Day 23
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,238
Giving you a thumbs up to you Mary for your
continued willingness to learn new healthy
ways to remain sober and live a healthy, happy,
honest way of life.
Sharing your own experiences, strengths and
hopes with others will not only help you stay
sober, but you are also helping and inspiring
others still struggling with addiction to seek
help too.
To know that like you, they are never alone
on their journey to change their lives around
and be free from their addiction that continues
to affect so many today.
Good Job..!!!!!
continued willingness to learn new healthy
ways to remain sober and live a healthy, happy,
honest way of life.
Sharing your own experiences, strengths and
hopes with others will not only help you stay
sober, but you are also helping and inspiring
others still struggling with addiction to seek
help too.
To know that like you, they are never alone
on their journey to change their lives around
and be free from their addiction that continues
to affect so many today.
Good Job..!!!!!
Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,238
Believe me Mary, there are others here in SR
that will be inspired by your actions and words.
We may never know who they might be, but
someone out there will read your words and
say, well if she can get sober and stay sober
by doing the footwork, learning along the way,
then I can too.
that will be inspired by your actions and words.
We may never know who they might be, but
someone out there will read your words and
say, well if she can get sober and stay sober
by doing the footwork, learning along the way,
then I can too.
Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,238
Your welcome Mary.
Stay connected to this amazing recovery lifeline
thru out the day as others will be along to share
more support to you and never hesitate to ask
questions if you don't understand something
or need help along the way.
There are many who have experienced the
same similar things as you in life, so you never
have to feel like you are the only one.
Strength and comfort comes in knowing none
of us ever has to be alone in life or on a new
journey learning how to live a sober life.
Stay connected to this amazing recovery lifeline
thru out the day as others will be along to share
more support to you and never hesitate to ask
questions if you don't understand something
or need help along the way.
There are many who have experienced the
same similar things as you in life, so you never
have to feel like you are the only one.
Strength and comfort comes in knowing none
of us ever has to be alone in life or on a new
journey learning how to live a sober life.
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Join Date: Dec 2019
Posts: 133
Originally Posted by Mary88 
Thank you very much. I hope some day that I will inspire someone.
Well done on day 23.
Hope the meeting goes well.
Do tell us!
Today, I won't drink.
Sx
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Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 308
Originally Posted by Mary88
Thank you very much. I hope some day that I will inspire someone.
Life Goes On
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Posts: 6,069
This is how we do it Mary.
Wake up each morning with a determination to live this new reality and keep on with it. Change things up that might help, see how it feels. Sometimes it doesn't feel great but it feels right (going to meetings), sometimes it feels better (giving up sugary drinks).
Honestly, it can feel like plodding along because sometimes it is. Until one day you're doing something/anything, could be just crossing the street, and it will hit you. "Wow, I feel so much better!"
Believe them when they say it keeps getting better.
It takes work, real work to get there, but it's so worth it.
O
Wake up each morning with a determination to live this new reality and keep on with it. Change things up that might help, see how it feels. Sometimes it doesn't feel great but it feels right (going to meetings), sometimes it feels better (giving up sugary drinks).
Honestly, it can feel like plodding along because sometimes it is. Until one day you're doing something/anything, could be just crossing the street, and it will hit you. "Wow, I feel so much better!"
Believe them when they say it keeps getting better.
It takes work, real work to get there, but it's so worth it.
O
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Originally Posted by SoberStevie
Your tenacity to continue down the sober path inspires me Mary.
Well done on day 23.
Hope the meeting goes well.
Do tell us!
Today, I won't drink.
Sx
Well done on day 23.
Hope the meeting goes well.
Do tell us!
Today, I won't drink.
Sx
Originally Posted by VinnyMcM
I look forward to your posts Mary. You and I are on the same sober timeline so I most definitely get inspiration from you. Keep it going!
I've tried to quit many times but this time I'm determined to stay sober for the rest of my life.
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Originally Posted by Obladi
This is how we do it Mary.
Wake up each morning with a determination to live this new reality and keep on with it. Change things up that might help, see how it feels. Sometimes it doesn't feel great but it feels right (going to meetings), sometimes it feels better (giving up sugary drinks).
Honestly, it can feel like plodding along because sometimes it is. Until one day you're doing something/anything, could be just crossing the street, and it will hit you. "Wow, I feel so much better!"
Believe them when they say it keeps getting better.
It takes work, real work to get there, but it's so worth it.
O
Wake up each morning with a determination to live this new reality and keep on with it. Change things up that might help, see how it feels. Sometimes it doesn't feel great but it feels right (going to meetings), sometimes it feels better (giving up sugary drinks).
Honestly, it can feel like plodding along because sometimes it is. Until one day you're doing something/anything, could be just crossing the street, and it will hit you. "Wow, I feel so much better!"
Believe them when they say it keeps getting better.
It takes work, real work to get there, but it's so worth it.
O
Yes Obladi, it feels exactly like plodding along at the moment. I'm being very careful, every time I quit in the past I started to believe I could just have 1 drink. Never want to make this mistake ever again. I'm reading up on PAWs to be prepared for that.
Life Goes On
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Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Posts: 6,069
By way of preparation, you might want to also review the "AVRT crash course."
It's a different paradigm altogether from AA, but I don't find it contradictory in any way, though most do. I find the concept of what my addicted brain is 'doing' as separate from my rational brain to be extraordinarily powerful.
http://www.rational.org/index.php?id=155
If that link doesn't work (or isn't allowed), then you can always Google it. There's lots and lots of discussion (very cerebral if you go in for that kind of stuff) in the Secular Connections section of this forum. But really, you can get the entire gist of the thing from the crash course. It's a simple concept, but powerful.
O
It's a different paradigm altogether from AA, but I don't find it contradictory in any way, though most do. I find the concept of what my addicted brain is 'doing' as separate from my rational brain to be extraordinarily powerful.
http://www.rational.org/index.php?id=155
If that link doesn't work (or isn't allowed), then you can always Google it. There's lots and lots of discussion (very cerebral if you go in for that kind of stuff) in the Secular Connections section of this forum. But really, you can get the entire gist of the thing from the crash course. It's a simple concept, but powerful.
O
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Originally Posted by Obladi
By way of preparation, you might want to also review the "AVRT crash course."
It's a different paradigm altogether from AA, but I don't find it contradictory in any way, though most do. I find the concept of what my addicted brain is 'doing' as separate from my rational brain to be extraordinarily powerful.
http://www.rational.org/index.php?id=155
If that link doesn't work (or isn't allowed), then you can always Google it. There's lots and lots of discussion (very cerebral if you go in for that kind of stuff) in the Secular Connections section of this forum. But really, you can get the entire gist of the thing from the crash course. It's a simple concept, but powerful.
O
It's a different paradigm altogether from AA, but I don't find it contradictory in any way, though most do. I find the concept of what my addicted brain is 'doing' as separate from my rational brain to be extraordinarily powerful.
http://www.rational.org/index.php?id=155
If that link doesn't work (or isn't allowed), then you can always Google it. There's lots and lots of discussion (very cerebral if you go in for that kind of stuff) in the Secular Connections section of this forum. But really, you can get the entire gist of the thing from the crash course. It's a simple concept, but powerful.
O
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Posts: 6,069
Originally Posted by Mary88
Yes, the linked worked. Thanks, it does seem powerful. I think it mentioned no recovery groups? I guess I can ignore that and take what helps. I'll check out the Secular Connections too.
"Take what works and leave the rest" is a pretty helpful principle. We addicts just have to watch ourselves on that one. I've heard more than one person talk about drinking after meetings because they heard that everything in the Big Book was suggestions. That always brings a laugh, but I don't have a doubt in my mind that it carries at least a grain of truth with it.
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Originally Posted by Obladi
"Take what works and leave the rest" is a pretty helpful principle. We addicts just have to watch ourselves on that one. I've heard more than one person talk about drinking after meetings because they heard that everything in the Big Book was suggestions. That always brings a laugh, but I don't have a doubt in my mind that it carries at least a grain of truth with it.
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