Loosid Sober Tip of the Day April 2

You can turn a cucumber into a pickle, but you can't turn a pickle back into a cucumber.

In recovery, we often use this term to explain that, once an alcoholic or addict, always and alcoholic or addict.

This great obsession of alcoholics and addicts is to think one day we can drink or use again in moderation.

To combat this ‘stinking thinking’, many of us admit our powerlessness over the drink or drug in our daily practice.

This allows us to withdraw from the debating society in order that we don’t waste energy on things we cannot change.

Remember, alcoholism and addiction is 100% treatable.

For this reason, many of us find ourselves beyond grateful for having a disease which we can put in remission on a daily basis provided we work a spiritual program.

Today, choose to accept being a pickle today. Life is too short to spend it trying to turn back into a cucumber.

How did this tip resonate with you? Let us know your thoughts below. There are many people in the Loosid community who need to hear what you have to say.

With Love, Loosid :pray::heart:

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Good analogy

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Great reminder!

Thanks! I like the bit on withdrawing from the debating society. If I spend so much of my focus/energy/brainpower/effort on futile indecisions then I don't have enough left for my basic daily functioning like meal prep and hygeine and walking my dog. I wish the grocery stores by me didn't have booze in them because the stinking thinking starts up every single time.

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Once you become a creature in Christ, the old man have passed away, and you a new creature. So always an addict/alcoholic doesn't match up with that thinking.
Old desires and thinking are dead.
Depends on what you believe in.

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I love this. It’s so true!!!:100::heart::pray:

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