Well I picked up.....
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Fredericksburg, Va.
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Well I picked up.....
my 6 month chip!!! Do not tell me miracles do not happen 6 months and 1 day ago I was incapable on my own to go one day with out a drink, here it is 6 months later without a drop and I am loving life!!!
Want to see a miracle? Go to an AA meeting, you will see a bunch of them.
Want to see a miracle? Go to an AA meeting, you will see a bunch of them.
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Taz, Man, Dude!!!
That wasn't nice, scared the () out of me for a second!
Anyhow, Way to go ! 6 months is such an amazing acomplishment.
(just please don't do that to me again, I'm getting too old)
Ted
That wasn't nice, scared the () out of me for a second!
Anyhow, Way to go ! 6 months is such an amazing acomplishment.
(just please don't do that to me again, I'm getting too old)
Ted
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Congratulations . . .
Ah, I knew what you were going to say . . . I've been around long enough to have a lot of faith in the program for those who are doing what they're supposed to be doing.
I'm enjoying watching you grow. It's hard for me to make any meetings consistently--I work most Fridays, the day of my home group meeting--so I don't see the continuity I used to (and no, I haven't "quit" going to meetings even coming up on 27 years; I just go when I can although if stuff came down, I'd reconnect bigtime in a heartbeat).
As someone used to say, "There are two critical points in your sobriety, the first six months, and anytime thereafter."
And in my home group my old sponsor used to tell the one said to him on the occasion of his year birthday . . . "Just remember, you don't get years of sobriety without two."
Surrender is is a sort of confidence without cockiness, but it takes a long time to work through all that fear . . . At least for me it did . . .
And as Terry Gorski notes, relapse is a process that doesn't begin with the first drink, it begins with the decision, "I'm never going to drink again."
Keep it simple, one day at a time . . .
I'm enjoying watching you grow. It's hard for me to make any meetings consistently--I work most Fridays, the day of my home group meeting--so I don't see the continuity I used to (and no, I haven't "quit" going to meetings even coming up on 27 years; I just go when I can although if stuff came down, I'd reconnect bigtime in a heartbeat).
As someone used to say, "There are two critical points in your sobriety, the first six months, and anytime thereafter."
And in my home group my old sponsor used to tell the one said to him on the occasion of his year birthday . . . "Just remember, you don't get years of sobriety without two."
Surrender is is a sort of confidence without cockiness, but it takes a long time to work through all that fear . . . At least for me it did . . .
And as Terry Gorski notes, relapse is a process that doesn't begin with the first drink, it begins with the decision, "I'm never going to drink again."
Keep it simple, one day at a time . . .
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Surrender is is a sort of confidence without cockiness, but it takes a long time to work through all that fear . . .
Taz - well done, odaat!
It's very hard to explain to people who're still suffering how good it feels to just ..... give up! But it's so inspirational to read people like you who've discovered it.
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As someone used to say, "There are two critical points in your sobriety, the first six months, and anytime thereafter."
Sharing I have found helps me just as well as it helps others, listening to others helps me also, possibly more then sharing.
Every day sober is better, it never ceases to amaze me, even with the problems that life throws out there for me, I remind myself that being sober I can deal with them and they go away, drinking only hid them for a while and all they did was fester and grow.
The main thing I attest to my happy sobriety is following directions, I have acccepted the fact that my plans for not drinking were a failure, I could not do it on my own, I had to listen to others, being sober has helped me seperate the wheat from the chaff.
I have done things I have not been thrilled about doing, but in the long run it has led me to more happiness and serenity. Honesty in all things and not only working the steps, but living them the best I can has made a huge difference.
I am thankful that we seek progression and not perfection, because if we needed perfection we would all be lost.
I want to thank every one here at SR, in AA and my HP for this.
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