Our Horselover has Two Years!!
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: NY
Posts: 6,608
This is a present that is beyond words to me. Thanks to everyone here because you are what keeps me on this path. I log on here with the intent of helping others, but then there's a post or two that reminds me just why I started this journey and from where I came from and how fast I could return if I let my guard down. I NEED you all!!
Thank you all because whether we have 1 day or 2 years you definitely have a lot to give to someone that is trying to change their life. I love this site and I owe it big time for making my life 110 percent better then it was. Change can happen and if, I, a woman in her 40s that drank daily for as long as she can remember can become sober then ANYONE can! Can't emphasize that point enough.
Thanks Hevyn for starting this thread. You are such a dear friend and have stuck with me throughout this. I'm very blessed to have met such wonderful people here. Everyone is important to me, but there are those that have been with me for at least the last year if not the two years and I owe them big time. Jules, that I'm sure visits from time to time, but doesn't post much anymore, was very instrumental in helping me. Dee, you all know, is an amazing and wise friend that has helped me and especially in the beginning when my emotions were all over the place. Rusty that has become my mentor around this place. He shows me true sobriety living and of course, Hevyn, that is a friend that goes beyond cyber world. She is full of compassion and is just amazing. Very blessed to call all these people my friends. Jomey, is somewhere around and has been through her own trials this year, but still finds time for her friends and is such a devout Christian. She inspires me with her strong, deep faith.
Impurrfect and I just came to correspond through pms and she is one amazing person. I think she has had her share of trials and then some, but she has remained clean and that there is a testimony of being able to handle life without drugs or alcohol. Key word is handle life. Never before did I handle things. Always dove into the wine and shut my eyes to it.
Neo is an integral part to SR and he hasn't been on as long as some, but he's become the backbone. His threads inspire and challenge people. Love his contributions.
Least is amazing and is the story of someone that should help everyone to know sobriety is possible. She has her issues with depression, yet she is of the mindset that she will do anything but drink. I can relate to that, but I don't have depression and I know that would make it very hard. There are a lot of people with depression and to see Least and see her accomplish sobriety tells those with that infliction that it can't be an excuse not to be sober.
Coffenut and I follow each other around this place and its so funny because our posts are very similar. Feel a kindred spirit with CN. Glad for getting to know you.
Anna and Carol and Dee all work so hard to keep this site going and temper tempers (so to speak.) There would be no SR without their contributions and their words of wisdom. It wouldn't be here and that I can't fathom and so I owe everything to those 3.
Reubena, Bananagrrl, Fub, Lenina, Angelina243, Humblebee, Scamy, NewBeginning, Dream, Stayinfree, HVACR, Mirage, Hopefulgirl - all of you rock and I thank you all for taking time to contribute to this place and to my thread here. I am blown away that you would take time to post and congratulate me. Brought tears to my eyes this morning to wake up and see that so many good people like yourselves added congratulations. I'm printing this out and will keep it where I can refer to it when I need to feel some deep gratitude in my life. Just ask my good friend, Rusty, about gratitude. Its a secret life to sobriety.
So there you have it Hopefulgirl - Staying sober for me is because of SR, people here, gratitude, daily pledge not to drink for the next 24 hours no matter what, and remembering that there is no going back. I tried every trick in the book to drink "normal" and realized when it came to alcohol there was no normal for me. I was exhausted and completely surrendered to the fact that I could not drink alcohol. It was a huge relief to me not to be struggling with it anymore. I went on to latch on to people here and find out how to live a sober life and that's where I am. I'm still a student and will always love learning more. Find yourself a mentor and don't drink no matter what! xxxx
Thank you all because whether we have 1 day or 2 years you definitely have a lot to give to someone that is trying to change their life. I love this site and I owe it big time for making my life 110 percent better then it was. Change can happen and if, I, a woman in her 40s that drank daily for as long as she can remember can become sober then ANYONE can! Can't emphasize that point enough.
Thanks Hevyn for starting this thread. You are such a dear friend and have stuck with me throughout this. I'm very blessed to have met such wonderful people here. Everyone is important to me, but there are those that have been with me for at least the last year if not the two years and I owe them big time. Jules, that I'm sure visits from time to time, but doesn't post much anymore, was very instrumental in helping me. Dee, you all know, is an amazing and wise friend that has helped me and especially in the beginning when my emotions were all over the place. Rusty that has become my mentor around this place. He shows me true sobriety living and of course, Hevyn, that is a friend that goes beyond cyber world. She is full of compassion and is just amazing. Very blessed to call all these people my friends. Jomey, is somewhere around and has been through her own trials this year, but still finds time for her friends and is such a devout Christian. She inspires me with her strong, deep faith.
Impurrfect and I just came to correspond through pms and she is one amazing person. I think she has had her share of trials and then some, but she has remained clean and that there is a testimony of being able to handle life without drugs or alcohol. Key word is handle life. Never before did I handle things. Always dove into the wine and shut my eyes to it.
Neo is an integral part to SR and he hasn't been on as long as some, but he's become the backbone. His threads inspire and challenge people. Love his contributions.
Least is amazing and is the story of someone that should help everyone to know sobriety is possible. She has her issues with depression, yet she is of the mindset that she will do anything but drink. I can relate to that, but I don't have depression and I know that would make it very hard. There are a lot of people with depression and to see Least and see her accomplish sobriety tells those with that infliction that it can't be an excuse not to be sober.
Coffenut and I follow each other around this place and its so funny because our posts are very similar. Feel a kindred spirit with CN. Glad for getting to know you.
Anna and Carol and Dee all work so hard to keep this site going and temper tempers (so to speak.) There would be no SR without their contributions and their words of wisdom. It wouldn't be here and that I can't fathom and so I owe everything to those 3.
Reubena, Bananagrrl, Fub, Lenina, Angelina243, Humblebee, Scamy, NewBeginning, Dream, Stayinfree, HVACR, Mirage, Hopefulgirl - all of you rock and I thank you all for taking time to contribute to this place and to my thread here. I am blown away that you would take time to post and congratulate me. Brought tears to my eyes this morning to wake up and see that so many good people like yourselves added congratulations. I'm printing this out and will keep it where I can refer to it when I need to feel some deep gratitude in my life. Just ask my good friend, Rusty, about gratitude. Its a secret life to sobriety.
So there you have it Hopefulgirl - Staying sober for me is because of SR, people here, gratitude, daily pledge not to drink for the next 24 hours no matter what, and remembering that there is no going back. I tried every trick in the book to drink "normal" and realized when it came to alcohol there was no normal for me. I was exhausted and completely surrendered to the fact that I could not drink alcohol. It was a huge relief to me not to be struggling with it anymore. I went on to latch on to people here and find out how to live a sober life and that's where I am. I'm still a student and will always love learning more. Find yourself a mentor and don't drink no matter what! xxxx
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: NJ
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Originally Posted by Dee74 
I'd like to echo Hevyn, S.
You've come a long way
you do a lot for this site and the newcomer - thank you
Enjoy this achievement - have a wonderful day and an even better sober year
hugs!~
D
You've come a long way
you do a lot for this site and the newcomer - thank you
Enjoy this achievement - have a wonderful day and an even better sober year
hugs!~
D
Sober since 9th May 2008
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 2,973
Well done Horsie, been a quick 2 years really eh ?
You're a great help to folks round here and put a lot back.
Your the only one still here from when I first started in the 2 weeks and under thread with you I think, great to see our journey continues.
You're a great help to folks round here and put a lot back.
Your the only one still here from when I first started in the 2 weeks and under thread with you I think, great to see our journey continues.
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: NY
Posts: 6,608
You keep me real Fiz. Glad you are doing so great and yes, 2 years goes by too fast when I think of my son. I am surprised we are the only 2 left from that thread, but "hopefully" the others will find their way back or at least to sobriety if not SR.
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