17th January

[Flip]

My turn to go first!!

A big day today guys

50 Days!!


Each little milestone makes it easier and easier... can't wait til I really think of myself as a person who doesn't drink.

Hope everyone has a fabulous day!!

Flip:thanks:

[dilayne]

17th January

WOO HOO flip - 50 days is awesome!

I'd like to post that I have 3 months today! YaY!!!

[prezmustchange]

17th January

well done flip, keep it up.
prez

[Java]

17th January

yay!!!!!!!!

[Newyear]

17th January

Awesome job!!!!!!!:yay:

[Accountable for Me]

17th January

50 days is so very WONDERFUL!!!!!



CONGRATS FLIP!!!!!!!!!

JOB WELL DONE!!!!!!!!

:woot:

[SKendall]

17th January

Great job Flip:goodjob:

[irishlady]

17th January

Congratulations Flip and dilayne, it can be a long climb but isn't the view marvellous????

Love Louise xxxx

[Guest]

17th January

Flip. Good work... and a great beginning. Use the energy and enthusiasm of this moment to take time to reflect on things that you need to face now that you are 50 days sober.. and use that energy to do the next step on your journey.

Use the sobriety you have under your belt as energy to keep you going and simply dont give up on yourself.

Only 50 more days to 100 days (thats 3 digits!!!)

Di, 3 months. Great news also... the 100 looms close for you.

Paul, dont worry about gushing. I reckon its also powerful to reflect on the wonderment of finding out that you yourself are wonderful.. its not just people on the board.. its also YOU... an amasing feeling.

Gina, great to see you here..

Kate, welcome back.

Mike.. first day in your new home.. hope you slept like a baby and smootchy kisses from me to you.

Neil..I wonder what stories are growing in your brain today.... I'll look forward to whatever they are...

Brigid

[xtexan]

17th January

Well, BRAVO to Flip and Dilayne!

50 days for Flip. Getting on the power curve.

3 months for Dilayne. Feeling the acceleration.

Today was pretty good. I?ve been experimenting with my own self-produced hypnosis tapes and audio. I was using a script out of a book I got over the holidays, and it seems to have had a good effect. The script was for fear and anxiety. It seems as if hearing your own voice do the hypnosis is quite interesting. I think my subconscious mind trusts my own voice more than someone else?s.

Anyway, still working on these internal anger and hostility issues. I had always assumed that they were from the ?child? Neil only, but now something strange is beginning to happen. The anger and hostility may be coming from ?drinking? Neil as well. He is totally pissed at sober Neil I believe. He has tried just about every trick in the book multiple times over the last year, using his lies and BS to con me into drinking. So far I have not fallen for any of it.

It now appears that drinking Neil may be the source of a lot of this unresolved anger I have been feeling lately. This sort of became apparent after using my self-produced hypnosis program. I just have to try and reach that guy, and tell him that throwing a tantrum is not going to do anyone any good.

You know how it is. If a drunk does not get what they want at first, they try talking you into it with all sorts of BS. After a while, they start to get really angry because they realize you are steadfast in your decision, and think that yelling or using a barrage of insults will make you change your mind. Of course, it just tells you that you have to put your foot down, and not budge.

Ever notice that a spoiled child, and a drunk often react the same emotionally when they can?t get what they want? This is what is happening inside me. I was working to take care of the inner child, but now I have to tell the inner ?drunk? that expressing anger or hostility by derision is just not a constructive thing.

So the work continues. At least I?m making headway, and this is a new view on the internal psychological issues.

Here is an interesting poem, by Alexander Pope, called ?Know Thyself?

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest,
In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast,
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reasoning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such
Whether he thinks too little or too much:
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused, or disabused;
Created half to rise and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled:
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!


Be well

Neil

[stollies1]

17th January

Hi all,
Congrats to both Flip and Di......
It's my 3 months too Di its the 17th here so 3 months to the day..
We can keep an eye out for each other..
Victoria xxoxxo

[Popeye]

17th January

Well done Flip, Dilayne and Victoria, and everyone else who keeps going.
Day 21 for me. That's 3 weeks. In the words of the late James Brown....'I feel good'.

[Flip]

17th January

Whoa-oa-oa! I feel good, I knew that I would, now
I feel good, I knew that I would, now
So good, so good, I got you....

THANKS TO EVERYONE!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!

[weemelonhead]

17th January

Flipadeedoodah, Dilaynebabes and good golly miss stollies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yiipee Gals.way to go...up, up and away from the valley of the Booze, sailing over the hills of Canidooit...and having a glorious picnic somewhere on the luscious beaches of Soberstate Seas....

Have a cucumber sandwich for me .....The Melon raises her coffee cup with a hearty CHEERS!!!! :h:h:h

[Popeye]

17th January

Hi Melon
Your posts always make me smile.
Thanks