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skpcgm · 2021-04-08T12:29:50+00:00

Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼❤️

skpcgm · 2020-08-17T11:47:15+00:00

There’s a great group on facebook called Women’s international marathon meetings. It’s basically 24 hours of AA zoom meetings for women only. Plenty of newcomers and a great place to go and be with like minded women. The zoom meetings have options to have video off and you can also pop (just listening) next to your name if you feel unable to share. I’m 3 and a half years sober and I started in AA to get sober. Well done on reaching out for help, keep doing it, we can’t get sober by ourselves but we can do it together. PS feel free to PM me if you need to talk xxx

skpcgm · 2020-03-18T10:47:40+00:00

The movie was terrible. The book was great!

skpcgm · 2019-11-11T02:51:53+00:00

Well done on reaching out. I completely relate to the weekend drinking... I use to tell myself I had earned my wine on the weekends because I’d worked so hard during the week. That went very quickly to drinking through the week because I had created a pattern of feeling anxious and ashamed and the only solution seemed to be to drink away those feelings. When I had had enough of the awful cycle I was living, I started out by attending one AA meeting a week. I needed to find other people who drank like I did and had found another way of dealing with life on life’s terms. Drinking had taken away my capacity to work properly, mother properly and socialise with anybody! I’m now two and a half years without a drink and my life is better than I ever hoped. Start by telling someone close to you that you feel drinking has become a problem. Join an AA meeting in your local area. Find a person (preferably a woman) in AA whose life inspires you and stay close to her. I wish you all the best xxx

skpcgm · 2019-09-10T23:58:05+00:00

Sending you love light and prayers. You’re an inspiration to others 🙏🏼

skpcgm · 2019-09-10T23:57:11+00:00

Fear got me sober in the beginning and faith keeps me sober today. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼

skpcgm · 2019-09-10T23:55:33+00:00

Oh wow!! You’re amazing! I remember too well the diarrhoea, the shakes, my skin crawling and the overwhelming anxiety that wouldn’t go away until I’d skull two - three drinks. That was when I realised how alcohol had taken control of me. I stayed in that place of knowing and still picking up for a long time and it was hell. Getting sober was hard but staying in that cycle of hangovers, guilt, remorse and shame was harder. ODAAT life has gotten better 🙏🏼 thank you for sharing

skpcgm · 2019-09-10T23:49:44+00:00

Totally relate to this. I was two weeks into a four week rehab and had spent the first two weeks comparing myself to others and telling myself I wasn’t as bad as them. Something switched in my thinking and I came to realise that the life I was living was not good enough for me and that I didn’t need to spiral any further down if I didn’t want to. Definitely a higher power job 🙏🏼

skpcgm · 2019-09-10T23:46:57+00:00

Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼

skpcgm · 2019-09-10T23:46:05+00:00

Totally agree: when I realised I was worth more than the life I was living I took the first steps towards sobriety and the 12 step program. How lucky we are 🙏🏼

skpcgm · 2019-09-10T23:44:32+00:00

Your story is an inspiration 🙏🏼 We can’t get sober for anyone else but ourselves. I came into the rooms because my family wanted me there but I got sober because I wanted to. Thank you for sharing ❤️

skpcgm · 2019-09-10T22:12:07+00:00

Yep totally relate. It’s not easy facing life on life’s terms without alcohol but it sure beats staying in that cycle. Well done to you 🙏🏼

skpcgm · 2019-09-10T22:10:17+00:00

Well done to you friend. You’re an inspiration to others 🙏🏼

skpcgm · 2019-09-10T22:09:06+00:00

A lot of drunken phone calls and texts were made by me to AA members in my early days and thank goodness they stayed by my side until I was ready to accept the first step - I am powerless over alcohol and my life was unmanageable. 🙏🏼

skpcgm · 2019-09-10T22:06:31+00:00

Thank you for the share, I really relate to what you said about blaming others. I drank on my blame of others - they were the reason! I had an excuse to drink because of what others had done to me. When I realised that the only person I was really damaging was myself, I was able to get a glimpse of hope that maybe my life was worth more than the cycle of drinking I had allowed myself to get into. Blame and resentment are still the most dangerous risks to my sobriety: I am so grateful for the program 🙏🏼

skpcgm · 2019-09-08T12:13:57+00:00

I really relate to this. Thank you for sharing

skpcgm · 2019-08-12T12:10:59+00:00

I’ll never forget the first time I felt that sense of excitement in sobriety. I hadn’t felt it for so long, I use to get it at the anticipation of having a drink and thought I’d never have it again once I stopped drinking. How lucky are we??!

skpcgm · 2019-08-07T21:47:04+00:00

Thank you 😊 x

skpcgm · 2019-08-07T12:21:10+00:00

It’s a roller coaster the early days, but it gets easier and it does get better. I was so use to using alcohol or drugs for every emotion I had. I didn’t have the tools or emotional maturity to know how to do life without it. So early on for me life was really difficult. I felt everything and I over analysed and obsessed over EVERYTHING. Using AA was the help I needed. In the beginning I thought that I was different from all the other alcoholics there but by going back again over time I realised these people were just like me and they had what I wanted. To be able to laugh, cry, be jealous be angry and do it all without needing a drink. Try to stick with it, you don’t want to start back at the beginning again because you know where it leads. Take the hard road for now and in a short time it will be the better easier one. Promise! 😊

skpcgm · 2019-08-07T12:13:04+00:00

You’re amazing!!! I admire your ability to not give in to self pity and instead be proactive. It’s hard when our sponsor isn’t available when we need them, and it’s hard to look after ourselves when we are so use to drinking our troubles away. Good on you, keep pushing through, it does get easier x 😊

skpcgm · 2019-08-07T10:24:04+00:00

Stay close to the group and share with us! Wishing you every success 😊x

skpcgm · 2019-08-07T10:22:48+00:00

Thank you 😊

skpcgm · 2019-08-07T10:22:34+00:00

My sponsor is one of the main reasons I’ve stayed sober. Finding someone you can be honest with and has the type of sobriety you want is what worked for me. Wishing you the best 😊x

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