Fresh Start!!!!!

[lifechange]

Merry Christmas!!!!!!

[daisy45]

Hey LC....Merry Christmas and yayhey on the big 50!
Up early and visiting for 3 hours, then dinner at home. Visitors called and now I am exhausted....all happily sober!

[daisy45]

Bump for Kensho

Whilst away from MWO I have been looking into a number of areas that carry so much promise for addicts.

Daisy I totally relate to being triggered by the things meant to do the exact opposite....the brain is too complex to know what will do this to you so don't try and figure it out.

Try and remember that you have over 60,000 thoughts a day, these thoughts come and go endlessly without bothering you ..... EXCEPT the thoughts that obsess you. These thoughts

"I want a drink"
"I need a drink"
"I am going to fail"
"I can't do this"
Only keep returning BECAUSE you believe them and want them to stop. It is the 'try NOT thinking of a pink elephant' dilemma.
You are now sober, it is NOT the chemical lure of the drug but the MENTAL mouse wheel that has you.

The thought cannot get you, let it come in, go out, come in again. Know it has no power, none. Unless you connect it to "I will go buy and drink alcohol now" it is simply a thought, one of the 60,000 you have every day.

Our very existence is ONLY thoughts, everyone creates their own reality with thought. Your happiness comes from inside NOT outside you. It is not IN the drink, it never was, you simply THOUGHT it was......but it was always coming from inside you.

I can prove this for you.
Did you ever drink and feel happy and have a great time, laugh, dance and end the night feeling fantastic?
Did you ever have a terrible evening drinking, then arguing and crying?

The alcohol was the same, yet your experience was completely opposite.......this is because everything you felt came from INSIDE you, always did, always will.

[j-vo]

Hi Daisy! I see your Xmas is rawkin' like mine! Good for you!! :love:

[daisy45]

Thanks J-vo. Lying low for a while....got sick with a chest infection yesterday. Been lying down ever since.....at least there is NO chance of drinking.

[lifechange]

Hope you're feeling better soon, Daisy...
To be honest, it's that time of the month here and I've been in a pretty down mood the whole day.. sleeping a lot. Hate it when it's difficult to pull myself out! ughhhh.. Let's see what tomorrow brings, yeah?

[daisy45]

Feeling fab at 50.....50 days sober! Well, on antibiotics, not in top working order but soooo happy to be sober.
LC, hope you are feeling better. While I was in bed yesterday my daughters took down all my decorations and cleaned the house....nice!
I am not well right now but can only imagine how much worse that would have been if drinking was involved. Looking back over this week at times I felt I was missing out, I now am looking around at the damage caused to the people I was a little envious of.......even occasional social drinkers tend to over-indulge at holiday times....

[Guitarista]

You're looking fab at 50 too Daisy. Congratulations!

Keep it going you Raaawk star!

[available]

congrats on 50 days daisy, keep posting and keep up the great work. Life just gets better and better the af time we have.

Your being sick reminded me of when i used to get sick and still drank. god i felt awful to begin with and then felt awfuller drinking but like the champion alkie i was i just kept drinking. Thank god those days are over.

[lifechange]

CONGRATULATIONS on 50 days, Daisy!
I agree with G that you're looking great!.. There wasn't any drinking going on around me over Christmas, but I'll have the chance to see it happening on New Year's.. I will concentrate on the damage done by drinking. We shouldn't forget that alcohol is poison to the human body.. so it makes sense that no one really feels so hot after consuming it..
Do you have any plans for the Eve coming up?
One of the women we're visiting, a good friend of mine, is quite sick with stomach cancer..she's in remission but feeling quite weak..she's someone who enjoyed drinking wine very much. I know she'll be happy to have me on her side..I will be very happy to be there, too!

So nice of your daughters to help you out when you're not feeling well.. :hug:

[j-vo]

Hope you're feeling better pretty Daisy! And what a nice gesture from your daughters.:love:

[daisy45]

Thanks guys.....

[NoraC]

Congratulations. :welldone:

[daisy45]

Still not well since Boxing Day....got dressed yesterday to go out for dinner for my daughters birthday and didn't make it. Getting dressed alone was too much, so back to bed for me.....hopefully up and about soon.

[Choices]

Get well soon Daisy.