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If you're struggling..
I would like to share something I read last night. It was in a book I picked up that I had no idea had anything to do with alcoholism or sobriety...obviously I was meant to pick it up.
Becoming sober is like recovering from frostbite.
Defrosting is excruciatingly painful. You have been numb for so long. As feeling comes back to your soul, you start to tingle, and it's uncomfortable and strange. But then the tingles start feeling like daggers. Sadness, loss, fear, anger, anxiety - all these things that you have been numbing with the booze - you feel them for the first time. And it's horrific at first, to tell you the damn truth. But welcoming the pain and refusing to escape from it is the only way to recovery. You can't go around it, you can't go over it, you have to go through it. There is no other option, besides amputation. If you all the defrosting process to take place - if you trust that it will work and choose to endure the pain - one day will you get your soul back. If you can feel, then there has been no amputation. If you can feel, you are not too late.
Friend we need you. The world has already suffered while you've been hiding.
Becoming sober is like recovering from frostbite.
Defrosting is excruciatingly painful. You have been numb for so long. As feeling comes back to your soul, you start to tingle, and it's uncomfortable and strange. But then the tingles start feeling like daggers. Sadness, loss, fear, anger, anxiety - all these things that you have been numbing with the booze - you feel them for the first time. And it's horrific at first, to tell you the damn truth. But welcoming the pain and refusing to escape from it is the only way to recovery. You can't go around it, you can't go over it, you have to go through it. There is no other option, besides amputation. If you all the defrosting process to take place - if you trust that it will work and choose to endure the pain - one day will you get your soul back. If you can feel, then there has been no amputation. If you can feel, you are not too late.
Friend we need you. The world has already suffered while you've been hiding.
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That analogy got me thinking about how one recovers from real frostbite. I did a google search and the sites I opened all gave instructions on how to TREAT frostbite. It seems that in order to recover from frostbite without permanent damage you must use specific treatments to get it to heal correctly. It's a great analogy, I just thought I'd add my own little twist to it. 
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Originally Posted by Grungehead 
That analogy got me thinking about how one recovers from real frostbite. I did a google search and the sites I opened all gave instructions on how to TREAT frostbite. It seems that in order to recover from frostbite without permanent damage you must use specific treatments to get it to heal correctly. It's a great analogy, I just thought I'd add my own little twist to it.
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Originally Posted by Nuudawn
I would like to share something I read last night. It was in a book I picked up that I had no idea had anything to do with alcoholism or sobriety...obviously I was meant to pick it up.
Becoming sober is like recovering from frostbite.
Defrosting is excruciatingly painful. You have been numb for so long. As feeling comes back to your soul, you start to tingle, and it's uncomfortable and strange. But then the tingles start feeling like daggers. Sadness, loss, fear, anger, anxiety - all these things that you have been numbing with the booze - you feel them for the first time. And it's horrific at first, to tell you the damn truth. But welcoming the pain and refusing to escape from it is the only way to recovery. You can't go around it, you can't go over it, you have to go through it. There is no other option, besides amputation. If you all the defrosting process to take place - if you trust that it will work and choose to endure the pain - one day will you get your soul back. If you can feel, then there has been no amputation. If you can feel, you are not too late.
Friend we need you. The world has already suffered while you've been hiding.
Becoming sober is like recovering from frostbite.
Defrosting is excruciatingly painful. You have been numb for so long. As feeling comes back to your soul, you start to tingle, and it's uncomfortable and strange. But then the tingles start feeling like daggers. Sadness, loss, fear, anger, anxiety - all these things that you have been numbing with the booze - you feel them for the first time. And it's horrific at first, to tell you the damn truth. But welcoming the pain and refusing to escape from it is the only way to recovery. You can't go around it, you can't go over it, you have to go through it. There is no other option, besides amputation. If you all the defrosting process to take place - if you trust that it will work and choose to endure the pain - one day will you get your soul back. If you can feel, then there has been no amputation. If you can feel, you are not too late.
Friend we need you. The world has already suffered while you've been hiding.
Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On Warrior
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