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sylandad · 05-01-2007, 11:03 AM

I haven't been here for over a month and it is good to be back.......

My last post was at 2 days sober and I am now over a month sober.....

I am grateful today for my sobriety. Without the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous, friends in recovery, and my higher power I would not be sitting here with a sense of being "ok" with my life as it is today.

After 10 years of being sober I relapsed last fall and I started coming back into sobriety in January. After several slips I now have over a month sober. In less then a few months I went from a drink to a crack pipe. This disease DOES wait for us. It is cunning, baffling, and powerful.

I am grateful for all of my recovery today. I don't see my slip as a setback; it was and is a part of my recovery today! I certainly don't want to do it again; and if I look to my higher power on a daily basis for guidance it won't.

I get a daily reprieve contingent on my spiritual condition........

Recovery Is Possible; and Attainable!

parentrecovers · 05-01-2007, 11:29 AM

great news, sylandad! i appreciate your positive attitude and admire your hard work. keep posting, you're an inspiration to all of us. blessings, k

1_day@_a_time · 05-01-2007, 11:36 AM

STRONG message, glad you are back!!!!

Alive · 05-01-2007, 01:57 PM

Thank you for believing and showing that the past time of sobriety is not wasted.It is power.

tink360 · 05-01-2007, 02:01 PM

Thanks for the inspiring post. Keep your head up and remember days like this when things start to seem cloudy. It will help.

Rowan · 05-01-2007, 04:08 PM

I'm glad you made it back - please keep posting here. Well done on the clean and sober time.

Surlyredhead · 05-01-2007, 04:12 PM

Thank you for the reminder...indeed, the disease in cunning, baffling and POWERFUL.

Cathy

**Astro** · 05-01-2007, 04:48 PM

You are an inspiration, sylandad. Thank you for sharing that, I'm glad you're back!

hope3 · 05-01-2007, 05:26 PM

You made my day, bless you.........

Hope3

ayla zaire · 05-01-2007, 05:32 PM

syland dad......i'm so glad to see you.......you have such a positive attitude, it's really great....we all slip, and if we learn from it as you did, we have so much more chance at lasting sobriety......i'm sure you have helped many people today with your positive message....

IO Storm · 05-01-2007, 06:13 PM

Yes..sylandad....

My 6 relapses have contributed to a strong recovery today...almost a year!

Welcome back!

Love,

:

Sherry

livefree · 05-01-2007, 07:35 PM

Thank you so much for your post. It is a heartening message. Congrats on your continued sobriety. You really seem to have a good perspective on your recovery. Thank you for reminding me to be grateful for my sobriety.

xXBacktoBlackXx · 05-01-2007, 08:33 PM

Thanks for the post. Truly inspirational. I understand what you mean about relapse as I have relapsed before. It was inspirational for me to read that you don't see this as time wasted. I'm aspiring for more days sober so your post was an inspiration to me. Thanks again.

Hope · 05-02-2007, 06:55 PM

That was very powerful and inspiring!

sylandad · 11-25-2007, 01:09 PM

Hello All!!!!

Well today I have 8 months sober!!!!

I have hope today and see light at the end of the tunnel. I am grounded again in a program of recovery from drugs and alcohol. I am once again working on areas of my life that have caused me to get into a relapse cycle.

I have a host of problems in my life; financial, relationship, self-esteem, other addictions, but I am willing to look at those areas so that I don't drink and drug again.

These type of sites have helped me at various times in my sobriety....Thanks for being there!!!!!

David D

**CarolD** · 11-25-2007, 02:35 PM

Wonderful!

***Anna*** · 11-25-2007, 02:37 PM

Hi David,

That's a great post and I agree with you that we just need to take it day by day. That's the best we can do.

lostmdboy · 11-25-2007, 03:17 PM

Sobriety is definately a learning expierence. Way to go on 8 months.

Rowan · 11-25-2007, 03:26 PM

Well done!

05-01-2007, 11:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
sylandad Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: ellensburg, WA Posts: 12	Recovery is the Answer I haven't been here for over a month and it is good to be back....... My last post was at 2 days sober and I am now over a month sober..... I am grateful today for my sobriety. Without the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous, friends in recovery, and my higher power I would not be sitting here with a sense of being "ok" with my life as it is today. After 10 years of being sober I relapsed last fall and I started coming back into sobriety in January. After several slips I now have over a month sober. In less then a few months I went from a drink to a crack pipe. This disease DOES wait for us. It is cunning, baffling, and powerful. I am grateful for all of my recovery today. I don't see my slip as a setback; it was and is a part of my recovery today! I certainly don't want to do it again; and if I look to my higher power on a daily basis for guidance it won't. I get a daily reprieve contingent on my spiritual condition........ Recovery Is Possible; and Attainable!

05-01-2007, 11:36 AM	#3 (permalink)
1_day@_a_time Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Pasadena, CA Posts: 1,479	STRONG message, glad you are back!!!! __________________ "A A's 12 Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in nature, which if practiced* as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink/think and enable the sufferer to be happily & usefully whole"* Quote from the 12 X 12, not the BB "Calmness is trust in action"

05-01-2007, 01:57 PM	#4 (permalink)
Alive believer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Europe Posts: 2,411 Blog Entries: 1	Thank you for believing and showing that the past time of sobriety is not wasted.It is power. __________________ the biggest power a being is given is the now. in the now there is will, choice and therefore a power with no boundaries; for what is born from pure love has no seasons, only continuity, then growth. your spirit will tell you the truth. there's a silence within the silence.

05-01-2007, 02:01 PM	#5 (permalink)
tink360 Think Happy Thoughts Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: cHiCaGo iL Posts: 245	Thanks for the inspiring post. Keep your head up and remember days like this when things start to seem cloudy. It will help. __________________ When you change the way you look at things; The things you look at change.

05-01-2007, 04:12 PM	#7 (permalink)
Surlyredhead Life is Grand 2 Hand Poker Champion! Battleship Champion! Crazy PinBall Champion! Word Lab Champion! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,569	Thank you for the reminder...indeed, the disease in cunning, baffling and POWERFUL. Cathy __________________ Every Saint has a past and every Sinner has a future!

05-01-2007, 11:29 AM	#2 (permalink)
parentrecovers let it grow! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: USA Posts: 15,536	great news, sylandad! i appreciate your positive attitude and admire your hard work. keep posting, you're an inspiration to all of us. blessings, k

05-01-2007, 04:08 PM	#6 (permalink)
Rowan Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 12,138	I'm glad you made it back - please keep posting here. Well done on the clean and sober time.

05-01-2007, 04:48 PM	#8 (permalink)
Astro Forum Leader Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Scottsdale, AZ, one big happy dysfunctional family! Posts: 11,814	You are an inspiration, sylandad. Thank you for sharing that, I'm glad you're back! __________________ "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty, and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming---WOW-What a ride!"

05-01-2007, 05:26 PM	#9 (permalink)
hope3 Hope3 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upstate, NY Posts: 2,146	You made my day, bless you......... Hope3 __________________ If I focus on the solutions, the problems won't seem impossible!

05-01-2007, 05:32 PM	#10 (permalink)
ayla zaire Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: pass the bon bons Posts: 2,363	syland dad......i'm so glad to see you.......you have such a positive attitude, it's really great....we all slip, and if we learn from it as you did, we have so much more chance at lasting sobriety......i'm sure you have helped many people today with your positive message....

05-01-2007, 06:13 PM	#11 (permalink)
IO Storm IO Storm Wheel Of Fortune Champion! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 18,165 Blog Entries: 2	Yes..sylandad.... My 6 relapses have contributed to a strong recovery today...almost a year! Welcome back! Love, : Sherry __________________ "God holds me still in the eye of the Storm"

05-01-2007, 07:35 PM	#12 (permalink)
livefree Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 294	Thank you so much for your post. It is a heartening message. Congrats on your continued sobriety. You really seem to have a good perspective on your recovery. Thank you for reminding me to be grateful for my sobriety.

05-01-2007, 08:33 PM	#13 (permalink)
xXBacktoBlackXx tangled up in blue Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: IN Posts: 401	Thanks for the post. Truly inspirational. I understand what you mean about relapse as I have relapsed before. It was inspirational for me to read that you don't see this as time wasted. I'm aspiring for more days sober so your post was an inspiration to me. Thanks again. __________________ "I don't ever wanna drink again/I just need a friend." ~ Amy Winehouse, "Rehab"

05-02-2007, 06:55 PM	#14 (permalink)
Hope Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,300	That was very powerful and inspiring!

11-25-2007, 01:09 PM	#15 (permalink)
sylandad Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: ellensburg, WA Posts: 12	Hello All!!!! Well today I have 8 months sober!!!! I have hope today and see light at the end of the tunnel. I am grounded again in a program of recovery from drugs and alcohol. I am once again working on areas of my life that have caused me to get into a relapse cycle. I have a host of problems in my life; financial, relationship, self-esteem, other addictions, but I am willing to look at those areas so that I don't drink and drug again. These type of sites have helped me at various times in my sobriety....Thanks for being there!!!!! David D

11-25-2007, 02:35 PM	#16 (permalink)
CarolD Forum Leader Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Serene In Dixie Posts: 34,835	Wonderful! __________________ Each Day Sober Is A Victory!! Joy In AA Recovery!

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11-25-2007, 02:37 PM	#17 (permalink)
*Anna* Administrator Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dancing in the Light Posts: 22,702	Hi David, That's a great post and I agree with you that we just need to take it day by day. That's the best we can do. __________________ And I dont know what the future is holding in store I dont know where Im going, Im not sure where I've been There's a spirit that guides me, a light that shines for me My life is worth the living, I dont need to see the end. John Denver

11-25-2007, 03:17 PM	#18 (permalink)
lostmdboy Lurker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Western NC Posts: 783	Sobriety is definately a learning expierence. Way to go on 8 months. __________________ John, It works if you work it

11-25-2007, 03:26 PM	#19 (permalink)
Rowan Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 12,138	Well done!

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