Today i started training for my second job. I'm bound and determined to be outta debt by next year! plus it helps give me something to do in the morning so i don't go out at night.
tonight i went to my third meeting. last thursday I had gone to the same womens meeting and was met warmly. i enjoyed it entirely. Tonight the speaker was magnificent. I got her number. I just sat and truly listened to everything. i was excited about AA bec of her.
Tomorrow is my 30 day sobriety. i got my literature in last week and have been reading. I feel so different right now. I have been angry lately but tonight really brought to my attention how truly blessed I am. My story is my story. Every day is different. i'm working on my happiness. i don't have any want to drink right now. My husband and I started a workout regimine this week. I've been eating healthy. I have been sleeping very well.
i trust that my higher power, God has led me to these meetings for a reason. today i'm kristi, i'm an alcoholic and i'm thankful that 30 days ago I realized that would be my last drink.
Thank you.
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I can finally breathe. Suddenly alive. I can finally move. The world feels revived.
wow, congrats on 30 days CJ, what an inspirational message. Hang on to those feelings, keep positive and beware of feeling "cured". "We are granted a daily repreve, from the disease, based upon our spiritual condition". Routines are great, the more the merrier. Getting to a meeting daily increases ones chances for staying sober dramatically.
Woo Hoo!!! Congrats on 30 days.......... In the beginning it was a bit hard for me to get to meetings (not really, just didn't want to take the time). But, that changed, Today, I plan my day around a meeting instead of my meeting around my day! Works out well...... Got a sponsor yet?
(((hugs))))
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Way to go christi! Thats great your feeling so positive about life and AA! I just cleaned an old purse out and found my 3 months coin. It really does fly by and Im happy to say my old debts are getting cleaned up too! It can happen, If I stay sober, go to meetings and believe in my HP!! Keep up the good work!
I found to that by going to alot of meetings, you eventually start getting to know people and feeling a part of the group! It helped as I talked with different people and realized how parallel our lives really were. Its funny how sometimes the things we share, that we think are so unique to us, happen to more women than we ever dreamed!! Weird or what!?
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"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. "
hi 30 days , thats really good going, it can be so hard comming to the fellow ship andd admitting we have a problem, at least i know it was for me , i didnt realise just how addicted i was till i stopped, before when i wanted a drink ,i could drink , but that last drink ,it was as if i could see myself for the first time, before it was the wife ,the job or anything else, but that last drink i realised that there was no one to blame but me and alcohol, thank god for the fellowship for no matter how frightened i was to walk into a meeting , nothing could match the fear of what alcohol was doing to me and my family , they told me it was not easy , but that a day at a time ,telephoneing aa;s and as many meetings as possible it would get easier, I remember at the time saying to myself if one more person says it gets easier or it will pass ill walk out but by the grace of god i stayed and believe me when i say i gets better, and if your finding it hard it will pass. all the best , ill be thinking of you david b
thank you for all your wonderful comments. no i do not have a sponsor yet, but right now i want someone that will really push me out of my comfort zone. all of the women i have listened to has said the same thing, "she would make me go shave my legs and i would think what the ****." or something else but it was a sponsor that just stuck on them. i feel that is an ultimate downfall of myself. i know i have a problem. my friends are beginning to tell me i don't have a problem. i know myself. i know my past. i want a future, not just reliving the same memories.
Thanks again.
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I can finally breathe. Suddenly alive. I can finally move. The world feels revived.
My thought exactly!! Get to more meetings as: MEETING MAKERS
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"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. "
