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Post by caressa on Nov 8, 2009 12:07:33 GMT -5
This is posted somewhere on the site, think I originally got it here and posted it to my site Star Choices. Thought it was a good reminder for the upcoming holiday season.
We can relapse into old behaviors, thinking, and other destructive mind sets, that can take us down before we physically pick up.
Some of those things we can fall into are:
1) Eating to stuff feelings of fear of the holidays 2) Taking medication for aches and pains which are making themselves known, because of emotional and mental upsets. 3) Sleeping to make the time go by and not living in today. 4) Stop going to meetings and remaining in isolation. 5) Not making contact with friends and recovery support like sponsor, spiritual advisor, group members, etc. 6) Stop taking the time to read meditations and read the Big Book and recovery literature, which gives us spiritual awareness and food for our Soul. 7) Letting down our defenses because it is a time of Ho! Ho! Ho!, forgetting that all we have to stay focused on today and our recovery. 8) Allowing ourselves to slip into depression, not accepting what we have, and not satisified with gifts, lessons and grace that has been given to us.
I know I don't have much, but it is sooooo much more than what I use to have. Most importantly, I have myself. I am clean and sober, and as long as I stay that way, I do have freedom of choice. Just for today, I choose not to use.
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 3, 2017 20:46:02 GMT -5
Always good to remember. My mantra is still the same, "Just for today, I choose not to use. When I say that, I mean people, places and things. It is no more about alcohol and prescription drugs, that is too narrow of an outlook. I want to make sure I am not substituting other things in my life to take me out of myself to cope with life.
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Post by majestyjo on Nov 6, 2019 2:05:51 GMT -5
The original site is no more, but glad this is here.
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