Hi, first posting. 2 months sober now and enjoying life. Thanks for the site.

Hi Chip, :17: I am glad that you decided to join us. Congratulations on 2 months! Please keep coming and sharing with us. Have a great Thursday!

Welcome everyone, sorry I am late in greeting you. Hope you will continue to come and share your journey with us.

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Hello...I'm Debra lynn and I'm a addict. I'm grateful today for this site. Thank you so very much for helping me start my day off with the recovery readings.:169:

:67: Debra! :17: Glad to have you join us. I hope you will keep coming and sharing with us. Have a great Wednesday! :42:

Sober almost 12 months
 

Jean 33

Welcome to the site, thank you for making the decision to join our small family. I look forward to sharing with you.

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Welcome Debralynn, so good to have you hear. Look forward to sharing with you.

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Greetings
 

My name is Mark - I am an alcoholic. Almost 2 weeks sober as I write this post. Thanks to all for starting and maintaining this website/forum.

Welcome Mark, thanks for stopping by and saying hello. Congratulations on your 2 weeks, keep coming, so you don't have to come back.

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Hello there friends! My name is Maryserp,and I know it has been a very long time being around,but I guess I lost my way to getting in here. Recovery for me has been such a wonderful adventure every day and I am happy to be re-connect along here! Hope to read more along the way!

Hey Maryserp, :17: So great to see you again. I hope you will continue to come and share with us here. Have a great weekend! :42:

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Hi, I'm an alcoholic named David (12-16-14). No use beating around the bush, right?! I'm here to recover from all the "isms" associated with this addiction and anything else over which I am powerless.

David D

Hi David, :17: I am so glad to have you join us here. Please make yourself at home and keep coming back to share with us. Have a great Monday! :)

journey
 

ODAT the day we're in...with God's grace. Our "isms" are our gift to grow.

Alanon working hard!
 

Well, this is the cart before the horse. Been posting, and haven't even introduced myself. What a dork!
I'm Al anon, and am working my steps diligently and doing everything I need to do to eradicate past thinking and crazy codependent behavior. I'm looking to better understand other Al anons and Alcoholics. It is amazing how fast one changes when working the 12 and how incredible it feels to surrender and look to an HP for guidance. Thank you for this site and these forums. Already feel linked to all of you.
Ali

Hi Ali, I am happy to have you join us here. I hope you will continue to come and share with us. Have a great Friday! :42:

Welcome Mary, David and Ali, so glad you all made the decision to join our family. I look forward to sharing with you.

The spider says go within instead of looking outside of ourselves for something to make us feel better. As the saying goes, "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive." Who did we deceive more than ourselves?

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Hi my name is Paige from south Florida. I'm not an alcoholic but I suffer from depression, PTSD, anger, anxiety and childhood sexual abuse. I'm in celebrate recovery 12 step right now and I'm here for the daily readings. Thank you for any support you can give.

Hi Paige, :17: I am glad that you decided to join us here. please make yourself at home and keep coming and sharing with us. Have a great Thursday! :42:

Welcome Paige, I have found that the 12 Steps are applicable to all areas of my life. So glad you are here, hope you will continue to come and share your journey with us. I can identify with your list, the only thing different is that my abuse didn't start until I was 21.

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New Member Check-in....
 

Hi everyone...my name is John P. I am from Melrose, NY. Right now, I have 35 years of continuous sobriety (One Day at a Time!!) thanks to the Grace of God, and the Fellowship of AA. I love the Big Book, and have participated in a Big Book study for over 20 years The Steps of AA changed my life, and gave me a new design for living. I love sharing my experience, strength and hope with newcomers; if I can be of help, in any way, please let me know.

:169: Sign John P--alias--Johnny Angel (well, sometimes...LOL)

:67: John! :17: It is great having you join us. Congratulations on 35 years! :29: I hope you will continue to come and share with us. Have a great day!

Welcome John, glad to have you with us. I look forward to sharing with you.

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Hi my name is Amore and I am 5 years sober

Hi Amore, :17: So happy to have you join us here. Congratulations on 5 years! :29: I hope you will continue to come and share with us. Have a great Wednesday! :42:

Welcome Amore, congratulations on 5 years. I was told it was a time that a lot of people relapsed because they thought they didn't need meetings and thought they new it all. I was very vigilante and made a point of checking my attitude and getting into service.

Hope you will continue to come and share with us.

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good morning from UT

Hey Jean, :17: It is great having you join us here. Please make yourself at home. I hope you will keep coming and sharing with us. Have a great Sunday! :42:

Welcome Jean, so glad you made the decision to join our small family. Hope you will continue to come and share your journey with us.

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Yes welcome Jean. I start my morning here everyday. Drop in and visit us.

Just saying "Hello" and "Thank You"
 

Hello Friends,
My name is Sherry. I am in recovery in Anchorage, Alaska. I have been researching various topics that are uplifting, real and relevant as I send a daily encouragement to my recovery group. I have really enjoyed the Daily Readings as that forum has so much information available in a variety of thought streams. Thank you so much for being here. I wish you all a beautiful Christmas season and New Year that is approaching us quickly.

Be well, be sober, LIVE!!

In kindness,
Sherry
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Hi Sherry, :17: So glad to have you join us. Please make yourself at home here. I look forward to hearing more from you. I hope you will continue to share with us. Have a great Wednesday! :42:

Welcome Sherry, thank you for sharing that beautiful picture and greeting. I look forward to sharing with you.

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My name is Dustin. I live in chicago il. New to thus recovery stuff but its growing on me.

I to suffer from PTSD hang in there it will get better.

Welcome Dustin, so glad you made the decision to join us. Thanks for signing in and saying hello. I look forward to sharing with you.

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I would like to hear what people do besides think about alcohol and not drinking. What hobbies are people involved in? What none alcohol related books are you reading. I have been wood carving off and on since I first got sober 1988. I had a lapse in sobriety for 5 yrs but have been sober since 2011. Is there a thread for hobbies and showing what people are do with their time.

Thanks for sharing, I went back to playing bridge. Sadly, because of my disability, I didn't think I could be a good partner, so haven't played for almost 4 years.

For me it has been reading, have read for years. I read a lot of recovery material and then I heard a woman say, "I relapsed because I was looking outside of myself and the program. I read every self-help book I could get my hands on. I came back to recovery and found that everything I needed in the Big Book of AA."

I am an avid curling and tennis follower. Not an active participant, just a couch potato when the games come on TV. My favourite player was Stefan Edberg from Sweden and now he is coaching Andy Murray from England. Now we have our own Canadian hopefuls, who hopefully will come into their own in the coming years.

I like Glen Howard's team, although he didn't qualify this year. He plays out of the arena of my old home town Coldwater, Ontario. Our women's champion is from Ottawa, which isn't too far from me and I have been there, so it is a little link that I have to the game and the people in it.

I use to play darts. I was an avid player and a good player. I had 9 trophies for high double ins and outs, most double ins and outs. My arthritis got so bad that the dart no longer sticks in the board. I went through a grieving process because I could no longer play a game I loved. I had a board in my home. I didn't like going to the bars to continue playing when I got sober. I couldn't stand the noise in the room after 10 p.m., I guess that means I am getting old. It isn't a safe place to be, but there was no reason to not get with friends to play cards, to play darts, or play board games.

I use to paint, but I have a tremon disorder and can no longer do that. I use to like colouring in colouring books. I found it helped ease stress.

I played several games on the internet, but now all I do is play Bejewelled 3. I have a link on my desk top, it takes me to the game, I don't interact with others, I just play the game, whether I get 3,000, 30,000, 300,000 or over 3M. It became an addiction, and I had to turn it over to my Higher Power. It is no longer an obsession. It is just a game I play at night before I got to bed, when I want to take a time out from what I am doing, and it seems to ground me. It is okay as long as I don't let it piss me off and laugh instead of cuss when I crash at a small score. It is about me and my attitude and what I bring to the occasion. Just like all things in life.

As long as I don't become compulsive and obsessive about something, it is good. I use to call myself a bridgeaholic. I love cribbage. When I first learned, if someone sat down, they found a crib board in front of them. The program is applicable to all areas of my life.

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