I think it's a great idea, I know when I first got clean (last December for the first time in 8 years, I was so excited about keeping track of my clean time) hopefully it will be the same this time around ~ please pray for me My new clean date is 10/23/09 I'm almost 24 hours clean one day at a time, right??
Im fresh out of detox today but i hope that i can celebrate too. im 5 days clean and im loving it. one day at a time right? and 5 days sober is a hell of alot better than 1 day high. thanks!
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I can't lose focus. Not even for a minute, because that minute could cost my life.
Hello everyone, my name is Kate. My clean birthday is 7/6/03.
I began using at 21 and spent most of my young adult life believing I didn't have a problem. I was a functioning addict who went to school, got a job and was able to hold a job. As time went on others began to notice that something evil had a death grip on my soul. My life began to crumble and I could no longer play the role of the cleverly disguised functioning addict.
Kate's comfy world came crashing down and showed no mercy. The pain I was feeling was unbearable and even as my life was hanging by a thread all I could think about was getting the next fix. I wanted to be numb so I could bury the pain and continue the cycle. To stop meant that I would have had to deal with the train wreck I caused.
As with most things in life there comes a time when a choice must be made. The pain can only be covered up by the fix temporarily. Sooner or later it catches up to you and hopefully you come out of it alive.
Being a part of NA has played a huge part in helping me stay clean. I'm alive, not in jail or a mental institution and I owe a big part of that to my NA fellowship.
Glad to be here and looking forward to interacting with everyone.
-- Edited by snownomore on Tuesday 5th of January 2010 10:23:32 PM
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"No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions". Patrick Kennedy
my clean birthday is 19 june 2009. these days going to home group meetings as many as i can,which is helping me to clean and serene,feelings ups and down,living just for today.
My clean date is March the 29th. I have been clean for one solid year and I love it. Although I do need a sponser so bad. I attend a ca group here close to where I live and the only one who qualifies to be my sponcer doesnt answer her phone and she wont answer her emails. When I went up to get my one year chip she didnt even clap. I dont understand. Someone please help me figure out what to do. The other girls in my group are mostly newcomers.
Rosy stick with the ones willing to help and who are staying clean, but you can get busy right away helping and sponsoring woman yourself the best thing for you to do is help and get into service, take the bull by the horns read the literature use the spiritual principles, stay clean, start working on the steps, go to meetings and talk about things just like your doing and STAY CLEAN no matter what. People are going to let us down but only if we have expectations, keep an eye on those and pray over it, be guided by your higher power dont depend on other people depend on a power greater then yourself and your addiction, and stay clean :)P
As a former Sponsor always told us: "Don't quit before your Miracle!" She was so 'right on!' _____________________________________
My first job clean was to assist with autopsies. Many cases were OD's; very nearly 99% were in some way drug and/or alcohol related.
I learned another powerful lesson there.
"This too shall pass."
<<< It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!>>>
Abraham Lincoln, Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, WI, September 30, 1859
With Love
& Hope for the Hardcore
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When I Go After God & Recovery, With the Focus and Determination to Do Whatever It Takes.... You know_ Like an Addict Goes After Dope ? Then, I Live Life, Clean & Free !!
"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
WELCOME HOME. REMEBER, YOU CAN STAY IF YOU WANT. THIS IS A SAFE PLACE TO FIND RECOVERY. MEETINGS ARE A GOOD IDEA. YOU CAN TRY AS MANY AS YOU LIKE AS OFTEN AS YOU WANT AND THEN PICK THE ONES THAT HELP YOU GROW. THERE ARE NO BOSSES OR SENIORITY IN RECOVERY. WE ARE ALL JUST ONE DAY AT A TIME ADDICTS, TRYING OUR BEST TO FIND OUT WHAT THIS PROGRAM CAN DO FOR US AND NOT USE ONE DAY AT A TIME. KEEP COMING BACK.
hi all its dempsey n na have changed my life jft my clean time date is 18 aug 2009 but clean time means nothin 2 to we r all equal in the rooms i am only a kit kat away from relapse but with god in my life n step work i have nothing to fear
recoverya wrote: WELCOME HOME. REMEBER, YOU CAN STAY IF YOU WANT. THIS IS A SAFE PLACE TO FIND RECOVERY. MEETINGS ARE A GOOD IDEA. YOU CAN TRY AS MANY AS YOU LIKE AS OFTEN AS YOU WANT AND THEN PICK THE ONES THAT HELP YOU GROW.
THERE ARE NO BOSSES OR SENIORITY IN RECOVERY. WE ARE ALL JUST ONE DAY AT A TIME ADDICTS, TRYING OUR BEST TO FIND OUT WHAT THIS PROGRAM CAN DO FOR US AND NOT USE ONE DAY AT A TIME. KEEP COMING BACK.
Well put there 'recoverya'! Thanks for sharing this...
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
I haven't posted on here in a while. Sorry life has been in session and what a wonderful life it i. My Clean Date is April 30th 2007. Yup I just celebrated 3 years wow what a ride. I hated it in the beginning cuz I wasn't willing to change everything about my self. But thats why its called Slowbriety. Slowly I changed things and thing just kept getting better and better. What a rush! I am so grateful to be sober, I've learned so much about myself and you wonderful pp. You believed in me when I did not believe in myself I thank you. Love ya, Lori
You know how people say "time doesn't matter" well, to me it does. I went to my first meeting almost 20 years ago and I only have 10 months clean. Every day I am sooo grateful to be sober. To amass TEN WHOLE MONTHS is a miracle. Thanks to God and NA. My clean dateb is July 28, 2009.
Clean date is 6/7/10---- 30 days today!!!! Continuing on the road to recovery, although the journey is going to be long and hard I find peace everyday now to keep me going strong down the right road!
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If you question which way to go on a road turn one direction and start going, if you don't feel peace then turn around and go another direction for its when you feel peace you know you are on the right road!
I would like to join the group I have been in Recovery before but I have never felt this GREAT!! I finally worked on the real problems not the drugs me!! Awesome idea my clean date is July 21 2010
Just thought I would pop in and say hi. I have been away a long time and I apologize. I didn't get loaded though so it is all good. Life has just been happening.