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STICKY:
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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STICKY:
Codependent No More Book Study - Links to All Chapters
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Please feel free to comment on them at any time, they will be pushed to the top of the topic list so we can share with you. Chapter 1 http://coda.activeboard.com/t41822329/book-study-codependent-no-more-chapter-1/ Chapter 2 http://coda.activeboard.com/t41972579/book-study-codepende...
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STICKY:
A Simple Thank You
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Hello Everyone, As the founder and webmaster of Miracles In Progress I want to extent a personal "Thank You" to each of you for valuing and utilizing the CoDA portion of our site. As we grow in our recoveries from alcoholism, addiction, or being a family member of a loved one who suffers from this di...
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Introduction
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Hello, I've been coming to the realization lately that I have a lot of issues and may be (am likely) codependent. I think the point where it really hit me that I had a problem was listening to my dad and my brother fighting (my brother is a drug and alcohol abuser, as well as having a mood and personality di...
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Youtube videos
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A long time ago, I discovered Youtube and have gleaned a lot of powerful info and help from videos more than from most books, although a book can be referred back to over and over such as Codependent No More. So thanks to a lead from another post here, I am now consumed by the videos of Lisa A. Romano and c...
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CODA 12 Steps.... and Step One.
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The Twelve Steps of Co-Dependents Anonymous 1. We admitted we were powerless over others - that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and lives over to the care of God as we understood God...
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Step Study Is anyone interested?
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I would like to get a step study going on here. I am involved in one face to face group local to me. I can not find a time to add a group to my in person schedule. I am hoping to kick start something here.
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ON LINE CODA meetings
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Hi, I am wondering if there are coda meetings on line one can attend. I have CODA meetings in my town which I intend to attend. Starting tonight. I also want to have access when I get the codependent crazies. I have been in a 3 yr relationship with an alcoholic and have finally gotten him to move out for a br...
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4th Step
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Hi, my name is Stefani. I'm new here. I am working the steps mostly solo, but I was wondering if anyone would be willing to hear my fourth step? I haven't started yet, because I was thinking I should probably find a person to sponsor me first. Anyways thank you for this forum. I'm grateful to be here.
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Glad to see that this board is active
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Hello Brothers and Sisters, been away for a little while, ski season is over. very nice to come in and see the board is active, thanks for keeping the lights on. 
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Newbie with basic questions and help with my situation please
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Just found this area after doing a search wondering IF I need an Al Anon or Codependents Anonymous meetings. My partner is 16 years sober but NOT a "recovering alcoholic" meaning that he does NOT attend AA meetings feeling he doesn't "need them"... I am actively working on my Overeaters Anonymous r...
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Suggestions anyone?
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Is it healthy to continue a relationship with a person who is an adult child of alcoholic. Who is in the beginning of trying to help themselves. My concern is if they never knew themselves and the play a role in the relationship to maintain the peace. Was the love ever authentic? And during their growth w...
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Back here again
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A long time ago I went to CODA meetings. Eventually I moved out of the relationship that put me there. For a long time I wanted nothing more than to be alone. Away from relationships - good or bad. Just to find myself, discover who I was and I what I liked, and try to be the person that I needed to be. Can't say l...
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love and release.
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Someone, somewhere in one of these healing rooms that I attended, I heard thesE Words: "i love you, I bless you, I release you to your own indwelling presence of God." I heard the message and immediately thought of my two estranged children. One of whom I have not had contact for 25 years. Both of th suffe...
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Hi I'm new to this group...i finally found the courage to post
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Hi everyone, I'm new to this group- not new to CODA. I am feeling so badly and hurt and every emotion seems to be magnified. I suffer from anxiety and depression and everything has spiked for the worse this past week. I am living in a toxic environment and am now having panic attacks from it- I don't fe...
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What is a codependent?
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The word 'codependency' has grown into the vocabulary over the last 30 or 40 years. It originated in addiction treatment centres to describe significant others, or family members, and friends, of people who had addiction. I was going to discuss this at length. My old self certainly would have tri...
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Step One.
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!. Admitted that I was powerless over others, and that my life had become unmanageable. -easy peasy for me- since I have always done the steps this way- slotting in the issue that most bugged me. Not sure of the customary "prayer" for Coda members... mostly it can depend on the group itself. Pleas...
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Group conscience... tradition one...
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Ah kin slot into a CODA meeting fairly easily... though I have never been to a f2f meeting of CODA. There are no groups here on my island. [It is BIG island]. I really came into here as a member of the MIP family- to offer support. My way of doing this one is to offer ESH. Something we could do here is to regi...
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Find an online CODA sponsor?
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Not having any luck locally
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Hi
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Hi Everyone, I was a member here a few years ago now. Back then this board didn't really resonate with myself. These days things are a bit different now. I seem to be looking more into my acoa and coda side of my life. Lately I've been drawn to a lady called Lisa Romano. She has a book out called Co-Depe...
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Book Study: Codependent No More - Chapter 1
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The first chapter starts as it should, someone telling their story so we can identify. This was Jessica's story. A 32 year old woman married to an alcoholic. Jessica tells of her inability to function in life anymore. The depression - the lack of will to do even the smallest things like showering....
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Challenge for the day - Remembering narcissists
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Vulnerable narcissists are sometimes difficult to spot. They sometimes present as the most broken people amongst us. They suck us in with their shyness and ti...midness, but before long their snide, passive aggressive comments surface. Only their feelings matter even when faced with rational t...
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Self esteem - Join the conversation
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What is this self esteem. An interesting article from Psychology Today : https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-success/201209/forget-self-esteem
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Born into Alcoholism and Drug Addicts
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I am 54 years old and have been around alcoholics my whole life, I was picked on all through school until I hit highschool and would come home and be verbally abused by my Mother, I was married to an alcoholic for 18 yrs, then met a Drug Addict and was with him for 8 yrs and then 7 yrs ago I met a man online, we wou...
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Enjoy it!
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Today, I got up early (for a change) and headed out to a "gig" at a senior center a few miles from here (I play sax). As I drove along, I kept thinking about how bad the band of "old guys" might be or that the crowd would be tired, bored and "out of it" so all of that negativity would bug me and spoil the (free) gi...
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Donation Drive complete
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The godaddy bill has now been paid! The total was $142.46. Tanin was able to get a bit of a discount. This left me with a surplus of $7.07, which I will contribute to the activeboard fund at Sparklit.Thanks for everyone's help, we are good to go on hosting for another year! Yay!!!Kenny
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Transition update and Donation Request
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The transition committee is in the final stages of transitioning the Miracle in Progress, Account from John over to the committee. We have been advised that the chat room and meeting room costs of $149.00 for the year needs to be paid by May 15. The message board bill has already been paid and we are n...
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Typical Teenagers
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I would have ordinarily posted this to the ACoA forum but I’m banned from there and this item might even get me banned form here but I still feel it’s worth the risk to say what I want to say to parents and there kids. I keep seeing disparaging comments on line about TYPICAL TEENS and, since I once was a tee...
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Codependent on dead wife
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I don't like the term "dead" so I will refer to my late wife as crossed over or dis-incarnate since she is still very alive and well in the Afterlife but I cannot prove that. Shortly after Irene crossed over, I realized just how codependent I had been with her. We were "happy" codependents and never st...
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Some CODA thoughts...
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There is a move around the MIP boards to support each other, to keep in touch. This is the healthy framework I sought in my journey- where i grappled with my codependency issues. I may never be a regular member here but will support those who choose to meet here, the respect the integrity of CODA. It was...
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