FireSprite

Over the years there are more threads that have resonated with me than I could possibly count. Sometimes it's just an excerpt from one part of a post & sometimes an entire thread is just plain gold. With others, I learn something new every time I read it at different stages of recovery. Many of them are part of the Classic Reading & other Sticky threads at the top of this forum.

But some shifted my perspective in a way that gave me really big AHA moments & I was able to see things differently all of a sudden. I often use these examples IRL, in all kinds of situations & I go back to re-read them periodically.

If I had to name just 3 of those threads, it would be:

(the ever-controversial) Your Addict Has A Right To Drink:
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...ght-drink.html

Don't Be his chick(en):
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-chick-en.html

and The Awakening:
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...awakening.html


but, Let Me Fall is a definite close runner-up:
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...t-me-fall.html

Anyone else care to share their AHA moments/threads?

healthyagain

Definitely the one with the pecking chicken. Thanks for reminding me!

firebolt

Oh man - all that you posted were AHA's to me as well.

I can add this one - When does the pain stop?:

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...pain-stop.html

It hit me like a lightning bolt - and I went from "Why do they do this to me" to
WHY DO I DO THIS TO ME?!

Praying

You know you've been in an alcoholic relationship too long when AHA thread makes your brain say...

Alcoholic husband what?

Took me forever to realize it was just AHA!!!

DesertEyes

Oh good, I'm not the only one who read it that way!!

Mike

Liveitwell

^ me too!! Took way too long for me to figure out

mylifeismine

For too long, I was very "nostalgic", but I am working
my recovery. This was an AHA for me:


Imagining the Future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. John Green

Seren

Well, I thought it was Alph-Hydroxy Acid but what do I know

There was a thread, and I can't find it right now, that talked about things alcoholics say. Although everyone is unique in some way, certain excuses, deflections, and arguments among active alcoholics are amazingly similar. That was sort of my "a-ha!" moment in better understanding alcoholism.

Liveitwell

Honestly? So many have been helpful-I can't pick just one. However, the Quackers thread is one that gave me some laughs and relief that I desperately needed and made me feel I was so not alone in the crazy....bc I identified with almost everything written there-have heard it all!

mylifeismine

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...feel-like.html

This is one I wondered to while reading some of the great ones previouslyposted. Thanks to OP for this thread, I am often
amazed and at times speechless at the moving and heartfelt
sharing of feelings, thoughtsand experiences by members.
This is a healing place, and you don't have
to spend thousands of hours and dollars and years in counseling to understand.

FireSprite

OMGosh, you guys! That NEVER occurred to me. I guess it should be edited to read "AHA" or Aha!?



I don't remember ever reading this thread; it was a really good one! It reminded me of this one, from a couple of years ago:

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...ast-straw.html

Thank you!!

Bluebirds

Absolutely this one on potential, this made a big difference to my life

(add in the www it wouldnt let me post a direct link)

soberrecovery.com/forums/friends-family-alcoholics/104428-potential.html

Bluebirds

Me too- 'the pain stops when you are ready' well I was more than ready and after reading this I began moving forward!

mylifeismine

FS,
Wow, that thread "last straw" is so very powerful, so much
piercing truth, many made me gasp and tearful.

Reading their stories helps me to make sense of my own,
and for that, I give thanks every time I'm on here.
Thank you!

wanttobehealthy

The quaking thread was always funny/tragic but offered a lot of support to me in that I could easily see, how similar and messed up the lines were of my xAH that I used to allow to isolate, scare, upset me...

Knowledge is power right?

So being aware of the patterns of the alcoholic mind/game playing really helped me tremendously

Liveitwell

^ yes. It truly helped me see with eyes wide open and made me realize my ex was not unique at all-he was just an addict trying to do anything but point the finger at himself and his choice to keep on drinking.