What's your AA sobriety date, and a simple word of

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What's your AA sobriety date, and a simple word of advice for a newcomer?

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03/02/2020 find a program that works for you there are tons out their, don’t go to one meeting assuming they are all like that whether it be AA, NA,CA, Celebrate Recovery etc. build a network of sober people you can call on (female if possible) write a gratitude list every day. Even when you feel like the walls are closing in there is always something to be grateful for. If you can’t think of anything go visit the kids ward to any mega hospital and when you see those kids who are facing death and doing so with a smile it will put things into perspective. Best of luck to you. Aloha

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Don't drink.

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9/17/21….Surrender.

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5/10/22 — go to a meeting every day and don’t drink/use in between! If you aren’t feeling like sobriety is your gig, don’t fret.. we’ve ALL been there! One Day, One Hour, One Minute, One BREATH at a time if need be — you will be afforded the opportunity to live your BEST life!

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10/22/2016. Don't bounce before the miracles begin to happen. Just worry about staying sober for today...make new friendships with people in recovery.

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08.22.09
Keep an open mind

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#8

cool

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8/1/2011. Don’t drink, pick up the phone & touch base with 2-3 alcoholics a day, work the steps (in order!) with your sponsor and go to meetings!

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1/5/20

To thine own self be true

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5/31/2020

All things pass. However strong the urge or craving, you can wait it out.

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5/08/22

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March 27, 2022
Take it one day at a time.

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4-17-2018
Not just one day at a time. One moment at a time

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11-11-19…..just that, keep it simple!

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5-17-21
Don’t be where you don’t need to be, Play the tape to the end, and don’t pick up don’t be a d!ck

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2/16/22
First thought wrong.

Admit my truth…I am powerless when I drink. I cannot drink safely.

One day at a time.

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10/13/18 trust your gut, if something doesn’t feel right do something about it.

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2/26/99 ODAAT! Baby steps and give yourself credit for every one of them because they are your biggest steps! :hugs:

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44 days. Biggest things I’ve learned so far:

  1. Take it one minute at a time if you have to and slowly go up from there.

  2. If you aren’t religious and have an issue with god/higher power it can be anything like your family your AA meetings and the best advice I got the past week was to write a list of 5 things down that I would like god to be if I were to choose who god was and then pray to that. Never thought I could make my own version of God before and it rly helped.

  3. Order the first 90 days of sobriety AA guided journal on Amazon. It’s been absolutely amazing if helping me make it each day and offers a lot of helpful tools you can use.

  4. I learned if you’re having a rly hard day you can always ask for another 24 hour chip to help remind you that you’ve made it another day and can keep going.

  5. To take the cottonballs out of your ears and shove them in your mouth. That listening to those with decades of recovery can teach us so much about how someone out there has had the same experience we have with our addiction and that there’s hope and a better future ahead of us if we stick with it. A lot of the elders will talk about how happy they are now and how much better their lives have gotten with recovery and how they have been able to become just peaceful. Which in my
    Opinion a lot of people drink to mask emotional pain. The AA program can teach us how to heal from those and have inner sanity/peace without alcohol because in the long run alcohol always makes things worse the more time goes by; not better. It’s just hiding your pain while adding to it.