Because I am sober, today I am free to: ?
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: South East England
Posts: 8,009
I am free to spend the day with my 19 year old son, researching prices of a new car he has saved up for. No worries about whether I'm still over the limit to drive, no hangover, no resentment about how much of my 'drinking time' this is going to take.
I am free to be the parent I should be, to advise and support, and to share wholeheartedly in his excitement.
This is the best feeling.
I am free to be the parent I should be, to advise and support, and to share wholeheartedly in his excitement.
This is the best feeling.
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Midwest
Posts: 450
Originally Posted by DarkDays 
Just been for 4 mile run at 7am on a Saturday morning...Saturday and Sunday mornings where spent in a sickly haze for years .
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: AZ
Posts: 247
Because I am clean today, I have a chance of moving back to my beloved New England Coast at some point and taking my dream trip back to the UK. If I wasn't clean and where I am today working through the ptsd, then I would still be a living zombie.
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: AZ
Posts: 247
Today because I am clean, I can finally face my emotions due to the ptsd, which I spent years numbing with food and drugs. I am forcing myself to find out how I feel and live through them. I will be able to write letters to the people involved sometime this Summer when I have my feelings all sorted out. If I was still on drugs I wouldn't be starting to deal with all the ptsd and emotional baggage, to move forward to embrace my destiny. We all have a destiny.
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: East Coast, The States
Posts: 12,162
Today, because I am sober, I am free to go out in the world, and not secretly plan my day or night around drinking...
I am free to not have to keep a secret! I am free to not feel secret shame!
I am free to not have to keep a secret! I am free to not feel secret shame!
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 1,462
Today, because I am sober, I can by 100% present for my children, be a good mother to to them without secretly drinking. I can drive wherever I need to go, whenever I need to.
Today, because I am sober, I can look at a past relationship that has and still is causing me so much pain, with some clarity and strength. Drinking makes me lose my power when it comes to him, and I can't let that happen again. When my brain is not flooded with alcohol, I can begin to feel good about myself again, and realize that there is a whole life and world ahead of me out there.
Today, because I am sober, I can look at a past relationship that has and still is causing me so much pain, with some clarity and strength. Drinking makes me lose my power when it comes to him, and I can't let that happen again. When my brain is not flooded with alcohol, I can begin to feel good about myself again, and realize that there is a whole life and world ahead of me out there.
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