@Lisa64 Welcome to the community Lisa. This is a wonderful place with lots of tools and help for recovery and also some just for fun threads. Glad you’re here!
@Brittney_Love94 Welcome back Brittney.. Congrats on day 11. Glad you’re feeling optimistic. Things will only continue to get better for you if you put your recovery first. Glad you’re here!
Thank you for this post. I’m AF 34 days and I re-read this post of yours every single morning. It reminds me to stay vigilant.
I’m hoping I can brainwash myself for the better! Reading and re-reading💕
My plan is to work the program to the best of my ability on a daily basis. To not beat myself up if I fall short in certain areas. To never forget where the drug and alcohol takes me if I go back. To stay connected with my recovery community and continue to step out of my comfort zone especially with social situations. To practice gratitude with action not words. To talk to my higher power multiple times a day. To enjoy my life and to be outside more than I am inside!!!
My plan is to remember that I don’t like to not be in control and alcohol doesn’t keep me in control. I stay away from other substances because they take my control away, so does alcohol.
First off, I am a newcomer in this forum/community.
I am 3 1/2 years sober, clean and serene. And I deserve it. I can assure you. I go to meetings and try to work in the program as much as possible.
Do I have a plan? Sure.
My plan in my head is to chunk loads of beers, bump coke, drop acid and smoke weed and party all weekend.
But also , I am parenting a 5yr old gorgeous little girl who needs her dad every day.
And when my healthy brain takes over, it reminds me that I am the greatest when I am with her.
So, I wanna stay my greatest, feel my best and - easy - stay with the sober plan and not my sick one.
Every day for 3,5 yrs I am thinking of this relapse. Also, every day I promise myself not to use today.
One day at a time - everyday.
I do pray and meditate, though I am agnostic. It doesn’t really matter.
Cause I know sobriety works for me.
And my plan is to live and let live. My life.
This is a very well thought out reading…it truly breaks things down and is something I will be sending my family and hopefully it helps them with a clearer understanding of my disease
Plan number # 1 is not picking up that for 1st drink today. No matter, what the evil side of my brain tells me. # 2 is keep doing what I have been doing not to pick up that first drink. # 3 always remember that one leads to and the
At times in the past.
My plan was to do things better than before.
Which means i would evaluate my addiction.
I would think about what i liked the most while i was in my addiction.
Then i would calculate the amount of time in my addiction.
How much of that time was enjoyable?
What was enjoyable doing that time?
Then i thought about all the time i have been out the addiction.
What things gave me enjoyable moments while i was not in my addiction?
I then realized that it’s just a small portion of time that I enjoyed while on the addiction.
While not on my addiction i was able to enjoy more of life.
Cause some of the things that give me the most joy out of life.
I cant enjoy while in the addiction.
An at times its not worth starting my addiction again, knowing that I will not enjoy it.
So my plan usually is to not do anything that prevents me from enjoying life. And if addiction will prevent me from enjoying life, it’s not worth doing the addiction because it’s not enjoyable no more.
Tho when i relapsed after i came up wit that theory.
I found myself trying to shut it off before i end up completely turned down what I feel while I was not in the addiction.
The last few relapses devastated my situation.
As of now my plan is to build up as much as i can in hopes of not destroying what im building while sober.
Cause im not sure how many times i can come bac from it.
Its is others i care about.
An at times when i choose to enjoy life wit addiction.
It hurts the ones i care about.
The ones that choose to care about me.
At the end of the day.
I prefer to enjoy life without anyone else getting hurt in the process.