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Good morning all.  I recently passed the 10 month mark and I'm feeling great.   My life has been pretty stressful over the past 2 months (marriage, finances, school starting) and I discovered that I am starting to understand how to live life sober and on life's terms.   My spiritual state is stronger than its ever been and my HP has shown me just how He is saving my life and making it better.   I've been put in circumstances where challenges with anger have been very real and my HP helped me through it - just wish I would have been more ready to take on the anger before I blew up and ended up needing to make amends right then and there, but that was pretty insightful as well.  I'm officially chairing a meeting tomorrow morning for the first time (have chaired 1 other when I popped in to it and we discovered that no one was signed up and that I had over 6 months sober at the time so was tossed the folder and asked to chair) and have a topic picked out - the anger and the grouch - and hope that someone shows up with a key.

Anyhoo, I just wanted to share that life is so much better than it was 10 months ago and that my relationship with God continues to amaze and humble me.  The good news is that over the past 2 months, I've finally had to deal with my emotions, because I actually felt them and spent time crying, laughing, pondering, praying, etc.  The bad news is that I finally had to deal with my emotions straight on.  Through it all, I only had a single thought of drinking and it passed pretty quickly.  Living life in steps 10 and 11  right now has been pretty cool.  I even went to church for the first time in over 4 years and let me tell you, hearing "How Great Thou Art" opened up the waterworks.



-- Edited by Troy on Friday 12th of August 2016 05:37:57 AM

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Troy, that's great news. That makes my day to read you are progressing in sobriety. You are inspiring to all of us.

Keep up the good work.

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Thanks Pickle! I'm just following the suggested course of action in the BB and it works!



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That's wonderful Troy!!! I just love it how you recognized that you needed to make amends and did so. I am usually always the amends maker (and have been that way most of my life having been such an extreme people pleaser, often saying "please don't be mad at me, I am sorry..." (even though the other was a complete jerk!) ---I have received very few from people who have hurt me...hey, but I guess I am not supposed to be concerned about that as long as I do the right thing and keep my "side of the street clean". You are a rare breed, Troy. Congrats!

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Awesome!

it gets better and better. 

It took me well over a year before a lot of the mental anguish disappeared. 

But boy, disappear it did! 

I never would have believed I would be happy without alcohol. And, even for the first year, I still didn't believe it. 

It takes time for our brains to fix themselves up. We really f%#~<\ them up with alcohol. 

But it all gets better. 

Congrats, again!



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Thanks Troy, ... I'm with Pickle and the others here, your post is very inspiring ...



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Continued blessings Troy One day at a time,,keep doing the work!!!   smilesmile



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Thank you all for the encouragement! Life on life's terms is pretty interesting. I'm glad that my journey can help others.

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