I’ve been clean 2 months from cocaine and meth I got addicted to meth at age 16 and cocaine at age 18 I was recently able to stop when I lost a loved one at a hotel room in Southaven Mississippi on November 27th 2022 that I was in that day I wanted myself to get sober I started looking at rehabs and detox facilities because I was so fat from home I wasn’t able to get into one without paying for a day by day treatment I was told to go to Baptist health Desoto my life took a turn around when I got there I was admitted through the emergency room on November 29th 2022 for lab work and other stuff to help me find one I was sitting in the room 112 at 14:50pm a nurse practitioner came in and told me she had news I thought it would be about a rehab she said from your results we found something she said when was the last time you had your period I said November 6th I said I was late coming into it this month she looked at me and said because your expecting I was confused what she meant by that so I said excuse me she said your pregnant 3 days 2 weeks that was the biggest news of my life but most inspirational that day if I had any doubt of getting clean it went out the window because it wasn’t just about me anymore it was going to be for my baby today I am doing so much better than I was I have the both of the loves of my life and his family I will be 13 weeks even pregnant with my boyfriends daughter they gave me a motivation I would have never went for in my life and even though on days I get craving I think of this before I didn’t have anything to lose and it felt really hurtful do I really want to mess up everything I have now and go back to feeling that way again
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I started to date someone with 12 years of sobriety. I never thought that was possible.
I had to completely destroy my life. It’s a shitty way to get inspired but it worked.
Congratulations on your 2 months ! And welcome. Great question/topic. I got sober because I saw the affect on my daughter.
My inspiration was I had a choice. I could keep drinking and lose everything good in my life, or I could be sober and have a chance at saving everything good in my life. I chose the latter, and not only did I save everything good in my life, but my life got even better. This keeps me sober, as now I have even more to live for.
Congratulations!! I would set a beer on my kids’ night stand, say prayers with them, take another sip, hear " daddy, you smell like beer". This was becoming a problem. What kind of legacy would I instill on the most important, impressionable people in my life?
Your daughter deserves a sober parent. Children need a sense of love and security that we cannot provide when using.
That’s very good how are you doing now
That’s very true because you can’t help anyone until you learn to help yourself
My main inspiration was wanting a better life.
But a short term trigger (the very last time I drank) was because this boss at work with “small man syndrome” shouted at me, degraded and disrespected me… I went home that evening and broke a long streak of soberiety, because of HIM!?! …It seemed to make sense at the time I felt like crap and like I was no good at my job and not respected in any way, but afterwards I realised that I never want to let such a horrid little man have an impact on me, in such a way that I would harm my own body and life by drinking.
I had a real “never again” moment, not just to drink, but to not letting others actions affect me in such a negative way. I try to take the quiet warrior’s path and learn when their anger and bile is more about them than about me. I try to observe it and use it as a lesson of how not to behave, rather than taking on the anxiety that they are attempting to create.
My inspiration was desperation. Not just a bad week, or a bad month, or even a bad year, a long life as a loser that I had parlayed into a lifestyle. I was everything 10 yr old me said I would never be. That scared little kid still lived inside of me and I was scared of myself, who I had become. I gotta do it for me. I cant pour from an empty cup. Heres to better days for you and me 
718 days and counting