Loosid Sober Tip of the Day April 27

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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No we can’t but we don’t have use labels to define us smart recovery is about mangerment your addiction

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Yes I found out the hard way after 6years I tested my luck and ended up loosing it all in a matter of months

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2years sobriety for me, thinking I got this and within 6 months I lost everything that quick once again. Anyways, here we go again!! Get back up and keep pushing forward.

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Thank you! Great message