Just wanted to say hi. I've been going to a lot of meetings over the last few weeks and am doing okay. I found someone who I want to ask to be my sponsor. She sees me wanting to rush through recovery and will help me slow down. Baby steps.
I read somewhere about a bridge between the old drinking life and sobriety. I am on that bridge now - just on - and don't ever want to go back to the old ways. I still have all the junk inside to deal with but instead of covering it up with alcohol I can learn to deal with it. I can now see a light at the end of the tunnel. I believe in the promises that sobriety will bring.
I am glad you found someone to sponsor you, Lizzy. Such a wonderful thing, having a Guide. Always glad to hear how things are going!! Very happy you seem to have found some peace.
When you mentioned getting a sponsor and the bridge the image of that one bridge in the Indiana Jones movie popped in my mind, where he was getting chased with those stones! LOL! Sometimes sobriety is like that. Good times, bad times. Just have to hold on and enjoy it on a daily basis. That to me is the only way to live sober. In today! Slowing down is definitely a good thing. In a lil while your sponsor will be telling you to hurry up and the thing is you probably won't want to. I know I didn't want to work certain steps. Staying sober involves working steps whether you want to or not. It's a necessity. An absolute one.
All I can say is enjoy these days as they come, one at a time!
It was so good to read that you are doing OK and going to meetings. I'm so pleased that you have found someone that you would like as a sponsor. My sponsor is so important to my recovery and I always listen to her suggestions. I would be lost without her. It really has helped me enormously.
And, The Promises really do start to work quite quickly. I still love waking every morning feeling sober and alive, and not half-dead from alcohol. Sobriety really is so wonderful.
Take care,
Carol
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