guy walks into a clinic to have his blood type taken. The nurse goes about taking the blood sample from his finger after finishing she looks around for a piece of cotton to wipe away the excess blood. She can't find one so she looks innocently at the guy, takes his finger and sucks it. The guy is so pleased...
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november 28 just for today
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November 28 Being Ourselves "To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves."Basic Text pg. 35 Humility is a puzzling concept. We know a lot about humiliation, but humility is a new idea. It sounds suspiciously like groveling, bowing, and scraping. But that's not what hu...
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a couple of thoughts
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NEVER BORROW SORROW FROM TOMORROW deal only with the present, never step into tomorrow. for High power asks us just to trust who ever it is and to never borrow sorrow. for the future is not ours to know and it may never be, so let us live and give our best and give our best and give it lavishly. for to meet to...
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running from whatever makes me hurt
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Hello friends and Happy Thanksgiving I was just confronted by my husband and let me tell you I was not wanting to face reality!! I guess I should tell you about the event that got me into this obsession ... I have rights to my girls this weekend and we received this letter, registered mail, stating all kin...
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in need of a suggestion
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hey everyone, Happy thanksgiving to all the americans out there... Just wanted to update, I had my 2 year medallion last night and I'm really glad that it's over. I am struggling with the steps that need to be taken. I haven't been connecting with my sponsor for about 6 months and I realize that it is ti...
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yeah
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so today was my first day working at macys of course black friday. it wasnt that bad. it wasnt too crowded but i have a headache, my feet are bleeding, and my legs hurt. 9 hours of dealing with stupid people really takes a lot out of someone. and my heart has been acting up a bit and i dont think my NEW meds are w...
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The garden
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attitude of gratitude
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There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, 'If I could only see the world, I will marry you.' One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to...
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OVERDOSE!!!
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ON TURKEY THAT IS LOL.. BET I got your attention lol how many are feelin the effects of the turkey? don't know bout ya'll but its nap time but it wouldn't be thanksgiving without a gratitude thread: Grateful for finding peace of mind this year took all year but it's here... Grateful to b a part of somethi...
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Spirit of Gratitude !
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Thanks giving is related to the Harvest Festival and seems to have begun on a plantation in New England sometime in 1691 and has stayed as american tradition ever since. Canada celebrates this too, but on the 1st Monday of october. My mother had experienced a grand lunch at my aunts, when she lived in Ca...
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joke for the 27th
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A man absolutely hated his wife's cat and decided to get rid of him one day by driving him 20 blocks from his home and leaving him at the park. As he arrived home, the cat was walking up the driveway. The next day he decided to drive the cat 40 blocks away. He put the beast out and headed home. Driving back up hi...
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gobble gobble
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so i decided to go to my parents house for dinner. it went exactly how i knew it would. i walk in they hug me and say they are sooooooooooooo glad to see me clean. then we eat. and then the bitches come out and argue with me and bitch about something. it doesnt matter what it is they always have something to bit...
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an extra laugh for the holiday
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>>>> HOW IS NORMA?......This is hilarious! >>>> >>>> A sweet grandmother telephoned St. Joseph 's >>>> Hospital. She timidly asked, >>>> >>>> 'Is it possible to speak to someone who can tell me >>>> h...
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Yeah what a day.
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I found out this morning a good friend of mine who was active killed him self this morning. I truly am grateful and fuckin pissed off at the same time. It reminds me of how selfish i was out there and it could very well be me. He didn't kill him self, he killed those who love him. Another reason i am so adamit (h...
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JOKE FOR TURKEY DAY
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Donald Rumsfeld died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St.Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, "What are all those clocks?" St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on you...
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stress management
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STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE Just in case you are having a rough day, here is a stress management technique, recommended in all the latest psychological journals. The funny thing is that it really does work, and will make you smile. 1. Picture yourself lying on your belly on a warm rock that hangs ou...
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I lost my daughter to drugs and wrote this for her
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This is a poem I wrote in memory of my daughter, who did not get a second chance. If someone can live because of these words, I would know she didn't die in vain. My Debbie I have just been born, the light hurts my eyes I'm happy to be here even though my mouth cries I know they will love me I'll try to be good, I'l...
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QOD 11/25/09
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What`s one thing in your life , you really want to get done , that you just can quite finish ? What keeps getting in the way ?
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today
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well i went to the doctors today for my heart and they told me that the medicine i was taking had stopped working. GREAT! so they are going to trying some different medicine and if that doesnt work then i dont know what they will do. so that sucks. they wanted to put me on Percodan but its a narcotic and i said...
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havent posted in a while
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im angry, i hate myself, i keep messing up, i just need to escape the world and myself.
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the Unmanageabili-TEE
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attached is an exercise that i use often (daily or more in early recovery) to help me recognize powerlessness/unmanageability and stay in the solution. feel free to use this and pass it along if you care to. steve
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life just hit me!!!!!!!!!
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dunno why today but I was just realizing just how I have spent the last year running from my "DRAMA" it is almost 2010 just a little over a month it has been a rough one that is for sure, with promises of love from a man that can't even post under his real name but swares what he says is true...I look...
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POSTER DRIVE!!!
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Ok so my area is having a poster drive in Dec. im really excitied service truly keeps me clean now i have a question........i want to bring a poster drive into my old high schoool. BUT i think i have to go through the school board. Does anyone have any experince with this? if so POST IT!
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joke 4 the 25th
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A hillbilly went hunting one day in Oklahoma and bagged three ducks. He put them in the bed of his pickup truck and was about to drive home when he was confronted by an ornery game warden who didn't like hillbillies. The game warden ordered the hillbilly to show his hunting license, and the hillbilly pul...
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No really if your not taking the suggestions
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then your probably not getting the most you can get out of the program. Since i started going to meetings daily, getting a sponsor, doing a lot more reading and step work I can definetly feel a change going on inside of me and i KNOW this is what i should have been doing all along. Just wanted to share that wi...
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