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.
I'm only 6 days sober and have been an alcoholic for like 17yrs now. Don't really know anymore what life is like without it. Haven't been more than 2 months sober in over 10 yrs. I hear people saying all the time about how many miracles have come into their lives after sobering up and how they wouldn't never imagined the joy and peace they now have etc. Can someone tell me some of the good things that have happened or they've experienced after sobering up that they never thought possible before? Thanks
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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...
I kept hearing "no coincidences" in the rooms; then I realized that if my life hadn't gone exactly the way it had the year b4 I sobered up (and probably my whole life, but I went back a year), I wouldn't have gotten sober when I did. Maybe I would have sobered up later, who knows and who cares?
A year b4 I got sober I was fired from my job in a Hotel Restaurant for drinking on the job; that started the spiral into recovery.
I was about 10 months sober when my father co-signed a loan for me to buy a new car, he told me to consider it a gift of sobriety. What I found the gift to be was my ability and my determination to make every payment on time and not let him down again.
I am Happy2
JUST FOR TODAY
Today I can say I love you and mean it also not bad for someone who never new what real love was.
Today I can hug and be hugged. I can let people into my circle. I can touch and be touched without the other person thinking they are hugging a telegraph pole.
Today all my family are still apart of my life and I have been given the time to see my children grow and have children of there own.
Today I have a loving God in my life that could and has never stoped loving someone like me.
The list goes on and on.
Happy2 .Do you know what vitamin you take that helps you get friends. B1..lol
God Bless
Lionel
I am sober. After drinking to oblivion until the age of 30, I was able to put down the drink one day at a time.
I am alive. I spent most of the last year of my drinking being depressed or suicidal.
I have spirituality. I grew up Irish Catholic. It was very difficult to believe that there was a loving higher power in existence.
I have been married to the same loving man for 27 years. When I was drinking I could have cared less about my husband.
Walking through challenges without drinking. My husband was diagnosed with a very rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2006, then I lost my father, my older brother, my twin brother, and my husband's sister. It never occurred to me to drink.
Today, I am self supporting through my own contributions, I own a beautiful home, I have four pets that I actually love and take care of, I own a car and I actually drive it, I am spending Thanksgiving with my family in New England, I have an Master's Degree, I live in Orlando, Florida, etc.
I had none of this before I got sober and never even imagined that any of this was possible. "If you settle for your wildest dreams, you will be selling yourself short." Once you get sober and connect with a higher power, he/she will have plans for you that are beyond anything that you could expect from life.
Good Luck.
Since I have stopped drinking normalty has returned, every day is not a crisis, I remeber hat I have done, what I should be doing and where I shold be going.
The son who said he would not see me drunk, sees me all the time, my family has come back, I have more money and I am spending it on better things, I do not hake, vomit or seat, I do not reek of alcohol, I have made more true friends in 22 months of sobriety than I ever made n 25 years of drinking
Every day just gets a little better, believe me there are no comparisons, just stick with it and you will see
Well done and good luc