+ 7 So much potential here
I hope everybody has a good start to their weekend, I just wanna start off by saying anybody that has any suggestions to get the group, or this section of this awesome website even better please pm me. There’s so many days where I just wish I had somebody I could just pick up the phone call, a lot of people think when you make it so far in recovery, and you get some what of a normal schedule and what not that we’re (us in recovery) are good, and we don’t need that strong, reassuring support. And that couldn’t be further from the truth, I’m hoping to feel that gap somewhat with this group, and connecting different members and allowing us to branch out to people we didn’t have the opportunities to before. We’re just trying to make it another day, dealing with new problems, relationship issues, coparenting problems, jobs, etc on top of that constant fight that is forever going on inside of us feels like as long as we’re breathing. But with all of us together, it can get easier better and improve. That helps me and keep me going sometimes knowing that I can always improve and there’s some satisfaction and being better than I was yesterday.
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Good stuff. Hope you all have an awesome weekend. We are our brothers and sisters keepers and we need to lean on each other in difficult times -- be blessed everyone
My sponsor always tells me. You know their is no graduation from AA/NA? This is a life long journey we take one day at a time. We can't think ourselves into a new way of life. We have to live it and then our thinking changes.
Yes I have great suggestions
Pm sent, thank you !
It's nice to see the group has a new owner mate, I truly wish you much success with it
Try not to be too hard on yourself buddy and think about the past too much, there is no need to continue to see yourself as an alcoholic if you have a few years sobriety in you. Sure we are still definitely susceptible to temptations that we know are not good for us especially drink, but as time goes on the interest in it declines every month of every year or at least it does for me. I couldn't care less if I never have another drink in my life - I would see it as torture now waking up hungover. In a funny way when I glance over the past years when I was at my worst, I like to think about just how bad it was and how utterly helpless and ill I felt 24/7. Reliving those times are useful because they keep you well away from anything of that nature.
There comes a point that with all the daily challenges and problems that you mention above, you realise are simply things that are happening to everyone, some people much worse than we experience them. We chose to blot and numb them out with drink, and where did it get us? Absolutely nowhere. Learn to relax and take things in your stride as the way I view life now is we are merely here for a very short time - we never really know if this day is our last, and although we view it as one long planned out ride it really isn't. All that we have is the present, this moment - right now. All the choices we make right this very second transition on to make up the periods of time that form the rest of our day
Thanks man! Recovery is a forger journey and we need each-other to to continue forward on this road.