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Almath
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[QUOTE=NEOMARXIST;2601513]
Accepting Life on Life's terms. This means getting difficult experiences/feelings/emotions and accepting them as being part of life. It is simply something that as a human being you have to 'feel'. Accepting that you can't keep running away from your 'issues' and instead have to be brave and face them and 'work' on them to try to resolve the situations. This is indeed difficult, especially because many alcoholics often have underlying psychological/emotional 'issues', but it is so rewarding when you can work through your problems and come out of the other side with pride and dignity.
A very very powerful post Neomarxist... The paragraph above is just going round in my head now as I've always been locking away/blotting out my emotions and not dealing with issues and situations too and I guess the alcohol just helped me forget them or made me feel better about them.. I know I still have a lot to deal with and I've found myself being quite emotional over the last few weeks which is really not like me - crying over small things and believe me I very rarely cry!!!
Thank you so much for opening up to us and for such a wonderful post which has really triggered something in me which I hadn't really considered - even after 100 days sober...
Big hugs,
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