Loosid Sober Tip of the Day June 10

Sober Tips
#1

The war is over… if you want it to be.

Millions of us have fought our alcoholism or addiction tooth and nail, refusing to admit defeat. We think THIS time, somehow, and in some way, we will be able to stop.

It works… until it doesn’t.

We try again... We slip… So we try again.

Sometimes we put a week together. Sometimes a month… some of us a year or more until it happens AGAIN.

We swear one final time to God, to our wives, our husbands, our significant others, our mothers, our fathers, our children, our friends, our entire universe that we will never ever ever drink or use again… until we do.

We swear again one more final time… then another final time… then another.

What you need to know is that alcoholism and addiction is undefeated.

The only way to win is to surrender.

This is where so many of us lose the battle because to us, to surrender means to lose and our egos simply will not allow that.

Take solace in the fact that the entire program of recovery teaches us to surrender each and every day to our powerlessness over drugs or substances SO THAT WE WIN.

The war is over… if you want it to be.

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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#3

Yes..I’m finally Free.!

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#4

Amen

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#5

So so so true!

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#6

Facts

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#7

I'm 66 years old and I have quit drinking a 100 times. Finally I started bleeding and had face the facts, I was getting sick.well I got so sick I ended up getting a liver transplant l almost killed myself drinking. Now I feel it every day. Pretty stupid ha.

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#8

After so much research my surrender came from the gift of desperation.

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#9

I'm 44 years old, I've been sober for 4 years now, and proud of that. What I'm not proud of is that I lost the love of my life of 18 years. Who has not talked to me since. My wake up call, was getting epilepsy from drinking. I had a seizier well driving and got in a accident and almost lost my life. I thank God everyday for a second chance at life. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before you can go back up.

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#10

If I truly desire the battle to be over, it can be when I practice and enable the gift of surrender. Surrender enables me to be less focused on relapse, active use, and the suffering that my active addiction welcomes! It shifts my attention, mind, thoughts and actions to the healing that’s time place in each moment, the steps that I MUST take and the comfort of support available along the towards sobriety & healing.

Thank you for letting me share!

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#11

Yup, my personal best without a daily program was THREE DAYS. I could only stay clean and sober for three days by white knuckling it on my couch. One morning I woke up on the floor and told myself “enough.” I decided I couldn’t do it alone and went to my first meeting that night. Since then, the road has not been smooth, but now I look back on almost seven years, so grateful to the people power that has kept me sober one day at a time!

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#12

Surrender is Victory! Think of Germany in World War 2…They we’re beaten into surrender…But they surrendered and look at them today! Victorious because they finally surrendered!

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#13

It resonated with me because I am free I realized it is a life thing but if one take it one day at a time and rest it as such you can b free and able to b sober from all things

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#14

You’ve gotta really want it otherwise it’s never gonna happen. You make it happen it doesn’t happen TO you

#16

I couldn’t get 1 day without AA program, following the suggestions, working steps w my sponsor. With AA, the obsession and compulsion to use and drink were removed. I’m so grateful :raised_hands:t3:

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