Everyone in my family knew I had
to quit drinking because they pulled
and intervention on me to save my
life.
There's so much addiction out in
the world today and so many turn
a blind eye or ignorance to it and
it's so out there destroying folks,
tearing families or relationships
apart, so much violence associated
with it.
For many today, like yourself, recognizing
your own addiction and wanting to learn
about it, get help for it to live a happier,
healthier, honest life without it, I applaud
you.
Back in 1990 I was at that point in
my addiction not believing or admitting
I had a serious problem with it that it
took my own family to step in, doing for
me what I surely couldn't or didn't want
to do for myself.
However, today, some 25yrs sober, I am
extremely grateful for their help in sending
me to rehab and placing me into the hands
of those capable of teaching me about my
alcoholism and its affects on my mind, body
and soul as well as those around me.
Once I received my program of recovery
taught to me, I learned it, absorbed it, applied
it to all areas of my life in order to experience
the Promises as written for us in the Big Book
of Alcoholics Anonymous and enjoy them.
I also learned early on that once I entered
recovery, that it became my program. No
one else in my family needed recovery like
I did and so it became my own responsibility
to do whatever I needed and wanted to do
to remain sober.
I also learned that I could explain my
addiction and my recovery to someone
that has no addiction till I was blue in
the face and it still didn't matter. I couldn't
make them understand what and who I
was because they were not addicts.
Eventually I had to learn to accept them
just they way they are because I couldn't
change them or their way of thinking.
Acceptance is the Key to a freedom
in recovery I hadn't known before.
It's a awesome gift.
Stay on track with ur recovery program,
take care of you because like so many of
us, we are worth it.