One Year Sober!!
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One Year Sober!!
Okay I wasn't going to post anything. But you know what itight encourage someone else and besides the face I am proud of myself and my HP!!
My sober birthday is Dec 3 2011 and I made it a while year without a drink!! For someone who has :
Had 3 DWIs
Almost lost her husband because she cheated in a blackout
Went to AA but didn't "get" it
Lost all faith that she could recover
Was drinking daily
Lost jobs because if drinking (good 6 figure paying jobs)
Almost lost her life because of a stupid sucuside attempt while blacked out
Hated myself and my emotions
Had to do DUI court for 48 weeks peeing in cups and attending classes atleast 3 times a week
So I decided this is a pretty big deal!!
Happy birthday to me!! Thank you SR and AA for believing in me when I didn't believe in myself!
Saliena
My sober birthday is Dec 3 2011 and I made it a while year without a drink!! For someone who has :
Had 3 DWIs
Almost lost her husband because she cheated in a blackout
Went to AA but didn't "get" it
Lost all faith that she could recover
Was drinking daily
Lost jobs because if drinking (good 6 figure paying jobs)
Almost lost her life because of a stupid sucuside attempt while blacked out
Hated myself and my emotions
Had to do DUI court for 48 weeks peeing in cups and attending classes atleast 3 times a week
So I decided this is a pretty big deal!!
Happy birthday to me!! Thank you SR and AA for believing in me when I didn't believe in myself!
Saliena
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Location: London
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Congratulations on your year birthday. You truly do deserve to be proud. This post will give a lot if hope to newcomers. I can't wait to see & feel the difference after 1 year sober.
Congrats again
S x
Congrats again
S x
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Oh my goodness - you were not going to post?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow massive congratulations from me.
I think your amazing. I think your brave and determined. I think your wonderful. What an achievement? One whole year without booze! Some people will never get to say that they own an achievement like that! You did flipping great!
Xx
Wow massive congratulations from me.
I think your amazing. I think your brave and determined. I think your wonderful. What an achievement? One whole year without booze! Some people will never get to say that they own an achievement like that! You did flipping great!
Xx
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Originally Posted by Taking5 
So what did you do to finally make it?
I finally did all of that and am done with the court program. I have a great base of friends that love and trust who I am. And, I have a husband that was willing to walk this walk with me. Even though I almost lost him in the end. Even if I would have I now see I have to put my soberity above everything in my life. Or I will lose everything else.
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Congrats!!! If you can do it anyone can. Unfortunately it takes the gift of desperation for most of us to wake up. You are right. Put nothing and I mean nothing before your sobriety because without it we will lose everything else. There are other ways but AA worked for me when all else failed.
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Originally Posted by MIRecovery
Congrats!!! If you can do it anyone can. Unfortunately it takes the gift of desperation for most of us to wake up. You are right. Put nothing and I mean nothing before your sobriety because without it we will lose everything else. There are other ways but AA worked for me when all else failed.
MIR -- I don't care the way anyone gets sober. For some people being on SR and the support they get here is enough, for others the support of family/friends is enough, still for others RR or other programs work, for me AA was the only way I was going to clean out my closet enough to see who I was and how this whole thing fit together. I can see how spirituality fits into my life without religion... and how the goodness of other people is the light of my HP... I still struggle everyday... but, drinking isn't my first thought to "fix" things anymore. It is "what do I need to do"
Saliena
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Thanks Saliena. Congratulations. My re-start date is 12/3/12, had 22 days before that. Your post does help us! Way to go on the discovering whats in your 'closet'. When I 'open' mine so much stuff falls out I just cram it back in and shut the door as fast as I can. And I am not talking about the hall closet - LOL.
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