Old 11-05-2016, 07:15 AM
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soberlicious
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: "I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost ..."
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Teletubbies! <3

I'm so happy that your feet are planted in your brave new world. As scary as it can be at times, it's far less scary to me than the out-of-control autopilot I was lived in for so long. I was at the mercy of literally everything...

I often visualize my life before as me swimming in a sea of booze...treading hard, but barely keeping my head above water. Underneath me in the depths was fear in many forms, constantly tugging my legs trying to pull me under. But fear was also above me, keeping me from climbing out of the sea. I was stuck right there. What I didn't know then was that the fear was not all around me, outside of me. It was within me. When I understood that, I felt I had more control over how to deal with it. It was not some outside entity coming at me randomly in various monster masks, it was something I could face and reframe and actually conquer so to speak.
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