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.

WOW! This is good

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.