Today I read on SR that resonated....
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Today I read on SR that resonated....
What did you read today on SR that really gave you that "ah ha!" moment?
Today I read on SR: "I recently learned that I tend to get infatuated with the players/manipulators because they offer me instant gratification to the validation I desire. They are the ones who say exactly what I want to hear as soon as they meet me and all of a sudden I am planning our future because I feel they "get" me."
That was something I really needed to think about today.
What did YOU read??
Today I read on SR: "I recently learned that I tend to get infatuated with the players/manipulators because they offer me instant gratification to the validation I desire. They are the ones who say exactly what I want to hear as soon as they meet me and all of a sudden I am planning our future because I feel they "get" me."
That was something I really needed to think about today.
What did YOU read??
6/20/08
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That's the thing about SR. It makes you think. It can keep you sober.
We can manipulate those we love.....but we can't manipulate a forum that will call bull crap on our bull crap.
I'll be interested to read other replies, Dancing Girl!
We can manipulate those we love.....but we can't manipulate a forum that will call bull crap on our bull crap.
I'll be interested to read other replies, Dancing Girl!
Lordy, what doesn't resonate!
This one hit me right between the eyes:
I am so grateful to be here and grateful for y'all.
This one hit me right between the eyes:
I was never wrong about what drinking was doing...at least not in the last few years. I knew it was hurting me, I knew it was killing me, I knew it was making me a horrible person and that it was hurting my family, my physcial being, my job, my mental state. The thing that I was wrong about is that I could moderate like normal people do. It's funny because for years I would cry the next day, which was nearly every day, and tell my husband that I shouldn't be doing this and that I was WRONG to think I could. By the afternoon each day the shakes would be so bad and the emotions so horrible but all it took was a small talk with hubby so that he could convince me that I was just being too hard on myself for having a good time. OMG when did blacking out, falling off of your chair flat on your face and breaking your nose become a good time...but off I would go again. Maybe he is right and I am being hard on myself, maybe it is just my ocd...holy sh't...WRONG.
People who don't have problems with drinking are wonderful and they love us, but for me they were not the people to turn to when it was too hard to not have another drink to ease the shakes and the emotions...they made more excuses for me than I ever could have made for myself.
Today I am not wrong in knowing that I CAN'T drink or it will kill me.
D.
People who don't have problems with drinking are wonderful and they love us, but for me they were not the people to turn to when it was too hard to not have another drink to ease the shakes and the emotions...they made more excuses for me than I ever could have made for myself.
Today I am not wrong in knowing that I CAN'T drink or it will kill me.
D.
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I am reminded just how simple a treatment plan can be to undo a lifetime of maladaptive addiction behaviors with the will to choose a new healthy lifestyle free from the influence of liquor or dope.
Thanks Murray
Today I will use all my innate abilities to keep myself free form the absolute hell addiction was for me.
Today I will use all my innate abilities to keep myself free form the absolute hell addiction was for me.
There is not one thing in particular that resonates -it ALL does. It is all a process of the battles of this disease. The struggles, the feelings, the triumphs, the pain, the never ending constant attempts to remain in a happy place.
I feel for the ones struggling. I keep them in my thoughts. I am joyfull for the successes with a promise and inspiration of recovery. It all affects my sobriety.
I feel for the ones struggling. I keep them in my thoughts. I am joyfull for the successes with a promise and inspiration of recovery. It all affects my sobriety.
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