An excellent post! One thing that helped me is remembering that we only do this one day at a time. This disease does not take a holiday, so I can’t afford to take a holiday from sobriety. Someone in one of my meetings uses “Play the tape forward.” Long before you pick up that first drink, remind yourself of all the things that happened after you drank/got drunk. Those things are typically a deterrent since I don’t want to go through that pain again.

Thank You. I Needed This.

I can so relate to this post. At the end of my drinking, I was totally isolating. Every day, I would come home from work and start drinking with the sole goal of getting to oblivion. I am not a social butterfly today and my sponsor calls me a loner. 🙂 But, I do love the people in the meetings here and in my local area. he

Outstanding post. I wish I had read this one a long time ago. 🙂 I told my sponsor today that even when I feel fear, at least I know now everything will turn out as it is supposed to and I will be OK.

Thanks, God bless us all, Amen. Pass

Hi billfitz here….happy sober fathers day

I think maybe you saw my share, I hit rock bottom early this year, and I had another chance at working the program even though the rock bottom was not an alchoholic relapse, it was a workoholic thing that was going on with me. I am in workholic anonymous now as a result!. If it
was not my share that you are referring to your in amazing blog then I am thankful for reading your writing!.

Thank you Matt- always look forward to your writing!

This is very difficult for me I know have work it out for myself it eats away at me! I have a long way to go! Thnks

I love this article. It should be easy for us as people to be accepting of life as our beloved pets.
Love, loyalty, and trust on both sides is indeed a higher power and a beautiful thing.

It is amazing as an Alcoholic to read your blog!!! I am 11 years and 3 months sober!!! I am go Meeting everyday!!!: Today I found this website for the first time!!! I am learning use it, hopefully I would not be discouraged. The Oracle says: ” Know Thy Self” and you are doing that! The clarity that mental illness and addiction like Alcoholism, and Drug addiction need different approaches: This is true, I agree with you!!!: I find myself when I get too confident denying that I have a mental illness and only focusing on the 12 Step program. Thank for such an amazing Blog.

I just listened God bless us always. Amen .Pass

Outstanding

That gave my goosebumps; especially the last line.

I loved this one the most- probably because I’m a newbie but also because I smiled when you said you liked to watch and learn from the newcomers- great writing!

i am still very leery of all the happy people. and if anyone tries to hold my hand, i might puke.

update: 101 days sober. and feeling so much better. who wants to hold my hand?

(thank you)

Congrats on 101 days. Keep it up!

So many people participate.

I think it works but my head is the one that don’t help so much and take to another choices and I’m having troubles tu make the right choices

That was amazing thank you! I look forward to reading the rest.

Love that reading!

Good reading.

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