4 Years for PurpleKnight
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Join Date: Jun 2017
Posts: 1,276
Well done PK👏 I was actually reading through some of your old threads today. Totally inspiring! Also, thanks for organizing the NFL thread😁 It’s really helped me to become part of the SR community in the last few months.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,236
Happy Sobriety Birthday PK. !!!!!
Sharing how you did it, achieved 4 yrs
sobriety to the newcomer or those
struggling with addiction can give them
HOPE, that if you can do it then they
can too, one day at a time.
Good job friend...!!!
Sharing how you did it, achieved 4 yrs
sobriety to the newcomer or those
struggling with addiction can give them
HOPE, that if you can do it then they
can too, one day at a time.
Good job friend...!!!
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Ireland
Posts: 25,826
Hey Everyone,
Thanks soo much for all your kind words, they all mean a lot to me!!
In some ways 4 years has flown by and in others it's felt like an age, and I think that's the key to Sobriety, life doesn't automatically sort it's self out, I remember Day 1, Week 1 and Year 1, my first Sober Xmas, first Sober birthday, first wedding, first concert, first meal out, all the things that I associated with alcohol and during alcohol was always present, and those were very challenging times, life keeps rolling on, the highs, the lows, it still keeps happening and we can't bubble wrap ourselves away to ensure we never drink again.
Instead it's about changing up not only our lifestyle but our outlook, our mindset, the more the years have passed I've began to realise it's all about the mental battles, that's where the war is truly won or lost , in our minds, this thing we call addiction is a very dangerous thing and it dwells in our minds.
For me I couldn't be a drinker who simply doesn't drink anymore, that I tried over and over and I simply just held out until I couldn't hold out anymore, instead in my own mind I needed to be a non drinker, someone who was going to find the positives and the new possibilities that being a non drinker created, now don't get me wrong on Day 1, I didn't exactly know what they were at the time, but I was willing to give it a chance, surely it couldn't be any worse than the misery that continuing to drink was causing? Embracing what was going to be a positive change rather than seeing it as something I resented went a very long way to winning those mental battles.
On newcomer threads I always say "Keep pushing through", when the chips are down the last thing that is going to help a situation is alcohol, that's a never ending spiral that I went round and round for many years, it will never end unless we do something different, and sometimes just long enough to start to see the benefits, and then it is those positives that make things easier to not throw away the new life we have started to create.
I couldn't have done it without all the people I have met and gotten to know here on SR, this place is the resource I needed when my chips were down!!
Thanks soo much for all your kind words, they all mean a lot to me!!
In some ways 4 years has flown by and in others it's felt like an age, and I think that's the key to Sobriety, life doesn't automatically sort it's self out, I remember Day 1, Week 1 and Year 1, my first Sober Xmas, first Sober birthday, first wedding, first concert, first meal out, all the things that I associated with alcohol and during alcohol was always present, and those were very challenging times, life keeps rolling on, the highs, the lows, it still keeps happening and we can't bubble wrap ourselves away to ensure we never drink again.
Instead it's about changing up not only our lifestyle but our outlook, our mindset, the more the years have passed I've began to realise it's all about the mental battles, that's where the war is truly won or lost , in our minds, this thing we call addiction is a very dangerous thing and it dwells in our minds.
For me I couldn't be a drinker who simply doesn't drink anymore, that I tried over and over and I simply just held out until I couldn't hold out anymore, instead in my own mind I needed to be a non drinker, someone who was going to find the positives and the new possibilities that being a non drinker created, now don't get me wrong on Day 1, I didn't exactly know what they were at the time, but I was willing to give it a chance, surely it couldn't be any worse than the misery that continuing to drink was causing? Embracing what was going to be a positive change rather than seeing it as something I resented went a very long way to winning those mental battles.
On newcomer threads I always say "Keep pushing through", when the chips are down the last thing that is going to help a situation is alcohol, that's a never ending spiral that I went round and round for many years, it will never end unless we do something different, and sometimes just long enough to start to see the benefits, and then it is those positives that make things easier to not throw away the new life we have started to create.
I couldn't have done it without all the people I have met and gotten to know here on SR, this place is the resource I needed when my chips were down!!
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Upstate New York
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Sorry I'm late to the party - 4 years is wonderful, PurpleKnight. I've loved walking this path alongside of you. 
. Thank you for all the encouragement & optimism you share here.
(One of my favorite songs - thank you.)
. Thank you for all the encouragement & optimism you share here.(One of my favorite songs - thank you.)
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