What was said to you that helped in the begining?
Enjoying Sobriety
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 143
"If I can get sober, you can too."
"It really does get better"
and I will never, ever forget when I started to look alive again someone said "Wow, you really look good today". I had not heard that in many, many years!
"It really does get better"
and I will never, ever forget when I started to look alive again someone said "Wow, you really look good today". I had not heard that in many, many years!
Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 729
"Hang on Andrew the others will be here soon" Margie-WQD
I learned I was not a freak of nature, that I was not alone.
"Alcoholism is a prison with the key inside the cell"
Success and failure are your responsibility.
"There is no difference between a glass of paint and a glass of alcohol" Allen Carr
Speaks of benefits of alcohol-there are NONE.
And my dear Raheem who's death inspired this poem.
I am more powerful than the combined armies of the world;
I have destroyed more men than all the wars of the all the nations;
I have caused millions of accidents and wrecked more homes than all the floods, tornadoes and hurricanes put together;
I am the worlds' slickest thief.
I steal billions of dollars each year;
I find my victims among the rich and poor alike,
I am relentless, insidious, unpredictable;
I bring sickness, poverty and death;
I give nothing and take all;
I am your worst enemy;
I am alcohol.
RIP Raheem Bath.
I learned I was not a freak of nature, that I was not alone.
"Alcoholism is a prison with the key inside the cell"
Success and failure are your responsibility.
"There is no difference between a glass of paint and a glass of alcohol" Allen Carr
Speaks of benefits of alcohol-there are NONE.
And my dear Raheem who's death inspired this poem.
I am more powerful than the combined armies of the world;
I have destroyed more men than all the wars of the all the nations;
I have caused millions of accidents and wrecked more homes than all the floods, tornadoes and hurricanes put together;
I am the worlds' slickest thief.
I steal billions of dollars each year;
I find my victims among the rich and poor alike,
I am relentless, insidious, unpredictable;
I bring sickness, poverty and death;
I give nothing and take all;
I am your worst enemy;
I am alcohol.
RIP Raheem Bath.
Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 426
I would talk, talk, talk, and then talk some more.....but someone here kept on hammering me with "so what is your plan?". I finally stopped and thought about it. And I figured out --- just NOT drinking is only an action, but not a PLAN.
12-Step Recovered Alkie
Join Date: May 2010
Location: West Bloomfield, MI
Posts: 5,797
"Ya know, if you work this program, not only will you never get arrested again, you won't drink ever again....and you won't even miss it a bit. And if that sounds good, that's only a fraction of what you get from working these steps....how does a happy content life till the day you die - guaranteed - sound?"
Member
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Cumming, Ga
Posts: 665
If you find that you are alcoholic, you don't ever have to drink again, ever. We won't offer you a pain free life, but we can offer you a way of living that makes sense to you.....My life never made sense to anybody. Today it does.
Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Vashon WA
Posts: 1,035
Hearing that it IS going to get better both here and through some sober friends really helps.
So I'll pass it along--I'm on day 40 today and it feels pretty good. I still think about not drinking but it is getting better! I am blessed to be surrounded by supportive friends and family. IT DOES GET BETTER!
So I'll pass it along--I'm on day 40 today and it feels pretty good. I still think about not drinking but it is getting better! I am blessed to be surrounded by supportive friends and family. IT DOES GET BETTER!
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