Hi Everyone 
My name is Kaylee. I am 31years old from Ohio. I am 1year & 19days clean today. I havent worked any steps but I have been to treatment quite a few times. This is the longest I have been clean and almost every meeting I have ever been to someone has told me how working steps has saved their lives! I feel like if I work steps this time this could be what has been missing all the other times I have tried to get clean. I do have a big book & would like to start steps as soon as possible. I am wanting to work as a Counselor but I would like to work my steps first before working on getting my CDCA license. I am not sure how this works, I downloaded this app for the sobriety counter & would just really love to meet other people in recovery & to get a sponsor! I don’t know if there is a way to message me on here? Or how it works but if anyone is interested in helping me please reach out it would mean a lot. Thank you ! - Kaylee
Hi Kaylee. First congratulations on your clean time. That’s over a year of beating the biggest problem. That’s a big deal. As for getting a sponsor the way I did it and others do it is just going to meetings and getting a feel of someone who you think will be able to take you through the steps and book and keep contact with you. Some meetings the chairperson will actually ask everyone who’s willing to be a sponsor to raise their hand. You could also share that you’re looking for a sponsor during the meeting. I asked my sponsor after one and he’s been amazing. He’s also part of our state’s intergroup so he has commitments to give out that I’ve been taking. It’s really been a great thing. Anyway hope that helped and I wish you the best of luck!
Welcome Kaylee 
Eke created a thread a while back about sponsorship which may answer some of your questions. FAQ: Sponsorship
In my experience I found my sponsor at twelve-step meetings, like www.AA.org or www.NA.org, if you go to those sites you can find meetings you can visit (you’ll find the meeting lists if you look in the menus at the sites).
Best of luck!
Re: messaging here on TS - if you tap your picture at the top right then tap the envelope icon twice, it will take you to your message box where you can message people. You can also message people by tapping their icon and if they have a public profile you can tap the Message button there.
Thank you Matt, so much for replying and sending me websites to look for a sponsor. I appreciate it so much!!! 
Just ready to buckle down & get them done! I know it’s gonna be hard getting it all out, but I’ve always heard better out then in!!
Thank you Mike! I have been doing most of my meetings online because I have a one year old and even though I have taken him to meetings quite a bit when he was younger, I just hate to interrupt the meetings. & For the first 6months of my recovery I was in a mom program that allowed me to have my baby there but we weren’t allowed to go to outside meetings so it was difficult to find one while I was there. & When I went into a mom sober living and went to outside meetings I did find a sponsor but it was at a AA not NA meetings ( which I drank A LOT in my younger years so I was definitely an alcoholic as well ) but I just felt that our relationship wasn’t compatible to sponsor me. Her clean date was only a week ahead of mine & I know that you can sponsor after you have worked your steps but I kind of felt like we were kind of in the same place, & I would like to find a sponsor who is nice but is also going to call me on my bullshit and help me get down to the nitty gritty of everything. I want a friend and a confidon and someone who has experience sponsoring. But thank you so much for replying! && Thank you for welcoming me. It’s nice to have friends in sobriety! If you ever need to talk or anything im only a message away!
Yeah I know what you mean. I picked the sponsor I have now because after I met him he texted me lines from the big book nearly every day for like 2 weeks and I was like damn this guy has to be passionate about this program and sure enough he is. He’s 6 years sober too so he’s been through the early stages and a lot more. I’m in AA personally, but I know NA is a great one too if that’s more where you find what you need. I know a lot of people do also just do AA even if their drug of choice was something like cocaine. I’m sure you could also ask someone on a zoom meeting if you get a good feeling from them and I know I’ve been to meetings where women bring their young children and it’s completely fine. Either way I hope you find someone. Just keep up the search and always be open minded
Maybe try a womans meeting ,if you phone the contact they will let you know if you can bring along your child , meetings for me is the best place to find a sponsor , wish you well