Loosid Sober Tip of the Day Jul 13

Sober Tips
#1

Building your sober network.

In recovery, it is very important to surround ourselves with people who share our common bond.

It is also important that we make sure those people we choose to connect with are constantly striving to put more in their spiritual toolkits.

In the same way we get better in sports when we play with people who have more experience and skills, sobriety works the same way.

Look for people who have what you want and connect with them.

If you are brand new to recovery, make a commitment today to get a group of at least 5 people you can reach out to on a regular basis via phone.

There are over 23 million people in recovery in the United States.

There are thousands of 12-Step meetings at any given time that you can attend virtually… there is the entire Loosid community… there is no shortage of people to find.

They are all around you… if you look for them.

We only stay sober if we give away what was freely given to us. Because of this, you will find how responsive others will be when you reach out to build your sober network.

You will be helping them… and they will be helping you.

That is what recovery is all about.

How did this tip resonate with you? Do you have a sober network? How have they helped you?

If you have been sober for a while and you look to help others, how has helping others helped strengthen your sobriety?

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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Reaching out to others has been the biggest part of my sobriety journey. I have been sober over a year and I have many people that I reach out to. People in Celebrate Recovery, church, friends, addicts, family, people i work with. Etc

#6

If I am having a bad day I look in my phone at all my numbers and decide whom I will reach out to. It gets me outside of myself and my mind off of using. When I make these phone calls most the time the people I call tell me it helps them just as much as it helps me. So at the same time you are doing service to other's who are struggling with life just like you are. Working together is how the program works.

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#7

I never used to do this. I would never call my sponsor. Instead,he'd call me. And he'd always say : And believe me, this is helping me more than it's helping you", because he knew I wasn't really in to it, because I never called him, I never shared ar meetings...I loved meetings, the togetherness, the camaraderie, buy I always kept myself distant, and after 13 years, I relapsed, and couldn't even get drunk on 10 beers! I couldn't even do that right! So I learned, if you're going to have any kind of life in sobriety, you're going to have to let down the walls, open up, and let people in. It's ok, they won't bite you and you'll find you won't bite them either.