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Christine63


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Just checking in.

Day 15 - ~10 meetings

I've tried out some discussion groups, some open groups and a women's group.

So far, I enjoy the discussion groups the most and the one women's meeting resulted in me getting pretty honest with myself for the first time.

I'm not really enjoying the open meetings with leads that much, but I'm still going to them. They're all very large groups and I feel a little lost in the crowd. I pay attention and try to learn something from each speaker.

I had a bit of pink cloud syndrome going on at the end of week 1. It seemed easy and had me confused, but a day or two later, my I was body-slammed into some post-acute symptoms that had me sick in bed for 5 days straight (hence screwing up my 90/90 goal). I guess I fell off the pink cloud. :)

I have found a BB group to go to, but have yet to find a sponser. I'm carefully paying attention to ladies in the different meetings I go to. So far there is one woman who seems like someone who really has what I want, but I don't want to make any rash decisions, so I'm going to just keep observing for a few weeks to make sure that she's the one I want to ask.

That's about it. I've been reading through a bunch of posts here going back a few years and have learned a lot - so thank you for this forum.

Christine



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Hi Christine, sounds like you are probing your way through the meetings. Good going!

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GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Congrat's



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Christine,

Thanks for checking in, sounds like you are learing alot and getting more comfortable. Great Job!

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Congratulations, your on your way to a better life...



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Congrats Christine. Keep up the good work.



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Hi Christine

It does my spirit good to hear you are doing so well.  Just keep getting to your meetings, read the literature, and keep coming back to this board.  Sounds like you are qualified with a desire to stop drinking.  Give yourself completely to this simple program and you will witness miracle after miracle... and one of them will be YOU.

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That's fantastic Christine, keep doing what you're doing and great things will happen.



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Christine, so happy to hear your doing great! It is inspirational to me, that's for sure! The 90 in 90 is a suggestion; you are doing wonderful and can't help when illness may stike! Not too worry, there's plenty more meetings to go to. I'm with you, sometimes I get a bit overwhelmed in the big open meetings but I also find sometimes that just what I need when I need a reminder to be humble; a big old meeting with lots of folks in the same boat as me. Keep up the great work!

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Great to have you here!

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Awesome Christine! I did 90 in 90 - but it was cuz I had hit like 3 meetings on some days. I know it's supposed to be at least a meeting a day but I recall having three 16 hour training days for work and that took me away from meetings. I was so active with my sponsor and such that I was okay....I had "meetings in the bank" as they say - from having gone to multiple meetings in a day previously. I would not look for Ms. Perfect in a sponsor. Just look at the quality of their sobriety and that is what you want to model. Having a sponsor by day 6 was crucial for me. In retrospect, my first sponsor was nutty and only had 14 months sobriety when we started....but it all worked out perfectly for some reason. We are good friends now despite all the drama that we put each other through with both of us being in early sobriety and working together. It doesn't matter....we both stayed sober and learned from each other.

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Hi Pinkchip - I'm having difficulty finding women that are not as new as I. The meetings I go to have a lot of men with many sober years, but I've only found 2 women that have over a year of sobriety, so my choices seem a little limited right now. There's lots of young ladies who are at the meetings because they are court ordered, so I'm trying to sift through that. There's a lot of relapsing going on and I'd prefer to pick someone that is a bit more stable. I hope that didn't sound "better than thou" - I'm just trying to make sure I do what's best for me and not get myself in a shaky situation.

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Nah. You sound exactly where you are supposed to be. Hopefully a good candidate will present herself soon!

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This is encouraging to hear.



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I have asked for an online temporary sponsor.  I think that this will help me the accountability right now.  Here is the link if you would like to request a temporary sponsor.

 

http://www.e-aa.org/form_sponsors.php



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