had_any_"light-bulb"_moments_in_sobriety?
Laozi Old Man
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Detroit, MI
Posts: 6,665
Originally Posted by Kjell 
I’ve had many “light bulb” moments inside the rooms of AA and also here on SR (this is but one).
How about you?
How about you?
Light bulb moments
AhHah! thoughts
Spiritual Awakenings
Enlightenment
Epiphanies
Satori
I have had dozens of them. Enough to know that what usually triggers them is facing fear head-on or throwing old conceptions out the window.
Practice Sobriety
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: KC missouri
Posts: 885
I just remember trying to work all out in AA and All out in every phase and it was a grind and wasn't fun. I then realized that I had the freedom to do what I want, I kept my job, but I try to be silly more in the morning or buy random stuff just to keep life fun. I remember being miserable in my car 4 months in, the feeling of being sober and just feeling physically well wasn't doing well anymore, and I made sure I started doing things that I wouldn't normally do because I was drunk. Crusing in my car, enjoying an entire movie (a chore), I made sure to stop running around cleaning and being a maniac to have some fun.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 211,380
My lightbulb moment was realising the person I thought I was - the person I fought so hard not to give up - was actually a me enmeshed in a toxic relationship with alcohol.
The real me - the me that emerged in recovery - was someone quite different than that....and so much better a human being.
That still spins me out
D
The real me - the me that emerged in recovery - was someone quite different than that....and so much better a human being.
That still spins me out
D
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