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The 12 Step Recovery group supports all those involved in recovery using a 12 step program. We will post and respond on recovery issues faced in the course of living the principles and steps. Bring your issues, questions, and comments!
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Alcoholics Anonymous, Pg 85
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It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Pg 85... more »
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LOVING OURSELVES UNCONDITIONALLY MAY 25
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LOVING OURSELVES UNCONDITIONALLY MAY 25
Love yourself into health and a good life of your own.
Love yourself into relationships that work for you and the other person. Love yourself into peace, happiness, joy, success, and contentment.
Love yourself into all that you always wanted. We can stop treating ourselves the way others treated us, if they behaved in a less than healthy, desirable way. If we have learned to see ourselves critically, conditionally, and in a diminishing and punishing way, it's time to stop. Other people treated us that way, but it's even worse to treat ourselves that way now.... more »
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Thoughts For The Day~*~Compulsion
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~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Compulsion "It helped me a great deal to become convinced
that alcoholism was a disease,
not a moral issue;
that I had been drinking as a result of a compulsion,
even though I had not been aware... more »
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LETTING THE CYCLES FLOW MAY 24
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LETTING THE CYCLES FLOW MAY 24
Life is cyclical, not static. Our relationships benefit when we allow them to follow their own natural cycle.
Like the tide ebbs and flows, so do the cycles in relationships. We have periods of closeness and periods of distance. We have times of coming together and times of separating to work on individual issues.... more »
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Thoughts For The Day~*~Choices^*^*^*^*^ May 25, 2012
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~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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"Our necessities are certainly immense and compelling.
Each of us must conform reasonably well to AA's Steps and Traditions,
or else we shall go mad or die of alcoholism.... more »
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05/23/12
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It takes time, love, and support to find peace with the restless one.
~ Deidra Sarault
Restlessness is born of frustration. Perhaps we want to move ahead
with our lives more quickly. Does a job have us trapped? Do past
troubles haunt us still? Maybe perfectionism tarnishes every attempt
to achieve. We can learn from our restlessness, if we let it guide us... more »
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ENJOYMENT MAY 23
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ENJOYMENT MAY 23
Life is not to be endured; life is to be enjoyed and embraced.
The belief that we must square our shoulders and get through a meager, deprived existence for far-off "rewards in Heaven" is a codependent belief.
Yes, most of us still have times when life will be stressful and challenge our endurance skills. But in recovery, we're learning to live, to enjoy our life, and handle situations as they come.... more »
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Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions, pages 94, 95
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We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be "taught a lesson," when we really want to punish. . . . .
This odd trait of mind and emotion, this perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one, permeates human affairs from top to bottom. This subtle and elusive kind of... more »
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Thoughts For The Day~*~Acceptance^*^*^*^*^ May 23, 2012
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~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Acceptance "And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.
When I am disturbed, it is because I find
some person, place, thing, or situation
- some fact of my life -... more »
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