Hope things are going well on this new part of your journey SkunkW! .... grateful for another sober day of hump! IWNDWYT
GardeningSadhu
joined 1 year ago
Also, i know you said you have religious trauma so i didn't talk about recovery dharma but then i remember i know some who talks at one meeting a lot was raised in an awful awful cult and he loves RD. I know you can't go today but the 9am est daily non dukkha meeting is where he hangs out at and it's my favorite meeting. This is buddhist recovery but there's lots of people with religious trauma and they really like RD. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQmuN3eHggYoR9maoLttce3MkZLTZ0UTByIv_lKK7MbXEElHMBCwD_HX8aP3d1Tcp-J7TihbPgatLWL/pubhtml?gid=1997228258&single=false
So grateful that sobriety just flows into my life with very little effort these days; it took a lot of effort to make it this way but it's now perfect wu-wei.... IWNDWYT!
Thank you for sharing that this is what's going on today, it sounds scary and you sound very brave for taking steps forward anyway, i love to hear that! ... Smart recovery sounds like what you may be looking for. It's not nearly as big as AA but here's a link to online meetings https://meetings.smartrecovery.org/meetings/?coordinates=50&location=- ... i attend smart recovery, recovery dharma and AA meetings. I want you to know that i know lots and lots of people who have gotten to long term sobriety and they don't need the 12 steps, a sponsor or any of that other AA stuff to do it. I still go to AA cause it helps me to hear newcomers talk about what a shit show their lives are at the moment. I absorb what is useful and discard what is not... good luck! i'm so proud of you continuing to try. It took me hundreds of tries but i always made sure to try something new each time so that even if i failed, i still learned something for my next try. It's worth the effort!
So stoked to be sober so i can enjoy this season of football. IWNDWYT!
" You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea. Only in the awareness of the present, can your hands feel the pleasant warmth of the cup."... so grateful to the universe for molding this bit of matter into something sober that can enjoy the tea this morning. IWNDWYT!
not today is what we say to the god of death. IWNDWYT!
that's the truth! After my last relapse a few years ago it helped me to keep in mind that no matter how long i'm sober i'm always going to have to not drink today.
for so long i didn't think i'd ever be happy without alcohol, i'm glad i trusted that maybe i was wrong about that because i was. so happy for another day out of that poison prison! IWNDWYT
sorry to hear about the disappointed niece! hopefully you get some soon
freezing cold outside but i've got central heating, i'm sober and i'm alright. IWNDWYT!
waking up from those is the most relieving feeling! ... i used to have them all the time, they did go away eventually except for very rare occasions and they are way less alarming when they do happen now.... just a sign that you are overcoming your old habits!