Originally Posted by
MIRecovery 
Congrats!!! If you can do it anyone can. Unfortunately it takes the gift of desperation for most of us to wake up. You are right. Put nothing and I mean nothing before your sobriety because without it we will lose everything else. There are other ways but AA worked for me when all else failed.
MIR -- I don't care the way anyone gets sober. For some people being on SR and the support they get here is enough, for others the support of family/friends is enough, still for others RR or other programs work, for me AA was the only way I was going to clean out my closet enough to see who I was and how this whole thing fit together. I can see how spirituality fits into my life without religion... and how the goodness of other people is the light of my HP... I still struggle everyday... but, drinking isn't my first thought to "fix" things anymore. It is "what do I need to do"
Saliena