Originally Posted by
WMaxwell 
Good gosh, so how does someone stay sober for 20 years!?!?
For me, it has been taking an proactive role in my recovery....attending meetings, working the steps, sponsoring others and having a sponsor myself.
It has been about changing my thinking because that was where the real problem was. The alcohol/drugs were only a symptom of my disease.
It has been about becoming a responsible productive member of society, learning to think of others instead of being caught in that damnable self-centeredness that alcoholism/addiction brings. It is not thinking less of myself, but thinking of myself less.
My disease is threefold-mental, physical, and spiritual.
I have to address all three areas, and still do to this day. My sobriety/clean date is August 5, 1990.