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04-23-2014, 06:59 AM

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venuscat

Member

Join Date: Nov 2012

Location: German Village, Columbus with my love ♥

Posts: 88,761

Reposting for deeker! April 23rd, 2014!

Hello There! Hope you are all having a pleasant day today! Please join us
once again in a simple promise to stay clean and sober for the next
24 Hours!

Just post your local time and commit. Are You in?

All Are Welcome! Welcome back to those returning, we admire your honesty!

Please sign in only once daily as this is mainly a sign up sheet! Thanks!

Welcome To Our Newest Members- SolitaryThinker - TonyReeceAustin -eaglesa1a-
onthecliff -AlcoholFree66 - casinva - Panacea -ChickChick- lunachild

Congratulations!!

BigShoe 1 week!
SolitaryThinker 2 week!
stayonthepath 3 weeks!
AZliving 4 weeks!
simplenoteasy 30 days!
KimsFriend 1 month!
gleefan 2 months!
joshlyman 3 months!
MythicPhoenix 4 months!
Heartfan82 1 yr 1 month!

If I missed your special day, please send me your start date. I will update
asap. Also please let me know of any updates or corrections. Anniversaries
listed based on consecutive days clean and sober.

Thank You Miss vensucat for Congratulating our Celebrants personally behind
the scenes on behalf of the 24 hour club!

Roster will be posted at 10 pm EST USA 4/23. Google USA Eastern
Standard Time to see how your local time translates.

Below is a post I found of a Member here by the name of desert song.
I love this post because it described me to a T when I was drinking
and drugging. I imagine many of you will relate.

I want to thank desertsong for allowing me to repost it in the club.

Playing the Victim

The topic of our meeting yesterday was "playing the victim" and it was really
eye-opening. This whole idea of "poor me, pour me a drink" really resonated
with me because I'm finding that a lot of my drinking was directed AT people,
places and things.

If my day wasn't going well, I'd drink. If the woman at the grocery store was
rude to me, I'd drink. If one of my kids was acting up, I'd drink. If it was raining
when I wanted it to be sunny, I'd drink.

I always seemed to let outside influences give me an excuse to pick up a bottle
instead of looking inwardly ... it was always YOUR fault that I drank.

One of the members of our group shared with us that one day he was complaining
to his sponsor about his wife, his boss, and all of the other situations and people
that "made" him drink ... he felt like the victim of everyone else's abuse and
felt very taken advantage of.

His sponsor said to him, "If you're such a victim, then why are you always at the
scene of the crime?" I love that!

I'm curious how many of us played the "victim" in order to give ourselves
permission to drink.

Do we or Did we blame other people, places and things for our drinking?

*Song For The Day -Nickelback - If Today Was Your Last Day

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Support Threads and click GO. This is part 53!