Loosid Sober Tip of the Day November 2

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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Spot on.

I like this.

When we surrender to God He carries us and helps fight our battles🙏🏻

Well this definitely true, and not do I feel defeated. My ego so bad, well I lost again. If I not on guard all the time I’m fooled by my thinking. I’m trying to find strength and pick myself up when boy do I want to quit. But then what, who’s going to pick me up- no one. I want the war to be over. So I’m reaching out, praying this lil step will help the battlefield in my mind. To you all who struggle, I’m sorry.

This is the part I'll never understand. I'm not surrendering to a Higher Power. My ego has nothing to do with this. I'm quitting for the last time because I have had a fucking iv in my arm for 3 days. And I'm pissed. Go fuck yourself alcohol. Hold on, my insurance is calling.

It's definitely a surrender everyday
It's a choice we make
Im 36 years sober this week and I still have to make this choice
Something goes wrong in my life and I still think about druggin and drinking
I thank my higher power for helping me through these times
With out my higher power helping me im sure I would have gone back to using
Good reading today
I really liked it

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I think that surrendering is actually very powerful. I don't see it as a negative

I’m not sure how to surrender? Not sure what that entails? Is it as simple as admitting I have no power over alcohol? I don’t have an off switch so yes that’s true. But I do have the power to say no when I walk by the bottles in the store.

I claim it

Thank you for this reminder. Sober 20 months and very grateful.