12 Step Recovery Chat

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Welcome to the new 12 Step Recovery Chat area.

12 Step Chat is for members of all 12 Step Recovery Programs. This page is a place mark to let you know that we have the chat feature enabled for members only. So if you want to be a member of this Twelve Step Community Site. Just join for free and then you will immediately be able to participate in online chat.

Our Chat can be seen throughout the site. So if you are wanting to join in, again, any member can chat. The reason that we have the chat visible for all to see is to have an ongoing open discussion available 24 hours a day 7 days a week so that any addict or alcoholic seeking recovery at any time will hopefully find a welcome soul to chat with.

*PLEASE NOTE* The comments area below is just to leave comments.

If you want to chat:

Scroll to the bottom of the site, and under the "Who's Online" menu, it will show who is available to chat.
Just click on a users name and it will bring up a little chat window at to bottom right hand corner of your window.
You can then chat with the other user who is online in that window.
You are welcome to chat with multiple users.

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escalatoraccident said:

	12 Step Recovery Team Member Hi everyone. Just a reminder I've added some more instructions on how to chat above, but this area is only for comments. Your welcome to talk and share comments, but it's not a "live" chat room. To chat live with someone, please follow the instructions above. Thank You Jon M
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February 17, 2010 | url
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Kristiana said:

	uhh Do we have to add people to be able to chat with them? I guess I'm confused.
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February 17, 2010
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Kristiana said:

	... I really need someone to talk to. To help me through this...to let me know I'm not crazy. Maybe I am sick...but I need someone to let me know I'm not crazy. Please. Anyone who's willing please let me know.
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February 17, 2010
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Kristiana said:

	HELP I'm not 100% that I have a problem...or at least not sure I'm ready to admit it. I need someone to talk to, to help with everything. Please. I know that something is off, just not sure if it's something serious or just in my head. Anyone who's willing please let me know. Thanks.
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February 17, 2010
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Dmobile215 said:

Life is a dream and what u make it!
Sometimes we all make our big mistakes in life and sometimes we make the biggest ones but
The time to learn from your mistakes as you make them don't make the same mistakes, and keep
repeating them this is really bad for someone in recovery its time we take our lives back.

Start living again and speaking to that person next door who never even speaks to you anymore.
Let the past be in the past, people will know you are recovered by your actions. Not just a
word.

January 17, 2010 | url
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escalatoraccident said:

	12 Step Recovery Team Member Hi everyone. Sorry that I didn't notice until now that you were trying to chat in the comments section. I've added some more instructions on how to chat above, but this area is only for comments. Your welcome to talk and share comments, but it's not a "live" chat room. To chat live with someone, please follow the instructions above.
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January 07, 2010
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al coholic said:

	... im talking to myself, arent I?
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January 03, 2010
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al coholic said:

	... someone please talk to me this site doesnt work, does it? goodbye
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January 03, 2010
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rosita202 said:

	... I am with you tinkmed - i qualify for aa, na, and alanon - i was an alanon before i ever became and addict - i just didn't know it
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December 08, 2009
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LuWana said:

AA/Al-Anon/NA WTH Come on In
Hi guys. just logged on. I've been south of the border in Mexico and not online. Now I am enjoying reading your blogs.

Speaking for myself, I need both AA and Al-Anon. After several years of sobriety I found I was sponsoring tons of folks and living their problems in my head. I worried all the time and my life was not at peace. Outwardly, I was a success but I was driven. When I started in Al-Anon, it was rough. Wisely I was counseled to leave my membership in the "other" program at the door. The Al-Anon meetings I attended were hard core black belt attended by tradtionalist and they saved my life.

It took time for the these two programs to sync and harmonize for me; however, I became a better sponsor immediately. Currently, I use three different programs when working with newcomers. I find the AA Big Book to be invaluable. The Basic Text of NA current in content. The workbook of NA for the steps really hits home. The 12 x 12 of Al-Anon, especially the 10th Step has a few sentences in it that ought not to be missed. The Al-Anon Paths to Recovery is the current book that I am loving {it covers Steps/Traditions/Concepts}. The questions in this book are thought provoking and a valuable tool for myself personally and as a sponsor.

So, I say. Yes to anything that works Tinkmed. Come on in, the water is good.

December 04, 2009 | url
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tinkmed said:

letting go
sometimes i think i need both aa and alanon. one person makes a remark about another person to the mother of the second person that was really uncalled for and was their opinion of how a situation might affect the people involved. the gossip has no clue as to what is really going on and is assuming that what she knows is indeed fact. my need was to step off into this non issue in my life with both feet and ego was telling me that i needed to help straighten this mess out and set the whole thing straight. i think however that HP has grabbed me by the shirt collar and told me to just hold on.. this is a non issue in my life for now and until it becomes my problem i don't need to claim it as such..dang HP can be so smart at times. lol

November 28, 2009
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Ohioqwerty said:

	... id like to ask you guys a question.. first.. describe your attitude today toward the Twelve Steps. What do you like? What are your doubts or dislikes? now id like to know... In your own words, describe what "working my program" means to you.
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November 19, 2009
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cookiemonster said:

	... Thanks Tinkmed. You are so right. I don't even realise I am doing it, but my addict is speaking there in those excuses.
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November 16, 2009
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tinkmed said:

	o.k. do we play now? lol trying to get the hang of this chat thingy....are we playing puter tag in the chat room or do we just keep trying to catch someone here?
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November 13, 2009
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Candide said:

	Hello Hello
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November 13, 2009
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tinkmed said:

reply to the cookie monster.
o.k. not too sure how this works but i have a suggestion for cookie monster. to seek true sobriety and clean time, the problem is to be faced head on without hesitation and without a lot of "buts" in your program. example... i tried to do this but ...... perhaps i tried to do this and i haven't reached my goal because perhaps i haven't put enough effort into my program. 12 step programs are suggestions that guide us to our goals. for us not to put forth 100 per-cent all of the time does not make us a lesser human than the next but makes us realize that we are human and we do have faults and we need to work harder on these faults (addiction, alcoholism, etc.) also i might bring up another point at this time... a slip, a backslide, using, over-eating, etc. are just that...there is no little or large...just as death is death...we cannot be a little dead or a lot dead, but if we continue with our addictions, it is possible that we will become dead prior to a time that we would be dead without these addictions. just a few thoughts for you to consider. tink smilies/cry.gif

November 12, 2009
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cookiemonster said:

	... hello...?
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November 08, 2009
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