Originally Posted by Jeni26

The big lesson I have learned...am learning...have yet to learn is patience!

I think I had a lifetime of wanting everything to change instantaneously, kind of the way it did after I took that first sip of a drink. My thoughts were.. I'm in AA, why am I still wanting a drink..? I've got promotion at work, why do I still struggle and want something more?...I'm in therapy, why do I still not sleep? Etc etc. My sponsor sounds a lot like yours. She reminds me that everything will happen for me if I continue to put in the work. Step 4 was the step I took far too long over and finishing that and moving onto step 5 was kind of a turning point for me.

I'm not sure my expectations of how quickly things would fit into place were realistic at all. I needed to shelve them and look at what I have instead of what I haven't.

Things will change for us, but not on the time frame we want them to sometimes x