There are many helpful recovery sources
available to help anyone and everyone who
has the willingness and openmindedness
to use them in helping them learn to stay
clean and sober a day at a time.
Sober Recovery is just one of many of those
sources available to help us. It is one of many
tools to use each day.
Im 22 yrs sober and began my recovery
journey in rehab where family stepped in
to get me help I so desperately needed to
begin learning about my alcoholism, which
is my drug of choice, and received tools
and knowledge of a recovery program to
incorporate in my everyday life.
One day while looking online for something
else I could use as an added bonus or tool
each day that I didn't make an AA meeting,
I found Sober Recovery along with many
other online sites to fill in the void.
I was able to connect here each day and
stay connected 24 hours a day if needed,
reading and passin on my own experiences,
strengths and hopes of what my life was
and is like before, during and after my drinking
career.
In the beginning I first had to learn about
my addiction to alcohol and how it affected
my body, mind and soul. And how and why
it affected all those around me. Those 28 days
in rehab was a good start for me and from
there I attended a 6 week outpatient aftercare
program and many many recovery meetings
in AA while being a mother to 2 little ones and
my husband at that time in my life.
Fast forward to 22 yrs sober, 23 yrs this
coming August 11, I am still using SR to
continue helping others struggling with
addiction by passing on my own ESH with
them. In doing so, I can continue to live
alcohol free, honest, happier, content and
enjoying the promises offered to us as
stated in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Listen, learn, absorb and apply all that you
can about addiction and pass on that knowledge
to others.
