Celebrate Recovery

Motivation
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Well I am slightly irritated. The Celebrate Recovery group that I attend is always cancelled on holidays. It’s on Sunday evenings from 6-8 at my church. So on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve it was cancelled. I don’t think NA or AA cancel ever? Well, then they decided that tonight we’re gonna watch the Super Bowl. What are those of us who aren’t interested supposed to do? It’s just frustrating me. If the game was on a different night and the group wanted to meet to watch it, I think that’s fine. Am I over reacting? @Chad_R what do you think?

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Is that the only group or just your prefered group? I can feel ya there though . i could care less if either win or loose. Tomorrow is still monday and another day… lol not all people celebrate the same holidays either. You know this forum never closes lol…;p

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That’s the only one I have been going to lately. I have gone to NA but not in a while. Am I right that NA is never cancelled?

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I know they still had meetings around me today… most people i know do go to NA meetings…maybe u could try it again for recovery celebrations. if you need that gratification…

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I think I will go back. I need the support. Thanks very much!

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Thanks. And I do understand that they are providing a safe and sober alternative and that is commendable. I just was very disappointed. Thanks for responding.

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Lol. Yeah I need to look into women’s meetings too

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I totally get your frustration. And AA/NA don’t cancel often at all. But my CR group has only canceled one time in their 8 years, due to a blizzard. And I will be on both sides of the fence on this one. I know when we find a program that helps us we become almost dependent on it. So I truly feel your frustration. But I will play devils advocate too. We see on the board hundreds of post about sobriety being boring/ what do you do for entertain. So your group is trying to bridge this gap. I’m sorry you didn’t get recovery time. But did you go socialize?

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Well, I didn’t go. I got mad and stayed home to pout.

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Did the pouting help ??

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Not one bit

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I will never speak negative things about any groups. If there is any activity trying to bring people out and together to work on a common goal of sobriety… that is doing God’s great work!

However, I still have to understand that they are people just like me who will make mistakes.

One thing I have done to prep for this situation, is to have a list of other meetings.
Backup plans.

And the truth is… I don’t always ‘feel it’ with these other groups. But I was still actively working on sobriety, and if nothing else… It works to reinforce how lucky I am to have found my ‘home group’.

It’s not always pretty, but neither is a drunk/relapse!!

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It will return to normal for quite a while now I hope. I know how you feel on your group not properly working as a group. I have not shared my AA home group struggles. And I question if I’m not pouting too. But if you weren’t interested in the game then a night off is okay. Change and us addicts huh lol. But our CR is a very solid group. So I’m lucky there. We had it on Christmas and New Years.

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Thanks. I really respect your opinions.

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