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Sober2day
Sober2day
Daily Meditation book Keep it Simple.
July 8

Pain cant be avoided. Its as natural as joy..
-Unknown.

We got into a lot of trouble trying to avoid pain. We used alcohol and other drugs to avoid pain. We didnt want to accept pain as a fact of life.

We cant avoid pain, but now we have a program. The program teaches us how to talk about our pain. The program teaches us how to turn over our pain to our Higher Power.

We dont have to be alone when we face pain. We have friends to go to. Before, when we hurt, we ran to alcohol or other drugs. Now when hurt, we run to the comfort of our sponsor and our program friends.

Prayer for the Day.

Higher Power, help me accept pain as part of life. Help me remember that You are always there to help me with my pain. Im not alone.

Action for the Day.

Today ,Ill list three painful events in my life, Ill talk with a friend about them.
Sober2day
Sober2day
Today for me I can handle pain much better. Once as it says in the reading my only escape was through alcohol but the alcohol only helped for as long as I was drunk, but the pain would still be there waiting. So like a dog chasing its tale I would drink again and again insanity doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

But in recovery with the help of other alcoholics, my sponsor, working the program and God as I try to understand Him I have been able to embrace and accept pain as part of life. Not good at it all the time but I have other options rather than alcohol.

Firstly talking about it. Then depending on what sort of pain it is Physical, Mental or Emotional seeing the right people to get it sorted out. Its amazing what working a program can do to help instead of burying my head in the sand hoping it would go away .to actually doing something about it.


Live Well Love Much Laugh Often

God Bless
deleted_user
deleted_user
Yes this is right on Lionel. The alcohol worked to dull the pain but in order to keep it dulled, I had to keep drinking. That's no way to live. I'd rather deal with the pain now because if I do, it passes rather than just keeping it forever because it's drowned in vodka.

Pain sux! But it's a part of life and something I had/have to learn to accept, confront & conquer by healthy means. Today I'm thankful that I have the tools and choose to use them. :)
nickyj18022002
nickyj18022002
When i had been sober for a little while i realised how much alcohol had been dulling everything and blocking out real feelings and experiences. Even the tiniest feelings felt huge and overwhelming and I didnt have a clue how to withstand them, experience them and deal with them. It was excruciating but it helped to know that other people had been through the same experiences and got through them.

As time went by I slowly built up experience of having feelings sober and therefore built up some confidence that it was possible to feel all sorts of things without taking a drink to escape.

I have lots of feelings now - some "good", some "bad", but that is good because that is what life is all about. At the moment i have a huge amount of fear because of certain things going on. I'm not saying I like it but what i do like is the fact that drinking to get away from the fear, or the situation that is causing it, is not something that ever occurs to me. I have different ways of living life now.