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xmas and new year celebrations

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Hi my friends well its coming up to that time of year again and I know when I was drinking I would try and not drink at xmas and if I didnt I would reward myself by going on a week bender and visa versa if i drank at xmas would try not to at new year, how many xmas and new years I spoiled and did not even remember. Some people tell you it is just another day but for me I think you really have to be on your guard as even the person that never drinks all year has a drink over the festive period and drink is everywhere you look at of course all the work parties!!!!!! so for me I have to be very vigilant and try to up my meetings and chat to all my friends but most of all stay away from that first drink and dont put myself in dangerous situations. Take care my friends at this festive time of year and remember stay away from that first drink!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Xmas Spirit, without the spirit I say.

I no longer fear it,in fact I find it a great reason to be sober, don't they say the season to be kind to all men.

Well your hardley going to be kind pissed out your head are you.

Yes I agree, we must all be vigilante, but it is another day, and we must try to treat it as such.

Just remind ouselves, we don't just do one drink, so lets not even go there.

I am looking forward o it, but my first year, I was nervous, so my prays and support to you all

Trickey
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I am going to have a great xmas this year, and stay sober. Whenever im on shaky ground i go to meetings anyways.I notice this year I have alot more money to buy myself and other's lots of presents lmao.
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I celebrate christmas and new years is just another day for me.I love christmas,decorations, the tree,me and my gf opening our presents. Eating a honey baked ham. yummy.
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This is a dangerous time for use but strangely in by previous 3 years sober I didn't feel tempted. My birthday did for me and I was lulled into thinking I could one or two drinks but learned the hard way. We must stay away from that no.1. Mairi
ktharp423
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I came into the rooms in November 1994. I heard a lot of talk about the upcoming holidays and how frequently ppl go back out. I basically grabbed both sides of my chair and said to myself, "I'm not going anywhere!" I took every suggestion ever made, even though I really didn't want to drink I just kept doing what the oldtimers were saying I should do. I had a list of phone numbers in my pocket when I celebrated Christmas with my family, I didn't use it but I didn't drink either.
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name 3 times alcoholics drink when times are good when times are bad anytime at all. Instead of trying to fight the drink or where places the drink might be here is a novel concept " do the steps and recover" Read page 101 of the BB any plan which proposes to sheild the alcoholic is doomed to failure the BB says. For me when I got here in 2001 I was dying and conviced I couldnt stay sober even with AA. By gods grace I was given a sponsor who took me thru the steps right out of the BB. I recovered. Now in 6 1/2 yrs I have been thru many things painful things. Not once has the drink entered as a solution. Its like I couldnt drink even if I wanted to. Its like the BB said I have been restored to a sanity I had never had before concerniong the drink. Read page 85 10th step promises. " For by this time the problem has been removed." I dont seek to stay sober every day I seek to stay conected to God thru the 12 steps every day. By doing that sobriety just happens its a by product of the relationship I have with God. But hey all of this is writen about in the BB of AA so its not new or unique to just me.Please really give the 12 steps a try really follow the directions if it worked for me it will for you if your thourough and honest.
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