https://youtu.be/ztWzX0MY… Helloooooo Folks I just popped in here to write a wee message to say how extremely GRATEFUL I am to all the lovely people from here who have sent me congratulatory messages earlier on in the week on the occassion of OUR 12 years of continuous sobriety/recovery! I could not have achieved this alone,...
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in prior attempts to get sober i couldnt do it. im not really sure why, but i reckon it was any of the normal reasons i see others go out and come back into the rooms. maybe i had those reservations, maybe i was too full of self, maybe i hadnt reached a sufficient bottom...
after a few meetins with my sponsor and listenin to his story, seein how the emotions he explained, and some of the situations he had experienced were identifiable and relatable, he asked me, do ya think ya are an alcoholic? or are you one of the exceptions? he asked me to not answer but take...
the best way i feel i can show gratitude for what ive been given through recovery, is to live its spiritual principles. it makes no sense to me to try to keep it all for myself. behavior and thinkin like that reminds me of the ways i used to behave and think when back in...
i was amazed, after havin been in the rooms for a year, and honestly before then, how much the world around me had changed. even though i still had anger, self-pity, hate, self-loathin, and loneliness keep hittin me, it had lessened the longer i practiced what i was learnin. my 9th step showed me that,...
Hello, I've tried to quit drinking a handful of times before this one. But they never stuck. A few weeks ago, I hit my rock bottom. My addiction has destroyed my marriage. But then something amazing happened two days ago. Because I've been enduring the stages of grief over my wife leaving me, I go...
this mornins daily gives me hope. when i was finally able to start relyin on my HP in my early recovery, i found that life got much easier. it didnt happen overnight, it took time. but as i freed myself of the burdens i carried, i could see how they had weighed me down. makin...
the idea of usin the group as a HP until i could form and develop a HP of my own conception was offered to me in the very early weeks of my recovery by my sponsor. i cannot say that i immediately started usin this idea, but as my sponsor and i discussed what had...
after sittin in the rooms for a while and havin started the process of the 12 spiritual principles, i began to understand, and learn from the past i had left behind. and i aint talkin bout the obvious shit; im talkin bout the reasons i had done the shit i had done. i didnt truly...
acceptance was important for me. to begin the process of recovery and healin, i needed to surrender ego & pride in wantin to do things on my own terms. this surrender allowed me to accept that i couldnt do recovery, or even live life on my own. i wanted to be free of fear but...