2 years and 8 months sober: I defended my PhD earlier this week!
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2 years and 8 months sober: I defended my PhD earlier this week!
Hello all,
I just wanted to share my good news and give thanks to the SR community for being there for me, where so many things seemed lost 2 years and 8 months ago.
Thanks for the plain truths that were hard to deal with at first!
Thanks for the good words and encouragement!
Thanks for lending a digital ear when I was direly in need of one!
I am now officially a "Persistently hopeless Dreamer". It took some doing, but everything that I learned from SR, especially brutal honesty with myself and the "it works if you work it" approach, helped me acheive this special personal moment. SR gave me the tools to find out what I really want to do in my life, and what it takes to do that.
Thanks everyone!
I just wanted to share my good news and give thanks to the SR community for being there for me, where so many things seemed lost 2 years and 8 months ago.
Thanks for the plain truths that were hard to deal with at first!
Thanks for the good words and encouragement!
Thanks for lending a digital ear when I was direly in need of one!
I am now officially a "Persistently hopeless Dreamer". It took some doing, but everything that I learned from SR, especially brutal honesty with myself and the "it works if you work it" approach, helped me acheive this special personal moment. SR gave me the tools to find out what I really want to do in my life, and what it takes to do that.
Thanks everyone!
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Indeed. What a great post. Congratulations, Free. What a wonder are a clear mind and an open heart.
May the newcomer gain insight from the stories of we who have exceeded any hope that we once had. Go ahead. Fulfill your promise. Scary, isn't it? You could fail. I've failed. Many times. The rewards demand failure. Failure is alchemical. All great changes stem from a succession of failures. Oh, and the WILLINGNESS to fail and simply start again.
Navajo women, when weaving their exquisite blankets, include an imperfection in each. This both imparts their spirit into the rug, but also reminds them that they are not God.
Accounts like Free's are what helped me let go of my hubris and join the winning team. Our reward might not be a PhD, but it's out there in a million different forms.
For me, living with alcohol was like trying to enter an Interstate highway on a moped. Pulling a trailer.
Thank you, Free.
May the newcomer gain insight from the stories of we who have exceeded any hope that we once had. Go ahead. Fulfill your promise. Scary, isn't it? You could fail. I've failed. Many times. The rewards demand failure. Failure is alchemical. All great changes stem from a succession of failures. Oh, and the WILLINGNESS to fail and simply start again.
Navajo women, when weaving their exquisite blankets, include an imperfection in each. This both imparts their spirit into the rug, but also reminds them that they are not God.
Accounts like Free's are what helped me let go of my hubris and join the winning team. Our reward might not be a PhD, but it's out there in a million different forms.
For me, living with alcohol was like trying to enter an Interstate highway on a moped. Pulling a trailer.
Thank you, Free.
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Thank you, everyone! Perhaps needless to repeat at this point, but none of it would have been without my sobriety. Whatever other aims and goals there are, or will be, sobriety continues as the no.1 priority. Without it, all other plans would be useless, anyways.
The degree is in sociology*
The degree is in sociology*
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