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"In recovery there are no losers, just slow winners."

Old 01-14-2013, 08:41 AM
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"In recovery there are no losers, just slow winners."

From Wisdom of the Rooms


I remember being in early recovery and feeling so bad that I just knew it wasn't working. I'd tell my sponsor about it, and I can still hear him saying, "Michael, you're exactly where you should be, and that's exactly what you should be feeling right now." At first I thought he was just handing me a line, but after a while I believed him and learned to trust in the slow progress I was making in recovery.

Years later I'd hear other newcomers complain about how bad they felt and about how terrible of a day they were having. I can still hear the old timers ask them if they had a drink that day. "No," they'd respond. "Then no matter bad you think you're doing, when you lay your head on your pillow tonight you're a winner." It was comforting to hear that back then, and it still is today.

Now that I've been in recovery a while I understand the wisdom in this week's quote. It doesn't matter what you're going through in recovery or how you feel, the fact that you are in recovery, that you have a program, and that you're developing or improving your conscious contact with a power greater than yourself means that you've already won. You may feel like a loser temporarily, but most of the time and in the long run you'll live a life filled with the joys and miracles of recovery.

Over time you, too, will come to see that in recovery there are no losers, just slow winners.
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Old 01-14-2013, 08:54 AM
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Love this. Thanks for posting.
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Old 01-14-2013, 09:01 AM
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Good post MIR..


I always refer to what my sponsor said and still does, now I do.. LOL

On those stinkin thinkin day..

I may not know what I am doing, but I do know one thing , I am not drinking..The rest will come as long as I remain openminded, teachable , and willing to work..
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Old 01-14-2013, 10:30 AM
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Great post x
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Old 01-14-2013, 11:47 AM
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Thank you for this post, just what I needed to read today.
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Great post. Thankyou x
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Old 01-14-2013, 01:11 PM
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One of the old timers I know says, "God promises to change me so slow that I will hardly notice it." I know from personal experience that this is true. Not only in early sobriety but in later sobriety as well. The only way I know I am progressing at all is to look backwards and see that I am not the same person I was.

Early sobriety is difficult but each day sober is a success that needs to be celebrated and can be counted as a good day. I will rejoy that today I am a winner.
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