Hi Everyone, my name is Kirsten and I am an alcoholic. AA saved my life in 1992 from total destruction. I attended meetings daily and was very involved. I WAS WILLING TO GO TO ANY LENGTHS. When I returned to the West Coast in 1999 I stopped going. I managed to stay sober of my own volition until June of this year. I had a bad experience at work where I was let go. I began drinking shortly after. I started in June with 1 beer and a slice of pizza. This did not satisfy my alcoholic nature. In no time I was rountinely consuming 8-10 beer daily. My friends and my husband did an intervention and I am grateful. Now I am back to tell all NOTHING CHANGES IT ONLY GETS WORSE! I am ready to work my sobriety and so I am here to talk with other alcoholics. IT WORKS IF YOU WORK IT!
Welcome to MIP, Kirsten. Thank you so much for sharing your experience, strength and hope with us.I hope you'll be back. We have so many newcomers, and a message like yours is just wonderful to read. I'm looking forward to hearing more from you. Be blessed, Chris
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Hi Kirsten! I'm Dan and I'm an alcoholic living in North Dakota. Welcome to the Miracles In Progress (MIP) board!
Some of us have been visiting here for quite some time, and others are relatively new. All together, just as in AA meetings, time inside the doors and age do not matter. All that is important is sobriety, one day at a time.
Like you, I had to try it the hard way, before finding my way back. I haven't been one to count (something in my nature), but I've been back through the doors now for about 2 years.
Please keep visiting and sharing with all of us. I hope to hear more from you.
This is my second time in AA and I never want to go back out and pick up a drink again. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. It is a super reminder to me, as I know what is waiting if I pick up again.
I do hope that you'll stay with us and keep posting.
Take care,
Carol
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
Hi Kirsten... I stayed dry ten years on my own will power... and one hot day cutting grass, one cold beer... and you know the rest. My slip lasted another ten years, and yeh, it was hell. Always worse the second time around.. or third.. or fourth. Im thankfull now I have not felt the urge to drink in two and a half years... Thanks for sharing your story and reminding me of mine. Welcome aboard!
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My warranty on tomorrow has run out. My guarantee on the past is void. Nothing is going my way... and I like it like that.
Hi Kirsten and welcome to this site. We're here pretty much all day and night for support and encouragement for one another, and if none of us are live, there's ALWAYS some great inspirational and thought-provoking reading in all the past posts. It's been a lifeline for me now for over a year and I hope you find this to be so for you. Good fortune!...tim
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Thank you so much for sharing! I picked up a drink last week...third slip up. It sucks to start counting the days of sobriety from the beginning....again. But, I am fortunate to have only slipped for a day...not days, weeks, months. This is a wonderful site! Very helpful...especially when it is difficult to make it to meetings. And it certianly does work IF YOU WORK IT! Hope to hear much more from you!!!
It's not so much the slip-up but getting the sanity to get out of it. Some of us are not that lucky and I hope that you don't find yourself to be one of them...Tim
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"We posess the eyes through which the universe gazes with wonder upon its own majesty."
