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Aaron E.
- AA Young Peoples Meeting |
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Al L. -
"If you're not going to read the book and do the steps in
AA, you probably won't in CA, you probably won't in
NA, and you're probably going to end up with FA" |
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Allison V.
- AA Young Peoples Meeting
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Ardyth
M.
-
"My kids realized
that their Mom being an alcoholic was a good thing". |
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Artis G. -
"Just said the
prayer, 'Yabba Dabba Doo', and it worked!"
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2004 -
"My will and
my life is my thoughts and my actions" |
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2005 -
"Just said the
prayer, 'Yabba Dabba Doo', and it worked!" |
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Bernie C.
- Campus Group, Edmonton, Alberta |
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Bert B. -
25th Sober Birthday
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Bill P.
-
"I thought my wife was going to go up one side of
me and down the other, but then her silence terrified me" |
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Bill W. -
"Our strength
comes from knowing our weakness"
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Brenda M.
-
"They said, 'Give yourself a gift everyday'. Why! My money was being drunk away."
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Carol W.
- "Thank God we are all
individuals and have different ways of finding the 12
steps; Christian, Creator, Buddhist or Atheist" |
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Colleen
S -
"Man! I had some
good fights in my head" |
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Conrad P.
-
Sherwood Park Group, Sherwood Park, Alberta
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Christie N.
-
"It would hurt me to see my kids hurt"
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Deb
V. -
Campus Group, Edmonton, Alberta
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Dee B. -
"Today I can leave behind people who don't help bring out the goodness
in me"
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Dennis Z.
-
"I had a vision. The tomb stone read, 'Here lays a polite drunk'"
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Don B.
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Feb. 2008
-
AA Young Peoples Meeting
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Sept. 2008 - Early Sobriety Meeting
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Donny F. -
"We are absolute egomaniacs, with an inferiority complex, and we
think it's not our problem!"
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Doug G. -
"Alcoholics Anonymous
teaches me to be of service to others.
For the group I serve, Signs of Sobriety
Group, I deliver my reports entirely in
sign language".
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Doug O.
-
"I got married and divorced and said, 'You watch, she was
the reason I drank, I'll quit!' But my drinking got worse" |
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Fred F. -
San Jose,
California |
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Gus B. -
Camrose, Alberta |
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Heather H. -
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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Heywood M.
- "The
Old Timers cane came up and he reminded me he hadn't given me a
graduation certificate yet. I'm grateful those old
characters were there."
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Howie
W. -
"Somebody was looking after me"
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Ina M. -
"God said, 'We got to use blunt force trauma on this woman!'"
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Jan D. -
"If I got you
laughing in your gut, I know I got my message in your
head"
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Jane Z.
-
"Everything good in my life today is a direct result of me
being sober"
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Jason
S. -
Seattle,
Washington
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Jessie W.
-
"No one did anything
about the elephant in the living room" |
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John Q.
-
"I needed to change up
my program because I wasn't connecting with anyone"
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John R. -
Campus Group, Edmonton, Alberta
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June G.
-
"Family who at one
time wouldn't have crossed the street to meet me have now come all the way from Montreal to
be at my
Wedding!"
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Kari G.
- AA Young Peoples Meeting |
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Katie L. -
"I can't believe I'm doing this,
actually - I don't have to be paranoid anymore".
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Kathy H.
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2008
- "When is it going
to get better?, 'Kathy, Are you in jail right now? Are
you drunk? Do you have a black
eye? Did you break someone's ribs today? No? Well, it's
better now!'" |
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2010
-
"I don't surrender to rage anymore. I've shown The Creator
how much I appreciate his love for me and my own" |
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Kathy
H.
- AA Young Sobriety |
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Ken C. -
"Nurse asked me if I laid awake for sadness of
what happened to me. I said, 'I was awake cause I
was grateful to be alive'."
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Kerry
O. -
Ottawa, Ontario
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Kevin B. -
Ottawa, Ontario
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Kris V.
-
"Hurt people hurt other people. Through Al-Anon and AA I've
been able to amend some of those hurts and become the woman I
wanted to be" |
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Larry V.
- "Dr. Silkworth worked with
56,000 alcoholics; we each have a lot of work to do".
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Layla N.
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2008 -
"You are important because God has entrusted you to save
your brothers and sisters"
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2008 -
Sponsorship Workshop
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Leslie L.-G. - Edmonton, Alberta
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Lorna
V. -
"Made amends and asked
her to be my sponsor. She said ,'Yes!'"
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Marissa B.
- AA Young Peoples Meeting
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Mary S. -
"Gino had
three months sobriety so I did what he did; he seemed to
know what he was doing"
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Matt L.
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2007- AA Young Peoples Meeting
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2009
-
"I believe that sobriety is the best course of action, for
me" |
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Mavis
A. -
Edmonton, Alberta |
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Mike B.
-
"No difference from
any other type of addict"
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Mike C.
-
"Gratitude Is Action"
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Mike C.
- AA Young Sobriety |
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Morgan S.
- Edmonton, Alberta
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Nancy G. -
Vancouver, British Columbia
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Nina B. -
"I have fellowship now, I have a whole new world of Friends" |
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Orrin C. -
"AA may not have opened the gates of Heaven, but it has surely
opened
the gates of Hell and let me out."
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Pat
L.
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2006
-
"Anytime I set out to do something alcohol intercepted my
path".
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2010
-
"I was a daily drinker. My daughter once asked,
'Mom, why are you drinking today because we've had a
good day?'"
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Percy O. -
History of CA Workshop
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Dr. Paul O. -
"Acceptance is the Answer to all my Problems Today"
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Rick K.
-
"My son is living his dreams and it's because you gave me a new dream"
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Reg S. -
"I needed to start over because I'm dealing with a different me, coming
back."
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Rob M.
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2008
-
"Now I'm armed with
knowledge about myself and the ability to hold out my hand to
the next addict"
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2008 - Sponsorship Workshop
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Ron R. -
"I wasn't an
Alcoholic! I caught it from you people!"
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Roy S.
-
"Have I had my laugh today?"
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Sean A.
-
"I'm as addicted to
Alcoholics Anonymous as I was to anything"
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Sharon
McG.
- "Our Children are all
grown now, and have all found recovery from the family
disease of alcoholism" |
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Sheila T.
- "Touched by
drugs and alcohol again! - no rhyme, no reason" |
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Sherry Y.
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2005 - Home Base AA |
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2007 -
"Every Sunday we negotiate our relationship for another week. We
are free agents!" |
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Skyler
- Early Sobriety Meeting
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Sister Bea M.
- Spiritual awakening in the Convent |
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Steve E. -
"It's awfully tough to be good friends with someone who's
slowly killing themselves in front of you" |
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Ted R.
- "It only takes one time of telling the truth
about yourself...
I was
rocketed into that place of spirituality enough to
want sobriety." |
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Terry B.
-
Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan |
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Terry Gorski
- Relationships, Love and Intimacy |
|
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Terry
K. -
"I am an anorexic, bulimic, compulsive eater;
alcoholic, adulterer, adulteress; a liar and a thief: and I
don't have to live that out today"
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Terry O.
-
Moosejaw,
Saskatchewan |
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Terri S.
- AA Young Peoples Meeting |
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Tom B.
- CD set
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1981 -
"I just report for duty" |
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1982 -
"Spiritual Experience to accept Love" |
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1982 - Loneliness of an Alcoholic |
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1987 - "I'm so grateful you were smiling when I got here." |
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Thain S. -
"I recognized my behavior in other people in the rooms" |
|
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Trevor Z. -
"I like to see the looks on the face of the new ones; they think
we're nuts, that we are enjoying this so much." |
|
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Trish O.-B. -
"God
never gives us more than we can handle" |
|
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Victoria A.
-
"But underneath everything was this tension that I had no
name for" |
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Walter S.
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2008 -
"Mom and Dad came to visit me in jail" |
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2009 -
"Thank God for Sponsorship" |
