Going into rehab
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Going into rehab
Hi, I'm kristin and I have a real love for beer… Which is why I'm checking myself into rehab Monday. Kind of scared, kind of excited, mostly scared. Feel like I'm going to jail!
I have a few days to say goodbye to my life for 30 days. It's very weird. To think all the stuff I take for granted won't be around me in a couple of days.
I'm really hoping this will work because I can't keep living the way I am.
Just needed to vent a little… Thank you for reading :-)
I have a few days to say goodbye to my life for 30 days. It's very weird. To think all the stuff I take for granted won't be around me in a couple of days.
I'm really hoping this will work because I can't keep living the way I am.
Just needed to vent a little… Thank you for reading :-)
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Welcome Kristin!
Good for you for taking this step to help yourself. Be excited! You won't believe how great you will feel at the other end of that 30 days. And every day after that it will get better and better. Good luck, check in here often. It helps.
Goose
Good for you for taking this step to help yourself. Be excited! You won't believe how great you will feel at the other end of that 30 days. And every day after that it will get better and better. Good luck, check in here often. It helps.
Goose
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,238
Acknowledging you have an addiction problem
to alcohol and having the willingness and courage
to take those first steps in recovery to help turn
your life around is awesome.
The gift of recovery to yourself is one
that will set you on a path in life, a journey
of many promises waiting for you to
appreciate and enjoy for many one days
sober down the road for you.
I didn't enter rehab on my own, but had
the concern, love and care of family members
to place me into the hands of those capable
to teach me about my addiction and give
me the gift of a recovery program some 27yrs
ago, doing for me what I certainly couldn't
nor was capable of doing for myself at that
time in my life. For them, I am truly grateful
for.
I was an at home mom, married, 2 little ones
and was plucked away from them to spend
28 days in rehab listening, learning, absorbing,
applying knowledge of my addiction and recovery
program to incorporate in all my affairs once
I returned home.
Those 28 days away from people, places
and things associated with alcohol gave
me a good start to allow the fog to clear
from my brain and become openminded
to the help given me to learn how to live
sober each day moving forward.
Take this time, those 28 days for yourself,
to accept those awesome tools and gifts
of recovery so that when you do return
home, you will have a foundation to build
your sober life upon each day, one day at
a time.
My recovery life began in Aug. 1990 and have
never found it necessary to pick up a drink of
poison for the past 27yrs of continuous sobriety.
Continuous sobriety means to continue to remain
teachable each day, remaining openminded, willing,
honest in all my daily affairs using those effective tools
and knowledge of the AA program of recovery as my
guideline to follow to achieve health, happiness for
many yrs down the road.
I chose to live and not die of my addiction
and now so can you.
Stay strong and willing to do whatever
you need to do to put this addiction to rest.
I'm wishing well on your new sober journey.
to alcohol and having the willingness and courage
to take those first steps in recovery to help turn
your life around is awesome.
The gift of recovery to yourself is one
that will set you on a path in life, a journey
of many promises waiting for you to
appreciate and enjoy for many one days
sober down the road for you.
I didn't enter rehab on my own, but had
the concern, love and care of family members
to place me into the hands of those capable
to teach me about my addiction and give
me the gift of a recovery program some 27yrs
ago, doing for me what I certainly couldn't
nor was capable of doing for myself at that
time in my life. For them, I am truly grateful
for.
I was an at home mom, married, 2 little ones
and was plucked away from them to spend
28 days in rehab listening, learning, absorbing,
applying knowledge of my addiction and recovery
program to incorporate in all my affairs once
I returned home.
Those 28 days away from people, places
and things associated with alcohol gave
me a good start to allow the fog to clear
from my brain and become openminded
to the help given me to learn how to live
sober each day moving forward.
Take this time, those 28 days for yourself,
to accept those awesome tools and gifts
of recovery so that when you do return
home, you will have a foundation to build
your sober life upon each day, one day at
a time.
My recovery life began in Aug. 1990 and have
never found it necessary to pick up a drink of
poison for the past 27yrs of continuous sobriety.
Continuous sobriety means to continue to remain
teachable each day, remaining openminded, willing,
honest in all my daily affairs using those effective tools
and knowledge of the AA program of recovery as my
guideline to follow to achieve health, happiness for
many yrs down the road.
I chose to live and not die of my addiction
and now so can you.
Stay strong and willing to do whatever
you need to do to put this addiction to rest.
I'm wishing well on your new sober journey.
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Originally Posted by PinnacleOR 
Don’t consider it jail, but rather a ticket to true freedom, you won’t regret it. Good luck!
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Congrats!
I love it when people start rehab. It really allows you to have a 30+ bubble to completely concentrate on sobriety and get support, and eases the transition from using to a sober life. You also learn a lot from your peers..
I just went through it in May and early June, and ended up staying an extra week. It was a truly transformative experience, although not one I’d care to repeat.
Coming back to the world is when the real work begins, so leave with a detailed sobriety plan!
See you on the other side!
I love it when people start rehab. It really allows you to have a 30+ bubble to completely concentrate on sobriety and get support, and eases the transition from using to a sober life. You also learn a lot from your peers..
I just went through it in May and early June, and ended up staying an extra week. It was a truly transformative experience, although not one I’d care to repeat.
Coming back to the world is when the real work begins, so leave with a detailed sobriety plan!
See you on the other side!
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Join Date: Nov 2017
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Out of rehab… :-)
Out of rehab… :-)
Hi, it’s Kristin again. My 30 days of rehab ended on December 27th. My husband‘s birthday was the next day. He said it was the best birthday present he’s ever gotten… Rehab was a much better experience than I would have ever expected. Very glad that I did it. Thanks to rehab, today is my 52nd day without alcohol. I am now back to my normal life and fitting AA meetings into it.
I have two meetings around here that I really like and the rest are still a work in progress..I want at least 3 to 5 per week. It’s a little frustrating for me looking for the right meeting because some of them I feel very uncomfortable in. But I guess that’s like anything… I’m not wanting to drink over it so that’s good.
I learned a lot about myself in the past couple of months that I would probably have never learned had I not gone to rehab. Thank you to everyone for your advice and and kind words.
Hi, it’s Kristin again. My 30 days of rehab ended on December 27th. My husband‘s birthday was the next day. He said it was the best birthday present he’s ever gotten… Rehab was a much better experience than I would have ever expected. Very glad that I did it. Thanks to rehab, today is my 52nd day without alcohol. I am now back to my normal life and fitting AA meetings into it.
I have two meetings around here that I really like and the rest are still a work in progress..I want at least 3 to 5 per week. It’s a little frustrating for me looking for the right meeting because some of them I feel very uncomfortable in. But I guess that’s like anything… I’m not wanting to drink over it so that’s good.
I learned a lot about myself in the past couple of months that I would probably have never learned had I not gone to rehab. Thank you to everyone for your advice and and kind words.
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