to give up
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to give up
Originally Posted by FreeFall 
...To give up using booze as a crutch and escape and try to figure out what I was running away from. To give up the idea that I was happy with the drinking lifestyle and be honest with myself that I was miserable. I think giving up is a great start-worked for me.
To actually look at it, rationally, mindfully, without allowing fear of confrontation and fallout to dissuade me from taking action. It seems an almighty hurdle, the one I cannot leap. Even while knowing I have full power to do it. And yet I am so timid, weak.
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When I had no more fight left in me then I started listening to people with long term sobriety and did what they did because they claimed it was what kept them sober. I have been sober long enough to know they were right.
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The fear of confronting what I was running away from kept me drinking.
That nearly killed me.
My choice was face my demons or die...
I chose to face my demons.
I found the fear of facing them was much much worse than the reality of facing them.
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That nearly killed me.
My choice was face my demons or die...
I chose to face my demons.
I found the fear of facing them was much much worse than the reality of facing them.
D
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