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Hi, my name is Nick and I'm an alcoholic. I have 17 days sober with the help of AA and God. I came across these forums and thought I should introduce myself. I think this site might help me with staying sober.
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Welcome to SR Nick and congratulations on your 17 days. SR is a great place for support, it sure has helped me out a lot in my journey towards a new way of living. It's great that you're also going to AA. The program works if you you work it. AA has changed my life and given me a whole new way of living, a life free from the incarceration to alcohol. Good job on reaching out and introducing yourself. Keep it up.
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Welcome Nick, and thanks for joining us! This site has been a great help to me since I realized I could no longer have any relationship with alcohol. AA has been wonderful as well. But you mentioned God, and he's the key to my recovery and indeed, now, my life.
I was raised in the church but got away from God when I moved away from home. It took me several years of destroying my life and the relationships in it before I saw the problem alcohol had become in my life. It took that realization to get me into the rooms of AA. And it took going to AA for me to reconnect with God. And now I have a peace I never had when drinking, and also optimism and hope for the future.
I'm at peace because I no longer beat myself up over my actions in the past; it took all of that to get me here, today, right now. I'm at peace because I'm no longer a slave (to alcohol or pressures around me); I have freedom of mind and spirit. And I'm at peace mostly because I know the outcome (of my battle with booze, but also of my life) is a positive one; it is God's will and therefore can not be anything but good.
Again, thanks for being here. There are so many wonderful people in this place with tons of experience and support to share with us. It's been a staple in my life since Day 1 of my new life.
I was raised in the church but got away from God when I moved away from home. It took me several years of destroying my life and the relationships in it before I saw the problem alcohol had become in my life. It took that realization to get me into the rooms of AA. And it took going to AA for me to reconnect with God. And now I have a peace I never had when drinking, and also optimism and hope for the future.
I'm at peace because I no longer beat myself up over my actions in the past; it took all of that to get me here, today, right now. I'm at peace because I'm no longer a slave (to alcohol or pressures around me); I have freedom of mind and spirit. And I'm at peace mostly because I know the outcome (of my battle with booze, but also of my life) is a positive one; it is God's will and therefore can not be anything but good.
Again, thanks for being here. There are so many wonderful people in this place with tons of experience and support to share with us. It's been a staple in my life since Day 1 of my new life.
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