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Many of us as children, were taught to hide our pain, to act as if we had none. We look for ways to hide our pain. Alcohol and other drugs helped us do this. But the pain always returned. We were ashamed that we hurt. We thought we were the only one who hurt so […]
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You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making their nest in your head. —Chinese proverb— Life is full of feelings. We can be happy, sad, mad, scared. These feelings can come and go quickly. Or we may hang on to them. As recovering addicts, we […]
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If an idea, I reasoned, were a valued one, there must be some way of realizing it. —Elizebeth Blackwell— These words were written by the first woman who earned a medical degree. They’re useful to anyone who fears that their most precious dreams are doomed to failure. If our dreams are valuable ideas,they will be […]
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Even though I can’t solve your problems, I will be there as your sounding board whenever you need me. —Sandra K. Lamberson— The prize we each have been given is our ability to offer full and interested attention to people seeking our counsel. And seldom does a day pass, that we aren’t given the opportunity […]
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GROWING UP The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 115 Sometimes when I’ve become willing to do what I should have been doing all along, I want praise and recognition. I don’t realize […]
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When I came into A.A., I came into a new world. A sober world. A world of sobriety, peace, serenity, and happiness. But I know that if I take just one drink, I’ll go right back into that old world. That alcoholic world. That world of drunkenness, conflict, and misery. That alcoholic world is not […]
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Third, alcoholics recover their proper relationship with other people. they think less about themselves and more about others. They try to help other alcoholics. They make new friends so that they’re no longer lonely. They try to live a life of service instead of selfishness. All their relationships with other people are improved. They solve […]
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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day a time. —Abraham Lincoln— Abraham Lincoln did great things for the United States. He took life One Day at a time.. He broke the future into manageable pieces. We can do the same. We can live in the present and focus on […]
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For is it not true that human progress is but a mighty growing pattern woven together by the tenuous single threads united in a common effort? —Soong Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek)— We each are spinning our individual threads, lending texture, color, pattern, to the “big design” that is serving us all. Person by person our […]
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FREEDOM FROM “KING ALCOHOL” . . . let us not suppose even for an instant that we are not under constraint. . . . Our former tyrant, King Alcohol, always stands ready again to clutch us to him. Therefore, freedom from alcohol is the great “must” that has to be achieved, else we go mad […]