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.
and tomorrow and the next day.
I want to LIVE ONE DAY AT A TIME
Someone (very wise) at tonights meeting spoke about her early days in AA.
As many of us do and have, we kept going back to AA meetings in the hope we hear something that will finally click for us. The 'magic' cure.
Tonight, she said what I have been going back for 7 months to hear.
When we were actively drinking, we had lost hope. We didn't care, we didn't care if we lived or died. At the end of our drinking, we would have prefered death over life.
In the first couple of months of sobriety, we continue on with that stinking thinking. It takes a while to come out of the fog.
My first attempt at sobriety was May 5, 2007. Over the next 6 months, I slipped a 1/2 dozen times, so in reality had 160+ days of sobriety, albeit non-continuously. The problem for me, is I couldn't get past the alcoholic thinking. I was sober, but my self- pity and depression kept driving me back to the bottle for pain relief.
Tomorrow is my 30th day sober. Yes, I have had longer sobriety than this, but today I feel a major shift. Today I want to LIVE. I don't remember feeling this way for 10+ years. I truely want to live and I want to live life to the fullest, because I KNOW, God, as I understand him, has wonderful things plans for my life. I believe in the promises of AA. I know they are not attainable if I keep drinking.
What was your "AHA" moment in sobriety? I knew it would come, and I knew for each it is different. I would like to hear yours.
I want to LIVE ONE DAY AT A TIME
Someone (very wise) at tonights meeting spoke about her early days in AA.
As many of us do and have, we kept going back to AA meetings in the hope we hear something that will finally click for us. The 'magic' cure.
Tonight, she said what I have been going back for 7 months to hear.
When we were actively drinking, we had lost hope. We didn't care, we didn't care if we lived or died. At the end of our drinking, we would have prefered death over life.
In the first couple of months of sobriety, we continue on with that stinking thinking. It takes a while to come out of the fog.
My first attempt at sobriety was May 5, 2007. Over the next 6 months, I slipped a 1/2 dozen times, so in reality had 160+ days of sobriety, albeit non-continuously. The problem for me, is I couldn't get past the alcoholic thinking. I was sober, but my self- pity and depression kept driving me back to the bottle for pain relief.
Tomorrow is my 30th day sober. Yes, I have had longer sobriety than this, but today I feel a major shift. Today I want to LIVE. I don't remember feeling this way for 10+ years. I truely want to live and I want to live life to the fullest, because I KNOW, God, as I understand him, has wonderful things plans for my life. I believe in the promises of AA. I know they are not attainable if I keep drinking.
What was your "AHA" moment in sobriety? I knew it would come, and I knew for each it is different. I would like to hear yours.
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
That's why we say don't quit a minute b4 the miracle happens:^)
One girl once said, she went to hell and the devil just wanted to kill her he didn't care, so she went to the rooms and found her God, he wanted her to live, she wanted to leave and now she is.
Take care all, its a great world out here - Sober
Trickey
There's not enough hug icons for ya, I love reading your posts when I read your first one, what a basket case, today I read it, and there has been so much progress.
I love to hear those things, I can't credit my self or anyone else, it was you that decided to do this.
The only thing I just don't like to jear is when somebody says they had a slip i was taught that these are "Planned drunks" but it's up to each person.
You get ready to change that screen name. things aren't as stormi as they were are they?
Your friend in sobriety,
DougC
it really is. embrace everything about it and live for just today.