I’ve accepted and identified my triggers. I need to find out how to work through them.
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Recognizing that triggers can also be excuses to drink is how I look at them. I either avoid them, or if I can't, I talk to another sober person to work through any urges that arise. Your sponsor or another. Bring them with you into particularly strong trigger situations.
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Personally over the last 10 months of my sobriety I’ve found triggers I never knew I had. It’s normal for my first thought to want to change my feelings with alcohol or a substance. What I have done is redo step one. I am powerless over alcohol and it does make my life unmanageable!! I made a list of what I can lose if I drink or use. I put it safely away and IF I want to drink/drug, I pull out that list. That’s my remedy and so far so good. 
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Truth is everything is/was a trigger for my drinking. Sunny I drank, rainy I drank, happy I drank, sad I drank…. The list goes on. My sponcor said the only true trigger is a horse on tv in the 50’s, if we are alcoholic and want to recover we do not pick up no matter what and work through whatever it is we are feeling with the help of the steps of recovery. My problem is I had no healthy coping skill and found an unhealthy one with drinking, it worked great until it didn’t and I had to find a healthy one fast or I was going to die from alcoholism. The steps now do what the alcohol used to. Your worth a happy healthy life, the miracle will happen
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