SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information - The 24 Hour Club Sign Up Sheet, Part 33, All Are Welcome!

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Hi There Everyone! Good to be here and grateful for you all. Please join us
today if you are new, if you have been around awhile, if you are just lurking
and especially if you are coming back.

Let's make that commitment to stay clean and sober for the next 24 Hours No
Matter What!

Just post your local time and you are in!

Please post once daily on this thread as this is mainly a sign up sheet that will
make up our final roster. Thanks Everyone!

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Welcome To Our Newest Members-
MetalMatt - dj72075 - tam2014 - Chrissy2014 - safe2breathe -peacefulfreedom -
shadesofgray - Stomper -theboysmama - newhope01 - Zoe12-

Congratulations!

BoozeFree 1 week!
Nancy2014 1 month!
Levitz 7 months!
Bubovski 8 months!

If I missed your special day, my apologies. Please send me a pm with your
clean/sober date. Also any updates and corrections. If you slipped just get
honest and start over , we know this is not easy. Please do not give up! TY

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Roster will be posted 14 Hours 23 min from now at 10 pm EST USA 1/6.

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I lived in a Bubble

Shame was the most difficult emotion I dealt with when I was out there and when
I began recovery.

I wanted to look good to others even when I started recovery. I wore a mask. I
didn't want anyone to think there was more wrong with me than just the drinking
and drugging.

It was that ugly thing called pride. My thinking was "Maybe I drank and drugged to
much but I was a good person."

But I wasn't the very best person, I was selfish and self centered, and all I cared
about was myself and how I could get my hands on that drink or drug. And I
put my using before my husband, my son, holding a job, contributing to the
household finances etc.

I tried so hard focusing on controlling my feelings and emotions so other people
wouldn't get to know me in early recovery.

If I cried or got angry they might discover the shame and ugliness I was trying to
hide. It kept me in a cycle of fear and emotional isolation. I lived in a bubble.

I didn't want to believe there was more wrong with me than just the act of drinking
and using.

But if I am to get well I need other people to keep me honest and to help me see
what I cannot see about myself. I need to stop keeping secrets and tell on myself often.

Honest feedback is one of our best hopes for initiating change.

It is very easy to see problems in others and not see them in myself. But a trusted
friend in recovery who understands addiction can give us an honest critique and help
us to see what others see in us but we may not see in ourselves.

Are we living in a bubble today?

*Song For The Day -Let It Be Me - Ray LaMontagne

Prayers for Heartfan82 and for her son for healing.

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If unable to find this 24 hour Thread in the future, Click on Search near top of page and
type in Newcomer Daily Support Threads and click GO! This is Part 33.God Bless!