Loosid Sober Tip of the Day May 05

D -E -N- I -A -L

Don't Even Notice I Am Lying.

So many of us take such a long time to enter recovery because we are in denial. The pain of getting honest with ourselves seems too much to handle and so we lie to ourselves.

Because of this, our disease progresses until we either die or reach such a level of pain that we get the gift of desperation to reach out and ask for help.

It is important to understand that everything in life worth anything requires work.

The first part of any work is an honest assessment of where we are and where we want to go.

It is also important to look at what we have done wrong in order that we can recognize those mistakes, so we don’t make them again.

We make amends for the mistakes we have done to free ourselves from our wrongdoings (more on that tomorrow).

Just for today, wherever you are, make a commitment to get honest with yourself.

If you are not sober, do you need to be? Write down all the things you have done when you were not sober that you feel were inappropriate. This will give you something to look at on paper.

If you are in recovery, are there things you are doing that are disconnecting you from your recovery? If so, what can you do to get back on a good path?

If you are on a good path, share your experience what helped you move from denial to getting honest with yourself.

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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Being honest with myself is so hard at times.. but today im honest in admitting I can’t do it alone and im grateful for God & AA

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I will be 6 years sober next month and I struggle with self sometimes. I know that the other times I allowed myself to knock me off of sobriety is because I thought I had it. So I have started going to meetings again. I don’t ever want to think I have anything anymore…other than today. Just for today…

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Being honest is key to a healthy recovery and release. It's all about what you want when you're in recovery. If you cannot be honest with yourself and others how can you truly know? Being honest breaks the chain of addiction.

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Man this hits home hard for me. I've strung together 2 days sober drank again on Friday. But at least I am slowly putting a couple days of sobriety together each week. I really love that it says 'everything in life worth anything requires work.' that's so true you don't start at the top whether it's your career, sobriety, relationships or anything. And I'm glad I'm finally slowly starting to be honest with myself and as my boss says tell the whole story not just parts or things because if you don't you're just hurting yourself nobody else. End of my rant for the day lol

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I know drinking is killing me. I know it now

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Being honest like so many have said. I had to admit that I can't do it on my own and I need help. I had to accept I have a disease and I will have it for the rest of my life. I had to realize that without my medicine( meetings and 12 step work) I will remain sick. Thats honestly how I'm staying clean and sober now. Thank you n/a and a/a, without your help and the people in the program I know I would still be out there slowly killing myself.

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Being honest with myself,,,when your living in a tent, in a different neighborhood every week, your not camping your homeless