I'm in! Thanks for all the congratulations in the last thread - I am pretty darn happy to have gotten to 5 years. Not always easy, but always worth it.
I love the layers chart with the labels - Vision, Roadmap, etc. I am on daily now, but it did take some time and lots of help to get here. I did have a hazy vision when I first put the booze down, but it was very difficult to have any clarity about what life was going to be like without alcohol. And I was pretty scared of it. I was more scared about NOT quitting, though, and I guess that was my tipping point. Less scared of a future without alcohol than I was of a future with it. I did need help with the rest of it - treatment, AA, support from others, SR, books - I used all of it to get to where I am. Still a work in progress, to be sure, but aren't we all?