Encouraging words

Question

For those on day one to those on day 29+ let's keep up the good fight!!! 
It seems like the beginning of and end to a wonderful start. It's a battle we have to keep fighting for,  it's going to be hard but it can be done. Keep faith in your high power (mine is God) he has us right where we need to be. Day 1 may seem and most likely be the hardest but the great feeling at day 29 is better than anything we could ever hope for. I feel 100% better than day 1 and 95% better than day 7 (don't know why I like saying that) and just know in my heart it's going to be 100% better by tomorrow. I'm praying for each one of y'all on your success,  each day will be a journey we should never forget. Alway know there is someone going through the same thing so we shouldn't ever feel ashamed to reach out, nobody here can't judge us for the same thing we do. We have today, tomorrow shouldn't be worried over. Keep your heads up and remember to keep fighting.
((John))

PlowBoy36420 · Answer

Thank you all, I know how much hell I've gone through to get here. It pains me to see others go through this too, wish there was a simple solution to go through this process but we all know that's only a fairy tale. If I can help change one person just for their moment in suffering that makes me feel good.

Frogger76 · Answer

Great post!! Your such an inspiration to those just starting on this journey. You've poured your heart and soul into this and it shows. I pray nothing but good comes your way!  God bless and take care...

mooneyb1 · Answer

Plowboy, thank you so much for this post.  I mean, those words just resonated right in to my mind and soul, I'm relatively new on here and I keep getting to days 2 and 3 and giving up on it all. Then the self-hate. Then my determination kicks back in and I start over. I so much want this to he the last time. I'm sitting at the beginning of day 2 again, but like you, I believe Heavenly Father will be my strength all the way through.  Thank you for your words of experience.  I like to state things in percentages as well! Also thanks to everyone here for listening, and trying to help through experience and using tough love when it's called for. If I don't make it back on here today for some reason, my blessings and thanks to all. -Bonnie-

VICourageous · Answer

Congrats on your Time so far!
Even if I am days away from 3 yrs I know I am still a Babe in the Woods.
Each and every day brings on new Faith, which brings me more Experience to have more Hope for the future in this Recovery. Time will lay out more & more.

Even if we live in "Just for Today" we still find that we can set Goals, Dreams and look ahead to the joys a life in Recovery has to offer.

If I change my Action's, my thoughts will follow..
I just love "Just for Today"

Keep on trucking forward and pray you do not get a flat tire on the way..Ha!!
Hang in and stay POSITIVE..Very Happy for YOU!
Bless
Vickie

pillguy · Answer

John:  Well put.  Its really a wonderful thing to be free of the opiate trap.  When you're inside its hard to see a way out.  In some ways its extremely difficult.  The acute withdrawal is no piece of cake but its only a couple weeks.  I still think of those cancer patients on chemo, sometimes for years, just so they can be at a graduation or a birth.  Its all relative. :-)  Its the same with those 'no energy' periods after the withdrawals.  It just not that long.  A couple months and most of us are back in the saddle of normalcy.  The bottom line is that if you want this, really want it, then you are going to make it.  Its about choice.  I love opiates.  Really love them.  But the cost is just too high.  So I choose not to use them.   We try to help but the people like you, succeed because you decided.  You decided to stop.  Congratulations!!