Yet again
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Yet again
I'm not exactly a newcomer infact quite an old one. Got sober on SR a couple of years ago vowing and quite sure I'd never drink again. No I never learn !
I was in a very bad place back then but not so bad now. I stopped drinking for a year exactly and yes I celebrated. Managed to stop again for a few months relapsed then stopped and then relapsed. So I really need to get my act together. SR was the kindest place I'd been in a long time so I've come back as SR not only helped me get sober, it also raised my self esteem.
I was in a very bad place back then but not so bad now. I stopped drinking for a year exactly and yes I celebrated. Managed to stop again for a few months relapsed then stopped and then relapsed. So I really need to get my act together. SR was the kindest place I'd been in a long time so I've come back as SR not only helped me get sober, it also raised my self esteem.
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Originally Posted by biminiblue 
Gosh, celebrating sobriety by drinking. That sounds like something I would do. Well, not any more because now I realize the best way to honor myself is to not drink.
Glad you made it back.
Glad you made it back.
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Been using a laptop for a number of years now and
is the only computer I use. It sits on top a cushioned
laptop table and all that sits comfy on my lap while relaxing
in my recliner.
A little table to my left is there for me to place my laptop
on while I get up to go outside to garden or sleep at night
with everything else in between.
It is my recovery lifeline to SR, family and the outside
world.
Wouldn't leave home without it as it has traveled the
roads in a car and in a trailor we pulled behind our
motorcycle. Safely tucked inside a laptop bag going
as far north to the Dakotas to far south in Florida to
west at the Grand Canyon.
is the only computer I use. It sits on top a cushioned
laptop table and all that sits comfy on my lap while relaxing
in my recliner.
A little table to my left is there for me to place my laptop
on while I get up to go outside to garden or sleep at night
with everything else in between.
It is my recovery lifeline to SR, family and the outside
world.
Wouldn't leave home without it as it has traveled the
roads in a car and in a trailor we pulled behind our
motorcycle. Safely tucked inside a laptop bag going
as far north to the Dakotas to far south in Florida to
west at the Grand Canyon.
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Thanks
Thanks so much to everyone, it means a lot.
Sounds like you've travelled alot with your laptop, inspires me to get mine out, just hope i can get it to work again.
I'm babysitting my grandchildren this afternoon and evening. Its my first full sober day, so still quite down and nervous about facing going out. Facing standing outside the school, I never like that at the best of times, and then facing taking them to karate after tea. Having to sit with a load of people that I don't know. Oh well, its got to be done
Sounds like you've travelled alot with your laptop, inspires me to get mine out, just hope i can get it to work again.
I'm babysitting my grandchildren this afternoon and evening. Its my first full sober day, so still quite down and nervous about facing going out. Facing standing outside the school, I never like that at the best of times, and then facing taking them to karate after tea. Having to sit with a load of people that I don't know. Oh well, its got to be done
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My little ones back in 1990 when I entered recovery were
just beginning school. So freshly sober me right out of a
28 day rehab stay with a 6 week aftercare program attached,
I took what was taught to me and began applying it to my
everyday life as my life as my life depended on it.
Each day after my kids were dropped off to school, I went
home, baked something good and off to AA meetings I went,
to sit for one hour, surrounded by many who were just like
me.
Those wanting to listen, learn, absorb and apply many
suggestions that would help me get thru each day no
matter what life thru at me without returning to the insanity
that came with my addiction to alcohol.
I armed myself with tools and knowledge and a guideline
to living a sober life while raising my family. While facing
situations that made me very uncomfortable at times.
Eventually as time went on and the longer I remained
sober, there was a quiet confidence building inside me,
a strength that with practice would get me thru each obsticle
in life.
I didnt have to do this alone and have been grateful for
all the recovery support behind me, beside me, Above me,
guiding me every step along my recovery journey to help
me achieve continuous sobriety.
Finding a support group became my cloak of strength
that I wore each day when facing unfamiliar faces in
groups, school activities, grocery stores, etc.
Time has passed and I am a grandmother too, still
wearing my cloak of recovery amour to help me remain
sober no matter what, strengthened with peace and serenity.
just beginning school. So freshly sober me right out of a
28 day rehab stay with a 6 week aftercare program attached,
I took what was taught to me and began applying it to my
everyday life as my life as my life depended on it.
Each day after my kids were dropped off to school, I went
home, baked something good and off to AA meetings I went,
to sit for one hour, surrounded by many who were just like
me.
Those wanting to listen, learn, absorb and apply many
suggestions that would help me get thru each day no
matter what life thru at me without returning to the insanity
that came with my addiction to alcohol.
I armed myself with tools and knowledge and a guideline
to living a sober life while raising my family. While facing
situations that made me very uncomfortable at times.
Eventually as time went on and the longer I remained
sober, there was a quiet confidence building inside me,
a strength that with practice would get me thru each obsticle
in life.
I didnt have to do this alone and have been grateful for
all the recovery support behind me, beside me, Above me,
guiding me every step along my recovery journey to help
me achieve continuous sobriety.
Finding a support group became my cloak of strength
that I wore each day when facing unfamiliar faces in
groups, school activities, grocery stores, etc.
Time has passed and I am a grandmother too, still
wearing my cloak of recovery amour to help me remain
sober no matter what, strengthened with peace and serenity.
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Hi worried - welcome back.
That’s the face of addiction. We drink for our sorrows when there are sorrows, we drink for our joys when there are joys, we drink because we feel in the mood, or because we are bored.
The only way out is to tackle it directly. We can choose to drink because we do, or choose not to drink because we don’t.
I don’t, and it sounds like you just made the same choice!
That’s the face of addiction. We drink for our sorrows when there are sorrows, we drink for our joys when there are joys, we drink because we feel in the mood, or because we are bored.
The only way out is to tackle it directly. We can choose to drink because we do, or choose not to drink because we don’t.
I don’t, and it sounds like you just made the same choice!
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Originally Posted by aasharon90
My little ones back in 1990 when I entered recovery were
just beginning school. So freshly sober me right out of a
28 day rehab stay with a 6 week aftercare program attached,
I took what was taught to me and began applying it to my
everyday life as my life as my life depended on it.
Each day after my kids were dropped off to school, I went
home, baked something good and off to AA meetings I went,
to sit for one hour, surrounded by many who were just like
me.
Those wanting to listen, learn, absorb and apply many
suggestions that would help me get thru each day no
matter what life thru at me without returning to the insanity
that came with my addiction to alcohol.
I armed myself with tools and knowledge and a guideline
to living a sober life while raising my family. While facing
situations that made me very uncomfortable at times.
Eventually as time went on and the longer I remained
sober, there was a quiet confidence building inside me,
a strength that with practice would get me thru each obsticle
in life.
I didnt have to do this alone and have been grateful for
all the recovery support behind me, beside me, Above me,
guiding me every step along my recovery journey to help
me achieve continuous sobriety.
Finding a support group became my cloak of strength
that I wore each day when facing unfamiliar faces in
groups, school activities, grocery stores, etc.
Time has passed and I am a grandmother too, still
wearing my cloak of recovery amour to help me remain
sober no matter what, strengthened with peace and serenity.
just beginning school. So freshly sober me right out of a
28 day rehab stay with a 6 week aftercare program attached,
I took what was taught to me and began applying it to my
everyday life as my life as my life depended on it.
Each day after my kids were dropped off to school, I went
home, baked something good and off to AA meetings I went,
to sit for one hour, surrounded by many who were just like
me.
Those wanting to listen, learn, absorb and apply many
suggestions that would help me get thru each day no
matter what life thru at me without returning to the insanity
that came with my addiction to alcohol.
I armed myself with tools and knowledge and a guideline
to living a sober life while raising my family. While facing
situations that made me very uncomfortable at times.
Eventually as time went on and the longer I remained
sober, there was a quiet confidence building inside me,
a strength that with practice would get me thru each obsticle
in life.
I didnt have to do this alone and have been grateful for
all the recovery support behind me, beside me, Above me,
guiding me every step along my recovery journey to help
me achieve continuous sobriety.
Finding a support group became my cloak of strength
that I wore each day when facing unfamiliar faces in
groups, school activities, grocery stores, etc.
Time has passed and I am a grandmother too, still
wearing my cloak of recovery amour to help me remain
sober no matter what, strengthened with peace and serenity.
its good to hear from another grandma too.
I've learnt alot too over the years and like to think that I'm more mature and have more wisdom than I used to have, even if its just because I've been such an immature idiot before lol.
I also keep making stupid mistakes not just in relapses but all sorts of unexpected ways, but I just have to keep trying. I like my life better now than ever before so I feel I must have taken some right turns along with the many wrong ones.
Hopefully there'll be a good bit of life yet to enjoy and perhaps especially be a supportive grandma and mother.
I've been very busy with that today and will be tomorrow and the day after, so I still haven't got my laptop up and running, probably have to get OH to help. So I'm finding the setup more difficult to follow and there are no thankyou buttons on this tablet version and its difficult to find my way around at the moment. But hey ho I'm pretty sure I'll get there eventually just plodding along doing what I can.
its lovely to be here 😊
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