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Off to my next AA meeting here at Homewood, in 11 minutes...strange, the meetings listed as speaker meetings always turn out to be closed discussion groups (which I also like)...but I feel like hearing a good speaker tonight!
Bring on the coffee!
The cravings are almost non-existent, I pray it is not the calm before the storm (i.e. once I finish the program, the cravings reappear in a storm of cravings) :-0 :-(
K out
Bring on the coffee!
The cravings are almost non-existent, I pray it is not the calm before the storm (i.e. once I finish the program, the cravings reappear in a storm of cravings) :-0 :-(
K out
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I remember going to meetings in rehab and
prefered the speaker ones the most. Did you
pick up ur first chips already? Desire or the 24
hour chip? I still have all mine as rememberence
of those first 28 days sober. Then you begin
picking up 1 month and so on.
Rehab was a safe inviroment for me and I dont
recall having cravings for it. However when I
got home, I still had the 6 week aftercare program
to keep me in program mode while living in the
real world with real life problems and raising a
family. Multi tasking. For me I did what was
suggested to me when I was out, going to meetings,
listening and absorbing as much as i hung on to
the winners in recovery.
I wanted to live and be happy more than anything
but had to take it a day at a time.
Work thru personal issues, learn to be honest
which is extremely important in recovery, and
dont hold onto resentments and they will eat
at ur insides are lessons I had to learn and still
practice each day.
Enjoy your evening.
prefered the speaker ones the most. Did you
pick up ur first chips already? Desire or the 24
hour chip? I still have all mine as rememberence
of those first 28 days sober. Then you begin
picking up 1 month and so on.
Rehab was a safe inviroment for me and I dont
recall having cravings for it. However when I
got home, I still had the 6 week aftercare program
to keep me in program mode while living in the
real world with real life problems and raising a
family. Multi tasking.
For me I did what was suggested to me when I was out, going to meetings,
listening and absorbing as much as i hung on to
the winners in recovery.
I wanted to live and be happy more than anything
but had to take it a day at a time.
Work thru personal issues, learn to be honest
which is extremely important in recovery, and
dont hold onto resentments and they will eat
at ur insides are lessons I had to learn and still
practice each day.
Enjoy your evening.
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Originally Posted by KellyEurope 
I pray it is not the calm before the storm (i.e. once I finish the program, the cravings reappear in a storm of cravings)
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I agree with dgillz. I think one problem is that we 'think' we're done. Then we get lazy and complacent and makes it easier to relapse if we aren't working the program. S they say...Keep coming back....
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Finishing the Program
Thanks, everyone - actually (and I'm sorry), I meant when I am finished the 5 week Homewood Rehab program....I certainly did NOT mean the AA program, itself - I know that IT is a life-long program.
...and I hate hearing speakers say that they are RECOVERED alcoholics, when they SHOULD say that they are recoverING alcoholics.
Kelly
...and I hate hearing speakers say that they are RECOVERED alcoholics, when they SHOULD say that they are recoverING alcoholics.
Kelly
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