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How Far I Have Come
By Sy S. Hi to everyone! I was three on Friday!! I would have written then, but the mail server I subscribe to went down. I have had my ups and downs, but my quality of life has changed out of all proportion!!! I still WELCOME each new day, gone is the dread that each…
The best thing that happened
By Joy H. There are forces out there messing with me big time… Yesterday, started off morning bad with various little things — I woke up with a stiff neck (rare for me), got an electrical shock on the way to work, got to work to process month-end and all the copy machines broke on…
I’d Just Rather Be Me
By Bill McD. Howdy Everyone: (A few Mozart-induced thoughts of a gray and drizzly morning) “to be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” (e.e. cummings) This appears on…
Two Things I’ve Learned
By Jennifer S. <If you wait around until you “feel better” better before you stop drinking, you are probably going to have a long, painful wait. – R.> Very true. I wasted two years waiting to “feel better.” I thought if I just waited until my marriage was better, until we had money, until I…
To Get To Know Me
By Jennifer S. <One of the things that came up this week at my counselor’s was the fact that I am trying to get away from myself. – D.> This came up for me several times. I was told, “The problem with trying to get away from yourself is, no matter where you go, there…
Straight to Blackout
By Steve C. I remember when I was around 19 or 20, I almost beat the hell out of my girlfriend’s father. I broke a few dishes, yelled and screamed at him, and finally, after he called the cops, I split. After about a year of sneaking around behind his back with his daughter, he…
That “One Last Binge”
By Diane J. <Why do I keep thinking that I have a binge coming up? Why do I feel I deserve “one last binge”….? I’m actually looking forward to it. Not all the time but it does enter my mind occasionally. Yesterday was the worst so far. I was determined to get beer. On one…
Sobriety Has Its Own Momentum
By Diane J. <I’ve come to the realization that this alcoholism is something that will never go away. There will never be a day when I’ll “get better”.- M.> I’m glad you posted. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone else either, absolutely not — but since you and I and others on this list seem…
Those Old Triggers
By Laura L. < I had a vision yesterday of a quiet afternoon in a quiet bar, relaxing and sipping a couple of vodka tonics and flipping through a magazine with the television going quietly in the background and occasionally chatting with the bartender. – D. > Yeah, sitting around at Borders bookstore with a…