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We have recovered, and have been given the power to help others. [Big Book, page 132, line 30] a great gift-God truely did for me what I could not do for myself I am a recovered alcoholic thats how I...
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I'm the type of drunk that is black & white and if I tell myself I'm recovered then this alcoholic mind tells me that I can drink. So "for me" I tell myself every morning that I'm only one drink...
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I no longer suffer from the mental obsession. Since I never put alcohol in my body, I can no loger experience the phenomenon of craving. And today I have a God in my life and I am spiritually fit as...
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hi i have been clean for two weeks and im ready to out for good i think but when imi stressd ni fell i need a drink ....but im trying not to do that becayse im a stong woman im only 25 and i have a...
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I forgot one thing i wanted to say. I think a lot of people having recovered from their past with alcohol are tempted to try it again because they've been whaqt they call "Good" for a while. With some...
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Once a pickle always a pickle. I'll never be a cucumber again. For my self I'm in recovery. It only takes one drink to send me back to where I was and beyond. You see I have a disease called...
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Okay. I had once said I had Graduated. It felt like I had Graduated and we had an argument in my home group about when a young man said he had Recovered. I think the difference is: is that we need to...
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Before A.A., the life I lived was hardly a lilfe at all; more of a pitiful, bleak existance. It was not just a SEEMINGLY hopeless state of mind and body, I was truly hope-less. I KNEW A.A. would not...
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Welcome to our group jtlojac, That's another way of looking at it. It's not recovered or recovering I think the apt word would be remission? Todays dime and three pennys ( inflation )
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If I run around with a gun living a life of crime and get shot they would take me to the hospital to recover from a gun shot wound. If I live and recover from that wound and go out and continue to do...
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Alcohol is but a symptom of my disease. I am recovered from being under the influence of mind altering chemicals. I hope and pray to be in recovery from the damage I caused and my character defects...
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I always love this argument/discussion! I felt very strongly about "being in recovery" for quite a while...I was terrified to even consider being RECOVERED lest I drink again! Then I went through the...
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I know for myself if I even think "just one more" for anything.....its probably an addiction....LOL nanc
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We are always recovering...whether it be alcohol, drugs, sex....whatever We know grog is a poison, yet we still do it? Why? Because it supposedly makes us feel good. Not true. Your family, friends,...
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My experience is that I have recovered, just as the Big Book promised. Being recovered means that I have power today, I live joyous and free under the care of a living God. I am not powerless but I...
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To Kidd, I have alittle time in the rooms, it does'nt matter how long, it does'nt matter the meaning of the word recover, recovering whatever, I am living a healthy life, being honest and not worrying...
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When I was drinking I blamed everything on everyone else. When I got to AA and into recovery, I learned that drinking was but a symptom of my disease and the person responsible had been, was then, and...
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