When I got on my knees for the first time and said "Oh God, I'm an alcoholic."

Not sure, I've had many "moments."

Like Julz said - I'm supposed to pick just one?

I'm having a moment right now.

oh, that jacker! i think i'll find me a moment too. seriously, i had many moments, interminable bottoms, clarity out the ass. could it be it was just finally time-my time?

well, i haven't found a moment yet but i found another jacker moment. this is the mug shot of the very drunk lady dressed as a cow--note the juicy udders. i do believe she's giving ole jacker a "come on" smile. btw, no one knows why the cow outfit. you think she just likes milk?

Seeing a horrifying woman and realizing that I was looking in a mirror at what I had become.

A DS friend recently related to me what it was like for her to wake up in a hospital and see two bandaged stumps where her hands had previously been. She described it in terms of unavoidable, inescapable horror. I understood that horror.

When I realized the bottle was coming before anything including my daughter who I kept insisting was the most important thing in my life and I would do ANYTHING for her......except give up the bottle. That was painful and still is.

It was a culmination of moments for me. Many I did not understand at all but when it was all clear it still was not clear.
I think I'm still in wonder.

I have the moments each day - I wake up and i am grateful for who I am today and that I never want to be the person I was yesterday. I truly believe if I ever forget the moment and moments, then I will once again be lost. Addiction for me is death - I make myself remember moments that are unpleasant, but i also reflect on moments that are joyous, as i have realized, moments are truly that a moment and it too passes - Peace to you!

When I looked in the mirror and saw my Mother.

I was at family night for my mother's outpatient rehab. My brother confronted me about my drinking. I tried to down play it, the counselor caught right on and called me on my sh*t. At that moment I was emotionally exhausted and heartbroken because of events in my life, I just said, "OK." I didn't drink when I got home that night.

That was God working in my life, I believe that was my one moment, I might not get another one so I'm holding on to that one.

When I was in line with my big a** bottle of wine after a long binge, looking horrid, a woman who appeared to be in chemo was in line in front of me buying organic foods & probably fighting for her life, I realized I was poisoning myself intentionally and she looked at ME with pity.

o.k. i found my "moment"-antonio banderes. regarding the moment one incident sticks out in my mind and that was when i was leaving my 3 year old daughter with her granmother so i could go do what i did. my little girl grabbed my legs and held on with her tiny baby fists and she cried to her granmother, "i want my momma to stay. please make her stay, grammie"--all the while the biggest tears rolled down her cheeek.

did i stay?. nope, but the seed was planted that i had willingly given up what i thought i loved more than anything in the world. i still am ashamed...

Itsmylife, that made me recall when the moment I gave up smoking. Two years after i stopped drinking. They had those awful TV ads on about the effects of smoking (just reminded me to go out back for a smoke). But my daughter watched it, she was 5. She turned to me, looked me in the eye and said "Mum, I don't want you to die". Never picked up another smoke.