24-Hour Recovery Connections Part 19
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: New York
Posts: 1,372
In for 24 more, 7:15am on Tuesday. Back to work today and back to the morning rush of getting the kids up, making lunches...doing it hangover free is the best feeling in the world. After causing myself to feel crappy for so long, feeling normal in the morning just never gets old for me, I am grateful for it each and every day.
Living and Loving Life at Last
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: gods own country
Posts: 12,171
Kris your signature ' the path may be difficult but together we are strong' resonates loudly with me today.
I have 19 months sobriety today. I don't often stop to wonder where I would be now if I hadn't stopped drinking when I did. If I hadn't taken a leap of faith. If I hadn't wandered across SR when I did. If I hadn't found the unity here I did.
I am no different to anyone else coming to this site for the first time, I had more day ones than you can shake a stick at.
I tried moderation, I tiried abstinence, I tried ignorance, I tried avoidance. I lied, deceived and manipulated to the point that in self loathing I couldn't meet my eye in a mirror, I feared death, dementia, divorce and disease. Not in any particular order. By the time I came here I was desperate for help and answers.
I found a light that shone too brightly for me to ignore. Too many people in too many ways were telling me their stories which held within them, echoes of my own.
Here, I learned to cry, to laugh, to heal. I learned to begin to like myself, I learned that my past could help others, that nothing I had done was without lesson, if I was brave enough to look and learn.
I learned to trust others with my deep dark secrets, with my pain, with my hate, with my fear.
Here I could be weak and not be judged, just supported.
Here, I could be honest, and through that honesty see myself and my life truly for the first time in a very, very long time.
Here, I could help others, and in helping them, redeem myself, earn my self respect, be able to not just look at the woman in the mirror, but to love her and to like her. To be proud of the person she was becoming.
I have 19 months today, but it began, as everyone's does, with that first 24 hours sober.
So today, I commit to another 24 sober hours, and thank everyone who had helped me in word and deed, some unknowingly.
Thank you for giving me back my life
I have 19 months sobriety today. I don't often stop to wonder where I would be now if I hadn't stopped drinking when I did. If I hadn't taken a leap of faith. If I hadn't wandered across SR when I did. If I hadn't found the unity here I did.
I am no different to anyone else coming to this site for the first time, I had more day ones than you can shake a stick at.
I tried moderation, I tiried abstinence, I tried ignorance, I tried avoidance. I lied, deceived and manipulated to the point that in self loathing I couldn't meet my eye in a mirror, I feared death, dementia, divorce and disease. Not in any particular order. By the time I came here I was desperate for help and answers.
I found a light that shone too brightly for me to ignore. Too many people in too many ways were telling me their stories which held within them, echoes of my own.
Here, I learned to cry, to laugh, to heal. I learned to begin to like myself, I learned that my past could help others, that nothing I had done was without lesson, if I was brave enough to look and learn.
I learned to trust others with my deep dark secrets, with my pain, with my hate, with my fear.
Here I could be weak and not be judged, just supported.
Here, I could be honest, and through that honesty see myself and my life truly for the first time in a very, very long time.
Here, I could help others, and in helping them, redeem myself, earn my self respect, be able to not just look at the woman in the mirror, but to love her and to like her. To be proud of the person she was becoming.
I have 19 months today, but it began, as everyone's does, with that first 24 hours sober.
So today, I commit to another 24 sober hours, and thank everyone who had helped me in word and deed, some unknowingly.
Thank you for giving me back my life
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Ashburn, VA
Posts: 30,196
Originally Posted by courage2 
Whether your voyage has been one that took you over the edge of the flat earth only to find it was round, like Columbus, or that seemed to trap you in harsh and frozen places, like Frobisher, you’re on your way home, now.
[I]May we all find safe landing here again tomorrow!
[I]May we all find safe landing here again tomorrow!
Checking in at 7:53 am Virginia time.
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Northern Michigan
Posts: 28,801
Toots, WAY to GO Sister!
19 months is awesome! You are awesome. God is awesome.
We have one life to live and let us be worthy in it!
You are doing yourself proud.
Top dog....................
WE WALK TOGETHER TODAY!
19 months is awesome! You are awesome. God is awesome.
We have one life to live and let us be worthy in it!
You are doing yourself proud.
Top dog....................
WE WALK TOGETHER TODAY!
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: East Coast of US
Posts: 904
I need another 24 bad! 8:40 in Florida.
Going thru some life struggles now with my boyfriend ending things after 4 years. I would normally drink my sadness away but not this time. I want to be sober for ME.
I need some major strength to make it thru this one!
Day 14!
Going thru some life struggles now with my boyfriend ending things after 4 years. I would normally drink my sadness away but not this time. I want to be sober for ME.
I need some major strength to make it thru this one!
Day 14!
Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: New England
Posts: 4,423
Busy day in Anniversary Land:
Kris47
9 months!
tootsl1
1 year, 7 months!
Beanie25
1 year, 10 months!
Hevyn
6 years, 9 months!
Many awesome words of impressiveness and gratitude to all of our milestoners today- whether it be days, weeks, months or years. It all starts with the first day- and we see that on this thread. Thanks to Courage2 today, for keeping track of us all.
Kris47
9 months!
tootsl1
1 year, 7 months!
Beanie25
1 year, 10 months!
Hevyn
6 years, 9 months!
Many awesome words of impressiveness and gratitude to all of our milestoners today- whether it be days, weeks, months or years. It all starts with the first day- and we see that on this thread. Thanks to Courage2 today, for keeping track of us all.
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