lostnursetoo
Status: If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. Whatever you do just keep moving forward!
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- Saw this and just loved it! Wanted to share it with our group!How to begin: Rebuilding Life from WithinLove yourself, unconditionally.Release your bottled up emotions.Make time for long walks, alone.Avoid living beyond your means.Nurture your inner...
- In my job as an Infectious disease nurse I work with patients with HIV who are often addicts. I had the opportunity to accompany one of my patients to a crisis addictions appointment. Normally would not go in with the patient, was requested to do so...
- It's the dreaded hunting weekend I spoke about a few weeks ago! I did talk to my husband about how I felt about the drinking that would go on around me this weekend. His friend arrived last night and for the first time in a decade, he did not arrive...
- No wonder it's so difficult, it doesn't sound like a desirable trait :-)!!!sober (sbr)adj. soberer, soberest1. Habitually abstemious in the use of alcoholic liquors or drugs; temperate.2. Not intoxicated or affected by the use of drugs.3. Plain or...
- Thought this was too funny! So, which would you do? No cheating...just think about the solution! The Bathtub TestDuring a visit to the mental hospital, I asked the director how do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized....
- As some of you know I have a very strong history of colon cancer in my family. My dad was diagnosed with colon cancer at 49 and died at 52. His sister was diagnosed in her mid-fifties (very early in the disease process) and died before the age of...
- I received a message from an undergrad researcher requesting participation in a study. Did anyone else receive this request?
- We seem to have quite a few new members, so I thought it might be helpful for those of us a little farther down the path to share what has worked for us in one post. And I don't just me going to AA, a twelve step program or something like that. I...
- I wanted to share this with the group. It's an older song by India Arie. I listen to it when I need motivation! I hope you like it!"Strength, Courage & Wisdom"Inside my head there lives a dream that I want to see in the sunBehind my eyes there lives...
- Getting ready to hit the two week mark tomorrow and getting a little twitchy! I have read on multiple posts stories about being able to quit for two weeks and then relapsing. I have a difficult week ahead (too much to explain, but in my journal if...
- Honestly folks, I only used to be this chatty when I was drinking, I am starting to think I am just chatty and inquisitive by nature :-)!! So for the question for my seasoned supporters, when is the right time to reach out to another person who is...
- Being early in this journey I am having difficulty with the labels "a drunk", "an alcoholic". Can you all help me understand why you still refer to yourselves this way when you are no longer drinking?? Honestly just trying to understand! Thanks!
- The reason I ask is that when I do anything, I do it full steam! When I was a runner, I ran every day, long distances to the point of stress fractures and having to have a total hip replacement at the very young age of 50. Now that I can't run, I...
- Being a mom, wife, and nurse I have set myself up as the solver of all problems. I once had a brilliant professor who saw the natural caretaker in me and gave me the best advice (that I failed to use). She told me that if someone tried to hand you...
- Just thinking out loud folks! Following the great advice I have received form this group to try and discover why I drank, and thinking about what I have read in others posts. So was I weak, entitled, or defiant? I never felt weak, even when I would...