coyote21

Well, I'm glad you asked. It's really very simple, but not so easy, if you know what I mean.

I quit drinking. I drank A LOT for 40 or so years.

HP did for me what I couldn't do for myself, by getting active alcoholism out of my house. That alone made the single biggest difference in my clarity, than any other one thing. And I know MANY others that agree.

I got/accepted a Higher Power, not in an organized religion sort of way. More of a God of my understanding, nature, the universe, kind of way. Lets face it, there are things more powerful than me.

I came here religiously and read voraciously, then finally registered after lurking for 2 years. Ha!

I went to Alanon, court ordered by a CPS judge that made Judge Judy look like a wimp. I still go 2 or so times a week. Four years later I'm STILL afraid of that little bitty Italian lady!

I read Alanon lit almost every day.

I got a sponsor and began working the steps.

And slowly but surely I got better. You can too.

Today I am happy, joyous and free. (picture a grinning, blond (o.k.... gray) lab, waggleing back and forth on his back in the summer grass).

Back before alcoholism took over, my axw and I used to call that "happy dogging".

And I'm still stuck on step 4, by the end I fully expect to be able to levitate.

Thanks and God bless us all,
Coyote