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Sticky Alanon Slogans in Poem and other helpful acronyms
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Peggy7 ~*Service Worker*~ Status: OnlinePosts: 650Date: 1h ago Reply Quote More Attachments AlanonSlogans10-28-15.pdf (119.6 kb)v Al-Anon Slogans in a Poem - By Coach Papa Slogans in a Poem by Coach Papa First Things First - I have heard it said - Be Honest With yourself, - get out o...
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MIP Business Board
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The MIP Business board has been set up at https://mipbusiness.activeboard.com MIP Business is a place where members of all the fellowships in Miracles in Progress can be informed and have a say in changes that affect the MIP website pages. This is a place to communicate, discuss, and, when neces...
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THE Gifts/PROMISES OF ALANON
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The Al-Anon Gifts/ Promises - From Survival to Recovery (p269) If we willingly surrender ourselves to the spiritual discipline of The Twelve Steps and work the program, our lives will be transformed. Members work their program by being willing to attend meetings on a regular basis, reading Al-...
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Continuation of Funding Drive
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Hello all, we have now paid our "Go Daddy "account in full for the year. Thank you We still need to pay our other vendor, Sparklit and plan on a continuation of the funding drive starting this weekend and intend to cut it off when we get to 1 year @ $17.98/month prepaid. We will turn on Commu...
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MIP Funding Drive
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Hi everyone the bills to cover the operations of the MIP Boards are again due I have established a pay pal account to receive funds for the Go Daddy bill of: $187.05 and urge all to contribute . Remember a contribution of as little as $5.-- helps. Please note MIP contribution To donate, click be...
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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GENERAL INFORMATION 1. Q. How do I know if Al-Anon is the place for me?A. Al-Anon is for friends and relatives of Alcoholics. If you have been affected by someone elses drinking then Al-Anon is for you! By going to the following link:http://www.al-anon.alateen.org/meetings/meeting...
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INFORMATION FOR THE NEW COMER--POSTING GUIDELINES AND OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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The material presented here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method to exchange information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal level. When responding please consider asking yourself the question:" do my words support an alanon principle or philoso...
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Do's and Don'ts
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Hi ((((Family))) I posted this in the chat room tonight..and was asked to post it up here too. We read this at my face to face meetings, especially when we have a newcomer! Some great things to remember when living with the family disease of alcoholism. Do's Do learn the facts about alcoholism. . Do tal...
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MIP Al-Anon Chat Room Meeting Times
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.(Morning Meetings) Mon. - Fri. at 9am eastern time Sat - Sun. - 10am eastern time .(Nite Meetings) Mon - Saturday 9PM eastern time Sunday 7PM eastern time Hope you will come to meetings & join us. The website link to the group meeting room is http://www.12stepforums.net/chatroom2.html. Ther...
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MIP meeting room
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i can not get in,it keeps saying to prove who I am, ive tried everything ,it didn't say how to prove me, has or is anybody having or had this problem with the meeting/chat room?? Please let me know how you solved it. thank you in advance. Lookingup...
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Step Work Board
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http://stepwork.activeboard.comHi Family and Friends!We are working on bringing our Step Work Board to the forefront of this site again. This is where newcomers can learn about each of the 12 steps and old timers can share their experience, strength and hope related to them.This week we are star...
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im grateful to be where im at today in life moving forward, im content with myself,i been managing things pretty well, I plan on enjoying the outside nature again today because I know I can, this desease is insidious, I get a knock on my door every morning from bro,ive been answering ,this am I chose not...
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Courage to Change 3/21/19
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Good morning MIP! Happy Thursday to all... Today's topic is about self will vs. God's will. The author is close to the end of a run at a crossroad. The easier, softer way has no view, and is a flatter surface. The challenging route is harder, yet provides a view of the ocean and way better scenery. Th...
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Can't get my head around it
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Hi everyone, Grateful to find this group. Thanks for reading. I've been with a wonderful man for just under a year and I love him very much. Hands down the best relationship of my middle-aged life and he felt the same. I knew he had a history of heavy drinking but I was not seeing it until last month. Th...
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meeting room
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has anybody here had any problems getting into meeting room,its not letting me in for some reason.....thanks in advance...lu
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Needing prayers
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my a brother ( Billy),in a bad way with his using ,now homeless n where to go,praying he can n will see he has got options , ive posted this in more detail on the mip aca board next door,sad situation.......hugs lu,,,all esh welcome.
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Coming back to Alanon
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I started attending AlAnon in 2006 and went to meetings twice a week up until 2014. I moved to a new town far from home for work. I was divorced for a few years and started dating. I could tell it was not a good relationship so I broke it off. I stayed single for a year I found a group it was close to my apt. But I f...
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Courage to Change March 20
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Hello MIP! In today's reading in Courage to Change, the author shares about the fourth step topic of self-worth. The author, while working through Blueprint for Progress, noticed that they had always judged themselves on the basis of their accomplishments or on what other people said about them...
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Distracting Myself
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Hello MIP family! I wish I could remember and give credit to the member here who stated that rather than really focusing on herself(?) she was really just distracting herself from her A. I apologize if I am not stating this correctly. However.....it's had me thinking.... I have found different t...
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Sleeping problems
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I wanted to put this problem out to the group. My daughter has been an alcoholic since she was a teenager, going to multiple rehabs, and having periods of recovery usually lasting about a year or two. She has always had sleeping problems, even as a child, only sleeping 4 or 5 hours a night, and being restl...
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C2C Reading 3-19
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The C2C reading for today 3-19 speaks about the basic fact that alcoholism is e disease and a compulsions. The drinker and those interacting with himI have each been affected by the same disease "alcoholism" We believe we know how everyone should behave and try to force our way The reading p...
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I hate not believing
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AH had nothing to drink Tuesday or Wednesday. Tonight instead of the typical case of beer PLUS a six pack that he brings home nearly every other night, he brought home ONLY a six pack and drank only one. Its been at least a year since hes gone this long without getting drunk, aside from during the short vis...
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Healing
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My home groups topic next week is healing. Any thoughts, ideas or pages from COL?
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More thoughts and questions
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Hi MIP, writing to check in with some thoughts I am always struggling with. I have a hard time accepting that I feel relief in the face of my XAH following his standard patterns of being an addict. It actually gives me a sense of calm when he acts in a way that is predictable to me. He has some short lived peri...
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Sleeping issues
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I wanted to put this problem out to the group. My daughter has been an alcoholic since she was a teenager, going to multiple rehabs, and having periods of recovery usually lasting about a year or two. She has always had sleeping problems, even as a child, only sleeping 4 or 5 hours a night, and being restl...
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Hoping for the best...
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Hi all, Im new to the group and havent posted before. I dont have a whole lot of people I can talk to about this and felt the need to get it off my chest. I thought this might be an appropriate place to do it.When my wife and I met, we were both heavy drinkers. Wed go out together to the bars just about every night...
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C2C, 3/18
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The reading for Monday, 3/18, talks about ESH. The author says that as alanon members, our own experience, strength, and hope is all we need to help one another recover from the devastating impact of alcoholism. It suggests that the 8th tradition encourages us to help those who really want help, ins...
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Hope for Today Mar 17
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Good morning everyone- Todays reading is about the magnified sense of responsibility many of us developed who grew up with alcoholism. For us, we became convinced that we were meant to manage it all, fix everything around us, and be focused on everyone around us, rather than our own selves. The writ...
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Courage to Change / Courage to Be Me.
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Hi, I would like to share on how this Topic has an effect on me. It is going on into the 5th Year that I haven't be allowed to see 3 of my Grand Children, why?. It is because I stood up for them, against their Parents. One is my Son and His Partner. Thankfully, I heard a Lady share one night at a meeting of how sh...
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Anger
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My fourth step really helped me see that I have a lot of anger. That's not really easy to admit as when I was a kid growing up in an alcoholic home I wasn't allowed to be angry. Expressing anger was not allowed and I didn't feel it was acceptable to even be angry. I was afraid of anger especially my own. I...
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Asking my HP to
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Keep watch over David G as I just saw the news of an active shooter/ing In New Zealand. David is favorite and blessed MIP Brother and I cannot imagine any harms coming to him and his family. ((((()))))
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Hi folks :-) and also, KITTENS!
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Hello people! I didn't intend to post here today so i don't really have a relevant topic to discuss. I popped on to check my messages, and one particularly wonderful MIP member that I chat to asked to see pictures of my new kittens. I don't know how to do that via chat so I shall post them here, because who do...
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Courage to Change, March 15
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The writer of today's page realizes that forgiveness is not the power to judge, condemn, and then bestow forgiveness on someone. It is accepting that we are on an equal footing with every fellow human being. We all have assets and defects. Being self-righteous only separates us from others and mak...
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Newcomer meeting starting now!
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Come one come all!! Newcomer meeting starting now in meeting room: http://www.12stepforums.net/chatroom2.html Topics: Step One: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol; that our lives had become unmanageable. Alcoholism, the family disease and Open topic as it relates to alanon and alc...
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SOS_PRAYER needed
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this isn't recovery, but its a precious pet I found this horrid wound/scratch on my big dog's left flank and the swelling is huge...I check my pets..dunno HOW or when this happened, but the swelling is so bad I can't take her to vet till Tuesday, and she isn't in pain, just terribly swollen like 6" back fr...
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Slogans/ideas for waiting quietly?
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Hi again, I don't want to be greedy with all your kind guidance... but I have one very crazy-making issue going on, and I would love some feedback. Basically, I cannot stay calm while waiting for a response to a text message from basically anyone at this point. It doesn't matter who it is, or how low-stak...
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Courage to Change 3/14/19
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Tomorrow's reading is one I love, love, love! It's about a man who sits under a tree on a beautiful day, not realizing it was full of pigeons. In a short while, the pigeons do what pigeons do, and he shouted at them and stormed away resenting the pigeons as well as their 'business'. He then realized tha...
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WILLINGNESS
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THE KEY IS WILLINGNESSOnce we have placed the key of willingness in the lockand have the door ever so slightly open, we find thatwe can always open it some more.TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 35The willingness to give up my pride and self-will to aPower greater than myself has proved to be the o...
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INTIMACY
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Intimacy"What many have described as love or intimacy before reaching Program was actually codependence or rigid control." Before we came to program, we thought intimacy was that secret word that pertained to sex and making love. We thought it was about taking care of the other person, doing for...
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Courage to Change March 13
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Hello MIP! In today's reading, the author suggests that step 7 (Humbly asked HP to remove our shortcomings) is a step that we might take with joy and humor. The author shares that, while they have had the experience of working step seven tearfully and on their knees, that is not the only approach to thi...
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Letter to self on emotions
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so i thought I would write myself a program letter for next time the emotional flashbacks come up.... next time i volunteer at the local food bank. It took me a while to realize what it was that was so hard about it. I was berating myself for just being too tired afterward and for being negative rather tha...
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Pretty new and could use guidance of any kind
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Hi there all, thank you for being here as a resource. I'm a returning member of about 3 weeks, though I went to a few meetings about 8 years ago when I was with my A partner. Apparently I wasn't in the place to really understand Alanon back then. Now we have been separated for 2 years, and I see that I am not get...
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choosing interpretation of life's challenges
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It has been a good long while; some of it due to a lack of internet connection. It was probably a good thing, as I find limiting net time difficult. Like the subject line, I'm facing one of those times when everything is going very well so there has to be one obstacle, in the form of another human being. I...
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Courage to Change 9/20/18
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Today's reading is about gratitude lists and an attitude of gratitude. The writer tells of seeking things to put onto a list in the beginning, and how they did not really feel very grateful when finished at the start of the journey. Their mind was still weighted down with the negative thinking that h...
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Shoring up my own foundation
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Before alcohol got its grips into my family, my AH and I had managed to build a strong, healthy emotional foundation for ourselves and our children. We were partners in every sense of the word and I never worried about having to hold it all together by myself. Seeing that foundation begin to slowly crum...
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so tired of trying
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My spirit is so tired of trying hard. Of trying hard not to be angry, trying hard to let go and let consequences fall as they will, trying to pretend to the world that everything is So Great. Yesterday was so hard. I dragged myself into work and fantasized about telling everyone the truth, "I have an AH....
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anyone iin australia know of any phone in meetings?
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I think I saw one of our members mention phone in meetings a few times. I have a voip plan with unlinmited calls to Australia and really need a meeting. PM me please if you can help?
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Change...
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While many people don't believe it, and do not embrace it...alanon is a program of change. We learn to change our -- thinking, mindset, actions, reactions, behavior, and so much more. However, I constantly here...change is not easy. I've learned from a great deal of advanced adult education, learn...
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Hope for Today Mar 10
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Good morning everyone: Todays reading is a focus on the slogan live and let live. The writer describes having some difficulty with this slogan until hearing a speaker at a meeting compare the concept to tending an acre of land. While it is important to tend the land it is equally important not to go be...
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Drained
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I have been feeling drained by others lately. Maybe its because I have been around a dry drunk friend and he sees all things in a negative way. I feel this person is very needy and its draining me. Yes he has medical issues but what am I to do about it? I can fix the medical pain. I can not take it away. I am not a d...
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My part in the recovery process
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I am lost on what I should be doing. My husband was discharged a week ago from rehab. I went to several meetings while he was there about relapse prevention and felt like I had a general idea on what my part was. Now I am not sure. My husband tells me what he is thinking and then when I give him my thoughts, then...
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C2C, 3/11
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The reading for Monday, 3/11, speaks of the ability to laugh and forgive ourselves, because some of our defects of character are very hard to shake. The author can recall when at an earlier time they hid in shame from their flaws, and beat themself up. The author wants to try to accept more, and let go o...
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Group Conscience Request: Navigation Menu and Web Page Design
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Please visit the MIP Al-Anon business forum to participate in a group conscience about the MIP Al-Anon site navigation menu and page design.-- Hidden/Freetime-- Your WebHelper Team
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Hope and miracles
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I thought I would share that miracles just keep happening. Ive been praying and letting go and truly letting God maybe for the first time and after the last crisis it seems that God has answered my prayers. My son has reached out for help and his gf has been reading the books and had some peaceful days. I kn...
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Courage to Change, March 8
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The writer of today's page in Courage to Change likes finding out about new ways to work the program. At a meeting, a basket of slogans was passed around, with the idea that each person would take a slogan and try to apply it to their day. The writer got the slogan "Easy Does It." The next day, the writer w...
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Courage to Change 3/7/19
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Good morning MIP! Today's reading is about making positive changes in recovery. The author suggests that watching her son's silkworms helped her to see how transformations can be made from perceived negatives to positives. Silkworms are fat and greedy creatures, yet out of their own substanc...
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Seeing positive changes
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I am in a grateful place finally. Its been an incredible painful journey but I am finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. My daughter who has serious mental health issues and in hospital currently, is making progress. She had been charged a few years back with assault on a police officer and t...
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ODAT REading 3-5
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The ODAT reading for today 3-5 speaks about the basic alanon tools of the Steps and the Serenity prayer.. The reading points out that these simple tools can be used to face any problem even those not caused b the disease of alcoholism . It is suggested that when we are living by the alanon princi...
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Sometimes a dirty windshield will do...
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Good Morning MIP Family I got triggered by HP to bring this story to the board because it fits so well within the dialogue HP has with me. You will find the story in the January 2017 "The FORUM" on page 3. The FORUM is our monthly magazine and a real winner for me. I came across this offering by Buddy H., of...
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Courage to Change March 6
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Hello MIP! In today's reading from Courage to Change, the author shares that Al-Anon helped them to realize that no one can know what is in their heart or what their needs are unless they share them with others. In addition, the author shares that they cannot expect any one person to meet ALL of their ne...
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