Loosid Sober Tip of the Day July 01

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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When I read this what comes to mind is the acceptance prayer….

I love the program and the fellowships that happens when we seek it….

It’s not enough to JUST want it…. We MUST seek it to find the happy, joyful, and freedom it provides us all if we seek🙏

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I can totally relate with the idea that we are grateful to have a curable disease!
I Have Lupus, RA,Multiple Scelosis,Scrogens,Fibromyalogia Spinal Stenosis,just to name a few LOL Lupus is an autoimmune disease where my red blood cells attack my joints first skin second then my kidneys n lastly my liver ! So I will Give u 3 guesses what my drug of choice was,,,Opioid pain pills u got it!!! FOR several years I allowed my health issues to mentally tear me apart also.
I CANNOT GO OUTSIDE IN THE SUN RROM 10AM TILL ABOUT 5PM UV INDEX MUST BE A THREE OR LOWER FOR IT TO BE SAFE!! HOW DO I DO THINGS IM SURE YOUR THINKING WELL THIS TIME OF YEAR IS HARD BUT U MAKE IT WORK....IF I AM IN THE SUN FOR MORE THAN 10 MINUTES MY KIDNEYS INFLAME CAUSE SERIOUS KIDNEY DAMAGE!!! SO NO SUN FOR ME I ALSO GET A BAD RASH HIGH HIGH FEVER FOR DAYS
SO Y DID I SHARE THAT THERE IS NO CURE OR REAL TREATMENT MEDICATION FOR LUPUS!! I CAN TREAT THE SYMPTOMS OF MY DISEASE BUT NOT THE DISEASE

ADDICTION I HAVE DISCOVERED IS DIFFERENT THE CURE IS TREATING THE CAUSE OF THE DISEASE THE DEEP DOWN DIRTY ROOT CAUSE. ..THE MENTAL ILLNESS THE TRAUMA GET RID OF THE PAIN THAT HAS HAUNTED YOU STAY SPIRITUAL GIVE BACK LOVE YOURSELF LOVE YOURSELF LOVE YOURSELF AND THE DESIRE TO STAY CLEAN WILL BECOME LARGER THAN THE ONE TO GET HIGH!
I HAD A 4 HOUR RIGHT SHOULDER SURGERY IN SEPTEMBER...I WOULD NOT ALLOW A PAIN PILL N MY HOME AND I FOUGHT HARD THROUGH THE PAIN I CRIED A FEW TIMES IT HURT BAD BUT I TOLD MYSELF THAT MY LIFE WILL HURT OVERALL IF I SLIPPED BACK IN!! I KNOW ME AND INSTEAD OF ONE AND DONE ITS ONE AND 100 MORE ITS ALL SHE WROTE...
STAY HAPPY THROUGH THE SAD TIMES STAY CALM THROUGH THE ANGER STAY GRATEFUL FOR A DISEASE LIKE ADDICTION BECAUSE IT COULD BE LUPUS AND WITH MY LUPUS I REMIND MYSELF IT COULD BE ALOT WORSE!!!!
I advocate for a cure for LUPUS!! And I keep what I have by helping others in recovery!!! The reward feels alot better than the past u are running from!!! Think about it we are fighters highly intelligent we are hustlers...hustle your recovery by helping a complete stranger feel the love in your heart

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Something I've been thinking: addiction is not a learned behavior. No one goes in thinking "I'm going to throw my life away on this stuff" but it is within our control to heal.

Addiction is not a moral failure.

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