firstday

STOPDRINKING · Member

firstday

cheri · Senior Member

Good for you...today you did not drink. And tommorrow, one minute at a time, just don't drink. It'll be all right. Call AA as soon as you get up in the morning. We care.

Love, cheri

Phil · MIP Old Timer

Ditto...what Cheri said.:)

mikey50 · Senior Member

HI ' LOOK IN YOUR YELLOW PAGES ..FOR THE PHONE NUMBER OF AA

they have they have a list of all the meeting' they can evan have sombody call you

or take you to a meeting ..set you up with detox if needed ...tell them at the meeting

that you are new ..get phone number ..wen you fill like drinking call...try not to do it

alone this is a we program...we all started were you are ...i was so full of fear wen i first walk into the rooms of aa... and dont pick up that first drink...

before i walked into the rooms of aa i could not stay sober for 24 hours good luck and god bless...

intoteach · Member

You are fantastic. Every hour look into your children's eyes. Give them a hug. Tell them you love them. Watch how they respond. You would not notice any of this if you are drinking. Listen, if it was really hard no one would have any sobriety. Go to meetings for yourself. Listen for yourself. Do the steps for yourself. Not your husband or kids, but find yourself. Sometimes it feels like a rough road, but the journey is so worth it. Fake feeling good about yourself until you really do. Remember every one of us has been wherre you are, and understand what you are going through. One hour at a time is all there is to it.

Aargonaut · Newbie

You never have to take a drink again if you don't want. There was a time when I could not stay sober for one day. I could not stay sober for fifteen minutes. So, I did not drink right now. I was told not to drink if my ass fell off. So, I sat on my hands. That way, my ass didn't fall off and I couldn't use my hands to take a drink.

There is a part of us which wants desparately to get drunk and a part which desparately wants to stay sober. Help the part which wants to stay sober. Here is how: Even if you have one day sober, you have more sobriety than someone who is brand new. Help someone with less time than you. Tell them how you got one day sober. Go to a meeting and share your experience, strength and hope, including your fears. Almost everyone of us came in scared, alone, and uncertain as to how and if we could stay sober, and what a sober future would be like. I came in about to lose my wife and my house and almost everything else. I put these things in front of my sobriety, so I lost them. We understand.

I suggest you hang with sober people for a while, if possible, and don't worry about the Program of AA for a while. Just don't drink, no matter what, right now, and it will get better.

rosie light shines · MIP Old Timer

tues night when my rescue doggie ran away....i WANTED to drink...i LITERALLY took it one HOUR at a time, maybe shorter, with working the steps....calling my sponser....prayer/ giving it up...releasing me....i stayed sober.....i was ok....i had to do an anti anxiety med, but i was OK....and i am talking about during the crisis, maybe it was one MINUTE at a time.......this program does work but for me, i had to REALLY admit my defeat and accept that i was POWERLESS over so many things, b4 i could even THINK detachement/giving over......keep with us....keep talking and meetings.....hang in there....U can do it!!!! rosie

lily · Newbie

Oh, Rosie. Loosing your doggie makes me want to drink. Did you find him/her??

Working to stay sane myself. Happy to have found this space to hang out.

lily