aasharon90

Hi my name is Sharon and Im an Alcoholic.

By the Grace of my HP and people like you
here in SR I havent had a drink of alcohol
since 8-11-90.

For that and you I am truely grateful.

I have my best thinking first thing early
in the morning.

So i was thinking about the word SOBRIETY.

I thought it, then i said it....saying the word
SOBRIETY out loud....Again I said it as i placed
my AA pendant around my neck.

That gold AA symbol with the triangle in
the center of the circle.

Then i headed to my computer to find the
definition of the word SOBRIETY.

Here is what I found.

SOBRIETY - temperance or moderation, esp.
in the use of alcoholic beverages

Then what does TEMPERANCE mean.

TEMPERANCE - total abstinence from alcoholic liquors

Sometimes we have to search for what all
those words mean in recovery just so we
understand what they are talking about.

Anyway....

What an AWESOME word SOBRIETY stands for.

And it even means more when we are PRACTICING
SOBRIETY in our every day lives.

What does SOBRIETY mean to you.

To me it means being happy in recovery without
drinking alcohol TODAY.

Thanks for letting me share.

parentrecovers

thanks for sharing, sharon. how was your birthday, by the way? what did you end up saying?

k

aasharon90

Hi Parentrecovers....

Thanks....

An AA friend stood up and shared a little bit about me
which was kinda cool....He shared that I am one
of those that doesnt say much in meetings but rather
its thru the things i do and say behind the scene. Its
the service work i do and those that i help by sharing
here online or one on one....

I appreciated his kind sincere words.

From there i stood up and introduced myshelf
just as i always do here....then share my ESH
of what happened to me before during and
after alcohol...what got me in recovery, who
was responsible for getting me there....the tools
and knowledge i picked up to help me stay
sober one day at a time.

Then what it is that i continue to do on
a daily bases to maintane my sobriety....

It was kinda neat to be able to stand
tall and share honestly my own ESH
with others....

Just ONE DAY AT A TIME and the willingness
to go to any lengths to stay sober....

And thats the way it works for me.

SaTiT

holy scholy Sharron
I had a silver neclace with an small NA symbol made of jad.
it hung directly over my heart. I never took it off.
it reminds me who i am , where i came from and bacailly
I was a walking and talking recovery program.lol

I remember being on tilt becuase it was worn so my gf took
it to a shop to have it repair ..it took a couple of days.

okay.. i did say HAD.
well, that neclace which i never ever take off..
it freaken broke oneday and I lost it somewhere.
If i knew where it was, it wouldn't be lost...oki doki.lol
..okay, i was consern of course becuase
of what it meant to me. On the other hand, i didn't want to
be a loon and logically knows it's just a piece jewerley.

okay the kicker is..i relapsed a week after that.

well it was a process mentally also. My mother gave me
a pure gold neclece to replace that cheap one i had.
I didn't vaule the neclace so much becuase it was made of gold.
I value it becuase my mother gave it to me. And it's wasn't so
much that she gave me that neclace becuase i was in trouble
or her bailing me out again. She gave it to me becuase she trusted
me again. mmm you know, i wouldn't go pawn a $2000 neclace
for $50 for dope or beer money.

aasharon90

I have 2 AA sticker symbols on my back windshield of my
car and a license plate holder with Just For Today....

I also have a gold AA symbol ring i wear from time
to time along with my AA pendant...One is gold an the
other is silver with a red inlayed triangle in the center....

I wore that one to my meeting this past Monday when
one member commented on how cool it was....

That made me smile...

Ok...keeping things into prospective,,,,ok?

I wear my jewelry and have my stickers only
because .....if i saw someone else wear one..or
if i spot another sticker...that would make
me feel like im not alone....

What if someone in recovery was having
a bad time and needed help at that
very moment and they saw my
stickers...or my jewelry....then id hope
they would approach me for help...

Or just to say hello and I too am a FOBW.

Friend Of Bill W.

Sure people at work have asked about
my pendant....and only if i feel completely
comfortable explaining about it i will....but
most of the time i just say that its a Unity
Symbol and they say ok and move on....

Some laugh jokingly and ask if i belong to
a cult...lol

Its funny,,,,

but i do keep whats important to me anonymously
to a certain extent.

Its not the jewelry or the stickers that r keeping
me sober....however its the tools of recovery....the
knowledge and wisdom i have aquired by living
the principles set down before us and most of all
my faith in a Power greater than I helping and
guiding me along the way.

Thanks for letting me share.

SaTiT

people ask me (close freinds) sometimes what means to be an alcoholic.
There's not preing or nothing , just freinds that wants to understand me
or just curiouse..i guess.

they say "what do mean you can't have a drink for the rest of your life"
"not even one ?"

They 're ask me about my neclace becuase everyonce in a while
it's pop out and there's a little stick on my back windshield.

I joke at first and tell them i belong to a cult..lmao
they're my friends and thier eyes will roll...
and you get that look in thier eyes , questioning who the hell i am
and what kind of trouble they might get into for knowing me.
And i give them a seriouse look too
I tell them all kinds of stupid fib about AA, just joking around.

but every so often..a co worker will pull me aside and
ask me about AA becuase one of their family member is having problems,
becuase my co workers has also see me changed or grow over the years.

i had to tell my co workers i stopped drinking..lol
will you know ..those office parties and stuff.

on a good day, they'll tell me to go to a meeting during lunch hour. lmao
I go to lunch meetings sometimes, so after a while they figure it out.
my co workers that known me for a while , knows AA helps me
will..probably becuase I'm all mellow after a meeting and not making
an ass out of myself and i actaully applogize sometimes...lol

So yeah being clean and sober or sobereity is everything to me.
becuase it effects every aera of my life.

aasharon90

Ur A OK in my book .... Love ya buddy.