Alcoholism Support Group
Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.
.......rely on feeling good to stay sober. One day you will feel like sh*t, what happens then?
Just a suggestion from my own experience.
Just a suggestion from my own experience.
You're right though, it's important to learn to use tools for the bad days. I've been sober awhile and I could say without a second thought that I've been sober for the worst days of my life. I also say with complete confidence that I wouldn't trade my worst day sober for my best day drunk....because whether it's a trajedy, financial turmoil or bad hair day, sober is always better. This too shall pass.....
It is what I do with how I feel that makes a difference.
I've learned a new way to process, (deal) with the ups and downs in sobriety.
Emotions are constantly changing. As in E---Motion. This includes happiness, sorrow, guilt, shame, abundant energy, anger, resentment, peace, anxiety, laziness, giggly, ect ect, ect.....
Learning to practice with the tools laid before me has brought much peace into my life and ability to walk through any situation without trying to mask it with my posion.
Newly sober I expected everything to be all better.....until I realized that alcohol was just a symptom of a much bigger problem. That's where the work began. So worth it though.
There is a huge difference for me between withstanding the difficult times with a program for living and without one. With a program (and connection to a higher power) I can stay sober no matter what but if my sobriety was based on the fact that I had to be happy and life had to be going great then I would be in big trouble when that wasn't the case.
"Shit happens otherwise we become stagnant ."
"Sometimes your the dog , Sometimes your the Hydrant."
The first shall be last and the last shall be first; one day you might be on top of the world, the next you might be treated badly.
I believe life is like this^^^^^^^^^^^ there are always going to be up's and downs that's just life. When it's like this ------------- you wont need to worry. Clancy. I, once said the only man he new with a permanent smile on his face was a man in the next bed to him at the nut house.
A lot of people don't always pick up a drink because there feeling like shit a lot pick up a drink because there feeling goooood.
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Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power.
So for me I go to meetings when I am feeling good or when I am feeling like sh*t And I talk to God when I am feeling either and I always get an answer.
The good thing about going to a meeting when your feeling like sh*t is that where not all mad on the same day and I can bounce of someone who is feeling happy and sane just by listening to them share or talking to them after the meeting.
and if that all fails i do what my sponsor suggested. Enjoy the madness it will pass..
What's it all mean .What was the question.lol
God Bless...
Lionel