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Started reading this book about 6 or 7 months ago. Lost touch with it because I thought I could do this without some dumb self-help book.
Made myself start reading it again after the thread on the language of letting go.
I actually cried when I read Jessica's story at the beginning. Must not really have read it the first time. That is so me and oh how much work I have cut out for me.
Just thought I would share that. I seem to cry pretty easily these days, but this was one of those mental breakdown cries, like damn, I'm a wreck!
Made myself start reading it again after the thread on the language of letting go.
I actually cried when I read Jessica's story at the beginning. Must not really have read it the first time. That is so me and oh how much work I have cut out for me.
Just thought I would share that. I seem to cry pretty easily these days, but this was one of those mental breakdown cries, like damn, I'm a wreck!
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Yeah, I think about all the alcoholics who were turned off by meetings, the Big Book, etc.--thought it was all a bunch of BS, not applicable to them, yadayada.
Until FINALLY, when they are really ready to be DONE, they go back and all of it suddenly makes perfect sense.
I had a good friend who was in AA when he was in his late teens. He decided, in his early 20s, that he probably wasn't REALLY an alcoholic, and went out and drank for another 25 years or so. When he was finally ready again, he commented to a sober friend that a lot of the alcoholics described in the Big Book sounded JUST LIKE him. His friend laughed, and said, "Newsflash, sunshine, they ARE talking about you."
Until FINALLY, when they are really ready to be DONE, they go back and all of it suddenly makes perfect sense.
I had a good friend who was in AA when he was in his late teens. He decided, in his early 20s, that he probably wasn't REALLY an alcoholic, and went out and drank for another 25 years or so. When he was finally ready again, he commented to a sober friend that a lot of the alcoholics described in the Big Book sounded JUST LIKE him. His friend laughed, and said, "Newsflash, sunshine, they ARE talking about you."
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Originally Posted by freetosmile 
Started reading this book about 6 or 7 months ago. Lost touch with it because I thought I could do this without some dumb self-help book.
Made myself start reading it again after the thread on the language of letting go.
I actually cried when I read Jessica's story at the beginning. Must not really have read it the first time. That is so me and oh how much work I have cut out for me.
Just thought I would share that. I seem to cry pretty easily these days, but this was one of those mental breakdown cries, like damn, I'm a wreck!
Made myself start reading it again after the thread on the language of letting go.
I actually cried when I read Jessica's story at the beginning. Must not really have read it the first time. That is so me and oh how much work I have cut out for me.
Just thought I would share that. I seem to cry pretty easily these days, but this was one of those mental breakdown cries, like damn, I'm a wreck!
I did a lot of crying when this all started to sink in....come to find out it was years worth of tears and frustrations coming out.
I know it feels awful, but good for you for feeling it.
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