We do Change!

[gizzy32]

I saw one of my very first posts here that came back up after a year and a half today and reading it made me see how I was still in denial even after being 40 something days clean back then. I was aggravated that people here told me I should not drink, but they were RIGHT! I remember it was that post where I started making friends on here and decided to take advice from those that knew and understood and gave me tough love. Although I have had a few minor bumps in that time, I am FINALLY working my recovery going to meetings once a week and being on MH more again. Reading that post today made me really think.

Although it gets easier, I will always be an addict and using once is not an option. I have learned a lot about addiction now and it takes work for me to stay clean. Have you ever looked back on some of your older posts here? So many of us have changed since we got here and changed for the better. What did you learn about yourself most through all this? I have finally learned to be comfortable in my own shoes and like who I am clean and sober. I also learned that this is a fight for life, but ones that gets easier. It's been a wild ride so far I tell ya!

[toxictome]

How does that saying go??  "If I would have known yesterday, what I know today......."

Progress..not perfection, Giz!

LOL.

Keep working it!!

[NautyOne]

Oh, yeah I have been surprised with a few posts that popped up out of the blue and I had to squint a little reading them.....lol

Nauty...........

[freebird227]

There is no modle of the recovered addict.When the drugs go and the addict works the program, wonderful things happen.
Lost dreams awaken and new possibilities arise. Our willingness to grow spiritually keeps us buoyant.
When we take the actions indicated in the steps, the results are a change in our personality.
It is our action that is important.
We leave the rest to our higher power.
The only alternative is to stop using and start learning how to live.
When we are willing to follow this course and take advantage of the help available to us, a whole life opens up.

In this way....We Do Recover ( basic text pg85 )

[mtgoat911]

We Do Recover
When at the end of the road we find that we can no longer
function as a human being, either with or without drugs, we all
face the same dilemma. What is there left to do? There seems
to be this alternative: either go on as best we can to the bitter
ends—jails, institutions or death—or find a new way to live. In
years gone by, very few addicts ever had this last choice.
Those who are addicted today are more fortunate. For the first
time in man’s entire history, a simple way has been proving
itself in the lives of many addicts. It is available to us all. This is
a simple spiritual—not religious—program, known as