What keeps you sober & staying sober? I have so many urges to use it’s becoming hard. I don’t have much of a support system around me. I could use help.
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Remmeber you have a support system here!! Even though it’s online, we are all willing to help! What keeps me sober is the thought of all the damage, worry, and sleepless nights I caused people! Most of all the grace and mercy God provided me! He delivered me from this devastating disease!! When I’m struggling I reach out to Him!! Some days I spend all day talking to him…just so I stay clean! Stay strong buddy! You got this! 
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Do you have a sponsor? We cannot do this all on our own. I need the help of my higher power, the fellowship of AA and my sponsor. When I’m cut off from my higher power I get into self will and start burning my life to the ground. I’ve had to talk with other alcoholics to add tools to my tool box. Can you pick up the phone and call someone in the program? One alcoholic talking to another is how this program works! I’m glad you reached out asking for help! Also there is an app called everything AA, I listen to the Joe and Charlie tapes a lot, I find them extremely helpful and funny!
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I do not have a sponsor. The closest NA/AA meeting is 45 minutes from me so that’s not really an option ya know. Just kinda roughing through this stuff.
I found my sponsor online, she doesn’t even live in the same state as I do! In the big book it says we will go to any length. I went to any length to get my alcohol so I need to do the same for my recovery! Under that same app I mentioned above there is an online meeting finder. Join some zoom meetings! You are worth sobriety, don’t ever forget that!
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Keep reaching out to other alcoholics, I promise you are not alone!
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There are tons of zoom meetings to check out, within AA and NA. There is also the Sober Faction of the Satanic Temple that is really good, a lot of really good people, focusing on sobriety without superstition, and they do zoom meetings as well.
45 mins might be a worthwhile drive to make real live human connections. All that other prayer etc stuff is only gonna get you so far. You need to make some connections with other addicts.
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Go to AA. Get a sponsor, home group, and service commitment. Go to the coffee/dinner before/after the meeting. Become a part of. That’s what AA is for — support.
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AA has been a huge help but what keeps me from drinking are all the thoughts of past rock bottoms, so mush lost time, lost money, lost goals, I can go on but for me drinking is just not worth it. I don’t drink to catch a buzz I drink to get hammered
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Thank you for the support!
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AA has helped keep me sober for 3 years. But I also had hit rock bottom! I knew if I picked up a drink again it would result in me being that person I didn’t want to be anymore and the next rock bottom I wouldn’t be able to come back from. I had to change and once I walked into AA and was able to relate with other alcoholics, I knew I was where I was supposed be. A weight was lifted off my shoulders and I haven’t looked back since.
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Coming here is a great start for support. I would try meetings. You will find support there for people who are or have been there especially with urges.
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This app is a great support system/tool, however someone in person is ten times better. I meet with her once a week, and I attend AA meeting on Wednesday. Hang in there!
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Zackary-
What keeps me sober... if I start drinking again like my last relapse 2020, I'll die!
Also, my small human (12) is hella proud of me. That helps me stay sober.
I hope you find the online support you need Zoom A.A./sponsor.
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I used to hate hearing people telling me to get a sponsor, cause I didn't want to be quite that accountable. But I finally did this time around and that's who I called the last time I felt like drinking over a yr ago now. I'm not sure if I would have used or not, but those thoughts quickly went away just from that little phone call...Please don't be a slow learner like I was. It took me 40 yrs to get a sponsor and start consistently going to meetings...I've found out it's really not that hard to stay sober if I simply keep going to meetings.
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Thank you for the kind words. I don’t have a meeting place near me. People say to try online zoom meeting but that just doesn’t click for me. I need a sponsor in know that.
I'm with you on the zoom meetings, but when my meetings shut down cause of covid. Most people turned to zoom meetings but not me. Wish I would have, cause I relapsed.
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