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Join Date: Feb 2016
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Hamilton, ON
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Welcome SoberRed, thank you for signing in and saying hello. Sounds like you need to pray for the willingness to be willing to do what ever it takes to maintain your sobriety.
If I was your sponsor, I would have been on the phone talking to you. Personally, I went to two meetings a day for two years, and when I got a ride, I went to three to a couple of late meetings that started at 10:30 p.m. Going to meetings helped with that loneliness, and the best way to get out of the old Self is to go to meetings and share in recovery. That is why I come to this site even though I have several 24 Hours, it is a one day at a time program. I still need other people, but you just can't beat the energy of meeting with people face to face. I can send you a hug, but it just isn't the same. ![]() There is help here, lots of recovery material plus the daily readings. No matter what your drug of choice was, the 12 Steps are applicable to all areas of our life. Substitution doesn't work! I tried and it kept me sick for another 8 years before I found recovery. Keep coming so you don't have to come back. ![]() WELCOME!
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Join Date: Aug 2013
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Hey SoberRed, Glad to have you join us. There is nothing like today to start taking action and go out to a meeting. Try it and if you don't like it you don't have to go anymore. But who knows, you might like it. There are people at the meetings who have been where you are and understand. Keep taking it one day at a time and keep coming and sharing with us. We are here for you.
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AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving. |
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Jan
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Chicago Area
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Red,
I still have some days when I feel sorry for myself, feel lonely or feel like "no one cares...if I left and went away no one would miss me". The feeling always passes......know that you are NEVER alone and that there are millions of people in recovery who feel the same way you do...that is my disease talking to me, wanting me to isolate and "handle it my own way". When I go to a meeting, even if I don't share, I always feel better because just being a room ful of recovering alchoholics shows me I'm NOT alone. Hang in there!!! Talking to others and getting out of your head always helps. When I first got sober I also got a journal and wrote down all my feelings and thoughts. Just getting it out on paper was therapeutic for me. Jan ![]() |
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