Fantastic Dee!! :You_Rock_

I don't really remember what was going on four years ago today....

Because I was mostly blacked-out.

I'd made it through Christmas sort of holding it together and seeming OK to most of those around me. I'd been on what amounted to a nonstop binge for nearly a year and a half after figuring I was "OK to drink again" on the heels of a 5 month sobriety attempt.

My kids went back to their mother on Christmas Day and the black, depression, sadness, lonliness, unsettledness, whateverness of my alcoholism kicked in. I was basically on a bender.

The 28th was my sobriety date..... after I came to from the darkness of a blackout that lasted basically the whole of the holiday season.... there are bits and pieces of that Christmas week in my memory. Not the least of which coming to with police in my house.... I very nearly wound up in a situation where I'd have lost my children.

The point is - if you fell down this Christmas where sobriety is concerned; get back up. Let THIS be your turnaround story. Let the blackness of this holiday that's weighing on you be replaced by the bright hope of Christmas Yet To Come. Like old Ebeneezer Scrooge, don't let another sun set on your rich, abundant life potential without you embracing sobriety and taking action to support it.

YOU. CAN. DO. IT.

:grouphug:

Thank you FreeOwl.

Hi Tang, I'm still 'washed up", can't seem to get back on the wagon. Not doing it for fun, doing it because I can't stand the hangover. I'm gonna have to face this...one way or another:dee

new years bump :)

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