Three Months
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Three Months
Well, the calendar says that this weekend I'll have three months sober.. Feels pretty weird to say things like that still, but I'm taking it day by day.
I haven't really engaged all the resources I know I should be in AA (sponsor, starting steps, etc) but I'm alot closer to being able to see that this is the right path when I really decide to use it.
I spoke to a friend last week that I hadn't talked to in a long time. She was the first person to tell me that she was concerned with my drinking habits well before I got divorced, which really got me thinking about everything in a different light I guess. It caught me off guard just enough to begin to understand the progressive nature of the disease, which I hadn't really 'gotten' before.
Anyway, just wanted to check in.
I haven't really engaged all the resources I know I should be in AA (sponsor, starting steps, etc) but I'm alot closer to being able to see that this is the right path when I really decide to use it.
I spoke to a friend last week that I hadn't talked to in a long time. She was the first person to tell me that she was concerned with my drinking habits well before I got divorced, which really got me thinking about everything in a different light I guess. It caught me off guard just enough to begin to understand the progressive nature of the disease, which I hadn't really 'gotten' before.
Anyway, just wanted to check in.
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Many kudos on three months! My Sobriety date falls on the 25th and even after 2 years and 2 months clean, isn't each Anniversary a Blessing! Whether it be a year, a month, a week, a day , an hour or a minute. It's a period of time of really living!
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Thanks all! I've been doing alot of reflecting on what the last few months have shown me, if anything, lol. It feels like in some way I'm miles away from where I was at a few months ago, yet at the same time feels like I'm still so close to that razor edge of letting the idiot committee in my mind take over and it feels like a dangerous place.
If nothing else, I'm finally feeling a little more comfortable in my own skin, not 100% fighting against the concept of being alcoholic. Not that I still don't have my moments of doubt...
Trying to live in today is a foreign concept, but I think I kind of dig it. *grins*
If nothing else, I'm finally feeling a little more comfortable in my own skin, not 100% fighting against the concept of being alcoholic. Not that I still don't have my moments of doubt...
Trying to live in today is a foreign concept, but I think I kind of dig it. *grins*
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Originally Posted by madscientist 
Well, the calendar says that this weekend I'll have three months sober.. Feels pretty weird to say things like that still, but I'm taking it day by day.
All we have is today--but today is a great day to be sober.
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madscientist congrats on the 3 months, as said every day further we get from that last drink the better things get, but keep staying in today, because that is really all we have control over.
For this old drunk getting a sponsor and working the steps made a world of difference in my sobriety, it is making a big difference to my sponsee he shared last night in a meeting, I always let him know how much he helps me stay sober as well.
I haven't really engaged all the resources I know I should be in AA (sponsor, starting steps, etc) but I'm alot closer to being able to see that this is the right path when I really decide to use it.
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