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 am an alcoholic and my life is unmanagable.
I have come to believe that a God is real, I do not have the power to completely understand it, but it does have the power to keep me from drinking, and has a plan where I help others as a solution.
I have the power to decide to allow this God to do great things for myself and others in ALL areas of life.
I can detail and find the ungodly characteristics I have that prevent the actual God from genuinely connecting with me. I know much of my ungodliness stems from ignorance and my ego. I know whenever I am selfish, life is not as great as it could have been. I also know that denying or minimizing the fact that I have a body that when alcohol is taken it will crave more, makes doing the rest of the work pointless. Once convinced I am the real alcoholic the books speaks of, I also can accept that doing the rest of the work, after identifying I have a body that craves alcohol, with no power to say no to that craving, will prevent that next drink from ever being a reality.
After finding things defective in my mind, through following the books suggestions, in order, I find going forward if I confess wrong, and pray to do the right things, and the power to do those right things, I will suddenly realize I am living a life I always dreamed of living.
After seeing the problem, confessing it, then following suggestions to solve or tame it, I now have a message of hope, solution, peace, clarity, and love. To think something so beautiful came from some often criticized and usually pushed to the side steps, is amazing. Not only are the steps cost-effective (their free to do!) but very reliable. The pride of the ego wants me to have a more enticing story than simply doing some steps, but the reality is the steps, and doing them daily, is much more powerful than the prestige and recognition the ego is always seeking.
I get discouraged when people are turned off by the message, don't care for what I am saying, or just see me as someone who talks alot, but I know God would want me to share his power so his children can experience it more so than not.
When I ask myself what message I am spreading, I know I can answer sounding, I am spreading a real and honest message. That message is change is real, staying sober and recovered is acheivable, and as a primary purpose, I can live an awesome life without alcohol and help others to do so.
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Dick Van Dyke’s path to sobriety was a turning point in his life and career. Here’s what happened:How He Got SoberStruggles and Realization: Van Dyke began drinking as a teenager, largely to cope with shyness and social anxiety. Alcohol made him feel more comfortable in social settings, but over time, his drinking spiraled out of control. By his mid-40s, he recognized that he had an addictive...
I see evidence of the former but don't see much evidence that you are engaging in the latter.
You often wrote lengthy posts and I tend not to respond. Believe in your sobriety and the other issues that plague you will reveal themselves to be minor.
Untangle that ball of yarn with people you can talk to eyeball to eyeball. I wish you the best New Year.
I try to just take it or leave it in life. This life is way too short to worry about how everyone else thinks. I only really care how I think about myself.
I hope you have a great new year and enjoy the ride
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'God didn’t get me drunk, so he isn’t getting me sober. We all find our paths. My higher power is within me'..
I find this for me personally refreshing. I have no issue with 12 step and turning it over to a HP. My issue was all the in group fighting about 'God Blogs',
I found singling out one religion over all others on some 12 step sites wrong.
It left me floundering for a while, and I was told I could not stay sober without 12 step. Coming up on 9 years without a drink. Yes I do still hold on to what works for me, a day at a time etc., but leave a lot of the rest.
There are many a people who pass through church before they get to AA. They don’t come in winners.
As for the HP. Page 55 of the big book states something to the effect of “within every man woman and child there is a fundamental idea of god.” Whatever that is, it’s in me.
I am a different person. I can’t say how, and I can’t control it, but I know right from wrong now, and that keeps me sober.
I have 3 years of complete abstinence and attend Celebrate Recovery for my accountability and sponsor as well as ongoing step studies. Your story is unique to you- be true to yourself and share your story every opportunity you have to do so- but never forget to stay focused because every time I have thought I had a hold on myself- I'd soon learn that my drinking didn't start over- it picked right up where it left off. Today- I have more sober time than I have ever had- not because of myself but because God showed me that I was using alcohol among other things to numb feelings verses facing them. wishing you a lifetime of sobriety -relapse doesn't have to be a reality but it does happen and we must not let it discourage us from starting over. Hope you don't have to start over (I've had more than a handful of start overs).