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    #16
    15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

    Sheri;885798 wrote: If not drinking is the worst thing that I ever have to overcome in my life, well then, I consider myself very blessed.
    Great way of looking at it. There's a similar point coming up later. If you see drinking as a disability. Think about those that have a permanent disability like blindness, being deaf, etc. They wish they could get rid of their disability but can't. ALL we have to do is not have that drink. Sure it's not as easy as writing or saying it. But put it into that context.

    Spud, yeah. that great feeling doesn't exist anymore and if it does the disadvantes of the following 15 drinks till complete drunkeness, feeling like a dog the next morning, definately still outway.

    But like Sheri says, best not to even entertain the romanticised thoughts, how great AL once felt at certain times. Just keep pushin forward.

    Thanks G and Patrice.
    AF since 15th March 2010

    The journey is the goal. As long as you're fighting the good fight and you're not giving up on giving up, you're winning. It's not about how often you get knocked down, it's about how often you get up again. Sobriety the goal for sure. But striving to get to that goal is what it's about. Not getting there. Because the journey never ends. The journey is the goal.

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      #17
      15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

      Sheri;885849 wrote: I am so grateful to have found MWO.
      I am so grateful that the supplements helped me to get through the first 90 days.
      I am so grateful that I did the work to change my thinking about drinking from deprivation to gratitude mode.
      I am so grateful that I no longer have to experience living my life drunk ever again.
      I am so grateful that my health is returning from all the damage I did with my drinking.
      I am so grateful that I am grateful not to be drinking instead of yearning for something that is poison to me.
      I am so grateful to finally understand why I can never drink again and to have a sense of inner peace and acceptance.
      I am so grateful to be alive, because had I continued on the path I was on, there is no doubt that my drinking was going to kill me, and sooner rather than later.

      Great thread, Johnnie! I love being able to express how grateful I am...it makes me feel grateful!
      I wholeheartedly agree, Sheri! Johnny, great thread - thanks so much for starting it! Good readings to wake up to every day and whether one goes to or does the AA program, there is so much there that is useful for any alcoholic (or even regular people - just good life lessons).
      ​​Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind ~ Bob Marley ~ Redemption Song

      AUGUST 9, 2009

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        #18
        15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

        These are amazing Johnny, please keep them coming. I ma going to take them with me when I go the the States later this week.
        While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
        Benjamin Franklin

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          #19
          15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

          Sheri;885798 wrote: There are many horrible, terrible things to have to live with in the world and not drinking is not one of them. If not drinking is the worst thing that I ever have to overcome in my life, well then, I consider myself very blessed.

          Sheri
          Sheri, this really stuck with me. Thank you.
          AF Since April 20, 2008
          4 Years!!!           :lilheart:

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            #20
            15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

            Thank YOU guys.

            That's the spirit Sheri. A grateful heart for our sobriety. I believe that was nearly my downfall Friday night. I'd so easily forgotten all these things I'm so grateful for!!!

            I am every so grateful today for being sober!!!
            AF since 15th March 2010

            The journey is the goal. As long as you're fighting the good fight and you're not giving up on giving up, you're winning. It's not about how often you get knocked down, it's about how often you get up again. Sobriety the goal for sure. But striving to get to that goal is what it's about. Not getting there. Because the journey never ends. The journey is the goal.

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              #21
              15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

              4. Point

              1. Cultivate continued acceptance of the fact that your choice is between unhappy, drunken drinking and doing without just one small drink.
              2. Cultivate enthusiastic gratitude that you have had the good fortune of finding out what was wrong with you before it was too late.
              3. EXPECT as being natural and inevitable, that for a period of time (and it may be a long one), you will recuringly experience.
              (a) The conscious, nagging craving for a drink.
              (b) The sudden, all but compelling impluse just to take a drink.
              (c) The craving, not for a drinks as such, but for the soothing glow and warmth a drink or two once gave you.

              4. Remember that the times you don't want a drink are the times in which to build up the strength not to take one when you do want it.
              AF since 15th March 2010

              The journey is the goal. As long as you're fighting the good fight and you're not giving up on giving up, you're winning. It's not about how often you get knocked down, it's about how often you get up again. Sobriety the goal for sure. But striving to get to that goal is what it's about. Not getting there. Because the journey never ends. The journey is the goal.

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                #22
                15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

                Thank you Johnnyh for this thread
                I sometimes find myself thinking about having a drink, and whether or not its a good idea. Then I remember what I have gained since giving up
                No more depression
                No more dehydration
                No more passing out at 8pm
                No more weight gain and bloated stomach
                No more fat face syndrome
                No more hidding from people
                No more feeling quilty
                No more wasting money on AL

                I have gained my wonderful thinking feeling loving self back. For this I am truly grateful...and to you all for helping me see through the fog ...and get there.

                Thanks heaps
                Hazeleyes
                Allen Carr’s book changed everything for me. The easyway to control alcohol. Highly recommended

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                  #23
                  15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

                  That's Great Hazel!!!

                  No more depression
                  No more dehydration
                  No more passing out at 8pm
                  No more weight gain and bloated stomach
                  No more fat face syndrome
                  No more hidding from people
                  No more feeling quilty
                  No more wasting money on AL
                  That's a good list that. I can add this 100% to my soriety gratitude list. I'm sure we could post a gratitude list about our sobriety of a couple of pages. Agains a list of how many upsides of having that drink?!! It's really, really something I need to keep in mind when that time strikes. It's just not worth risking all of that for that one drink (which will be followed by many more).
                  AF since 15th March 2010

                  The journey is the goal. As long as you're fighting the good fight and you're not giving up on giving up, you're winning. It's not about how often you get knocked down, it's about how often you get up again. Sobriety the goal for sure. But striving to get to that goal is what it's about. Not getting there. Because the journey never ends. The journey is the goal.

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                    #24
                    15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

                    This thread really tells the truth and helps me greatly.

                    Sheri I'm glad you wrote this....
                    "There are many horrible, terrible things to have to live with in the world and not drinking is not one of them. If not drinking is the worst thing that I ever have to overcome in my life, well then, I consider myself very blessed."

                    I often find myself thinking/asking, when the cravings hit. Am I in physical pain? No. All it is, is a craving. You can get over this. You are not dying, bleeding, broken, starving, blind, crippled. You have a craving. Get some perspective. AND block it out mentally. Like you said, don't romantasize about the taste, the glow, the buzz. that' will drive me crazy and heighten my cravings. Block out the entire notion.

                    I'm not trying to downplay how intense cravings can be (and for some people they are suffering a lot of pain from withdrawal). But we could be in a lot worse state. And by giving in to cravings we will be.

                    Keep this thread going. It's fantastic!
                    Meech

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                      #25
                      15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

                      Love this thread too. I need to hear all of it. Keep having those stupid thoughts of drinking in the future for this or that reason, of course just 2 or 3(one is never enough), but I know it would be more like 4 or 5 if not more.
                      Thanks so much everyone for reinforcing the stupidity of taking that first drink. It will just leave to more misery and the potential of never getting back on track.

                      Winefree

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                        #26
                        15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

                        Great posts guys.

                        Sheri, that's another keeper. Thanks!!

                        all the withdrawal symptoms mentioned above were caused by my drinking and not by not drinking
                        Meech, there comes a point later on about not even starting to entertain the ide of romanticising that drink. It's so distructive, isn't it?! If I remember when I slipped last year and then went back to drinking for years, those are the very thoughts I gave in to. How great it would be to have some drinks with some great friends around the fire. Might have felt pretty at the time and might even have been. But definately not the following 9 months until I got back on teh rails!!! So was it worth it?! Absoblimminlutely not.

                        Winefree, Yeah. That's the problem, right?! Easily to tell yourself it'll just be one or two when you know that one or two have always led to more. Plus will you really, realy get back on track the next day?! It's certainly a huge risk with chances stacked against you.


                        Guys, I left the brochure at home this morning So will post the next point when I get home tonight. Please keep contributing to this thread in the meantime though. These points are only points when they're written down. It's our experiences that make them come alive.
                        AF since 15th March 2010

                        The journey is the goal. As long as you're fighting the good fight and you're not giving up on giving up, you're winning. It's not about how often you get knocked down, it's about how often you get up again. Sobriety the goal for sure. But striving to get to that goal is what it's about. Not getting there. Because the journey never ends. The journey is the goal.

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                          #27
                          15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

                          Great thread Johnny...keep em coming
                          I love my family more than alcohol.:h
                          Live in the Solution....not the problem

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                            #28
                            15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

                            Love this JohnnyH!!! I've been cutting and pasting into a doc to carry with me. Great info and comments by all. It is all so true!

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                              #29
                              15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

                              Thank you Johnny for your support and caring. You know we need it!
                              I LOVE MY SEROTONIN AND BOOZE SCREWS IT UP!!!!!

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                                #30
                                15 Points to consider when confronted with the urge to take a Drink!

                                Look forward to your post tonight Johnny! This is such a journey of self-discovery.

                                There is NO WAY I would be where I am now without MWO and everyone here. I would be exactly drinking every other day. Hungover every other day.

                                And I start to realize more about my addiction, triggers and inner strength all the time.

                                The latest has been that whole "romanticize the drinking glow". I realize how just thinking about it is dangerous. Block block block!

                                Sober head on pillow tonight, no regrets when I wake up.

                                Isn't it a great feeling when you first wake up in the morning and realize that you aren't hungover? I still love that. Like this morning.

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