TOPIC: Accept * Begin * Continue
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
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TOPIC: Accept * Begin * Continue
Hi Im Sharon and Im an Alcoholic.
By the grace of my HP and people
like you here in SR I havent found
it necessary to pick up another
drink of Alcohol since 8-11-90.
For that and you I am truely
grateful.
Did you know that for every
recovery day from drinking or
using it begins with one sober
hour?
Just one hour at a time.
In other words ....not drinking
or using at all....means staying
clean or sober....it then becomes
the foundation of recovery.
Living sober turns out to be
not at all grim, boring, and
uncomfortable, as we had feared,
but rather something we begin to
enjoy and find much more exciting
than our drinking or using days.
Come follow the many before
us to show you how.
By the grace of my HP and people
like you here in SR I havent found
it necessary to pick up another
drink of Alcohol since 8-11-90.
For that and you I am truely
grateful.
Did you know that for every
recovery day from drinking or
using it begins with one sober
hour?
Just one hour at a time.
In other words ....not drinking
or using at all....means staying
clean or sober....it then becomes
the foundation of recovery.
Living sober turns out to be not at all grim, boring, and
uncomfortable, as we had feared,
but rather something we begin to
enjoy and find much more exciting
than our drinking or using days.
Come follow the many beforeus to show you how.
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: canada
Posts: 84
that's inspiring. I too am on my way to quiting. I want it finally, I just need a plan. I am going to start seeing a therapist to help me deal with issues the way other people can rather than turning to the bottle. It's like I don't even know life without it, how to have evening after evening without a drink... I'll have so much time on my hands!!
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: uk
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Welcome mayson28, im only on day 8,after a lot of re,lapses, but is right,a lot of time on yer hands to fill constructively,taking up new hobbies,an things you have wanted to do,but been held back by drunkeness, and cant be a@@ed attitudes/moods, plenty of support here, its hard..but then nothin worth havin is ever easy..
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Mississippi
Posts: 7,910
thanks, aasharon and congrats on your sobriety. An amazing accomplishment! I really like this part, too: Good for us newcomers to hear!
....not at all grim, boring, and uncomfortable, as we had feared....
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: canada
Posts: 84
Thanks, Congrat on Day 8!!
I imagine it's quite freeing. Not being stuck at home because you can't drive after drinking. Not waking in the middle of the night on the couch wondering how my evening ended -(what was I watching on tv anyhow? Can't remember...), making sure I drink enough water during the night so I can wake up less hungover, wondering if I did anything stupid while out with the neighbours, planning to have enough vodka to last through the holidays when the liquor store is closed, making sure I hide the bottles well, and dispose of them secretly, not feeling so tired and crappy, no more puffy eyes, worrying about my health and being around for my kids, OMG so many things eh??
I imagine it's quite freeing. Not being stuck at home because you can't drive after drinking. Not waking in the middle of the night on the couch wondering how my evening ended -(what was I watching on tv anyhow? Can't remember...), making sure I drink enough water during the night so I can wake up less hungover, wondering if I did anything stupid while out with the neighbours, planning to have enough vodka to last through the holidays when the liquor store is closed, making sure I hide the bottles well, and dispose of them secretly, not feeling so tired and crappy, no more puffy eyes, worrying about my health and being around for my kids, OMG so many things eh??
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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accept begin continue
Thank you like your post. I am back here again starting over, again! I think that this time is going to be the sticker... I know that the reason I drink is to self medicate. Which probably why most people drink. To be able to sleep and forget about your demons even if one of those demons is alcohol. I have stopped before years ago but the drinking I do now is the worst it has ever been and that is because the pain, hurt, anger, frustration and losses I have experienced over the past 5 years is the worst. I have lost a lot of my support system when my best friend of almost 40 yrs past away from lung cancer. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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Location: Baton Rouge, La.
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We do drink or drug to numb or
block out past and present demons.
We drink or drug for also sorts
of reasons, but do those reasons
ever resolve by themselves. Na.
For every reason, problem, excuse
there is a solution.
Its hard to face these problems
head on because we are afraid
of what may happen to us.
What will people say or think of
us.
Recovery is an awesome place
to rid of all those problems,
demons because we all have
experienced similar situations
just like u.
No where else can a group of
people join and not judge, point
a finger or laugh at us.
They may laugh with us...lol
but surely not at us.
Most all of us begin recovery
as a full bloomed "onion" with
many many layers or skin.
As we begin to share about our
demons and problems, we slowly
begin to lose a layer.
All those dead layers will fall
away to expose the beautiful
person within. YOU.
Before u know it u will know a
new freedom like no other.
Today, i cant exactly tell you
how free I feel without a huge
boulder i had weighing heavy
on my shoulders fo so long.
Unless u can imagine a butterfly
spreading its beautiful wings
flying so freely around.
That can be u.
block out past and present demons.
We drink or drug for also sorts
of reasons, but do those reasons
ever resolve by themselves. Na.
For every reason, problem, excuse
there is a solution.
Its hard to face these problems
head on because we are afraid
of what may happen to us.
What will people say or think of
us.
Recovery is an awesome place
to rid of all those problems,
demons because we all have
experienced similar situations
just like u.
No where else can a group of
people join and not judge, point
a finger or laugh at us.
They may laugh with us...lol
but surely not at us.
Most all of us begin recovery
as a full bloomed "onion" with
many many layers or skin.
As we begin to share about our
demons and problems, we slowly
begin to lose a layer.
All those dead layers will fall
away to expose the beautiful
person within. YOU.
Before u know it u will know a
new freedom like no other.
Today, i cant exactly tell you
how free I feel without a huge
boulder i had weighing heavy
on my shoulders fo so long.
Unless u can imagine a butterfly
spreading its beautiful wings
flying so freely around.
That can be u.
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