I dont know if its the darker months ( like less sunlight ) thats causing me to feel this way but i just have been feeling off/ sad. I have over a year of recovery and lots of reasons to be happy, i have a great relationship with my family , i have my cat back in my life and has since june, im going to school for a new career im super grateful for the things i have in my life but i still have these moments of sadness and i just dont know why, i dont feel the urge to use just the clarify
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Hi Brianna. Thank you for sharing. I’m sorry to hear you’re having a hard time. The dark can definitely have an effect on our mental health. What do you do when you’re feeling at your lowest? Do you have any hobbies you enjoy doing?
Please feel free to private message me if you’d like to talk.
Rihanna I'm glad that you reached out and posted your thoughts.
One of my old sponsors would say to me you're exactly where you're supposed to be.
I used to get so mad at him.
Explained recovery to me like a roller coaster. Is that in a recovery we can for quite some time he going along real smooth nothing seems to interfere with our thoughts or change our mood. And then all of a sudden we hit this bump in the road we don't know why or where it came from but we have to climb we have to work hard imagine you being on a roller coaster and you get to a point where you get to the chain and it has to carry you up a big steep portion of your sobriety and when you get to the top it's smooth sailing and easy flowing.
So whatever you do do not give up.
Our feelings and thoughts come and go, and change is inevitable for us.
Rated one thing I can suggest just do not lose sight of who comes first which is god. As long as we put him first everything else will fall into place.
Our attitudes and outlook upon life will change fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle things that used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is really doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
We ask ourselves then are these extravagant promises absolutely not. Then we ask ourselves are these extravagant promises?
The answer is no. But they will materialize if we work for what we want.