Loosid Sober Tip of the Day November 23

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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I tried in moderation and on willpower, absolutely no success. I found god and now have 13 mo clean.

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Great tip.. thanks :+1:

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True. Once I accepted that I can not drink in moderation it got so much easier. One week away from 6 months

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Once a pickle always a pickle….I’m good with that analogy.

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For many years I have try to do it alone. So after a week sometimes longer sometimes shorter. I think I am a cucumber, and the cycle starts over. I realize that it doesn’t work, and I can’t do it alone.

Daily reprieve based on r spiritual condition!

While I get the analogy, I hope to not have a driving problem because I simply don't drink.

Yup!! Once you let the thought of just having one or two you're done!! The beauty of this though is I only have today to think about...it's really important to stay in the here and now. Today I am a pickle same as yesterday. So tomorrow I will be the best pickle I can be instead getting into a pickle!!