September Sobriety Group
Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 77
I woke up with a clear head and never regret this feeling. One day at a time. It is weird in the big book when they talk about having an allergy to alcohol, because every time i drink my whole body breaks out in a rash and the rashes are getting worse. I am really allergic.
Being Me for the first time
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Wishek, North Dakota
Posts: 1,160
Hi EVERYONE...... Im homeeeee .. we had a really nice time got my 6yr coin was fantastic , will share on the weekend later ,, trying to read all the posts ive missed ive missed yah all .. good to be home ! huggles ~ Endzy~
Galatians 5:13
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Tampa Bay
Posts: 329
Hi. September 11 was my start date. Tonight is night 3 - I feel OK, no strong cravings. My drink of choice is wine. I am using the 12 step approach. I am in counseling, but haven't attended AA yet. Plan to this Saturday night and found another one for Monday nights too. I hope I like them and that I am able to get help and feel welcome and comfortable at AA - and hopefully begin to help others.
Good luck everyone in my class. Cheers (with Diet Pepsi of or water course! ;-)!
Good luck everyone in my class. Cheers (with Diet Pepsi of or water course! ;-)!
Member
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 77
Recycle- thanks for your thoughts! I'm with you...I don't want to make this big announcement to everyone, yet I don't want to make up lies either. My plan is to down play it and just say "I'm giving my liver a rest for a while." Thankfully, my mom didn't even want a drink today, so I dodged that bullet and had a great day with her!
Thanks for your comment Anna!
Welcome back Endzoner...can't wait to here about your weekend.
Welcome to the group Tammy! Glad you are here. I need to find an AA group sooner or later too...but for now SR is really working great for me!
Thanks for your comment Anna!
Welcome back Endzoner...can't wait to here about your weekend.
Welcome to the group Tammy! Glad you are here. I need to find an AA group sooner or later too...but for now SR is really working great for me!
Glad you had a good weekend, Zoner
We Do Recover
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,619
Today is day 1. I did get a sponsor today and we will be going through the 12 steps together. I messed up yesterday, but I haven't given up on recovery. It just seems so much harder trying to sober up now as compared to last year. Today I decided to reach out and ask for help. I have been suffering silently in the rooms for awhile now--consistently making meetings and coming here too--but I need more to help me get through. I know the 12 steps work. They worked for me before. I just felt too ashamed I guess, or maybe tried to rely on what I had learned from last time to get me through again this time. The support from the group was amazing today...just wanted to share with you all where I am at right now in my recovery.
Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: BoulderCo
Posts: 111
I'd like to join in here. I've got 4 days. I'm having a horrible time with the withdrawals. But I'm managing. Coming down from the amount of stimulants I was doing. I havn't had the energy to stay awake for more than an hour or two at a time. It is getting better. The mental cravings are worse. Once I have more energy I'm going to go to NA. I've got the schedule and I told myself that I'm going for sure on Wednesday.
aka Glenna :)
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Jupiter, Florida
Posts: 280
Day 11 for me (woo hoo).
Last night's meeting was great. It was a step meeting where everyone read, but only those people having completed the steps were encouraged to share. It was called a "solution-based meeting" rather than problem based, and it was really inspirational. My sponsor was there, and she got choked up speaking about the Twelfth Step and helping others, very touching to see and reminding me how blessed I am to have her.
Before the meeting, I was talking with one of the women that I have gotten to know in the last few weeks, a very sweet young lady who I have stayed in close contact with. We were talking, and all of a sudden she said, "Wow, you look so beautiful! You are glowing and your eyes are so bright." I was kind of embarrassed, but she was so sincere and seemed so amazed. She saw me the night I got my white chip, when I had walked in there like a zombie and looked half dead. It was really nice that she said that, like my sobriety and baby steps of healing were apparent on my face.
Last night's meeting was great. It was a step meeting where everyone read, but only those people having completed the steps were encouraged to share. It was called a "solution-based meeting" rather than problem based, and it was really inspirational. My sponsor was there, and she got choked up speaking about the Twelfth Step and helping others, very touching to see and reminding me how blessed I am to have her.
Before the meeting, I was talking with one of the women that I have gotten to know in the last few weeks, a very sweet young lady who I have stayed in close contact with. We were talking, and all of a sudden she said, "Wow, you look so beautiful! You are glowing and your eyes are so bright." I was kind of embarrassed, but she was so sincere and seemed so amazed. She saw me the night I got my white chip, when I had walked in there like a zombie and looked half dead. It was really nice that she said that, like my sobriety and baby steps of healing were apparent on my face.
Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 68
Made it though the weekend with no problems. I ended up skipping a charity event I was supposed to go to because I would have been pouring beer all night. A little too risky I think.
Day 15 today.. still feeling great and damn I look a hell of a lot better.
Day 15 today.. still feeling great and damn I look a hell of a lot better.
Journey of Recovery
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Posts: 621
Was a good quiet weekend. Was nice in that our roommate that drinks didn't encroach on me with her drunkenness. Went to a speaker meeting on Saturday. I'd like to welcome Tammy and Cherry to SR and to the Sept. thread. Good place to be. Congrats to Endzoner on 6 yrs and Cath on 11 days. Shows me that this works. Angelina, thanks for sharing your ESH.
Thanks for being here.
Thanks for being here.
Being Me for the first time
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Wishek, North Dakota
Posts: 1,160
Hey Hey Hey all my fellow Sept class mates .. We made it home unskathed and had a really nice time in the hills of South Dakota . tho its could of waited to rain till AFTER we left , but ooh well we still managed to get some 4 wheeler riding in , was a fab view from 7000 ft up . now thats what I call getting high ! no drugs/booze needed .. just hikin up the make shift stone steps was enuff to make me dizzy .
We arrived on thur, which was perfect and planned out, I was makin my AA home group meeting in Deadwood SD . ( yes the place that wild bill and clamity jane were killed ) .
What a wonderful meeting .... seen some new faces and some old faces . It wasnt chip nite but they make an acception for me being I came 350 plus miles to get my coin . and have always concidered that my home group even if im not living there .
I'm very much known at the meeting for the quiet one , im more of a listener then a talker , But when you get a coin your sposed to share , And I do .. and did for several minutes bout how my life was prior to now and pretty much what i shared on here on 9/08. after the meeting was over with one of the regs. approcahed me and said how proud they were of me not only for getting my 6 yrs , but sharing as like i said im the quiet one ..
There was a woman in the meeting that asked a question of how does one forgive another , she shared that tho her addiction was of her own doing there were other partys who had a hand in creating who she had become , and had since moved away from these ppl and been in recovery over a yr , but found it hard to fogive this person ,
I for one can relate to this question , how do we forgive someone that its almost if not impossible to do so ? Ive ben carrying a hammer for someone for many yrs and its a really hard thing to fogive this person .
Well , a deep voiced man said he too had a sitution like that . and was told from someone this ................ forgiving dont mean what they did was ok , It just allows us to move on and forgive them for what they done , and that we wash our hands of what ever it was ,
I myself have been trying for several yrs to put something behind me .. This mite just be the answer I was seekin . I wont know less i give it a try .. could it be something as simple as that to get past it ? its all in my hands its up to me to forgive , dont mean i have to forget , but least i can move on with my life on something ive been keeping for soooo sooo long .,, hope this can help me and maybe help someone else who's struggling with the same situation ..
Today im greatful for ............. a nice hot shower ( moms wasnt the best ) the ability to work for great people , and make a wondeful diner for my husband . and that I was missed by my bestest pal Stash ( my cat ) ........ more later ~ Endzy ~
We arrived on thur, which was perfect and planned out, I was makin my AA home group meeting in Deadwood SD . ( yes the place that wild bill and clamity jane were killed ) .
What a wonderful meeting .... seen some new faces and some old faces . It wasnt chip nite but they make an acception for me being I came 350 plus miles to get my coin . and have always concidered that my home group even if im not living there .
I'm very much known at the meeting for the quiet one , im more of a listener then a talker , But when you get a coin your sposed to share , And I do .. and did for several minutes bout how my life was prior to now and pretty much what i shared on here on 9/08. after the meeting was over with one of the regs. approcahed me and said how proud they were of me not only for getting my 6 yrs , but sharing as like i said im the quiet one ..
There was a woman in the meeting that asked a question of how does one forgive another , she shared that tho her addiction was of her own doing there were other partys who had a hand in creating who she had become , and had since moved away from these ppl and been in recovery over a yr , but found it hard to fogive this person ,
I for one can relate to this question , how do we forgive someone that its almost if not impossible to do so ? Ive ben carrying a hammer for someone for many yrs and its a really hard thing to fogive this person .
Well , a deep voiced man said he too had a sitution like that . and was told from someone this ................ forgiving dont mean what they did was ok , It just allows us to move on and forgive them for what they done , and that we wash our hands of what ever it was ,
I myself have been trying for several yrs to put something behind me .. This mite just be the answer I was seekin . I wont know less i give it a try .. could it be something as simple as that to get past it ? its all in my hands its up to me to forgive , dont mean i have to forget , but least i can move on with my life on something ive been keeping for soooo sooo long .,, hope this can help me and maybe help someone else who's struggling with the same situation ..
Today im greatful for ............. a nice hot shower ( moms wasnt the best ) the ability to work for great people , and make a wondeful diner for my husband . and that I was missed by my bestest pal Stash ( my cat ) ........ more later ~ Endzy ~
Meow
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: The Great Lakes State
Posts: 1,585
Deadwood, hunh? We were there a year ago. Did a week long trip out that way. We visited on the way out to Yellowstone, then stayed at the Hampton Inn there our last night there before flying home from Rapid City. I liked it, but thought the casinos were a bit too much.
Good luck with the forgiving - it's not easy sometimes.
Good luck with the forgiving - it's not easy sometimes.
Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Bowling Green KY
Posts: 275
Originally Posted by WantToHeal 
I'm in...today is day 7 for me. Hopefully I can provide some support to my classmates, as I'm sure I'll need some. It does feel good to be here, though.
day 7 for me too!!!
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