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Birth Date: Sun, Dec 06 1987

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Cornwall Ontario, United States (map)

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Wed, Apr 29 06:04 AM

Pour me

 Todays lesson about holidays and the poor me syndrome is a good one. I know exactly what that syndrome is and as coach steele said it always (in my case) leads to pour me another drink. I have found that to stop that kind of thinking you have to change everything. instead of looking at what sucks in»

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Sun, Apr 26 07:58 AM

Im losing it

 I have been sober now for three weeks and everything i am doing seems to become monotonous. I am losing interest in ttl as well as aa, but its not because i want to start drinking again, to be honest i dont know why it is. i just found out that my wife is pregnant and that is absolutly wonderful new»

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Fri, Apr 17 07:43 AM

Attitude

 Today's lesson was about attitude, and how it affects your life and how you ultimately control it. This was a big lesson for me because I have always blamed my life and its problems including my drinking problems on my environment. I used to love to use the saying that we are a product of our en»

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Wed, Apr 15 06:34 AM

First day by myself

 Today is the first day that since i became sober that i am home alone. I know that it i will be a challenging day if i make it a challenging day. I personally plan not to make it a challenging day but you never know. i am just a bit worried where my mind will wonder with no one to talk to i guess i »

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Mon, Apr 13 08:07 AM

day 6 and day 7 of sobriety

 WOW day 7 of sobriety, and i owe it mostly to my inner desire to stay sober and the help of ttl and the people on it as well as aa. But i must admit it has been challenging and this has been by far the longest week of my life filled with the ups and downs that one would expect to come with sobriety.»

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Sun, Apr 12 07:35 AM

Easter and tools

 Day 5 and its also easter, a day for family and friends. For me its a day to be thankful that i still have family and friends. I never realized it until i quit drinking that all the rummys down at the bar and all the people i drank with werent really my friends they just wanted sumone to be as miser»

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Fri, Apr 10 05:49 AM

great story

 Day 3 and IM HAVING A GREAT DAY i thought that the story devlin steele shared was an appropriate one with my life. i have heard others like it but i dont think at the time i was ready to listen to what was being said, but this time when i heard it bells went off in my head it was like everything fin»

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Thu, Apr 09 05:25 AM

Day 2

 WOW Day 2 on tools and day 4 of sobriety and i feel pretty good. except i have this nagging feeling that its all gonna come crashing down. i dont know if that is just the way that i have lived my life that all good things eventually come crashing down, or if that is just my addicted brain trying to »

 
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Wed, Apr 08 07:28 AM

hope this program works

 I have heard a lot of good things about this program, and i really hope that all of them are true. i have to poor everything i have into it because if not i am going to lose the most important thing in my life which is my wife. i have a pretty bad drinking problem and i am doing aa and now im doing »

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