North337

I have some questions and hoping I can get some help here. I have joined AA and have been in a treatment program. I also have a sponsor. Just trying to get connected.

abcowboy

Welcome to SR North! You'll find a lot of support here... read and post and you'll find lots of answers to your questions..

neferkamichael

North337, to SR. There is a wide perspective of support here , rootin for ya.

North337

I am trying to grapple with and accept what doctors and my sponsor are telling me and it seems to be a struggle for me. I was a workaholic as well as an alcoholic.

Any words of advice as I want to better understand why

IOAA2

Hi and welcome. When things are bothering me, even after a long time of not drinking, I often look at the slogans hanging on the wall and usually one is fitting for the situation. Often it's Easy Does It as we usually want too much and too fast. Acceptance is another one we have difficulty with as It's tough to totally get rid of our undisciplined character.

BE WELL

Treerat66

Hello and welcome North337.

GotGrace

Welcome, North! You are in a great place for support and understanding!

aistar

welcome!

LBrain

Welcome aboard North. You are already doing the right thing with getting a sponsor. Be patient - you're not always gonna like what you hear. But I can tell you this. Every meeting I go to I learn something. And a good percentage of the time I learn something about myself. That's where it starts.
You're in a safe and supportive place on this forum.

redhen

I am new too. 17 days sober today. Finished detox two weeks ago and just completed my second week of IOP. I have yet to find a sponsor. I am still visiting different AA meetings and meeting new people. Welcome North!

least

Welcome to the family. You'll find lots of support here. Go easy on yourself in early recovery. Good food and rest, and moderate exercise. Take it one day at a time and you'll be fine.

North337

Thanks everyone. Appreciate your comments and suggestions.

Dee74

Welcome to SR
ask away!

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Hevyn

Pleased to meet you North337. You're among friends who truly understand. I'm glad you've decided to join us - you're never alone.

matt4x4

Best to get connected at the meeting, go to the meetings well before hand and help setup, make coffee, clean up, put out the books, pamphlets, talk who ever opened the door, talk to the chair person. Get some sober AA friends, who you can talk to. Get their numbers so whent the poo-poo hits the fan you have a supoort network around you. Hang out with them outside the meeting. Go to a restaurant. Take a walk with them. Do some activities. Life and sobriety and being sober is more then just walking into a meeting right when it starts, and leaving right when it ends. Go look at the campouts in the area, or any round-ups or conventions going on, pot-lucks, whatever is going on in your AA area check it out. Perhaps they have a website, perhaps a central office, go to the central office and pick up some extra AA literature. Any little bit helps. I call it insurance. The more time and effort I put into helping others, getting out of myself and recovery and AA, is just an insurance policy against a relapse or slip.