Welcome Ihopper, glad you made the decision to join us, hope you keep coming back.

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Hello
 

Hi, I'm Marlon. Thank you for your warm welcome. I have been sober since January 7th, 2007 and live in the South. :173:

Welcome Marion, so glad you made the decision to join our family. Looking forward to sharing with you. Thanks for stopping by.

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Welcome to all the new members. Please make yourselves at home here. I hope you all will continue to come and share with us! :D

New Member Check In
 

Hello,
I'm so glad you all are here. I found this site several months ago when I was looking for Daily Readings but this is my first post. My name is Kathi, from Tampa, FL, and I am a chronic relapser :sad:

I manage to get 9 mos, a year, even a little over a year, and then I blow it by using. In fact, I just relapsed, and just got out of jail, AGAIN, after nearly 10 mos clean.

So, here I go again. Trying to get back on track. I used to be so hopeful for another chance, confident that this time, I would get it right. Not feeling confident though this time. I have faith in God, but not in myself. Oh, I'm good for at least another 9 mos to a year or so, but I'm sure I will screw everything up. That's what I always do. I don't like being negative but that's my reality.

In the meantime, I am committing myself to recovery and grateful for yet another chance. Thanks for being here.

Welcome Kathi, so glad you are here. There is a lot of recovery material here. It doesn't matter what substance you used, by now, I am assuming, that you have found out that the problem is you.

I spent many years pointing the finger at others, until I ran out of people, and all I had left was me, and there wasn't 'me' left. Every time I picked up, I lost a piece of me, and there was a big void. The only thing I could find to fill it was with spiritual food.

Welcome to the journey, just for today, I choose not to use.

Sorry, couldn't find a Falcon.

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I'm so grateful for this forum, thank you!

Welcome THD, thanks for signing in and saying hello. We are grateful to have you here.

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Hello, My name is Jesse, I am from Buffalo, just wanted to take a moment and introduce myself

Introduction
 

Hi
Bob H. SOD Halloween 1994. Home group Young and Free St. John's Newfoundland. Lived in Vancouver BC 1996 to 2010. Live and work in Alberta oil sands (Fort McMurray) last 4 years (John Deere.) I was a member of Lamplighters in 1995, think I was number 75. Life is good. thanks for being here. Bob

Welcome Jesse, to the site from a neighbor across the border in Ontario. Hope you will continue to come and share your journey with us.

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Hi my name is Ronnie (hippie girl). I'm really struggling. Quit drinking for a year and thought I could handle drinking again. I got drunk again last night!! Feeling the shame and disappointment. Feel like I'm not in control anymore.:/ Glad to be here.

Welcome Hippie Girl. Thank you for signing in and sharing. The fact that you are looking for control and wanting to be in control would be the key, we need to surrender to the program and to the God of our understanding in order to win over this disease of addiction. Control is an illusion. It is already out of control if we have to control it. When we surrender and turn it over, we are empowered to do what we need to do each day to stay clean and sober each day.

It is a one day at a time program. It isn't forever. It isn't for a year or a month or even 3 months or ten years. It is just for today, I choose not to use.

It is a program of suggestions (go to meetings, get a home group, get a sponsor, work with others, work and apply the steps, take your program out of the rooms of recovery and apply it to your daily life at home, at work and in the community), or you will go back to where you came from, and for me, that was not an option. For me, that was not an option. For me, to use is to die.

All you have lost is your dry date. It is up to you as to whether you want to lose more. You said you thought you could handle drinking again. I am sorry that gave me a little smile. It was my thoughts that got me to the doors of recovery in the first place.

Hope you will choose to stay. It is not easy, but it is so much better than going back there.

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Hello to you...
My name is Sandy. I have the disease of alcoholism to the bone, and God has graced me with recovery. Without others who know it's power, I know that without my God and AA I would not "be" today. I humbly thank you all.
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Welcome Sandy, so glad to have you with us. Look forward to sharing with you.

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Hi Sandy, :17: Glad to have you join us. I hope you will continue to come and share with us here. Have a great weekend! :)

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:17:Hello,

I'm Susan, aka Suzie. I will have 90 days clean on November 22. Thank you, God.

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Hi Suzie, It is great hearing from you. Congratulations on your sober time! :29: I hope you will continue to come and share with us. Have a great Sunday! :42:

Welcome Suzie, so glad to have you join us. Congratulations, many more one day at a time. Looking forward to sharing with you.

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Grateful to be here
 

Hi...my name's Rachel and I'm an alcoholic from Orange County, California. I've been sober since 9-1-09 and i thank you for allowing me to join in everyone's recovery here, including my own. God bless you.

Thy will (not mine) be done!:169:

Greetings All
 

hi all I am known as finbarr I am an alcoholic and drug user I had my last drink in July 2005 - but recently I have just quit pain med - I am 30 + days clean and sober- I am from the Republic of Ireland-

Welcome Rachael and Finbarr, so glad to have the both of you join us. Hope you will continue to come and share your journey with us.

We are doubly blessed.

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Congrats on 30 days off pain meds! That's a serious achievement. Keep it up! You're in my prayers

Indeed it is, I know I went through a living hell detoxing alone in my room at the YWCA for 5 days. I didn't know about AA and detox, and so grateful that they had a social worker back then that got me into a recovery house, which introduced me to the 12 Step programs. Endorse yourself! We do this one day at a time. Just for today, I choose not to use.

Thanks for sharing Rachel.

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pain med.s (tramadol +solpodol) were a nitemare to get off- i was taking a large amount- i also find it harder to stay off them than alcohol-

Thanks for sharing. I was told in treatment, "The body manufactures the pain to tell you that you need more." Yet don't let the people in the program play doctor, sometimes we do need medications, just because it is a pill doesn't mean it is wrong. I suffer from depression, but it isn't clinical depression and I don't need a pill for it. I just need to apply my program. Depression is part of grieving and part of withdrawal and detoxing, so many doctors dole out pills, when in fact it is a natural process and we have go through it, for me it was a living hell, but a pill doesn't make it better, it just prolongs things and kept me sick and in denial.

Some medications which are good for others are not good for others, for example, Gravol is something I don't have in my house. I can have it's good uses, but it was my drug of choice when everything else didn't work fast enough. For me it was about being aware and being willing to not go there.

Just for today, I choose not to use.

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Hey everyone, I'm Landon w. from Tulsa Oklahoma. Grateful to be sober n to have found this site.

Welcome Landon, so glad you found us. Look forward to sharing with you.

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hello hello!! just checking in. am doing quite well since i went back to meetings 6 mos. ago after being a dry drunk for 11 years, and after having 11 years of a good recovery program, and working it. just celebrated 22 yrs., but keep my white chip with me at all times (the one I picked up for coming back to the meetings) along w/my medallion. just wanted to stop by and say hello, and also ask that prayers be lifted up for Cheryl P. who is on day 13 after being in the program for 20 years. She had a "slip" (S.obriety L.osing I.t's P.riority). She is struggling mightly with detoxing and the Third Step of turning her will and her life over to the care of a Higher Power of her understanding. She is homeless now, (it is cold here in Maine) and looking at some legal charges as well. We women in the program have "circled our wagons" around her without "trying to fix it" at the same time. This is her journey.... but prayers are needed all the same. She's looking into rehab programs, lots of doors and windows are closing it seems, but not many are opening for her at the same time. God's will..... thank you all in advance for your prayers and good thoughts. Namaste to all of you!:lighthouse:

I am a man in recovery, who will pray for her :195:

Hi! I have been sober for a little over a year and recently had a lung surgery. This past year has been quite an interesting ride. I am very thankful for the many great ways my life has improved.

Welcome India, thanks for the update. Prayers for you and Cheryl. Hopefully she will allow you to be there for her. It will help you both.

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Welcome Randy, congratulations on your one year. You have been through a lot. Surgery can be a real test to our sobriety. Don't let the people in the rooms play doctor and yet be honest with your doctors about being an alcoholic and how pain medication is a form of dried-up alcohol to our bodies. We often need to take it , but under our doctor's and God's Care.

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Hi my name is Susan,this is my first day on this site. I am struggling with sobriety . I do use 12 step meetings and for some reason I haven't been able to put more than 8 days clean. I wasn't sobriety more than anything. So that is why I am here today.

Welcome Susan, so glad you found us. So sorry for the late hello, I have been having problems with my computer today.

We do this one day at a time. It is a program of suggestions and I was told, I would only get out of the program, what I put into it. for me, it was do or die. Using was no longer an option. I went to meeting, got a sponsor, got phone numbers, built up a support group, found a home group where I felt comfortable sharing, got temporary sponsor, until covered all the bases. I was an alcoholic in denial, and addict whose drug of choice was more, with an eating disorder, who escaped her reality with men, work, and relationships. Just for today, I choose not to use. I am powerless over people, places, and things. I had to quit pointing the finger and had to let it begin with me.

Hope you will keep coming so you won't have to come back again.

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Welcome ExRRer2003, so glad to have you here. Look forward to sharing with you.

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not sure what post or thread this is posting to but want to give and say much encouragement to all who have made it to this website. you have made it here not by accident believe me! big thanks to Majesty Jo for having it here by the way. also, as an update, Cheryl is still struggling, but like most of us, our struggles (at least it is for me), they are self induced. it happens to me when I simply will NOT turn it over and Let Go and Let God (or H.P) :embarrassed: I call myself the "Queen of "Snatch it Back!" (sounds like a game show)... you know... I turn it over and then BAM! I snatch it back, turn it over, BAM! snatch it back...*sigh* I'm still practicing progress not perfection.

thank you to everyone who comes here and shares their experience, strength and hope. I visit as often as I can and get much wisdom from your words. you never know what kind of impact you may have on someone's day, so thank you once again.

Thank you, so true, we can be our own worst enemy at times. As a woman said many years ago, every time I let go, I leave scratch marks. When we do that, it take a long time to heal. We tend to forget that scars go much deeper than what we see on the surface. We have places that only God can reach.

This is Randy M. With a quick update. My recovery from lung surgery has hit a snag, my lung collapsed, so I will be spending Thanksgiving in the hospital.

Thanks for sharing, my prayers are with you.

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