Welcome Liz.
My name is sharon and im an alcoholic.
By the grace of my HP and people like
u here in SR i havent had a drink of alcohol
since 8-11-90. For that im truely grateful.
I use to whin to my sponsor about this
and that and meetings and family and
marriage and so on...
My sponsor along with many others in
recovery before me shared how important
those AA meetings were to them. How
important their recovery was. Their sobriety
was to them.
They would share that they wouldnt have all
that other stuff...the job, the house, the wife,
husband, kids, car, money, etc. if they were not
sober.
So many folks wind up losing everything they have
due to drugs and alcohol....then u have those that
have not lost the material things, but just about lost
sanity and everything else along with that.
I almost lost my life due to drinking because i thought
i could manage stopping by myself. I tried soooo many
times and failed soooo many times....till weird strange
things began to happen....my behavior was not normal.
Anyway...my family stepped in when i tried to end
my misery one night....thru intervention i was picked
up by the police with a court order to take me to the
nut house first...to only then find out i wasnt nuts,
just couldnt control my drinking.
And so i spent the next 28 days in rehab recieving
the tools and knowledge of recovery and how to stay
sober one day at a time.
Today im very grateful for given another chance in life.
Today my soul purpose is to give back what was sooo
freely given to me over the yrs. To share my own
Experiences, strengths and hopes with others in hopes
they too will learn to stay sober.
To drink for me today is to die. Alcohol is POISON
to me. If i pick up a drink i will sure end up totally
drunk, crazy, or die....i really dont know if i have
another drunk in me to make it back to these rooms.
So i think i will chose sobriety over drinking any day...
Well TODAY.
Thanks for letting me share.