Here is to 1.5 year sober🤙🏻

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Here is to 1.5 year sober🤙🏻

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Woohoo Travis! Congrats Brother!
What’s one thing you are doing to combat your alcoholism?

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Thank you. Just switched my whole life style, working out everyday, helping as much as I can with others and finding new hobbies

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Welcome :pray: that’s awesome! You going to AA? I can say that what you are describing is exactly what AA has taught me.
There is sentence that has stuck with me out of the big book, I’m paraphrasing here, “we must under go a complete psychic change”. When I read this I was compelled to make every necessary change I could to be a better human.
This really hit me when I was taking a sponsee through the steps and we read that same sentence together and his response was I don’t think I have to change everything about me.
That’s when I had another spiritual awakening. I realized that if I was to have that thinking I was for sure going to fall off the wagon. Unfortunately my sponsee did. My point is we have to be completely honest with ourselves in this new journey we are on. If we want to be free we have to change our minds.
Keep up the good work my friend! Life is blissfully beautiful sober.

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I do go to AA and am an active sponsor for 3 individuals. For me I try to point out that you are giving up 1 thing for everything you love and without giving up that one thing you can lose it all. Going through sobriety you have to change your whole thinking process and how you live life. The changes are only positive and protect you mentally and physically. Since day 1 I wrote down what I want to change and why I want to and what happens if I don’t. I have 5 pictures next to it that I look at every morning and remember why I am on this journey and that you can do anything that you set your mind to.

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Well said my friend! I too had wrote a letter in treatment to my addiction and what I want to do about it. Ever since then I’ve been on this journey to change my life.
Thank you for sharing with me.

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You are more than welcome. 95% of people are worried they are going to be judged when in reality people respect you and are there for you more than ever. That is the biggest point I try to get across is if someone doesn’t respect your choices then you don’t need them in your life. This journey is yours and yours only and you can take it as far as you want and take the time to enjoy the little things and celebrate the big things because you are doing it

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#8

Exactly what I’ve been experiencing. When I worry about what others think I shut down mentally and then my energy is lowered. When I’m honest and standup tall, talk the talk and walk the walk people around me respect me and are happy to be around me. That’s the person I enjoy being today.

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Exactly and that’s the thing is never shut down take a step back and look at all of your accomplishments you have achieved so far and how much farther you will go then people who sit there and try to put you down.

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#10

:metal:t5::partying_face: #goals

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#11

Thank you! You will get there :grin:

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#12

Great job Travis, huge milestone!

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#13

Thank you

#14

Congratulations Travis!!

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#15

Thank you!

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#16

Congrats! :confetti_ball:

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#17

Good stuff loved what you said :grinning:

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:muscle::wave:

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Thank you!

#20

That is awesome and a huge congratulations to you Travis!!

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