beautiful but I think I didn’t explain myself well. I don’t have any thoughts or cravings and have not had from my 49th birthday at midnight. That’s the miracle I don’t understand. I’m no longer obsessed.
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Ah, well don’t worry about it mate. Crack on!
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So read a thread earlier about people who get sober without AA. I tried for years living on self knowledge and it personally got me nowhere, if anything I got worse after every relapse. So yeah I’m sure people do get sober but why would you want to do it alone if you don’t have to. If you want to lose weight you join slimming world if you like to read you join a book club if you want to get fit you join a gym so stands to reason if you are serious, and I mean serious, about getting sober why would you not join AA, CA, NA, MA, AA, GA. (GA-Yes there is a gangster anonymous) because its a program for a better way of life, it’s not religious bc how can it be, do the Christians sit in a corner with their god and the Jews sit in the corner with there God etc etc.No and the program will teach you to treat all humans with respect so by the end of it your beliefs will be irrelevant as long as you are willing to believe that there just might be a power greater than yourself. If you are sat in a meeting with 20 other people who have been sober 20 years then they are a power greater than you, maybe when they tell you the solution you might want to believe in them. Be willing be honest be open to anything and you to will learn to Be grateful.
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Another great day with nothing to report so I’ll just pick a random page tonight and leave it in the hand of the gods
Be Grateful.
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Appreciation for so much today. Still get a bit anxious about certain things I’ve noticed today but soon move on. Things always turn out OK by the end of the day. I’m still smiling and breathing so life ain’t give me nothing I haven’t been able to cope with yet. Be strong, Be humble, Be honest and Yep… Be grateful!!!
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Nightly reflection time, guys check out lots of different online meetings they are all so different with some wonderful sober people with solutions to your illness. I make no apologies for feeling great every day while others suffer, I pray every day for the suffering alcoholic but prayers and the big book will only get you so far. I’ve read Lord of the rings but it doesn’t make me a hobit. You must act, actions are the start of the solution. Your old solution didn’t work out so well did it, you sit there and think you’ve got a drink or drug or porn problem etc but that’s not your problem, you’ve got a YOU problem and your drug of choice is your solution to a physical and spiritual defect of the mind. So if your struggling right now get up and do something about it, be strong, Be grateful and be prepared to take action.
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Another great day, deliberately did stuff I didn’t want to do, it’s all part of a daily plan apart from that I’ll leave it to Tolle…
Be present, Be grateful.
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Guys I’m making no apology for being so happy for the last 30 days, obviously I’ve had 30 days loads of times but never with the feeling of relief and gratitude I wake up with and carry through the day and then go to bed with. I don’t take one minute for granted bc I know what it is to not be able to get past I day over and over and over again. Recovery is a program of action and I don’t mean going for a 5 mile run although it won’t hurt a few of us with all the chocolate we eat, I mean action for others. When you wake up in the morning don’t think what about me what can I get from today think what can you offer, who can you help. If you only play your part to the best of your ability you can gaurentee that life will be kinder to you. Stop being selfish and start thinking of me me me, look where that thinking got us.
Be Grateful.
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30 days?! Where the heck have I been? lol
Woo hoo! You’ve worked your ass off to get here and I’m really f**king proud of you.
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Man, oh man, this is honestly further than I thought I could make it. It started with just do 5 days then you can have a drink, but I just kept adding one more day. Here I am at the close of Day 11. Super pumped. Hang in there guys. Some days suck, but most other days don’t suck as bad. Lol
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Happy 30 days, Paul!
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@PowerUp this seems such a long time ago now but I would just like to thank you bc if I did it once I can do it again. I’m an entirely different beast now, forget the failures remember the lessons. Have yourself a great day. Strange I don’t recognise you though 
it just gets better doesn’t it, proud of you sober friend.
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Seem to be finding myself in AA meetings, CA meetings, NA meetings and the common denominator is they all use the same road to recovery. Our addiction is not the problem or there would be different ways to sobriety, we are the problem our drug of choice is a side effect of our mental and spiritual wellbeing. Once we solve ourselves then we can solve the obsession that drives us all into insanity. I also owe an apology to @adeygaga49 and anyone else who found any of my posts offensive today. It’s not my place to tell you if your approach to sobriety is right or wrong that’s for the individual to decide. Be strong, Be grateful.
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I’ve not been on here for a while. I am looking deeply at my relationship with alcohol. I was off it for 4-5 months no bother but it is beginning to sneak back into my life…birthdays, special occasions…it’s a trap, the way we - I- associate celebrations with alcohol. And I don’t think I can modify. I took 3 glasses of wine last night. Was just gonna be 1. Then I thought well I might as well…
Woke up at 3 feeling rotten. Got up, made food. Went to work. Ate badly. Did not do yoga… so it’s a lose lose situation for me.
Anyway was here reading last night after I woke up and it got me to thinking again.
It’s a lovely community. Thanks for sharing.
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Day 1 by the way!
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The good news is you’ve identified the problem and the better news is you’ve come back here to do something about it, many won’t get this far, but the best news is yet to come and that my friend is entirely up to you, yeah we’ll help you and give you a little nudge on the way but this is the beginning of a new era for you so I wish you well on your journey and stick around and let us know how you get on.
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How’s things going today??
An amazing day of sobriety. Be grateful.
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