Having a bad day

[caressa]

When you are having a bad day, lower your expectations and start over!

The more I work on me - the better most people behave.

- Pocket Sponsor

Quite often, when I am having a bad day, it is generally because things are not going the way I want them to. Either I have set the expectations too high or I have none, and don't feel like doing anything.

A heard a long-timer say, "I no longer have bad days, I only have bad moments in a day. I have to the tools to change them.

I can pray, meditate, read my literature, go for a walk and enjoy nature, remember to be grateful, call my sponsor, call a friend, go to a meeting. If necessary, I need to pray for the willing to be willing to change.

I am powerless over people, places, and things. When I remember that, and don't try to control things, look for things outside of myself to make me feel better, then I can surrender, turn things over to my Higher Power. Through my Higher Power, I am empowered to do what I need to do in today.

It isn't about others, it is about me and my recovery. Remember a day can start any time. Just for today, the next 24 hours, I choose not to drink and drug.

[caressa]

Love this, another thing I was sharing with my friend today. Time just seems to disappear along with my memory. I am having a hard time remembering and although it is a big part of fibromyalgia, and I need to accept it as such, it is still difficult, when things go missing.

Alkiespeak - Book - Quote

I had an open mind; everything went right through. - Anon.


This is how it feels. Like tonight, picking up my glass and wondering were the diet cola went to. I didn't remember drinking it. Figure that shouldn't happen in recovery.

I was sharing with a couple of friends when I came into the building how time just disappears.

I feel bad when I know something is gong to happen, but when the day comes, I totally forget. Even if I write it on the calendar, I forget to look at the calendar.

I have to work on my acceptance daily because of fribromyalgia. It is such a strange acting thing, it is an on going thing, just like my disease.

[caressa]

Pocket Sponsor - Book - Quote

They say you need newcomers to tell you where you came from, old-timers to tell you where you could go, and a sponsor to tell you where you are at.

The most important word in my Steps is the first one... 'WE'

For every problem, there is a solution. The solution for me, was go to meetings and meet other addicts, I wasn't alone.

I was told to stick with the winners, people with long-term clean time and listen to their words of wisdom. The most important was a sponsor. My sponsor said, "Go within, you have your own answers." For many years, I didn't know what the question was. In today, I know it doesn't matter, it is all about me and my recovery. I fix me so I can help others and by sharing my experience, strength and hope.

Today I don't have bad day, I do still have bad moments in a day. For me, that is life, it is about how I get through them, not around them and ignore them, handling life on life's terms.

[majestyjo]

Didn't start to have a bad day but ended in a not so good day as I had to tell my son to take his loud and abusive words back outside my door.

I am the person who doesn't understand and doesn't do what he tells me to do. I am not listening, some times I do not hear, other times, I don't want the words spoken in my home.

It is my space and he tends to think he owns it even if he doesn't pay rent here. He says I don't appreciate what he does and forgets that he gives and then he takes away. My home got to be a place where it was no longer safe.

He thinks I don't understand. I am a recovering addict. A drug is a drug and but a symptom of my disease. I am as powerless over my disease, if I didn't have a spiritual defense against that first drug. It doesn't matter what form it takes, it is what it does to us and where it takes us.