An excellent post! One thing that helped me is remembering that we only do this one day at a time. This disease does not take a holiday, so I can’t afford to take a holiday from sobriety. Someone in one of my meetings uses “Play the tape forward.” Long before you pick up that first drink, remind yourself of all the things that happened after…[Read more]

I can so relate to this post. At the end of my drinking, I was totally isolating. Every day, I would come home from work and start drinking with the sole goal of getting to oblivion. I am not a social butterfly today and my sponsor calls me a loner. 🙂 But, I do love the people in the meetings here and in my local area. he

Outstanding post. I wish I had read this one a long time ago. 🙂 I told my sponsor today that even when I feel fear, at least I know now everything will turn out as it is supposed to and I will be OK.

Another great one!

Good reading.

That gave my goosebumps; especially the last line.

Love that reading!

Hi Amber! Glad you are here and it was great to see you in the meeting the other day. This is a great site with lots of great people helping each other recover, because we do together what we could not do alone (not drink/stay sober). Please keep coming back. This thing works and we need you here to help keep the rest of us sober another day.

Hi David! Glad you are here and welcome to the family. The newcomer is the most important person in the room, both here and in the face to face meetings. There are up to 5 meetings on this site every day, along with some great people helping each other through recovery. Lots of resources, too, like articles, and other information. Please join…[Read more]

Glad you are here and welcome to the family. The newcomer is the most important person in the room. There are up to 5 meetings on this site every day, along with some great people helping each other through recovery. Lots of resources, too, like articles, and other information. Please join the meetings in the chat room, which also serves a place…[Read more]

Hey Ollie! Glad you are here and welcome to the family. The newcomer is the most important person in the room. There are up to 5 meetings on this site every day, along with some great people helping each other through recovery. Lots of resources, too, like articles, and other information. Please join the meetings in the chat room, which also…[Read more]