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		<title>7.25.11 &#8211; 5 Years Sober Today</title>
		<link>http://earlyrecovery.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/7-25-11-5-years-sober-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Georgia W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very grateful to be sober today. It brings home to me how lucky I am when I see or hear about the people who die from this disease. It&#8217;s such a sad waste of life, especially for those of us who know that it is possible to get sober, no matter how hopeless it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earlyrecovery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5320403&amp;post=1033&amp;subd=earlyrecovery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Straight Up Alcoholics to Straight A Students</title>
		<link>http://earlyrecovery.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/straight-up-alcoholics-to-straight-a-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Georgia W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I happened to be in the college Math Lab the other day (not to be confused with Meth Lab) when I felt a  tap on my shoulder, I looked around and saw an old friend who I hadn&#8217;t seen in a couple of years. I know him from AA and it turns out that he&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earlyrecovery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5320403&amp;post=1017&amp;subd=earlyrecovery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out With The Old and In With The New</title>
		<link>http://earlyrecovery.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/out-with-the-old-and-in-with-the-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Georgia W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was still drinking alcohol and January rolled around, I&#8217;d get really depressed.  The holidays being over meant that people were going back to their normal lives, no more parties, no more days off, no more excuses to drink all day. Not that I needed an excuse to drink, but the fact that other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earlyrecovery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5320403&amp;post=844&amp;subd=earlyrecovery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the First Step&#8230;to Community College</title>
		<link>http://earlyrecovery.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/taking-the-first-step-to-community-college/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Georgia W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last year or so I&#8217;ve been going back and forth about what I want to do with my future. I wanted to become a Certified Addiction Counselor, but I didn&#8217;t know if I had it in me to go back to school after 25 years, plus looking at the degree programs and what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earlyrecovery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5320403&amp;post=976&amp;subd=earlyrecovery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Georgia W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” As a practicing alcoholic for many years, I had no desire to try to better myself in any way, physically, mentally or spiritually. It was all about getting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earlyrecovery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5320403&amp;post=946&amp;subd=earlyrecovery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dumb and Dumber</title>
		<link>http://earlyrecovery.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/928/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Georgia W.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recovery Rants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems as though ingesting booze the old fashioned way – through the mouth – is just a tad too boring  for the new generation of party animal – if you want to get it done properly &#8211; pouring vodka it into your eye or ‘eyeballing’ is the way to go. Call me boring, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earlyrecovery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5320403&amp;post=928&amp;subd=earlyrecovery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Father&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://earlyrecovery.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/happy-fathers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Georgia W.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keep It Simple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Chaz @http://yuppieaddict.wordpress.com for sharing this: Father&#8217;s Day approacheth in 2 days and I too am now grateful that I have this special day with my kids where once I didnt. I too had restrictions on my access to my kids. I went from super-Dad to supervised-Dad in a matter of a few months [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earlyrecovery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5320403&amp;post=913&amp;subd=earlyrecovery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Make it a Sober Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://earlyrecovery.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/make-it-a-sober-mothers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 22:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Georgia W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first four years of my son’s life I tried unsuccessfully to stay sober.  I spent my first Mother’s Day alone &#8211; after I had decided I could have &#8216;just one drink&#8217; the day before Mother&#8217;s Day &#8211; and I spent my son’s first  birthday in an alcohol treatment center.  Not long after and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earlyrecovery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5320403&amp;post=904&amp;subd=earlyrecovery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down</title>
		<link>http://earlyrecovery.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/50-things-every-alcoholic-and-addict-should-know-in-early-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Georgia W.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New to Sobriety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dating in Early Recovery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[How to Stay Sober]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book is available on Amazon &#8211; check it out here: Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down: 50 Things Every Alcoholic &#38; Addict in Early Recovery Should Know - By Georgia W. Drawing on my own experience and that of others in recovery, this book highlights fifty things that all of us should know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earlyrecovery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5320403&amp;post=156&amp;subd=earlyrecovery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Never Too Late!</title>
		<link>http://earlyrecovery.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/its-never-too-late/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Georgia W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received an email yesterday from a lady who is just starting to live sober. She has 30 days in recovery under her belt and is understandably nervous, apprehensive and scared.  She mentioned that she thought she may have left it too late in life to get sober. At 47 she feels as though she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earlyrecovery.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5320403&amp;post=893&amp;subd=earlyrecovery&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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