Loosid Sober Tip of the Day Jul 11

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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It's cliche but I needed this today!! My sober date is 9/7/24 and I was like, hmmm...what could go wrong? Y'all, literally EVERYTHING!! Thank God for saving me. God bless all of you. :pray::pray::pray:

I agree with calling it "stinking thinking "!
We will all experience cravings at some point. Just always remember the fact that we are powerless over whatever drug or drink it is. The last drink I had was over 15 years ago. The last drug I allowed into my body was over a year ago. I view it all as a deadly allergy. To each their own. I also have tucked into the back of my mind, that if I were to give into temptation, I would lose the people I love dearly all over again. I can not bare to put them through that pain again. I do not want to ever live through that pain again.

Couldn't have said it better myself :pray::100: