Class of September 2015 Part 5
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Join Date: Apr 2015
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Hey folks. Just snooping to see how ya'll are hanging in there. I must say...you're looking good!
3wolves...congrats for quitting MJ. I know that's not too easy to come off either if you were a daily smoker. They say MJ is non addictive. The reality is that if we consume something that effects physical and mental state every single day, of course the body is going to adjust and seek balance.
Keep up the great works September! Congrats on the milestones!
3wolves...congrats for quitting MJ. I know that's not too easy to come off either if you were a daily smoker. They say MJ is non addictive. The reality is that if we consume something that effects physical and mental state every single day, of course the body is going to adjust and seek balance.
Keep up the great works September! Congrats on the milestones!
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Well done 3wolves!
Plugging along over here this week. Felt really, really good this afternoon. Not so much in the morning, but later, yeah. It's amazing how you can start the day out feeling one way then end it another.
Best wishes all.
Plugging along over here this week. Felt really, really good this afternoon. Not so much in the morning, but later, yeah. It's amazing how you can start the day out feeling one way then end it another.
Best wishes all.
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Texas
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Moments before I walked into the attorney's office, I would have drank if it had been available. I'm not proud of that statement. Mr3 was fabulous....holding onto my hands. Knowing my thought, winking at me. He's a good man. I'm not in trouble. Crisis has been averted, but it was a crisis that could have been avoided had I not been drunk the last four years. Thank God I'm sober....and then I get angry that earlier I thought a drink would help. It's done, I can relax and enjoy the quiet house.
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it's actually pretty common for guys and gals like us to think of a drink in times of stress.
Addiction is primal and visceral...it's all instinctual response, all Id.
We can't help our thoughts, but we can absolutely manage our response, and you did great, 3 wolves.
(That instinctual response will die away, btw - in time
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Addiction is primal and visceral...it's all instinctual response, all Id.
We can't help our thoughts, but we can absolutely manage our response, and you did great, 3 wolves.
(That instinctual response will die away, btw - in time
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You're not shackled to not drinking, you're free from drinking
Join Date: Oct 2015
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Way to go 3wolves. Isn't it ironic that the thing that can do the most harm we crave the most? We're so fortunate to be working on getting that out of our lives.
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Join Date: Feb 2015
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Ahh Dee, I like the winkie!!! I feel so FREAKING free right now. 2 weeks of internal chaos, guilt and fear were resolved yesterday at the lawyers.
The story....
We bought our house owner finance, paid it off just before our grandson died. Well, it was never put in our name. Taxes weren't paid, we weren't ever notified....of any of it. My daughter went to work in real estate, part of using the new program, was researching tax files on addresses. She called me, mom there's a judgement on your house for unpaid taxes. I contact the lady we bought it from. Oops she says. Tells me she went to the attorney's office and made payment arrangements, I would have a contract on 12/11/15. When I told daughter this, she says that's not right, did some research. Found out that if this hadn't been taken care of by 12/10 we would have been served notice to vacate. Anyways, we were able to repair it. Down payment made, doable monthly payments.
I take responsibility in this. I know that had I been "here and present", I would have known something was amiss.
Yeah, free as a hummingbird right now.
Happy to be sober.
Thank you for kinship in this journey.
The story....
We bought our house owner finance, paid it off just before our grandson died. Well, it was never put in our name. Taxes weren't paid, we weren't ever notified....of any of it. My daughter went to work in real estate, part of using the new program, was researching tax files on addresses. She called me, mom there's a judgement on your house for unpaid taxes. I contact the lady we bought it from. Oops she says. Tells me she went to the attorney's office and made payment arrangements, I would have a contract on 12/11/15. When I told daughter this, she says that's not right, did some research. Found out that if this hadn't been taken care of by 12/10 we would have been served notice to vacate. Anyways, we were able to repair it. Down payment made, doable monthly payments.
I take responsibility in this. I know that had I been "here and present", I would have known something was amiss.
Yeah, free as a hummingbird right now.
Happy to be sober.
Thank you for kinship in this journey.
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Ky
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Heya Arbor ((hug))!
Been crawling through the trenches of this thing called recovery. It's been tough but I'm in there not giving up. Hope you're doing well!
Hope everyone has a calm and peaceful Sunday (hug)!
Been crawling through the trenches of this thing called recovery. It's been tough but I'm in there not giving up. Hope you're doing well!
Hope everyone has a calm and peaceful Sunday (hug)!
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Join Date: Feb 2015
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You're right Dee, definite benefit of recovery. The hardest part is acknowledging why I've been drunk....this stuff hurts...emotionally, mentally....I have to heal. Four years later and a certain song can bring me to my knees. How do you recover from losing a grand? His Mom is still in grief therapy. Big sigh.....
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I'm not a grandfather so I honestly don't know how you recover from that 3wolves...but I know we can't let our grief consume us.
Life goes on, and you have other grandbabies that need you...like Arbor says beating yourself up over and over again for things you cannot change is futile...it's wasted energy.
You have years ahead of you, don't miss them because you're looking the other way.
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Life goes on, and you have other grandbabies that need you...like Arbor says beating yourself up over and over again for things you cannot change is futile...it's wasted energy.
You have years ahead of you, don't miss them because you're looking the other way.
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