Lets celebrate everyone's clean time today
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,947
Today is DAY 4 for me. I am learning how to live without letting the pain from unjcomfortable feelings, particularly lonliness, control my thoughts to make the decision to use. I am letting the pain exist within me. I am choosing to let me exist...as best I can. sometimes i fight it. but fighting it makes it worse. I will keep practicing. I will get this. I want to live a life of my dreams, whatever the dream turns out to be.
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 700
Congrats to everybody !!
Calculated from this site.. The Sobriety Calculator - To The Second!
8172 days 15 hours 48 min
706117755 sober heartbeats
The secret..
Don't Drink, AA Meetings, Read the Big Book, Stay in Contact with Sponsor
Calculated from this site.. The Sobriety Calculator - To The Second!
8172 days 15 hours 48 min
706117755 sober heartbeats
The secret..
Don't Drink, AA Meetings, Read the Big Book, Stay in Contact with Sponsor
"Welcome To The Future..."
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: WV
Posts: 224
Thanks for this incredible post Chi!!!!
I was just getting ready to post a thread of my own to celebrate my surrender date!
Today, 6/20/08, makes 90 days since I surrendered to the fact that I could not go on living if I were to continue down the path of living off of opiates!!
Most people celebrate a "clean" date, but of course I love to be just a little different! Since I'm currently on suboxone, I don't feel like I should have a sober date persay. However, my surrender date means so much more to me because it was on that day at one particular moment in my life, that I knew I had to change. It's also the day I found SR.com and the most wonderful friends I could ever expect to encounter during this lifetime.
Thanks to all who have supported me on the bad days, the good days, the scary days, and last but not least the glorious days!!!! Keep up the good work everyone! I bow to those who have months and years away from what I ever expected to achieve. But seeing those that have made it, keeps me humble and allows me to believe that someday that will be me!!!
Much love to you all!
butterfly19 (SP)
"No man is a failure, as long as he has friends"
quote from "It's A Wonderful Life"
Whether you deserve a smooch or a smack, you're friends will always be there!
Today's Muse
Join Date: May 2007
Location: West end
Posts: 1,081
I know some people don't like to count days, but I do quietly acknowledge to myself and reflect when my sober date rolls around each month. It means the world to me. There was a day I thought I would never be able to quit drinking. Thank God for a solution. I've now been sober 4 years. I'm still amazed by it all.
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: California
Posts: 358
Yeah! 47 days since I handed it over to my higher power. I agree with the advice given above: Go to AA meetings. Meet with a sponsor. Don't take the first drink... And... be willing, humble, and honest.
Wa-cha!!!!
Wa-cha!!!!
Attitude of Gratitude
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Posts: 2,305
What a wonderful thread! I think we all should celebrate each and every day that we have been given.
For those who don't have a lot of time built up, don't downplay your clean time . . . you are no less of a miracle than someone with 25 years!
I have 1062 days . . . 35 months . . . as long as I don't pick up, keep in close contact with my Higher Power, continue to go to meetings, work the Steps on a daily basis and practice honesty, open mindedness and willingness, I will have three years next month.
God Bless & Thank God . . . One Day at A Time . . .Just for Today,
Judy
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