I'm in the same boat day 1 again. We can do this we have to much to live for! Good luck !!!


Namaste

Thank you. Yes!! we can do this, we're not alone

meetings &prayer that will work.i have 20 days today & i have done a lot of praying.listen to Christian radio.good stuff. its working for me

I am also starting over today. Good luck to you!!!

as long as you still fighting for sobriety,you are winning.
Good plan.Take care

We all start over . Everyday, is a new day and a new opportunity.. Use it wisely. Stay sober. Embrace the gift of life.:)

I followed a similar path to you but had two vital ingredients missing - a sponsor and the 12 Step programme of recovery. Once that omission was rectified I recovered. Great to hear you are making a new start!

No sponsor or 12 steps here and like you I won't pick up today today. Lot's to do in my day so I better get moving. I'm with you and no drinking at all today. ODAAT

Good for you. I know that I need help. I just cant get over that wall. I keep trying.
I wish you the best. Let me know your secrets.

Welcome and glad you are here comitted to sobriety.

We all just have today. And you never have to drink again, a day at a time.

So what is different this time? Will you get a sponsor? Work through all 12 steps in order? Be as honest as you can be? Those are a few of the things that worked for me.

I am with you on this one.

1is2

My sister just celebrated her 15 th year of being clean and sober!! It can be done, and I am so proud of my sister. A.A. saved my sister's life. Fifteen years later, she still attends A.A. meetings, 3 times a week. She tells me she will always be an alcoholic, even as she has not taken a drink for 15 years. If she can do it, so can you, and the dear people on this site can too. A.A. is so good for my sister, because everyone in the group had gone through what she has, and she had a good support system. I tried to be supportive, however, I never drank, so I really didn't know how it was being an alcoholic. One day at a time, one minute at a time sometimes. Good luck.

I was once like many of those who replied to this topic. I have been familiar with AA since 1989, when I went to my first meeting. I knew I had a drinking problem, that I drank too much and that it was creating problems in my life. So I decided to stop drinking. And I did. For 18 days, for 4 months, 7 months, about 2 years, but I always started drinking again. I couldn't stay stopped and I had so many "Day Ones". And the longer I couldn't "stay stopped", the harder it became to even string a couple of days together - because alcoholism is a progressive disease. It always gets worse, never better.

Last Thursday (07/04/13) I celebrated 9 years of staying stopped. And I firmly believe with all my heart that the only difference between my last "Day One" on July 4, 2004 and all the previous "Day Ones' is the fact that I gave my all to the 12 steps of AA and worked each and every step.

Most alcoholics can stop drinking, so a day, a month, even a couple of years. The hard part is staying stopped. Alcoholics Anonymous gave me the answer to staying stopped.

How are you doing? Have you made it to day three? How is it going for you?

I loved this post and the comments. How inspiring that so many are taking that first step. Day 637 here yet like I have read, it is always day ! for me, which is why I count the days. Borrowing a phrase that I have heard often and love so much, and I truly do believe it is intended for me, I have one more drunk in me but I don't think I have another sobriety in me. I think that is how it goes. Simply, I can't drink one more drink again or for me all bets are off.

I hope you can update us as to how your sobriety is going. :)