Awesome post Cath, keep up the momentum, but please keep in mind as you go along, that it took time for us to get to our bottoms and it also takes time to dig our way out.
Trust me, I wanted to have the serenity and peace that folks with 20years sober had in a month!!!! LOL I have found it takes time and it takes work, but the time and work is well worth it, mentally, physically, & spiritually I am far further then I ever dreamed I would be, yet I also have a long ways to go and learning and accepting that it is spiritual progress we strive for daily and not perfection lets me know that as long as I am moving in the right direction things will continue to get better.
I want some of that for myself.
As I have heard many an old timer share "Want what we have? Do what what we do." Glad to hear you are working on a sponsor, for me getting a sponsor and taking the steps with him was key to beginning long term sobriety and regaining my sanity.