FishnHippy

Day 15 here in the Carolina's sign me up for 24 more..

BuddinK

Yesterday ended up well! I think I'll do it again, 24 more in Key West.

Renarde

Me too! Day 100 today!

deeker

Hi There Everyone!! So Glad you made the 24 Hour Club a part of your day! If you are new
please join us in a simple commitment to stay clean and sober for the next 24 hours!

C'MON you can do it!

We all can! Just post your local time and commit!



Welcome To Our Newest Members-cheeky1 - Stang - Macs1978 - Beanie25 -hiddenzebra - AdmimalBlueEyes -
alcoholicbarry- MEONTHEMEND -liss74

Congratulations!!

malcolmsloan 1 week!
hiddenzebra 1 week!
gramphil 1 week!
NewLeaf 1 week!
Goose 3 weeks!
Vedette 4 weeks!
VioletMae 4 weeks!
DaneK 1 month!
shay17 2 months!
Renarde 100 days!

If I missed your special goal my apologies,please send me a pm.




Roster will be posted 13 hours from now at 10 pm EST USA 12/5.



I Do Have A Choice

I hope I never forget the way I felt in the last days of my drinking. I was so sickly.
I had no energy. I was sleeping all the time between drinking. I had so much remorse I
don't think my brain could even contain it anymore. I became numb.

I had done so much I was ashamed of. The drinking and drugging just was not working
near the end. I could never get drunk enough. I could never reach that place I had when
I was younger starting out.

How many days I woke up puking my guts out and picking it up again a few hrs later.

I remember sitting in jail those times and just being in a fog and thinking to myself I am a
worthless piece of crap and I fit in here just perfectly. This is where I belong.

Being alone with those desperate thoughts and feeling so scared when I knew I was
getting out of jail, only to have to make that choice again to drink or not.

I didn't have a choice. At Least I didn't think so.I wanted to die, I thought everyone
would be better off without me.

All I was doing was taking up space on this earth. I was a complete waste of a human being
and I was so stuck.

But I did have a choice but my choice was going to require some action. I couldn't just wish
myself clean and sober.

I began taking the suggestions of others who were staying clean and sober.

AA/NA meetings. 90 meetings in 90 days was suggested. I went to 230. I wasn't
happy about it but I did it.

I quit trying to run the show myself and opened up my mind to a new way. My way was
not working. My thinking was messed up!

I got a sponsor, called her everyday, worked steps with her, prayed,and got involved
in service.

Then I started chairing AA meetings Online. Then I started the 24 hour club. Then I
started speaking at detox once a week.

It didn't happen over night. I took baby steps and when I continued to do the next right
thing, the next right thing began to happen.

I got unstuck and service made me feel pretty good about myself. Hope returned big time.
I began to smile once in awhile.

Then I began to learn and then I began to change and then I began to forgive myself and
then I began to laugh.

And I am still so early on this journey. But when I stopped fighting what I needed to do
and just did it, my life got better.

And it continues to when I get the heck out of the way and just do what is suggested.
I have switched up a few things in recovery now, 2 NA meetings a week, A Celebrate
recovery meeting a week, Church on Sunday. And the 24 hour club. It works for me.

How about you? Are you finding recovery or fighting it? Your path may be different.

Compared to that life I lived , it's a whole lot easier than you think.

We can't change the past but the future is unwritten. It's up to us.

* Song For The Day-When You Wish Upon A Star!





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James18

Another 24 hours please. Day 3 tomorrow...

LindaLou

I'm in for another 24. 6:25 pm in NY.

huntingtontx

Late again, it is 5:49 pm here in Texas. I am in for another 24 please.

Emily2002

Thought about a drink just moments ago, but coming on here to commit to another 24 so I don't give in! Sign me up. 6:56 in Philadelphia.

Pedro1234

10.54 am here in Australia. Another 24 hours please. I dont have computer access over the weekend so 24 for Saturday and 24 for Sunday in advance please Have a great day and a better weekend

ChrissieB

24 more hours for me thank you x

jdooner

24 pls

Bird800

Here for 24 sober hours at 6:30 pm MST.

TempeBrenn

In for 24 at 8:29 pm. As others have said, your post hit home Deek. Thanks.
I think you sent me a PM or two over a year ago... I wasn't ready to commit. Thank you for not giving up.
Blessings and hugs to you, Venuscat and kitty, and all in the Club.

Zencat

24 of no drinking.

Correy

5:49 PM PT

Here for another 24 sober hours.

Those small, daily commitments are the coolest idea ever :

LiaAc

In a bit late but still here and still kicking. 8:10PM central.

We're in for some bad winter weather in the south. I'm keeping all my fellow Arkansans in my prayers tonight.

Goat

Goat's here!

George3334

Another 24, please.... Sobriety rocks!
9:44 p.m. EST

deeker

Hi There Everyone! The weekend is here! So glad you stopped into the 24 Hour Club. Won't you
please join us today in a simple promise to stay clean and sober for the next 24 Hours? Let's
not disappoint ourselves or our families and do the right thing.

Just post your local time and commit!

Please sign in just once daily on this thread as this is a list that will make up our final roster at
the end of this 24 hours. Thank You!



Welcome to Our Newest Members-Beanie25 - hiddenzebra - AdmimalBlueEyes -
alcoholicbarry- MEONTHEMEND -liss74 -newme2day

Congratulations!!

Alysheba 1 week!
Cascabel 2 weeks!
kellbell123 4 weeks!
Bird800 3 weeks!
Levitz 6 months!
Bubovski 7 months!

If I missed anyone, my apologies please send me a pm and also any corrections or updates.

If you slipped Pleeeease just come back and start over.



All these commited folks signed in over the last 24 hours since 10 pm EST USA 12/4.
This list is now closed.

Thanks venuscat for Today's Roster!

Addi
AG2013
alcoholicbarry
Avra
BarbieKen
Bird800
BuddinK
calico
Carlotta
Cascabel
ChrisBen
ChrissieB
Coldfusion
Correy
DaneK
deeker
Elseware
erfra7
FishnHippy
Fishy
free2Bsober13
George3334
Gilmer
Goat
Goose1
HDrosebud
hiddenzebra
Humbug
huntingtonx
IWLSAST
James18
jat14
jdooner
joshlyman
kadidee
kellbell123
Kizzer49
Levitz
LiaAc
LindaLou
liss74
lommey
Lostmyoffswitch
Macs1978
misshelena
Neverthought
NewLeaf
newme2day
Pedro1234
Renarde
Ruby2
Serenitatem
shay17
Siesta
SnoozyQ
soberhawk
Takoda
TempeBrenn
Tetra
tgirl
tootsl1
trail257
trudgingagain
Vandermast
venuscat
VioletMae
wehav2day
wiscsober
youngcatlady
yukonm
zeppodog
Zencat

Everyone may begin signing in again for the next 24 hours. Roster will be posted 24 hours
from now at 10 pm EST USA 12/6. Google USA Eastern Standard Time to see how
your local time translates.



Children

You know there are some children in this world who do not receive the love and
encouragement they so richly deserve. Maybe that is why they turn to alcohol
and drugs. Maybe we were one of them.

Or maybe we have not given our own children the love and encouragement they
need to be fully whole because we have been to busy drinking and or drugging.

We may think we are functional and still were good parents even when using,
but the truth is that we are emotionally unavailable when we are drinking and or
drugging around our children.

I know I was. The last 7 years of my drinking. I was asleep when my son came
home from school, my husband got him up in the morning and off to school.
and I never ate dinner with them as a family.

My addiction made me a very selfish person and I was unaware of the emotional
damage I was doing to my boy.

We obviously can not change our past but we may still have time to change
our children's future and reinforce our love for them.

Dear Child written by -Kelly Rae Roberts-

I promise to come alive when you enter the room. I want you to feel celebrated
and loved.

I promise to create, play and sing with you. Creative abandon will be valued.

I promise to teach you about how to be brave in sadness, brave in love. There
will be fear, pain, joy and love. I will be with you side by side to guide you through it all.

I promise to show up, to be present, to be truly engaged when we're together. I want
you to feel seen and heard.

I promise to practice gratitude with you so that we can feel joy and abundance
in all things.

I promise to provide a safe nurturing home where you have full permission to be
who you are.

May our spirits be connected always. May you always know how deeply loved, how
your life shines brightly and how your heart is never alone.

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I hope to never take my son for granted again for he is a precious gift from above!!

If we have kids today, let's give them the parents they so richly deserve and
the life they so deserve. One without fear and uncertainty.

How do we do that? We pledge not to drink or drug for the next 24 Hours. You in?

* Touching Song/Video For The day-Tom's Beautiful Boy --The Courtship of Eddie's Father





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hiddenzebra

I'm totally in. Ready for 24 more 21:13